Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Mandatory Churrocide

Another of The Man's plans to keep the common people down:
Chile's Supreme Court has ordered a newspaper to pay $125,000 to 13 people who suffered burns while trying out a published recipe for churros, a popular Latin American snack of dough fried in hot oil.

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Days after the recipe was published in the paper's "Woman" magazine in 2004, hospitals around the country began treating women for burns suffered when the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.

14 comments:

bbkf said...

oh, ha! when i read the first sentence, i was thinking of the restaurant...

and there may be no finer end to a sentence than "when the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots."

Substance McGravitas said...

The young pony took its first tottering steps when the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.

M. Bouffant said...

This is the kind of cooking story that warms the cockles of my evil heart.

WV sez I'm under "arrej."

Substance McGravitas said...

M. Bouffant's cockles were warming when the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.

Dr.KennethNoisewater said...

Can't imagine why this story's of interest to you

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Recipes, like jokes, can kill.
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ckc (not kc) said...

...say, you know what I'd like tonight? - dough fried in hot oil!! (go easy on the nutrients)

wv ovenglyz - only apply this when you want that special coating

Smut Clyde said...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the dough boiling in oil suddenly shot out of kitchen pots.

fish said...

Ann Althouse is so nonpartisan that the dough and the oil shot out of the cooking pot.

El Manquécito said...

Isn't this just a version of <a href = "http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/defective-propane-turkey-fryers-1379964.html>turkey fryer lawsuits in the States</a>? If their tort system was up to standards there'd be samosa lawsuits in India and Gereral Tso's chicken lawsuits in China.

wv sez to make some torogies

wiley said...

See what food porn gets ya?

Substance McGravitas said...

Isn't this just a version of turkey fryer lawsuits in the States?

I dunno, it's more like problems with instructions rather than problems with technology.

El Manquécito said...

See what food porn gets ya?

Tag fail and typos?

Dr.KennethNoisewater said...

I dunno, it's more like problems with instructions

BWAHAHAHAHA!

Yeah, and there's that whole "don't put a frozen turkey in boiling oil" rule people forget.