Probability

I doubt many people get (or deserve) a GA vote for a reply to their own thread, but that last paragraph of yours was insightful enough to rate one from me!

Shhh...industrial espionage at work...the amazing TUBE BOTTLE! _{<whatta ya mean "two bottle" 'e said "tube bottle" quite clearly!>}

Isn't that how Ceaser died ? "Ate tube, Brute".

Hello Kris

If you delve into history, you should discover that Julius Caesar was a man of epicurean tastes, and the common knowledge of the day was that he was very fond of bivalves belonging to the belonging to the family Ostreidae, because of their reputed late evening effects, which special particulars cannot be mentioned here in case those of tender years read this explanatory Post.

It was while Julius was still at the dining table, having already consumed several of the molluscs, that his friend Brutus needed personal advice for his own self later that same night.

The reply has gone into history, most often having been misquoted, because the scribe of the day was somewhat hard of hearing, had mislaid his ear trumpet because he was drunk and had fallen under the table.

What Julius said was: "Eat two, Brutus". (Referring to the quantity of the delectable bivalves necessary to get the desired results).

I trust I have cleared up this quite common misconception.

Kind Regards....

It's good, but I've yet to hear a decent explanation of how he invented salad.

Hello Kris

I'm off for the night, have to sleep in the knife drawer, to get sharpened up for tomorrow.

Then I shall research the origin of the salad.

Kind Regards....

I'm sure they used to sell polystyrene pyramids for that kind of thing. Sharpen up blades/stop food decaying etc etc . It must be true, I read it in a book !

That whole pyramid "thing" was started by an April fool article by Martin Gardner in Scientific American.

Apparently someone forgot to inform the illiterati...

Yes, but Eric von Daniken (might have been Lyall Watson) reported it in a book, so it must be true !

It's true, it's true! It's under the heading "Veni, Vidi, Visa"...........

Wot? I came, I saw, I charged it?

Not! I came, I saw, I bought it! as in.... 'got suckered'.............

Hello Kris

I have completed my research into the origin of the term "Caesar Salad", and apologize for taking some time to advise of the result.

I understand you are a person of some erudition, so of course you know that "Caesar" is correctly pronounced in the Latin language as the word "Kaiser".

The term actually originated right here in New Zealand, long before the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted these beautiful shores.

A ship from the land of Boadicea was wrecked upon a rocky shore near where Christchurch is located today, and the local natives, Maori folk were pleased to see the fresh supplies of food arrive.

A feast was held with the survivors of the wreck attending, and the hangi pit was opened, leaves and vegetation lifted, and the delicious aroma of the cooked food wafted into the night air.

The maori chief said to the final survivor of the wreck, the ship's captain: "Kai Sir, is a lad", referring to the cooked body of the ship's boy lying at the top of the hangi pit.

At this point the ship's captain took to his proverbial scrapers, escaped the search party, stole a maori canoe, and sailed it to India, where he recovered his health after several months.

Eventually he was returned to the land of Boadicea, via Italy, where he told his story every day in a local hospitium.

So that's the origin of the term Caesar Salad.

Maori:

Hangi Pit

Kai = Maori term for food, which is traditionally gathered from the seaside and land.

Note: As I realize you understand Latin I give you the rough Latin version below:

Abyssus Kris

EGO have universa meus research in satus of term Caesar Salad ", quod apologize pro captus dudum monere of praecessi.

EGO agnosco vos es a alio of nonnullus erudition , sic nimirum vos teneo ut Caesar " est rectus denuntio in Latin lingua ut vox Kaiser ".

Term vere emanio vox hic in Novus Studium , porro pro Dutch rimor Abel Tasman os illa decorus brevis.

A traba ex terra of Boadicea eram pessum do super a petrosus brevis near qua Christchurch est locus hodie , quod locus paternus Maori folk erant commodo video vidi visum vegetus victualia of victus supervenio.

A epulum eram held per superstes of pessum do sequax , quod pensilis vorago eram patefacio , coma quod vegetation levo , quod esculentus aroma of crustulum victus wafted in nox noctis aer.

Maori presertim said ut denique superstes of pessum do , traba caput : Kai Sir , est a pusio referring ut crustulum somes of traba puer falsidicus primoris of pensilis vorago.

Procul is cuspis traba caput took ut suus proverbial scrapers , subterlabor quaero secui , pallium a maori canonus , quod sailed is ut India , qua is revoco suus valetudo secundum plures mensis.

Eventually is eram reverto ut terra of Boadicea via Italy , qua is told suus fabula cotidie in a locus hospitium.

Sic ut satus of term Caesar Salad.

Maori: Pensilis Vorago Kai Maori term pro victus , quod est traditionally recolligo ex seaside quod terra.

I trust you now have a better understanding of that term.

Kind Regards....

ROFL ! IT certainly pays to keep subscribed to dwindling threads

Your fantastic elaboration has stirred even more thought's in my mind.........The Russian Tsar (or Czar, if you like) clearly had some involvement in salad, though why anyone would want salad in those climes escapes me.......At least half of your countrymen must have been involved in the development of 'Pig Latin', which half depending upon where you live (so I'm told)......Your near neighbour on Magnetic Island, CR4's very own Kai, has seemingly fallen victim..........A salad Palace exists in Las Vegas............

There seems to be no end to this international conspiracy !!! None of this will confuse us Brits, proper salad will be coated in lashing of this ;

OMG! When there are so many better choices available! How sad...

That has a suspiciously pale colour ???? Are you sure it's not mayo ? The proper stuff should be bright yellow, the same as our famed Brit custard. Many British pubs carry emergency rations, helpfully colour coded, to aid the thirsty drinker who get's a sudden urge for a hit of proper salad cream ;

You just tear the end off, and suck it down. Honest !

Salad cream? Wot? Picky, picky, picky! How's these?

There's Wish-Bone dressings, too, from the UK:

(in case you prefer summat not imported from the colonies...)

This is decidedly strange ; http://www.wish-bone.com/Digital-Garden.aspx

"...decidedly strange..."

Y'all specialize in decidedly strange though, don't you? After all, Wish-Bone is a UK enterprise of Unilever, right?

Right now it's pretty unclear who owns anything, especially when it comes to UK banks ! Anglo-Dutch companies sprawl everywhere. Probably all traces back to our respective East India companies, maybe even Billy of the Boyne. Hard to say.....

Glorious, even though revolting! I suppose that would explain the orange sauce, but not the plum, which is silly - plum silly...

Howzabout Hoisin then ?

Maybe some nice nuoc mam?

https://www.vietworldkitchen.com/?s=nuoc

The Pigeon brand of fish sauce sounds a bit odd !

As if it can't decide whether to be fish or fowl, eh?

Hey, new pic ! Wont it get warm by the time they have the Florida re-count ?

Nah. I'm voting for "none of the above" anyway, so it won't matter to me. New tag line to go with the new pic - my own tradition - they change with every 1K posts.

....How come the picture ain't flickering then ?

You mean like this?

Those things can drive you nuts.

The pair I have communicate by hammering on the metal chimney....and always at the crack of dawn.

Better than any rooster, huh?!? We have them here, too, but our morning noisemakers are a pair of pileated woodpeckers that hammer on a big pine tree. Being that they are about the size of a crow, they hammer pretty loud...

I just found this 'recent' bit of news . Is it the same fish, they look similar ? Finding the Dodo would be cool - We Brits always have Turkey at Christmas, and I feel like a change.

Not the same - the ivory-billed is half again or twice the size of a pileated - although they do share similar coloration. The ivory has more white feathers showing, however. I doubt you'd get the Mauritians to share a dodo with you even did they find they still had one. But as it was a pigeon, squab should be an adequate substitute. Say, didn't we discuss consuming squab before in another thread? If I could get it, I think I'd rather a nice...

I didn't know the Dodo was a Pigeon - my compensation is reading that it's name may be derived from 'plump-arse' !! Poor critter didn't stand a chance really, they may as well have named it 'succulent' !

Squabs were on the menu somewhere (Challenge Question), as were Haggii (the long-lost ER was bemoaning the unavailability of gluten-free Haggis). Maybe KrisDel Labs could invent some sort of Haggis-powder to get past border control - sort of 'add hot water, stir, enjoy'. Cupasoup ain't gone there yet.

Instant haggis?!? Sacrilege, sir! Besides, if such a faux foodstuff is ever invented, EM/ER NA® will produce it! Won't be gluten-free, though, I doubt that's even possible, considering what it's made from. Caffeine-free coffee is simple by comparison. So's calorie-free sugar. A gluten-free haggis would be more like legume-free peanut butter or dehydrated water - add water and stir, chill, and drink...

Back when ER asked, I eventually dug up some gluten-free monstrosity & even some Haggis in a can ! Yuck .

legume-free peanut butter or dehydrated water

ROFL ! I want a left-handed screwdriver , but I'm busy trying to source a bag of Moral^TM Fibre .

Moral Fiber - I understand it is best when fried in relative bearing grease to a nice crispy texture... But canned haggis?

I refuse to give any of them free publicity - just look at the shape . It looks like some type of dog food ;

There isn't much you can't get in a can....

(The last one is Korean )

101 ways to wok your dog, eh? Mmm-mmm-mmm, filling!

Kris is pulling your leg here! Cesar is a well known type of dog food in this country.

I think we should threaten him a bit:-

http://wildmountainfoods.blogspot.com/2008/06/crock-pot-squirrel-recipe-and-more.html

We have that dog food here, too, so I recognized it. Besides, I'm more or less used to his sense of (what passes for) humor. 'Round here, we tend to prefer our squirrel pan-fried with grits (polenta to the educated) and sawmill gravy. I guess crock-potting would be OK for a tough old boar, tho'!

There's more.....

....and especially for you....., just heat.

Sure is...

http://www.sizzlersranch.com/rattlesnake-meat-sale

Here's a vendor in the UK...

http://www.shop.osgrowonline.co.uk/

They even have canned eland! Wouldn't necessarily want to eat it, but the name rolls trippingly off the tongue.

Cool ! It must coil up nicely in the can

At least Christopher Lee just got burned, poor old Brit.......

Lee is said to have had more recorded sword fights than any other actor in history. He buckled his swash better than Errol Flynn, John Barrymore, and Guy Williams combined! En garde...

That's done it - I wont let Hopkirk visit you any more !

You might enjoy Miracle Whip, just for the name alone, unfortunately, the time for that has passed...

Miracle Whip was sold briefly in the United Kingdom from around January 2006 to April 2007; this supply was imported by national supermarket chain Tesco from Kraft Foods Germany; it was not marketed by Kraft Foods UK at the time.

Maybe Andy Germany can assist you with an import over the Channel under the table.

Miracle Whip sucks! Real mayo or nothing.

Might want to run that past these guys...

http://www.mayoclinic.com/

We used to get Instant Whip, but it didn't really taste right on lettuce.

It's pretty hard to avoid Tesco in the UK. They have funny little garages inside, for parking the trolly while you grab an apre-shop coffee. They look just the right size for noisome children !

Forget it man.......video vidi visum vegetus victualia of victus supervenio.... the Russkis couldn't come up with a better vinaigrette than this. Accordingly, England is sunk under the weight of its own lexiconic dressing!

Talking of dressings, Orange or Plum ?

Check these people out !

But do they even eat salads?

Only if long-pork is in short supply.

Brit salad consists of flaccid lettuce, tomato (optional), and radishes (cut in half, zig-zag fashion). For special feasts we do cheese & pineapple hedgehogs;

I've no idea how we got here from probability, but it has at least reminded me that it's med-time !

I guess the probability of there being cheese-and-pineapple hedgehogs at a special feast in the UK is a lame segue, but I'm willing to work with it...

....well, given the impossibility of sticking the spines in with an even distribution, you have to calculate how to approach it with optimum chance of grabbing a spine....s'pose it depends how carefully the host constructed it. I'd suggest filming it's devourment, and plotting the disappearance of each spine onto a hemispherical projection net. Analyzing the data could be invaluable at future knees-ups.

Wow! Fascinating story!

The book 'The Lost Amazon' by Wade Davis is a worthwhile read.

Alas I'm blessed with a commune of utopists next 'bush' farm over to me....they speak "it's all about me" speak.

Davis' book sounds familiar, I'll look it up sometime. When it first came out, The Tribe that Hides From Man (documentary, 60's/70's) was a big 'wow'.

I bet the commune takes from the outside world when it suits 'em. A kinda flexible moral superiority usually occurs in those kind of things.

Add to that a flexible spiritual bankruptcy and that just about sez it all....and yep.....good at taking, hopeless at giving. We're forever feeding their starving kids.

Interesting read Lost Amazon. Also your own Margaret Mee (an artist)has some interesting views.

That was cleverly lunked ! Nice art - she was connected to some curious people (Blunt etc).

Wuz only jokin' about the Hoisin sauce

This reminds me of another story.

Hamlet was actually a plumber. One day he ran out of pipe in the middle of an impotant job, and his supplier didn't have the right size. While considering his options, he pondered, "Tube or not tube?"

OK, the probability of this thread going right down the tubes just hit unity...

I'm not so sure about the movement of pills. If I had some sugar lumps I'd drop them in a bowl of granulated sugar and find out. Testing the problem as a whole is tempting, but it wasn't stated how many pills are shaken out each time.

This must be one of those times mother warned me about ; I've lost me clothes, you've overtaken me in postings, I don't know what 'interstices' means, Strictly Dancing isn't on tonight.................feels like being kicked in the intersticles......wha wha _wha.......

Yepper - just be sure you don't go overboard on that splitter...

Well that's cleared it up

Yes, two loops - although what that has to do with pills is still unclear. They are pretty though...

Even I am groaning at that !

Nevr seen two lipped two loops before..........is that anything like a too looped twolip?

I guess it was inevitable this would crop up...........

..........you have us all at a disadvantage Ducky.

Distinctly so...

Indeed...........

Hello Kris

More a case of this

Kind Regards....

....and unlike wotsit tape, it works in space !

As does the latest fashion from the UK for men to be wearing......gasp;.....dare I say it;......giggle........*panty hose*.........!

_{ps...not to stretch a point but it is making international headlines}

Pah ! I have it on good authority that in the Americas grown men stride around in pants.

Seems almost congruent in concept...

Even if the chute didn't open they'd still be under silk.....!

Silk like this?

I hear it's stylish these days in the UK...