Comments on: Well, I suppose it would be nutritious

By: lexan D

lexan D — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:20:02 +0000

Try uisng a different email addy.

By: lexan D

lexan D — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:18:34 +0000

Just use the smile emoticon – : ) but without the space in between or
type : smile : without spaces

By: Kitteh

Kitteh — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:44:10 +0000

Also how do u do the smileys?

By: Kitteh

Kitteh — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:43:30 +0000

HELLO????????;)

By: Kitteh

Kitteh — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:42:52 +0000

how do u change it????

By: Kitteh

Kitteh — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:42:15 +0000

i don’t like my picture

By: Kitteh

Kitteh — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:41:43 +0000

Hello

By: Meowth

Meowth — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:16:08 +0000

I guess the roast hasn’t begun yet!

By: lexan D

lexan D — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:26:13 +0000

Not sure about the others, but I haven’t told any slightly insulting stories about you or any other cat.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:26:42 +0000

Okay, I can do that.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:02:45 +0000

No, you laugh heartily at those slightly insulting stories, even when they’re not funny, to show what a good sport you are!

By: Meowth

Meowth — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:59:39 +0000

You want to roast me? So what, do I just stand there while you all tell slightly insulting stories about me?

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:14:49 +0000

if you think it’s not Engrish, then it’s not Engrish in your opinion. that doesn’t make you a troll…

a troll would be someone who went to an obvious, in-your-face Engrish poster, that said something like “I heart the soup of delicious yes apple sauce harmony penis” and then would say “That’s not Engrish!!!” just to get replies.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:56:25 +0000

Don’t you mean “not be struck”?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:30:09 +0000

Duck head: Attention: Not to contact.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:41:20 +0000

WTF? Oh, you said dUck head.
It looks like broccoli and a flower to me.

By: Taneen

Taneen — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:39:40 +0000

Is it my eyesight, or does it look like a duck head by the side of the block?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:35:27 +0000

*sigh* Where are all the Bokononists these days?

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:27:27 +0000

Here’s eye in your mud!

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:22:59 +0000

SS: Look up “Freudian slip”. It’s a term that could be handy to know around here.

By: la conejita

la conejita — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:44:38 +0000

In Soviet Russia, no, that’s too long to work.

By: Mark. Gooley

Mark. Gooley — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 03:40:28 +0000

In Soviet Russia, supposedly, commando troops were trained to cook chicken this way: leave feathers on, cover in mud or clay, bake (in hot coals? not sure). The feathers supposedly come off with the mud, so you save the trouble of plucking the chicken. Mind you, the chicken hadn’t looked at anythingf for a while by that point…

By: hollyr57

hollyr57 — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:58:22 +0000

I don’t need to ask snopes.com. I know turkey farmers from my days in a rural community and one in particular said he’d lost a turkey that way. Good enough for me, since I knew the man and respected him.

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:56:04 +0000

What is that?! I have NO idea what you are talking about!

By: la conejita

la conejita — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:53:54 +0000

You are excused, but only because I know about the Freudian slip you are wearing.

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:41:31 +0000

I didn’t mean I will try to eat you next time, I meant………….well……..so I can’t eat you?

By: la conejita

la conejita — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:40:15 +0000

Sorry, I can’t allow you a next time. This one took a while for me to recuperate from.

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:30:21 +0000

Do you want to be cooked next time I try to eat you?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:20:17 +0000

Yeah, and you weren’t even cooked!

By: la conejita

la conejita — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:18:20 +0000

You are right, we can’t be too careful around here. May I remind you that someone ate my face!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:14:40 +0000

Well, La Conejita wanted to put me into a hot oven until I was done, so we really just can’t be too careful around here!

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:08:30 +0000

I was NOT thinking of eating him! I was going to take him out to eat!

By: lexan D

lexan D — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:37:19 +0000

Now you leave that nice kitteh alone.
If you are hungry there is the Poo restaurant around the corner.

By: ShadowSplicer

ShadowSplicer — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:16:57 +0000

Mmmmm…..roasted cat…………hey, Meowth! Come here for a minute……

By: Mr Meatshield

Mr Meatshield — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:12:21 +0000

Haha, yup. Beggars Chicken sounds much like poor man’s chicken read; couldn’t afford chicken, used rats instead.

By: B

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:42:32 +0000

In Communist China, mud looks at you!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:39:59 +0000

We’ll clonk that bridge when we come to it.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:01:51 +0000

That also reminds me of experiences with catfish!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:01:23 +0000

Yes, I have been told that when their heads are cut off, the loss of connection to brain matter is so trivial that the body continues to run around heedless. I’ve never actually seen that, but had a very similar experience with a catfish once, so I don’t doubt it.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:21:28 +0000

Blinded by the truth
Wrapped up in mud, and then baked a beggar’s bird

By: dr handle

dr handle — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:40:57 +0000

I can’t help but think of the Canting Crew and their Hogswatch dinner in Terry Pratchett’s “Hogfather” (it’s that time of the year, innit?), whilst the patrons of the extremely posh restaurant were served what was, effectively, old boots cooked in mud.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:31:46 +0000

The first thing that occurred to me when I read “beggar’s chicken” was that such a thing might have 4 legs and fur, but I was thinking of rats or alley-cats.

By: mr_interpreter

mr_interpreter — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:55:04 +0000

*Points at picture*
It says “looked;” not “cooked.

Maybe it was primordial mud and the chicken was waiting for evolution to make it a new partner. Oh and the drowining turkey legend is actually not true. Ask snopes.com.

By: aussielung

aussielung — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:24:17 +0000

Until I read this comment I had thought it did say locked in mud and was wondering what all the fuss was about. Goes to show that a little culinary knowledge can blind a person to an obvious Engrish, lol. I think that’s where someone stood on the issue at the time of their comment.

By: hollyr57

hollyr57 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:55:19 +0000

(wailing) Noooo! Please no killing, or cooking of hedgehogs — unless that’s all there is to eat. It would be like eating otters or porpoises or kittens. Unless that’s all there is to eat? In that case, I’ll bring the BBQ sauce. But I can’t watch.

By: hotsauce

hotsauce — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 04:45:18 +0000

This is a famous chinese dish. The story goes that an emperor, while travelling with his entourage across the countryside, happened to chance upon a most delicious smell.

He commanded his procession to stop and found a hobo cooking by the side of the road using the method he had never seen before. He took a taste of the chicken inside and he hired the hobo as a head chef in the emperial kitchen. (Not that he had a choice.) Hence the name ‘Beggar’s Chicken’.

The mud doesn’t touch the chicken itself. It’s wrapped in special leaves first, then the mud/clay goes around it and the thing gets baked like a pot. Once it’s done, the pot is broken for the chicken inside. The leaves are not eaten. In modern variations, foil kind of substitutes for the mud.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:45:20 +0000

It’s all right, you make sure they’re dead before you cook them.

By: dr handle

dr handle — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:44:32 +0000

Well, you don’t expect chickens to have gypsy caravans with crystal balls, do you? That’d just be silly.

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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:39:03 +0000

I guess the chicken crossed the road for another day. (awaits clonk)

By: George

George — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:40:19 +0000

The chicken looked in a ball of mud… and then got blinded by the truth (-You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!) and committed suicide.
And then they cooked it.