Animal style.
And oh bother. Sharks. Am I right? But this is the time of year, usually, when Californians wipe their brows and bid adieu to our Great White population as they head for warmer Mexican waters to winter properly. 2020 though, and there have never been more apex predators sticking around California.
Chris Lowe, the director of the shark lab at California State University, Long Beach, has tagged a record 38 sharks which already triples the number that were tagged last year.
He says, “Normally they’d be leaving by now, but instead we are seeing more sharks than ever.”
David Ebert, who directs the Pacific Shark Research Center at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, agrees with Lowe’s assessment.
He says, “There are so many people in the water: you have paddleboards, kayaks, wetsuits, but the number of attacks hasn’t really changed. That tells you that people are not on the menu, they’re not out here hunting people.”
Which makes me very scared for everyone knows that the epicureanly most adventurous rarely order off the menu but force kitchen staff to innovate, to experiment, to push the very bar.
Like, when I go to In-n-Out hamburgers, for example, I never order a hamburger, cheeseburger or double-double, which are the only items on the menu.
No.
One time I ordered a five-by-five, five meats on top of five cheeses.
I often order “animal style,” grilled onions, secret sauce.
Stretching the chefs. Pushing them near their breaking point all for the sake of culinary excellence.
Are people “animal style” for Great Whites?
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expect another socal death by shark this winter
Ignoring the click bait nature of this article for a moment Chas what is the story with that fucken photo, is it a still from a Jaws style movie or is it legit?
Clark Kent’s going old school.
Eat me!
Jen C……?
“You are what you eat” is a hackneyed trope pushed out by the boring left/right.
That photo is the most chilling frame grab ever. And your use of o dat is completely racist.
We need something like this, but to scare off Noahs.
https://www.theguardian.com…
How are the wetsuits getting out in the water? I mean, I can understand paddleboards and kayaks. Are the wetsuits being blown out by offshore winds?
If you can’t put it
On a pizza it’s not worth
Hunting and killing
Human beef yucky
Pizzas are a true art form
Kelly Slater yuk.
With California this flat, the sharks are going hungry.
Meanwhile, Florida is pumping.
La Nina setting up, Astro get your shit ready man.
La Niña normally means heaps of swell destroyed by constant n, ne or e winds.
It’s a crime – but there ya have it. Always the wind in nz ……
Okey dokey amigo. If you say so.
I’ll be round after Waitangi Day.
But have you ever ordered off Jared Fogles ‘secret sub’ menu ?
Sorry Chas, but the only Chris Lowe that exist in my world is one who is in a little musical group called PSB.
Pet Shop Boys for those out of touch.
In the supermarket and Haircut 100 played ambiently….
Have had that song in my head now for two days.
So I clicked Youtube to have a look and whaddaya know, the song is barely 3 minutes long. I remember in the club that once you heard that guitar it was going to drag on for 30 minutes easy. Then Rock the Casbah would play the first notes and I’d be out the fucking door on that 30 minute bullshit version. I think it was the way the DJ could take an hour break.
Saw the Clash when I was 15.
Unfortunately it was their Combat Rock tour.
Have a read of Joe’s life if you get the chance. Pretty interesting.
We were punks at that time… Clash was seen as “rough new wave” at best. We compared everything with the Screamers/TSOL/DK’s. Funny period in life, everything had to be “rad”.
Will check out his story… thanks for the lead.
Not sure if you have any interest, but I would rank 24 Hour Party People as one of my top 5 movies.
Yo Hip, you ever see D.I. play? Cali punk at its absolute finest!
late to the party bro… by ’85 I was back on the zeppelin.
didn’t like the music either… sounded like pop off ST.
I was friends with a guitar player in High School that formed The Descendants and friends with the original bass player for Suicidal Tendencies. So after I “grew” up… heheeeheee….. concentrated mostly on them if I went to punk shows. The gang thing with FFF got gnarly (knew a few of those guys from Malibu) and the scenes died when clubs would no longer book em.
TSOL was the/my “post” punk band early 80’s. the masque in hollywood was the real deal, but I will say the music got better early 80’s. once Grisham left, TSOL was done until Jack Mc Coy figured it out… interesting band career arc.
one band that kicked ass the entire time was DK’s…. but same issues with clubs and the warehouse shows were ruined by the fire dept.
if you like that history, there was a Golden Voice gig at the Olympic Auditorium… Distorted was a headliner if I recall. man Waterproof, it was so violent getting into the venue, the police were bombed with beer bottles and what a mess. i remember the melee outside and getting pulled out by a sheriff during a fist fight and running away because the Sheriff got hit by a folding chair. bad hood too…. the crips were trolling the periphery watching white youth rioting. damn if only we had cell phones, man the footage. it was like every punk gang in LA/OC counties converged.
there was a gig in inland OC too… La habra? hazy for me, but the Sheriff were there as we arrived and the scene basically suffocated because no one could book the shows.
fun times though. i had a cousin from Chicago visiting my mom and took him to a show. ended up getting stitches extracting him from a altercation, took a sucker punch to the eyebrow. he was so freaked out and to this day, he mentions it as proof that i am crazy. he’s driving to the ER and asking me if surfing is as dangerous and all i could tell him was that he should come with me to Ox the next day and he wanted nothing to do with it.
Love it Hippy!
I’m a generation below you so got into all the bands you mentioned in the 90’s. Fuck man, sounds like a wild scene, proper punk rock. You know you were doing it right if the crips were just standing back watching the punks go nuts!
I’d love to have a beer with you and hear about more the Cali punk history you were a part of! I legit love that era of punk, it’s so influential on music even to this day.
A gay couple started up a high end pet store down the local shops. They’re known as the ‘Pet Shop Boys’.
Hamsters specialists?
Please no
Nah. It’s Noosa adjacent. They do stuff like doggy ice cream, flash beds and collars and the like. Making an absolute killing…
Gerbils too.
Pretty sure the PSBs had friends who worked at a pet shop and they took the name.
You may already know this, but this ties in to how the Wuhan Virus came to be.
Animal style fries are overrated
I completely agree.
It seems quite fitting that “animal style hamburger” would be considered American haute cuisine.
You haven’t lived till you’ve eaten a bison burger.
Certainly sounds better than the exotic epicurean experience of ordering off menu at a burger chain or chicken nuggets, pop tarts, lunchables or hot pockets.
I suppose you get some gourmand in the know street credibility from the kid working the drive by ordering off menu at a hamburger chain, there is one in Paris, considering the other food choices offered I think I will pass.
Bison tartare?
You sure know a lot about fast food.
Omnipresent even in rural France.
Delicious.
Bison Rib Eye too Otto…. tell you what, you kill I grill.
What about anime style burgers?
Likely that idea has been explored.
Waifu beef patty?
Is the cover pic from that beautiful film short with some dude filming solo in eerie murk? Forgotten it’s name. What’s it called? Called do with watching it again.
Ron Elliot, Near Miss. Costs money to watch now.
David should ask Ben Kelly what he thinks about that menu.
In n Out burger. The most Christianly path to heart disease.