The Chat Thread

[knight66]

Don't  disdain the tinned squirrel. 

Mike

[DavidW]

I guess I can't get too snooty though, some of the fast food around here can only be identified as food by a team of scientists... like Taco Bell's collection of random food products that they have titled "burrito" and "taco", and kfc which combines parts of biscuits, corn, potatoes and chicken in one mushed together bowl.  I think they are meant to be taken as artistic statements instead of meals to be consumed.

[WI Dan]

Don't  disdain the tinned squirrel. 

Had to look that one up.

[knight66]

The tinned squirrel was brought up as, some time ago, I saw a documentary about people from the US preparing to visit the UK. They seemed to get it in their heads that we ate the most astonishing things. (Though haggis does justly fit into that descriptor.) Where they got their ideas from I don't know. But one person, while packing, was declaring to camera that she had no intension of going near the Brit obsession for tinned squirrel.

That photo is the first evidence I have seen that such a product even might exist.

For those who may wonder, Haggis is not eaten by many people and even those who eat it do not eat it often. Fried, I think it tastes good, boiled, the other way of serving it....NO WAY.

Mike

[WI Dan]

That photo is the first evidence I have seen that such a product even might exist.

I'm pretty sure it's a gag label, Mike.  The photographer went all out for this shot, methinks.  I especially like the warning on the side: "May contain traces of nuts". 

Yeah, ... that's what I'd be worried about. 

[knight66]

Yes, I thought so too....just how fresh...with fur on. I don't think there is such a thing as tinned Squirrel. BUT there is such a thing as tinned haggis.

Mike

[mahler10th]

A tin of Haggis.

I eat those contents six or seven times a year because I can't be bothered cutting open a Haggis, etc.  I do like Haggis!

[karlhenning]

Someday I'll try haggis — but only where it's done right. (Taking to heart Mike's caution about The Boiled Stuff.)

[karlhenning]

The tinned squirrel was brought up as, some time ago, I saw a documentary about people from the US preparing to visit the UK. They seemed to get it in their heads that we ate the most astonishing things.

I think that credulousness on that head is driven by geniune weird foodstuffs found in nooks and grannies throughout this great land of our'n.  Including but not limited to tinned rattlesnake meat, and "prairie oysters."

(In New England, the local delicacy which may not appeal to all visitors must be clam bellies.)

[DavidW]

I think that credulousness on that head is driven by geniune weird foodstuffs found in nooks and grannies throughout this great land of our'n.  Including but not limited to tinned rattlesnake meat, and "prairie oysters."

(In New England, the local delicacy which may not appeal to all visitors must be clam bellies.)

New Englanders are master clam eaters!   I had totally forgotten about prairie oysters.  But you know what?  Those are still edible compared to the horrors of Taco Bell and KFC! jeje

[Moldyoldie]

Just found this in wiki: "The Browns are officially viewed as one continuous franchise that began in 1946 as a member of the All-American Football Conference, joined the NFL in 1950, suspended operations from 1996-1998, and resumed play in 1999. The Baltimore Ravens were an expansion team created in 1996 with former Browns players."

If that's true, then the Lions and Browns are the only non-expansion teams that have not been in a Super Bowl. They are also tied at four NFL championships each in the years preceding the creation of the Super Bowl. In other words, they are equals in the failure department. 

Sarge

That has to be the most oddball "official-ness" I've ever read in my life.

In any case, I'm gonna say at present the Lions will beat the expansion-but-officially-not-expansion Browns to the Stupor Bowl.  If the Cardinals can do it, anyone can!

[karlhenning]

New Englanders are master clam eaters!   I had totally forgotten about prairie oysters.  But you know what?  Those are still edible compared to the horrors of Taco Bell and KFC! jeje

It is literally decades since I ate anything vended by a Taco Bell or a KFC.

And there are reasons, je-je-je!

[Moldyoldie]

It is literally decades since I ate anything vended by a Taco Bell or a KFC.

And there are reasons, je-je-je!

The new grilled chicken at KFC isn't half-bad!

[DavidW]

The new grilled chicken at KFC isn't half-bad!

Well okay also fresco menu at Taco Bell isn't bad either.

[karlhenning]

No, I shan't eat there, I tell you!

[Opus106]

Outrage - 8 points

Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule change

[greg]

I just found out yesterday my 3rd grade teacher is in prison right now since he was busted for having child p***.

So, yeah... 

[karlhenning]

Pee Wee Herman was just the tip of the iceberg . . . .

[Lethevich]

Ok, this is weird.

It is based off of free Wikipedia content, yet it costs twice as much as a book that the publisher actually had to pay researchers to do a good job on... An enviable business model.

[MN Dave]

Who wants to cyber-fight?