Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 14, 2023

That beef is going to need some tenderizing.

Luxor Safeway, Meat Department Manager’s Special Beef Shoulder 50% off.

Pretty sure I saw that Gunbu on a Star Trek episode.

Jerky made The Old School Way ;-)

That’s a long time to keep a shoulder of beef refrigerated.

If Clara Peller were still alive….

Did Dickens go looking for the ghosts of Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Yet To Come?

I did not know that about Dickens.

You can get a Goomba a lot cheaper!

I thought yartsa gunbu was a disease you get from wearing wet tennis shoes. Hmm.. you learn something every day.

May untoward be with you as they are with he, and gesundheit.

A few years ago I saw a documentary where students investigated dump sides from the 1950s. They found some welded in meat wich dated to 1970. They took it to the laboratory and found out that it still was eadible. I can’t remember if anybody was brave enough to take a bite. But anyway, it is very astonishing, isn’t it?

Who you gonna call, Charles Dickens?

Ummmm……OK, they might have been able to keep that meat from rotting but somehow I doubt that it would be any good if it was cooked and eaten. It’s gotta taste gross. I had a friend that worked for a company that made desiccants (those things you find in pill containers and other things that say “do not eat”) and at a picnic, visitors could tour the plant. I went on that and they actually had a cookie there with a desiccant and the cookie hadn’t molded or anything in the five years they had it. But the guide also said it probably still wouldn’t be suitable for consumption.

And I was previously impressed with 2,000 year old food preserved with the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Anyone want to make some medicinal condiments to go with an aged beef shoulder? Ingredients are on me!

Anybody who eats parasitic fungi has clearly not been watching The Last of Us. Do you want a zombie fungus apocalypse? Because that’s how you get a zombie fungus apocalypse.

Sure- give me an astronomically priced parasitic fungus to ingest for my problems…

Where’s the beef?

If there’s something strange in the Victorian neighbourhood, who art thou going to call? Charles Dickens!

i went to school with Artsa Gumbu

Is “supposed medicinal properties” a euphemism for “purported aphrodisiac”? That seems to be where the money is — so much so that it leads to extinction of species.

I wonder if RBION got its New York museums mixed up. Why would a beef shoulder of any age be in an art museum?

I’ve had some tough beef that would probably rival that Pharoah’s old brisket.

When writing A Christmas Carol, Chuck might have been spooking from experience.

I bet that beef has the most Luxor-ious taste after all this time

Has anybody ever seen Charles Dickens’ ghost?

The “supposed medicinal properties” folks need to be educated. Far, far too many animals suffer, or are going extinct, because of insatiable appetite for cures and remedies derived from folklore and superstition. Odd they feel no karma for the animal’s lives they take.

Who you gonna call? CHARLES DICKENS!