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Strange Things As Food & Drink

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World’s hardest dish? Stir-fried stones are China’s latest street food fad​


https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/suodiu-china-eating-stone-intl-hnk/index.html
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Dubbed “the world’s hardest dish” – literally – a traditional stir-fry featuring stones as its key ingredient has sparked culinary curiosity on Chinese social media.

Patrons are supposed to suck on the small rocks to relish the rich and spicy flavor of the dish, which originated in the eastern Chinese province of Hubei.

They are instructed to suck off the flavors, then spit out the rocks – hence the dish’s name suodiu, meaning “suck and dispose.”
 

World’s hardest dish? Stir-fried stones are China’s latest street food fad​


https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/suodiu-china-eating-stone-intl-hnk/index.html
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Dubbed “the world’s hardest dish” – literally – a traditional stir-fry featuring stones as its key ingredient has sparked culinary curiosity on Chinese social media.

Patrons are supposed to suck on the small rocks to relish the rich and spicy flavor of the dish, which originated in the eastern Chinese province of Hubei.

They are instructed to suck off the flavors, then spit out the rocks – hence the dish’s name suodiu, meaning “suck and dispose.”
Reminds me of the humorous Doctor Hook song, The Wonderful Soupstone -

I swear you could taste the chicken and tomatoes
And the noodles and the marrowbone
But it really wasn't nothing but some water and potatoes
And the wonderful, wonderful soupstone


:chuckle:
 
Somehow the Amazon algorithm thought I could buy this. Wow , this is really niche:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottarga

It is massaged by hand to eliminate air pockets, then dried and cured in sea salt for a few weeks. The result is a hard, dry slab. Formerly, it was generally coated in beeswax to preserve it, as it still is in Greece and Egypt.[11][12][13]
 
Somehow the Amazon algorithm thought I could buy this. Wow , this is really niche:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottarga

It is massaged by hand to eliminate air pockets, then dried and cured in sea salt for a few weeks. The result is a hard, dry slab. Formerly, it was generally coated in beeswax to preserve it, as it still is in Greece and Egypt.[11][12][13]
Please tell me you bought this....
 
Somehow the Amazon algorithm thought I could buy this. Wow , this is really niche:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottarga

It is massaged by hand to eliminate air pockets, then dried and cured in sea salt for a few weeks. The result is a hard, dry slab. Formerly, it was generally coated in beeswax to preserve it, as it still is in Greece and Egypt.[11][12][13]
My family was given one of those from a Greek business associate of my fathers (he was a ship broker)

It sat on a shelf in a cupboard for ages. My eldest sister's boyfriend at the time time tasted it. I think he said it was crumbly and salty.
 
My family was given one of those from a Greek business associate of my fathers (he was a ship broker)

It sat on a shelf in a cupboard for ages. My eldest sister's boyfriend at the time time tasted it. I think he said it was crumbly and salty.
It sounds like something you'd only eat if you were actually starving.
 

World’s hardest dish? Stir-fried stones are China’s latest street food fad​


https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/suodiu-china-eating-stone-intl-hnk/index.html
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Dubbed “the world’s hardest dish” – literally – a traditional stir-fry featuring stones as its key ingredient has sparked culinary curiosity on Chinese social media.

Patrons are supposed to suck on the small rocks to relish the rich and spicy flavor of the dish, which originated in the eastern Chinese province of Hubei.

They are instructed to suck off the flavors, then spit out the rocks – hence the dish’s name suodiu, meaning “suck and dispose.”
There's a whole world of innuendo to unpack there. :thought:
 

World’s hardest dish? Stir-fried stones are China’s latest street food fad​


https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/suodiu-china-eating-stone-intl-hnk/index.html
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Dubbed “the world’s hardest dish” – literally – a traditional stir-fry featuring stones as its key ingredient has sparked culinary curiosity on Chinese social media.

Patrons are supposed to suck on the small rocks to relish the rich and spicy flavor of the dish, which originated in the eastern Chinese province of Hubei.

They are instructed to suck off the flavors, then spit out the rocks – hence the dish’s name suodiu, meaning “suck and dispose.”

How has no-one yet mentioned the legendary Stone Soup?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup#Story

maximus otter
 
It's so hard to find Zucchini Bread here, it's my absolute favorite -
Not loaded with sugar and tasty with a cup of coffee, but only specialty companies make it!
 
Another concept restaurant. This one in Las Vegas (HEART ATTACK GRILL) prides itself on being as unhealthy dietary wise as possible. Customers have to wear hospital gowns to dine, the staff 'administer your medication' and if you don't finish your dinner? .. your waitress will spank you with a paddle ..

 
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Another concept restaurant. This one in Las Vegas (HEART ATTACK GRILL) prides itself on being as unhealthy dietary wise as possible. Customers have to wear hospital gowns to dine, the staff 'administer your medication' and if you don't finish your dinner? .. your waitress will spank you with a paddle ..

My mind boggles Swifty, to think of a stomach that can expand to this extent, to eat this in one go.
 
My mind boggles Swifty, to think of a stomach that can expand to this extent, to eat this in one go.
This is a small(ish) meal compared to some of the challenges he's done Mungoman. My Mum would have said "I think he's got hollow legs.". His youtube channel's called beard meets food and he does this all over the UK and America.
 
This is a small(ish) meal compared to some of the challenges he's done Mungoman. My Mum would have said "I think he's got hollow legs.". His youtube channel's called beard meets food and he does this all over the UK and America.
BeardMeatsFood is in very good physical shape. He works out a lot. I suspect that his stomach muscles are very well developed, so he can take it.
 
This is a small(ish) meal compared to some of the challenges he's done Mungoman. My Mum would have said "I think he's got hollow legs.". His youtube channel's called beard meets food and he does this all over the UK and America.
Smallish...?! (Imitates crow call.)
 
Another concept restaurant. This one in Las Vegas (HEART ATTACK GRILL) prides itself on being as unhealthy dietary wise as possible. Customers have to wear hospital gowns to dine, the staff 'administer your medication' and if you don't finish your dinner? .. your waitress will spank you with a paddle ..

If the food in that video frame is what's being served I suspect most is being thrown away.
 
How Hot Is ‘Pepper X’? Its Creator Spent 6 Hours Recovering from Eating It

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...al&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow

This new proprietary pepper, bred by Ed Currie, was recognized last week by Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper ever independently tested. Currie is one of the few people to have tried Pepper X raw. By all reports, a taste test involves a burning sensation followed by several hours of intestinal cramping.

Also:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...ers-and-barfed-so-hard-he-tore-his-esophagus/

A case study in a recent issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine described a 47-year-old man who ended up in the emergency department after consuming ghost peppers as part of a restaurant-sponsored contest.

He was experiencing severe chest and abdominal pain after a bout of violent gagging and vomiting. A chest x-ray revealed fluid build-up in the chest cavity so he was rushed to the operating room. In the OR they found a 2.5-centimeter tear in his esophagus.
He had barfed so hard, that he split his esophagus open, and burning ghost-pepper vomit leaked into parts of his body where it did not belong.

The guy in this case was lucky. The rare, vomiting-induced esophageal rupturing known as Boerhaave syndrome is no laughing matter. A 2014 article in the Journal of Thoracic Disease put its mortality rate at “20-40 percent with timely treatment, but this rises to virtually 100 percent if treatment is delayed by more than 48 hours.”
 
How Hot Is ‘Pepper X’? Its Creator Spent 6 Hours Recovering from Eating It

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...al&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow

This new proprietary pepper, bred by Ed Currie, was recognized last week by Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper ever independently tested. Currie is one of the few people to have tried Pepper X raw. By all reports, a taste test involves a burning sensation followed by several hours of intestinal cramping.

Also:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...ers-and-barfed-so-hard-he-tore-his-esophagus/

A case study in a recent issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine described a 47-year-old man who ended up in the emergency department after consuming ghost peppers as part of a restaurant-sponsored contest.

He was experiencing severe chest and abdominal pain after a bout of violent gagging and vomiting. A chest x-ray revealed fluid build-up in the chest cavity so he was rushed to the operating room. In the OR they found a 2.5-centimeter tear in his esophagus.
He had barfed so hard, that he split his esophagus open, and burning ghost-pepper vomit leaked into parts of his body where it did not belong.

The guy in this case was lucky. The rare, vomiting-induced esophageal rupturing known as Boerhaave syndrome is no laughing matter. A 2014 article in the Journal of Thoracic Disease put its mortality rate at “20-40 percent with timely treatment, but this rises to virtually 100 percent if treatment is delayed by more than 48 hours.”
Why do people do these things to themselves?
 
How Hot Is ‘Pepper X’? Its Creator Spent 6 Hours Recovering from Eating It

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...al&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=socialflow

This new proprietary pepper, bred by Ed Currie, was recognized last week by Guinness World Records as the hottest pepper ever independently tested. Currie is one of the few people to have tried Pepper X raw. By all reports, a taste test involves a burning sensation followed by several hours of intestinal cramping.

Also:

https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...ers-and-barfed-so-hard-he-tore-his-esophagus/

A case study in a recent issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine described a 47-year-old man who ended up in the emergency department after consuming ghost peppers as part of a restaurant-sponsored contest.

He was experiencing severe chest and abdominal pain after a bout of violent gagging and vomiting. A chest x-ray revealed fluid build-up in the chest cavity so he was rushed to the operating room. In the OR they found a 2.5-centimeter tear in his esophagus.
He had barfed so hard, that he split his esophagus open, and burning ghost-pepper vomit leaked into parts of his body where it did not belong.

The guy in this case was lucky. The rare, vomiting-induced esophageal rupturing known as Boerhaave syndrome is no laughing matter. A 2014 article in the Journal of Thoracic Disease put its mortality rate at “20-40 percent with timely treatment, but this rises to virtually 100 percent if treatment is delayed by more than 48 hours.”
Just read all that out to Techy, he nearly bust a gut laughing. :rofl:
 
https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...ers-and-barfed-so-hard-he-tore-his-esophagus/

A case study in a recent issue of The Journal of Emergency Medicine described a 47-year-old man who ended up in the emergency department after consuming ghost peppers as part of a restaurant-sponsored contest.

He was experiencing severe chest and abdominal pain after a bout of violent gagging and vomiting. A chest x-ray revealed fluid build-up in the chest cavity so he was rushed to the operating room. In the OR they found a 2.5-centimeter tear in his esophagus.
He had barfed so hard, that he split his esophagus open, and burning ghost-pepper vomit leaked into parts of his body where it did not belong.

The guy in this case was lucky. The rare, vomiting-induced esophageal rupturing known as Boerhaave syndrome is no laughing matter. A 2014 article in the Journal of Thoracic Disease put its mortality rate at “20-40 percent with timely treatment, but this rises to virtually 100 percent if treatment is delayed by more than 48 hours.”
A friend of a friend got so drunk that he ruptured his oesophagus when throwing up.
It was a long time before he could speak again, he was that ill.
 
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