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Gallivanter
15 Mar 17 10:58
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Mark Twain said that if you eat a live frog first thing in the morning then nothing worse can happen to you for the rest of the day.

I know he was really telling us not to procrastinate and to get the worst job done first. However, just before I sort out my taxes, I wondered what kind of frog you should  eat - boiled or raw. It's been said that you can boil a frog alive if you do it very slowly. Has anyone done this? How about fried? Should frogs be deep fried or cooked with the bacon? Wouldn't very slowly fried bacon taste rubbery?

Culinary advice would be appreciated. I refuse to believe that no Chit Chatter has ever eaten a frog.
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Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 10:16 AM GMT
I know you boil lobsters alive and they make little squeeling noises

If anyone boiled my pet frog alive i would cut their fooking tongue off and eat it
Report Makybe_Diva • March 15, 2017 3:20 PM GMT
How can boiling lobsters alive be legal? Angry

Never heard of boiling frogs alive. that is awful, too. Angry
Report Crisp77 • March 15, 2017 3:41 PM GMT
Wasn't this an advert Mark Twain did for Cadbury's?
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 3:46 PM GMT
Not sure Makybe but i have seen it being done and they get kept in buckets of water in a frideg in restaurants etc and then lobbed in a hot boiling pot
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 3:47 PM GMT
fridge*

lobbed no pun on the old lobster
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 3:50 PM GMT
Keep them in the back, where the refrigerator is coldest. They must be kept alive until you cook them. Do not store live lobsters in any kind of water—it will kill them LaughLaugh. Place the lobsters in a large bowl, cardboard box or roasting pan covered with damp cloth or packed with damp newspaper.


no wonder they where dead in the place i worked after we went home and came back in the next day

They where in a bucket of shallow water no lids
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 5:38 PM GMT
I thought lobsters lived in water. Do they come out at night or something? I won't sleep now, I'll be expecting a Dublin Bay prawn crawling up my leg under the quilt.
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 5:46 PM GMT
Never heard of boiling frogs alive.

Oh, the innocence.

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http://bfy.tw/AeKI
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 5:48 PM GMT
Yeah but they roam and hide in seaweed and maybe under the sand GrinLaugh

They can live up to 100 apparently we should not be killing them for 3 tea spoons worth of food
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 5:50 PM GMT
Gall that's nasty they cook them even slower than you would expect
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 5:52 PM GMT
Lobsters and other shellfish have harmful bacteria naturally present in their flesh. Once the lobster is dead, these bacteria can rapidly multiply and release toxins that may not be destroyed by cooking. You therefore minimise the chance of food poisoning by cooking the lobster alive



The machine can knock a large crustacean unconscious in less than 0.3 seconds and kill it in five to ten. Crabs take four to five minutes to die in boiling water, while lobsters take three minutes.


far too long this where is Kenny Mann or does he only love animals that can snuggle up to him
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 5:57 PM GMT
Several methods are used for killing lobsters. The most common way of killing lobsters is by placing them live in boiling water, sometimes after having been placed in a freezer for a period of time. Another method is to split the lobster or sever the body in half lengthwise. Lobsters may also be killed or rendered insensate immediately before boiling by a stab into the brain (pithing), in the belief that this will stop suffering. However, a lobster's brain operates from not one but several ganglia and disabling only the frontal ganglion does not usually result in death.[33] The boiling method is illegal in some places, such as in Reggio Emilia, Italy, where offenders face fines up to €495.[34] Lobsters can be killed by electrocution prior to cooking, with one device, the CrustaStun, applying a 110-volt, 2 to 5 amp electrical charge to the animal.[35][36]


The Italians can fine you for the Boiling
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 6:03 PM GMT
Thanks for the information, Chaser. I'm not sure I wanted it now. Plain

I knew lobsters, shrimps, etc were dumped in boiling water but I was under the impression it was Goodnight, Vienna. Not a slow waltz.

Can I take it that you've prepared the dancing squid?
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:16 PM GMT
No never seen that happen in real life

The slow waltz like you say is a bit too long you can here them squeel but i never put any in that hot water EVER
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:17 PM GMT
No worked in a kitchen for 7 years or so

So probably be more live stuff roaming about. FOOK THAT
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 6:20 PM GMT

far too long this where is Kenny Mann or does he only love animals that can snuggle up to him


No!
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:21 PM GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSMzMExEIMo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFMR0Q3bnnQ


look at the people doing it they would not be holding them with he bands on their legs
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 6:23 PM GMT
I've gone off Mark Twain now.
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:23 PM GMT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZfrjYIrDEY

what you think of this kenny
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 6:24 PM GMT
what is it?
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 6:25 PM GMT
If it's boiling a live frog I'm not interested.
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:26 PM GMT
lobster and they all laughing

i don't mind the Chinese boiling cats though so we are all good
Report Makybe_Diva • March 15, 2017 6:26 PM GMT
I won't be clicking on any of those links.
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 6:27 PM GMT
ffs
Report Makybe_Diva • March 15, 2017 6:28 PM GMT
Chaser, you can't really mean that.
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 6:29 PM GMT
why people think it's acceptable to condone any animal cruelty, is beyond me. People do that when they buy a box of eggs. So much cruelty about. Too many people don't give a ****.
Report Dr Crippen • March 15, 2017 6:31 PM GMT
Is this a new way of preparing Toad in the hole?
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:32 PM GMT
Makybe yes i love cat foods in China i go over 4 times a year Grin

See the comments people saying kill them first at least and the guy who puts video up is like do some research.I worked in places and chefs in the game dished out dead ones that died in the fridge over night.No one ever complained so i'm sure they could quickly do something then cook it.
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 6:33 PM GMT
I boiled an egg this morning. I should have made a video of it and put it on Youtube. You know, with sound effects of the baby chicken cheeping inside. Maybe the egg rolling around in the pan as the chick tries to get out. It would have made a fortune from adverts before somebody got it pulled.
Report Makybe_Diva • March 15, 2017 6:35 PM GMT
Gallivanter, you are sick!
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 6:35 PM GMT
not ALL eggs ffs,.
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:36 PM GMT
They can live longer than Horses , Cats , Dogs etc but ist' ok to eat because it can't lick peoples faces

Don't get me wrong i eat fish and meat but never kill for it Mischief
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:40 PM GMT

Gallivanter 15 Mar 17 18:33 Joined: 10 Mar 08 | Topic/replies: 3,214 | Blogger: Gallivanter's blog
I boiled an egg this morning. I should have made a video of it and put it on Youtube. You know, with sound effects of the baby chicken cheeping inside. Maybe the egg rolling around in the pan as the chick tries to get out. It would have made a fortune from adverts before somebody got it pulled.


Makybe_Diva 15 Mar 17 18:35 Joined: 05 May 12 | Topic/replies: 16,877 | Blogger: Makybe_Diva's blog
Gallivanter, you are sick
!

Think of the Royalties bruv
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 6:41 PM GMT
No, not ALL eggs, Kenny. I mean, chocolate eggs would be stupid.
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:43 PM GMT
Still get views do a cream egg

Bet no one has done it be the first
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 6:43 PM GMT
Batter it like a deep fried mars CoolCool
Report Charlie • March 15, 2017 6:44 PM GMT
Eating live monkey's brain is the worst.
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 6:53 PM GMT
Royalties! My favourite word!

I think I'll get a battery-operated fluffy little chick the next time I'm out shoplifting. The ones that start running and cheeping when you shake them.

A hardboiled egg could be cut in half with one of those craft angle-grinders, the egg eaten (waste not, etc) and the shell superglued together with the chick inside.

Boil a fresh egg while rolling it round a bit and operating the chick egg off camera. A quick swap of the eggs as I lift out the one in the pan, roll it across the table and crack it open with a spoon.

Would hitting the little chick with a wooden mallet as it runs away be too much?
Report Makybe_Diva • March 15, 2017 6:54 PM GMT
Bruv? Confused
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 7:05 PM GMT
She's on to us, Rodders.
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 7:07 PM GMT
Bruv/Bro/Homie etc used my kl people
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 7:08 PM GMT
Boil a fresh egg while rolling it round a bit and operating the chick egg off cameraLaugh. A quick swap of the eggs as I lift out the one in the pan, roll it across the table and crack it open with a spoon.

WTF are you on Laugh
Report Foinavon • March 15, 2017 7:10 PM GMT
Nice bit of comedy, Gallivanter. Grin

I'm ashamed to say that I ate frogs' legs in France many years ago. That was before I was aware of the enormous cruelty involved in harvesting them. I wouldn't touch them now and hope that no one else would.
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 7:12 PM GMT
Now, now, Rodney. You have to operate the chick egg off camera to get the cheeping sound. Of course, I knew Kenny would have other ideas but you, you've got GCEs 'n that.
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 7:17 PM GMT
I think you have to call them French legs these days, Foinavon.
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 7:21 PM GMT

I'm ashamed to say that I ate frogs' legs in France many years ago. That was before I was aware of the enormous cruelty involved in harvesting them. I wouldn't touch them now and hope that no one else would.


Yes, stick to the Foie Gras, mate. AngryWink
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 7:22 PM GMT
Fois
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 7:26 PM GMT
What's French for duck, Kenny?
Report Foinavon • March 15, 2017 7:30 PM GMT
foie = liver is correct kenny. Fois means "time" as in "Il y avait une fois" = once upon a time.

No, I don't eat foie gras either Shocked
Report TheChaser • March 15, 2017 7:33 PM GMT
I know a few people who have ate goldfish when drunk ( never seen the appeal ) Laugh





Gallivanter 15 Mar 17 19:12 Joined: 10 Mar 08 | Topic/replies: 3,221 | Blogger: Gallivanter's blog
Now, now, Rodney. You have to operate the chick egg off camera to get the cheeping sound. Of course, I knew Kenny would have other ideas but you, you've got GCEs 'n that




Has Kenneth no exams grades ohhh bad


I'm still at School go most nights you know.We call it Night School
Report Gallivanter • March 15, 2017 7:41 PM GMT
Why do you call it Night School, Chaser?
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 8:14 PM GMT
It's just what you said the other day, Foinavon. Fois Gras has to be accompanied with a bottle of somthing or other.
Report Foinavon • March 15, 2017 8:28 PM GMT
It was in reply to a joke from another poster Kenny. It wasn't meant in a serious way.
The practice of "gavage" is abhorrent.
Report kenny mann • March 15, 2017 8:31 PM GMT
Let you off. Wink

I think all animal cruelty is abhorrent, including the ones turned into a joke on here.
Report Foinavon • March 15, 2017 8:37 PM GMT
The jokes on here aren't always in good taste (no pun intended).Blush
Report TheChaser • March 16, 2017 8:00 PM GMT
Gallivanter
Gallivanter 15 Mar 17 19:41 Joined: 10 Mar 08 | Topic/replies: 3,231 | Blogger: Gallivanter's blog
Why do you call it Night School, Chaser?


I asked that before they just thought i was cracking a joke or something so i joined in laughing

I have not got a clue what the fuss was all about
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