Posted on 11/27/2025 3:41:18 AM PST by daniel1212
a dish made from calf intestines
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Goodbye!
Turkish delights
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Oh yeah!
A few years back we took a vacation about 500 miles deep into northern Canada. Several miles north of Brandon, Manitoba we stopped at a fast food joint for burgers and fries.
We both bit into our hamburgers about the same time and both spit it out at the same time. The meat was cooked alright, but had a very pink color to it and certainly did not taste like beef. It had a sweet taste like I have read human flesh is supposed to taste like. The fries were cooked in stale grease. We both wanted to puke. I suspect the meat was wild game of some sort or just plain fake meat.
Farther north into Canada we ran across a McDonalds and was so happy to see a good place to eat. WRONG! It was a fake McDonalds. The golden arches on the outside never had the right shape, the uniforms were wrong and the food wrappers never had the McDonald logo on it. The place was dirtier than a barn.
We learned the safest way to eat way up north was buy food in a grocery store and prepare it yourself.
What a misleading headline!
“Police and prosecutors have a theory that a substance used in a bedbug treatment in a room on the hotel’s ground floor may have reached the family’s room through the bathroom ventilation shaft and poisoned them.”
So they died because of some chemical at the hotel!
Never worked in fumigation but classes just touched the subject…main point being that the product kills every living cell, plant & animal.
Fumigating a hotel room is third world stupidity.
Company I left four years ago was settling a lawsuit over a contractor in Jamaica that destroyed a family with some surviving for the same situation. The suite was for hundreds of $millions and the company went through two CEOs, that wanted nothing to do with the law suite.
The TV show stuff you see of someone going into a tented house is BS…they are dead.
Texas law requires armed guards when tenting a house to stop stupid people that do stupid things.
Just read that pure phosphine is odorless. They add another chemical to commercial products to create a highly unpleasant odor to keep people away when it is applied. Sounds like the hotel thought they could isolate a room by keeping folks out and that would be it. Wrong.
If it was the food, they would not have been the only ones to die.
Vacations to Hispaniola have proven to be fatal in an alarming number of cases.
“...Traveling from Germany to Turkey...”
The aren’t Germans, they are Muslims visiting the mother land. They got a taste of the street food, sort of like going to New York city and eating a hotdog from a vender and then dying from it.
You’re better off eating turkey on the street than street food in Turkey.
The aren’t Germans, they are Muslims visiting the mother land. They got a taste of the street food, sort of like going to New York city and eating a hotdog from a vender and then dying from it.
Misleading and wrong headline
They were not stricken by the food they ate [ no mater how disgusting ], but killed by the air they breathed in the hotel room.
“stuffed mussels served cold with lemon ... kokorec, a dish made from calf intestines and tavuk tantuni”
Yummy. [sarc.] Turkey is not on any upcoming itinerary I have planned.
Been there, done that many times. I have traveled a good deal of the world in my former occupation. I said many times that the only place you can live like an American is right here. Some places came close and some I enjoyed, some were actually better but I would not move there for one reason or another.
I was in a contractor’s office in Lagos one morning. It was in the better part of the city. As I drank my coffee waiting for the meeting to start I watched the sunrise across the large inlet to the bay there on the sea side of the first mainland bridge. I observed the piles of trash on each pier of the bridge and the swirling currents and wondered how deep the bottom scour was on the bridge footings. I then noticed a swirling eddy in a corner of the adjacent wharf where I saw a dead cow and a dead human in the swirl of trash and other things. Just another day in paradise.
Maybe muslims poisoned the family.
After the midye they each ordered different dishes at a restaurant, including kokorec, a dish made from calf intestines and tavuk tantuni, a type of Turkish chicken wrap.
I had tripe before (my grandfather loved it and it is okay), but I would never eat it as a street food.
One of my sons recently returned from a trip to Argentina and said that, while he enjoyed the trip, there was a pronounced sewage smell in the cities. The reason, apparently, is because after many decades of socialism the plumbing deteriorated greatly, so everyone tosses used bathroom tissue into the trash bin, rather than trying to flush it.
Hopefully this problem gets addressed as they slough off socialism, as the Argentenians are very fine people.
Hell, we have Third World food stands all over this country that the authorities look the other way because they don't like the optics of arresting Juanita and her unregulated chalupa stand that she sets up outside of Padres games (much to the chagrin of legal restaurant owners who have to comply with California's myriad of expensive licensing fees and health regulations).
“a third world country”
From what I’ve seen online, Turkey is not a Third World country.
My Polish neighbor to the back knows folks back in Poland who got dental work done in Turkey.
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