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I'Ll Have the Cream of Wheat With Breast Milk, Please
Offbeat  (tags: breast milk, Switzerland, restaurant, menu )

RC
- 439 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Urk...now this is bizarre. A Swiss restaurant is featuring food cooked with human breast milk. I think I'll go to the McDonald's down the street.
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Woman Finds 26 Pearls in Single Oyster
Offbeat  (tags: odd, oyster, pearls, record, ocean, restaurant, Lebanon. food )

Tom
- 448 days ago - theage.com.au
A Lebanese woman working in a restaurant kitchen found 26 pearls in an oyster she was preparing for the table and is to submit the find to the Guinness Book of Records. "I was in the process of opening the shells when I found a number of shining pearls."
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The Moment a Diner Sent Back An £18,000 Bottle of Wine - for Being 'Fake'
Offbeat  (tags: petrus, wine, expensive, fake, magnum, odd, weird, knightsbridge, london, uk, britain, michelin, restaurant, cassini )

Cissy
- 661 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
It was a moment to make the most experienced sommelier gasp with horror. Normally when a favoured wealthy customer orders a magnum of Pétrus 1961, appreciative purrs of pleasure are expected to follow.
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Waiter Gets $8,000 For Returning Lost Wallet - News Story - WVIT | Hartford
Offbeat  (tags: honesty, lost wallet, restaurant )


- 747 days ago - nbc30.com
Rhode Island Resident Left Wallet In Restaurant Booth. Honesty has its rewards!
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Chili Peppers Cause Chemical Scare in London - Washingtonpost.Com
Offbeat  (tags: London, Soho, restaurant, Thai, chilis, chemical, scare, police, firefighters )

Jean
- 787 days ago - washingtonpost.com
A Thai restaurant's potent homemade chili sauce caused a chemical scare in London. Police shut streets; firefighters forced to smash down the door. Streets were cordoned off outside the Thai Cottage restaurant in London's Soho theatre/ nightlife district.
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In Italy, Battle Over Garlic Is Raging
Offbeat  (tags: Restaurant, Italy, health, garlic, food markets )

Brian
- 824 days ago - projo.com
"I will never use garlic!" declares the Sicilian chef of Filippo La Mantia's hip restaurant in Rome. Garlic is the king of the kitchen," says Antonello Colonna a prominent Italian chef. "To eliminate it is like eliminating violins from an orchestra."
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