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Geek Food: A Cookbook for the Technologically Inclined

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the alka-seltzer-not-included dept.

thaen writes: "Might want to check out the latest offering from arstechnica.com. Somebody has compiled a 51-page book of recipes written by geeks, for geeks, and originally posted in the arstechnica 'Lounge' forum. Mmmm...the omelette..." I seriously hope that the macaroni and cheese recipe really needs "tabasco sauce", rather than "tobacco sauce", because I can't even imagine... no. Not going to think about it.

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  1. seems a little long by seinman · · Score: 4, Funny

    who needs 51 pages to call up pizza hut?

    1. Re:seems a little long by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      ... or to walk down the hall and grab a twinkie and a Code Red.

    2. Re:seems a little long by guttentag · · Score: 2, Funny
      who needs 51 pages to call up pizza hut?
      No one. "Easy Pizza" is on page 11.

      That's much more efficient than my local Yellow Pages... I have to read through the first 364 pages before I get to "Pizza Hut."

    3. Re:seems a little long by cheezedawg · · Score: 2, Funny

      I have to read through the first 364 pages before I get to "Pizza Hut."

      Maybe you should consider a binary search instead of a sequential search. That would narrow it down to about 6-8 pages for pizza hut.

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    4. Re:seems a little long by invenustus · · Score: 2, Funny

      Maybe he has an unsorted phonebook. Then you have no option but linear search.

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  2. Geek Food by Brit+Aviator · · Score: 3, Funny

    This assumes, of course, that geeks are willing to brave anything even resembling a kitchen. Most people I know of the technical inclination much prefer something that either a) comes in a bag or b) gets delivered to your table. After all, geeks have far more important things to use their brain power on, such as....er....um....yeah.

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    1. Re:Geek Food by motox · · Score: 3, Funny

      italian geeks cook well :)
      Personally i love cooking, it creatively relaxes my mind and after a day spent on a cold computer an hot meal its really something. People should try good food sometimes instead of their "cold pizza"...

  3. It's not for geeks unless by Pyromage · · Score: 3, Funny

    it's 42 or 64 pages long!

  4. Look ma, I can use the microwave by Neoplane+Overlord · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow. A book on how to cook 51 different types of HotPockets.

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  5. Yay! by Greyfox · · Score: 3, Funny

    I will master the art of cooking using this book and challenge Iron Chef Morimoto!

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    1. Re:Yay! by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

      Quotes from that episode:

      "Now Iron Chef Geek appears to be marinating the Mishima beef in some sort of brown mixture..is that soy sauce? Now he's coating it in what looks like flour..."

      "Fukui-san!"

      "Go ahead, Ohta-san."

      "The Iron Chef Geek is soaking the beef in Jolt cola, then coating it in crushed penguin mints."

      "Now that's just disgusting."

  6. Oh my God! by Accipiter · · Score: 5, Funny


    I seriously hope that the macaroni and cheese recipe really needs "tabasco sauce", rather than "tobacco sauce", because I can't even imagine... no. Not going to think about it.

    Dear Lord. A Slashdot editor griping about Spelling.

    Did I get off on the wrong planet?

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    1. Re:Oh my God! by Dahan · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is it irony for the irony nazi to misspell "hypocritical" while discussing spelling mistakes?

    2. Re:Oh my God! by irony+nazi · · Score: 2, Funny
      Actually...

      The irony situation is that the parent comment is criticizing the /. editors for criticizing somebody's misspelling.

      The irony nazi, who is beautiful and deserves a +999 all time funniest, was incorrectly pointing out that the situation is not ironic. The irony nazi (me) is wrong. It is ironic at so many levels.

      The deep irony of the situation is that I don't even know what irony is. I created this account to reprimend people who would point out the grammar nazi's mistakes. That fact that I misspelled hypocritical was an honest mistake.

      Now, that's ironic!

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  7. pdf? by rnb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, thanks for putting standard text into a 500k pdf. Seriously.

  8. Tobacco Sauce by JohnG · · Score: 5, Funny
    Big Tobacco doesn't want you to know this, but Philip Morris has been adding tobacco sauce to their kraft macaroni and cheese for some time now, in hopes of getting younger children addicted earlier.
    Truth is contagious; Infect-truth.

    DISCLAIMER:This parody is in no way associated with Infect-truth or truth.com. Had this been a really infect-truth commercial, it would have been much less logical.

  9. Re:Oh my God! (forgive my offtopic reply, but...) by diesel_jackass · · Score: 2, Funny

    hehe. all this talk about food and planets reminded me of a story about this chick i know.

    back in my high school days when half my friends worked at McD's, a friend of mine's sister was being teased because she was (still is) an airhead. upon being asked what planet she was from, she angrily replied "America".

    anyways, i thought it would be good for a chuckle.

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  10. Re:Proof that geeks are normal people by Skirwan · · Score: 2, Funny
    Disclaimer: I did not read the whole thing.
    [...]
    Blast, I always wanted to be abnormal
    I'm not gonna say it, I'm not gonna say it...

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  11. Enjoy unblocked arteries while you can... by EvlPenguin · · Score: 4, Funny

    All I can say is... "ewwwww".

    Check out the "Breakfast Sandwich" on page 2. It involves frying a bagel and eggs in bacon grease! This gives you: greasy bagel/cheese/eggs/cheese/bacon/greasy bagel. A noxious concoction which would probably not only turn any surrounding napkins translucent with lipids, but maybe even the table itself. You may as well lick a Lard Pop (tm) every morning while drinking your coffee mixed with olive oil and Crisco.

    This sort of stuff makes me proud to be a vegatarian.

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  12. Bad selection of geek food by AtomicBomb · · Score: 2, Funny
    Garbage in, Garbage out. Geeks need to have a balanced diet.
    As illustrated by legendary PhD student Mike Slackenerny , a balanced diet consists of four main food groups (anyway, where is my beer???):

    Sugar food

    Caffeinated food

    Fat food

    Free food!!!
    The slashdotted recipe seems to have too much junk. I think most of us can survive on Coke/coffee, taco/potato chips and instant noodle ;-) Who need fruit, vegetable or milk?

    (Well, straightly speaking, these are refering to postgrad students. But, I think the scope can be extended a bit.)

  13. Re:Oh my God! (forgive my offtopic reply, but...) by daniel_isaacs · · Score: 2, Funny

    Heh. I knew a chick in high school that thought Lake Erie was the Atlantic Ocean.

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  14. DotCom Cookies by testuser58 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Ingredients:
    • Large Oven
    • $50 Million
    Directions
    1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees
    2. Shovel money into the oven
    3. Stick your head in oven to check temperature
    4. If you're still reading this, check the temperature again.
  15. "The Pile Driver" by wagadog · · Score: 2, Funny

    A yogurt shake + wheat germ & bran flakes, wash it down with 1 large cup of hot black coffee. We used to call this combo The Pile-Driver . Try it, you'll find out why!