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Would you live in a house made of chocolate ?

24 July 2011, 18:04

Would you live in a house made of chocolate, that smelled of strawberries and cream and freshly toasted bread ?

Yesterday am, I made mrs EO some bacon butts and coffee in bed. Now the missus likes her bacon crispy, even burned.
So I did the honours and we had a nice brekkie, then went out shopping.

when we came back , there were a couple of alien cats and a dog sniffing around, our four cats were going loopy and the house smelled like a well-done bacon butty.
It smelled ok to me, but to the animals it must have been heaven - like living in a house with chocolate walls

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24 July 2011, 18:19

A couple of years ago, I had a plague of rats living in some nearby vaults.

After setting half a dozen traps, which would all be full each morning, with smaller and smaller victims, I eventually got rid of them and didn't see any for months.

But the other day I saw a couple, and put two and two together: Both times the rats appeared shortly after I had made vegetable soup by boiling a bag of dried mixed vegetables.

Obviously when you pour the water from this down the drain, the rats (with sense of smell many times better than a human) can smell it from half a mile away and follow the scent "upstream". To them, the smell of dried peas and grain must be heavenly.

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24 July 2011, 18:22

Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

Would you live in a house made of chocolate

Not for very long
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24 July 2011, 19:02

bacon crispy, even burned.

What a sane lady. All food tastes much better when burnt.

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24 July 2011, 19:14

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What a sane lady. All food tastes much better when burnt.

WxS. When it's brown it's burning, when it's black it's cooked
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24 July 2011, 19:20

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Not for very long

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24 July 2011, 20:00

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WxS. When it's brown it's burning, when it's black it's cooked

Burnt Crunchy Bits are one of the 4 major food groups, along with Salt, Sugar and Fat

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24 July 2011, 21:10

When it's brown it's burning, when it's black it's cooked

We will probably both die of some awful gut cancer.

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24 July 2011, 21:54

Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

Would you live in a house made of chocolate, that smelled of strawberries and cream and freshly toasted bread ?

Yesterday am, I made mrs EO some bacon butts and coffee in bed. Now the missus likes her bacon crispy, even burned.
So I did the honours and we had a nice brekkie, then went out shopping.

when we came back , there were a couple of alien cats and a dog sniffing around, our four cats were going loopy and the house smelled like a well-done bacon butty.
It smelled ok to me, but to the animals it must have been heaven - like living in a house with chocolate walls

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