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That of course is Bill Nighy, eating dinner with his wife(?) at Charuwan, a Thai restaurant near Archway in North London. I was at a friend's birthday dinner and although we didn't bother him while he was eating, one of us did manage to secure a photo of him with our birthday buddy just before he left. I've read somewhere that he lives in the area and this photo sort-of confirms it. He's one of my favourite actors and he seemed a fairly decent chap in the four words that I heard him speak!

I had honey on toast for brekkie this morning and it's absolutely delicious. So I decided to google it and clicked on the first link, an article in the Daily Telegraph from last December titled, Secret to a smooth hangover – honey on toast. Naturally I was intrigued by this and having read the article I've even picked up a couple of other useful tips such as drinking a glass of milk before a night out on the lash. However what really surprised me was the first comment after the article which said:

http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2005/HangoverAvoidance.asp

The commenter had linked to a press release from 21 December 2005 on the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) website which was obviously the source of the Telegraph article (dated 23 December 2010). To make matters interesting, look under Press Releases in December 2010 on the RSC website and you'll find one about the exact same issue dated 23 December, the same date as the Telegraph article. The two press releases are almost identical, although it looks like someone copied the 2005 press release and intentionally changed the formatting in the 2010 version. They've also re-worded the title and made subtle changes to each paragraph. Makes you wonder what actually happened! Did the RSC think no one would notice?

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From Wikipedia:

"Fanta originated when ingredients for the production of Coca-Cola became difficult to import into Germany during World War II. As a result, Max Keith, the man in charge of Coca-Cola Deutschland during the Second World War, decided to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time, including whey and pomace – the "leftovers of leftovers", as Keith later recalled. The name was the result of a brief brainstorming session, which started with Keith exhorting his team to "use their imagination" ("Fantasie" in German), to which one of his salesmen, Joe Knipp, immediately retorted "Fanta!"(via Dan Snow's History Fact Twitter)

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Carlsberg Special Brew was invented for Winston Churchill to commemorate his visit to Copenhagen in 1950. Here's what the beer company's official website says about it:

"Originally called V-øllet (V-Beer), the drink followed the Danish tradition of producing a new beer to celebrate outstanding events such as a royal occasion or European coronation. Churchill's favourite drink was cognac, so in brewing him a commemorative beer, the brewers at Carlsberg created a stronger lager with cognac flavours among its tasing notes. At Christmas in 1952 Special Brew was launched throughout Denmark, and has been available in the UK since the '70's. Special Brew is a full bodied, fruity tasting, strong lager with a good clean bitterness."I wonder if he liked it. Either way, I'm certainly looking forward to impressing my friends with this lager nugget the next time I'm at a pub that stocks it.

Standing next to a picture of one of the most famous marketing slogans of all-time. This particular Guinness billboard was in Piccadilly Circus, complete with two West Indian gentlemen in the foreground leaning on the Statue of Anteros. Guinness began their forty-two year association with Piccadilly Circus in 1930 and I think this photo was taken between 1932 and 1953 (but not during WWII, perhaps just after the Windrush arrived in 1948). Guinness was told to stop using the slogan but in 2003, a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin claimed that a pint of Ireland's greatest export may "work as well as a low dose aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks" while drinking lager didn't yield the same results. Indeed the original campaign in the 1920s stemmed from market research when people told the company that they "felt good after their pint". England went one step further by giving post-operative patients as well as blood donors Guinness based on the belief that it was high in iron! Healthy or not, it is without doubt the world's best beer!

I've recently acquired a taste for Bloody Marys to recover from a night of heaving drinking but I was sober when I had this one. It was on an US Airways flight from Detroit to Washington DC. [26 May 2011]

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According to Wikipedia, "Edison is one of the more diverse townships in New Jersey. It and the surrounding communities of Middlesex County are commonly known throughout the state and the New York metro area as being one of the region's main centers of Asian American cultural diversity." This is borne out in the demographics with 44% of the population classified as White and 43% as Asian. It's a pilgrimage for Indians in America.

Some of the following pics were taken with my sister's new retro-styled Micro Four Thirds camera, the Olympus PEN E-PL1. Can you guess which ones?

This is no joke and is a real movie. It won Best Film at the London Asian Film Festival and released in theatres on May 6. It marketed itself as "The Year's Other Big Wedding!" You can read more about it here.

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Entries tagged with cooking-recipe-food-drinks

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