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

Too much nutmeg and it can make you shake, or keep you awake at night! Nutmeg is fabulous in mashed potatoes, with a generous dollop of rich cream. You need lots to taste it, but my husband added so much once we had the shakes afterwards. Nutmeg mash goes well with british bangers and onion gravy.

btw has this thread turned into a foodie paradise? Come to think of it, half the threads on hootoo at the moment seem to contain some food reference.

“the brits among us will now the tv series with the 'two fat ladies' who drove around on their motorbike and side car cooking for a broad variety of people” [Pierce]

Let’s also mention that the people they met encountered a variety of broad people.

“btw has this thread turned into a foodie paradise? Come to think of it, half the threads on hootoo at the moment seem to contain some food reference” [lanzababy

Well, some threads *should* be foody paradises. The cucumber thread, for instance…..

Well I *like* food - I mean *really* like food... I just wish there were more people to come and eat what I cook!

I would if I could, lanzababy.

Well - who knows what the New Year will bring. Buy a lottery ticket everyone and maybe, maybe!

don't worry, lanzababy. i buy a lottery ticket twice a week. the rest of my income is mainly spent on food

You could buy more lottery tickets if you lightened up on the food intake.

but then why would i need more money

I guess maybe you wouldn't, so stick to the way you're doing it, and you'll be fine.

fine, yes - but overweight also

Become an African-American woman, and you'll actually be considered thin. That demographic has an 80% obesity rate. Just don't ask how...

now there's some food for thought

Your best bet is to disguise yourself. That way, no surgery will be needed. But I suspect that you are not dangerously heavy, Pierce. Over the years, the insurance companies' own statistics have shown that moderately overweight men have had the longest lifespans. Heck, even obesity doesn't shorten your life very much until you're in pretty extreme territory. There was a study that compared heart attack survival rates for obese men and normal-weight men. The obese men's mortality rate was only half that of the normal-weight men.

Fat is a natural product. There is nothing synthetic about it, except in the case of people who eat a lot of foods with trans fats in them. Transfats accumulate in your butt, and can be a risk factor for breast cancer, which is not a big killer if you are a man. So, maybe becoming an African-American woman is a bad idea after all....

who would pay for the necessary operations and makeup anyway?

is it Easter yet ??

Morning World! I don't know about Easter - but I did hear a robin singing this morning when it first got light.

Wasn't that Blue Moon fabulous last night?

moon ? I was to busy nattering on here and err! nipping into my bedroom for the oddswig of whisky

yep, nice

i watched it from the roof of a very posh building from where we also had a spectacular view of most of the town and saw gazillions of illuminate the sky

Who will pay for the operation, Pierce? The same one who will pay for antidepressants for the blue moon.

i wonder why they call it a blue moon when everybody knows it's made of green cheese