Care for some creamed possum … whole chicken in a can! During the first years of the Napoleonic Wars, the French government prompted the newspaper Le Monde to offer a cash award of 12,000 francs to any inventor who could devise a cheap and effective method of preserving large amounts of food. In 1809, a French confectioner and brewer, Nicolas Appert, observed that food cooked inside a jar did not spoil unless the seals leaked, and developed a method of sealing food in glass jars. 50 years later Louis Pasteu discovered the role of microbes in spoilage and in 1810 another French man called Peter Durand created the first tin cans for the French army. Unfortunately they didn’t discover the can opener for another 30 years and the cans had to be smashed open on rocks or with their bayonets!
Here’s a spooky little tune i wrote last year…just to test the Soundcloud player.
Highways, cars, and enjoying life saw post WWII America ‘Livin’ The Dream’ with fast food. The food stylist hadn’t become an integral part of advertising food yet, as the food doesn’t look anywhere near as sanitized as today’s food advertising does.
Richard Dawkins doesn’t admire the ‘Spaghetti Monster’, I’m not a fan either!
But I’m a fan of Tom Gauld!
You can check out Tom Gauld’s art at http://www.cabanonpress.com
Here’s an screenshot from an amusing instant message conversation had with a (supposedly) Nigerian scammer…Like most people, not a day goes by here we don’t find our junk mailbox containing offers of millions of dollars or nice eastern european girls wanting us to pick them up at the airport for ‘romance’ after sending them some money.
The question that always lingers is, just who are those 1 in a million people who fall for this stuff – and wouldn’t straight out begging be just as profitable?!
Read more about it here
David’s secret is out … as he looks to Porter for some ‘music magic’!
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