Downing shots of Fernet Branca, because i can.
Friday night, nothing to do but schoolwork, and the night i ahead of me. Nothing goes down quite cool like the smooth crappy taste of Fernet Branca. The first time I tasted this drink, I thought I was going to puke. It is more bitter than Jager, but after 12 shots, more refined.
According to Wikipedia:
Fernet-Branca is a popular brand of amaro produced in Milan, Italy. It is a bitter, aromatic spirit made from over 40 herbs and spices, including myrrh, rhubarb, chamomile, cardamom, aloe, and saffron, with a base of grape distilled spirits, and colored with caramel coloring. The recipe is a secret, and was created by the young Maria Scala in 1845 in Milan as a medicine. Scala’s name became Maria Branca through marriage, and the product’s name was born. The Fernet-Branca is still produced in Milan by the company Fratelli Branca, overseen by the Branca family, though the recipe of the Italian product differs slightly from that of American bottles due to restrictions on opiates.[citation needed] Fernet-Branca is 40% alcohol by volume and is dark brown in color.
Fernet-Branca is usually served as a digestif after a meal, but may also be enjoyed with coffee and espresso, or mixed into coffee and espresso drinks. It may be enjoyed neat at room temperature or on the rocks (with ice).
Widely popular in Argentina, it is often mistaken as a national beverage. The most common preparation is with Coca-Cola. To make a Fernet and Coke, use a tall glass filled with ice (tubo), then pour the Fernet up to 1/3 of the glass, top off with Coke. Serve with the can of Coke and a straw.
More recently, it has become very popular in San Francisco, which now consumes more Fernet-Branca per capita than any other locale in the world.[1] The local bars often serve Fernet as a shot followed by a ginger ale chaser.[1]
Fernet gained additional national visibility when it was reported that it is the favorite drink of 2007 U.S. Open winner Angel Cabrera.[2]
Because of its mysterious list of ingredients, there are a number of home remedies that call for Fernet-Branca, including treatment of menstrual and gastro-intestinal discomfort, hangovers, baby colic, and (once upon a time) cholera.
A mint-flavored version of Fernet-Branca, Brancamenta, is also available.
Sounds like a fun drink. I hope it gets rid of the pain in my chest, and sore throat. Yoinkz.
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The Florida Marlins Baseball team looking for Big Fatsos. HEY LOOK HERE!
MIAMI—The Florida Marlins are looking for some footloose fat men. The National League team is creating an all-male, plus-size cheerleading squad to be dubbed the Manatees. Tryouts were scheduled for Sunday.
The team hopes to recruit seven to 10 tubby men to dance, cheer and jiggle during Friday and Saturday home games this season.
Real manatees, 1,200-pound mammals sometimes referred to as “sea cows,” are not considered the most agile of creatures and often get caught in boat propellers.
The Marlins want their Manatees to have the same dimensions, but to be decidedly more agile. Men will be judged on how well they dance a choreographed routine.
The Marlins already have a cheerleading squad, the considerably more svelte Mermaids.
Men selected for the Manatees won’t be paid. They’ll get tickets to games they perform at, and the honor of dancing in front of crowds that have been smallest in major league baseball for the last two seasons.
The Marlins aren’t the only pro sports team capitalizing on Americans’ expanding waistlines. The Chicago Bulls basketball team have the Matadors, a big-man dance troupe that’s entertained fans at home games since 2003.
And although cheerleaders might be an unfamiliar site in baseball, big men aren’t, as fans have long cheered on the likes of Babe Ruth and Kirby Puckett.
All I can say is WE ARE RIGHT HERE. I WILL DANCE LIKE A FATSO or JELLYBELLY for FREE. SCREW THIS. TAPE ME and YOU CAN USE MY IMAGE, Here it is!
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Mallie’s Sports Bar and Grill, home of the 134 lb burger. Now thats the America I know.
More Images of thr Monster Burger!
SOUTHGATE, Mich. - A Detroit-area restaurant owner believes he has broken the world record for “largest hamburger commercially available.”The Absolutely Ridiculous Burger,” made with beef, bacon and cheese, was delivered on a 50-pound bun, the Detroit Free Press reported. It sells for $350, and orders require 24 hours’ notice.
Flipping the burger required three men using two steel sheets.
Owner Steve Mallie told The News he wanted to show that he has the biggest and best burgers.
Authenticating Mallie’s claim could take a few weeks. His burger would outweigh the 123-pound burger made last year by Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, of Clearfield, Pa.
Back in the day, I tried to eat a 10 lb hamburger and almost choked on my own vomit that evening. It was one of the worst experiences I ever had. I thought it would be cool, and I would be a “real man”. I don’t get this crap. You know plus the meat industry just recalled all that beef, I bet most of it is in the one friggin patty. Have fun Michigan. I guess it’s better than trying to figure out if Elvis lives in Kalamazoo.
What a flyer!
Nice job fellas, did ya eat it all at least? I am going to try to beat this tonight. I am spending 5k on meat and pilling it inside my kitchen.
Here’s some of our past winners!
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Hepatitis Scare Hits the Stars, Socialista in West Village.
CELEBS including MADONNA, BRUCE WILLIS and GWYNETH PALTROW are at the center of a Hepatitis A scare following a party thrown by DEMI MOORE. Jesus, can someone please tell us the bartender has Hep A?
Hey all I can say is BIG DEAL. Life sucks doesn’t folks. Celebs are caught in a Hep A scare at Socialista. The bartender had a highly contagious form of Hep. A supposedly, and I guess everyone who was there might have it too.
Here is some info on Hep A.
Link to the club where it happened…Socialista
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Youtube Drunks. Good Morning Monster. Time for Work.
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Hey lighten up, it’s Friday…let’s get ghoulie!
BEER RUN!!!
Ghoilies Go To College is the best movie you can watch after a hard week of working to make other people richer. Ghoulies all look like Arty Lang sorta…but who better to party with? Now only if I could have a party with the ghoulies, alf, and the dinbots…
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Hi-Tech Toilets and Scientific Sh*tters
Space toilet and shooting stars…
The most complicated toilet control unit ever. Yes, not only is their a unit to control the toilet, but it’s got more buttons my remote control. I would not want to stand there trying to program a toilet as I am desperately clenching back cresting turtle.
Confident, secure, shower fresh every time. You’re gonna love it. The Swash!
Wow, this toilet sanitizes the seat after each use. This is the best idea ever! I am so tired of building building toilet paper layer cakes on the seat just to feel safe to sit. I vote to stop the war in Iraq and redirect all of the funds to installing these on every toilet in America. No longer will we need to live in fear of OPDA’s! (Other People’s Dirty Asses). Watch and witness how life should be…
Finally, one last self cleaning toilet. I would even let this toilet wipe my ass, and the asses of my children.
(yes, the guy creeps me out too with his toilet tongue fantasy)
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Meet your Meat, the controversial vid that caused meat recall
So these last couple days were scandals, and we got a little sidetracked. Yeah, it will happen time to time, and hey, we are just as interested as everyone else is, but lets get back to business shall we?
This is pretty sick if you ask me. It is sad, please watch.
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10 Yard Penalty for Intentional Farting. You got to be kidding.
I have heard of some stupid things in my life, but never something so ridiculous. A middle school somewhere in LA-LA land has decided to ban gas and children who “fart” on purpose will receive detention. I mean come on, is this really necessary? Who will determine when a fart is intentional or unintentional? Will there be fart police who put their faces near people butts to smell if something has occured. I mean if someone makes a “fake” fart noise with their mouth, will they receive suspension? it seems as though this plan will no doubt backfire on these school officials. If you draw attention to something, all you do is make it worse. Ignore the fart. We all fart all day, many times, and I don’t get suspended from my job for laying down a “mexican food bomb”.
So to these school teachers, and administration who run the schools, please, stop being absolute idiots. if our children wish to fart, they will. You will let them. Or else they will have gas pains, and I am not footing the bill to take them to the doctor for “chest pains” due to inefficient gas release during the day. I mean, have you ever eaten school lunch? The tacos are so horrible, the minute they go down, you get nothing but gas.
PS-Ban female frontal farts too while you are at it.
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Poor Haitians resort to eating dirt, and the US complains still…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - It was lunchtime in one of Haiti’s worst slums, and Charlene Dumas was eating mud. With food prices rising, Haiti’s poorest can’t afford even a daily plate of rice, and some take desperate measures to fill their bellies. Charlene, 16 with a 1-month-old son, has come to rely on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt from the country’s central plateau.
The mud has long been prized by pregnant women and children here as an antacid and source of calcium. But in places like Cite Soleil, the oceanside slum where Charlene shares a two-room house with her baby, five siblings and two unemployed parents, cookies made of dirt, salt and vegetable shortening have become a regular meal.
“When my mother does not cook anything, I have to eat them three times a day,” Charlene said. Her baby, named Woodson, lay still across her lap, looking even thinner than the slim 6 pounds 3 ounces he weighed at birth.
Though she likes their buttery, salty taste, Charlene said the cookies also give her stomach pains. “When I nurse, the baby sometimes seems colicky too,” she said.
Food prices around the world have spiked because of higher oil prices, needed for fertilizer, irrigation and transportation. Prices for basic ingredients such as corn and wheat are also up sharply, and the increasing global demand for biofuels is pressuring food markets as well.
The problem is particularly dire in the Caribbean, where island nations depend on imports and food prices are up 40 percent in places.
The global price hikes, together with floods and crop damage from the 2007 hurricane season, prompted the U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency to declare states of emergency in Haiti and several other Caribbean countries. Caribbean leaders held an emergency summit in December to discuss cutting food taxes and creating large regional farms to reduce dependence on imports.
At the market in the La Saline slum, two cups of rice now sell for 60 cents, up 10 cents from December and 50 percent from a year ago. Beans, condensed milk and fruit have gone up at a similar rate, and even the price of the edible clay has risen over the past year by almost $1.50. Dirt to make 100 cookies now costs $5, the cookie makers say.
Still, at about 5 cents apiece, the cookies are a bargain compared to food staples. About 80 percent of people in Haiti live on less than $2 a day and a tiny elite controls the economy.
Merchants truck the dirt from the central town of Hinche to the La Saline market, a maze of tables of vegetables and meat swarming with flies. Women buy the dirt, then process it into mud cookies in places such as Fort Dimanche, a nearby shanty town.
Carrying buckets of dirt and water up ladders to the roof of the former prison for which the slum is named, they strain out rocks and clumps on a sheet, and stir in shortening and salt. Then they pat the mixture into mud cookies and leave them to dry under the scorching sun.
The finished cookies are carried in buckets to markets or sold on the streets.
A reporter sampling a cookie found that it had a smooth consistency and sucked all the moisture out of the mouth as soon as it touched the tongue. For hours, an unpleasant taste of dirt lingered.
Assessments of the health effects are mixed. Dirt can contain deadly parasites or toxins, but can also strengthen the immunity of fetuses in the womb to certain diseases, said Gerald N. Callahan, an immunology professor at Colorado State University who has studied geophagy, the scientific name for dirt-eating.
Haitian doctors say depending on the cookies for sustenance risks malnutrition.
“Trust me, if I see someone eating those cookies, I will discourage it,” said Dr. Gabriel Thimothee, executive director of Haiti’s health ministry.
Marie Noel, 40, sells the cookies in a market to provide for her seven children. Her family also eats them.
“I’m hoping one day I’ll have enough food to eat, so I can stop eating these,” she said. “I know it’s not good for me.”
OMG, We truly do not know how lucky we are in this FAT nation. The most spoiled people on Earth come from the US. They need to read this article and thank someone for not putting them in this situation. I am saddened by people resorting to this, while governments like ours continue to thrive off wars.
It is sad, and disgusting.
Take note, and pray for these souls.
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