Salt? Pepper? iPod?

If iPods had existed in my youth, my Mom would never have put up with them at the table. There was to be no TV, no radio, no books, no magazines. Dinner time was dinner time and that was the end of it. Times have changed. Today, table-side iPod use has apparently become a common manners problem.

Not so at the Fat Duck restaurant, where customers will be encouraged to wear iPods while dining. The Fat Duck Chef, Heston Blumenthal, intends to use iPods to enhance the dining experience. Customers will listen to recordings of breaking waves while eating to make oysters taste stronger and saltier. The restaurant will provide the iPods.

In other duck-related Apple news, a man was charged following a iPod speaker theft that involved shoplifting, car assault, and a duck.

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Source: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1004/1004645_f…

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emily.

The article is okay, but where did you get the picture for this post? That's really cool.

April 29 2007 at 12:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brian

3 things:

"If iPods had existed in my youth, my Mom would never have put up with them at the table."

Walkmans (Walkmen?) existed back then, and that's pretty much the same thing. Shouldn't be a controversy, the answer is 'no.'

This restaurant scheme is dopey.

And as for listening to music while eating in general, a favorite phrase of mine is "Listening to music while eating is an insult to the composer and the chef."

April 18 2007 at 10:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Donald Burr

AFLAC!!!!!

April 17 2007 at 5:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan Ford

"An example of what a duck looks like."

That had me in stitches!

April 17 2007 at 4:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply