The science is out and so is cholesterol as being the main culprit for heart attacks. It is stress and sugar. Hoorah, I’ll have two kilos of ‘country beef’ sausages please. Even though our butcher has gone with the times and now advertises selling ‘meat solution’ he has been inundated with requests back to sausages and lamb cutlets. In fact, a surge for those items has been recorded in our local newspaper ‘The Wollondilly Express.’ 🙂
I have no trouble with sugar and have no pangs of lust for the Danish Pastry or Dutch Cream Delights. Show me a raw herring or a chargrilled dripping-hot sausage and I feel like a honeymoon, whatever a honeymoon feels like. I am delighted with that latest news. An hour long program on ABC’s catalyst praised the efforts in medical research stating that the emphasis on heart disease being caused by fat was wrong. How come skinny people were succumbing to heart disease while the rotund sausage lover roamed the streets late at night, shouting songs of love, and indulging in misdemeanours, al done in robust health?
Here have a dekka at this lot;
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/heartofthematter
Disclaimer; apart from short mention of “Danish and the word Dutch” , the link to Europe is not intentional and a total fictional use of language and word order. Please note also that the article is ABC science and not intended for those steeped in leering, sneering and trolling.
Enjoy!
PS:You published your 475th post on this blog.
I am rather proud of that number.
Gerard.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Sausages are God’s creatures
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Would they be Adelaide sausages HOO, just wondering.
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Actually Ace, I admit to eating some gluten free pork sausages the other day from Woolies, bloody good.
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Happy Birthday, Algernon, and many, many more to come!
For he’s a jolly good fellow,For he’s a jolly good fellow,For he’s a jolly good fellow,Which nob’dy can deny.Which nob’dy can deny.Which nob’dy can deny.For he’s a jolly good fellow,For he’s a jolly good fellow,For he’s a jolly good fellow,Which nob’dy can deny.
For he’s a jolly good fellow,For he’s a jolly good fellow,For he’s a jolly good fellow,and so say all of us.and so say all of us.and so say all of us.For he’s a jolly good fellow,For he’s a jolly good fellow,For he’s a jolly good fellow,and so say all of us.
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Hip, hip Hoorah!
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Thank you both for your kind wishes.
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A small crowd gathered. Happy birthday algernon. Many happy returns. Hip Hip Hooray. 🙂
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Thanks Shoe
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Mr Gez sir, I thought when I read you lovely article how lovely and ironic it seemed that you had selected the issue and elevated it to the proper status it ought to hold here on newsprint we can use to wrap up the left over snags in for their distribution later to the deserving and undeserving poor. 😉
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Because I offered a dining table opinion there was not sufficient evidence to support ‘the cholesterol theory’, I was an avowed source of embarrassment to my finally ex-significant other. Nevertheless, I found unexpected allies in high places, not that I went searching for them…yet expected them to speak up sooner. The silence has been deafening. Now I am celebrating 30 years later the relief from the unhappiness of fighting for my rights to medical presentation without being treated with disrespeck.
During the week I picked up a couple of other pearlers that will make matters a lot easier at the local GP practice leastwise I certainly hope. A while back I chose to not take any more of anything I was prescribed and discontinued Vitamin D/Calcium. The latest edition of a medical journal that I get lists (this week) that Vitamin D for the reason I have cited for the previous 30 plus years will no longer be recommended for the treatment of bone density as that is a complex relationship that has not been proven or understood. Calcium will be continued for those who have been prescribed it or whose health is compromised by problems with bone density.
The second one is bone ‘strengthening’ biphosphanate treatment. How happy am I that the journal cites the potential for breakage is going to be the diagnostic tool in the future and not the reading of a bone scan, meaning people such as I who presented with a diminished density and only a potential to osteoporosis (not osteoporosis) will not have to go through what I did, coping with anxiety about a compromised relationship with a medical practitioner if they won’t comply with medical prescription or as I did balked for months not filling the prescription. My logic told me that as I had never broken a bone the danger the treatment posed far outstripped the risk of fracture/re-breakage.
However because I temporarily gave in and took some, coming to my senses in a short while regardless…my dental treatment is severely compromised and the bone of the jaw. I’m in dental trouble.
It could all be worse. Marauding elephants might thunder through and trample all over the trestle tables here laden with beautiful barb-b-qued sausages. Dreadful.
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Good one. I think it doesn’t do much harm to question the benefits of doctors being a bit loose with writing prescriptions for patients that present very vague or undefined symptoms. I have so far been rewarded with good health and apart from a slight hypothyroidisms and an op on my right eye. I only see the quack for flu injection. As for the claim of the erectile dysfunctional diagnoses , I was pleasantly surprised this morning. Perhaps a result of the benefits of country beef sausages with tom sauce. 😉 together with avoiding combatants.
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You are lucky too Gez it seems to be able to gobble down whatever you choose without leaving fat rings around your waist like flotation devices not. 🙂
Yes, although the challenge serves some people better than others and unfortunate isn’t it that I drag around acquired characteristics with me that are likely to invoke prejudice for starters. Gez, if you are going now to strive to entirely resolve the claim of erectile dysfunction I think we will need the movie. Consider your problems trying to buy voluminous bloomers so you can be seen out with helvi doing the shopping and please 😉 avoid butchers’ display windows. 😉
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Yes, I often thought of going out in drag. It might be very liberating. I nearly bought an outrageous pair of very strange shorts from Vinnies. They looked as if they came from a film-set created by Chris Lilley’s Ja’ mie ‘private school girl.’
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Hootenanny rope skirts and whiskers on kittens. 😉
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sandshoe, the last time I saw my doctor was for a flu vaccination. He said, somewhat crankily: I have not seen you at all in last two years. I replied equally abruptly: There hasn’t been any reason to see you….
Then he looked at the screen and asked : How old are you? It’s there, I said, got up smiled friendly , and before closing the door, shouted: See you in two years time Doctor…
I hope God will not punish me for my cheekiness :
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What we have to put up with when their training fails us. You tell that small story so well helvi. I am amazed btw how much extra money I have each fortnight not buying this and that pharmaceutical. Funny the pharmacist made a comment way back when I went in with the first prescription regardless I didn’t want it: ‘So, you’ve joined everybody else have you’. That was a sobering moment when I considered how small the town is, but the implication he was seeing a culture.
The excellent work that medical professionals do when they work in an appropriate way with their patients not forgotten or neglected …
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I have the thought that our teeth were not made to last as long as we are lasting. Their use by date is well before the rest of the body.
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Access to dental services is accepted pretty well as a given and an imperative for our health but particularly once someone’s facial structure is compromised/sinus etc.
These things happen but include reasons that are not natural and those can be avoided in some part. That’s all we can hope for others.
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Nice one, Gerard, there’s nothing like ‘mystery bags’, or ‘lips ‘n’ bumholes’ on the barby! We have all sorts, here, little chipolatas, skinless chevaps and chorizos all make a sacrifice to the god of fire, then slip down the oesophagus with ale chasers. Apolitical, as well.
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Largest pot of soup – world record set by Venezuela
[Sep 15] CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan officials claimed a world record Saturday for the world’s largest pot of soup, a giant cauldron of stew prepared by President Hugo Chavez’s government. The hulking stainless steel cooking pot, set up outdoors in downtown Caracas, contained about 15,000 litres of “sancocho” stew, Food Minister Rafael Oropeza said.
That would dwarf the current record-holder listed on the Guinness World Records website, a pot of 5,350 litres of spicy soup prepared in Durango, Mexico, in July.
http://www.worldrecordacademy.com/food/largest_pot_of_soup_world_record_set_by_Venezuela_70852.htm
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I wonder if the intestinal gases in the stomachs of the Venezualan soup eaters could somehow be fracked, harvested, bottled and distributed, how may houses could be lit up?
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Sorry for not having entered the bar queue earlier but I have been above the bar in Rosie’s Tattoo Emporium and House of Pain (no charge for extra pain) since last night. I told her to forego the extra pain for the time being. I noticed Foodge lingering upstairs before as well.
The smell of the sausages is so overpowering.
I could eat a horse.
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I’ve never had horse. Or camel.
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I had goat a a couple of weeks back. Some Indian friends of Mrs A prepared a goat curry. They were excited that they were able to buy goat in Woolies of all places.
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Goat is excellent and eaten by millions all over the world. We went out this morning for chicken liver, went to Coles. No liver of any kind. Pity!
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A first for me I think, very nice. Needs to be slow cooked apparently.
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Didn’t you read my post on the Dot the other day. We had roast goat for Wednesday’s night dinner – with the very garlicky sauce, roast spuds and salads. What I was able to get was young goat. It was tender and yum. Cook it just like a leg of lamb. If it needs long slow cooking it is older. If too old it is as tough as leather and not worth cooking.
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I did vivenne, Goat is something new to me though.
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Well I am of course so happy that your friends can get decent goat at Woolies of all places. As I prefer lamb curry to beef curry I can only agree how nice a goat curry would be as it is similar to lamb (while not being the same !).
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Yes they were shocked and on the North Shore of all places. I thought it like lamb but not quite the same. I’m sure We’ll give it a go in the future.
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I often had horse steaks in Holland where it is still eaten. In fact, an Amsterdam restaurant famous for its delicious steaks (cow) in Europe was found to have served up horse steaks for 63 years. They were fined for having served horse instead of cow.
It is almost impossible to taste the difference. The critics writing upbeat articles for restaurants did not pick it.
As for camel. We have eaten alpacas. They come from the camel family. Very lean, but not much good for rare or even well cooked.
Good for curries.
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/02/amsterdam_steakhouse_boss_admi.php
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It was something that was being served a t a Peruvian pop up near work the week before last Alpaca skewers for $7. Didn’t try them though.
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There were alpaca socks for sale at The Olive Grove and Lloyd Bros Winery at McLaren Vale last Friday week. They’ve had to diversify because of the economic downturn and sell their alpacas’ socks.
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Lame pun alert. But I think this one is lama.
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Boom-boom!
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Well spotted Voice. Well boomed, algy.
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Excellent, especialy with mash. What a clever article.
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Thank you and welcome to the Pigs Arm’s kitchen of give and take. Join the table and partake of our food.. Garcon, plate with two sausages, some mash and a Heineken for Sir Loin please.
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And small tomatoes grilled just enough for the skin to peel off, will add delicious flavour.
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After all the stress. All sausages free on the P/Arms today with a free schooner ( Heinekens) for every two sausages ingested (not necessarily digested). Please, form an orderly queue behind Foodge.
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http://www.engrish.com/2013/10/picking-up-bad-habits-from-the-germans/#comments
Just thought I’d throw this in.
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Algy: One of the best Wurst of the day.
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Checked it out – loved the one ending with this: “The boss is puzzled by this, and asks, ‘What’s sexually threatening about a co-worker telling you your hair smells nice’? The woman replies, ‘It’s Wolfgang, the dwarf.’ “
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Mmmmm. Yummmmmmm. Very appealing even.
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Glad you are being tempted to good food and robust health. 😉
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Gerard ! Food and me go together like ‘birds of a feather’. It’s what I write about ! You can tempt me any time you like. I sometimes go to great lengths to get hold of something special. Fortunately sausages are something that my butcher does particularly well and my hubby is a sausage lover. There is a real continental butcher in town who makes every kind of wurst/sausage thingy you can think of (better than Don). Lot of Germans and Europeans here. We just don’t have a Korean BBQ joint !
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We do we’ve got plenty of them, some really good some well.
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Lucky bugger!
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Indeed, most a quite noisy though. Our favourite closed down earlier this year.
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Hi Viv,
We drove to Goulburn yesterday just to have lunch at the Goulburn’s workers club. It is about 90km from Bowral. On the way back we stopped at our old butcher in Marulan who sells the best sausages and bought 2 kilo’s. We were greatly encouraged by the |ABC Catalyst programme debunking the myth that unsaturated fats cause heart decease.
The Goulburn club is amazing, they spent millions doing it up and one always get good tucker for a reasonable price.
Not so good is that those low prices are supported by rows of gambling machines.
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