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Not so much an urban legend, but apparently the 100 pleats on a chef's hat are supposed to represent the amount dishes we cook eggs in.

Noone wears a cartoon chef hat & there's no danger of rhyming off 100 dishes.

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6 minutes ago, Venti said:

Not so much an urban legend, but apparently the 100 pleats on a chef's hat are supposed to represent the amount dishes we cook eggs in.

Noone wears a cartoon chef hat & there's no danger of rhyming off 100 dishes.

 

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10 minutes ago, Venti said:

Not so much an urban legend, but apparently the 100 pleats on a chef's hat are supposed to represent the amount dishes we cook eggs in.

Noone wears a cartoon chef hat & there's no danger of rhyming off 100 dishes.

Do meringues and pavlovas count as different dishes? 

If not, I only know one…

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4 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

Do meringues and pavlovas count as different dishes? 

If not, I only know one…

There's 3 meringues. Italian, Swiss & French.

Different techniques.

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18 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said:

See, we're at 5 already.

Don't do yourself down

Probably a trillion noodle & pasta dishes that obviously contain eggs, so maybe I'm wrong.

(Still won't wear that hat)

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7 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:

I used to have to wear one of those daft hats when I was training to be a chef.

It's probably a big reason why I packed it in.

You used to keep P Bovvy under it & called them Hamstertouille.

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9 hours ago, Suspect Device said:

 

 

I'm studying there just now and have never been told it at uni. I do think I'd heard it somewhere else though. back in the mists of time.

A wee Google backs up the student angle. From the handbook 2008-09,

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My favourite bit about this isn't that they've taken it as fact, but they've specifically written "Adolf Hitler (the dictator)" as if there would be any confusion as to who they meant, or they genuinely thought some students would be thinking "hmmmm, I recognise that name from somewhere...".

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2 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said:

Stanley is Hamstertwoie.

Stanley is our Lord & Saviour. Mascot of Scotland's EURO24 win.

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4 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

Wanking off dogs explains Greyfriar's Bobby's behaviour. The poor mutt was choking for a chug.

I'll tell the tourists they're rubbing the wrong bit of the statue.. 

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Edinburgh: The horse statue of Buccephalus in the City Chambers has pig's ears because the sculptor was ripped off by the Council 

There was meant to be a lift for guest from the North British (Balmoral) Hotel to Waverley Station but I'm not sure where this was exactly

I suppose there is the Glasgow urban myth about the bodies of gangsters holding up the Kingston Bridge. Although Fred West lived in Glasgow and the site of his home is now under the M8 so there are likely to be undiscovered bodies there. 

 

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16 minutes ago, scottsdad said:

Wanking off dogs explains Greyfriar's Bobby's behaviour. The poor mutt was choking for a chug.

A friend at work whose son was a few years younger than mine asked if my son had Greyfriars Bobby*

I replied 'he did, but the cream sorted it out'

I swear she filled her tenna.

*the DVD

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16 minutes ago, tongue_tied_danny said:

I used to work with a fellah who grew up in Blackpool.

He swore blind that there's a kebab shop down there that it a front for a sex trafficking organisation and that murdered prostitutes end up as donner meat.

Two very different ways for them to get you to part with a few quid for a bit of badly packed kebab.

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