Friday, 1 May 2026

What About the Goose Legs?

Season 8


Amsterdam

A joke for Max by Andy Kindler:

There's this Jewish lady, her husband died, so she wants to put an announcement in the paper.

So she calls up the paper and she says "How much does it cost to put an announcement in?"

And the guy says "Five dollars a word."

She goes " Oh very, very expensive. That's crazy. Okay put this in: Saul died.

And the person goes "I'm sorry ma'am there's a five word minimum."

"Okay put this in: Saul died. Volvo for sale.



Basque Country

A joke for Max by Will Forte:

I love Dolly Parton. So if I ever got to meet Dolly Parton, I'd have so many questions for her. But after really thinking about it I think I know how I would start the conversation.  "Hello Dolly!"

I love Dublin. But there's one place that I like just slightly more...Triplin.

I love Tucson but there's a place I like slightly more...Threescon.

No matter how fast you are going in an airport, you're always going this speed...terminal velocity.



Boston

A joke for Max by Jane Fonda:

A lady's husband died. They've been married about 30 years and the pallbearers are brining out his casket to the church and they accidentally bump the casket into the back row of pews and there's a noise inside the casket. And sure enough the husband is alive. It's a miracle. So he and his wife love together another ten years. Finally he passes away and the pallbearers are brining the casket back into the church. And the wife says "Be careful this time."

My wife yelled upstairs yesterday and asked me "Do you ever get a shooting pain across your body? You know, like somebody's got a voodoo doll and they're stabbing it?". And I said "No". And she responds "How about now?"



Tbilisi

A joke for Max by Bonnie Hunt:

In Dubai, they love American television. But the only show they don't like is The Flintstones.Why? 
I don't know. But the people in Abu-Dhabi-do!

When I worked in a  psychiatric office for a while, we had a lady walk in one day, no appointment, which they couldn't stand. They didn't like to have walk-ins, they didn't want people coming without an appointment. I go to the psychiatrist, "Theres a woman here with no appointment." He said, "What's the issue?" I said, "She thinks she's invisible." He said, "Tell her I can't see her now."



Sydney and Adelaide 

A joke for Max by Mel Brooks:

A guy walks into a grocery store and says "Give me half a pound of lox, half a pound of cream cheese, half a dozen bagels..." He stops and says "I'm sorry I don't mean to pry but I'm looking at your shelves and all I see are red boxes of salt. You must have a hundred boxes of salt. And every shelf is cluttered with boxes of salt. Maybe a hundred boxes. Do you sell aot of salt?"

And the guy says "Me? If I sell a box a week, it will be a miracle. I don't sell a lot of salt. No, I don't sell a lot of salt. But the guy who sold me salt, boy can he sell salt!



Las Vegas

A joke for Max by Ray Romano and Brad Garrett:

A man walked into a bookstore. He says to the woman behind the counter, "I'm looking for a new book. It's about small genitalia but I forgot the name of it."

She goes, "Let me look" and she opens up the laptop. She goes, "I don't think it's in yet."

He goes, "That's it!"



Manila

A joke for Max by Ike Barinholtz:

My rabbi is a great rabbi but is very strictly strictly to the letter of the law kosher. But his deep dark secret was that he dreamed of eating pork. But he never had the chance to have it his whole life.

It was all day haunting him. "What does it taste like. I need to know."

One day he just kind of broke down and he said, "I'm gonna go have some pork."

He went to Chinatown and goes inside a restaurant and he walks in with a hat and glasses.

He sits down and orders a suckling pig.Then he takes the hat and glasses off and a little bit later they bring the pig out. It's got a big apple in its mouth, it's sitting there on the spit.

He's holding his knife and fork and licking his lips.
He goes in and takes a slice of it and as he looks out the window he sees three other members of his congregation walking by and they stop and they freeze and they see him. And he looks at them and he goes, "This restaurant's horrible. I ordered an apple and this is how they served it!"



Guatemala 

A joke for Max by Jimmy O. Yang:

An Asian guy and a Jewish guy are eating at a restaurant. The Asian guy orders a miso soup and the Jewish guy is like, "Oh, that's great. Is this what you ate growing up?"

The Asian guys says, "No, I'm Chinese. Miso soup is actually Japanese. And the Jewish guy is like, "Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, you're all the same!" And the Chinese guy didn't say anything.

Then the Jewish guy orders a wedge salad. And the Chinese guy is like, "Oh, is that what you ate growing up?" The Jewish guy was like, "No, this is just iceberg lettuce."

The Chinese guy was like, "Yeah, iceberg, Goldberg, Rosenberg. You guys are all the same!"




Stroopid Richard

The Domestic Goblin binge-watched season eight of Somebody Feed Phil in June 2025. Here are her favourite episodes:


Season eight


Manila

The Phillipines, the Pearl of the Orient Seas. A sprawling archipelago situated between China to the North and Australia to the south.

A collection of over 7,500 islands.

Sisig (made with pigs head, salt, pepper, chicken liver, onions, vinegar and calamansi) is a quintessential Filipino dish originating from Pampanga and served at Trellis.

Toyo serving:
  • Their kinilaw series 
  • Bahay Kubo - their garden salad with 18 different vegetables
  • Fried besugo deboned from head to tail served with silog (garlic fried rice) and paired with dorado
  • Grilled chicken braised with garlic chips and chives

Jeepney: low cost public transportation in the shape of a small jeep bus that can be waved down like a taxi.

A roadside eatery frequented by jeepney drivers called Aling Sosing serving pork belly, beef kaldereta and shrimp fritters.

Childhope Phillipines: a mobile school that goes round to kids who can't get to regular school teaching them personal hygiene, how to protect themselves on the street etc.

When Manila city folk want to escape to the countryside, they go to Tagaytay.

Spanish cuisine by Chelsea Gonzalez at Asador Alphonso in Tagaytay. The restaurant building was once a family home designed by architect Carlo Calma.
  • Gazpacho
  • Homemade sourdough bread with anchovy butter
  • Jamon de Wagyu
  • Roasted bell pepper topped with Lake Taal fish cured in vinegar
  • Iberico Jamon croqueta
  • Squid paella
  • Lechazo - suckling lamb served with green salad in sherry wine vinegar
  • Three-cheese cheesecake

Chicks ni Otit is run by Wilma Doesnt and serves 
  • Grilled tuna jaws 
  • Crispy pork knuckles
  • Stuffed milkfish
  • Bulalo soup (beef broth soup)
  • Grilled chicken
  • Banana split ice-cream 

The whole crew participated in a boodle fight on Pico de Loro beach. Devouring all the food.


Reunion dinner at Grace Park: farm to table cooking serving lechon (roasted suckling pig); Gabi leaves with chili cooked in coconut milk; conch sisig; scallops with roe; kinilaw, prawns, lamb adobo; pitaw (baby birds cooked adobo style then deep fried afterwards).



Sydney and Adelaide

~ Saint Peter in Sydney, Australia
Oyster shell martini made with seaglass urchin vodka and saffron oil at the top.

Blue mackerel untouched by water. The fillet is salted for an hour and a half then it goes into champagne vinegar for half an hour after that. This dish is finished off with homemade fish sauce and olive brine. Rip the bread then dip it in the brine, then put butter on the wet bread, then put mackerel on the butter before the butter melts.
Rip, dip, butter, fish.

Fish charcuterie made with every single part of the fish from scale to tail and everything in between. Yellow fin tuna made in the style of a chorizo. Murray cod made in the style of a Toulouse sausage. 

Sliced squid noodles with spicy tuna sauce.

Cheeseburger made with two grounded yellow-fin tuna patties served with cheddar, onion, pickles, mustard, barbecue sauce and smoked swordfish belly bacon

Sweets of the sea: creme brulee, macaron with vanilla custard made with fish eye instead of eggs.


~ OzHarvest, a refettorrio run by Ronni Khan in Sydney, Australia. 

A refettorrio is a place where people in tough circumstances could come to get a nice meal along with the dignity of a beautiful space. 

Not so much a soup kitchen, as a soul kitchen. It serves everyone from people who are homeless to older people who can't afford it as well as students in debt who can't always afford to eat every meal. It's open everyday for free lunch.

Food served on the day Phil visited include: 
  • Roasted tomato and toasted pepita salsa with blue corn chips
  • Sesame tofu 

~  Parwana run by the Ayubi family in Adelaide, Australia serving Afghani food.

  • Narenj palaw (orange rice)
  • Kabuli palaw
  • Banjaan borani (eggplant)


~ Don's Prime at the Fontainebleau Hotel
  • Don's roasted seafood platter.
  • A big ribeye finished off with Wagyu tallow.
  • Lobster Mac n Cheese

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Bonus mention

~ Phil eats dinner with his brother Richard at Asador Extebarri, in Basque Country.

Together they taste:
  • The scarlet prawn
  • The prawn of Palamos 
  • Sea urchin
  • Cockles with rice
  • Egg yolk with white truffle from Alba
  • Oxtail
  • Rubbia Galega (dairy cow


~ Sly Fox Den Too in Charlestown, Rhode Island
Owned by Chef Sherry Pocknett, the first indigenous female chef to win a James Beard award.

Serving the Sly Fox Benedict with homemade venison sausage; fresh striped bass hash and corn cake; blueberry buckle; corn chowder with smoked mussels; 

Unfortunately since filming, this restaurant has closed due to issues with the landlord.


~ Neptune Oyster in Boston
Classic New England seafood.

Seafood tower of lobsters, oysters, clams and blue crab.

Maine lobster roll.

Seasonal specialty: Nantucket Bay scallops served in a Basque style chimichurri sauce (like little candies of the sea).

Neptune johnnycake: a cornmeal pancake, smoked bluefish, creme fraiche, sturgeon caviar and a drizzle of honey butter.


~ Charity in Tbilisi
Superhero was started in 2020 and is run by Marita and Leko. They make boxes for kids from Georgia. 100% of donations goes directly to the children.

Anyone who wishes to be, can be a superhero.


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Mrs White's Knowledge of Art & Antiques

Ruby ring

It's an eight carat Burmese cushion-cut ruby (12mm x 14mm) set in 18-karat yellow gold with surrounding diamonds with additional diamonds set in a platinum band.

Value circa £75,000.

It could be a Burmese pigeon's blood ruby. Very, very rare due to the diminishing mines they come from. Worth between £8 million - £12 million.

Jean sold it for £350,000.



Auntie Flo's wedding present for Dom Hayes

A Pantin salamander paperweight. The lamp work is so exquisite that it looks like the salamander is real. Could be worth thousands.



Eleanor's walking stick topper

24 karat gold. Ellie in her nightie. The Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy.  Inspired by actress Eleanor Thornton.



Mary's blue brooch on her turban

A sumptuous blue stone mined in the Santa Maria mines in Brazil in the 1950s.



Mary's Victorian mourning locket

You have a lock of hair of the deceased on one side and the family crest on the other. Made fashionable by Queen Victoria when Prince Albert died.



The painting stolen from Albert Gilbert's home

Hilma af Klint. The first abstract artist. She specialised in automatic drawing and believed you could attain divine wisdom through spiritual intuition. She used seances and worked with a group called 'The Five' channeling spirits and writing down their messages blindfolded.

Primordial Chaos Number 16



Joseph Wright of Derby

Bird in an Air Pump

The painting was of an experiment to see how long this poor bird could survive when he took his air slowly away.



The painting that Charlie Brodeur is in love with 

Jacqueline Marval.




Tin box that Jean bought at a vide grenier

Dutch chocolate company circa 1910. Art Revealed app: infrared technology which shows you what's underneath.



Sacred Heart

The remains of Pope Pius VI's heart.
Religious relics are priceless in spiritual value.



Georgian firing glasses

Not original. Lovely copies. Flange-footed and models on Semla, circa 18th century.
They are called firing glasses because when you take a drink and then slam it on the table, they make a gunshot sound.



Footstool purchased at a Didsbury car boot sale

Late 18th century. Worth £2,000.



Cake comb found on unidentified body

Victorian. Sterling silver.



Anna Dumonet's ring

A poison ring. Victorian.



Fabergé Lily of the Valley flower owned by Genevieve Harris

Made with rock crystal, nephrite, gold, pearls and rose diamonds.
Value: over 800,000 euros.



What Robert Coste was clutching 

Peacock pendant. 1930s. Mass produced.



Burmese sewing box

Circa 1880.



A chained book

Similar to ones found in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.



Playing cards as wedding present for David and George 

Originally made for a 17th century French witch, Le Voisin.



Peridot earrings

The ancient Egyptians believed that peridot stones would protect them from night terrors also known very well for their healing qualities.



Ozannes's Perfumery owned by Raffy and Raimund

1940s pressed glass perfume bottle.
Value: 500-1000 euros.



The painting Martin was pointing at

Queen Marie Antoinette of France and her two children walking in the park at Trianon aka The Doomed Queen by Adolf Ulrike Wertmuller (a very famous rococo artist).



Judith's hip flask

Ergo hip flask. Won the British Design Award in 1986. A present from Jeremy.



The Monti Bust

The Veiled Lady by Raffaele Monti.



Gold coin found by a marine biologist during a diving expedition

Charles II 22-carat gold guinea from 1677. Value: at least 2,500 euros.



Alec's knife from his fishing hut

Higonokami knife from the Kanekoma factory in Japan. Higo no Kami means Lord of Higo - an aristocratic title historically given to very powerful samurai.



Fencing sword

Epee de Combat. 
Circa 19th century. 
Solid silver.



Cufflinks

Real diamond. Platinum. Cartier.
One alone is worth between 10,000-15,000 euros.



Chocolate pot

French regency.



Theodolite

An instrument for measuring vertical and horizontal angles.



Chandelier at Brodeur & White Antiques

Austrian hand-cut crystal.
Worth 2000 euro.



Himalayan calendar 

A perpetual display bead calendar.



Very special pre-ordered book

First edition of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Price: 6,700 euros. Paid in cash.



Poison pen letters addressed to Fayette Morreau

Written on goatskin parchment paper by Bernard Folle.



Antique cigarette case

Imperial, Russian. Britzen. Blue enamel. Worth 10,000 euros.



Watch worn by waiter

1950s Universal Geneve. Worth 10,000 euros.



Rosary beads

French mother of pearl rosary beads. 1800s.
Gifted to Father Thomas by his mother when he became a novice priest over 30 years ago.



A crate of brandy from 1814

Undaunted was the ship that conveyed Napoleon to his first exile on the Isle of Elba in 1814. This brandy is from that ship.

Worth at least 200,000 euros per bottle.




* Information derived from The Madame Blanc Mysteries *