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Sprouts: Possibly the best veg in the world?
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Not sure about it being a vegetable but Garlic Mushrooms and a belly full of beer helped me clear a pub in Koblenz at the Rhein In Flames back in '89!
The bar staff were not impressed!!!!
The bar staff were not impressed!!!!
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The Controller
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My favourite vegetables...without question.....are FOMs!
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Standards
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The Controller said:My favourite vegetables...without question.....are FOMs!
Sure you didn't mean FOMz?
Standards!
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oldhamboy1967
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Sprouts
Sprouts
Even though though they're not the favourite vegetable of either my wife or me, she still wanted to buy some for Xmas Dinner - because they're traditional...?
What's that about? It's a mad mad world.
Carrots and Celery are my faves though.
Sprouts
Even though though they're not the favourite vegetable of either my wife or me, she still wanted to buy some for Xmas Dinner - because they're traditional...?
What's that about? It's a mad mad world.
Carrots and Celery are my faves though.
oldhamboy1967 said:
Celery! Are you mad! Any food that actually helps you to lose weight as you eat it has to be the work of Satan, the cloven hoof, the horned one etc etc! MCSU staff can only pass their finals by including this incidous "vegetable" in everything they cook (including rice pudding)
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The Controller
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Furthermore....the best Swede in the world...is Ulrika!
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Standards
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The FOMz said:
Constant! Constant? One joke (your words not mine) which was much too difficult to resist seeing as "The Controller" threw up such an easy one to hit when he said "FOMs". Tongue in cheek dear chap, tongue in cheek. Remain calm and stay in your seat please. As for the offer of calling you at work, if we all did that instead of posting on here, IGS would be closed down due to underuse!
Standards!
Marshalloftheraf
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Asparagus is the clear winner, not that MCSU have ever used such a veg.
Any food that can guarantee to make your pee stink within 40mins has got to be in a class of its own.
Can anyone explain the phenomenon?
I have experimented with a group of 'colleagues' during the inaugural Las Vegas Asparagus Fest in 2004. We had very similar results. 40 mins scoff to stink was about average, using a green variety!
Any more scientific results on the urinoaparagus wonder would greatly help research and me be published in a scientific paper in the next 100,000 years.
Ta
Any food that can guarantee to make your pee stink within 40mins has got to be in a class of its own.
Can anyone explain the phenomenon?
I have experimented with a group of 'colleagues' during the inaugural Las Vegas Asparagus Fest in 2004. We had very similar results. 40 mins scoff to stink was about average, using a green variety!
Any more scientific results on the urinoaparagus wonder would greatly help research and me be published in a scientific paper in the next 100,000 years.
Ta
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The Ballerina
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Not a big fan of sprouts the potatoe has to be the clear winner. Chips and gravy mmmmmmmmm!
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Inch High PI
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Asparagus and why it makes your wee smell!
Asparagus and why it makes your wee smell!
From a website:
Many persons have noted the peculiar effect of certain products on human urine.
For example, Benjamin Franklin, in a wide-ranging discussion of bodily discharges, once noted, "a few stems of asparagus eaten shall give our urine a disagreeable odour; and a pill of turpentine no bigger than a pea shall bestow upon it the pleasing smell of violets."
It is said that in a venerable British men's club there is a sign reading "DURING THE ASPARAGUS SEASON MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO RELIEVE THEMSELVES IN THE HATSTAND."
Serious scientific research in this field dates back to 1891, when M. Nencki tentatively identified a compound known as methanethiol as the culprit. The odour appears within an hour after eating just a few spears of the offending vegetable.
According to Allison and McWhirter (1956), the ability to produce the odour is controlled by a single autosomal (i.e., non-sex-related) dominant gene. In a sample of 115 persons, 46 were rendered fragrant by asparagus and 63 were not. (This leaves 6 mysteriously unaccounted for. Urology is an inexact science.)
In 1975 one Robert H. White, then with the chemistry department at the University of California at San Diego, found that the odour-causing chemical was not methanethiol after all.
Instead, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, he found that the aroma was in fact caused by several S-methyl thioesters, specifically S-methyl thioacrylate and S-methyl 3-(methylthio)thiopropionate.
(Thioesters are compounds that result from the reaction of an acid with a sulfur-containing alcohol. They tend to be smelly.)
The thioacrylate recipe is:
CH2=CHC(=O)SCH3
The thiopropionate is:
CH3SCH2CH2C(=O)SCH3
Ask and I shall deliver!!!DT_Xtremez_30:
Edited to add my favourite veges are mushrooms and onions.
Asparagus and why it makes your wee smell!
From a website:
Many persons have noted the peculiar effect of certain products on human urine.
For example, Benjamin Franklin, in a wide-ranging discussion of bodily discharges, once noted, "a few stems of asparagus eaten shall give our urine a disagreeable odour; and a pill of turpentine no bigger than a pea shall bestow upon it the pleasing smell of violets."
It is said that in a venerable British men's club there is a sign reading "DURING THE ASPARAGUS SEASON MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO RELIEVE THEMSELVES IN THE HATSTAND."
Serious scientific research in this field dates back to 1891, when M. Nencki tentatively identified a compound known as methanethiol as the culprit. The odour appears within an hour after eating just a few spears of the offending vegetable.
According to Allison and McWhirter (1956), the ability to produce the odour is controlled by a single autosomal (i.e., non-sex-related) dominant gene. In a sample of 115 persons, 46 were rendered fragrant by asparagus and 63 were not. (This leaves 6 mysteriously unaccounted for. Urology is an inexact science.)
In 1975 one Robert H. White, then with the chemistry department at the University of California at San Diego, found that the odour-causing chemical was not methanethiol after all.
Instead, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, he found that the aroma was in fact caused by several S-methyl thioesters, specifically S-methyl thioacrylate and S-methyl 3-(methylthio)thiopropionate.
(Thioesters are compounds that result from the reaction of an acid with a sulfur-containing alcohol. They tend to be smelly.)
The thioacrylate recipe is:
CH2=CHC(=O)SCH3
The thiopropionate is:
CH3SCH2CH2C(=O)SCH3
Ask and I shall deliver!!!
DT_Xtremez_30:Edited to add my favourite veges are mushrooms and onions.
Marshalloftheraf
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Girl!
Picture of Inch High Sporting his 'skirt' again!
Eye Sea Ewe Jimmy, Indeed!
Picture of Inch High Sporting his 'skirt' again!
Eye Sea Ewe Jimmy, Indeed!
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TheHogwartsBEngO
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Inch High PI said:
mushrooms are not vegetables.
DT_Xtremez_33:Magnum Magnum PI
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Unless he is a scholar of pre-1956 therory (Especially pre -1937!) , in which case it would still be classed in the same group as plants...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_%28biology%29
All will be explained...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_%28biology%29
All will be explained...
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Inch High PI
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OOO harsh banter MRAF, you may take the pi*h out of my kilt when you learn to dance properly, girl!
(*I AM NOT THE BLOKE ON THE LEFT)
(*I AM NOT THE BLOKE ON THE LEFT)
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