Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 2006 a true visionary of our times died. That man was Robert C. Baker,
inventor of the chicken nugget, chicken hotdog sausage and turkey ham. Many
people will probably turn their noses up in a snobbish manner at that list of inventions but think of what they have done. They put cheap meat of
passable quality into the price ranges of even the poorest members of society
and that led to an improvement of diet in the world, which has increased life
expectancy and given mankind on average taller and stronger bodies than we had a
few generations ago. It has also seen less of the animal going to waste in food
production. Now... if only food processing companies would stop adding things
like horses to the recipes we'd be laughing.
And now, the news:
One
of Tim Vine's jokes is: what cheese do you use to hide a horse? Mascarpone.
Here's a few more:
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