Sideswipe: October15: Cooked long enough and it tastes like one

Sideswipe - ana.samways@nzherald.co.nz·NZ Herald·

14 Oct, 2015 04:00 PM3 mins to read

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"My friend is holidaying in Cambodia and posted this photo on his Facebook," writes a reader. "He thinks it should be chicken cordon bleu!" (Snapped on Serendipity Road, Sihanoukville, Cambodia).

This is bad ... no matter how you slice it

Doug bought a supermarket pizza yesterday. "The box said, 'great food starts from real ingredients'. It tasted like cardboard so I looked at the 'real' ingredients list which included: emulsifiers, flavour, enzyme, manufactured bacon products, soy protein, gelling agent, hydrolysed vegetable protein, acidity regulators, stabiliser, preservative, smoke flavour, thickener. These are NOT real ingredients!! Egg or apple are real ingredients. These pizza 'ingredients' are the products of industrial science. Aren't there laws against this?"

Modesty prevails

Fiona spotted a sign on the wall of a bunk room in a Wellington backpackers which read: "Pants on please. Do us all a favour: Keep your pants on until you are about to go to bed."

Up Periscope ...

"I'm so drunk," a Florida driver repeatedly tells followers on the social media app Periscope, staring at her cellphone's camera, mounted on the dashboard, before she is arrested and charged. The Lakeland Police Department released the video, in which Whitney Beall says "I can't even believe I'm Periscoping right now ... I'm driving super drunk right now." Other Periscope users urged her to stop driving. Some called police. "Let's see if I can make it all the way home, people, without a ticket," she said at one point. But an officer logged onto Periscope and located her car. Officers said Beall failed a sobriety test and refused a breath test. She was released on $500 bail. (Via AP)

Bali genuine fakes are the real deal

A reader writes: "For people that don't know, in a place like Bali you can get fakes or genuine fakes - products that completely replicate the genuine article and are very hard to differentiate, if not impossible to see the difference. A fake can have spelling mistakes, etc. When a friend of mine was in Bali he inquired about fakes and had the difference explained to him and went for genuine fakes (a longer bus ride out of town). They were perfect replicas. He purchased rugby and basketball jerseys and was impressed with the quality!"

Case that's hard to crack

Lifeproof case does what the name says. "My iPhone in this fantastic case, fell from my shirt pocket into a 3m-deep tank of very dirty water. As we could not drain the tank right away, I had to wait for at least 28 hours. On draining the tank, there was my iPhone on the bottom of the tank, dry inside with a flat battery. Popped the phone out of the case, plugged in the charger and it was operating again within 15 minutes. The company suggests no more than 1m depth. It has also survived a 4m fall on to concrete."