The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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The younger folks may not know that salt peter used to be believed to be an anaphrodisiac. The girls at a finishing school would joke about how the kitchen would put salt peter in their food.
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The younger folks may not know that salt peter used to be believed to be an anaphrodisiac. The girls at a finishing school would joke about how the kitchen would put salt peter in their food.
Saltpeter (or saltpetre; either way, one word) is a hypotensive and could, plausibly, inhibit erection in males. It has no effect on desire, nor would putting it in girls' food be effective in reducing ability. It is (or was) used as a food preservative, but doses high enough to inhibit male ability would likely have other unpleasant acute and chronic side effects: gastroenteritis, low blood pressure, anemia, kidney disease, and more.
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Why did you spend time researching that? The world is ending in less than a day and you research the effects of gunpowder ingredients on erectile disfunction?
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Why did you spend time researching that?
Because that's what I do; I research useless info and post it here.
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I need to set up a counterpart, a typical European breakfast as imagined by an American. An entire wedding cake dripping with fruit in syrup, a couple of large fish with the heads still on, blood sausage, an entire magnum of red wine, and three packs of unfiltered cigarettes.
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I need to set up a counterpart, a typical European breakfast as imagined by an American. An entire wedding cake dripping with fruit in syrup, a couple of large fish with the heads still on, blood sausage, an entire magnum of red wine, and three packs of unfiltered cigarettes.
Add a few croissants and a bucket of coffee and we're talking
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a couple of large fish with the heads still on
The fish will only be medium sized. A large fish is too much for breakfast.
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@da_Doctah said:
a couple of large fish with the heads still on
The fish will only be medium sized. A large fish is too much for breakfast.
To quote Shakespeare: Pfft!
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I need to set up a counterpart, a typical European breakfast as imagined by an American. An entire wedding cake dripping with fruit in syrup, a couple of large fish with the heads still on, blood sausage, an entire magnum of red wine, and three packs of unfiltered cigarettes.
Since what hotels here call "continental breakfasts" (where "continental" presumably prefers to the European continent, rather than England) are sparser than traditional American breakfasts, I would have assumed that European breakfasts were relatively light. If you had said, "Full English Breakfast" on the other hand, I would have imagined something more substantial.
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"continental breakfasts"
Yes, the American idea of a European breakfast is more like a sweet pastry and a cup of coffee.
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According to John Ayto's Dictionary of Word Origins, the very earliest use of the word fuck is as a personal name. It occurs in 1278 in the form of one 'John Le Fucker'.
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Just because I've never seen a German eat a giant bratwurst, sour kraut and drink beer from Das Boot for breakfast doesn't mean it hasn't happened.
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German eat a giant bratwurst, sour kraut ... for breakfast
Yes, I've had a large breakfast of eggs, *wurst, and I don't remember what else (but no kraut; I'm not fond of it) in Germany. It was a German instance of a large, multinational hotel chain, though, so I'm not sure how typical of German breakfasts it was. As I recall, breakfasts at other German hotels were less substantial, but still more than an American "continental breakfast." But it's been over 15 years since I've been to Germany and over 20 years since the last time I spent more than one day there, so my memory of details like what I had for breakfast is slightly hazy.
drink beer from Das Boot
Why would anyone drink beer from a submarine?
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Not that Das Boot. Dis Das Boot:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Beer Fest Das BootAlso featuring Jürgen Prochnow.
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@HardwareGeek said:
As I recall, breakfasts at other German hotels were less substantial, but still more than an American "continental breakfast."
I've travelled a fair bit around Europe for work so I'm a bit qualified to comment. The “continental breakfast” is based on the sort of thing usually found in France, Spain and Italy. The Germans seem to like having more than that, and I'm convinced there's a competition between the British, Irish and Americans for who can put the most in a hotel breakfast.
The funny thing is some of the biggest and best hotel breakfasts ever have been in Sweden…
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@dkf said:
The “continental breakfast” is based on the sort of thing usually found in France, Spain and Italy.
Of those three, Italy is the only one I've been to. From what I can recall (it's been almost 12 years since my last trip), even there the breakfasts were at least a little more substantial than a "continental breakfast."
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@MathNerdCNU said:
sour kraut
For breakfast? Are you nuts?
@MathNerdCNU said:
drink beer
That's an acceptable breakfast beverage, though, as long as you eat pretzels and Weißwurst with it.
@HardwareGeek said:
As I recall, breakfasts at other German hotels were less substantial, but still more than an American "continental breakfast."
As a person who grew up in Germany, I find American hotel breakfast extremely disappointing. In fact, American breakfast is disappointing in general, since it's extremely hard to get decent bread, pretzels and Wurst in the US. And the non-shitty cheeses are extremely expensive.
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@HardwareGeek said:
From what I can recall (it's been almost 12 years since my last trip), even there the breakfasts were at least a little more substantial than a "continental breakfast."
That's surprising, since the traditional Italian breakfast consists of nothing but a cup of cappuccino and a Danish.
Pro tip: If you want everyone to know you're a tourist, order a cappuccino after lunch/dinner.
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ISTR fruit and cereal being available, but tourist hotels are not necessarily representative of what the locals eat.
Also,
@asdf said:
Danish
I'd think French and Swiss would be much more readily available.
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@asdf said:
And the non-shitty cheeses are extremely expensive.
I gather you were in a cosmopolitan and/or wealthy area if you were able to find some cheese other than
Plastic Orange Cheddar LookalikeAmerican,Plastic Emmenthaler LookalikeWisconsin Swiss, andShredded Plastic Pizza ToppingMozzarella at all. While things are a lot better than they were before 1995 or so, US tastes in cheeses are, not to put to fine a point on it, bordering on the nonexistent for 99% of the population.
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@asdf said:
If you want everyone to know you're a tourist
Given that I have a very northern complexion and am speaking American English (or perhaps attempting to speak very simple Italian, and doing so very badly — I remember someone explaining the subtle difference in pronunciation, but very unsubtle difference in meaning, when describing my daughter, between quattro anni and quattro ani), they know that anyway.
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@ScholRLEA I had to go to Whole Foods to find some cheese that didn't taste like plastic and actually resembled the type of cheese it was claiming to be. And then I started hating myself for having become the kind of person who shops at Whole Foods.
Even American Mozzarella sucks. Sorry, but it does.
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@HardwareGeek said:
quattro anni and quattro ani
Yeah, the Italian pronunciation of double consonants is a bit counterintuitive.
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@asdf No need to apologize, it's true. While the US makes a few (very few) world class cheeses, and imports quite a few others, it is probably easier to get a wedge of Humboldt Fog (a creamy white-rind goat) or Wisconsin Brick Cheese (a strong washed-rind) in Moscow, Russia than Moscow, Indiana - even with the current trade restrictions.
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@asdf said:
the kind of person who shops at Whole Foods.
Even American Mozzarella sucks.
Mozzarella di bufala is one of the few good reasons for shopping at Whole Foods.
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@HardwareGeek I was amazed recently when a run-of-the-mill Kroger Supermarket nearby actually had Münster - not the soft, bland, painted-yellow-on-the-surface Munster made here, but actual, strong smelling, washed-rind Münster from Europe - in their upscale cheeses section. I had never seen it anywhere in the US before (and I've never been out of the country except to Montreal once), not even The Cheese Board (and they have just about everything, every really problematic stuff like Caerphilly).
Of course, this was in Athens, which is about as tony as Georgia ever gets.
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@ScholRLEA I have to admit that I find the American taste in bread more disturbing, though. It's either super-sweet or super-sour and always has the consistency of chewing gum. And those greasy pretzels sold at concession stands make me shudder as well.
Not saying there is no good food in America (both produce and meat are generally better in my experience), but bread and everything you can put on it sucks. ;)
@HardwareGeek said:
Mozzarella di bufala is one of the few good reasons for shopping at Whole Foods.
QFT. Also, it's the only place you can get decent bread, at least where I was.
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@asdf said:
the only place you can get decent bread
That reminds me, I should probably try to find room in my van to take my bread maker with me when I go to California: clothes , bed , dogs , computers , bread maker .
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Holy crap, apparently some small creamery in Wisconsin picked up the rights, cultures and recipes for Liederkranz (which was thought to have been lost to the ages after it was discontinued in the 1980s as they reportedly destroyed all the viable cultures) in 2010. I will have to see if I can find it somewhere.
I also would like to see if I can find some Brick, though apparently that doesn't get shipped out of Wisconsin regularly. According to legend, the original creator hit on the idea of combining a cheddared curd with P. freudenreichi (the bacterium that gives Emmenthal and its derivatives their holes) and then using a B. linens smear on the rind. Amazingly, this Frankencheese worked out and was apparently pretty popular at one time.
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@ScholRLEA said:
US tastes in cheeses are, not to put to fine a point on it, bordering on the nonexistent for 99% of the population
but pizza hut here is around here is delicious, they can't be that bad
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@HardwareGeek said:
clothes
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bed
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dogs
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computers
@HardwareGeek said:
bread maker
maybe in the next patch? currently you can make flour and mince it to make biscuits, stews, or roasts.
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@fbmac they tried to come here. It was the worst pizza ever.
Every single one went bankrupt in less than a year.
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@fbmac said:
pizza
Thin crust pizza is something I missed as well. (Yes, I was on the west coast.) After multiple months without a decent pizza, I finally managed to find a good pizza place on a weekend trip to Napa. It felt like heaven.
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@Jarry said:
Every single one went bankrupt in less than a year.
They're not the worst American-style pizza by any means, but they're nowhere near the best, either. But then, I eat the cheapest frozen pizza I can get at Walmart (unless somebody else is paying), so my opinion doesn't have a lot of credibility.
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@asdf said:
Thin crust pizza
Mod Pizza is the best I've found, but it's still not as thin and crisp as I remember in Italy.
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@HardwareGeek said:
Mod Pizza
They didn't have a location near where I lived. All I had was Amici's, which is very mediocre and overpriced.
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@asdf There are some great pizzas in Cali - sourdough-crust, grilled, Chicago-style, you name it - just not thin crust ones for the most part. That, you have to go to NYC for (or Boston, if you know where to go).
Still better off than here, though, at least outside of Atlanta or Athens.
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@ScholRLEA said:
Atlanta
Only city in Georgia I've ever been to. I remember liking most of the restaurants there.
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@HardwareGeek said:
Mod Pizza is the best I've found,
@mods make good pizza? these guys are full of surprises
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@fbmac Now we finally know what they're here for
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@Jarry or you have a very different taste for pizza, or they aren't consistent across countries, the only way to be sure would be going there now, but that would exceed my pizza budget
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@ScholRLEA said:
great pizzas in Cali ... Chicago-style
I was very sad when Pizzeria Uno closed their restaurants there. They have only one left — in Modesto, which is not a place I'd willingly go for just about anything, much less just a pizza, plus it would be about an hour drive, or more, from any place I'd likely be living.
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i think there is domino here somewhere now, is it good?
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@HardwareGeek Is Chicago-style pizza worth trying? It looks extremely weird to me.