Category: Miscellaneous / Insane

  • Rant #2: When food changes

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    I leave the country for two weeks. Two weeks, and the curse of the new improved recipe strikes again. I used to love the Natural Confectionary Company’s Unbearables, eating all the purples to get them out of the way, and hoarding all the yellow and greens. Then, I come back from India, and they’ve ditched…

  • What’s your hierarchy of guilty pleasures?

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    Last weekend, I suggested an “ironic” visit to the notorious, wildly popular meat market that is CopperFace Jack’s on Harcourt Street. I’m 30 and not a participant in the meat market, while my mate is married. Continuing a search through horrible scoring joints, we decided to pass and ended up instead in the equally awful…

  • Would you eat roadkill?

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    I’m always bleating on about food waste, and I’ve written before about rescuing food from skips. Waste not, want not. One Norfolk man, a producer with the BBC, has taken this philosophy to its logical conclusion. He’s picking up, butchering, cooking and feeding his family dead animals from the side of the road. No, he’s…

  • Happy new year!

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    Happy new year! Now I know it’s a bit miserable being back at work and all that, but we’ll hopefully bring some measure of cheer to the dark days of January with the usual mix of recipes, reviews, special offers, and competitions. It’s January, so everyone is especially broke, including us. Just before Christmas, I…

  • Happy Christmas folks

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    Christmas = cheese, hot port, and a stroll through town. At the weekend, I took my eight-year-old nephew into Dublin city to soak up the lovely atmosphere. Living in Bray, he had no memory of Dublin or any other big city. This was also his first trip on the LUAS. We went to lunch, were…

  • Feed the Birds

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    Post originally published Jan 11, 2010 This cold weather is particularly brutal on wild birds, who will have real trouble finding anything to eat.  They depend on finding scraps at this time of year, as there are very few insects or berries around, and the snow coverage makes that very difficult.  There are a few…

  • Chips on my shoulder

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    Out with the midnight crisp and ice-cream feasts, and exercise consisting of a walk to the shop for more sweets. In with fruit, popcorn, yoga (I’m shocked too, but that’s what happens when you start hanging out with squatters in France), swimming, and long walks. Yep, I’ve been on a very healthy buzz these past…

  • A stupid solution to a problem that never existed

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    I knew watching TV was a bad idea. Dettol have just released the No-Touch hand wash system, a new, utterly pointless product to add to your eerily clean and soulless home. Specially designed to play on the  fear and ignorance of unsuspecting, never-ending consumers, the No-Touch system promises that you don’t even need to touch…

  • A condiment conundrum

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    My good friend Jimmy Dalton sends us this handy guide to excess mayonnaise. Specifically, Hellmann’s mayonnaise: umpteen moons ago, Snackbox snubbed his nose at a fancy organic mayonnaise I picked up in some snooty Dalkey shop. He then proved a point by eating  Hellmann’s straight from a jar, with his hands. In fairness, he was…

  • This is genius, can someone make one for Dublin please?

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    A flowchart that helps you find somewhere to eat in New Orleans (click for larger version) From Berning Marketing.  Thanks to my friend John H for sending this on.