Canadian Politics Today

I once ate a hot-dog that had fallen out of its bun and onto the lawn, but it was within 5 seconds so I think it was ok.

I heard that the original 5 second rule was actually codified by Genghis Khan himself, but in his time it was actually roughly 3 hours.

I can just imagine you're sitting down at a warriors' feast, and you find a leg of your enemy's charred horse lying near the firepit and want to chow down, but Genghis Khan himself walks up and says "hey, put that **** down. That's been lying on the floor all night. What are you, some kind of savage??"  Imagine telling that story to your grandkids!

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While working in Ecuador some years ago myself and Juan, my Ecuadorian workmate, came across something interesting out in the jungle. He recognized something I wouldn't have so hw said let's go down there and I'll show you some local "flavor". It was a group of native Indians who were camped out in a clearing doing site recovery after an oil company had drilled an exploratory hole.

It was dark and work was over for the day and they had a rather large camp fire burning. the fire attracted some sort of local fly. They were big black things that looked more like wasps but luckily they didn't bite. The natives had a large tarp like thing they would throw over the top of the fire capturing a bunch of those bugs and then hold them momentarily just over the flames and then set it down, open it up, and munch away on toasted flies. They offered us a taste and Juan gobbled them up. I though wellm when in Rome, (or Ecuador) so I grabbed a few and held my breath. I was pleasantly surprised. They were crunchy, not unlike popcorn, but also rather salty, not unlike popcorn. No salt was ever added so I guess those bugs make their own salt flavor somehow.

So if you're ever in the jungles of Ecuador and run short of food....build yourself a fire.

Aloo gobi, butter chicken, chicken masala, roti, paneer ... enough Indian food to make one sick of eating Indian food.

First sushi in a month within my grasp (less than 40 hours away).

Aloo gobi, butter chicken, chicken masala, roti, paneer ... enough Indian food to make one sick of eating Indian food.

First sushi in a month within my grasp (less than 40 hours away).

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?

I eat bad food.  Pizza and wings last night but I am paying for it today, ugh.

Ridiculous, I never got this thing of getting worked up over what type of animal is getting eaten.  Vegans themselves run awareness campaigns of why people eat pigs but not dogs.

But it's no less stupid that the bombardment of meat-eaters I see every year losing their **** over the Chinese dog-meat festival before going home to a steaming pile some other deal animal.

Idiots come in every stripe on the meat-eating spectrum.

No Benihana's in YZ?

Sure is, @ the Royal York.

So much for not preparing food outside the kitchen.

There is a difference between butchering and cooking. Lot's of raw meat is delivered to the customer, some of it to be consumed that way. I'm not sure if anyone in Toronto serves steak tartar, but bizillions of sushi places. Additionally there would be raw beef, and probably chicken, for Chinese hot pot. Probably also raclette served with shrimp and thinly sliced beef. I don't know of any places with stone grills at the table, but I wouldn't be surprised there either, they would have thicker cuts of meat.