Penn and Teller's How to Play with Your Food

by Penn Jillette, Teller

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What kid of any age can resist a book guaranteed to make fellow diners blanch at restaurants or at the family dinner table? Mean, disgusting, vile, hilarious. The book that makes CRUEL TRICKS look like an etiquette guide. 35 black-and-white photos.

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Typical Penn and Teller, i.e., interesting, irreverent, and hilarious. The reader gets a basic list of interesting things to do with food, including how to make Jesus appear on a tortilla when you heat it up, how to eat tref, and the classic poke-your-eye-out-at-the-restaurant-table-and-have-white-goo-squirt-all-over-while-you-scream-in-agony trick.

The original issue of this work came with several props including an "untearable" sugar packet made of kevlar. You're supposed to surreptitiously put it in a bowl of such packets at a restaurant and wait for the unsuspecting victim to encounter the "untearable" packet. I put "untearable" in "quotes" because it turned out that particularly stubborn people could actually tear the packet open! show more To make matters worse, in the initial printing the overseas publisher had filled the packet with some caustic agent instead of sugar (or sugar substitute) which could have caused some non-humorous poisoning. The same year on an NPR interview, Penn and Teller mentioned this, and gave out a toll-free number to call for a replacement kevlar packet that did not use poison.

My favorite? A tie between the electric pickle and the experiment with the high powered rifle and watermelon (with a gruesome tie in to the assassination of JFK).

Bon appetit!
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When I was working at Random House, there was a big to-do because included in each book was a packet of impossible-to- open packet of "sugar" so you could prank your friends by giving them a sugar packet they'd go crazy trying to open at a fancy restaurant. The packet was supposed to be made of Kevlar so it couldn't be ripped. Well, not only were the packets relatively easy to open, but the sugar substitute inside turned out to be toxic. Oops! So they had to recall the books. A-hahahahahaha. Still, this is a really fun book -- I entertained people at a few dinners with the ghost sugar cube trick.
Bár a könyv leírásában az szerepel, hogy könnyen megtanulható étellel kapcsolatos bűvésztrükköket tartalmaz, valójában ez csak kis része a könyvnek. Ezen kívül találhatunk a könyvben étellel kapcsolatos vicces történeteket Penn és Teller életéből, részletes magyarázatot egy trükkre amit a Letterman showban láthattunk (valóságban persze inkább youtube-on), étellel kapcsolatos játékleírásokat, és számtalan átverésötletet. Sőt, kissé érthetetlen módon egy kriminovella is van a könyvben. A könyv egyébként a "The Unpleasant World of Penn & Teller" című 1994-es (igen rövid) tévésorozat alapján készült, a trükkök egy részét ott mutatták be.

Penn & Tellerhez méltóan a könyv igen show more vicces. Persze a poénok megértéséhez nem árt ismerni a párost.

Bár a könyvet bűvészkönyvként reklámozzák, mielőtt ajándékba adjuk egy ismerősnek/rokonnak azzal érdemes tisztában lenni, hogy ha valaki alaposan áttanulmányozza a könyvet, és komolyan veszi az ott leírtakat, akkor nem jobb bűvész lesz, hanem egy igen kegyetlen átveréseket ismerő veszélyes barát.
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Jul 18, 2011Hungarian

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Penn Jillette is a magician, comedian, illusionist, juggler, and writer known for his work with fellow illusionist Teller in the team Penn & Teller. He is an advocate of atheism, libertarian philosophy, free-market economics, and scientific skepticism. His books include Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends, Penn and Teller's How to Play In Traffic, How show more to Cheat Your Friends at Poker: The Wisdom of Dickie Richard, God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, and Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Food & Cooking
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818.5402Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican miscellaneous writings in English20th Century1945-1999
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PN6231 .F66 .J55Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureWit and humor
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