Food Jokes
What
is this?
When
the waitress in a New York City restaurant brought him the soup du jour, the
Englishman was a bit dismayed. "Good heavens," he said, "what is
this?"
"Why, it's bean soup," she replied.
"I don't care what it has been," he sputtered. "What is it
now?"
Food
fight in a store
In
February 1994 in New Brighton, Minn., a 32-year-old man and his 24-year-old
girlfriend were arrested after a food fight in a grocery store. After arguing
loudly, the couple began throwing sweet potatoes at each other. Eventually, the
man allegedly threw the woman into several vegetable racks, sending the contents
spilling to the floor. As both continued to brawl on the floor, she allegedly
stuffed lettuce into the man's mouth.
Ice
cream flavor galore
A
January 1994 Reuters News Service story on Manuel Oliveira's ice cream shop in
Merida, Venezuela, reported on his 567 flavors, including onion, chili, beer,
eggplant, smoked trout, spaghetti parmesan, chicken with rice, and spinach. He
said some flavors fail; he once abandoned avocado ice cream, and tossed out 99
pounds of it, because it wasn't smooth enough.
Improving
fry cooking time
In January 1994, 'The Economist' magazine reported that one of Secretary of Energy Hazel O'Leary's success stories about government research scientists hired out for civilian business uses was the Argonne National Laboratory's helping McDonald's to find a way to speed up french frying. A team headed by physicist Tuncer Kuzay, who interrupted his work on advanced photons, placed sensors inside the frozen fries and was able to design special frying baskets to deal with the effect of steam created by melting ice crystals and to cut 30 to 40 seconds off each batch's frying time.
