[Sca-cooks] Vanilla Extract --An Odd Remembrance

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Dec 24, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Daniel Phelps wrote:

> across from me at the table in the galley said "Well now I know I'm  
> back out
> on the seismic boat again."
>
> I said "How is that?"
>
> He replied "The cook's farts smell like cakes."

More importantly, what did his cakes smell like?

> It was true.   The cook was an alky and the boat was dry.  He  
> bought vanilla
> extract in gallon jugs on the company nickel and drank it.  The  
> stuff was
> 35% alcohol... 70 proof.
>
> Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Wassail and a Happy Festivus!

Adamantius



"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils  mangent de la  
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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