The Six Degrees of Separation Game.

[Pontormo]

And out of duy, I will add:

Johann Strauss and arancini

Nabokov and vanilla

Virginia Woolf and He Cai Dai Mao

Chaucer and osso buco

Kafka and pea soup

Alfred Hitchcock and bouillabaise

[annecros]

Thanks Pontormo! That should hold us a while, and we need to consume some.

Johann Strauss and arancini

Nabokov and vanilla

Virginia Woolf and He Cai Dai Mao

Chaucer and osso buco

Kafka and pea soup

Alfred Hitchcock and bouillabaise

Saladin and candy floss

Attila the Hun and coconuts

Joan of Arc and baguong

Harry Potter and eggplant

Haile Selassie and Vienna Sausages

Sir Edmund Hilary and Prarie Oysters

Can you do these in 3 or less degrees?

Sun Tzu and Hansen's Diet Black Cherry Soda

Tinky Winky and Sardinian Maggot Cheese

Sid Vicious and Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mints

[annecros]

Nabokov and vanilla

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Edited January 13, 2007 by annecros (log)

[annecros]

Chaucer and osso buco

Osso Buco is made from Veal

Chaucer wrote "‘a pyk than a pikerell, And bet than olde boef is the tendre vel’ in "The Merchant and His Tale"

I like the literary ones...

[insomniac]

Sir Edmund Hilary, famous New Zealand Mountain climber.

prairie oysters, famous New Zealand sheep's bollocks

[insomniac]

'Kafka's Soup, A Complete History of World Literature in Fourteen Recipes ' is one of my favourite cook(ish)books.

No pea soup but a great read

Had forgotten I had it until this game

[Pontormo]

'Kafka's Soup, A Complete History of World Literature in Fourteen Recipes ' is one of my favourite cook(ish)books.

No pea soup but a great read

Had forgotten I had it until this game

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Well, since there's no pea soup, the buzzer goes "BLAAAH!" Doesn't count.

Interesting to see how answers make connections different from one's own. I was thinking about Nabokov and a different book and a side of Nabokov that has to do with an obsessive pursuit outside the realm of literature. Chaucer? Franklin's Tale, I think. Love of marrow bones.

Harry Potter and eggplant--or aubergines.

There is a long thin eggplant known as the snake eggplant and Harry Potter spoke whatever that language is called. At any rate, he understood what snakes said and could talk back to them.

ETA: Because apparently my response was overlooked.

Edited January 13, 2007 by Pontormo (log)

[annecros]

Interesting to see how answers make connections different from one's own. 

THAT is my favorite part of this game.

[insomniac]

Old Foodie, do you ever sleep??

[The Old Foodie]

Amazing how life in the other half of the world goes on apace while one sleeps, isnt it?

Thanks Anne for keeping track.

Still in Play:

Johann Strauss and arancini

Virginia Woolf and He Cai Dai Mao

Kafka and pea soup

Alfred Hitchcock and bouillabaise

Saladin and candy floss

Attila the Hun and coconuts

Joan of Arc and baguong

Harry Potter and eggplant

Haile Selassie and Vienna Sausages

Can you do these in 3 or less degrees?

Sun Tzu and Hansen's Diet Black Cherry Soda

Tinky Winky and Sardinian Maggot Cheese

Sid Vicious and Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mints

Currrently Leading:

insomniac with 25 points

annecross with 19 points

insomniac - I gave you an extra point for "tiramisu is an Italian booze soaked trifle, George W. Bush used to be a booze soaked Texan trifle". I think your Kobe beef one was a bit tenuous though (was that before or after the martinis?) - but Pontormo cam in with a good one for that challenge, so you lost any point I might have allowed. I see Anne allowed you the Tiffany B one - also a bit tenuous (but funny).

An Announcement: [or three or four ]

1. Anne and I are working on a prize for the winner. We must add that this is not an Official eGullet competition (if indeed there is such a thing), but we would like to thank you all personally for this fine opportunity to spend so much time at our computers keeping tally of challenges and points. We really dont know what we would be doing with our time otherwise. This was supposed to be a one-night wonder, but it has unleashed such a flood of creativity that we are in awe.

2. Anne and I are having so much fun we dont know if we can take more than two weeks of it, unless someone else takes over.

3. There are still too many of you lurking. If you are new to eGullet (lets say less than 20 posts, we will give you 2 points extra for joining in. Please make a comment that you wish to claim these points as we may forget to check)

4. This is the "gold standard" of solution to which we would like you to aspire, as per Henry H Lo (hhlodesign). Thankyou Henry - but dont sit back on your laurels.

1. Rick James has long been linked with cocaine use.

2. Cocaine is a white powder.

3. Powder is the name of a movie from 1995 Starring Jeff Goldblum.

4. Jeff Goldblum was born on October 22.

5. 22 is the number of calories from fat contained in White Castle Clam Strips.

Have fun.

Janet

[insomniac]

Alfred Hitchcock's 'To Catch a Thief' was based in the French riviera.

Michelin starred le Bacon at Antibes is famous for its bouillabaisse

[The Old Foodie]

Sorry - take HP and eggplant out of that list. Thanks Pontormo (points were correctly allocated though)

[insomniac]

Hey guys I know you are reading these replies and smirking....join in, I'm a saddo boring myself

and running out of ideas fast

[annecros]

Amazing how life in the other half of the world goes on apace while one sleeps, isnt it?

Thanks Anne for keeping track.

Still in Play:

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My pleasure!

Will be lurking around for a few more hours, but hubby is calling and states that he is hungry! Can you imagine!

I promise to retire early, and give you some relief in the AM.

Anne

[Kerry Beal]

Strauss was a composer and composed a piece called 'Indigo Marsch'

Indigo is a dye produced in China

China is a rice producer

arancini are made from rice

Oh yeah, need a new one.

Dick Clark and anchovies

Edited January 13, 2007 by Kerry Beal (log)

[insomniac]

Dick Clark, the world's oldest teenager

Favourite teen food pizza

with anchovies

[Kerry Beal]

Haile Selassie is considered 'God Incarnate' to the rastafarian movement.

Rastafarians use cannabis as a sacred herb

Cannabis is known for it's appetite stimulating effect and mind numbing ability

The munchies cause behaviors such as standing in front of an open cupboard door looking for food

Vienna sausages, being canned, are often behind cupboard doors.

Fat guy and birds nest soup

Edited after I noticed prairie oysters had already been done

Edited January 14, 2007 by Kerry Beal (log)

[annecros]

Saladin and candy floss

Saladin built a fort considered the convergence of Egypt and the Middle East called Qalaat Al-Gindi

Sugar refining developed in South Asia, the Middle East and China, where sugar became a staple of cooking and desserts

Candy floss is made of spun, heated sugar (otherwise known as cotton candy or fairy floss).

Pope Benedict (the current one) and oreos

Edited January 13, 2007 by annecros (log)

[hhlodesign]

Kafka and pea soup

1. Franz Kafka wrote The Trial which was made into a film directed by Orson Wells

2. Orson Welles was Francis Ford Coppola's first choice to play Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now

3. Apocalypse Now starred Dennis Hopper

4. Dennis Hopper starred in Easy Rider with Henry Fonda

5. Henry Fonda starred in 12 Angry Men which was remade in 1997 by director William Friedkin

6. William Friedkin directed The Exorcist which contains a scene of Linda Blair vomitting pea soup

Lord Alfred Tennyson and Sodium Alginate

[Kerry Beal]

Tennyson was a bard

Barding meat makes it moist

water is moist

fish lay their eggs in water

caviar is fish eggs

sodium alginate is used to make fruit caviar

Marie Curie and oatmeal

[Pontormo]

Henry: I never knew you had it in you.

( I was going for Kafka's Gregor who became a cockroach and Gregor Mendel and peas, but I like yours so much better!)

Okay: Pope Benedict and oreos:

German by birth, Pope Benedict is the head of the Catholic Church and the Bishop of Rome, who holds up the Eucharistic wafer when celebrating mass.

Oreos are sandwich cookies whose "cream" (shortening, sugar, etc.) connects two wafers that were designed by a German.

I promise to do a convoluted one later.

P.S. Ooooo, Kerry! Props for your bard!

Edited January 14, 2007 by Pontormo (log)

[The Old Foodie]

It has been a bit quieter - thank goodness!

Here is where we are at:

Still in Play:

Virginia Woolf and He Cai Dai Mao

Attila the Hun and coconuts

Joan of Arc and baguong

Haile Selassie and Vienna Sausages

Fat guy and birds nest soup

Pope Benedict (the current one) and oreos

Marie Curie and oatmeal

Can you do these in 3 or less degrees?

Sun Tzu and Hansen's Diet Black Cherry Soda

Tinky Winky and Sardinian Maggot Cheese

Sid Vicious and Girl Scout Cookie Thin Mints

Johann Strauss and arancini

Haile Selassie and Vienna Sausages

Kafka and pea soup

Lord Alfred Tennyson and Sodium Alginate

I have to agree with Pontormo, there is a certain elegance with the longer, more convoluted ones.

insomniac still ahead with 29.

[insomniac]

Curse you Pontormo and your 2 Gregors

the longer ones are far more difficult and beautiful

[insomniac]

Greer Garson played Marie Curie in the movie Madame Curie

Greer Garson's mother and father were Scottish

Oatmeal (porridge) comes from Scotland

Eva Peron and larb

Edited January 14, 2007 by insomniac (log)

[insomniac]

Tennyson wrote The Kraken, about a sea monster

Kelp comes from the sea

Sodium alginate is extracted mainly from kelp

Edward Kennedy and snails