LONDON (AP) - A slaughterer who may have Britain’s first human case of foot-and-mouth disease in decades accidentally swallowed fluid from a decomposing carcass, the government said Tuesday.
The man, whose name has not been released, was working on the slaughter of diseased animals in Cumbria, a county in northwest England that has been hit hard in Britain’s two-month-old epidemic of the livestock disease. A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said he understood that the man was moving a rotting cattle carcass when it burst, sending fluid into his mouth.
I can guarantee that the fluid wouldn’t have stayed in my mouth long enough to infect me…and I would probably never have beef again in my lifetime either.
I open this up expecting some pithy remark about…oh, I don’t know…say Hollywood remaking Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starring Drew Barrymore and Courtney Cox and I get this shit!
…in an related note, however, he set the new world’s record for projectile vomiting, beating the old record held by the late John Blutarsky of Faber College.
I dlipped through a few old cookbooks I have laying around for just such an occassion and found the following:
Ye Oldde Resipea fore Burstinng Cowwe
ore Bossey withe the Maggots Onn
1513
Firstly, inn the sommer of the yeare tacke yea a sickley Guernsey cowwe
If noe sickley Guernsey cowwe be avail, kille ye onne with a blowwe betwixt the eyes
Tacke your leave of the cowwe fore att leest a fortnite
Leaving yea cowwe inn the fullest sunne
The humorrs of the cowwe will beginne to expand and, if ye be luckie, she shall double, nay tripple, in sizze
Onct the bott flyes and the maggotts have commenced their worke, and youre cowwe be nigh on to putredness, she be readdy to eatte
Approache ye the carcasse fromm upwindage and, grabbing ye the taile of the beaste, proceed to give a goode, hard, tugg
If you’ve prepared her in the proper mannere, she’ll splitte upp the belley withe a sounde most pleasing to your earr
Serve withe potatoes, parsnips, and a harty browne ale
Wille feede 5 too 10, depending upon their hungere
If I’m not mistaken, this is the national dish of Wales.