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Fat Cyclist » Blog Archive » The Tell — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:33:00 +0000

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By: Bill F (Kenny Groupie)

Bill F (Kenny Groupie) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:44:21 +0000

I made the blog and all it took was the offer for free ice cream which I didn’t even have to make good on. Actually, I hope you take the entire familily over to B&J after Susan’s scan on Friday and carbo load as much as you can for Saturday’s ride. Instead of waiting 35 minutes for me at the top, maybe it will be more like 30 minutes this time around.

By: Al Maviva

Al Maviva — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:30:35 +0000

Okay, Major Mike, you got me there. I guess I do have a rule, and that is to not eat food on a bike trip, if the trip is occurring in a place only reachable via Surly Pugsley. In places like that I’ve eaten and drunk things that I am ashamed to admit I have eaten, including some drinks (the mere mention of which make most people’s stomach heave). These include merely shameful and disgusting meats (camel, rat, dog, and apparently rotten), and the stomach-tossing variety of drinks (e.g. fermented anise, and curdled goat’s blood). I’ve had dysentary twice as a result of playing culinary Marco Polo (Greaaaattt weight loss program, dysentary – takes off 50 pounds in a matter of a couple weeks. Great if you don’t die from it or blow out your ringpiece, anyhow). Suffice to say, I won’t be filling my water bottles with the goats blood, and putting some rotten meat of unidentifiable provenance in my hind pockets on the club ride. So I guess you’ve got me there, Mike, I probably wouldn’t eat the indigenous foods of the OomBapa Maumaus while riding my bike.

By: Susan (another one)

Susan (another one) — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:36:05 +0000

Did it ever occur to call home and say, “Hon, I’m stopping and getting US some ice cream?”

By: Boz

Boz — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:22:44 +0000

Al – maybe after starting this topic, you should organize and group ride featuring Andrew Zimmerman, Tony Bourdain, and a tribe of pigmey’s. I’m sure a lot of culinary delights would get shot out the back of that pelaton.

By: Boz

Boz — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:00:24 +0000

I limped home in diabetic bonk last night – blood sugar 35- and grabbed some glucose tabs, ate them, then headed straight to the fridge. Chose the left over Hormel roast beef hash w/ 3 eggs over easy, the left over chicken breast which I thin sliced and sauted w/ broccolli, garlic and onion. Washed it down w/ 2 Plymouth g&t’s. SWMBO came home and found me crashed out watching the TDF and assumed I had a hard ride and was just wiped. She broke out the left over Kettle Corn from Sunday’s fair. Funny wheat a guy chooses when his mind is shut off. This morning I felt like I was on a 3 day bender. Nice.

By: MAJ Mike

MAJ Mike — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:55:14 +0000

How about monkey brains, a la “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom?”

By: Al Maviva

Al Maviva — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:48:18 +0000

I have eaten pork rinds, but not the fluffy ones, the hard, crispy crackle. As for Rocky Mountain Oysters… Man, if I ever ride with Fatty, I know he’s going to make me pay, but compared to schmalzbrot… No problem.

I would eat them in the rain,
I’d eat them in the Disco train.
I would eat them in the sun,
Munch them down, so much fun.
I would eat them in the fall,
Yes TimK, I’d eat bull ball.

*I reserve the right to not eat disgusting foods if the ride is high tempo-level or harder.

By: cheapie

cheapie — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:42:55 +0000

Clydesteve….you’re right. they were probably only moving 15-18mph but in that brutal wind, we were happy for any reprieve, however brief. we’d see a buggy in the distance and sprint to catch up and get out of the wind. unfortunately, they all seemed to turn off the road shortly after we sought their shelter.

By: TIMK

TIMK — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:18:41 +0000

Alright, Al, since the food discussion came up and the host of this blog is based in the great, wild west – I have to ask, would you, could you, eat Rocky Mountain oysters on a bike? Could you eat them at all?

Talk about testing positive for testosterone!

I guess the German foods you mentioned answer any questions about whether or not you would eat pork rinds.