Tim Worstall

Err, Christopher

Umm, think a little will you?

"Take some salmon fillets, chicken, steak or
sausages, wrap them well in aluminium foil and wedge firmly around your
car engine before you start your journey – when you stop for lunch they
will be cooked," he says.

"I’ve often done
this when cruising UK motorways or on holidays abroad. This Christmas I
will be driving from West Yorkshire to in-laws in Scotland for
Christmas lunch and plan to cook the turkey on the way – 300 miles at a
steady 65 mph should be just right."

Maybe I should have said this earlier, but perhaps do not try this at home.

Can you think of anyone who could in fact travel 300 miles at 65 mph and stay at home?

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  1. auntymarianne Avatar
    auntymarianne

    You’d need to add moist accompaniments, like tomatoes, otherwise it’d dessicate. Also I heard a story about 4 Swedes cooking an African Giant Frog on a Piper Tomahawk engine between Douala and Garoua for Christmas dinner, but I suspect it’s apocryphal. It would have been far too much to eat for only 4 people.
    I’m back, by the way. Did you miss me?
    Tim adds: Of course! We even know that you still have 53% of the cash!

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  2. angry economist Avatar
    angry economist

    hmm in winter, with all the water and cr*p spraying up off the road onto food, and then there’s the nice hint of burnt oil and screenwash in the turkey. What a t*sser.
    I couldn’t think of a worse way to treat food really.

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  3. Mark Holland Avatar
    Mark Holland

    There’s a programme that pops on Discovery now and again, Ben Dark’s Australia, wherein our hero drives his ute around the continent cooking his dinner in a crock pot contraption which is powered via steam pipes from his radiator passing through it. It’s class.

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  4. gene berman Avatar
    gene berman

    I once met a man who, during the Great Depression, got the idea (from observing the Japanese of California and their envy-begetting success) of going to Japan to get a better idea of the culture from whence they came. Though employed (journeyman printer), his problem was to save enough money to make the trip.
    His solution was to live in his car (to save money on rent). And to reduce his diet to approximate that of the Japanese; he settled on a can of salmon (10 cents) and half of a 10-cent loaf of bread each day (allowing 5 cents for a daily coffee).
    He also cooked on his engine. In about 6 months, he saved what he needed–about $300–and then got a job as a hand on a Japanese freighter, allowing him to pick up some of the language in the 6 months before the freighter ever got back to a Japanese port. That $300 was plenty–enough not only to walk (and hitch-hike) around Japan, but enough for Korea and some China as well. Once back in the U.S., he wrote “A Yankee Hobo In the Orient,” serialized in “Reader’s Digest.”
    Not particularly relevant–just remminded me.

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  5. Planeshift Avatar
    Planeshift

    “Can you think of anyone who could in fact travel 300 miles at 65 mph and stay at home?”
    The rumoured Japanese tourists who didn’t realise the M25 was an Orbital.

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