Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 15, 2023

“Babe, roll over to this side, where it’s legal.”

Sneaking across the border has never been so much fun…

The lousy part about that honeymoon bed is the guy that keeps checking your passport every time you roll over.

I see Switzerland, I see France, I see someone’s underpants! Oh, wait, that’s because they’re hanging on a hook at O’Naturel.

Careful in that bed, folks. You could cause an international incident with too aggressive a border crossing.

May the explored be with you as she is with Louie.

I know why that restaurant is defunct. Very few people have bodies they want to be seen in.

My late hubby would have loved the nude restaurant!

Dine naked? Sounds interesting…for a while.

Who would want to sit in the chair after the last diners left.

What is the point of “edible gold”? It is literally flushing money down the crapper. Our bodies get nothing from gold, and if anything it is adding to heavy metal pollution.

This is one food trend that needs to stop.

1.)Honeymooners are “divorced” before they even get started.

2.)Made from The Goose T hat Laid T he Golden Eggs, no doubt.

I wonder how much per night it is to stay in that hotel room? And I don’t think those wings would ever be worth the money. For one thing, I can’t imagine them tasting too good. And then it’s $45 for a basket of 10 and $90 for a basket of 20. That’s $4.50 per wing. But here’s the kicker: It’s $1K for a basket of 50. That’s $20 for ONE wing! I thought as you bought MORE, the price per unit is supposed to be LESS. It’s WAY cheaper to just buy five baskets of 10!

I wonder how much an order of that wings gimmick cost?

This is teaching me more than school

The restaurant is defunct people people were losing their appetites.

Waiter, there’s a short dark curly hair in my salad…

I’m guessing no one paid at the table: “I left my wallet in my pants”

The real cost of ordering the gold plated chicken wings is the upgrade: $500 for a packet of platinum flakes in a honey mustard dipping sauce.

I wonder if O’Naturel restaurant provided one-time use pads for customers to sit on? I wouldn’t be all that happy about plopping my butt down on a chair where multiple other butts had been squirming around…

How’d those naked people pay for their meal?

I’ll bet nobody orders the hot soup.

That’s quite some expensive chicken.

During the occupation of France during World War II German troops were allowed to enter the French side of the hotel but were prohibited from crossing to the Swiss side.

Since the stairway to the upper floor started in French territory but ended in Switzerland (the border lies on the 7th step of the stairway) the Germans were not permitted to access any of the upper rooms, which became a refuge for refugees & French Resistance members.

The owner at the time, Max Arbez, was posthumously honored as Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem for rescuing Jews along with his wife Angèle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Arbez

The nude dining thing seems like it’d be 1) unhygienic on several levels. 2) Embarrassing (especially for me, at age 70) 3) at the one I linked to above the cooks are nude too. So what’s the chances of getting grievous burns on delicate parts of said chef?

Did William S. Burroughs eat there?

And as for the gold plated chicken—it’s disgustingly decadent, in the most ugly sort of way. According to the USDA, more than 34 million people, including 9 million children, in the United States are food insecure. One in seven American kids go to bed hungry. But by all means enjoy your gold flecked chicken—but the gold is risky btw. “Purity of edible gold must be 23–24 karats, above that used in typical jewelry, which may contain other metals and can be toxic if consumed.”

The gold flakes are harmless but I’d worry about what’s in the sauce

The question is: is the hotel rate on the Swiss side about double the French side? Everything else across that border is that way!