Do YOU Think I Could Survive on Spanish Extra-Virgin Olive Oil?

[Chomper Higgot]

I can say with some certainty that you could survive at least 3 months.

 

My first duty post Saudi Arabia was several hours drive from a supermarket, I nearly starved on my first 3 month tour.

 

My second stint I found a supply of Spanish Extra Virgin Olive Oil which I used to consume with Saudi unleavened bread and black pepper.

 

I eventually found a hole the wall bakery where you paid at one window and collected your piping hot bread straight out of the oven at a second window.

 

I had picnic kit in my Land Cruiser, a folding lap table, a bowl for the oil and a plate for the hot bread.

 

Absolutely delicious.

 

Although you might need therapy to wean you off it after a few months.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

Here's a question for you... 

 

How many times do you think I rowed back and forth under the Strawberry Mansion Bridge? 

 

Powered mostly by Extra-virgin Olive oil, sucked from a jug we kept between the coxswain's knees... 

 

Try rowing in the dead of winter without it, while the ice from the Schuylkill builds on the oar locks, and flurries of snow is all to be seen, in the grey bleakness of a late afternoon.

 

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

24 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

I can say with some certainty that you could survive at least 3 months.

 

My first duty post Saudi Arabia was several hours drive from a supermarket, I nearly starved on my first 3 month tour.

 

My second stint I found a supply of Spanish Extra Virgin Olive Oil which I used to consume with Saudi unleavened bread and black pepper.

 

I eventually found a hole the wall bakery where you paid at one window and collected your piping hot bread straight out of the oven at a second window.

 

I had picnic kit in my Land Cruiser, a folding lap table, a bowl for the oil and a plate for the hot bread.

 

Absolutely delicious.

 

Although you might need therapy to wean you off it after a few months.

 

 

 

BEST comment I have ever read on TV. 

 

 

[Golden Triangle]

I just wish you would just fade away. You have to be THE most boring fart on the forum.

[GammaGlobulin]

7 minutes ago, Golden Triangle said:

I just wish you would just fade away. You have to be THE most boring fart on the forum.

 

Surely, you cannot be serious. 

 

I have read at least one comment here more boring than mine. 

 

 

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

17 hours ago, save the frogs said:

you are arrogant and self-absorbed and most of your topics and comments have litte relevance to anyone around you. 

 

 

You are correct that there is no one around me. 

 

As we age, those we once knew and loved seem to keep departing, like the ten little Indians... 

 

And someday soon, there will be none. 

 

And so I say.... Thank God for Noam Chomsky!!! 

 

At 94, he remains STRONG. 

 

Noam still remains a beacon of logic in this world. 

 

Noam is my fellow-alumnus, you know. 

 

And, I would wash his feet, if asked. 

 

 

 

[save the frogs]

49 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

You are correct that there is no one around me. 

 

As we age, those we once knew and loved seem to keep departing, like the ten little Indians... 

 

And someday soon, there will be none. 

 

And so I say.... Thank God for Noam Chomsky!!! 

 

At 94, he remains STRONG. 

 

Noam still remains a beacon of logic in this world. 

 

Noam is my fellow-alumnus, you know. 

 

And, I would wash his feet, if asked. 

 

 

 

noam chomsky is over-rated

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, save the frogs said:

noam chomsky is over-rated

 

Compared to whom? 

 

Examples, PLEASE! 

 

 

[sirineou]

On 10/22/2023 at 6:42 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

I am thinking about trying to survive on nothing but Spanish Extra-Virgin Olive Oil?

Certainly nor Spanish extra-virgin oils, Perhaps Greek extra virgin oil  and maybe Italian , but certainly not Spanish.

though  you certainly would be well lubricated. 

    But I have a question. Has anyone ever bought Virgin olive oil? It all seems to be Extra Virgin.

How does one become "Extra Virgin"?

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Edited October 23, 2023 by sirineou
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[sirineou]

4 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

How many times do you think I rowed back and forth under the Strawberry Mansion Bridge? 

Since you have only one oar in the water, I am willing to say many. To be honest I am not sure how you even got out from under it. 

You did get out from under it. Right?

Edited October 23, 2023 by sirineou

[Captain Monday]

9 hours ago, GammaGlobulin said:

Did you ever solve your problem with ANKI? 

 

As I recall, your problem with ANKI centered around a Thai vowel. 

 

Things of import, such as this, I find difficult to forget. 

 

Perhaps you should make one more donation to ANKI, for old times' sake...? 

 

 

I do not recall that. ANKI is a flashcard study app? I do not recall using it to study Thai.

I tried to use it recently to study the LIMITATIONS section for a new airliner I am being trained on.

[Captain Monday]

On 10/22/2023 at 9:14 PM, save the frogs said:

they should have a "most useless and pointless thread of the year" award. 

 

 

That would have been your thread suggesting that the world is flat because of "flight routes"

[save the frogs]

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

 

Compared to whom? 

 

Examples, PLEASE! 

 

 

when running out of crap to talk about, Chomsky is a good safe topic to fall back on. 

 

to get back on your nonsensical topic. 

 

tinned food ie sardines was invented for times of emergency ... so tinned food is emergency food, not olive oil. 

 

then I decided to look up how long can the human body survive without protein and found this. 

 

https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/full-article/protein#:~:text=We can live a whole,days without eating any protein.

 

We can live a whole lifetime (after infancy) without eating any carbohydrate, and we can live for 6 months or more without eating any fat, depending on how much fat we have on our bodies to begin with. However, we have no way to store proteins and can only live for a maximum of 70 days without eating any protein.

 

 

Edited October 23, 2023 by save the frogs

[GammaGlobulin]

1 hour ago, Captain Monday said:

I do not recall that. ANKI is a flashcard study app? I do not recall using it to study Thai.

I tried to use it recently to study the LIMITATIONS section for a new airliner I am being trained on.

 

Bon Voyage!

Happy Landings!

 

See you in New Jersey, maybe....?

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

3 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

when running out of crap to talk about, Chomsky is a good safe topic to fall back on. 

 

to get back on your nonsensical topic. 

 

tinned food ie sardines was invented for times of emergency ... so tinned food is emergency food, not olive oil. 

 

then I decided to look up how long can the human body survive without protein and found this. 

 

https://www.diagnosisdiet.com/full-article/protein#:~:text=We can live a whole,days without eating any protein.

 

We can live a whole lifetime (after infancy) without eating any carbohydrate, and we can live for 6 months or more without eating any fat, depending on how much fat we have on our bodies to begin with. However, we have no way to store proteins and can only live for a maximum of 70 days without eating any protein.

 

 

 

Yes...but....

 

 

 

[save the frogs]

[ChrisP24]

If you tried but instead used Spanish sardines preserved in the stuff together with a sliver of carrot, pickle and chili added to each tin, I think you'd survive longer (and better).

 

I personally could live for a very long time on the Portuguese sardine version of that, mixed with rice, although I imagine the nutritional profile is missing some things, the effects of which would become apparent by a month or two. 

[observer90210]

Would it not suffice to plainly cook in Olive Oil and thus avoid the body of being deprived of regular healthy food ?

[ChrisKC]

This sketch is far too silly!

[brianthainess]

On 10/22/2023 at 6:42 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

And, if you do not know, Spanish Extra-Virgin Olive oil is pretty spicy, and has a BITE to it.

Mix some Marmite or Vegemite in it Glob, just to add a bit more flavor.  Enjoy 

Edited October 24, 2023 by brianthainess

[brianthainess]

On 10/22/2023 at 7:55 PM, KannikaP said:

This must be the craziest, pointless post anyone has ever put up on A Now. 

It used to be an informative, fairly sensible forum, but this takes the biscuit.

Oh come on 

[brianthainess]

On 10/22/2023 at 7:59 PM, GammaGlobulin said:

No biscuits for me, these days....

 

ONLY virgin....

 

Most biscuits, these days, are NOT virgins, as you know...

 

 

So who took all the biscuits? Ah the Cookie Monster