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Strange Things As Food & Drink

Swifty said:
The octuple bypass burger is 20,000 calories and is in the Guinness Book of Records. Customers are given hospital gowns, staff wear medical uniforms. If you don't finish all of your meal, you're spanked three times.

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Could be cheaper than paying for a Dominatrix? Perhaps someone can confirm?
 
Erinaceus said:
I used to like those little Parma Violet sweets. I haven't bought any for years though.
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One of my childhood favourite. I used to sneak the odd pack in adulthood when no one was looking. I do have a vague recollection of some much larger Parma Violets on sale once, about the same size as a love heart.
 
pandacracker said:
In the interest of fortean experimentation you should eat massive amounts of both then tell us the results.
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When the kids were little I treated them to fresh cream cakes…humongous fresh cream cakes, from a proper bakers. The kids made their selection and the lady asked if I wanted a box to take them home in, I replied “No, they can be sick in here”. She got the joke I‘m pleased to report.
 
Someone posted his haute cuisine adventures on Facebook. This might be delicious but to me it looks like someone spitting on your food:
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I just picked up three bottles* of Tanqueray Ten, for £36 total! Bragging, I know. I could add my own violet or two, now ye mention it . . .

*Those should see me through the week! :crazy:
 
JamesWhitehead said:
I just picked up three bottles* of Tanqueray Ten, for £36 total! Bragging, I know. I could add my own violet or two, now ye mention it . . .

*Those should see me through the week! :crazy:
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That's cheap! Around here we can only get one for that much (Tanqueray Ten being our gin tipple of choice).
In fact, looking it up, the cheapest is $74 AU for 700ml.
 
The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, ate a spoonful of Vaseline a day. He was such a firm believer in its medicinal properties that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day for his entire life. During a bout of pleurisy in his 50s, he ordered his nurse to cover him from head to toe in the substance, and soon recovered. He lived to be 96.
 
Foodstuffs considered strange by French waiters:

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In a restaurant in Bordeaux with colleague. He asked for well done steak. Waiter told him to have chicken. He asked for butter, “for the bread?” “Yeah. “No”. At the end of the meal waiter asked if we’d like coffee. Colleague asked for cappuccino… “No. That’s for breakfast”

Hah, I was in a hotel in Nice, when an American woman asked if she could have Coke with her breakfast. The waiter just answered ‘Non’. I was impressed by the amount of derision he expressed in just one syllable.

Years ago in Sardinia, I walked into a small coffee shop and ordered a cappuccino at 3pm, the whole place looked at me as though I was dirt

In Claviers in Provence a restaurant had a sign outside ‘no vegetarians’

Ah oui! Found out that ordering 2 well done burgers for the children would make the Chef to leave his kitchen to come see for himself who dares to do that

in italy we also never drink capuccino after lunch.. it's a big nono. it's a breakfast thing. we drink espresso or macchiato (espresso with a bit of milk)

Peter Lugers, a lady ordered fish. Waiter, wearing a toupee, yelled across the dining room, "TOURIST WANTS THE FISH."

Up your game - ask for Catsup for your steak. Might be able to get chef to come out and rant at you (real story, albeit not mine)

I once visited Paris and ordered spaghett. Asked for ketchup cause everyone knows spaghetti tastes better with it. Chef walked out and promptly removed both my plate and the ketchup. So I didn’t eat.

Was at a German Michelin restaurant. We tried each others’ dishes like Asians would - happy family style.
When the bill came, there was handwriting, “please do not come back.”

I was Zurich and tried to order a cheeseburger, the waiter said no. I ordered a $15 plate of emanteller to put on my $40 burger. It’s amazing how smug an entire country can be while offering so little

Legend tells of the old owner of a regional restaurant who would, asked for a small glass of wine answer: "Wait until you're thirsty then take a big one. (Wartschd bis Dorschd hoschd, trinkschd än Schoppe)"
 
uair01 said:
Foodstuffs considered strange by French waiters:

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Twitter comments:

In a restaurant in Bordeaux with colleague. He asked for well done steak. Waiter told him to have chicken. He asked for butter, “for the bread?” “Yeah. “No”. At the end of the meal waiter asked if we’d like coffee. Colleague asked for cappuccino… “No. That’s for breakfast”

Hah, I was in a hotel in Nice, when an American woman asked if she could have Coke with her breakfast. The waiter just answered ‘Non’. I was impressed by the amount of derision he expressed in just one syllable.

Years ago in Sardinia, I walked into a small coffee shop and ordered a cappuccino at 3pm, the whole place looked at me as though I was dirt

In Claviers in Provence a restaurant had a sign outside ‘no vegetarians’

Ah oui! Found out that ordering 2 well done burgers for the children would make the Chef to leave his kitchen to come see for himself who dares to do that

in italy we also never drink capuccino after lunch.. it's a big nono. it's a breakfast thing. we drink espresso or macchiato (espresso with a bit of milk)

Peter Lugers, a lady ordered fish. Waiter, wearing a toupee, yelled across the dining room, "TOURIST WANTS THE FISH."

Up your game - ask for Catsup for your steak. Might be able to get chef to come out and rant at you (real story, albeit not mine)

I once visited Paris and ordered spaghett. Asked for ketchup cause everyone knows spaghetti tastes better with it. Chef walked out and promptly removed both my plate and the ketchup. So I didn’t eat.

Was at a German Michelin restaurant. We tried each others’ dishes like Asians would - happy family style.
When the bill came, there was handwriting, “please do not come back.”

I was Zurich and tried to order a cheeseburger, the waiter said no. I ordered a $15 plate of emanteller to put on my $40 burger. It’s amazing how smug an entire country can be while offering so little

Legend tells of the old owner of a regional restaurant who would, asked for a small glass of wine answer: "Wait until you're thirsty then take a big one. (Wartschd bis Dorschd hoschd, trinkschd än Schoppe)"
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Very odd behaviour.
 
Stronger than heroin or morphine. Why the Czech army buys fentanyl lollipops
20 July 2024 18:06

For years, morphine has been used to relieve the pain of soldiers in the field, but now the Czech army is switching to a new drug - fentanyl lollipops. The substance is often used by cancer patients, as it is designed to control very severe pain. It is supposed to help soldiers with severe injuries or gunshot wounds.
Source: https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/...-bolest-mise-vojak.A240717_094044_domaci_ivos

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uair01 said:
Stronger than heroin or morphine. Why the Czech army buys fentanyl lollipops
20 July 2024 18:06

For years, morphine has been used to relieve the pain of soldiers in the field, but now the Czech army is switching to a new drug - fentanyl lollipops. The substance is often used by cancer patients, as it is designed to control very severe pain. It is supposed to help soldiers with severe injuries or gunshot wounds.
Source: https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/...-bolest-mise-vojak.A240717_094044_domaci_ivos

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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Those things killed Prince and other musicians.
 
escargot said:
Those things killed Prince and other musicians.
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As well a heroin addicts these days when fentanyl gets cut into it I'm told.

On a more cheerful note, I once bought, cooked and ate lamb's brain from a French supermarket after asking advice from a French chef via a translator. It isn't legal to sell it in the UK. It had the same texture as pate but with a nicer taste. From memory, you bake it first for a short time then pan fry it dusted with flour with a little olive oil. I only did it for a 'Silence of the Lambs' laugh/kick so I ate it with a baguette, a glass of local red wine and classical music playing on the radio one morning.
 
Brawn and Elder, respectively brains and udder were great favourites of my Gran. I don't really know what animal the brains were from but the buttery Elder was clearly from a cow. There was a ban on Elder, way back and Mad Cow Disease made brain-eating ill-advised.

So far as I can remember, the UK versions of the time were potted or jellied dishes, served cold. Probably served with some brown bread and butter and bought from UCP = United Cattle Products! Tripe-merchants to other than the gentry! :yay:
 
Swifty said:
As well a heroin addicts these days when fentanyl gets cut into it I'm told.

On a more cheerful note, I once bought, cooked and ate lamb's brain from a French supermarket after asking advice from a French chef via a translator. It isn't legal to sell it in the UK. It had the same texture as pate but with a nicer taste. From memory, you bake it first for a short time then pan fry it dusted with flour with a little olive oil. I only did it for a 'Silence of the Lambs' laugh/kick so I ate it with a baguette, a glass of local red wine and classical music playing on the radio one morning.
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Can we call you Hannibal now?
 
Sweet and Sour Cow Vagina, from Vietnam!

Cooking time 75 minutes. Cleaning and Deodorizing it takes ten hours. It also gets a shave.

This video contains close-up cow-vagina action.

The notes insist on calling it bull-vagina, which is very silly.

Have fun! :pipe:

Oh dear, I see I posted this over four years ago, using much the same approach.

I am going senile!

Anyhow, you may all have forgotten it by now, as well!
 
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