h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If they're saying the claims on packaging have to be accurate, I think Grannies soup should be investigated.

swl



Grannies Soup - is that the stuff with Werther's Originals floating on top instead of croutons?

No, those are fragmented dentures

You've got Granny's soup? I've got her hand-washing powder... what a multifaceted person this 'Granny' is.... I'm sure I've got a pair of her knickers somewhere too

anyone fancy a Badger beer?

Or, for that matter,a 'Thirsty Ferrit'?

Some Stinking Bishop ?

a cocktail?

perhaps a vicar's delight?

I've had vicars delight... and the stinking bishop. err.

Brains fagotts anyone?

hmmm.... or for that matter, a pint of Brain's skull attack

Black sheep bitter?

I've had a Merry Monk too... which ties in nicely with the vicar and the bishop Oh, and I've had Santa's sacks too But I've never eaten Tesco economy burgers... which is a pity, as it seems they did* actually contain meat afterall

Mind, I@d still like to find out if there is any animal meat at all in those strange tinned hotdogs...

Alfster.I was responding to what I thought was a pedantic reply.If it wasn't then I apologise.

I'm possibly responding this way because lately I have been finding that there are those on hootoo who wish to belittle and patronise other researchers comments at every turn..

Still Incognitas



No problem, that sort of word=play joke needs some sort of 'voice' to show it was a joke and not picking you up on 'grammar'.

Well is pedantry is the order of the day:-

"That sentence infers that you do not eat things which are endangered primates (i.e. the middle bit of the Venn diagram) rather than things that are endangered OR things that are primates."

I'd have imagined that the sentance would have implied something, rather than inferred it!

FB

Sentance? What's that?

Horse meat was the preferred meat of the Magdalenian culture that supplanted the Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals at the beginning of the neolithic in Europe.

They had annual roundups at which the horses would be confined for selective slaughter in expansive corrals.

The corral sites are extremely rich in artifacts relating to the slaughter and day to day living.




The hamburger sandwich is named after the town of Hamburg, Pennsylvania, where if first caught on in the fast food trade.




Corned beef was invented in an effort to re-create the color and flavor of horse meat from beef,




An alternative term for horse meat is 'hippo steak', not used as much as it once was on account of the decline in popularity of horse flesh and the possibility the term might be taken to mean hippopotamus.

It is in fact physically impossible to eat a sandwich consisting of a horse between two bread vans.

I'm enjoying the upsurge in popularity of the word 'hippophagy' (horse-eating).

It is physically impossible for a horse sandwiched between two bread vans to vomit underwater.

Indeed, the words: petard and hoisted spring to mind.

No need!

That'll learn me!



FB

I'd like to dig this up to share my latest email from the Kublai Khan restaurant in Leith (don't ask me why I'm on the mailing list of a restaurant 300 miles away...it's complicated).

<popcorn?

STOP PRESS! Khublai Khans to take court action against Supermarkets!

In a real "David verses Goliath" case, Khublai Khans Mongolian Restaurant in Glasgow is threatening legal action against the multinationals over the recent Horse meat scandal.

The owner of the restaurant, Hamish McKhan said "I'm thinking of charging them with "first degree theft of a good idea" and "giving purveyors of genuine Horse meat a bad name".

"It's just not right," continued Hamish, "we here at Khublai Khans started offering Horse meat on our unique BBQ buffet at the beginning of January, but we didn't make a big song and dance about it, the next thing we know, all the big supermarkets have jumped on the band-wagon and are getting front page, national press coverage.

I felt slightly vindicated when it came to light that they were CONTAMINATING the Horse meat with the likes of Beef and Pork. All I can say is, if you want to try the genuine article, come on down to Khublai Khans where it's available on the BBQ, and as succulent burgers at lunchtimes, but you'd better make it quick as, now that the big boys are using it, there is a severe shortage!"



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