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[Jenise]

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Arrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Another recipe for those who have large parties:

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I prefer blue whale stuffed with elephants.

-Paul W.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stuffed-camel-recipe/

I'd have been very surprised f the camel recipe had been real!

In fact it would have been.......

The name associated with the camel recipe in the Snopes article (Shararazod Eboli) looks completely bogus to me.

The "In Seine" multi-lingual pun cartoon reminds me of a story that I read about three French cats named Un, Deux, and Trois who fell off a bridge into the Seine. Unfortunately they couldn't swim, so Un, Deux, Trois quatre cinq.

-Paul W.

Laughed out loud at the cat joke, Paul. Both thumbs up!

The "In Seine" multi-lingual pun cartoon reminds me of a story that I read about three French cats named Un, Deux, and Trois who fell off a bridge into the Seine. Unfortunately they couldn't swim, so Un, Deux, Trois quatre cinq.

I once saw that joke as a single panel: a rich old broad and her butler are bobbing around in the ocean, wreckage of the ship all around them, she has a questioning look on her face, and the butler is saying, "Un deux trois cats sank!".

And this is an opportune moment to remind -- viewtopic.php?f=14&t=65105&p=511274#p511274 -- if you can obtain a copy, that Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames is fabulously fun along these same lines.

And this is an opportune moment to remind -- viewtopic.php?f=14&t=65105&p=511274#p511274 -- if you can obtain a copy, that Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames is fabulously fun along these same lines.

I'll second that. It's really funny if you ask someone who doesn't know what it is, but is proficient in French, to read it aloud. They'll wonder why everyone is laughing while they speak.

To those who don't know the book, it consists of Mother Goose rhymes transliterated into correct (but often obscure) French, and comes with a scholarly-sounding English commentary "explaining" what it purports to be about. The reader sees (and mostly understands) the French words, while the listeners hear the English nursery rhymes.

For example, one entry starts "Un petit d'un petit s'étonne aux Halles", which is said to be about a child of a child, an unfortunate occurance of a young girl having a baby too young, whose child is astonished at Les Halles market in Paris. The listeners hear "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall".

Reine, reine,
gueux éveille.
Gomme à gaine,
en horreur, taie.

Van Rooten's illuminating notes:

1. "Queen, Queen, arouse the rabble
Who use their girdles, horrors, as pillow slips."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stuffed-camel-recipe/

Snopes puts it 'fact' that there are recipes for the dish in cookbooks but as 'legend' that anyone has cooked it.

Which brings a couple of questions to my mind.

Does a dish have to be cooked as per recipe to be legitimate.

Does the recipe writer have to had cooked that dish/

I could give here a recipe for a dish I hadn't cooked, would that be a legitimate recipe?

Yes. No. No.

BBC on the Swiss Spaghetti harvest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

BBC on the Swiss Spaghetti harvest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

As the note under the video and the linked Wikipaedia said, spaghetti was hardly known in the Britain of 1957. What wasn't said was it was shown on the authoritative Panorama weekly news programme and voiced by the most trusted reporter on the BBC, Richard Dimbleby.

Dimbleby had reported throughout the war and his radio reportage from a concentration camp was not believed by the BBC bosses. They just did not believe there could possibly be mounds of corpses. Dimbleby had to get a film crew there and threaten to resign before the BBC played his reports.

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