Category: Humor

Exotic potato chips from around the world.

Ten years ago, we traveled around Spain, back before anyone had turned the culinary lights on. It seemed like every restaurant in Spain had the same menu. And it was pretty much the Monty Python Spam sketch -- with ham instead of Spam.

On the way to Portugal, we stopped at a big, modern truck stop to fill up. Since it was lunch time, we thought we'd check out the restaurant. But when the special was ham, eggs, ham, ham, bacon, and ham, we decided to just buy some snacks at the attached mini-mart.

Imagine my reaction when the bag of Lays potato chips I'd picked up turned out to be "Jamon Jamon" flavored.


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Posted by Virginia Saunders on 03/08/2008 at 10:46 PM | Categories: Opinion - Humor - Food and Wine -

How France is different from America.

Sometimes relations between the two countries are warm, sometimes frosty. But whichever way the wind blows, there's a 3,650-mile gulf between them. To wit:
France = Disgruntled transportation workers
America = Disgruntled writers

France = Obsessed with preserving the French language
America = Obsessed with Britney Spears


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Posted by Virginia Saunders on 03/02/2008 at 11:32 PM | Categories: Opinion - Humor - France -

Lyon in the Desert

Winner of the "more money than sense" award, a Dubai entrepreneur has decided to replicate the city of Lyon, France in Dubai City – at a cost of €500 million.
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Posted by Virginia Saunders on 01/24/2008 at 1:10 AM | Categories: Humor -

Travelers say the darnedest things.

We love Tripadvisor and use it often.  But some of the posts seem to have been written by the people Basil Fawlty summed up with, “I mean, have you seen the people in Room Six?  They’ve never even sat on chairs before.”

For a little holiday levity, the Tripadvisor editors have compiled a Top Ten List of the funniest posts of 2007. 


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Posted by Virginia Saunders on 01/03/2008 at 3:15 AM | Categories: Humor -

Funny reading for your next flight.

If a critical lack of reading material has ever driven you to the Sky Mall catalog, you’re no stranger to items like the $59.99 temperature-controlled butter keeper or “Poop Freeze,” an aerosol product that assists in the pick up and disposal of dog doo.   


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Posted by Virginia Saunders on 12/25/2007 at 5:30 PM | Categories: Humor -