bmwracer wrote:
Wow. :drooling:
I know better than to visit this thread before dinner. :banghead:
:bonk:
Bacon pix are bad news for the hungry :shakehead:
:bonk:
Bacon pix are bad news for the hungry :shakehead:
Food, Food, and More Food Thread
Started by bmwracer · 6 Oct 2004 · 25,210 replies
General Discussion
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Bacon pix are bad news for the hungry :shakehead:
Tu_triky wrote: :bonk:
Bacon pix are bad news for the hungry :shakehead:
True that. :bonk:
Gosh that bacon photo really is making me hungry. I think I will go and find something tasty.
By the way ..long ago my husband used to try to bring food home when he went on a business trip. I will always remember the smoked salmon he brought from Japan. Best I ever had. So tender and almost sweet. Melt in your mouth.
Once he had been to Finland .At least I think it was Finland. Anyway he was telling me that his business friend there took him around looking at some of the food markets. He said 'we had reindeer balls for lunch.'
I almost fell over. :bleh: ...and then he said..' you know like we have beef meatballs here'. I threw something at him. :beatyou:
Peg
By the way ..long ago my husband used to try to bring food home when he went on a business trip. I will always remember the smoked salmon he brought from Japan. Best I ever had. So tender and almost sweet. Melt in your mouth.
Once he had been to Finland .At least I think it was Finland. Anyway he was telling me that his business friend there took him around looking at some of the food markets. He said 'we had reindeer balls for lunch.'
I almost fell over. :bleh: ...and then he said..' you know like we have beef meatballs here'. I threw something at him. :beatyou:
Peg
brad2 wrote:Once he had been to Finland .At least I think it was Finland. Anyway he was telling me that his business friend there took him around looking at some of the food markets. He said 'we had reindeer balls for lunch.'
I almost fell over. :bleh: ...and then he said..' you know like we have beef meatballs here'. I threw something at him. :beatyou:
Peg
That is hilarious.
brad2 wrote:
Once he had been to Finland He said 'we had reindeer balls for lunch.'
Turpa kenne! (pronounced Torrpa kini)
That's finish for "Sounds Delicious!!" ;)
My husband lived there too.
Eve wrote:
Turpa kenne! (pronounced Torrpa kini)
That's finish for "Sounds Delicious!!" ;)
My husband lived there too.
Aw, nuts!
I assure you that was a true story.
Not my cup of tea but I would take the Japanese salmon anyday and maybe a bottle or two of champage brut. I wouldn't leave the house.
Probably wouldn't be able to anyway.
I have very simple tastes. Just expensive ones.
Peg
Not my cup of tea but I would take the Japanese salmon anyday and maybe a bottle or two of champage brut. I wouldn't leave the house.
Probably wouldn't be able to anyway.
I have very simple tastes. Just expensive ones.
Peg
brad2 wrote:I assure you that was a true story.
Not my cup of tea but I would take the Japanese salmon anyday and maybe a bottle or two of champage brut. I wouldn't leave the house.
Probably wouldn't be able to anyway.
I have very simple tastes. Just expensive ones.
Peg
I have champagne tastes, on a beer budget.
My sad story is that I have lost the knack of opening a champagne bottle. I still have a couple of bottles and I am tempted to go outside and shake them madly to see if they will open themselves. Probably lose a lot.
Is it easier to open when it is room temp or when it is chilled???
Peg
Is it easier to open when it is room temp or when it is chilled???
Peg
brad2 wrote:My sad story is that I have lost the knack of opening a champagne bottle. I still have a couple of bottles and I am tempted to go outside and shake them madly to see if they will open themselves. Probably lose a lot.
Is it easier to open when it is room temp or when it is chilled???
Peg
Easing off the cork doesnt take strength only patience ;)
@Tu- WE've got the same size budget! :victory:
Its make it work time again. :hehe:
Eve wrote:
@Tu- WE've got the same size budget! :victory:
Its make it work time again. :hehe:
:hehe: :hehe:
Eve,
I'm too old for patience. Besides I have no strength in my fingers now. I can't even squeeze the charger part off the small carpet sweeper thingy. I have to wait until someone passes by.
Peg
I'm too old for patience. Besides I have no strength in my fingers now. I can't even squeeze the charger part off the small carpet sweeper thingy. I have to wait until someone passes by.
Peg
brad2 wrote:Eve,
I'm too old for patience. Besides I have no strength in my fingers now. I can't even squeeze the charger part off the small carpet sweeper thingy. I have to wait until someone passes by.
Peg
Invite a patient friend. :thumbsup:
I know anyone as fun and clever as you have to have a least a few.
Or invite Tu with his champagne tastes. ;)
We shared a magnum in another thread just last night.
Eve wrote:
Invite a patient friend. :thumbsup:
I know anyone as fun and clever as you have to have a least a few.
Or invite Tu with his champagne tastes. ;)
We shared a magnum in another thread just last night.
:rofl:
Funny now that you mentioned it...I do actually have a bottle of Cristal in my fridge...and a bottle of Veuve Cliquot as well. Haven;t really had an occasion to crack them open...hopefully soon. :)
Hmm, maybe I should merge the Drink thread with this thread....?
bmwracer wrote:Hmm, maybe I should merge the Drink thread with this thread....?
Sorry, mate. :sweat:
Tu_triky wrote:Sorry, mate. :sweat:
Gomen, it wasn't a dig... I thought maybe it would be a practical thing to do. :sweat:
bmwracer wrote:
Gomen, it wasn't a dig... I thought maybe it would be a practical thing to do. :sweat:
Well I don't think we really talk about drinks all too much here, aside from the infrequent drink related joke, as with the champagne above or my reference to cosmopolitans :)
Guess brad2's champagne bottle reference got Eve and I started. :beaten:
It's up to you of course.
If there was any doubt that eating larger fish can be dangerous because they bio-accumulate mercury, read this:
Mercury levels of whale-eating town's residents 10 times average
Friday 22nd January
TOKYO \
Levels of mercury in hair samples of residents of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, which is known for customarily eating small whales caught by coastal whaling, are about 10 times the average in Japan, possibly due to consumption of whale meat with high concentration of mercury, one of researchers who conducted the survey said Thursday.
Hair samples were collected from 30 men and 20 women living in the whaling town with a population of about 3,400 through local collaborators between December 2007 and July 2008 for testing, Tetsuya Endo, an associate professor at Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, said.
The survey showed the average total mercury levels in the menfs and womenfs hair samples were 21.6 parts per million and 11.9 ppm, respectively, while the levels of average Japanese men and women are 2.55 ppm and 1.43 ppm, he said.
The highest concentration level discovered in the survey was 67.2 ppm in a male aged in his 50s, as a total of three people exceeded the level of 50 ppm for no observed adverse effect set by the World Health Organization, Endo said.
Endo expressed alarm that contamination levels among some of the residents appeared to be high enough to develop health problems according to oversea standards.
eeItfs necessary to conduct more detailed research on their health conditions and the current status of contamination,ff he said. eeWe should also make efforts to curb consumption of whale meat which is highly contaminated with mercury.fe
The researchers, also including Koichi Haraguchi at Daiichi College of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Fukuoka, will publish the survey result in an international science magazine on oceanic pollution.
According to Endo, the researchers also discovered high levels of mercury in products made from local marine mammals and fishes, such as pilot whales, dolphins, tunas and skipjack, distributed in and around the community.
In particular, the total contamination levels in the red meat from 22 samples of pilot whales, a cetacean commonly consumed in the town, averaged 9.6 ppm, with the level for methyl mercury alone coming to 5.9 ppm, both well beyond the tentative national regulation figures of 0.4 ppm and 0.3 ppm, respectively.
Among the 50 residents tested, the average total mercury level in those who eat pilot whale once a month or more was 24.6 ppm, while the levels in those who eat it only once every several months or not at all were 15.5 ppm and 4.3 ppm, respectively.
No epidemiologic survey has been conducted in Taiji although health hazards to the residents from the consumption of whale products are suspected, according to Endo.
Mercury levels of whale-eating town's residents 10 times average
Friday 22nd January
TOKYO \
Levels of mercury in hair samples of residents of Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, which is known for customarily eating small whales caught by coastal whaling, are about 10 times the average in Japan, possibly due to consumption of whale meat with high concentration of mercury, one of researchers who conducted the survey said Thursday.
Hair samples were collected from 30 men and 20 women living in the whaling town with a population of about 3,400 through local collaborators between December 2007 and July 2008 for testing, Tetsuya Endo, an associate professor at Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, said.
The survey showed the average total mercury levels in the menfs and womenfs hair samples were 21.6 parts per million and 11.9 ppm, respectively, while the levels of average Japanese men and women are 2.55 ppm and 1.43 ppm, he said.
The highest concentration level discovered in the survey was 67.2 ppm in a male aged in his 50s, as a total of three people exceeded the level of 50 ppm for no observed adverse effect set by the World Health Organization, Endo said.
Endo expressed alarm that contamination levels among some of the residents appeared to be high enough to develop health problems according to oversea standards.
eeItfs necessary to conduct more detailed research on their health conditions and the current status of contamination,ff he said. eeWe should also make efforts to curb consumption of whale meat which is highly contaminated with mercury.fe
The researchers, also including Koichi Haraguchi at Daiichi College of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Fukuoka, will publish the survey result in an international science magazine on oceanic pollution.
According to Endo, the researchers also discovered high levels of mercury in products made from local marine mammals and fishes, such as pilot whales, dolphins, tunas and skipjack, distributed in and around the community.
In particular, the total contamination levels in the red meat from 22 samples of pilot whales, a cetacean commonly consumed in the town, averaged 9.6 ppm, with the level for methyl mercury alone coming to 5.9 ppm, both well beyond the tentative national regulation figures of 0.4 ppm and 0.3 ppm, respectively.
Among the 50 residents tested, the average total mercury level in those who eat pilot whale once a month or more was 24.6 ppm, while the levels in those who eat it only once every several months or not at all were 15.5 ppm and 4.3 ppm, respectively.
No epidemiologic survey has been conducted in Taiji although health hazards to the residents from the consumption of whale products are suspected, according to Endo.
Tu_triky wrote:If there was any doubt that eating larger fish can be dangerous because they bio-accumulate mercury, read this:
Mercury levels of whale-eating town's residents 10 times average
You should never eat anything with a brain larger than your own. :shakehead:
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