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No! No! No! Stop it! The bad ideas topic!

liuzhou

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Hot-cross pizza buns seem an odd notion, but I guess I can't throw stones. Supermarkets up here haven't hit on that one yet, but they've started making hot-cross buns for every holiday, not just Easter.

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in th Food Movie thread 

 

there is aa fine movie documenting a 3 star French resteurant

 

that has had  start for possibly 50 years

 

in the words , a long time

 

they have heir own house champaign (s)

 

one vision has Sichuan pepper  added to the bottle.

 

and the restaurant has its own large garden and they grow

 

their own SP's  it was said theyngrwo well there in their location.

 

that version is quite popular their.

 

love to try a bottle.  or anything else from that restaurant.

 

maybe , or maybe not , their brains dish.

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9 hours ago, liuzhou said:

Actually, I'm not sure if this is a bad idea or a stroke of genius. A new fashion is erupting in southern China. 

 

冰淇淋 (bīng qí lín) means 'ice cream' with the first character meaning 'ice'.

 

Now they're substituting 辣 (là) instead of  冰 (bīng) and selling 辣淇淋 (là qí lín), hot (ice) cream.

 

It's your regular soft whip ice cream garnished not with sprinkles but Sichuan style chili oil.

 

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I'd try it.

 

 

Not quite the same thing, but a few years back, Kenji wrote a recipe for Sichuan Chile Crisp Sundae With Peanut Streusel in the NYT. I made it and thought it was pretty good. 

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4 hours ago, blue_dolphin said:

Not quite the same thing, but a few years back, Kenji wrote a recipe for Sichuan Chile Crisp Sundae With Peanut Streusel in the NYT. I made it and thought it was pretty good. 

You're a woman of catholic tastes. Mostly I'm not fond of chile in chocolate, brownies or cookies. The exception for me would be pan forte, the sweetish concoction of fruit and nuts and cocoa with a hint of pepper. But just a hint. Peanuts and chile, by all means. Ice cream sundae with both, well, I might not even taste it.

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2 hours ago, Katie Meadow said:

You're a woman of catholic tastes. Mostly I'm not fond of chile in chocolate, brownies or cookies. The exception for me would be pan forte, the sweetish concoction of fruit and nuts and cocoa with a hint of pepper. But just a hint. Peanuts and chile, by all means. Ice cream sundae with both, well, I might not even taste it.

Long before the chili and chocolate combo became popular, I found a cut-out gingerbread cookie recipe that had a good amount of ground black pepper in it. This was long before the internet and apparently I didn't write down the recipe but now I always add finely ground black pepper to my gingerbread cookies. Makes the ginger more gingery if you will,

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1 hour ago, haresfur said:

 

Boxing day is the start of hot cross bun season

 

Perhaps but they print 'Easter' on the wrapper.

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On 3/26/2024 at 10:16 PM, liuzhou said:

Actually, I'm not sure if this is a bad idea or a stroke of genius. A new fashion is erupting in southern China. 

 

冰淇淋 (bīng qí lín) means 'ice cream' with the first character meaning 'ice'.

 

Now they're substituting 辣 (là) instead of  冰 (bīng) and selling 辣淇淋 (là qí lín), hot (ice) cream.

 

It's your regular soft whip ice cream garnished not with sprinkles but Sichuan style chili oil.

 

Screenshot_20240327_020652_com.tencent.mm_edit_4570488841489.thumb.jpg.b711f42e4f4aef626da295c3b5c985d7.jpg

 

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I'd try it.

 

 

I’d try it, too! I’m hoping you do…

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A few days ago, I visited the small store downstairs from my apartment to buy a six-pack of beers, as one does. On entering, I headed straight to where my beer of choice is sensibly located in a fridge, and there it wasn't. Where my beer should have been was an imposter!

 

I looked around to see where some incompetent wretch may have deposited it, but to no avail. My gruntle was getting very dissed.

 

I went back to where my beer rightfully belonged to examine the imposter to get the details in order to lodge an offical complaint and discovered that the imposter was my beer after all.  For some reason, after twenty-six years the brewery had decided  to disguise it by radically redesigning the cans.

 

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I bought my needs and went upstairs, where I decided the makeover isn't so bad after all and actually makes it easier to spot. My gruntle was assuaged.

 

Today, I repeated the process and bought another six pack. When I got back upstairs, I disocvered they've already altered the design again and replaced the previous non-coloured ring pulls with hideously bright red ones. But that is not the bad idea (not that it's a good one). These moronic ring pull do every except facilitate ringing or pulling.

 

Whereas previously you could get your finger through the ring to pull, now they have reduced the 'ring' to a 3mm slot which a new born baby could get his or her finger through.

 

This radical idea seems to be so that they can incorporated a tiny QR code on the damn thing for you to scan. Doing so goes to a webpage telling you that they require your personal and financial details in order to proceed. 滚开 (gǔn kāi)* ! as we say here to emphatically reject suggestions we wish to decline.

 

I had to get my tool kit out to open the damn cans. It is impossible by hand.

 

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Idiots.

 

* 滚开 (pronounced 'goon ky' - rhyming with sky) literally means 'to boil' but in Mandarin slang is an obscenity meaning 'eff off'.

 

1998 refers to a special edition of this local beer, made to mark Bill Clinton's visit to Guilin, China in said year. It has since become their biggest seller. Guilin is where the brewery is situated about an hour north of me.

 

 

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essential pop-top tool...

 

I have a few of those, but that's not the point.

 

There is no excuse for taking a tested reliable design and making it inoperable for no good reason. They could more sensibly put their idiotic QR code on the body of the can.

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I'm putting this here because a) it's a stupid idea and; b) it's not worthy of a dedicated topic.

 

I just found that Subway, a company which specialises in exotic sandwiches from the deep depths of despair, has started a delivery service and is offering to send me their wares. From Beijing.

 

Beijing is 1,885 kilometers / 1,171 miles away!

 

They give me a choice of Colorful vegetable sandwich, Tuna sandwich, Roast Beef sandwich, Original cut chicken leg steak sandwich, Italian classic sandwich, Teriyaki Chicken sandwich, Turkey breast sandwich, Salami sandwich, Western ham sandwich, Five Black black pepper chicken sandwich, Black pepper thick cut steak sandwich, Dynamic fish Fish Shrimp sandwich, or Avocado shrimp bacon sandwich.

 

Somehow these have all been carefully costed and are a mere ¥65.77 / $9.06 USD per sandwich, no matter what my choice. There is an additional charge of ¥23 / $3.17 for delivery irrespective of how many of these delights I require. No information is given on likely delivery time, but the usual motor cycle delivery would take days and the flight from Beijing is around 3 hours but getting to the airport probably longer.

 

Are they insane?

PS. I can buy a full three course meal for delivery in 20 minutes for around ¥25.

 

PPS. I've spared you the pictures. Wouldn't want to put you off food for the week.

 
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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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7 hours ago, liuzhou said:

I'm putting this here because a) it's a stupid idea and; b) it's not worthy of a dedicated topic.

 

I just found that Subway, a company which specialises in exotic sandwiches from the deep depths of despair, have started a delivery servce and offering to send me their wares. From Beijing.

 

Beijing is 1,885 kilometers / 1,171 miles away!

 

They give me a choice of Colorful vegetable sandwich, Tuna sandwich, Roast Beef sandwich, Original cut chicken leg steak sandwich, Italian classic sandwich, Teriyaki Chicken sandwich, Turkey breast sandwich, Salami sandwich, Western ham sandwich, Five Black black pepper chicken sandwich, Black pepper thick cut steak sandwich, Dynamic fish Fish Shrimp sandwich, or Avocado shrimp bacon sandwich.

 

Somehow these have all been carefully costed and are a mere ¥65.77 / $9.06 USD per sandwich, no matter what my choice. There is an additional charge of ¥23 / $3.17 for delivery irrespective of how many of these delights I require. No information is given on likely delivery time, but the usual motor cycle delivery would take days and the flight from Beijing is around 3 hours but getting to the airport probably longer.

 

Are they insane?

PS. I can buy a full three course meal for delivery in 20 minutes for around ¥25.

 

PPS. I've spared you the pictures. Wouldn't want to put you off food for the week.

 

That's equal parts jaw-dropping and hilarious.

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