Charnay

Oh, deadliest of fruits, cruelest of delecacies..! Calling a Charnay just a great tasting fruit is an insult!! It's an experience of taste buds, empowered by the massive amount of adrenaline that flows through your body...

Unripe Charnay, still red. When they ripe,
they turn purple

It is chemically proven that the taste of Charnay is intensified by the high levels of adrenaline rushing through your veins when consuming Charnay. Modern technology is now capable of producing Charnays without any poison, but their taste is nowhere near the real thing.

Although the price for Charnay is immense, people keep asking for it and preparing a Charnay is still a rare trade. It requires exceptional skill, experience and special tools to eliminate the poison and present the purplish meat of this deadly fruit.

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- From "Eating out with a bang!", a series of articles published in "Taste!"

Fashion

What is fashion? It is at its best a dubious commercial tool, at its worst a very powerful psychological handle to make people behave in a specific way and exploit their will to fit in with the herd...

Do we really care whether skin dye should be red or pale yellowish? Should men wear sloppy hats and tight jackets and trousers of which the latter have rather dubious effects on their reproductive capabilities?

My answer is a stringent "no"...

- Thor Winterbummel, 12th Lord of Poplar Lane Estates - Sparky's Haven, individualist and free thinker.