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Canadians Powered By Bacon and Butter

Hotwife
09-01-2009, 21:04
Yay for crispy fat! Yay for butter!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478407,00.html

SYDNEY, Australia — A trio of Canadian adventurers said Friday they have set a new record for fastest trek across Antarctica to the South Pole, after suffering through whiteout conditions, temperatures as low as minus 40 — and a steady diet of deep-fried bacon and butter.

IMHO, bacon is one of the greatest foods on earth. Even though they had to eat a lot of it over 33 days, I don't think I would have gotten tired of it.

Oh, and yay for Canada!
Sdaeriji
09-01-2009, 21:05
How do you eat butter? Do you just chomp on it like a candy bar? I think I'd get tired of that WAY sooner than I'd get tired of eating bacon.
Hotwife
09-01-2009, 21:07
How do you eat butter? Do you just chomp on it like a candy bar? I think I'd get tired of that WAY sooner than I'd get tired of eating bacon.

I used to think that a pat of butter in hot tea was a disgusting idea, until one cold day in Germany (outside, at night, in midwinter), someone gave me a cup, and it was GREAT.

Still disgusting in hot weather though.
Neesika
09-01-2009, 21:11
*drools*
SaintB
09-01-2009, 21:12
How do you eat butter? Do you just chomp on it like a candy bar? I think I'd get tired of that WAY sooner than I'd get tired of eating bacon.

They were literally just chomping on it like a candy bar as you said. at -40 butter would be roughly the same consistency as one after you held it in your hand for a bit. My sister used to eat solid butter out of the fridge all the time when she was a kid.
Tagmatium
09-01-2009, 21:12
You'd have thought that their arteries would have clogged up or something.
SaintB
09-01-2009, 21:14
You'd have thought that their arteries would have clogged up or something.

In that weather? The blood would freeze up in their veins first; they needed all those calories to keep up a normal energy level against the cold.
Hotwife
09-01-2009, 21:14
We may have to stop this - between bacon and GoG deprivation, Neesika may faint...
Saige Dragon
09-01-2009, 21:15
You'd have thought that their arteries would have clogged up or something.

Canadian arteries never clog. Ever.
Neesika
09-01-2009, 21:15
You'd have thought that their arteries would have clogged up or something.

How do you think people of my grandfather's generation could eat lard sandwiches and salt pork all year without keeling over with heart attacks at anything near the rate we see today?

The answer is not sitting on your ass, but rather engaging in enough physical effort to burn off the energy in the food you are consuming. The needs of your body to produce enough body heat to not DIE in weather like that would be enough on its own to keep most of that fat from clogging up the gears, n'est pas?
Neesika
09-01-2009, 21:16
We may have to stop this - between bacon and GoG deprivation, Neesika may faint...

Hounding you will keep me alive.

And maybe some bacon-wrapped scallops.
Saige Dragon
09-01-2009, 21:18
I think I may go fry up some bacon. A lot of bacon.
JuNii
09-01-2009, 21:25
Hounding you will keep me alive.

And maybe some bacon-wrapped scallops.

me likey your tastes!

and yes, it is possible to survive on such a diet. But also take into account what those who do eat that stuff are doing at the time.
Neesika
09-01-2009, 21:30
That's why I only eat whole rashers of bacon when I'm able to have marathon sex for at least three days.
Gift-of-god
09-01-2009, 21:33
This is a ...frustrating... thread.
Hotwife
09-01-2009, 21:34
This is a ...frustrating... thread.

heh heh heh
Neesika
09-01-2009, 21:35
This is a ...frustrating... thread.

I have two rashers waiting for us :)
JuNii
09-01-2009, 21:36
That's why I only eat whole rashers of bacon when I'm able to have marathon sex for at least three days.

I have two rashers waiting for us :)

DAMIT NEESIKA!

now I cannot look at the couple packs of Bacon in my freezer without these quotes popping into my head! :headbang:
Partybus
09-01-2009, 21:37
Yay for crispy fat! Yay for butter!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478407,00.html



IMHO, bacon is one of the greatest foods on earth. Even though they had to eat a lot of it over 33 days, I don't think I would have gotten tired of it.

Oh, and yay for Canada!

It is the only reason I would ever consider going back country skiing again...We used to save the bacon grease from breakfast, and add it to whatever was for lunch or dinner (unless it was bacon)...Actually, I think I might be up for one more trek...
Hotwife
09-01-2009, 21:37
I have two rashers waiting for us :)

Ah, so your First People name translates as "Little Sizzling Belly" ?
Neesika
09-01-2009, 21:39
Ah, so your First People name translates as "Little Sizzling Belly" ?

Hahahahahah...actually it's dry-meat woman. Tough to chew but very nourishing :D
New Wallonochia
09-01-2009, 21:46
How do you eat butter? Do you just chomp on it like a candy bar?

I had a buddy who ate butter just like that. I almost threw up each time. Oddly enough he was a tiny, skinny little bastard.

As for arteries clogging up, the grease lubes them so the blood goes faster.
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
09-01-2009, 22:08
"diet of deep-fried bacon, cheese and huge chunks of butter."
...
I guess the plan was to stay constipated so they wouldn't have to lower their trousers in the frozen weather?
Boonytopia
10-01-2009, 01:21
Eating whole sticks of butter sounds disgusting. Bacon's good though.
Boonytopia
10-01-2009, 01:24
"diet of deep-fried bacon, cheese and huge chunks of butter."
...
I guess the plan was to stay constipated so they wouldn't have to lower their trousers in the frozen weather?

An excellent survival plan! :D
Risottia
10-01-2009, 01:32
How do you eat butter? Do you just chomp on it like a candy bar? I think I'd get tired of that WAY sooner than I'd get tired of eating bacon.

Actually I like butter, just plain butter.

Anyway, since they had butter and deep-fried bacon, I'd deep-fry the bacon in the butter. Then proceed to drink the molten butter, too.
Intestinal fluids
10-01-2009, 01:49
Canadian bacon or real bacon?
Myedvedeya
10-01-2009, 04:28
DAMIT NEESIKA!

now I cannot look at the couple packs of Bacon in my freezer without these quotes popping into my head! :headbang:

Thanks to Neesika, everyone on NSG will forevermore associate Bacon and Sexuality, spawning a good number of awkward moments at some time in the future.

(at breakfast)
Me: I'd like the eggs please
Waiter: That comes with a side of bacon
Me: (subconsciously takes off pants)
One-O-One
10-01-2009, 05:35
Canadian arteries never clog. Ever.

Ah, they were probably French Canadians, therefore the French Paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox) comes into effect.