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Guest Post by Steve Taite
There seems to be a fascination in the world with toileting and urination. Steve Taite from TaiteGallery joins us to share his thoughts on indoor plumbing from a man’s point of view and an unusual place to find porcelain fixtures – The Merton Restaurant in Taiwan. – Cheryl Ragsdale
fresh food to go
To go or not to go?
It’s common knowledge that we men are unable to go to the toilet without a book or a newspaper.
According to a little known paper written by Charles Darwin to complement his Origin of Species, early man suffered from acute constipation when not out hunting and needed some kind of distraction whenever nature called.
Now, due to the breakthrough of technology, I can innocently enter the loo, remove my iphone from my back pocket and read emails or play the stock market while nature takes its course.
Of course, when we only need a quickie, we men can continue doing business by balancing the iphone carefully between our right ear and shoulder. When asked, by the caller on the other end, what that noise is in the background, running through a rain storm will suffice as an answer.
Until recently, peeing while standing up was noted as the #1 advantage of men over women. Now, since the invention of the go-girl this is, unfortunately, no longer the case. It’s only a matter of time before urinals will be unisex.
In Taiwan, and much of the Far East, the ingenious invention of Thomas Crapper, was ignored for the most part of the twentieth century. Restaurant clients, brave enough to follow the signs leading to release, were provided with plastic nose pegs and warned that the owners could not be held responsible for any unfriendly elements that might be found lingering beyond the door.
The infiltration of Western tourists, that began towards the end of the century, changed everything. Toilets became a status symbol.
In India, women are refusing marriage proposals if their new home doesn’t include a lavatory (see blog If I can’t go it’s no go ). Now, the toilet is finally been honored and given the respect it deserves.
Restaurant Marton -
finally enough toilets to go around!
diners seated on toilets eating their dinner in Restaurant Merton
Masses of hungry Thai citizens are flocking to a new chain of theme restaurants branded with the Chinese name for toilet “Marton”.
Time magazine was quick to quote one six year old visitor as claiming there to be “poop everywhere” . Manager Chen Min-kuang claims it is supposed to “shock and confuse the senses”.
As these pictures show, Chen has definitely succeeded.
Gives new meaning to “I’ll have mine to go please.”
Every customer sits on a designer toilet lid.
The tables have embedded sinks and the meal is served in a miniature toilet bowl. If that isn’t enough, drinks are sipped from a personal plastic urinal that you get to keep as a souvenir.
For the finale, soft-swirl, ice cream dessert comes in the shape of (why put it in words just look at the picture). Take a look at the short video of customers enjoying their dinner at Restaurant Merton.
Take a look at this short video of customers enjoying their dinner at Restaurant Merton.
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- Author bio: Steve Taite is a hitech project manager. In his spare time he writes music, poetry, satire & fiction, dabbles with new gadgets, reads a lot and listens to piles of mostly pre 80′s music. He is married with three children. His blog is called the TaiteGallery.
- photo credit google images
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The infiltration of Western tourists, that began towards the end of the century, changed everything. Toilets became a status symbol. In India women are refusing marriage proposals if the don’t include a lavatory (see blog If I can’t go it’s no go ). Now the toilet is finally been honored and given the respect it deserves. Masses of hungry Thai citizens are flocking to a new chain of theme restaurants branded with the Chinese name for toilet “Marton”. Time magazine was quick to quote one six year old visitor as claiming there to be “Poop everywhere” Manager Chen Min-kuang claims it is supposed to “shock and confuse the senses” As these pictures show, Chen has definitely succeeded.
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I don’t want anything to do with eating food around a toilet, I find this pretty disgusting, but funny too at the same time
That is really funny! It’s the kind of restaurant that I could see myself going to once as a joke, though I don’t know if I’d make it a regular habit. Probably why there aren’t so many joke restaurants in the US that are toilet based lol!
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Hi Phillip,
I still can’t get used to the idea. Gross!
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Hopefully the toilet bowl is very clean if you are expected to eat from it
That´s a great idea for serving food but many people may find it disgusting.
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Hi Jimmy,
Yes, hopefully the toilet bowl is very clean. I still can’t get used to the idea. Sounds very un-appetizing to me
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I’m glad to see I’m not the only one addicted to watching the Travel Channel dreaming of remote exotic places, sunny beaches, fun adventures, places where they serve soup sooooo disgusting that many folks won’t eat it.
I wonder if they deliver???? Just kidding!
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ewwww-gross – a number 2 to go pee-ze
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Excellent, I was looking for something like this since I read the article on making food. Thanks!
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Speaking of making food – how about something unusual like Beetles or Grasshoppers – see recipe in the link below – yum!
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That part where you mentioned “running through a rain storm” as an excuse made me laugh out loud. I personally think that restaurant is interestingly strange, but well, to each his own, I guess.
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Glad you liked the post. I myself wasn’t crazy about sitting on a a toilet bowl and eating poop but then I once visited a Thai restaurant in New York that had Black Bean Ice-Cream on the menu – something I definately don’t recommend either
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Just stopping by to see if you were doing the Flat Ass Friday thing anymore. Guess not. I may stop as well then.
As for the post, I think the soft swirl might look a little too much like what’s landing in the toilet. Then again maybe that’s the point.
I could also see someone showing up at the restaurant a little too drunk and getting confused. My dog, an avid toilet bowl drinker, would love that kind of restaurant. Too bad for her she’s not a service dog and not in Thailand.
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Hi Staci,
Lol! I think that is the point with the soft swirl. What will they think of next?
I still like the “flaunt the flaws” idea, but maybe it’s time to bring back “flexible Fridays”? I can just imagine your dog going crazy trying to pick his favorite toilet bowl. I don’t think I could handle it – eating soup out of toilet bowls.
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Actually the idea of a resataurant for dogs may not be such a bad idea. I have several posts on my blog regarding the antcs of my wonder Pekinese Mini includng her audition for the sequel of Avatar and the stes she surfs for on the web
Thanks for the comment
Steve
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Thank you, Cheryl, for your kind comments and clarification.
So appreciated.
I bookmarked your site! I’ll be back!
Peace and serenity,
~Jo
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Hi, Jo here. Today’s featured SITS blogger.
I just wanted to clarify your comment on SITS today and to let you know that I agree about excess shopping and credit card use leading to bankruptcy. I also wanted to let you know that was NOT the case with us.
Ours is a very personally sad, long story involving greed by my mother-in-law who sued us after her divorce, demanding the gift of our homes’ down payment back, leading us to refinance but giving HER the money instead of using the equity on our home.
We couldn’t any longer keep our heads above water and had to walk away from our home after sixteen years where we rasied our children only to then be sued by the financial company for the second we took out to pay her back.
$1,000 a month was being garnished from my husbands paychecks — I would like to see how well an average household does with that kind of monetary damage — and when we were left flailing, we had no choice but to turn to bankruptcy.
There seems to be this stigma out there that it’s strictly irresponsible lifestyles and excessive shopping that leads to bankruptcy, and so, I just wanted to clear that up and say that is not always the case — at least not with us.
Thanks so much for hearing me out.
Peace,
~Jo
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Hi Jo,
I can understand your sensitivity after going through a dreadful experience as you have. I see that you still have your fiery sense of humor given the page you chose to comment on. When you’ve put up with family shite the way you have, you deserve a good laugh and a warm hug. I read about your troublesome health issue. I really meant what I said about you being someone who has been chosen to confront challenges that would put anyone else out of the game permanently. I admire your courage, your openness and your willingness to keep putting one foot in front of the other. Especially after your neurological system has decided otherwise. You’ve been dealt heavy blows. Thank you for sharing your story with me (and my readers). It’s helpful to know that you’re still fighting. Don’t give up! Something good will come out of this. Much love is being sent to you from my direction.
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Jo,
One more thing, I’m honored that you chose to visit me today. As the featured blogger for SITS, you’ve had 179 comments on your post. Thank you for choosing me to come and visit. I have to let you know that I never get away with anything. I nicked one of your funny images off you and put it on my facebook (lol!) – it’s the one that says, “I’m blogging that!” So, it is the perfect page for us to have this conversation on – and we are linked together as SITStahs now