The Machinery of Night

Posted 1:07 PM by Angie Schultz

Weapons of Mass Dessertion

The other day Instapundit thought he was being funny:

T'S EASIER TO GET SPOTTED DICK THAN YOU THINK, even in America. Consider yourself warned!

Oh, like who didn't know that spotted dick was a British dish, and not an embarrassing medical condition (not that there's much difference -- ba dum dump!).

Here's a quiz: which of these is NOT a type of British food?:

Bubble and Squeak
Toad in the hole
Cock-a-leekie
Hundreds and Thousands
Pasties

Give up? Good. Because they all are. Ha ha!

But this part is disturbing: you go[1] to the Amazon page that Glenn linked (for the six pack of spotted dick), and you get "Customers Who Viewed This Item Also Viewed..."

The 300g single-can of spotted dick. For those who want to ease into weirdly-named foods.
Heinz beans with tomato sauce. The Heinz corporation puts in another ominous appearance. Is John Kerry involved?
Jello "Americana Egg Custard" pudding. Getting back to the pudding theme.

Aaand:

Uranium Ore. 1 used & new from $22.95. Not eligible for Amazon Prime. Sorry.

Perhaps the uranium ore is used to treat the spotted dick.

Read the reviews. Here's a sample:

First, I'm not sure what the abundance of U-238 is in this sample. In any case, if you want this for "experimenting," note that this is NOT the U-235 that you probably should be looking for...

Did Saddam Hussein know about this?

[1]Rather, if you went yesterday you could see this. Apparently Glenn has craftily arranged to obscure the sinister uranium-spotted dick connection.

Right now, uranium-viewers are exhibiting a positively creepy penchant for lacy underthings. Mahmoud, you scamp!