Food Fight

I decided to repost this from my main blog.

Food Fight


If you don't understand it, check out the cheat sheet for the various food characters over here! Also check out the main page over here. I think this guy is really amazing.

There are still sausages in there, though just a bit part. Most of it is McDonald's. hahaha~

Joan Cooked Sausages 5

Kelly's Chicken Vienna Gold with Gardenia's Hotdog Buns, one topped with cheddar, the other topped with yellow mustard.

Life's simplest pleasures, tucking into a nice warm hotdog and sitting in front of the telly and just waste time. I seem to have visited almost all notable hotdog joints in Singapore, and I'm thinking if I should go into trying out all the different brands of frozen and chilled sausages that are on sale in the supermarket, then perhaps come to a conclusion which brand of sausages is the best. haha~

Anyway, the highlight today isn't sausages, which is quite a surprise. Today I'd like to introduce my beloved cake knife!

I had a normal knife and my cake knife cut each of my hotdog buns, and look at the vast different in the texture of the cut.

The one with the normal kitchen knife has a very coarse texture at the cut lines, as shown in the top left hand picture, which the cake knife sliced the bread so smoothly seen in the top right hand corner. Yup, that's my cake knife there~

Erm, even though the cake knife does very beautiful cutting, I seldom use it. I seldom have the chance to cut breads and cakes, and most of the times cutting cakes we use the plastice free knifes rather than my more professional cake knife, I don't know why. Perhaps maybe probably is because the plastic knife can be thrown away after using and need not undergo the tedious process of washing. haha~

Oh, and I'll be heading to Sarawak tomorrow so I won't be blogging next week, but I don't think I'll be missed since my blogging pace and slowed down a great deal. If you want to look at more food and/or you miss me too much, here's my food post on my CNY dinners, V Day dinner, meals in Malacca. It's a very long post with lots of pictures. Have fun~

Blog Filler

I know I'm not blogging frequently enough, I've two sets of pictures in my Flickr waiting for me to blog about but I haven't the time to do so. sucks... This semester's worse than I thought.


From Kawaii Not, a little laugh I really like, and it also has a hot dog joke there.

Hope this blog filler can last me until I've the time to blog more. Two presentations in a week, one field trip to Malacca, it has been really a buzz for me. Until I get back from Malacca, see ya then~

Home Made Sausages

I really wish I did this myself, but no such luck, here's another link off the internet. I've been so busy to find the time to edit my pictures, so more on the sausages I've eaten in a but.

Home Made Sausages
Follow the step by step proceedings on how to make sausages at home, from the grinding of meat to the stuffing of minced meat into the sausage skin. It's even possible to add in whatever additional flavourings such as cheese and apple.


tadah~
And after that just grill them and eat them, I'm sure it would taste really good, after all that tough work!

Meat Ship

From the creators of the Meat House, they've now contructed a Meat Ship.


Made from:
~20 sausages
~48 rashers of bacon
1.2kg of sausage meat
1kg of pork mince
10 franks
1kg of pastry (not 100% meat this time)
1 onion
1 mushroom
2 packets of chipolata sausages
various food colourings
sage
It does seem like quite a mean feat.

The whole constructing process is documented in pictures at their photo gallery here. Honestly, it sure looks very tedious and meticulous. Wonder how long did it take them to make the entire ship, haha~


It was a pity the sail shrunk after roasting, perhaps the next time they could try using ham or some other flat type of meat product which won't shrivel up.

(hmm... I really should try making a little meat model myself, should I? haha~)

Wiener Flower

How to make Gerbera-like wiener flowers


I thought this looks really cute. A very masculine and phallic like sausage can actually be transformed into a girly pretty little feminine flower. Do check out this link to see detailed steps on how to make this pretty little grub.

It would instantly brighten up any simple looking dish.

House Made from Sausages

Meat House


A roast house, made entirely from meat. Doesn't this just looks so juicy and yummy?

The walls were made of sausages lined up and held in place by bamboo skewers, otherwise known as satay sticks. The roof was made from bacon, omg, I just love bacon, almost a tiny little bit more than I love sausages, either way I love both sausages and bacon. I so wish I roasted this house myself. haha~

Click on the link up there to look at the geniuses, or rather those guys who had too much time on their hands, and see how that house like thingie was made! They even made a lawn and a little sausage car parked on the lawn too~

PS: Link edited, do click on the edited link, it's the original one~

Merry Christmas

My dear sister emailed this to me this morning, or maybe last night.
Merry Sausage Christmas and a Happy New Sausage Year.



I'm aware that I'm not blogging as often as I should be, but this the holiday season, and I'm eating mostly turkey and ham, not much sausages. And I've been sick (again). And the holiday mood is getting into me and I'm feeling lazy. Okay, the last reason should be the key reason, but well, Merry Christmas!

An Eating Disorder and an SMS

This is just a short note to say that I'm still alive, I've one more paper to go, so continue to wish me the best for my exams. Thank you very much. This afternoon, my sister sent me a hotdog related SMS from Taiwan. On a food-related but not hotdog-related note, I'm suffering from a Bizarre Eating Habit (click on the link to learn more).

My sister's currently in Taiwan on a 3-week immersion programme. Out of the blue she sent me this SMS this afternoon:
"At shihlin, there's black sausages, sausages with a huge bone as stick, and sausages as big as my arm. and no, i'm not taking pic :)"
wahahaha~
How can she not take pictures?!!

Then while I was surfing the net just now, I came across this website about bizarre eating habits and saw one which I thought sounded a bit like me.
3. Autosarcophagy
This is the disorder of self-cannibalism. It is categorized as pica (disorders relating to consumption of things that should not be consumed). Some people will engage in self-cannibalism as an extreme form of body modification, for example eating their own skin. Others will drink their own blood, a practice called autovampirism.

Erm, no, I'm not that extreme, but I do take great pleasure in eating the peeled skin of my lips. I'd peel them out in pieces and eat them up. Sometimes I'd eat the skin I peeled out from my finger, but I prefer the skin of my lips. Another thing I used to enjoy but not too much recently is to suck my nails. When my nails crack, I'd lick and suck them to wet and soften it, then peel them out and put them in my mouth to suck. I won't swallow them la, just suck until it's really soft then spit it out. I once sucked a piece of nail from my thumb for a couple of days, I'd put it by my pillow before I sleep and continue sucking it when I woke up. But now I don't do that anymore la. Now I only eat the skin of my lips.

Okay, it sounds a bit gross, well, there are more gross stuff but we'll leave those for another day. It's back to Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler and Franco for now.

Movies and Hotdogs at Cathay

Jumbo Hotdog Combo with coke from the Cathay cineplexes, $7. A Jumbo Hotdog alone costs $4.80.

Other than hotdogs, I love to watch movies. And one of the best part about going to watch a film, is to eat hotdogs. So much so that I plan my movie trips when I have cravings and where the hotdogs are good. I prefer the hotdogs from Cathay as compared to the other cinemas. Cathay's hotdogs have a smaller piece of bread, or a larger piece of hotdog whichever way you want to look at things. I don't like bread that much and I love my hotdogs, so this is the hotdog for me.

But what I like most is the melted cheese on top of the hotdog. Doesn't it look just so inviting? I was eating it and almost gagging as I watched the comedy Wo ist Fred.

I'll see when I trot down to other cinemas and do a corresponding review on the hotdogs there, but it won't be that soon. Exams are coming, and Joan is stuck at home studying and eating potato chips for breakfast lunch and dinner, so apologies ahead in the coming weeks when posts become rather scarce. Jiayou to all having exams!

Hotdog Earrings

I found a pair of hotdog earring in my bathroom!

I think me and my sister bought them collectively some time ago at some fair thingie, we also bought a pair of some other food stuff, but I don't know where they are now.

Anyway, I took them out to photograph them and wanted to share them in my blog, and possibly also to model the earrings and see how a hotdog would look like on my ear. And then, after I got them out of the little plastic bag thingie holding them, they fell apart. The studs came unglued from the hotdog bit, and now I have two studs with nothing on them, and two little figurines of hotdogs. Thank you very much...

And I can't wear them anymore... Unless I somehow manage to find some strong glue to glue them back. Any suggestions?

Eating Sausages Is Good For You

Being fat is good for you

Health experts continue to bang on about obesity being bad for you, but clearly they haven't spoken to the German man who survived falling from a balcony by landing on his belly.

Gerhard Steiner, 27, was heartily munching on a sausage on his hotel balcolmny in Bayreuth when he lost his balance and toppled over the edge.

Mr Steiner fell more than twenty feet before crashing on to the ground, his fall broken by his ample girth.

Rather than dying like an ordinary mortal, Mr Steiner emerged with just a bruised rib and doctors said his fat has saved him.

So just remember that when you are considering whether to have another deep-fried Mars bar.

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On the same tone, ever since I've started this blog, I see myself eating more and more sausages and geting fatter and fatter. Granted, I'm not obese, thank god, but I've still been gaining weight and rims around my tummy. That's why, I've been on detox and haven't been posting new blog entries lately. I've been trying to cut down on my food intake. But reading this article now, I'm starting to think otherwise. haha~ Maybe being fat isn't a bad thing after all.

Do you have a dirty mind?

Saw this Do you have a dirty mind? from I.Z. Reloaded


Little Miss Ketchup giving Little Mr Hotdog a licking good blowjob!
wahahaha~

Sort of reminds me of the phallic description I gave to Chippy's cheese sausage in mash potato the other time. Actually, there are still many more dirty jokes about the hotdog, and it's not even the phallic ones, but I'll leave that for another day, if and when I have a great picture to share. erm...

Okay, think this sort of answers the title question.
Bah!

Hotdog USB Thumbdrive

My parents are going to Tokyo on Monday, and this is what I told my dad to get me from Akihabara. A hotdog USB thumbdrive, 1 GB big somemore.

Other than the hotdog one, there's cheeseburgers, pizzas, and sandwiches, the junk food series. You know the Japanese, they have the sushi and bento stuff, and now they want to enter the American market. But I'm not complaining though.

Other than getting this, I've asked my dad to help me find some miniature items from Japan, like plastic food. haha~ So hopefully they have junk food too among others sushi and stuff, hopefully he can get me some more hotdog stuff. grr... Why am I not the one going to Japan? And worse, I've a deadline on the day they are flying off. Poor me...

Hotdog Cake

I saw this somewhere is the world wide web, and it's so so cool~
Want Fries With That Hotdog Cake?


The Hot Dog and Fries Cake is a completely edible, ridiculously sweet cake shaped to look like a hot dog in a bun and french fries. All you need is a loaf cake, a few Twinkies, red frosting, yellow icing, red icing and some green fruit. If you'd rather not use Twinkies, substitute with different kind of cake in the center.

Hot Dog and Fries CakeFrom Family Fun
1 baked loaf cake
2 Twinkies
1 cup hot-dog red frosting (red and brown mixed)
Yellow icing in a tube
Red icing in a tube
Green fruit slices or gumdrops, diced (optional)

1. To make the hot dog bun, cut the lengthwise sides of the loaf off (as shown), saving the extra cake for the French fries. Remove the cake center and place the two Twinkies in the "bun."
2. Frost them hot-dog red. Add a squirt of mustard (yellow icing) ketchup (red icing), or relish (diced gumdrops or fruit slices).

Guess What These Are!

Brightly coloured, yummy looking, plastic figurines of lots and lots of delicious food. And there are hotdogs too!

These were seen at Raffles City, a push cart called KAI or something like that, and they sell all these cool stuff, but sad to say, they are quite expensive. Okay, at least they are expensive to me. I won't spend $9 for the hotdog even though I love hotdogs so much, yea, even spendthrift Joan has her limits.

The moment I saw it, I had the urge to dig out my camera and take a picture, but to my left and right were the stall tenders who were looking at me like a hawk, seemingly to catch me for any dishonest acts, so I decided to make full use of my 10x power zoom. This was taken at the second level, zooming down at the stall. haha~ My camera not bad sia...

hmm... Anyone care to sponsor Joan one of these?

Garfield

Indulgence that I cannot attain.


Indulgence is my middle name, as I've said, I don't eat, I indulge, but still, there's someone out there who's level of indulgence far surpasses mine. Okay, well, technically Garfield doesn't exist as an entity, only a fictional character but, there's hotdogs!

I'd really like to see a hotdog truck shaped like a hotdog in Singapore, or anywhere, as long as I'm there to see it and be in total awe of it, and maybe also to take a picture with it. haha~

What can I do to make a hot dog taste better?

What can I do to make a hot dog taste better?
I saw this on Yahoo! main page and was instantly attracted to it, but looking at all the answers, I was very disappointed. This is mainly an American asking other Americans, or North Americans, what they think, and well, let's just say that Americans aren't the best connoisseurs in the world.

For one, I prefer the German type of sausages where the best ones are made using pork, so to the hell with those who say that the best are the all-beef types. *deh deh deh* The pork should be minced enough not to be coarse, but yet solid enough to have the munchy taste. Herbs should be added in liberally and consistently. The sausage skin should be thick enough to provide taste but not too thick that it becomes to chewy. The best kind of sausages should be caterpillar cut and well grilled, not too burnt, but need to have a bit of the burnt marks. Traditional German toppings are onions and mustard. Go with the mustard, it combines well with the pork and herbs, and no, no ketchup and no chilli sauce. Currywurst and its curry sauce is not like the curry sauce we are familiar with, it's not spicy at all. Sauerkraut is not a topping but a side dish, so no sauerkraut on top, and since I don't eat onions, I go plain with mustard. Cheese is also not a topping but a filling. Cheese sausages should have cheese inside the sausage and not on top of it.

Most Americans call for a soft hot dog bread to go with a hot dog, but in Germany, and how I'd like my bread to go with the sausage, is to have it with a kaiser roll. It's a crusty roll, with soft dough inside not unlike a french loaf but it's small and round like a rugby ball shape but it fits snugly in the palm. It's a pity we can't get that in Singapore, or at least no real nice ones. Either that or just have the sausage on its own!

Of course, one would need to think that he is enjoying the meal to actually enjoy it.

Sausage Attack

‘Just William jape’ lands boy, 12, in court for attack with sausage

A 12-year-old boy has appeared in court charged with assaulting a man with a sausage.

It was, the judge mused, like an episode from the Just William novels. Except that William was never hauled before a youth court at a cost to the taxpayer of £2,000 – and even he would have struggled to terrorise someone with a bite-sized snack.

The elderly victim was walking home from a pub in Wythenshawe, Manchester, when he became involved in an argument with the boy. Manchester Youth Court was told that the dispute got out of hand and the boy threw a cocktail sausage in anger, striking the man on the shoulder.

The court was not told whether the sausage was cooked, raw or frozen.

Adjourning the hearing, District Judge Tim Devas questioned why the case had been pursued and suggested that the Crown should reconsider. “I was brought up in the era of Just William,” he said. “You may not remember it, but this incident sounds similar.

“Clearly there are certain things that should be done with a 12-year-old, and you shoul-dn’t be bringing them into the court system unless it’s absolutely necessary.

“If he has done what was suggested, it is very bad behav-iour. But is it in the public interest to prosecute a 12-year-old boy who threw a sau-sage?”

Oliver Gardner, for the defence, said the move “beggars belief”. He added: “It’s crazy; they are criminalising children. Where is the discretion or logic on the police’s behalf when they charge a 12-year-old with assault with a cocktail sausage?

“It beggars belief that they have put this boy through the trauma of the criminal justice system, locking him up at the police station and then hauling him before the court. Where is the sense of such an exercise?”

Dianne Oliver, for the prosecution, said that she would take the case to her superiors to review the charge.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies assault. His mother, who sat next to him in court, said that he had been unable to sleep the night before his hearing. She added: “It’s an absolute joke, and I’m disgusted by it.” She said that he had been “worried sick that he would be sent to prison”.

Last November a judge criticised Alf Bridges, a retired 67-year-old labourer, for wasting court time by trying to retrieve the £1,200 he said he had spent wooing a woman who answered a lonely hearts advertisement. At the time, District Judge Ian Evans said: “I am not here to examine people’s private lives unless they raise any legal issues. This is one of the most misconceived cases I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with. It should never have got here.”

In April a man charged with harassing his ex-wife after he sent her just two letters was cleared by a magistrate who criticised Crown lawyers for pursuing the case.

Just William’s way

“ Running for dear life, he dashed down the next street, leaving in his wake an elderly gentleman nursing his toe and cursing volubly. As he neared his gate, William again drew the pencil from his pocket and, still looking back down the road, and firing as he went, he rushed into his own gateway.

William’s father, who had stayed at home that day because of a bad headache and a touch of liver, picked himself up from the middle of a rhododendron bush and seized William by the back of his neck.

“You young ruffian,” he roared, “what do you mean by charging into me like that?”

William gently disengaged himself.

“I wasn’t chargin’, Father,” he said meekly.

“I was only jus’ comin’ in at the gate, same as other folks.

I jus’ wasn't looking jus’ the way you were coming, but I can't look all ways at once, cause . . .”

“Be quiet!” roared William’s father. Like the rest of the family, he dreaded William’s eloquence.

Source: extracted from Just William Goes to the Pictures

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This is so cool, not only sausages are good for eating and snacking, they can also be used as attacking tools! haha~ In a naughtier sense, sausages can also do many other fun fun things, but this is a food blog, so I'm only going to write about the edible ones. Just ate some sausages today, so watch this space for more updates! Will edit the pics and put them up as soon as I've the time~

The Sausage Blog

Hi all, this is the starting of my new blog. In this blog, I'll be more focused and will only talk about sausages, or anything that's stuffed into a tube and can be consumed that some people call sausages, some hotdogs, some bratwurst, or whatever. I'll write less and post more pictures, really nice looking pictures of the sausages and be less rambly.

The reason why I'm setting up this specialised blog is because I'm seeing more and more themed flogs, food blogs, popping up and around, and food is one of my biggest loves, and out of all the food, I really can survive on sausages alone for the rest of my life, even though I don't wish that would happen. Hence I decided to do up this blog and join the flogging community as a full fledged flogger.

I'll make use of this opportunity and source out all the sausages in the little island of Singapura, and I'll eat them all up. Of course, not before I take pictures of them in various angles, note down all the details about them, and post them up on this blog to highlight my little feat. This gives me a really good excuse to eat more sausages and make it part of a regular diet.

Watch this space!