Very funny
(from here)
On a lighter note, do you like these beaver cup cakes my friend made for me?
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rENNISance woman by Cath Ennis
Matt Brown said: "You can blog about whatever you wish, as long as it is related to science and research". His wish is my command! Here are some snippets from my life as a cancer research grant wrangler in Vancouver. Mostly the silly bits.
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- Monday, 15 Jun e 2009 - 14:16 UTC
Last updated: Monday, 15 Jun 2009 - 14:16 UTC
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It could be worse – at least you’re in the same league as Scunthorpe, and not below them (like Leeds).
The beavers are cute. How did they taste?
Two words:
Torquay United.
I hang my head in shame.
Also, nice beavers. I feel sorry for the one that has a flag impaled through its cheek, though.
Bob, that doesn’t make me feel any better!
Richard, my sympathies.
The beavers were full of chocolatey goodness, impaled cheeks not withstanding
Those beavers were awesome eating. Kudos to the chef (who is practicing for motherhood).
I am surprised at the lack of double entendres in this thread.
Eva> schhh… ;)
Cath> those look lovely goodies! i want chocolate now!! come to think of it, it is lunch time…. yummmm…. :D
Kyrsten, I expect to see these guys reprised at a future birthday party!
Eva, me too!
Åsa, it is very hard to stick to any kind of diet with such amazing goodies in the house!
Do the blue-eyed beavers have a mutation that causes their tails to fall off? Maybe the sample size is too small to tell and should be made larger, and shared with and international audience.
Dam, I hadn’t even noticed that!
Nutter Butter tails! Like!
Could be adapted with orange almond (candy corn, perhaps?) teeth and licorice tails to make nutria (coypu) cupcakes.
Licorice is evil and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near such cuteness.
As for the brother-in-law who made licorice tea in MY TEAPOT: Words were spoken. Some of them were very Anglo-Saxon. And loud.
Cath> naww…. licorice that is so goood. Yummmy yummy I’ve got ‘lakrits’ in my tummy ;) [soon anyway, after the trip to the mother land some things will be bought!]
I agree though, not make tasting tea in someone else’s tea pot. evil and bad mannered.
Have you tried salmiakki, Åsa? I think it’s called salmiak in Swedish.
Dutch / Scandinavian licorice is even worse than the sweet kind. I didn’t think such a thing was possible, then you guys added salt to it.
p.s. I thought salmiak was great in Frida.
oooo! maybe i will make cupcakes for my birthday next month. I still have no other plans other than being here at the office and trying vainly to escape down to the lab that week. Apparently I’m training someone on something I’ve not done before, maybe I can zip off down to the lab for my bday “to test things”. Actually, I never, ever thought I’d say this, but spending the day in the lab on my birthday would be quite refreshing.
Shouldn’t D be making cakes for you? (Not that M ever has, but… a girl can dream)
And we can do better than lab work for a birthday celebration!
Bob: It would be “saltlakrits” – salty licorice I believe. Salmiak is just a name for a taste or a chemical used to make smoke….. in Swedish that is.
But to answer your question, I have tasted the Finnish salmiakki. Bought on the ferries between Helsinki and Stockholm and I like it :)
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I worked for a Dutch guy who loved this stuff (well, the Dutch rather than Swedish version I guess – Dropp or something). Evil, evil stuff.
Didn’t we have this conversation already?
Richard> Always seem to pop up. The hate of the licorice I mean… never understood how people can hate it that much ;)
I love licorice tea, of the Yogi variety.
This is a sign I saw on Sunday at the Quayside market not too far from Sid James park:
Frank, please stay away from my teapot!
Did no-one want to riff on the Frida joke? I thought it was pretty good, myself ;)
“Dropp or something”
Drop. (No unnecessary letters. It’s not Worcestershire Sauce.)
Do you hate anise tea as well, Cath?
A friend’s parents bring me erva doce tea from Brazil, and I think it’s milder than the tea made with licorice root. Still pretty licorice-y, but I love that flavor, and it’s my favorite herbal tea. In fact I would make a cup of erva doce now, if it weren’t 99F outdoors.
I hate licorice, anise / aniseed, pernod / pastis, sambuca, fennel… did I miss anything?!
Absinthe? Ouzo? :-D
Sambuca is da bomb, IMHO.
A Canadian friend once told me that there is something called tiger ice cream in her homeland (Alberta). Orange ice cream, with licorice “stripes”. I don’t believe it.
Yup, hate those too!
I’ve never seen tiger ice cream, but then I’ve never looked. Do you want me to do some snooping for you?
Of course there’s akvavit too; that’s only got a little anise in it. I visited a friend in Stockholm several years ago, and we had a midsummer dinner of herring and potatoes and other tasty Scandinavian treats, washed down with akvavit. I thought I might adjust quite well to living in Sweden, but the I’ve never experienced a real winter.
I’d be very interested to know whether tiger ice cream really exists, or whether it’s a regional legend, like drop bears and jackalopes and chupacabras.
My favourite licorice tea is Sterrenmmix but it seems only to be available in the Netherlands.
I have seen Panther milk in Spain. The barman spun us a yarn about panthers in the mountains and the dangers of milking them. Turned put that Leche de Pantera was a sweetened, flavpured and pink-coloured milk.
Late to the party as usual, but at least I actually turn up – unlike my two words of shame – Norwich City.
@Frank: You can make Sterrenmix yourself. Just crush some fennel seeds, a bit of liquorice wood, anise and cloves (ratios 4:3:2:1) and add hot water…
As a Dutchman I just have to add: I love Drop. However, if you think Drop is odd, have a look at “Zwart-Wit” (translated as “Black-White”, a salty liquorice powder that is eaten by licking your finger, dipping it in the powder box and licking off the powder again).
Oh god, I shouldn’t have read this so early in the morning, it’s put me right off my breakfast
Cath, do you dislike Jagermeister, too, then? It tastes like all the things you hate.
Dude, are you trying to put me off my lunch as well as my breakfast?
Bart: I remember those since childhood. (now i sort of cringe since the licking on finger – putting it in box- licking finger repeat… .seems like a great germ mix. ehh…) We also had powder in small satchels that you could tip into the mouth :)
Cath: I¨m sorry. Just had to. Good luck with lunch and dinner :)
Asa, we had the satchels in Holland too. Usually really long sticks. (Like a straw, but sealed close on one end, and capped off on the other end)
Åsa – I like licorice, just not the salty/sour/acidic/whatever kind.
Kristi – Tiger Tail ice cream is real, and unpleasant. I’m not from Alberta, but I’ve certainly seen and eaten it in Ontario. Uck.
Cath – your Frida joke was really quite excellent, but doesn’t seem to have engendered the usual landslide of related punnage one might expect.
now i sort of cringe since the licking on finger – putting it in box- licking finger repeat… .seems like a great germ mix. ehh…
When I was a kid, we had this weird idea that dry Jello powder was an excellent source of energy during our all-day swim meets. One of our teammates contracted infectious hepatitis, and all of us swim team communal Jello-dippers had to have gamma globulin injections.
@ Richard – I’ll take your word for it and abandon any pursuit of Tiger Tail ice cream. It sounds like such an odd mix, I though it might have been a joke.
Thanks Richard! I guess that beyond John Candy, there might just not be that many actors whose names sound like confectionery.
Does Mars Saibert count? Barbara Hershey?
Cath – I think if you explore the adult film industry, you’ll probably find a lot of them. Theoretically speaking, of course.
Ooooh, homework!
You’re welcome.
P.P.S. You could also add Raki to your list.
I didn’t get the Frida joke because I pronounce salmiak with the emphasis on -ak and with the i as “ee” sound. Sal-MY-ack would work, but that’s not “salmiak”.
The fact that I have no idea how to pronounce it properly is a good thing – one more obstacle to accidentally ordering it while discussing biopics.
Richard, I am scared to click your link while I’m at work!