Posted on 08/11/2010 9:39:51 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) -- Maybe he was testing a new recipe.
Chef Christopher Turla earned his Davenport, Iowa restaurant a $335 ticket Wednesday after health inspectors saw a video of him kissing and licking toads in the kitchen.
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Fried Frog Legs. Yum. Tastes like chicken.
Lucky it wasn’t the HYPNOTOAD!
Everyone knows healthy toads are a sign of a healthy environment. Let the restaurant be.
Maybe it was a BOFO Toad? (Think that is correct)
They excrete an LSD like chemical through the skin.
Had a Shepard OD after he played around with one .. many years ago.
$335 is a much cheaper fine than if the inspector had been paying attention to Raul and the waitress "Rolling Silverware" in the clean linen room.
I'll work at a restaurant. I won't eat at many.
/johnny
And people laugh when I tell them my slippery slope theory.
ROFL and EEEW.
The articles goes onto to state that after he kisses and licks them he stuffs the little frogs in his mouth for a while before his spits them out.
The health inspector was NOT amused. It’s all caught on video.
What the heck? Was the chef trying to get high?
Escoffier designed the Brigade de Cuisine based on military principles. And he died of old age in 1935.
Some rules are stupid and take forever to correct. Take pork. It's perfectly safe to eat modern pork loin cooked rare in the center. It took the FDA decades to lower the minimum acceptable temp from 165F. Trichinosis has not been a problem in the US for decades. We wiped it out.
Probably, he went the wrong way around to explain it, but he might just be frustrated with some stupid rules.
/johnny
Thank you very much, Johnny, for the GOOD information. I love FR. I learn everyday I'm here.
He was probably trying to make a point about a stupid rule by proving that putting a small toad in his mouth is perfectly safe, thus rendering the burro-crat's "THIS COULD KILL SOMEBODY" point moot.
There are stupid rules out there with idiot burro-crats to try to enforce them.
And fed-up people will do a lot to prove a point before they finally get fed up enough to just 'shoot the barstid to shut him up'
/johnny
Just don't expect me to put a live frog in my mouth without dehydrating it a bit to make sure it doesn't make water, and dunking it in a bleach/water solution to kill anything on the outside.
/johnny
Was it the Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka???
“We wiped it out.”
Illegals are bringing back all of the wiped out diseases.
I would also not eat raw pork in any form. This is coming from someone with close family connections to one of the largest pork producers in the country.
I have a USNavy cook book somewhere you would be interested in. It was my great-uncle’s, who was a navy cook in the south Pacific during WW2.
I also throw near boiling water on modern windshields to clear ice. Because things have changed since I grew up (Never did that on my '41 Plymouth).
/johnny
The telling part is the 'substitutions' section.
Logistics is underappreciated.
/johnny
LOL. Not to worry. I wouldn’t touch a frog, living or dead.
Thanks, sweet you. I’ll remember your kind offer!
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