#1 2020-01-26 22:06:10
A woman has died during an Australia Day lamington eating competition in South East Queensland.
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Ms Frith said the woman went into arrest after she "shovelled the lamington into her mouth".
"The pub was very quick to respond with CPR, and the ambulance rocked up soon, but working on her over half a hour (sic) it didn't look good."
Paramedics took the woman to Hervey Bay Hospital but she could not be revived and later died.
For those not acquainted with the gastronomic delights on offer here in the Land of the Long Weekend, a lamington is a traditional Australian cake.
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#2 2020-01-27 00:15:05
Its stateside equivalent is probably the Hostess Twinkie or maybe the Hostess Ho Ho, and try to imagine branding products with those names today. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Every nation must produce its own delightfully horrid sweets.
Peruvians - otherwise planetary food titans - are batshit nutters on this score.
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#3 2020-01-27 10:03:46
Sugar pacified the world as we know it.
Was a better plan than most, even saw the sun go down on the British Empire.
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#4 2020-01-27 11:23:07
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Sugar pacified the world as we know it.
Was a better plan than most, even saw the sun go down on the British Empire.
Ours, too. I thought I'd seen it all when I was drafted into a Chile earthquake relief effort in 1960, aged 6, then saw and smelled the US contribution; a dockside freighter gunwale to gunwale with Baby Ruth Bars.
This was supposedly my reward for 8 hrs of repacking rice and beans. I lost my sweet tooth then and there and never recovered.
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#5 2020-01-28 07:28:23
choad wrote:
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Sugar pacified the world as we know it.
Was a better plan than most, even saw the sun go down on the British Empire.Ours, too. I thought I'd seen it all when I was enlisted in a Chile earthquake relief effort in 1960, aged 6, and saw the US contribution; a dockside freighter gunwale to gunwale with Baby Ruth Bars.
https://cruelery.com/sidepic/hsovgimmeans.jpg
This was supposedly my reward for 8 hrs of repacking rice and beans. I lost my sweet tooth then and there and never recovered.
Earthquakes are very revealing. I was in Guatemala when the 1976 earthquake occurred. In its aftermath, I got involved with the recovery effort. I recall visiting the international airport where US donations were arriving. One plane arrived with hundreds of boxes of donations from a major seed supplier (the one with the well-known catalogue), and the boxes were full of expired vegetable seeds. My favorite, though, was from a supermarket chain. Hundreds of boxes filled with cans of Vienna Sausages, that always delectable treat best eaten by flies. The Guatemalans most affected by the quake in the mountains would not touch them, and a legend spread that the cans were filled with fingers of children kidnapped from Central America by the gringos. We always donate our best!
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#6 2020-01-28 08:35:49
Fled wrote:
Earthquakes are very revealing. I was in Guatemala when the 1976 earthquake occurred. In its aftermath, I got involved with the recovery effort. I recall visiting the international airport where US donations were arriving.
I got hustled to Lima's airport in the immediate aftermath of the Ancash quake in 1970, along with a dozen or so other expat students, to greet Pat Nixon and a few cargo planes of relief supplies. I know I was relieved. By the time we arrived back in the city, black market American cigarettes were half price. The wiki page of this staged event originally included my photo but just as well I got cropped. None of the other students in that picture survived. Mighty weird times. I met Dennis Hopper on the street that week.
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