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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Python Soup


Sharing photos of a wild python hunt got two Chinese brothers arrested
Image: weibo 

Brothers boast online about hunting wild python for soup, get arrested

By Alicia Tan


If you're going to resort to breaking the law, you might want to make sure you don't share the incriminating evidence.

Two brothers hailing from from Bobai County in Guangxi, China, were arrested a day after posting pictures online of themselves hunting, killing, cooking and eating a wild python, which is under first-level state protection.

According to People's Daily, the brothers, surnamed Guan, had encountered the three metre long snake that weighed 15 kilograms during the Qingming festival on April 5 while tomb-sweeping.



They then decided to capture and kill the snake for its meat.




 
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The Guan brothers documented the whole process of taking the python home, washing it and then boiling it in a pot of soup.
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Following the event, the Guans uploaded the photos onto Weibo to boast about their conquest, but ended up attracting forest police's attention instead.
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Both brothers were tracked down within 24 hours and arrested for the illegal hunting of endangered animals.
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Link: http://mashable.com/2016/04/15/brothers-arrested-wild-python/#sDD2iJ0BZ5qE



Friday, February 26, 2016

Quotes About Food

 

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
Charles M. Schulz
tags: chocolate, food, humor

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
tags: food, happiness

“This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.”
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
tags: food, love, music
  

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
tags: food, love
“Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.”
Orson Welles
tags: food, humor

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
tags: family, food, thanksgiving
 

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.”
Erma Bombeck

“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
tags: food, gluttony, love

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
W.C. Fields

“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.”
M.F.K. Fisher
tags: egg, food

“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”
Joss Whedon
tags: food, humor, survival, wit
 

“The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”
Julia Child
      

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
Hippocrates

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”
Mark Twain
tags: food