Recently, Mink Hippie treated me to my first deep fried Twinkie at the Hawaii State Fair. At the time I thought that was about as outrageous as you could get with Twinkies…but, as is often the case (okay, once in a while, rarely..but sometimes) I was wrong…Apparently they are also good for pork loin side…
Category: Food and Drink
Honey, would you pick up some test tube burgers?
Somehow I would feel less comfortable eating test tube meat than killing an animal and eating its flesh. This is a little too bizzarre… cd Wired News: Test Tube Meat Nears Dinner Table Henk Haagsman, a professor of meat sciences at Utrecht University, and his Dutch colleagues are working on growing artificial pork meat out…
Diet Coke and Mento's
I don’t know why, but I am sure these guys are Germans. (Thanks Lena!) The ExperimentÂ
Dozens hurt in cheese roll race
Now that’s my kind of sport… A teenager who knocked himself out while chasing a Double Gloucester cheese down a hill was among 25 people hurt in a Cheese Rolling competition. Chris Anderson, 18, won one of the five races which make up the annual contest, in which dozens of people race down a 1:2…
Wine competition pits France v US
Now there’s something you don’t frequently hear about… a team of French wine experts in 1976 declared California wines better than French! For that year, anyway. But they haven’t dared to repeat the challenge since!! Personally, I like both, but for you competitive types, there is going to be a rematch…. Wine experts in London…
Drunken Monkeys
If it’s good for the monkeys, it’s good for the man. Just not for the man who was pulled over with blood alcohol 18 times his legal limit at 7.27 grams per liter cd BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Monkeys and apes in Budapest’s Zoo drink their way through 55 litres of red wine each year, albeit…
Like Til Ulenspiegel – Superhero Anarchists in Germany steal Rich Food
I love this story. When I used to hang out with the bums and have fires on the beach, Two Dog Tom (who I write a bit about in Rough Living) would sometimes get a little stoned and begin to tell tales of Til Uulenspiegel, the German robber/Robin Hood who would always ask his victims…
Recipe for virility: visit the Asadachi
Someone sent me this video clip of what appeared to be a sushi bar. The sushi was quite unlike any I had ever seen, though. Apparently, all the house specialties are designed to enhance virility. A popular selection is the live frog – it is skinned before your eyes and you are offered the still-beating…
Cruelty to Lobsters
It’s a good thing the animal rights lovers didn’t have dinner with me and Mink Hippie on my birthday. She took me to an incredible fukn sushi place that had me select a lobster and then to my surprise they pulled out a cleaver and killed it in front of us, pulled the meat out…
Experts make flatulence-free bean
Eureka! A method of creating super-nutritious but flatulence-free beans has been developed by scientists. Beans are a cheap and key source of nutrition especially in the developing world, but many people are thought to be put off by anti-social side-effects. A Venezuelan team says fermenting beans with certain friendly bacteria can cut the amount of…