Food

Comparing apples and out-of-season oranges

The Blair/Bolt Watch Project - May 12, 2008 - 4:44pm

Guest post by Toaf

Tim Blair’s jihad against Tim Flannery continues. Today Blair’s picked up on a report which suggests that global warming (which doesn’t exist anyway) will enhance Australia’s agricultural output over the coming few decades. Read more »

Halal Hotels

Astrolabe - May 8, 2008 - 12:17am

The Kipp Report have an interesting story on the growing phenomena of the “halal hotel”:

Dubai-based Almulla Hospitality plans an international chain of 150 Sharia-compliant hotels by 2015. Around 90 are planned in the Middle East and North Africa, but the remainder will be Europe, Asia and North America - and Almulla says it will develop non-Muslim brand names. Read more »

The Lukewarm Contented Revolutionary

The Partisan - April 21, 2008 - 11:47pm

Due to incessant personal attacks, I may have to give blogging away. Read more »

Stupid pizza

HarrangueMan - April 16, 2008 - 7:27pm

So Pizza meets surgery. How does that fare?Not great.It was luxury pizza, so thick base, thick thick topping. So far post surgery I've only had thin crust. I thought I was careful, taking 10 minutes to eat half a slice.Apparently not. It got bogged. Read more »

Lazy Sunday! (Keating! The Musical edition)

Larvatus Prodeo - May 11, 2008 - 5:06pm

Since we don’t live by politix alone (I sincerely hope), what did people get up to this weekend? Join in, share some tales, regulars and lurkers all! Read more »

Righty groupthink triple play

The Blair/Bolt Watch Project - April 29, 2008 - 11:02pm

Guest post by Toaf

It seems that Bolt and Blair have noticed the global issue that everyone else has been talking about for a while: rising food prices. Maybe they have been posting on this topic for months now (I honestly don’t know). My guess is that they just learned about it from their co-thinker, Mark Steyn. Read more »

Cause and effect

The Legal Soap Box - April 27, 2008 - 11:35pm

I haven’t been too impressed with ethanol fuels for a while. My concern back then was “that if governments make emotional knee-jerk reactions, the cure may be as bad as the disease it is designed to alleviate.” Read more »

Stupid skinless sausages

HarrangueMan - April 16, 2008 - 8:43pm

Took 20 minutes to vomit them up. Stuff is still stuck I think. Probably shouldn't have had a can of diet coke 10 mins before.

A meal so simple even Craig can cook it

HarrangueMan - April 14, 2008 - 8:46pm

Needed: left over BBQ chicken, peas, cheese, a couple of potatoes.1) Par microwave the potatoes for around five to six minutes. Slice them up, put them in frying pan with some butter. Space them out. Fry them for about 20 mins (flipping them when brown).2) Pull apart left over chicken so there are no bones. Chuck chicken in the frying pan3) Nuke a cup of peas for three minutes Read more »