I don't really know where to start.
For our friends birthday several weeks ago, we went to a Russian supermarket and sat in a funny tent in front of the store. There was a very large woman there, wearing a fur vest who served us a lot of pork. Periodically, someone would get up, go into the store, and return carrying many bottles of russian beer. The flavor was nothing extraordinary, but the labels were cool. For example:
I've been "hanging out" in Dresden a lot recently. Which basically involves moonlighting at my former job at the MPI in pursuit of scientific greatness. Elusive thing, that. One of the many changes in Dresden has been the grand opening of a pretty cool restaurant called "Hell's Kitchen" (so they're not very original). They serve a mean burger (veggie and otherwise), fantastic tofu and something that is called the CRISPY CHICKEN TOWER. I've eaten about four of these bad boys in the last two months, and kept trying to snap a photo of one. Unfortunately, the flash on my phone was broken and the pictures always looked crappy. But no longer!! Behold...
That's right. Two breaded chicken patties. Two Kartoffelrösti. Cheese. Assorted veggies. And a fried egg. Needless to say, the bun melts about 30 seconds after it arrives at the table, leaving one with a big frickin' mess. But it tastes sooooo good.
Next post: Ausländertag!!
UPDATE: Oh, but I almost forgot. The genome of the platypus, (AKA Schnabeltier) has been sequenced! This article only reaffirms my long-held belief that platypi are the coolest animals evar. 10 sex chromosomes? Heck yeh! And by extension, my platypus tattoo is now even more awesomer than it was before.
9 comments:
the platypus gains the french nationality for his number or weird chromosomes - read it, it is in Science Today
just saying
the beer looks soooooooooo damn cool - here beer is still a pity :)
good to see that your are still alive
many typos in previous message :
or > of
Science Today > Nature Bio Sexuality
still > again ang again
alive > drunk
sorry pierre mate but you can't claim the platypus as french- definitely australian!
typowatch: your = you're
i'm tempted to claim that chromosomes and all that aside, my frog tattoo is bettererer than your platypus, but i can't post pictures on the comments, and don't have a blog of my own.
What if they had a Russian Crispy Platypus Tower?
obviously if they had that, it would come in good packaging, not taste quite as good as/like the chicken tower, but we'd all gorge ourselves on the delicious and chromosome-saturated meat anyway, before licking jeff's tattoo for dessert.
The platypus tower is, in my humble opinion, a sub optimal meal option - they're super-endangered, are the only poisonous mammal known (which brings into question how you actually prepare platypus - ala puffer fish), and are a little on the lean side. Plus they'd probably taste like chicken. Which leads us back to the first point: The crispy CHICKEN tower.
Of course, everyone is still welcome to lick my tattoo for dessert.
And where did the Russian part of the Russian Crispy Platypus Tower come from?
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