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Champagne and cupcakes, Trailer Park Boys, and hand sanitizers in massage...
Holidays are all about tradition. And nothing says tradition more than the Canadian TV show, Trailer Park Boys. Amy and I have a polar bear that guards the compound during the long winter nights; we...
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If you swallow the charm, it’s your fault; London diners sign Xmas pudding...
I have no use for Christmas pudding, fruitcake, or those stale, doughy cookies strewn with sprinkles. Gross. Christmas pudding is apparently a steamed dessert made with dried fruit, nuts, spices and...
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Gratuitous food porn shot of the day (Xmas eve edition) — French rib rack lamb
The things you can find on sale at Dillon’s supermarket (part of the Kroger chain) in Manhattan (Kansas). For Christmas Eve dinner, which has no special significance other than we made it home from...
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Gratuitous food porn shot of the day – Xmas eve edition
Christmas Eve dinner in Manhattan with a couple of Kansas State modern languages graduate students from Senegal (they speak French there). Oven-roasted French-cut lamb ribs – cooked to 140F but still...
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Merry Christmas from The Trailer Park Boys
Holidays are all about tradition. After five years in Kansas, Amy and Sorenne and I have settled into a routine of lamb (that was last night), fish, cognac and champagne and no barfing, except 2006,...
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Xmas events shelved after Dublin hotel vomiting outbreak
The Regency Hotel in Dublin has had to cancel a number of Christmas events and suspend its food and beverage service after a suspected outbreak of norovirus linked to its catering services. Manager...
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Neil Young knows this: beware the Christmas ham, says insurer
Neil Young once had to cancel some tour dates because he sliced a guitar finger while making a ham sandwich. New Zealand’s state-run Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), which offers universal...
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Feast of the seven temperature verified fish and Merry Christmas
I’m not Italian, I’m not religious, but now that I’ve found a decent fish monger, the Feast of the Seven Fish is the kind of meal I can get behind in support of winter or summer soltisce, depending on...
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319 sick; Norway Christmas party E. coli outbreak declared over
I’m not sure how a foodborne disease outbreak linked to a Christmas party can be declared over before Christmas, but that’s what Norwegian health types have done after 319 people were struck with...
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Turkey’s are sorta boring: Re-create Christmas a 12-day drunken festival in...
It’s a line I use frequently, from our Christmas movie tradition, Mystery, Alaska, or second fave, Trailer Park Boys Christmas: The only fun things to do in cold weather are fornicate and play hockey....
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‘I hear that lonesome whistle, hang my head and cry’ What New Zealand inmates...
What I remember from prison 35 years ago was, it was lonely. There were fights, dramas, scandals, but that was nothing to the continual loneliness. According to the New Zealand Herald, there will be no...
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If you swallow the charm, it’s your fault; London diners sign Xmas pudding...
I have no use for Christmas pudding, fruitcake, or those stale, doughy cookies strewn with sprinkles. Gross. Christmas pudding is apparently a steamed dessert made with dried fruit, nuts, spices and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gratuitous food porn shot of the day (Xmas eve edition) — French rib rack lamb
The things you can find on sale at Dillon’s supermarket (part of the Kroger chain) in Manhattan (Kansas). For Christmas Eve dinner, which has no special significance other than we made it home from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gratuitous food porn shot of the day – Xmas eve edition
Christmas Eve dinner in Manhattan with a couple of Kansas State modern languages graduate students from Senegal (they speak French there). Oven-roasted French-cut lamb ribs – cooked to 140F but still...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Merry Christmas from The Trailer Park Boys
Holidays are all about tradition. After five years in Kansas, Amy and Sorenne and I have settled into a routine of lamb (that was last night), fish, cognac and champagne and no barfing, except 2006,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Xmas events shelved after Dublin hotel vomiting outbreak
The Regency Hotel in Dublin has had to cancel a number of Christmas events and suspend its food and beverage service after a suspected outbreak of norovirus linked to its catering services. Manager...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Neil Young knows this: beware the Christmas ham, says insurer
Neil Young once had to cancel some tour dates because he sliced a guitar finger while making a ham sandwich. New Zealand’s state-run Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), which offers universal...
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Feast of the seven temperature verified fish and Merry Christmas
I’m not Italian, I’m not religious, but now that I’ve found a decent fish monger, the Feast of the Seven Fish is the kind of meal I can get behind in support of winter or summer soltisce, depending on...
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Enjoy the holidays and follow safe food practices
As Christmas fast approaches, it is time for family and friends to get together and share in the festivities. This year my extended family and I have rigged together a massive outdoor spit and intend...
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Gift theft? Use the poop
KRON reports that a San Francisco mail theft victim is fighting back with cat poop after 50 of her packages were stolen in the past three months–and it only got worse around the holidays. So, she...
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