Pictures and Words

Here they are, the official science-making graphs and charts from StinkyPete 1.0!

As you can see, we had a lot of trouble holding onto meats in this project.

This, I should point out, was on an "out of 10" rating.

The individual meats:

The Kangaroo Steak was one of two meats to survive the whole 6 days.

The Pork was the first meat to be completely stolen.

The bolognaise sauce also lasted all 6 days, steadily getting tougher and less popular...

This graph looks like two horses mating. Or am I the only one who sees that?

The Can of Spam lasted exactly one day.

If anyone has any frightfully clever scientific conclusions to draw from these graphs, please, let me know.

I also took all of the individual meat data, and plotted it onto one graph, just for the fun of it:

Mondrian would be proud!

Up next: StinkyPete 1.5 graphs and charts!

Hello! My name is Peter C. Hayward, and during the month of January, I conducted a number of experiments involving meat. Most recently, I put some meat into a pot, poured soft drink into the pot, and let it sit for a week.

The Pot of Rot: Doesn't it look appealing?

The Poking Stick, drowning in Boca Bola.

A closeup of the Maggot Roofing. I couldn't work out what that yellow thing was for a while; it's the Poking Stick! (not a random lemon)

Today, I emptied the pot:

So it looks like the experiment has come full circle; we’re back to where we started, a plate of meat, sitting in my back yard, looking kinda gross:

I might check back on it now and then, but for now, the experiment is officially over.

So what’s next for Pictures and Words? Well, we’re actually at the end of the second day of my new experiment: 28 Days, 28 Dollars, I just haven’t had a chance to blog about it yet. I’ll also be posting graphs and charts from StinkyPete 1.0 and StinkyPete 1.5 later tonight, and backdating everything so that it looks like I was punctual. Stay tuned!

Up next: StinkyPete 1.0 – graphs and charts!

Hello! My name is Peter C. Hayward, and I put some meat in a cage, then after maggots had eaten most of the meat, transferred it to a pot. I then poured a bottle of coke into that pot, and in the next few days, will be draining the pot to see if there was any difference made to the meat. In the mean-time: photos!

It rained Saturday morning. This would normally be great news, except that I was trying to film at the time.

“RIUM+” got back to me about drinking the coke:

Yesterday I would’ve considered it if I could’ve passed it through a filter, boiled it, distilled it and drunk the resulting liquid. Looking at it today, I’ve changed my mind and wouldn’t drink it even if you passed it through the same filters they pass sewerage through on a space ship.

It looks like the boke will remain un-consumed. This is probably for the best – I had a lot of people telling me that encouraging anyone to drink it would be an incredibly bad idea.

In the next few days, I plan to drain the coke and see what the meat looks like underneath. I’m insanely busy at the moment, with deadlines all over the place, so I probably won’t update until then – not a lot is happening to the pot, as you can see in these photos from yesterday and today.

I decided to lift a sausage up, to see what effects the coke had on it. It's looking brown and half-eaten.

The rain hasn't seemed to have made much difference to the pot.

It did partially fill the gravy jug though.

Up next: Draining the pot!

Hello! My name is Peter C. Hayward, and yesterday I poured a bottle of Boke over a pot of meat that is sitting in my back yard. Before going into the Pot of Rot, the meat had been sitting on two plates in a cage for a bit over a week.

The Pot as of this morning. It looks a lot like a pizza.

In response to my offer to pay someone to drink from the Pot of Rot Boca Bola, “RIUM+” asked:

How much money are you offering, can I do anything to it beforehand or do I have to drink it straight as-is, and will you pay for all my assorted medical bills afterwards? ;p

Well, I’ll give you $50 from my own pocket, but it’s at your own risk – you have to deal with your own medical bills, and I’d probably want you to sign something saying you won’t sue me. In my mind, you’d just dip a cup in and drink from that, but we can negotiate on the “doing something to it beforehand” issue.

If anyone else wants to contribute some money to see someone drink from the pot, leave a comment – I can set up a PayPal account. It should be interesting, and it’ll be heavily documented; photos and video, and I’ll check back regularly, to see if they’re dead.

RIUM+ is also the commenter whose mother has dibs on the original StinkyPlate. She’s going to wash it, and hang it up on the wall “next to some Spode plates”. Apparently Spode is a “very fancy, very expensive brand of china”. We have a picture of where the StinkyPlate’s final resting place shall be:

Some more pictures of the pot:

Like an island, floating in a really gross sea.

What is that stuff floating on top of the boke, anyway? Fat? Fizz?

I was wondering if anything had happened to the meat, so I used a fork and dredged the pork steak up.

At this point, the plan is to leave the Boca Bola in the Pot of Rot for another day or two, and then (unless we get a volunteer to drink it) drain the pot, and see what difference it has made to the meat.

Up next: Days 5-6

Hello! My name is Peter C. Hayward, and today I poured a bottle of fizzy drink into a pot of meat and assorted meat-related products that is sitting in my back yard.

The chosen liquid. To avoid using brand-names, it is going to be referred to as "Boca Bola".

I got some great suggestions from the comments yesterday, for what liquid I should add to the pot:

“McKeeKee” suggested:

Ketchup and mustard!

“Katydid” (my co-writer from yesterday’s Ted Vs Ed post) agrees:

I like McKeeKee’s suggestions – Traditional toppings for meat! Barbecue sauce! Ketchup! Sweet Chili sauce! … you already have gravy.

“Communications Officer Bernhard” (as seen in StinkyPete 1.0) has a unique take:

Red wine and a drop of your own

I was actually really tempted to go with this. Then “Chrissie” changed my mind:

Add something that you think might actually alter the meat’s condition – I don’t think sauces would have that much of an effect; they’d probably just get a skin and go crusty and gross. I like vinegar, cordial, or Coke for a topping, but leaning more towards Coke.

“Jenzilla” agrees:

go the coke. it’s acidic. maybe only acidic on metal… not sure. but it’s DESTRUCTIVE so do it.

A persuasive argument indeed! So this morning I woke up, discovered that we have about four bottles of coke in the fridge, left over from a party a while back, and…well, you can watch the video:

In the video, I also detail some StinkyPete-related dreams I have had recently.

Note: if the coke turns out to be a non-event, and nothing interesting happens, I’m happy to drain the pot and try again with a different liquid. Stay tuned!

Also, as promised, here are some photos of the Pot of Rot, post-stirring:

A lot of the fat from the Pork Steak survived. (although it can be hard to tell what's steak-fat, and what's tissue.)

StinkyPete: providing your daily "gross meat photos" updates.

This looks quite similar to the previous photo, but it's actually the other side of the pot. At first I thought that was a puddle of congealed fat, then I worked out it was probably tartar sauce.

I was trying to take a photo of the other side of the pot, and I missed.

I will put down money to see someone drink a cup of the Pot of Rot brand Boca Bola. Any volunteers?

Tomorrow: Daily check-in!