Normal

At the Warsaw Embassy in the 60s, we had a tiny commissary in the basement. When too many bananas got brown too fast, the Seabees would have a banana dacquiri party. Maye even Dragon could overcome her banana distaste with a couple of those.

Baldur

All of those mosaic pieces are pretty amazing.

polenta

You don't find banana bread in a bar, coffee shop etc. Maybe only nuts bread sandwiches in some places but this kind of recipe appears in cookery books and housewives might do it. It's not something absolutely unknown. What is difficult is to buy all those berries. The only easily available is strawberry. I guess it's because of the weather or maybe the eating customs. Anyway, if you find them you have to pay five times as much for them as for strawberries.
I remember having heard that in some countries, they can sell oranges at a pharmacy as if they were medicine.... but not by the dozen... by unit. So you enter a pharmacy and ask for aspirin, a painkiller and ONE ORANGE. lol! I suppose these must be areas where oranges are or were imported.

polenta

I suppose you have heard the expression HAUTE CUISINE. This of course is the food suitable for incredibly expensive and fancy royal or diplomatic banquets.... or world-class chefs, etc. I accept all the above but as many people say there are also other HAUTE CUISINES.
Another meaning of HAUTE CUISINE would be using ingredients that are grown in the area and are sold at very low prices.
Maybe still another HAUTE CUISINE could be food that has balanced nutrients and provide what we need to lead a healty life.
BALDUR,
CONGRATULATIONS...... IT'S 50 POUNDS SINCE YOUR BIRTHDAY. THAT'S 25 OR MORE KILOS. YOU ARE A HERO!!!!!!!

polenta

http://www.muralmosaic.com/adam.html

AMAZING INDIGO!!!

Dragon

Normal I'm afraid there is no amount of rum you could add to a banana to make it appealling (no pun intended) to me. Now a strawberry daquiri on the other hand, I don't need much convincing to down several of those!

polenta, I can't say as I've ever seen an orange in a pharmacy before, that would definitly make me scratch my head. It's fairly common here to find blueberries and strawberries at the grocery store in summer. They can be harder to find in winter and not always very good quality but are usually available. The only way I think I've ever seen cranberries sold is frozen or dried like raisins (or, of course, in the canned sauce form). The dried ones are actually not bad as a snack, they call them Craisins, they're also fantastic in Cranberry Pistacio Bark (mmmmmmm, drool)

Baldur

polenta, I'd never heard of those alternate definitions for haute cuisine. Around here the definition remains: 'Tiny portions of overpriced obscure combinations of food that no one would normally eat'

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Cat Deeley, Weird Al Yankovic, Dwight Yoakam, Ang Lee, Hermann Hauser, Michael Crichton, Pele', Baby Jane Holzer, Johnny Carson, Gummo Marx, John Heisman and Adlai Stevenson I.

Baldur

Baldur just found this clip from the 1928 Charlie Chaplin movie 'The Circus'.
It certainly looks like the woman walking by is using a cellphone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3O_qa82RA

Baldur

I'm noticing something about Shakira, she drinks strangely.
When drinking milk or water she submerges ger chin in the liquid and then laps at it. The end result is her chin gets soaking wet.
Once she's finished she shakes herself dry, spattering milk everywhere.
What fun!

lilalee

She is moving her lips, and smiling too!!!!!! Strange.....

Dragon

hmmm, time traveller alert! (She also looked quite manly too.)

polenta

1928??? Then her ear itches.... or she's Mata Hari.... or the cellphone was really invented in the roaring twenties but not distributed into the market so they could first sell other devices like TVs, microwaves, CD players and the like. It's called planned obsolescence. LOL

OPERA WAS BORN POPULAR.... IT SHOULD REMAIN SO
How would YOU react?

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NLjuGPBusxs&vq=medium

maddyjean08

I'm just really curious... Do any of you have a Facebook? And play MAB?

Baldur

That is a great clip polenta. There are several similar ones on Youtube but Baldur had not seen that one.
Also look under 'flash mob' to see other public oddities, mainly huge choreographed dance numbers in bizarre places.

Baldur

This link is to a site by an artist who uses old books as his inspiration.
I thought this particular piece was brilliant:

http://www.thisintothat.com/gallery_list.php?gallery=2

GOLDIEGIRL8

Thats rly cool whats ur fave?????

Baldur

Baldur likes the Humpty Dumpty bookshelf.

Baldur

Happy Birthday to Tila Tequila, Kevin Kline, F. Murray Abraham, Bill Wyman, Norman Rush and Moss Hart.

Dragon

I think the Humpty Dumpty one was my favorite too.