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grimace · Boot Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 39

[SOURCE] Recipes

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:25 pm

catherwood

if you look over in the Interaction section you'll find THIS post where Dana was asked about the missing recipe. She claims it was an oversight caused subconciously because she is a vegetarian. (Of course, it could be a puzzle?)

and if you would like to start posting the source of those recipes, here's the place to do so.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:56 pm

alaranth

This is an original source I found for recipe 2, the Bee Sting Cake. Looks to be the only variation is substituting pastry cream for vanilla pudding (to put between the two cake layers). The instructions still show pasty cream, but the ingredients list shows vanilla pudding.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 7:28 pm

vf · Greenhorn Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 3

Has anyone noticed that recipe1 and recipe8 contain links to "coolpage.com" in the source, which is not visible in the page itself? The site seems to be separate, but it is still interesting.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:51 pm

Primus · Boot Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 24

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 10:53 pm

Alterscape · Greenhorn Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 4

The interesting thing on CoolPage is the "Download this page as a .zip" link in the lower left. I downloaded it because it seems rather out of the ordinary for a page to make itself downloadable -- the zip contains a .gif, several .jpgs, and a file called "index.cpg." When I open it in notepad, I get snips of HTML and random-ish looking ascii, so I'm guessing it's a coolpage proprietary format. I skimmed over the data, and aside from a bunch of dates in 1998, there's nothing obviously promising. So I'm going to have to agree that its' trout, but who know...

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:25 pm

PlayCold · Greenhorn Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 5

it loads an image from coolpage http://www.coolpage.com/t.gif but It doesn't seem important. Just a guide I think to emphasise that ilovebees is an unprofessional site.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:53 pm

Grym · Guest

Hey guys, check this out.

I thought something looked strange about that recipe on the unlinked page, so I went on the Net searching for it. I found it! But here's the thing: despite sharing nearly the same structure (some sentences are identical to the letter) and steps, there are suble differences between the two recipes.

Perhaps its nothing, but I've highlighted the differences below:

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The Ilovebee.com recipe: ( http://www.ilovebees.com/recipe3.htm )
6 1/2- to 7-pound roasting chickens, rinsed, patted dry
1 1/2 cups fresh lemon juice (from about 6 large lemons)
3 tablespoons chopped fresh rosemary
2 cloves garlic, minced
Coarse kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup honey, heated until pourable

Place chicken in heavy-duty resealable plastic bag. Add lemon juice. Seal bags; turn chicken to coat. Refrigerate at least 6 hours and up to 1 day, turning bags occasionally.

Preheat oven to 425�F. Drain chickens; pat dry. Mix rosemary and garlic with salt and rub over chicken, add pepper to taste. Place chicken breast side down, on rack in large roasting pan. Roast 20 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375�F. Roast 45 minutes.

Turn chickens breast side up. Brush all over with honey. Continue to roast until cooked through and deep brown, basting with any juices in pan and brushing with honey occasionally, about 55 minutes longer. Transfer chickens to platter. Tent loosely with foil to keep warm and let stand 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, pour pan juices into small saucepan. Spoon off fat. Rewarm pan juices. Season with salt and pepper. Serve chickens with pan juices.

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The real one (http://groups.msn.com/HANDMAIDENSOFTHELORD/recipecorner.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=18710&LastModified=4675479612773976150 )

2 6 1/2- to 7-pound roasting chickens, rinsed, patted dry
2 1/2 cups fresh lemon juice (from about 12 large lemons)
Coarse kosher salt
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup honey, heated until pourable

Place each chicken in heavy-duty resealable plastic bag. Add 1 1/4 cups lemon juice to each. Seal bags; turn chickens to coat. Refrigerate at least 6 hours and up to 1 day, turning bags occasionally.

Preheat oven to 450�F. Drain chickens; pat dry. Sprinkle each with salt and pepper. Place chickens side by side, breast side down, on racks in large roasting pan. Roast 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 375�F. Roast 45 minutes.

Turn chickens breast side up. Brush all over with honey. Continue to roast until cooked through and deep brown, basting with any juices in pan and brushing with honey occasionally, about 55 minutes longer. Transfer chickens to platter. Tent loosely with foil to keep warm and let stand 15 minutes.

Meanwhile, pour pan juices into small saucepan. Spoon off fat. Rewarm pan juices. Season with salt and pepper. Serve chickens with pan juices.

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Again, it may be nothing, but I have a feeling there may be some relationship. The website for the real recipe has an awefully weird name, and there are some differences in the numbers (and ingredients) that are intriguing.

-Grym

**Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2004 11:59 pm

Samari · Guest

it seems like the guys from bungie have always had a thing for number games, someone more familiar with marathon would look at it chances are there is some significance

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 1:53 am

Mescad · Boot Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Lexington, KY

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 2:28 am

rickster · Greenhorn Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 4

just tried it but it just said .. your mailbox is currently locked.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 2:49 am

SpghEddy · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 88

The original honey-glazed lemon chicken recipe is from Bon Appetit magazine, April 2004. Here's another copy of the recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/run/recipe/view?id=109394

Keep in mind that it may have been necessary to modify the recipe to avoid copyright problems. However, assuming that there really is a message in the diff, I'd like to point out that the a couple of the boldfaced differences in the earlier post are not actually different. Also, I think someone mentioned already that the other recipes are also modified versions of existing recipes.

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 3:30 am

Anton Sirius

Recipes and Trout... Yum!

**Posted:** Sun Jul 25, 2004 10:01 am

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drizjr · Unfictologist Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 1700

Honey cough medicine

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 12:24 pm

Gram

Wait maybe the entity that doesn't know English used the recipes sentences to communicate. I can't remember if the entity was the Flea or the Operator for the life of me right now.

But I think it's related.

**Posted:** Sat Jul 31, 2004 2:21 pm

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