There's something about a food that moves all by itself that gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Joyce ,'Never Leave Me'


Natter 48 Contiguous States of Denial  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Nutty - Dec 04, 2006 11:48:52 am PST #4428 of 10007
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

It might just be that I'm lucky enough to never have seen congealed vomit.

Don't ride public transit, huh? I saw it just last Friday. The man next to me was teasing his girlfriend by speculating as to what it might have originally been -- pizza? Taquitos? till we jointly made him stop.

Let's all just be thankful that somebody discovered the (cooked) onion. After that culinary milestone, liver and kidneys and I-don't-know-what at least don't sound so bad.


Trudy Booth - Dec 04, 2006 11:50:02 am PST #4429 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

My guess with artichokes is they threw it in the fire for fuel and it smelled yummy.

Seperating eggs was probably a grossed out kid whining about hating the one or the other.

Maybe they weren't super sanitary and lots of things already smelled like pee so they didn't really notice... or they salted and smoked them and then soaked them and whatever remaing pee just tasted like salt.


Steph L. - Dec 04, 2006 11:50:42 am PST #4430 of 10007
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I imagine that the First Instance of Humans Eating [insert visibly scary foodstuff] probably followed their observation of animals eating [visibly scary foodstuff]. Like the legend of Kaldi the goatherder seeing his goats get all hopped up on goofballs coffee beans.

And despite the fact that I am Chandler-Bingesque smoker, it is very bizarre to think that we light something on fire and then STICK IT IN OUR MOUTHS and inhale the smoke. I mean, really, how the hell did this practice catch on?

I'll go you one better. Think about the act of kissing. Not how it makes you *feel* when you're doing it right, with someone who's also doing it right. But the actual physical act of kissing. WEIRD, yo.


aurelia - Dec 04, 2006 11:51:50 am PST #4431 of 10007
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

Ah, Lip-Mashing!


Trudy Booth - Dec 04, 2006 11:52:12 am PST #4432 of 10007
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

I'll go you one better. Think about the act of kissing. Not how it makes you *feel* when you're doing it right, with someone who's also doing it right. But the actual physical act of kissing. WEIRD, yo.

I think that comes from mothers masticating food and giving it to infants. Then people kept kissing because it was sorta homey. Then it turned them on and they all went into therapy for ten thousand years.


juliana - Dec 04, 2006 11:52:28 am PST #4433 of 10007
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

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tommyrot - Dec 04, 2006 11:53:04 am PST #4434 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Moonbase!!

NASA announced Monday it will establish an international base camp on one of the moon's poles, permanently staffing it by 2024, four years after astronauts return to the moon.

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flea - Dec 04, 2006 11:53:21 am PST #4435 of 10007
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sarameg - Dec 04, 2006 11:53:25 am PST #4436 of 10007

Hey, you don't even have to kill things to find offputting meals. Palak paneer, which I love, often has an unfortunate resemblence to something else.


tommyrot - Dec 04, 2006 11:55:54 am PST #4437 of 10007
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

In times of famine, people will eat bark, roots, leather... and our prehistoric ancestors probably had many more periods of famine than we do now. So I'm sure there was desperate experimentation.