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Australian Family Says They Were Served Poop Ice Cream

JeanneSager — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:03:00 GMT

Bringing new meaning to the words, "this tastes like crap," an Australin family claims a Sydney hotel staffer served them a bowl of "human excrement ice cream."

Steve and Jessica Whyte took sons Tom, Thomas and Ben to the popular Coogee Bay Hotel after seeing it advertised as a family-friendly venue in which to watch a rugby final match. That they have two sons with almost the same exact name doesn't mean the Whites deserved these kinds of just desserts. A bowl of ice cream, with what they say looked like "compacted chocolate" at the center, was served shortly after Steve Whyte complained to hotel staff that he wasn't able to watch the rugby match as promised.

Jessica says she had the spoon to her mouth when the stench of fecal matter burned her nostrils. She immediately spat the alleged crap into a napkin, but says it scared the s**t out of her. OK, not really, but she has said it has shaken her to the point where she's uneasy wiping their youngest child's hind end these days. The Whytes are glad their sons never got at the frozen feces, but they're hopping mad that someone would serve this to their kids.

An Australian government lab tested the supposed poop, and the report confirms it "has an offensive odour and physical properties similar to human excreta ... and to contain fragments of a variety of plant matter typical of excreta." A statement from the hotel, meanwhile, calls the allegations "suspicious," and accuses the Whytes of trying to extort $1 million from the hotel owners.

It sounds like someone's full of s**t.

Image: The Daily Telegraph (the Whyte family)

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Special ingredient at Swiss Restaurant? Breast Milk!

SunnyChanel — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:52:00 GMT

We all know about the benefits of breast milk for our babies, but the benefit of breast milk as a culinary ingredient for us grown ups? The owner of a Swiss restaurant wants to include in his menu dishes (such as stews and sauces) that include about 75% of mother’s milk. "We have all been raised on it. Why should we not include it into our diet?" Hans Locher the owner stated and continued to say "I first experimented with breast milk when my daughter was born. "One can cook really delicious things with it. However, it always needs to be mixed with a bit of whipped cream, in order to keep the consistency."

He garnered attention for his plan of including human breast milk at his eatery from an ad he posted trying to find lactating women to sell him their milk. This of course got the attention of the Swiss government but there seems to be a gray area. You can’t use apes and primates as they are “banned species” but there isn’t anything on the books about not using human milk commercially.

(source and image from the Telegraph)

The Food Nazi: Restaurant Puts Ban On Children

Cole Gamble — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:30:00 GMT

As heinous as you may say it is, you have to admit you’ve thought about it before: a restaurant where no kids are allowed. Of course, no restaurateur would ever dare to exercise such blatant discrimination, would they? Craig Geraud, owner of the Red Thai Room, would. Recently Mr. Geraud instituted a new policy, no children under the age of six allowed… Now say what you will about this food fascist, but Geraud is right about one thing, some parents let their kids run totally apes*** in dining establishments. I remember my table waiting days back in college, carrying 50 pounds of hot, hot food, trying to weave and evade dozens of screaming children who ran up and down the aisles with their dresses pulled over their heads or kicking sugar caddies around like they were soccer balls. Meanwhile mom and dad, and you knew who mom and dad always was because they were the only couple not paying attention to the screaming tykes, gently supped as though their progeny were not ruining everyone else’s’ night. Because we have a squirmy 1 and ½ year old, my wife and I refuse to take our kids to any place nicer than McDonald’s or a pizza parlor. We do this not only for ourselves (why waste money on a fine meal that you’ll have two minutes to enjoy before your toddler begins whipping an old woman with breadsticks) but also for the other patrons. I remember not having kids and shooting daggers at couples who brought their two-legged little meltdowns to restaurants. Just a few weeks ago we went to see Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and in between oral sex jokes and long takes of the protagonist’s winkie, we were treated to the howling of someone’s two-year-old who clearly didn’t have a taste for Judd Apatwo produced films. Ultimately parents should draw their own lines as to where it’s appropriate to take their kids. But where should that line be drawn and how much should the public at large be made to suffer your kid’s bad behavior?

Chuck E. Cheese Is Hotbed of Crime

Kelly Mills — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:01:00 GMT

So what exactly is it about Chuck E. Cheese, um, entertainment centers that inspires violence and crime? Perhaps it's the infernal noise of fifty video games beeping wildly. Maybe it's the fact that there's a giant mouse walking around and everyone pretends that's normal, just like they do at Disneyland--and someday I'll tell you about the time the guy in the mouse costume actually groped me. It could be the animotronic creatures that line the walls, punctuating the din with even noisier singing and clacking (though to be honest, I don't even know if they have those animals anymore, this is a childhood memory we are mining here.) Could be the wretched pizza, the sticky floors, the crying and the ultimate frustraton that is skeeball.

What the hell am I talking about? Well, a Pennsylvania Chuck E. Cheese has seen 18 calls to police in a year, including one for a 20-person brawl. And no one can exactly pinpoint whether it's the older kids or the parents who are causing all the ruckus. Plus, this isn't an isolated incident by any means. All I'm saying is that when folks are afraid to go to a kid party joint without an escort, something has gne terribly, horribly wrong.

Wishing You As Much Good Fortune In 2008 As This Guy

Amy S.F. Lutz — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:45:00 GMT

It's nice to hear a story about a diner who almost chokes on something inedible in a restaurant that does NOT involve litiginous frauds on the one hand, or serious health code violations on the other.

A Florida man found a rare purple pearl in his clam dinner last Friday. I didn't even know clams could produce pearls. As it turns out, only about 1 in 100,000 quahogs contain pearls, and only about 5% of those are gem quality. That ten dollar meal may actually net the family close to $25,000.

So I think this New Year's Eve, instead of the same tired resolutions about weight loss and time management, I'm going to resolve to just Pay More Attention. That pretty much sums it all up anyway.

Happy treasure hunting in 2008!