New Climate Change-Friendly Dish Introduced Called ‘The Al Gore’

New Climate Change-Friendly Dish Introduced Called ‘The Al Gore’

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)
August 27, 2007 - 11:33 ET

Better get all fluids away from your computer, because a pair of caterers in Australia have created a new climate change-friendly dish they call "The Al Gore" which is "an organic mix of chunked mutton and aromatic root vegetables."

Sounds delicious, dontcha think?

As humorously reported by Australia's The Age Tuesday (emphasis added throughout):

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EVEN without the current climate change fervour, "The Al Gore" looks set to become a culinary curio when the latest expo juggernaut rolls into town next month.
The takeaway mutton dish - named after the former US vice-president - will be on the menu at the 2007 Organic Expo at Carlton's Royal Exhibition Building from September 7-9.

Honestly, it's very tough to continue typing. Please forgive any uncharacteristic errors that might crop up in the text:

Enter the The Al Gore. In a nod to the world's greenhouse woes, the dish is a concoction dreamed up by expo caterers Scott Kinnear and Gary Thomas. It's an organic mix of chunked mutton and aromatic root vegetables to be sold at the expo's humble kiosk near a life-sized cutout of climate change crusader, Al Gore, mouthing the words "conveniently good for you and the environment".

Somehow I don't think a picture of Al Gore is going to make people hungry. In fact, it might entice them to jog a couple of laps around the exhibition building. But I digress:

As an additional enticement for more serious greenies, Kinnear and Thomas say no ingredient will have travelled more than 100 kilometres from production to plate. The idea is to highlight carbon-emission damage to the environment from food that travels far from its source.

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The meat for The Al Gore, for instance, will be sourced from the "real old-time" Lightwood Farm in Bullarto South, a respectably short distance south-east of Daylesford. It will be browned in unbleached white flour grown and milled by Powlett Hill Farm near Smeaton (to the purist, slightly more than 15 kilometres away).

Captain's Creek Farm, a family-owned operation at Blampied - in the central highlands, a stone's throw west of Daylesford - will be the source of the chardonnay for The Al Gore's braising liquor.

Hehehehehe.

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Let's see what Rachael Ray

August 27, 2007 - 11:40 ET by drillanwr

Let's see what Rachael Ray does with this one over at 30 Minute Meals on the Food Network.

COW FARTS

August 27, 2007 - 11:43 ET by TruthMatters

Shouldn't we all eat porterhouse steaks and hamburgers so we can limit the cow fart population? Now that's climate change friendly.

It's the Moose, man!

August 27, 2007 - 12:09 ET by heldmyw

http://www.spiegel.d...

Off a moose, drive your car 13,000 miles! Now that's a GorePlate special!

Question: How does moose

August 27, 2007 - 13:39 ET by AtheistRepublican

Question: How does moose taste?

AR

August 27, 2007 - 13:41 ET by Noel Sheppard

AR,

Answer: Like chicken. :-) ns

Starving people cause GW

August 27, 2007 - 11:44 ET by Sergeant ROCK

Can we conclude then, that we shouldn't be shipping food to starving people around the globe because it will surely cause global warming which will, in the end, kill us anyway - hungry or not?

Good point Rock. And after

August 27, 2007 - 11:54 ET by bassndude

Good point Rock. And after all those people starve to death, we save tons of CO2, caused by breathing. Reduced world population = reduced CO2 emissions.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Everybody Wins!

August 27, 2007 - 11:56 ET by Sergeant ROCK

Exactly! It's one of the easiest solutions to GW and we must do our part by ending humanitarian aid to the rest of the world.

Al Gore's Restaurant

August 27, 2007 - 11:51 ET by Mica the Magnificent

Coming soon! Al Gore's Eco-Friendly Restaurant:

1) We have no tables or chairs to sit on. They are made out of wood or aluminum and therefore, not friendly to the environment.

2) We have no energy wasting ovens. In fact, we have no way to cook anything.

3) We do not serve meat. Producing meat is an environmental disaster. We do not serve vegetables. No matter how they are grown, it takes energy using machines to harvest and ship them.

4) We do not serve anything to drink. Even water must be pumped out of the ground and filtered and that takes 'energy.'

5) We do not have hours of operation. Driving to this restaurant to operate it wastes precious gasoline and pollutes the environement.

Watch for grand non-opening!

Mica, not all of that is

August 27, 2007 - 11:57 ET by bassndude

Mica, not all of that is true. They can serve water pumped up out of the ground by windmill. Thats using eco friendly wind.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Windmills?

August 27, 2007 - 12:17 ET by Mica the Magnificent

Did you forget? Windmills are made of wood or metal. Evil, evil wood or metal I might add.

Funny Windmills... We

August 27, 2007 - 12:24 ET by Clear thinker

Funny Windmills...

We have a local group of Al Gore followers that have started a campaign to put windmills all over the mountains here in western NC. They have just started their campaign by print materials and radio interviews. They not only want people to donate money to their project, but they also want the government (our tax dollars) to finance most of it. These people are dead serious....

One problem... we don't get enough wind here in the mountains to make it even feasible. Stay tuned for more of the Al Gore follies.

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Hey Clear Thinker

August 27, 2007 - 13:30 ET by Mica the Magnificent

Let me guess.

Are they from the Union of the '60's Liberals of Asheville?

Mica... This group

August 27, 2007 - 14:29 ET by Clear thinker

Mica...

This group changes it's stripes like Zebras. They have been called many things. I simply call them jerks.

Members are of the 60's era and their offspring, some related, some not. I think Al, Hugo and Fidel are their heroes!

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BITE ME!!!!

August 27, 2007 - 11:56 ET by Crash

Brought to you by a couple of fruits!

On a personal note, I hate

August 27, 2007 - 11:59 ET by bassndude

On a personal note, I hate mutton.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

The REAL cause of Global Warming

August 27, 2007 - 12:01 ET by HelenS

In the Sunday paper here, we get a thin little insert called "Parade". In the one this week, there was a tiny little article that fit in a box on about a quarter of one of the pages, that gave the real reason for global warming. Naturally I couldn't find it on their online web page so I will just have to help them out by telling you and see if they'll 'fess up and add it to their web page (I am not actually holding my breath.)

The real cause of global warming is mine fires. There are so many and such big mine fires in China and India that millions of tons of coal are being burned by these fires and they are devestating huge tracts of land that cannot be farmed as a result of the heat.

Hence global warming.

True story.

Apparently America's mine fires account for only about 1 or 2% of the ones in India and China.

Did I hear recently that India felt the US should really do something about global warming? Hmmm...

Sorry I couldn't supply a link but maybe someone else has the "Parade" and will know in their hearts that I'm not lying (I merely believe what appears to be credible when I read it in print).

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" - Shakespeare

Matt Sheffield just put up a post on mine fires - take a look nt

August 27, 2007 - 13:05 ET by TokyoTom

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool."
Richard Feynman

Cool!

August 27, 2007 - 13:19 ET by HelenS

I'll go take a look. :o)

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" - Shakespeare

Ken Shepherd, I mean. Sorry

August 27, 2007 - 13:57 ET by TokyoTom

http://newsbusters.o...

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool."
Richard Feynman

Got it!

August 27, 2007 - 14:01 ET by HelenS

That's the article I read.

Maybe one day the truth will be known.

Maybe one day pigs will fly...

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" - Shakespeare

Well just look at those two...with their Al Gore dish..

August 27, 2007 - 12:26 ET by SportPolitics

what more does one need to say... I mean look at those two.

So now the organic food is a high priced specialty item for the global elite feel gooders. More money and effort into their "collected from the rednecks" near the area....

Tell me how they managed to get all these special little items into their culinary cuisine package ? Oh yes, they drove here and there and everywhere to get it in their Prius like vehicle... ten or 15 special trips for themselves and their special little group... ( wasteful no doubt when semis carry food for hundreds or thousands ).

What a joke it is.

Meanwhile "the rednecks" have their tomatoes and vegtable gardens and everything growing every year in their backyards and small acreages, doing "organic" as a lifestyle that comes NATURALLY to them.

This is 2 city slicksters trying to PRETEND they've taken care of the environment or that they want to or that they need to urge others to care...what a JOKE.

NOPE, sorry libs, by the looks of you two, especially the one on the left, your hands have never been in a bucket of dirt nor foot on a spade to make a hole for the seeds or the tomato plant.

Yes, and where did the basket come from, since they've discouraged all the wonderful Grannies from weaving and stitching ... in favor of their Gap and Nike ganker status threads.

Whateva.

Cartlon's Royal Exhibition Building... yes there's an environmental saver... and all the eggplantheads coming in from all over on their jets and travelling, spending thousands and bragging about it saves the earth too...

HA. Charlatans.

That's not mutton, that's

August 27, 2007 - 12:39 ET by Roger the Shrubber

That's not mutton, that's people!

That's not mutton, that's manbearpig!

Trans Fat

August 27, 2007 - 13:09 ET by PawpawN

Any dish to resemble Al Gore must have way too much FAT!!!

As I recall, back in 2000

August 27, 2007 - 13:39 ET by Hero Squad

As I recall, back in 2000 George W. Bush ate an Al Gore for lunch. He said it had that sweet taste of victory. Apparently it is served with a lot of wine. ;-)

*****

"Some people have a way with words. Other people, er, I don't know. Not have way, I guess." - Steve Martin

"yummy!" -ace ventura,

August 27, 2007 - 14:36 ET by TruthMonger

"yummy!"

-ace ventura, floridian pet detective

How about creating our own?

August 27, 2007 - 14:18 ET by ratkin

If someone is going to create a dish dedicated to Al Gore, I think that the people on this forum are just the folks for the task. I would like to propose that we come up with a recipe filled with Gore-appropriate ingredients.

Let's see - - start with a pound of lard, two pounds of tripe, a heaping helping of sour grapes......

Soylent Green

August 27, 2007 - 14:21 ET by Sergeant ROCK

I thought that this was going to be a Soylent Green reference. I wonder what the carbon footprint would be for such an operation? Is Soros already looking into it or what?

I would like to say what

August 27, 2007 - 16:33 ET by AtheistRepublican

I would like to say what the dish should be made of, but I will not reduce myself to using foul language, I shall say it involves a byproduct of a bull, with a side of hot air (haha I'm soooo clever, that like so works on more then one level.. dude).

And I can see it now, Gore

August 27, 2007 - 14:20 ET by Sick-n-Tired

And I can see it now, Gore will endorse the plate, encourage you to eat it, shame you if you don't and then turn around and eat a fatty greasy cheeseburger from the midwest, followed by kobe steak from Japan, coconut shrimp from the Caribbean, Alaskan crab and top it off with a banana split from Hawaii.

Mutton what? What a fat a*s hypocrite.

Actually, may I recommend a

August 27, 2007 - 17:18 ET by Del Dolemonte

Actually, may I recommend a more fattening dessert from Hawaii, namely "Haupia", which is a coconut concoction that can be eaten as a pudding or made into a pie. One cup of Haupia pudding has 38 grams of saturated fat, or almost 200 percent of the daily recommendation. Not to mention almost 600 calories. And yes, that is for a one cup serving.