Chips in Space

Got very excited when I saw this packet in a lunch bar the other day. A sign of things to come I thought. Man has come up with the technology to liquefy chips. Chips in a tube if you will, although they appeared to have kicked off the break through with chips in a sachet.
Don’t make the mistake of not recognising the significance of this breakthrough, like the lady beside me who didn’t share my enthusiasm
If you can get chips in a tube, you can send them into space and that is going to revolutionize the spaceman’s diet. This is the kind of news that will get a lot of people thinking about going into space, who, until now, were put off by the lack of good food.

It later transpired that it wasn’t liquid chips, only vinegar and the picture was more of a serving suggestion, probably because vinegar is just brown liquid and not very interesting to photograph.

But, don’t be discouraged space food fans. It’s only a matter of time before they do work out how to put chips in a tube and when they do, food lovers everywhere will begin to think about going where no man prepared to put up with rubbish meals, has been before.

Frogs, fries and bunnies

So I met all these French sailors at my local last night. Did you know the French still had a navy? When I think of French seamen I think Napoleon and big arse sailing ships and cannon balls. Maybe that would be a good way for the French to go. After all the damage they did in the Pacific with their nuke testing, maybe they could redeem themselves by going back to using wooden sailing ships and have the worlds first carbon neutral navy. Anyway the funniest bit of the night was watching a Frenchman eating french-fries. I mean that probably isn’t funny for French people they probably get that gag served to them all the time (In much the same way people from Afghanistan get hassled when they eat afghan biscuits) or maybe they don’t. French Fries were originally called Pomme frites. Do you think the poms took offence and said ‘Alright old chum, if you call them pomme frites we will know them as French fries.
Maybe.
Back to the new look old style French navy. If their ships were wooden they wouldn’t show up on radar and that’s a good thing if you’re a warship right? If the British had been in a wooden ship maybe they might not have got busted by the Iranians a few weeks back. Wonder if the pommy navy serves pomme frites? Speaking of the English sailors that had a free holiday in Iran. You know how they were returned home as an Easter gift by the president of Iran? Don’t you think it would have been quite funny if he had wrapped them up like Easter eggs? You know just for a bit of fun. Or had a man dressed as the easter bunny escort them home in a giant basket. There isn’t enough humor in international politics these days.