{"id":8,"date":"2003-08-01T00:10:59","date_gmt":"2003-07-31T23:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2025-11-07T08:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:20:45","slug":"phantom-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/08\/phantom-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Phantom Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/emptyPlate.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"an empty plate\" \/> With a bit of imagination there&#8217;s loads of food one can enjoy on a diet. Welcome to the unreal meal:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breakfast:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Ethereal egg on ghost toast<\/li>\n<li>A Nothing muffin or a None bun (served with begone butter).<\/li>\n<li>or how about some Fantasy fruit?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lunch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Fake steak with zip chips (or Mystical mash)<\/li>\n<li>A Ghost roast (either scam lamb, sham ham or missin&#8217; chicken)<\/li>\n<li>Black Hole Spag Bol or Mystic meatballs<\/li>\n<li>Spectral stew with dream dumplings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pudding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Air eclair<\/li>\n<li>zero belly jelly<\/li>\n<li>Fake cake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tea-Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Temporary tea or con coffee (minus milk &amp; invisible sugarballs)<\/li>\n<li>Calorie-free cream-tea: &#8220;Non-scone, unseen cream &amp; scam jam&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Tease cheese<\/li>\n<li>Wisp Crisps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Drinks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nada lager<\/li>\n<li>Joke coke<\/li>\n<li>Phantom fanta<\/li>\n<li>Clear beer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>The phantom food Poem by <b>Jerry Bridge-Butler<\/b>:<\/h3>\n<p><small><i><b><span style=\"color: #555555;\">Whenever you&#8217;re hungry or famished,<br \/>\nand all the food in your fridge has vanished.<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Dream up a great feast to consume<br \/>\nwith my secret ingredient: <em>Vacuum<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t laugh, its not pie in the sky,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a host aplenty not there to try.<\/p>\n<p>Mix 5ml of noise and with the breeze<br \/>\nand that&#8217;s how you make tease cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Put a void in the oven and bake,<br \/>\nand what you&#8217;ll get is fake cake.<\/p>\n<p>Kneed faux dough in with the air<\/p>\n<p>and you&#8217;ll have an eclair that&#8217;s not there.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best meals to try is ghost roast,<br \/>\nbut you&#8217;ll need your imagination the most.<\/p>\n<p>You must find a whole pint of blank space,<br \/>\nbefore you can bow down and say Grace.<\/p>\n<p>But the rewards are really worth the wait,<br \/>\nwhen the scam lamb comes out on a plate.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you think you&#8217;d prefer paltry poultry,<br \/>\nthe missing chicken is one you should see.<\/p>\n<p>And before your mind goes doolally<br \/>\nfinish it all off with no belly jelly<\/p>\n<p>If all this is too much to swallow,<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t try this last mint &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Its hollow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a bit of imagination there&#8217;s loads of food one can enjoy on a diet. 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