In Egypt
I was at a spice shop, looking for some ras el hanout. The young lad who was working there showed me a bag, and offered to let me lick my finger and dip it in the the spice mixture to taste its quality.

What started as an enjoyable holiday rapidly descended into a very regular series of mad dashes to the toilet where I surprised myself at the volume and looseness of my stools, punctuated by flu-like symptoms as I lay exhausted on the bed in the hotel room. Being stuck in a small cubicle pissing rusty water out of your sore, over-wiped pucker in 35 degree heat is not anyone's idea of a good break.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Tue 29 Jul 2014, 13:13, 6 replies)

ras el hanout
Isn't he the baddy in the Batman film?
(Smale is stuffed, Tue 29 Jul 2014, 14:19, closed)

You're thinking of Heath Ledger
Different thing entirely
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Tue 29 Jul 2014, 14:44, closed)

You can get it in Sainsburys and not a licked finger to be seen.
Y'know, for health and safety.

hth xx
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 29 Jul 2014, 16:33, closed)

It's rubbish though
Like their version of smoked paprika which I think might just be dust painted dark orange.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Tue 29 Jul 2014, 17:08, closed)

Unless it gives everyone food poisoning,
it's just not enhancing your dish.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 29 Jul 2014, 17:28, closed)

It's all part of the experience

( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Tue 29 Jul 2014, 17:53, closed)