And tripe! :vomit:

You must be kidding, with the Mexican population here! When I lived in San Antonio, Texas, I had a big bowl of menudo for breakfast almost every morning. :yum:

I'm not a fan of tripe.

How is vegetarian haggis even a thing?

Like a vegetarian hamburger..

Not a hamburger.

I suspect that anybody who hasn't tried haggis has a very different idea of taste and texture to what it is really like.

That sentence totally doesn't scan. Don't care.

Well - haggis has quite a subtle flavour - it's all about the seasonings. Get the seasonings right and you get something that is really quite nice. It doesn't taste exactly like proper haggis but it hits a lot of the same notes.

No mater how it's spiced, it's offal.

:vomit:Guts Bad!!!

Good pun.

Is black pudding the same as blood pudding? I had that once and it was horrific.

A search on Wikipedia for blood pudding re-directs to the black pudding page.
As Wiki is never wrong the answer to your question must be 'Yes!'.

Mum came from a large coal mining family in NE England and life was something of a struggle at times.
Added to that she was in her teens during WW2 when food rationing was in place so it was a question of being grateful for what you could get to eat.
Memory is a little hazy but I do recall eating black pudding as a child just once.:eek:
I think that mum served it up because she remembered it as something she had in the war years. A sort of trip down a culinary memory lane.
I'm pretty sure she wasn't aware of the ingredients and when she found out we never had it again.
Cruel and unusual nourishment. :)

Black Pudding Recipe

Oh man - I love black pudding. Sliced and fried as part of a cooked breakfast it rocks

Black pudding is one variant of blood pudding/blood sausage. There are many different variations from lots of different countries. As you are in the USA you could have had any one of several different national versions of blood sausage

The british version is heavy on bacon accents to the flavour - not so much for the pine nuts, raisins, or cinnamon you get in some variants - no pig snouts either.


Here's the ingredients for a Bury black pudding (my preferred :P)

It's mainly flour, oatmeal and barley

Exploding coconut 'sent fear' through crematorium staff

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Talk about going out with a bang. Look, at least I saved someone else the effort, and probably the embarrassment, of saying it first. :)

Why couldn't he wear his leathers?

Noxious emissions, perhaps?

because of all the burned skin, obviously.

Might be something to do with metal bits.

Jewelry goes in sometimes, so I wouldn't think the metal would cause problems.

Maybe it wasn't that they were his leathers, but, rather, his "colors"? As in, motorcycle club colors.

I think that generally it's only light weight clothing and no shoes. Heavy leather would require an extended burn time to be thorough. Additionally, much leather is chromium tanned which may make for harmful emissions and harmful residue in the ashes.

Going back to Black Puddings (Post #3780 et seq), their uses are many and varied. :)


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Good thinking.

Sounds like there's a quality control issue with that button. "Can't get frozen shut" seems like it should be pretty high on the list of requirements.

Yeh man. Bit of a design flaw, that.

Maintenance. Cleaning.

Ever seen a stock room? Cluttered, crowded. I've long thought walk-in cooler/freezer doors should open to the inside, like a tornado/bomb shelter.

An object is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it.
That said, I still think it's weird that anyone would pay £575,000 for a teapot with a broken handle and no lid.
Would those wishing to accuse me of philistinism please form an orderly queue.

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The Independent.

I see the Met bought it.

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That's the stupidest thing I've seen since I looked in the mirror.

I'm sure the $160,740.10 in fees added to their delight.

Money does tend to colour your judgement.

Unfortunately, I've never been put to that particular test. ;)

To be fair - that is pretty groovy

I've no wish to dampen this chap's scientific curiosity, but wouldn't it be easier if he just went for a walk and looked over the edge?

khq.com

"The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe."
Still a remarkable achievement even if stupid dangerous.

Here is the story from NBC.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...&ICID=ref_fark

A lot simpler would have been the window seat on a Transcontinental airliner.

Why would he even try to prove the earth is flat? The whole point of that society is to know something without trying to prove it. Will they now kick him out of the society for trying to prove it?

Well that explains it... CATS!

Cats good, cat people weird.

More than 50 dead geese fall from Idaho sky in 'freak accident'

maybe they're napping, Norwegian Blue-style. I have a goose down pillow and it's positively narcoleptive. (yeah, just made up that wurd)

Yeah lightening. Don't you go checking them for chemical exposure out there.

The Russians are now attacking Idaho Snow Geese with bio-chemical weapons?

Clearly we have made America Great again. Everyone is now saying, "Oh, great."

I'm wondering why there was no obvious scorching on those lightning-struck geeses. Almost everything I've seen pictures/video of that's been struck by lightning, lightning left a mark.

I wonder if the geese were caught in a monstrous updraft, if they could have been carried high enough into the atmosphere for the air pressure in their lungs to account for the burst lungs? There was severe weather in the area.

Can that even happen?

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I researched my family history a few years ago and essentially I come from a long line of English peasantry.
I did, however, find that my 4 x great grandfather on my mother's side was born in Copenhagen in 1769.
Do you think that if I sent off my DNA for testing the results would conclude that I am a Great Dane?

Haggis!

Sent by magick

Who's a good doggie? You are, Carruthers is a good doggie. :lol:

You on the other hand, ain't nothin' but a hound dog.

To be fair, they're not legally allowed to tell you about some of the most important genes, because the discoverers of those genes have patented them. They can say you have the gene, but they can't tell you that we know this gene is highly linked to a particular disease because that would constitute medical advice. So lots of these services pad their reports with stuff like "you have the 'stinky pee when you eat asparagus' gene!" (No shit, Sherlock, I've got a lifetime of evidence for that one.)

Fortunately, the internet doesn't care about your stupid medical patents, and once you have your raw DNA data, there are separate public databases you can upload it into and comb through yourself.

Great Dane...:facepalm:

Weird news? That's weird as in completely devoid of a sense of self-preservation.



In a last ditch move they probably quoted something by Voltaire.
That would sap the will to live in any sentient creature.

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The French tourists probably chalked it up as an interspecies social experiment and forgot about it the next day.

No problem, just throw the kid and run.

It was almost like she was mad at the cats for being cats. Darwin was needed here.

Some adults are still children.

I think you are insulting children here.

In fairness to tw, he isn't targeting children, he's an equal opportunity insulter.

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Is that one group that the Donald has not yet demeaned?

Boy, howdy. :thumbsup:

Isn't that child endangerment?

yes. Those adults were endangered.

I couldn't say. I don't pay a lot of attention to 45. Instead I try to promote non-insane candidates on both the left and the right.

Clinton needs to get off the stage and let someone else take a whack.