Shackleton's 1908 Arctic expeditionary diet

[MrBern]

A restaurant is offering customers the polar opposite of today's healthy diet - a 6,000 calorie menu inspired by an Antarctic explorer.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Health/A-6000-Calorie-Meal-Eaten-By-Shackleton-On-His-Attempt-To-Reach-The-South-Pole-Has-Been-Recreated/Article/200809415106846

Sadly, the penguin stew will be substituted w/ goose.

 

[Mojave Jack]

That's a crazy amount of food! MREs are around 900-1000 calories per meal, I think, and when we were in the Artic Circle they supplemented even that. I think I was eating about 3000-5000 calories per day, though, not per meal! Just thinking about a 20 oz steak puts me into a food coma!

 

[jamespowers]

That's a crazy amount of food! MREs are around 900-1000 calories per meal, I think, and when we were in the Artic Circle they supplemented even that. I think I was eating about 3000-5000 calories per day, though, not per meal! Just thinking about a 20 oz steak puts me into a food coma!

Put the steak in front of me then. I'll take care of it.

 

[Diamondback]

Or me, but that steak would do me for the day. And I'd need an hour's rest afterward while it started digesting...

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[jamespowers]

Or me, but that steak would do me for the day. And I'd need an hour's rest afterward while it started digesting...

I'll just keep going without missing a beat.

 

[Diamondback]

As one of your fellow San Fransickans once said, "A man's gotta know his limitations..."

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[Fletch]

I like steak. I could probably eat 20 oz of it without much trouble (as long as I wasn't obligated to polish off any sides).

Of course, when food ran low, Shackleton's crew turned to dog steaks, and, eventually, to an all-fish diet, which in the end had to be eaten raw.

 

[MrBern]

Dont forget the penguin stew.

 

[MrBern]

I couldnt imagine finishing all that off w/ the vanilla shake....

 

[Mojito]

As long as you don't wind up on the Scott-1912-Polar-Expedition diet!

Or - even worse - the Mawson-1912-Post-Losing-Supplies-and-Lt-Ninnis-down-a-crevasse diet. That's the one where you travel on, killing one dog at a time and eating every scrap you possibly can while slowing going mad from the resulting vitamin A poisoning.

 

[Fletch]

The top/bottom of the world ain't for sissies, hmm?

 

[Diamondback]

Hence the solution I'm thinking of for a character I'm writing who needs an out-of-the-way location for his lair: if you could get to Mt. Erebus and tap its volcanic energy, sinking geothermal turbines for power and steam-pipes for heat... then all you gotta worry about's the food and the commute.

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[MrBern]

inuit arctic knife

I read this recently & it struck me as more amazing than any sci-fi lightsabre, klingon sword myth:


http://www.boingboing.net/2008/09/26/wade-davis-an-inuit.html

The Inuit didn’t fear the cold; they took advantage of it. During the 1950s the Canadian government forced the Inuit into settlements. A family from Arctic Bay told me this fantastic story of their grandfather who refused to go. The family, fearful for his life, took away all of his tools and all of his implements, thinking that would force him into the settlement. But instead, he just slipped out of an igloo on a cold Arctic night, pulled down his caribou and sealskin trousers, and defecated into his hand. As the feces began to freeze, he shaped it into the form of an implement. And when the blade started to take shape, he put a spray of saliva along the leading edge to sharpen it. That’s when the “shite knife” took form. He used it to butcher a dog. Skinned the dog with it. Improvised a sled with the dog’s rib cage, and then, using the skin, he harnessed up an adjacent living dog. He put the knife in his belt and disappeared into the night.

 

[MrBern]

The top/bottom of the world ain't for sissies, hmm?

Well its all melting so theres not as much trick to navigating those treacherous ice floes.

 

[BellyTank]

Poo!
I wouldn't wanna get stabbed with that knife!


B
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[jamespowers]

As one of your fellow San Fransickans once said, "A man's gotta know his limitations..."

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I am NOT a San Franciscan---thank God.
I know my limitations and 20 ounces is like drinking a glass of water.

 

[jamespowers]

I couldnt imagine finishing all that off w/ the vanilla shake....

I could. MMMMM MMMMMM!

 

[Story]

A restaurant is offering customers the polar opposite of today's healthy diet - a 6,000 calorie menu inspired by an Antarctic explorer.

The only drawback is that the tables are set up in the meat freezer and you have to wear a filthy Anorak during the meal.

 

[jamespowers]

The only drawback is that the tables are set up in the meat freezer and you have to wear a filthy Anorak during the meal.

Is it really cheap though? You could still pack them in if it is a cheap meal.

 

[MrBern]

The only drawback is that the tables are set up in the meat freezer and you have to wear a filthy Anorak during the meal.

That would be great. A big Fedora Lounge Adventurer outdoor picnic in FEBRUARY. With some luck it would snow. How about Valentines Day?