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Category Archives: Humour
Cock-olate jizz fudge cake from Cakes by Robin
Disclosure: This cake was given free of charge. This offer was unsolicited and Cakes by Robin had no input into, or control over, the contents of this article. Delivery was arranged via a proxy to preserve my anonymity. I love baking. It’s a magical act where eggs, flour, butter and other ingredients are transmogrified into cakes, … Continue reading
Hateful restaurant website of the week – The Wapping Project
Insane. It’s a tad cheap and easy to take pot-shots at a restaurant that’s now closed for the second instalment in my occasional series highlighting truly hateful restaurant websites. The website for the now-defunct Wapping Project, which surprisingly is still up, is spectacularly awful though and an masterclass in how not to design a functional website. … Continue reading
The biggest thing I ate last month that wasn’t a burger…
…was a rather large ostrich egg It tasted identical to a hen’s egg, but it’s the thought that counts. TPG Continue reading
You Vote What You Eat?
There are lies, damned lies and then there are statistics. Still, this fun infographic illustrates some of the figures coming out of a survey comparing the eating habits of 348,000 self-professed conservatives and liberals. http://blog.hunch.com/?p=48884 My favourite factoid? ‘Conservatives are 94% more likely to consider occasional Chinese takeout to be exotic ethinic food’. *Facepalm*. TPG … Continue reading
Eating Out as a Tourist
New levels of self-loathing come easily when surrounded by other chortling holiday makers Tourists, both foreign and domestic, are a funny bunch. Wherever and whenever they swarm about London, they stick out like sore thumbs, take pictures of utterly mundane tripe like pigeon droppings or discarded copies of the Metro, eat at Angus Steak Houses … Continue reading
Never Said About Restaurant Websites
A lot of restaurant websites are crap. A Tumblr blog has started listing some of the cliches of bad web design that seems to plague many restaurant websites, but in a hilariously sarcastic, passive-aggressive way. Some of my personal favourites: “I’m sure at least one person has watched this website intro.” “I really do enjoy … Continue reading
Tipping by John Lithgow and the Reservoir Dogs
Tipping after a restaurant meal involves an intricate web of complex economic issues and social mores. Many of us will remember the deftly articulate (and profanity-laden) discussion on the issue in the prologue to Reservoir Dogs. A less well-known alternative method of tipping was demostrated by Dick Solomon (John Lithgow to his friends) in hit-and-miss … Continue reading
The Keebler Elves vs The Cookie Monster
This post doesn’t have anything to do with restaurants and is only tangentially related to food. But it’s too much fun not to post! The joke will be somewhat lost on you though if you aren’t familiar with the Keebler cookie company in the US and their elvish marketing mascots. Plus it helps if you’ve seen … Continue reading
The Picky Glutton 