Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
May
16
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Food Well, me and my buds bought a few beers in celebration of one of my friends’ birthday. Okay, when I meant few, I meant enough to get everybody real drunk. Anyway, as much as I want to write about the funny stuff that happened that night I guess these troubleshooting steps I found from this website
will do. Note: these stuff work better when you’re in a bar.
SYMPTOM: Your feet are cold and wet.
FAULT: You’re holding the glass at a wrong angle or it’s inverted. Beer just spilled on your feet (or pants).
ACTION: Rotate the glass so that the open end points toward the ceiling.
SYMPTOM: Your feet are warm and wet.
FAULT: Uhh, dude, I think you just peed.
ACTION: Stand next to the nearest dog you can find and complain about house training. (That should save you the embarrassment).
SYMPTOM: Beer is unusually pale and tasteless.
FAULT: Check your glass - chances are it’s already empty.
ACTION: Get someone to buy you another beer.
SYMPTOM:The opposite wall is covered with fluorescent lights.
FAULT: You have fallen over backwards. That’s the ceiling you are looking at.
ACTION: Have yourself leashed to the bar.
SYMPTOM: Mouth contains cigarette butts.
FAULT: You have fallen forward.
ACTION: Have yourself leashed to the bar.
SYMPTOM: Beer is tasteless. The front of your shirt is wet.
FAULT: Two things: One, you may have forgotten to open your mouth to drink. Two, you may have been trying to drink with another part of your face (like the nose).
ACTION: Retire to the restroom and practice in front of the mirror.
SYMPTOM: The floor is blurred.
FAULT: You are looking through the bottom of an empty glass.
ACTION: Get someone to buy you another beer.
SYMPTOM: The floor is moving.
FAULT: You are being carried out.
ACTION: Try to find out if you are being taken to another bar.
SYMPTOM: The room seems to be unusually dark.
FAULT: The bar has closed.
ACTION: Confirm your home address with the bartender.
SYMPTOM: The taxi suddenly takes on colorful aspect and textures.
FAULT: Beer consumption has exceeded personal limitations.
ACTION: Cover your mouth. Man, that’s sick.
SYMPTOM: Everyone is looking up to you and smiling.
FAULT: You are dancing on the table.
ACTION: Fall on somebody cushy-looking.
SYMPTOM: The beer is crystal-clear.
FAULT: It’s water. Somebody is trying to sober you up.
ACTION: Punch him.
SYMPTOM: Your hands and nose hurts. Your mind unusually clear.
FAULT: You have been in a fight.
ACTION: Apologize to everyone you see, just in case it was them.
SYMPTOM: You don’t recognize anyone or you don’t recognize the room you are in.
FAULT: You’ve wandered into the wrong party.
ACTION: Check to see if they have free beer.
SYMPTOM: Your singing sounds distorted.
FAULT: The beer is too weak.
ACTION: Have more beer until your voice improves.
May
13
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Endangered Species,
Food People have been trying to figure out ways on how to save endangered species. Groups have performed demonstrations to tell people to stop killing the poor things. Laws have been made to protect them, but what exactly is the best method of doing so?
According to Gary Paul Nabhan, a conservation scientist, the best way to save them is to create a market demand for them. Makes sense, if there’s enough demand for the creatures, then companies may decide to invest in breeding them. What kind of demand does the scientist mean? As food. Read the article here.
If things go well, food that were restricted will be out in the market again or the Chinese will be able to create medicine from turtles and tortoises like before. Here are three examples of endangered species that can be used for food and other stuff.
Turtles and Tortoises - I mentioned these above. The Chinese people use them for food and medicine. Before we continue though, what’s the difference between a turtle and a tortoise? Basically, a turtle spends most of its time and is more compatible to water, while tortoises spend more time on land. There are a variety of medicine produced from different parts of the turtle. One example is a skin medicine produced from Cuora trifasciata or the golden coin turtle.
American mussels - These creatures were used for food, construction of tools and utensils, and also to make pearl buttons. Of course, as time passed, the increase in demand caused overharvesting of the mussels resulting in the decline in their numbers. The lack of these creatures affect the environment in a way, since other creatures at a higher level of the food chain depend on them as food.
Soy - It’s not only animals that are endangered but also a variety of plants. One of the latest are soybeans. Soybeans are crops that provide oil and protein. They have become part of the staple food in Asia, particularly in China and Japan. Although relatively common in Asia than in America, only 45% of the production comes from the former while the other 55% is in America.
May
09
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Food What makes wine expensive is not just the taste or how much it was aged. Sometimes, it’s not even the wine itself that gives it its value - it’s the bottle. People have the tendency to collect old stuff and would pay a high price to have a certain item. Here are three of the most expensive bottles of wine in the world.
- Christie’s London sold a Chateau Lafite 1787 in 1985 for $160,000. The bottle bore the initials Th J - Thomas Jefferson, the third US president’s initials.
- The most expensive white wine ever sold also bore Thomas Jefferson’s initials. It was a bottle of 1784 Chateau d’Yquem sold at Christie’s London in 1986 for $56, 588.
- A bottle of Chateau Margaux that also bore Thomas Jefferson’s initials was being sold for $500,000 by William Sokolin in 1989. However, before anyone could offer to buy it, the bottle was broken by accident - a waiter bumped the bottle with a coffee tray. Fortunately for the wine merchant, the bottle was insured and he got $225,000 for it, a price he could not have received had the bottle been safe and still being sold with the hefty price tag.
The wine in the bottles are no longer drinkable at this point in time (even if the Margaux managed to survive today). Like any item for collection, the rarity affects its value. And as time passes, the number of such items dwindle. Imagine how much those things would cost in the next century?
Source: http://www.forbes.com/2003/11/19/cx_np_1119feat.html
Mar
13
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Food
Assuming we all know the dangers of undercooked meat, tobacco, raw sea foods, and gun barrels in your mouth. Tempting as it is but should we really put these things in our mouth? Chefs, food scientists, nutritionists, and dentists advices us NOT to be very comfortable in eating these kind of foods; here are some list of things you shouldn’t be putting in your mouth.
There’s really nothing wrong in eating these dried up fruit as long as you chew it thoroughly unless you want to get an intestinal blockage. Dried apricot tends to reconstitute in your stomach when swallowed whole, and this may result to an emergency surgery. A case of a woman swallowing a whole dried apricot was reported in the British Medical Journal
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Yum! But do you know that a king-cut prime rib contains 982 calories and 78 grams of fats?
Well, it does, the tenderized fat is the reason why the meat just seems to melt in the mouth.
Make sure that you wash the green salad you bought in the store. Don’t trust the labels telling you it’s pre-washed. Most of the outbreaks in food borne illnesses came from unwashed foods. Bacteria and E.Coli tends to thrive in lettuce as well as in eggs, fish, and meats.
The first chip can trigger the person to over eat. The feeling of satisfaction is never met, mostly in stressed person. It gives a psychological effect on the person, making them eat more and more.
Salmonella poisoning may result by eating raw chicken eggs, as well as undercooked eggs. Runny white eggs are the most dangerous part of an uncooked egg. It’s better to eat a thoroughly cooked egg.
Like other organ meats, liver contains high cholesterol and fats, and livers may also contain residues of chemicals and hormones fed to the livestock. A polar-bear’s liver can be lethal since it has toxic levels of Vitamin A.
We sometimes chew on our pens or pencils absentmindedly, but what we don’t know is we are causing tiny stress fractures to our teeth by doing such.
Besides from it looking gruesome, this may also cause some stomach upsets. You wouldn’t know where these insects came from and what they ate. Putting yourself in a very high risk possibility for intestinal problems. People tend to be adventurous and risky when traveling; these exotic food eaters get satisfaction from eating these kinds of foods. Fried insects like grasshopper are very popular in Bangkok. I’ve seen a lot of it when I had my vacation in Bangkok but I never dared to try it.
A mixture of frozen alcohol, sugar, and salt is bad for your liver, arteries, blood sugar, heart, digestion, and energy level. It can lower your blood sugar making you eat more.
Tongue studs can be dangerous since our tongue is laced with networks of blood vessels and nerves. Once you hit a blood vessel and it starts bleeding, this can be a cause of infection. Studs can also chip off your teeth and impairs speech ability.
Ice makes you teeth crack because it is crystal, so as to your tooth enamel. Colliding of two crystals will cause the cracking of your teeth eventually.
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