Homer Simpson knows how to eat. The staff here recalls the following off the top of our heads: gummy venus de milo, bbq pig, a week old sandwich, the forbidden donut, petroleum jelly, huge sugar ball. Our most fond memory of him is when he goes to The Flying Dutchman for the all you can eat seafood buffet. You probably know what happens (He becomes "Bottomless Pete: Nature's Cruelest Mistake"). Please post any other foods you can recall Homer chomping down with the comments link below.
One of our staff members here at the FP Times recently discovered a fortune cookie that he had put up on a shelf above his desk. It was put there around one month ago and from the picture below you can see that it has 'unfolded' open to display the paper message. We have placed this treasure in a sealed tupperware box for storage while we ponder it's message and mode of delivery.
Food basically involves two holes in your body. It is of the upmost importance for an individual to jeep these holes clean. For your mouth - basic hygeine is a minimum. Please use a dental rinse and floss regularly. As for your buttocks, please people keep this arena clean. Use enough toilet paper and as some readers have told us before they shower after every bowel movement to keep it really real.
Please continue to enjoy the world of food, but let us work harder in keeping hygiene a top priority.
The reader 'PhunkyPherret' came the closest with this answer: This is a sculpture of a milkman and his truck, made out of solidified milk and cottage cheese. Maybe some mozzarella. It could be asiago, but I'm pretty sure the secondary cheese is mozzarella. It was commissioned by Creamland Dairies for the 2004 "Milk Does A Body Good" campaign. It expires next month. The actual correct answer is: Keeping with the nostalgic theme of this year's event, Jim Victor of Conshohocken turned 1,000 pounds of butter into a sculpture depicting an old-fashioned milk delivery wagon and two men unloading a modern milk-vending machine. Butter sculptures, an artistic way of highlighting the state's national role in butter production, usually are made from 800 pounds of butter donated by the Land O'Lakes plant in South Middletown Twp. This year's sculpture, displayed in a glass-encased cooler in the Maclay Street entrance to the complex, required more butter because of its size, Victor said.
PhunkyPherret please contact us for your coupons!
The second installment of our 7 part series of Arby's coupons contests is underway. The person who comes the closest to the correct answer will be the winner. If we were to have multiple correct answers - the most thorough will be declared the winner. To enter simply use the "Post A Comment" link at the bottom of this post. You do not need to register or any other bs. Simply check the "Other User" boxes to answer/post. Quick and easy.Dont forget winner to recieve a current full page ad of many Arby's coupons we got in the mail here in the FP Times test kitchens.
We received an email here today telling us about "The Burger King Guy". He resides on a webpage and sings a song about working his shift. Apparently this page has caused some controversy in the past by offending some whom saw/heard him sing his song. Take a look and decide for yourself, then post a comment with your take.On a seperate note, we have it on a reliable food industry source that Burger King uses the best quality beef compared to it's common competition.
The Burger King Guy Page
CEO & General Manager of Frazier Foods, Mr. Bob Green has contacted us with New Year's greetings and a special offer for our readers. Purchase one whole roasted chicken from the deli and recieve a free tub of macaroni salad by simpling mentioning to the checker that you are a Fat Pride Times reader!
Thanks Mr. Green! - from the staff and our readership.
Offer expires on 1/2 at 7 pm.
One of our International Readers just spent 5 days at The Edgewater Resort in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. We are fortunate to share the above photos from the dinner menu called "South Pacific Night", which our reader enjoyed in the hotel dining room.
The main course was: Samoan Albacore Tuna: a baked tuna steak, served on a bed of fresh roasted coconut wedges, drizzled with pesto/lime sauce and steamed rice.
Between many bottles of Cook's Lager, our reader recalls the dessert as Chocolate Trelline.
Thanks for the excellent International contribution!
Anyone can submit photos or text for posting here by emailing me: fatprider@yahoo.com
This week's featured foodstuff is the red onion. As simple as it is complex, the red onion works on so many levels. The research crew here found some history on the wwiz.com:
"The ubiquitous onion has a long, distinguished history and, like garlic, has been endowed with healing properties and mystical significance. For the ancient Egyptians, the onion's nine encircling layers represented eternity. Two thousand years ago, Egyptian princes were reputed to have spent 90 tons of gold buying them just to keep the workmen laboring on the pyramids in good health and spirits. That's a lot of gold and a whole lot of onions!
Throughout world history, onions have been thought of as food for the poor, since the strong odor and taste offended the palates of the wealthy. Yet history also reveals that onions were grown in the gardens of kings, such as Ur-Nammu of Ur in 2100 B.C.
The onion's spherical shape and concentric rings made it a powerful symbol for the universe and for the sun god. The round layers of the onion represented heaven, hell, earth and the universe. The form of the onion was a powerful image of divine perfection.
The vegetable itself was sometimes treated as a sacred object. Some Egyptians would swear their oaths on an onion, as a guarantee of good faith. Priests would not eat them, maybe as a sign of religious commitment or as a way of impressing the public with a feat of abstinence. Mourners and worshipers would sometimes bring onions as funeral gifts during the Old Kingdom period (c. 2615 to 2175 B.C.). A basket of onions was second only to bread as a valued offering. Onions appear in chapel altar pictures; in fact, Egyptian craftsmen would sculpt several vegetable forms in precious metals for the priests to use as temple offerings to the gods.
Still, the most intriguing fact about the onion as it existed in Egypt is in its relationship to the afterlife. According to James E. Harris and Kent R. Weeks, authors of X-Raying the Pharaohs: `They (Egyptians) recognized death, of course, but for them it was not the final, absolute end. Rather, it was the continuation of life in a different form. What they enjoyed and found pleasant in this life they tried to take with them in the next. To insure this, techniques of mummification were developed."
In this process, onions and garlic had both a spiritual and a physical role to play. The body of a deceased person had to be preserved for eternity to insure a "lasting home for the soul," and offerings, including food were placed in or near the tomb to be on hand in the afterlife. Sometimes real food was used, but sometimes scenes or sculpture depicted the items, which became ``real" through rites of magic. Some Egyptologists theorize that onions may have been used because their strong scent and/or magical powers would prompt the dead to breathe again. Other Egyptologists believe it was because onions and garlic were known for their strong antiseptic qualities, which were construed as magical and would be handy in the afterlife.
We do not know exactly when the onion reached Greece. According to Waverley Root in Food, by the time of the Athenian statesman Pericles (born c. 95 B.C.), the market of Athens was selling edible plants. Most of these vegetables were expensive and sold in small quantities, but onions were abundant–and affordable. That is probably why they were widely consumed, especially by the poor. It may also be why they were fed to soldiers.
The Israelites partook of Egyptian onions before Moses let them into Canaan. In the book of Numbers, in the story of the hardships of the odyssey, the Israelites speak fondly of the foods they had enjoyed and leeks, onions and garlic were among the six things that were mentioned.
Centuries later, Pliny the Elder, Rome's keen-eyed observer, wrote of Pompeii's onions before he was overcome and killed by the volcano's heat and fumes. Excavators of the doomed city would later find gardens where, just as Pliny had said, onions had grown. The bulbs had left behind telltale cavities in the ground.
From ancient times, onions have marched through history, a staple and universal foodstuff. They remained that way until the dawn of science, awaiting the magic of contemporary botanists, who would make the humble onion blossom into a bewildering array of shapes and forms.
Today onions are still so important that they are incorporated into everyday sayings, i.e. the French sometimes say, "Occupe toi de tes oignons" (Mind your business.)
Thanks to a loyal reader we have this story to share from you from the Local6 Florida News: "A 500-pound man in Seminole County, Fla., was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of scamming fast-food restaurants out of large amounts of milk shakes and tacos, according to a Local 6 News report. Jolicoeur would then call or visit the restaurants posing as a police officer or a firefighter and ask for a refund because there was a hair in his food, according to the report. "He would come back and say, 'Oh, there is something wrong with it,'" Seminole County Sheriff's spokesman Steve Olson said. "There was a hair in my shake or there was a hair in my tacos. And, then he wants his money back. "Jolicoeur was captured after he went to a Steak N' Shake restaurant near Oviedo and Taco Bell in Central Florida and allegedly tried to get money back for the food he ordered. Local 6 News reported that Jolicoeur has been arrested more than 24 times on charges of burglary, drugs and domestic problems, Local 6 News reported. "Jolicoeur's rap sheet is as thick as a book," Local 6 reporter Chris Trenkmann said. "When he was first checked into the jail in 1991, he weighed 360 pounds. This morning, the jail weighed him at 500 pounds."
Police in Sanford, Fla., and other cities are investigating the possibility that Jolicoeur was scamming area restaurants, Trenkmann said.
More info to come as we are following this unique story closely.
I have recovered from my bender of gorging on fast food and salted snack items. Thanks for your support (0 comments gd it!). ANyways, here is a picture of a lovely pot roast, garlic bread and brussell sprouts that are just about done and ready to eat.
I have been on a 2-day bender which has involved the consumption of way too much foodstuffs. Above is just the heap by the couch - I will not show photos of the kitchen area. I am soliciting help as I have a page of Arbys coupons and lunch is coming soon.
Enjoy the look here at a reader's submission of his bounty from the Oregon Coast in the USA. Nice Work.
I had some of the staff assemble a classic example of an FP evening meal. This is just the main course, it will be followed by some ice cream and a box of zingers as well. This is living.
The staff at the FP Times has enjoyed many fine mexican meals from in the country of Mexico itself and all the way up the US West Coast. We know authentic good mexican food. Sanchez Taqueria in Tigard,Oregon makes our exclusive 5-Star list. This smaller restaurant makes it food fresh daily and you can taste it. The salsas they offer up are also unique and excellent. If you are ever near this establishment it is a MUST VISIT restaurant. As you can see from the menu above - the prices are very reasonable and the portions are huge. Upon our next visit, we will take some photos of some dishes and post them here.
The Governor of Alabama has called for a boycott of the entire country (tourism and goods). From CNN: MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- Gov. Bob Riley called for a nationwide travel boycott of Aruba on Tuesday on behalf of a missing Alabama teenager's family, who accuse the island's government of not fully cooperating with the investigation into her disappearance. Riley asked his fellow governors to join him in urging the boycott of Aruba, where 18-year-old Natalee Holloway was last seen on May 30. "There are no other alternatives to get Aruban authorities to take this as seriously as they should," Riley said.
Debate is ongoing here at the FPT Test Kitchen.
We are encouraging you to post your opinion using the comments link on this post.
The staff here at The Fat Pride Times have been long time drinkers of Diet Barq's and regular Barq's Root Beer. It is the best tasting diet beverage - no argument. Recently a reader pointed us to the Barq's Blog. This blog covers all thing Barq's and is very well done. Recommended link.
That is correct and Senet can now email us for his Arby's coupon.
