Council Votes

[davidn]

After the debacle of last year's grand meeting, where all proposals were shot down by the 300-year-old incumbents and we were collectively talked down to with a semi-psychotic rant about squirrels, I don't have much left but disdain for this entire process.

Comments

[xaq.livejournal.com]

I'd have probably written in "Cookie Monster" rather than "Piers Morgan," but other than that...yeah, can't argue.

[premchaia_pre4]

I'd have thought you'd use your “jam” icon for this.

[premchaia_pre4]

Oh! And semi-unrelatedly: (a) I might recognize the overall shape of that signature from your Frog Fractions video! and (b) er, yes, well, granted it's not the pure thing, but it seems to be real enough (though I haven't tried one yet).

[davidn]

Oh, for Christ's sake.

[xaq.livejournal.com]

*fights urge to throw up from that photo* First Denny's, now Sonic...who the hell thought putting bacon into milkshakes was a good idea?!

[davidn]

It's always reassuring to see disgust shared by people who were born here, indicating that a 1140-calorie (at medium size!!) meat milkshake is not considered normal.

[premchaia_pre4]

You do sort of have to remember that this is the United States fast food industry, where “medium” frequently means “more than would be ideal for one sitting” and “large” is then “unfathomably enormous”. That said, I've just looked up the chocolate shake from Whataburger, which is one of the places that gave me that impression earlier on, and the “medium” there seems to be smaller than I remember, being “only” 20 fl oz, or a bit over a British pint, and 630 kcal. I seem to recall there being a 44 fl oz size at some point, but it isn't showing up on their website. Maybe they've scaled down due to ingredient costs or something.

[kjorteo]

Granted I'm not the best judge of what food is or is not disgusting either as I'm probably coming at it from the other direction, but

how should I put this

YOU EAT MEAT FLAVORED CHIPS CRISPS

yes, let's go with that.

[premchaia_pre4]

You eat hamburgers with french fries (well, maybe you don't personally, but still)! Meat and potatoes seems to be a well-accepted enough combination in general. Why, then, would fried potatoes made to taste like fried potatoes plus meat be so worthy of capital letters?

[crassadon.livejournal.com]

. . .going to have to look for "potato flavoured" chips.

[davidn]

Apart from meat and potatoes being rather more natural things to go together than peanut butter, whipped cream and bacon, they're not really made from meat (they have the V-sign on the back and everything - not that V-sign, the one that indicates that it's suitable for vegetarians) - it's the same kind of flavouring, mostly composed of MSG, that you would get in packets of cheap Japanese noodles.

I've seen one thing in America that comes close, but they went and messed it all up by including the flavour of maple syrup.

[premchaia_pre4]

Well, you know, ah, it's not actually a new thing (though maybe you inferred that from the article).

[xaq.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that this thread is doing a marvelous job of destroying my appetite? :b

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

YOUR PEOPLE ARE KNOWN FOR DEEP-FRYING CANDY BARS and also eating oat-stuffed sheep stomachs. :|

Though obviously, America isn't free of culinary insanity by any means (Iowa is the home of fried STICKS OF BUTTER apparently). I just can't imagine eating a BACON MILKSHAKE. If I wanted to eat my meat through a straw, I'd put a hot dog in a blender - and even then, it wouldn't be appetizing. Liquified food is completely different from its solid counterpart in most caes.

[davidn]

The peanut flavouring is actually the greatest problem for me (in a 1-megacalorie drink that presents many problems to choose from), but that could be due to my personal unnatural peanutbutterophobia. At least nothing from my own culture has taken to liquefying foods - this is scarily like the meal-in-a-cup from Wall-E.

The deep fried Mars is rather less culinarily defensible than the meat-flavoured crisps above, and I have tried them from a fry bar round the corner from where I lived in university - I thought it would be revolting, and on many levels it is, but the experience is more about the melted nougat and chocolate than the fact that there's batter around it (it is certainly unwise to eat a whole one).

We put the rest of the sheep in the stomach along with the oats before cooking it! It's an inverted sheep. Although nowadays the stomach has dropped out of favour and has largely been replaced with the plastic bag.

[budgiebin.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, I just remembered a friend informed me that they've got an organ-free haggis now using the same stuff they put over hot dogs. I can't imagine why they'd choose plastic, I always thought it was made of cellulose, which at least is vaguely natural to consume, if completely indigestible.

The mars bars have intrigued me, but I don't hate my arteries quite that much~