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  • ACT CrusaderA Offline
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    @Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @jegga Had a mate who had a uni holiday job scraping up all of the stuff on the abattoir floor and putting it into the maccas patty machine

    Your mate was talking shite.

    And scraping it as well....

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    @Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    @jegga Had a mate who had a uni holiday job scraping up all of the stuff on the abattoir floor and putting it into the maccas patty machine

    Your mate was talking shite.

    Wow! That is a peach of an Urban Myth to grab hold of.

    Of all the hygiene standards in NZ the food processing would have to be one of the most strictly enforced.

    Food saftey standards aren't taken lightly at any of teh big processors

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  • canefanC Offline
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    @Hooroo Does read worse than I meant it to... The point was that lots of non-prime cut went in, off trimmings and fat. It certainly didn't put us off eating burgers back in the early 90s

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  • DonsteppaD Offline
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    I've always figured that if you knew too much about the story behind any food preparation you could find a reason not to eat it.

    Everyone who has worked in any factory/restaurant/bakery/cafe/fast food outlet ever probably has a story - or just a view of the food production - that could be offputting to someone. 🙂

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  • canefanC Offline
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    @Donsteppa if you got worried about those stories you'd never go out to eat

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  • jeggaJ Offline
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    My first job when I left school was in a bakery and my bosses were jackasses who didn't have cleaning high or food safety high on the agenda. They'd do things like make the custard squares and then leave the 20 litre bucket of custard out of the chiller for most of the day which is a superb place for bacteria to breed, they were too tight to get their own skip bin and the rubbish used to pile up , the father of one of the owners was a retired baker and he used to come in and decorate the cakes for birthdays etc. He'd have the icing bag in his hands and if it got clogged he'd put it in his mouth and suck out the blockage and then carry on icing. The place started to go under and I got two weeks notice so I slacked off a bit and one day found this lump of meat that had fallen down the back of the shelves in the chiller, when I unwrapped it the thing reeked so bad I almost dropped it so I had a bit of fun taking it up to people and asking them to sniff it to see if it was off and laughing at their reactions. The last time I did it one of the bosses was standing behind me and I didn't notice, she grabbed it off me gave it a sniff and said" meat always smells bad when its been wrapped up like that" and cut it up for sandwiches. I don't think anyone missed that place when they closed their doors for good.

    A couple of years later my brother and his wife bought a lunch bar and we were getting it ready for opening and he reckoned there was something up with the wall in by the counter. We pulled off the lining and there was all sorts of cooking gear stashed in behind it covered in layers of mould and grease the previous owners had put in there and boarded over. Business was really slow after they took over because the previous owner was such a slob no one would eat there and as a last resort he'd even got a topless chick to work behind the counter which improved things for a couple of weeks till the locals got used to the sight of her boobs and avoided the place again. So to let the locals know there were new owners my brother and his wife took free lunch baskets around the local businesses and even to the gang pad down the road. Turns out the gang members avoided the place because of the filth.

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    @Tim said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    LOL

    Did Robert Caruso Con The Washington Press—Or Is That What The Russians Want You To Think?

    The podcast they link to in that

    Chapo Trap House

    Is a fricking great listen too, they absolutely destroy Caruso

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  • BonesB Online
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    The ex missus used to put chicken livers in spag bol without me knowing...man it was good spag bol.

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    Wandering through Alexandria, Egypt - getting late, starving... finally found a restaurant. Couldn't understand anything on the menu, so just pointed to a couple of random things, from very different places on the menu.
    Turns out the speciality of Alexandria is goddamn liver. We got two plates heaped with liver, each presumably cooked slightly differently. Absolutely nothing else. I think I forced down two pieces - maybe 1% of the 'dish'.
    Fucking Alexandria - you'd have thought there'd be a few more cookbooks available.

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  • gollumG Offline
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    @Kruse said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    Fucking Alexandria - you'd have thought there'd be a few more cookbooks available.

    Alexandria is one of the most disappointing places I've been. And I've been to Huntley.

    I wasn't expecting a big library or anything, I just wasn't expecting it to be utterly devoid of anything...

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  • MN5M Offline
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    Meant to post this the other day......I remember seeing this song on one of those late night music vid shows where you're tired as fuck but can't actually muster up the energy to drag yourself to bed. For some reason this song isn't as entrenched in the annals of kiwi music history as "Loyal", "Nature" and "Why does love do this to me?"

    There's some pretty gruesome shit in this video.

    ........and that's just the music.

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    The content of the article is tragic, but its the headline that is rotarded! Seriously?

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=11746110

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  • Chris B.C Offline
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    @JC said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    We went to Florence last year and at a trattoria there was a couple of young Yank blokes sitting over from us. They ordered from a menu they obviously couldn't understand by pointing and making American noises and in a little while had plates of tripe in front of them. I don't think either of them even put tried it. I don't blame them. Disgusting, like a rancid dish sponge.

    I worked in Italy for a while a few years ago. Went to the work cafeteria one day and they had a vat of what looked to me like some sort of octopus casserole - at a casual glance it looked delicious.

    But it was fucking tripe and it was disgusting.

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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    The Poles love them some tripe. Flaczki is a tripe soup, and if you can get over what you're eating (it's fat noodles, it's fat noodles) it's actually pretty good.

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  • canefanC Offline
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    Anyone who lives in Auckland if you ever get to eat at Antoines in Parnell Tony Astle does a farken amazing tripe dish. Everyone who tasted my dish a few years ago loved it, you won't realise what you're eating

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  • Chris B.C Offline
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    My one - "Trippa alla Romana" - I thought I was about to eat octopus tentacles until I bit into one - so it was a fair test. Only then did I recognize the foul taste from my early childhood - not sure what my parents were thinking because everyone hated tripe including them - grocery budget blown those weeks, I guess.

    Anyway, it was dry retch material, so I'm likely to pass in future. Tony Astle can lure me in by using the same recipe with a bit of stewing steak as a substitute. 🙂

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  • canefanC Offline
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    @Chris-B. I swear mate, everyone around the table looked nervous but it was a winner. Lots of butter and some cream, chives(?) yet unbelievably light YUM!

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  • taniwharugbyT Offline
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    wrote on last edited by taniwharugby
    #1003

    so....although if she is a Vegan, um....never mind

    The personal trainer says that she is quite prepared to drink the semen neat but adds extra ingredients if her mate has enjoyed a couple of pints.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11745740

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  • canefanC Offline
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    replied to taniwharugby on last edited by
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    @taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:

    so....although if she is a Vegan, um....never mind

    The personal trainer says that she is quite prepared to drink the semen neat but adds extra ingredients if her mate has enjoyed a couple of pints.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11745740

    She should save the cup and drink it on tap

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  • No QuarterN Offline
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    Christ, nothing surprises me anymore. People are just fucking weird in general.

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