Being a charter member of the LSGNA Collaboration, I just can’t pass this one up! The Americas Summit (34 nations, including the US) is convening this weekend in Mar del Plata, Argentina. And the security force has been waylaid by a rabid lasagna….70 members, and counting, of the armed security team are down. What a great tactic! I am surprsied more people throughout history have not thought of mass quantities of lasagna as a weapon of mass destruction. The hotel serving the questionable lasagna used to be a favorite dining haunt for the local police squad. Wanna bet they’re busy right now checking the local guide for other places? Who knows, perhaps “W” will have a hankering for Argentinian lasagna and follow in his father’s footsteps.
PS: LSGNA = Large Super Giant New Accelerator. The collaboration formed in 1992. It meets sporadically, and ingests its favorite food along with large quantities of wine. We have our own theme song and enjoy pink flamingoes.
Correction: A collaboration member has reminded me that my memory is failing….the LSGNA collaboration formed in June 1993, not 1992. Being a major lifetime event, you would think I’d remember it correctly.
November 3rd, 2005 at 12:14 am
Being the cook for the LSGNA Collaboration I always endeavour to avoid outcomes such as this & have been successful so far. This is especially difficult at high altitudes while drinking wine…
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:39 am
It appears from the article that some of the security forces some super giant accerations of their own.
Elliot
November 3rd, 2005 at 10:39 am
sorry that should have been accelerations.
November 3rd, 2005 at 2:26 pm
JoAnne: Have you ever read “A Debt to Pleasure” by John Lanchester? I ask because the introduction of pink flamingoes into a discussion centred on food reminded me of this passage:
‘ ‘Ooh, that looks nice,’ she would say. ‘Lovely and pink,’ she would sometimes add, a weakness for the colour pink being an infallible sign of the defective taste one associates with certain groups and individuals: the British working classes, grand French restaurateurs, Indian street-poster designers and God, whose fatal susceptibility for the colour is so apparent in the most lavishly cinematic instances of his handiwork (sunsets, flamingos).’
Despite being a little disappointed to hear that I have defective taste, I highly recommend this book – extremely funny, and mouthwatering descriptions of food (including recipes).
November 3rd, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Is that pink flamingoes the movie or the ornament?
November 3rd, 2005 at 4:43 pm
Debt to Pleasure is one of my all-time favorite books. Wouldn’t place much stock in the recipes, though.
November 3rd, 2005 at 4:48 pm
Sean – Well, I think the amount of stock required for each recipe is probably detailed…
I have never tested any out myself either – not a big fan of Irish stew, which I seem to remember was one of them…
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:08 pm
Debt to Pleasure is a fantastic book.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:12 pm
Wow! It is a coincidence that so many of the CV hosts love Debt to Pleasure? I love it!
-cvj
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:16 pm
Sean turned me on to it some years ago. I then read Mr. Phillips which is also a fine book by Lanchester.
November 3rd, 2005 at 5:44 pm
Not being a literary giant, I have never read Debt to Pleasure. However, any book that combines food with pink flamingoes must have something going for it!
November 3rd, 2005 at 6:39 pm
Mr Phillips is also great!
(JoAnne, I’m just a literary dwarf. I just happene to like a good read, like the next dwarf.)
-cvj
November 4th, 2005 at 4:29 pm
um. noone else has pointed out that gleeful posts about the poisoning of police officers aren’t really nice things to do? Those police officers are not at all responsible for Bush’s foreign policies.