Dinner Is Served In 15 Minutes

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Tony Heller

Today’s special :

Penguin eggs
Snail Darter escargot
Low carbon sparkling water
Tender Polar Bear cub cutlets
Fine Everglades whine by the bottle, spiked with Crocodile tears

Don’t be late!

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35 Responses to Dinner Is Served In 15 Minutes

  1. omanuel says:
    April 24, 2015 at 2:19 am

    Gourmet dinner for progressives.

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  2. Gail Combs says:
    April 24, 2015 at 2:26 am

    And here I was planning Turkish Moussaka made with ground goat.

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  3. Paul in Sweden says:
    April 24, 2015 at 2:29 am

    Unless you are serving freshly picked Scotland mango and fresh pineapple from Ireland we will be sticking with our freshly harvested pasta.

    BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino – YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU

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  4. gator69 says:
    April 24, 2015 at 2:40 am

    Dining at the White House tonight?

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  5. AndyG55 says:
    April 24, 2015 at 4:21 am

    You forgot the banquet of pork pies, laid on by the far left socialists. !

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  6. Marsh says:
    April 24, 2015 at 5:38 am

    I thought Chilli would have to be on the menu for Progressives ; when everything else is trending Colder, they can at least sense some perceived Warming , but it’s only in their head !

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  7. Chris Barron says:
    April 24, 2015 at 7:30 am

    Curious about the CO2 content in carbonated beverages I once wrote to the British Soft Drinks Association asking for their opinion ( http://www.britishsoftdrinks.com/ )
    They stated that it is normal for there to be about 24g/L CO2 in most soft drinks and carbonated water, and that similar amounts are found in bottled beers and carbonated lagers.

    So, 4L of coke or your preferred ‘death by sugar’ beverage releases as much CO2 as a high efficiency car (100g/km) does travelling 1km (and some cars better that)

    It is completely feasible that there could be some pensioners who use their car only once or twice a week to go shopping release less CO2 than some households release through soft drink and beer consumption each week.

    My argument has always been that IF CO2 were such a deadly gas, then why is it that this obviously huge source of CO2 in the atmosphere is not legislated against ?

    After digging into it deeper, I had always assumed that most of the CO2 released this way would have come from the atmosphere anyway, through the compression of air and separation of the component gasses, but no….it seems that lots of the CO2 bought in is the cheaply available waste CO2 from industrial process which is captured during various manufacturing processes….and instead of the factory owners paying a penalty to release the CO2 they sell it and make profit….passing it on to the drink consumer to release it without having to pay CO2 carbon charge related taxes

    But the worst of it is the process used to produce and supply bottled water is extremely carbon heavy and big user of oil….so when you see a green waving a bottle of water around as they lecture you….let yourself smile even more widely 🙂
    http://pacinst.org/publication/bottled-water-and-energy-a-fact-sheet/

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    • AndyG55 says:
      April 24, 2015 at 8:10 am

      Me being polite to you for a change.

      The difference is the origin of the CO2 (according to the CO2 haters, anyway)

      CO2 from fossil fuels has not been in the shorter term carbon cycle for a long time, while CO2 in soft drinks, trees etc etc is part of the shorter term carbon cycle.

      Digging up coal, and releasing gas from coal seams etc ADDS to the carbon in the shorter term carbon cycle. Soft drinks, burning wood, etc are part of the short term carbon cycle, ie they don’t add to the amount of carbon.
      (Is oil and fracked gas, fossil fuel? That is a different debate, but it does add carbon to the carbon cycle)

      Now, in my opinion, the world would be a far more abundant place, able to feed far more plants and animals, if there was much more carbon in the short term carbon cycle, but that would necessarily mean a higher CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.

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    • AndyG55 says:
      April 24, 2015 at 8:12 am

      ps, I doubt very much that the average greenie knows that their plastic bottles, and basically everything that makes modern day civilisation, is derived or manufactured from oil, gas or coal.

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    • Morgan Wright says:
      April 24, 2015 at 10:45 am

      I think the amount of CO2 in a bottle of soda is around the same as two or 3 exhalations of your breath. You probably make more CO2 from metabolizing the sugar in the soda than there is in the CO2 itself.

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  8. rah says:
    April 24, 2015 at 12:53 pm

    Years ago I was up in the northern range of the Apennine mountains hiding out in a village that American soldiers hadn’t been in since WW II. We hid out in a Chianti wine warehouse that wasn’t in use at the time but had 4′ tall chianti bottles in it that gave it the smell of old wine.

    When our notional war was over the village put on a real feast for our split team of US SF and Italian SF (Incursori) from the 9th Folgore out of Vincenza. (BTW Wikipedia has their description of Italian SF kinda scrambled up from the way I remember it. I worked with the Italian SF several times).

    Our resupply drop had failed a couple weeks before because the Italian Alpini that were the opposing force were on our DZ. So we had been on no rations for a few days and short rations for some time eating one meal of Italian Army rations (which contained cognac btw) per day for about a week after that. Heavy work and sleep deprivation combined with a relatively low calorie intake had us pretty hungry for a good meal of real food by the time it was over.

    Those Italians in that village put on quite a meal for us the night before we left. Eight courses plus 3 courses of drinks by candle light in a full formal setting. Several of us Americans, including me, lost that great dinner within an hour after consumption. All that rich food was just too much for us but the Italians on the team seemed to have no problem.

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    • Gail Combs says:
      April 24, 2015 at 1:12 pm

      My uncle was in the Pacific theater (Airforce belly gunner) during WWII. He was on K rations for so long he could not eat normal food when he was mustered out. He ended up gulping vitamin pills while slowly getting his stomach and intestines back into shape to deal with normal food.

      He was told his problem was due to a “shrinken” stomach but I wonder how much of his problem was also due to not having the correct gut bacteria.

      That BTW is one of the major problems with the idiocy of the FDA. We need doses of good bacteria and cheese is a great source.

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      • Disillusioned says:
        April 24, 2015 at 1:26 pm

        I bet your hunch about lack of gut flora is spot-on.

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      • rah says:
        April 24, 2015 at 1:34 pm

        This stuff sure seems to be helping my pup get over her bout with the flu.

        https://www.purinaveterinarydiets.com/pet-food-nutrition/canine/products/fortiflora

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      • rah says:
        April 24, 2015 at 2:07 pm

        For those that never really looked into what “K” rations were and are curious. Here you go: http://www.usarmymodels.com/ARTICLES/Rations/krations.html
        They were basically combat survival food.

        The next step up were “C” rations. Much better for long term substance. http://olive-drab.com/od_rations_c.php
        I was in while C rations were still issued but the contents had changed a little by that time and they contained no cigarettes. Personally, I had no problem with them and some of the meals weren’t bad at all. But then again I even liked the scrambled eggs with ham that most others turned their nose up at. The biggest problem with C rations in my job was they were just too damned heavy. Anything in a can was too heavy and used too much space when you were going to be lugging it around in a rucksack for days or weeks on end.

        So, for a time when I was on a team, we were issued LRP rations for the field. Invented for Long Range Recon Patrols during Vietnam and modernized in the mid 70s. Being freeze dried food, they were light but still too bulky. The meals though, when you could heat water up to reconstitute them, were very good.

        Then along came the 1st generation of MRE (Meal Ready to Eat). Not bad, except the corn flake bars which were terrible, but still too bulky for us. I was in when the next two new generations of those meals were issued and each new gen was better than that last. We stripped them down and supplemented them with our own store bought trail food. I could carry a weeks worth of food. One MRE meal a day stripped of all the non essentials and packed into a stuff bag about 8″ deep x 6″ in diameter. This would be supplemented with high energy pemmican and chocolate survival bars and jerky, a portion of which was kept in the survival portion of the rucksack that would stay with us even if we had to drop our ruck, or in a pocket for quick and easy access.

        There is an art to living out of a rucksack for long periods of time that one must master. The more times you do it, the better you are at it as you learn what works and what doesn’t by your own experience and the knowledge you gain from others. For those in the military which have dismounted patrolling as a large part of their jobs it is a whole different ball game compared to some mechanized troop or even most civilian backpackers because your also carrying all your weapons, ammo, demo, commo, medical supplies, etc.

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        • Gail Combs says:
          April 24, 2015 at 3:57 pm

          The Obama’s Emergency ration

          http://www.wtfaz.com/wp-content/uploads/051710_Canned_Unicorn_Meat_1.jpg

          And of course there are those who just can’t take a joke. Cease-and-Desist lawsuit in 2010.

          …lawyers put some effort into their 12-page letter to ThinkGeek, prompting the site to issue a public apology:

          “It was never our intention to cause a national crisis and misguide American citizens regarding the differences between the pig and the unicorn,” said Scott Kauffman, President and CEO of Geeknet. “In fact, ThinkGeek’s canned unicorn meat is sparkly, a bit red, and not approved by any government entity.”

          You just cant make this stuff up.

  9. mtminer says:
    April 24, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    But I ordered stuffed roasted spotted owl!!!!

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