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Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 14, 2012, 6:01am

It's shredded dried pork.

Posted by hwinpp on Mar 14, 2012, 7:02am

Mar 14, 2012, 4:00am, bixaorellana wrote:

But what is pork floss? All I can envision is bacon flavored cotton candy.

It's actually candy flavoured bacon cotton, more or less

Posted by bixaorellana on Mar 14, 2012, 3:11pm

I thought you were being funny, but when I looked it up decided that you have the best description of all.

Posted by tod2 on Mar 28, 2012, 4:23pm

I might like it..... I totally adore pork rind that has crisped and bubbled to a delicate crunch when accompanied with the pork meat. No wonder pork scratchings are so popular in pubs!
There are different methods used by each cook and some go to long lengths of rubbing the rind with salt and egg white. Salt is the key but so is heat.

Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 28, 2012, 4:58pm

I am always amazed at how the tough pork skin on pork belly becomes so wonderfully soft when you cook it so that you could actually cut it with a spoon if you wanted to.

Posted by kimby on Apr 4, 2012, 11:57pm

Just heard about the Texas Rangers stadium's mega-hot dog: The Boom Stick...

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...a two-foot-long, one-pound gourmet hot dog that feeds three or four fans and costs $26, the dog is a Coney Island-style wiener that will be topped with shredded cheese, chili and sauteed onions. Not to mention the bun, apparently made of "exotic bread flown in from France"

URP!!!!

Posted by Don Cuevas on Apr 15, 2012, 9:56pm

Just saw this on a blog, "Hot Dog, Cheddar Cheese, & Chive Cake Salé with Tarragon Chive Butter for the Five Star Junk Food Makeover Challenge"
http://tastytrix.blogspot.mx/2012/03/hot-dog-cheddar-cheese-chive-cake-sale.html

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Posted by kerouac2 on Apr 24, 2012, 6:19pm

On lots of 'gourmet' sites, I see all sorts of recipes for olive cakes, ham cakes, bacon cakes, salmon cakes, spinach cakes, anchovy cakes or whatever. I have never tasted one of these cakes that I liked. I just don't like my "bread" mixed with the other ingredients. Let me unite them myself or don't give it to me.

Posted by kimby on Apr 26, 2012, 2:44am

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/ano....-191647836.html

The photo is "only" a triple bypass burger, they make a Quadruple Bypass Burger with four 1/2 pound patties (almost a kilo of meat!), eight slices of cheese, totalling 8000 calories. The Heart Attack Grill also sells "Flatliner" french fries cooked in lard.

If you weigh over 350 pounds you eat free. Really.
And a sign says "Cash Only. You might die before your check clears."

Posted by hwinpp on Apr 28, 2012, 8:11am

Cheeseburger pizza.

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http://laughingsquid.com/crown-crust-piz....en-fillet-gems/

Posted by bixaorellana on May 19, 2012, 1:04am

I'll bet the crown crust pizzas would be a big hit at children's parties. They have a certain charm.

If that disgusts you, just go off & make a sandwich with this:
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(if you have time on your hands, google Jon Stewart's reaction to this product)

Posted by rikita on May 19, 2012, 6:09pm

sorry but just the thought made me feel a bit strange in my stomach just now...

Posted by kerouac2 on May 19, 2012, 6:36pm

The name doesn't disgust me as much as what I can see through the glass jar.

Posted by bixaorellana on May 31, 2012, 7:23am

This is so wrong, sinful, really.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/....s-29514479.html

Posted by kerouac2 on May 31, 2012, 5:06pm

People always talk about communist re-education camps as being horrible inhuman experiences, but it would not bother me one bit to send all of these people to a place like Darfur for 3 months, even though probably just one week would be an eye-opener for them.

Posted by bixaorellana on May 31, 2012, 5:19pm

Many years ago when I was a typesetter, I had to set an article on a reprogramming "cure" for certain types of schizophrenia. One of the things that stayed with me was a description of the oral fixation of some of the patients. It came back when I was watching those guys shoving their childish treats into their faces.

Posted by Don Cuevas on May 31, 2012, 5:36pm

Baconnaise: surely no worse than Nutella?

Posted by kerouac2 on May 31, 2012, 5:48pm

There was a big flood that engulfed the Ferraro factory in Alba a few years ago, and I dreamed that Nutella, Kinder, Tic Tac, Mon Chéri and Ferraro Rocher would disappear from the market at least for a couple of months. Alas, the Italian food industry always survives. Earthquakes and floods cannot stop it.

Posted by hwinpp on Jun 1, 2012, 1:21pm

Don't Mon Cheri and Ferrero Rocher actually disappear for a couple of months each year? I remember Mon Cheri disappearing during winter and then the big promos on TV would announce the Piemont cherries were ripening and soon there'd be Mon Cheris available again.

And Ferrero Rocher was swapped with that little cocunutty, white chocolate ball in summer.

Posted by kerouac2 on Jun 1, 2012, 4:55pm

Now all of that stuff is available at all times. :-X

Posted by rikita on Jun 1, 2012, 7:47pm

hey, mon cheri definitely does not belong in this thread. nor does nutella. and rafaello (the coconutty balls - without chocolate) doesn't really, either. they are no abomination at all!

Posted by hwinpp on Jun 1, 2012, 11:45pm

Ah, yes, Rafaello.

Posted by kerouac2 on Jun 2, 2012, 11:02am

Just for Rikita!
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I don't think I've ever seen Raffaello. Maybe they don't sell it in France.

Posted by rikita on Jun 2, 2012, 7:01pm

thank you! mon cheri are my favourites, btw...

i haven't seen raffaello in a while either, now that i think of it. we used to often get it for christmas from my grandma...

Posted by lugg on Jun 6, 2012, 8:31pm

A "treat " inspired by the Diamond Jubilee

Coronation Chicken ice cream...barf
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Posted by bixaorellana on Jun 7, 2012, 4:17am

NO!!!!!

Posted by kerouac2 on Jun 15, 2012, 7:07pm

Martha gave this cheeseburger meal a health rating of 2/10

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A controversial ban preventing a nine-year-old girl from photographing her school meals has been lifted following a storm of protest on the internet.

Martha Payne, from Argyll, has now recorded more than three million hits on her NeverSeconds blog.

Argyll and Bute Council said press coverage of the blog had led catering staff to fear for their jobs.

But council leader Roddy McCuish later told the BBC he had instructed senior officials to lift the ban immediately.

The schoolgirl's father, David Payne, who helped her set up the blog, welcomed the decision.

Martha began publishing photographs of her Lochgilphead Primary School lunches on 30 April.

She gave each meal a 'food-o-meter' and health rating, and counted the number of mouthfuls it took her to eat it.

She had been using the blog to raise money for the Mary's Meals charity.

But in a post published on Thursday evening, Martha said her headteacher told her not to take any more photographs for the blog.

Under the headline "Goodbye", the post stated: "This morning in maths I got taken out of class by my head teacher and taken to her office.

Charity blog

"I was told that I could not take any more photos of my school dinners because of a headline in a newspaper today."

The council's decision to impose the ban came after the Daily Record newspaper published a photograph of Martha alongside chef Nick Nairn under the headline "Time to fire the dinner ladies."

Speaking on BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme Mr Payne said his daughter was not happy about the council's decision.

He added: "I understand that it's brought pressure from around the world and media interest, but that is really out of our control.

"But we are very supportive of the school - the fact that she has been encouraged to blog and she got permission to do this is testament to them.

"Everyone in the kitchens has been wonderful to Martha and she enjoys going into lunch every day."

By Friday morning, the council's decision had sparked a furious reaction on social media.

Local MSP Mike Russell, Scotland's education secretary, tweeted he would be writing to the council's chief executive in his capacity as local MSP, calling for the "daft" ban to be overturned.

Job fears

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver tweeted: "Stay strong Martha" before urging his 2.3 million followers to retweet the message.

Argyll and Bute Council later issued a statement defending its position and claimed media coverage of the blog had led catering staff to fear for their jobs.

It added: "The photographic images uploaded appear to only represent a fraction of the choices available to pupils, so a decision has been made by the council to stop photos being taken in the school canteen.

"There have been discussions between senior council staff and Martha's father however, despite an acknowledgement that the media coverage has produced these unwarranted attacks, he intimated that he would continue with the blog."

Cleland Sneddon, the executive director of community services at Argyll and Bute Council, told the BBC that school catering staff had been left "in tears" by press coverage.

However, Mr McCuish later told the BBC Radio 4's World at One programme that he had instructed senior officials to lift the ban immediately.

He said: "It is a good thing to do, to change your mind, and I have certainly done that."

Mr McCuish said he had not yet been able to inform Martha of the lifting of the photo ban, but had a meeting arranged with her father next Thursday to discuss "a way forward".

'Dinner summit'

In a BBC interview Martha's father said he was really pleased for his daughter that ban had been lifted.

He added: "She will look forward to being able to take her photographs of her food and writing about it as she has done so far."

Publicity caused by the ban helped the schoolgirl smash through her £7,000 fundraising target for the Mary's Meals charity - with total pledges of more than £30,000 being made by Friday afternoon.

The total stood at only about £2,000 on Thursday evening.

A Mary's Meals spokesman said: "We are overwhelmed by the huge response to her efforts today which has led to so many more people donating to her online donation page.

"Thanks to this fantastic support, Martha has now raised enough money to build a kitchen in Malawi for children receiving Mary's Meals as part of our Sponsor A School initiative and has broken the record for hitting a Sponsor A School online fundraising target in the quickest amount of time".

Among the pictures Martha published on her blog was one featuring her £2 lunch of a pizza slice, a croquette, sweetcorn and a cupcake.

Martha wrote: "I'm a growing kid and I need to concentrate all afternoon and I can't do it on one croquette. Do any of you think you could?"

---from BBC News

Posted by bixaorellana on Jun 16, 2012, 5:29am

Besides the dubious nutritional value, that's a very skimpy "meal" in the picture -- the one with the croquette sounds generous by comparison.

Love that the publicity got all that money for the charity.

The story prompted me to look up the blog, which is quite interesting & well laid out. http://neverseconds.blogspot.mx/

Posted by lugg on Jun 16, 2012, 10:30am

One good thing that came out of all the publicity was the huge increase of donations via Just Giving to Mary's Kitchen which is now at 60K

http://www.justgiving.com/neverseconds

Posted by kerouac2 on Jun 16, 2012, 3:39pm

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/15....ref=mostpopular


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