Exploding Poles
Years ago, before the Iron Curtain came down, there was a transport caff outside Chelmsford called the Rose. The Rose did the usual trucker's brekkies, the biggest of which went like this: 3 bacon, 3 sausage, 2 eggs, black pudding, mushrooms, beans, tomatoes, 2 fried slice, 2 doorstep and a pint of tea. For a pound extra it came with a steak and kidney pudding on top. If you finished it, you got another one, or your money back. The whole thing was a fiver, and known as the Double Gutbuster .

One day a Pole came in. Now in those days Polish truckers were on about £15 a week and all the baccy they could smuggle. This bloke ordered the Double Gutbuster, ate the whole thing, so they offered him his money back. After all, who could eat another one?

He ate TWO more. They followed him, horrified, into the car park, expecting a Mr. Creosote scene. He drove away, and they breathed a sigh of relief. A week later, he came back with 3 mates, and they ate the whole fucking fridge empty.

The Rose isn't there any more.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 17:35, 4 replies)

Christ
I can just imagine him sat behind the wheel, distended and python-like, plucking the CB from its holster and wheezing "'Ere, lads..."
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 17:50, closed)

Poles are a tough lot.
My grandfather used to eat raw eggs and raw bacon and if the bread went mouldy then "that's just penecillin". Apparently he once used soap powder instead of salt in his soup*, and he liked a lot of salt, but finished the bowl anyhow.
*I don't recall if my grandmother filled the salt pot from the wrong bag or he used salt out of a bag.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 15 Apr 2011, 17:50, closed)

My grandfather once cut a loaf up on a bandsaw at work
before realising that all the oil had come off the blade and soaked in. He still ate it.
( eXOBeX, Sat 16 Apr 2011, 2:34, closed)

The Rose
It's still there, on the A414 London bound near Hylands Park :)
( SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Sun 17 Apr 2011, 20:26, closed)