German Crisps/Chips: "Echt"
‘Echt’ translates to ‘real’. I like the design of this processed food very much. It’s not only the fact that the consumer is left with the feeling that chips are actually good for his health – flavored with ‘herbs from the garden!’ – no, it’s the young girl on the front that’s desperately chewing chives, with a slightly mad facial expression. That’s the new, good and healthy shopping world! Buy highly processed food, do something for your health and save the world with consumption. And look mad…
Filed under: Forks, Chopsticks and Twins
Matthew Bartik is metal-bending forks into little pieces of art. YOu can visit his homepage and directly buy one of his works, they are not expensive.
If you have some time to spare let me babble a little about forks. Can you imagine there were times when no one in Europe used a fork? No, they didn’t have chopsticks either – they only used knives and spoons! Have you ever tried to eat a porterhouse-steak with a spoon? No wonder millions starved to death. When a Byzantine princess brought her own set of table-forks to Venice, she outraged populace and clergy by refusing to eath with her hands:
“Instead of eating with her fingers like other people, the princess cuts up her food into small pieces and eats them by means of little golden forks with two prongs.”*
“God in his wisdom has provided man with natural forks – his fingers. Therefore it is an insult to Him to substitute artificial metallic forks for them when eating.”*
*James Cross Giblin: “From Hand to Mouth” New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987
When I think about it: Chinese still don’t use the fork…
Jerry Seinfeld talking about chopsticks…
Speaking about cutlery: Don’t you think Bruce Campbell and Uri Geller look exactly like twins?
Stinking Badges Home Page
This website claims to be the ‘primary Internet resource for references to stinking badges’, and I, for one, see no reason to doubt it – even if some other Internet resource for references to stinking badges actually existed, it could hardly be more comprehensive than this one: More than 120 references to stinking badges (or variations thereof) from movies, TV, books and comics – most of them documented with links, video- or audioclips, or images.
The only thing I’m missing on that site: an explanation what makes that particular phrase so enduringly popular.
