Bloo, why do you suppose the first thing I thought of when I saw your new avatar was Jack the Ripper? It’s awfully menacing.
Susan (trying to ignore Martin’s “vaseline in the ice cream” remark - gag)
We get that over here also, from time to time. Sometimes it has even spanned a lawsuit or two- yeah, I know, big surprise.
When I spent my 3 years in London, I didn’t each much of the ice cream, but I did become a fan of Cadbury’s chocolate.
All the Best, Tom
It’s Vienna, not London. And I’m turning my back.
Hake..?
Slan,
D.
i’ve shaved since. 
Headline:
Amar likes good clean craic.
If you think THAT is sick and wrong…I’ve heard of the “Iron Chef” TV show, but never knew what it was till the channel was on the Food Network for some reason the other day. We left it on as we were doing other things and this new “Iron Chef America” show came on. For the unenlightened, two chefs get picked from a lineup and have an hour to make 5-6 dishes with a secret ingredient that gets revealed at the start of the show.
Well, there was an American chef and a Japanese chef on the show my husband and I were watching. The secret ingredient was trout. Now, they don’t HAVE to make dessert, but they can if they want, as one of their dishes. What did the Japanese chef make for his dessert?
drum roll please
TROUT ice cream!! He blended up raw trout to a puree, mixed in milk and sugar, and dumped it in the soft-serve machine. I still cannot believe the judges ate it. (Oh, and there was a bit of decorative fried trout skin sticking out of the ice cream as a garnish.)
He didn’t win the competition. I don’t know if it was the ice cream’s fault, but if I was one of the judges… 
Marmite?
There’s a place in Bar Harbor called Ben and Bill’s Chocolate Emporium. They are famous for their Lobster ice cream. 
Here’s a bit about it:
I’m sure even the most stalwart British patriot would concede that ice cream is better in the US than it is here. But I reckon our chocolate is better, and that makes us quits.
Our beer puts us out in front.
… which is still about fifty trillion million dozen miles behind the Germans and the Belgians. (And that is not even counting the demerits for the mint sauce.)
Jimmy “J.J.” “Dy-No-Mite” Walker used to do a bit about some of the lame answers you could see on Family Feude. Punctuated by the guessers family clapping and saying “good answer, good answer” no matted how stupid the person was
“Name a fruit you can squeeze” Buzz!
“Walnuts!”
“Good answer, Good answer”
“Name a color of m&m” Buzz!
(this was back before all the new colors)
“White”
“Good answer, Good answer”
I actually saw this one:
“Name something you collect”
Buzz!
“Oooh you should have waited til I read the whole question, but what is your answer?”
“Stamps!”
“Good answer, Good answer”
“Survey says?” BUUZZZZZ! zero
“Ok, now let me finish the question…”
“Name something you collect, on the beach”
Reminds me of the amazing Bass-A-Matic from Dan Akroyd and the early Saturday Night Live clan. It was a hoot.
Will O’Ban
mmmmmm, jacket potato with curry and chips with cheese, just what the doctor ordered when the pub is closing and you have a few extra quid on the way home…what is it about drinking beer that makes me more hungry?
I love the boost bars in ice cream…
Saw one just the other day:
“Name an animal whose name starts with the leter ‘r’.”
“Rhododendron.”
how true, how true.
Plus, there’s nothing like a gang of drunk Germans marching around the drinking establishment in what appears to be the Alpine equivalent of a conga line, singing “trink, trink, bruderlein trink…”
(at least I think that’s what they were saying…the memory could be faulty)
that’s one of my and bloomfield’s favorite songs!
Personally I like the song Wenn der Busen meiner Frau voller Wein wär/wollt’ ich ein kleines Knäblein sein…. They just don’t make music like they used to anymore. :roll: