Happy Tur-drunk-en Day

Wow.  It’s been that long since I posted?  I’ve got to get in the swing of being more consistent.  What a year. 

At any rate, 2 years ago I posted some advice for Thanksgiving cooking for the culinary challenged, it’s only appropriate that we do it again.  This year, here’s another take on the traditional faire (taken from a variety of sources online):

Ingredients:

• 1 Turkey (sized appropriately)
• 1 bottle Scotch whiskey

Instructions:

1. Take a drink of the whiskey
2. Put turkey in the oven
3. Take 2 drinks of whiskey
4. Set the degree at 375 ovens
5. Take 3 more whiskeys of drink
6. Turn the oven on
7. Take 4 whisks of drinky
8. Turk the bastey
9. Whiskey another bottle of get
10. Stick a turkey in the thermometer
11. Glassh yourself a pour of whiskey
12. Bake the whiskey for 4 hours
13. Take the oven out of the turkey
14. Take the oven out of the turkey
15. Floor the turkey up off of the pick
16. Turk the carvey
17. Get yourself another scottle of botch
18. Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey
19. Bless the saying, pass and eat out

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

"Well, Where's the Pleasure In That?!?"

While shopping at Sam's Club this evening, I came across the following item:

I guess it had to happen.  What started with "sugar free" sweeteners (remember saccharin?), moved on to decaffeinated coffee (remember Sanka?), and then passed through alcohol-free beer and tofurkey while stopping off at sparkling grape juice has now brought us to "wine-free ... err ... wine".  Great, wonderful, fantastic, I can hardly contain my excitement:  we've got the basic components of "synthahol" down ... just backwards (or sideways, or something).

Medical science has started to accept the fact that there are good things to be gained from drinking red wine.  It was only a matter of time before an enterprising businessman turned it into a marketable item (what with all the pomegranate, goji, and acai elixirs now on the market.  I'll buy that ... to a point.

Yet another example of how we allow ourselves to experience things (or parts of things) without having to actually experience the things in reality.  Stupid.  Oh, yeah, it'll probably make money ... but that doesn't make it smart.

Oh, and bonus points to who can tell me where the title quote came from.

Food Game Friday: Stand O' Food

This Friday's game, Stand O' Food, is another "arcade assembly" style game from those great folks at Reflexive.net:

Build burgers, in the right order, for an ever increasing flow of customers before they get irked and leave. Earn extra money with topings (ketchup, curry, tabasco, "special sauce") but don't waste too much time saucing or you'll lose patrons.

Adventure mode not enough for you? Try "lunch rush". No levels, just more and more customers and more complex burger orders.

You'll never look at fast food the same way again.

Food Game Friday: Sushi Frenzy

What can I say, I'm addicted to food assembly games, and reflexive.net has a ton of them. Today it's Sushi Frenzy, and it'll have you rolling in nigiri in no time:

Are you as fast as a sushi chef? Find out!

Food Game Friday: Cooking Academy

Dual-Platform Alert! This Friday's game, Cooking Academy from reflexive.net, is available for:

The PC:

And the Mac:

Think you're limber enough to prepare a variety of recipes? Let's find out! Cooking Academy takes you through the rigors of culinary school, from the simple to the sublime. With each instructor tougher than the next, you'll definitely find yourself "in the weeds" from time to time but if you persevere, you're knife skills will be rewarded!