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Hereiam
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03-29-2002

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 9:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hope it is ok to start this new thread, I just didn't know where to post and thought others may have some questions as well.

So here is my question... On last nights show I noticed that Rebecca knew exactly what the task was before she said "I'll do it" to the soup eating. Are they supposed to know the exact task before they decide who does it on a roadblock? Or are they supposed to decide with just the teaser? In this case since the teaser was about spicing up your life and they were in front of a restaurant I am sure they all knew they were eating something before they picked who would do it. Just wondering.

Roppiepie
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05-06-2004

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 9:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was wondering about that too. I thought they just got a teaser, but some of them seemed to be really reading more. My question is, how come the 1st team in had to drink goblets of blood and the other teams didn't?

Hereiam
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03-29-2002

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 10:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh, I know the goblet of blood thing. That was just for the Fast Forward so they could skip the other tasks. They did that and got to skip water polo/paddle and soup eating. But, they will not be able to go for the other Fast Forward when it comes up.

Scorpiomoon
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06-06-2002

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 10:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I don't think it's mandatory that they know all the details before they choose who does a Roadblock. Often times, they will read the teaser, decide, then read the rest.

My guess would be (since it is Rebecca and she is often really aggressive) she didn't know what it was or really care, she just hurriedly piped up and said she'd do it.

Jasper
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09-14-2000

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 11:20 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I believe all they know is a teaser prior to reading what the task is. In this case it was who needs to spice up their life, they decided who'd do it, and read the balance. I would assume as it was a restaurant that most of them would guess it would be eating something. She was a machine though! who else would like to smack Jonathon, and I loved the expressions on the muscians faces.

I'm not sure anyone else would have been able to down a goblet of blood, but I sure would have liked to see Kendra try, lol.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 11:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think they are meant to decide who does the roadblock by the teaser only. Either Rebecca just ignored that and opened the clue, or maybe they just edited it to show her reaffirming that she'd do it after reading the details. I noticed it too and wondered. They didn't seem to get a penalty so I presume it was the editing.

It's strange that Phil still says "you have to choose when best to use the Fast Forward" now there are only two in the whole race. The best time to use the Fast Forward is when you're the first to get to it! Why wait and see if you're lucky enough to be in that position the second time!?

Brenda1966
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07-03-2002

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 12:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I agree with Kit. I think they are supposed to decide based on the clue. It certainly did seem like she read the whole thing before deciding, but maybe it's just editing and how she said it.

Another thing -- did the clue state they needed to ride that tram thing up the hill? Two teams didn't and I'm expecting them to get penalties.



Immunity_man
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09-26-2003

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 1:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's probably the editing because there's so much we don't see. Other teams who finished the Roadblock may have come out and told Rebecca and Adam what the task was and she decided then and there that she would do it. There's so much that we don't see.

Gina8642
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06-01-2001

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 1:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It is just the teaser they go by. I read posts by former racers that confirm that. They might make a good guess at time - like when they see a huge bungee jumping set-up. But they still only have the teaser.

Hereiam
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03-29-2002

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thank you everyone. It probably was the editing I was just hoping they would get a penalty and Gus and Hera would be back in. Oh well.

Brenda - I think it said they could ride the tram or walk up.

Roppiepie
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05-06-2004

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 4:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks hereiam. I wonder where the blood came from? Probably a cow, like they did in Survivior Africa.

Mak1
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08-12-2002

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Phil said it was pig's blood.

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 4:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I think Phil said it was pig's blood, but either way - YUCK!

Gina8642
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06-01-2001

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 4:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Drinking blood of anything just doesn't seem to be a good idea to me. There's mad cow diesese and all sorts of other stuff that is carried in blood. I know they really want to hype up the grossness of it all, but that doesn't seem safe. Personally I think I'd have a much easier job drinking a cup of blood than 24oz of tabascco sauce - but the safety issue bugs me.

Ar_jammer
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11-17-2004

Wednesday, January 05, 2005 - 4:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No doubt about it. Pigs Blood.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 3:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
mad cow disease cases are THREE in all of the cows in North America. The disease is passed on ONLY in the brain and spinal cords of COWs. The two cases in Canada were cows not designated for human eating. I understand that hamburger COULD be a risk if the slaughterhouse is sloppy and contaminates the meat with Brain tissue etc. Eating a rare steak(bloody) is NO RISK.

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From what I understand,

Animal Blood doesnt carry many diseases actually other than certain parasites (which are easily cured). Hepatitis etc are HUMAN diseases.

BLECHH drinking the pig blood though!! yucky

Gina8642
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06-01-2001

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 10:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In biology class in college we learned about all sorts of nasty parasites that are carried in blood - pig and cow. Most are fairly undectable unless they invade your body in large numbers. Parasites are less abundant in temperate climates (USA, Canada, Europe) but are still around. They are more abundant in warmer climates - like much of Africa. Many Africans have a high degree of parasite infection (not sure if infection is the right word here.) Parasites are something people live with. Every person posting here has some parasites in their body - it is just a fact of life. It is only when they become abundant or you have a particularly troublesom variety that they cause any quality of life issues.

I'm also pretty sure that bird flu, swine flu, and our flu are all found in blood as well. Drinking blood just seems like a bad idea.

Basically I learned way more than I ever wanted to know about parasites in Biology in college. Everyone in my class had the same general reaction of "Ewwww, why didn't we already know this?". Our proff basically said that since most of these don't effect quality of life or health, there is really no reason for concern or alarm. But personally, I cook my meat well and stay away from scarier parts of the animal body (brain, liver, blood, etc.)

Padivius
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08-21-2003

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Re: "mad cow disease cases are THREE in all of the cows in North America." (Sunshyne4u)

True enough, but the Fast Forward task was not in North America, it was in Hungary, which is in Eastern Europe. Mad Cow Disease was a big problem in Europe in 2000-2001, long before it ever turned up in North America.

Costacat
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07-15-2000

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 3:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Y'know... it's really irrelevant where the FF was held and where mad cow is present. I would imagine that the producers of TAR are held to the same standards as those of the gross-out show, Fear Factor. They probably pasteurized or otherwise did something to enable safe human consumption.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 4:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mad Cow was almost predominantly in GREAT BRITIAN where they like to eat Sweetbreads done rare. Sweetbreads are a 'gourmet' word for BRAINS. That is why they feel that the disease was increased there.

By the way, Gina is correct. We ALL have parasites right now all over our body and in our intestines. I worked as Parasitologists for years. It was kinda gross work but holy smokes there are big worms that live in people!! One little five year old came in after passing a seven inch worm (her mom freaked out and took her into emergency of course LOL) I would too.



Watching2
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07-07-2001

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 12:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I thought sweetbreads were the thymus gland? The reason it sticks in my mind is, I ate them without knowing what they were when I was 21 and on my first "big girl" trip with a friend to California. We ate at the penthouse restuarant in the Hyatt on Union Square and thought we were quite "cool" - up there with all the rich people and eating so late at night. When I got back to work I was talking about it. I worked with a bunch of guys who were MDs, Ph.D. toxicologists, etc., and they were teasing me that I had eaten testicles. I was feeling rather grossed out a good 2 weeks after the event! LOL We looked it up in the dictionary and I'm pretty sure they said it was the thymus gland. I was just searching for it on Google and found a site where someone said there were two kinds - the thymus type and the pancreas-type depending on the area of the animal. YUCK! I don't know how legit the person is in their answer so I decided not to link to it. feeling yucky just thinking about having eaten them... lol

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 1:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
maybe my recall is wrong. I must do a search! Maybe Sweetbreads are all the gross parts that the gourmetchefs dont want us to know about LOL

Seamonkey
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09-07-2000

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 1:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sweetbreads

Karuuna
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08-31-2000

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 10:03 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It is currently believed that cases of Mad Cow in Great Britain were caused by sloppy rendering processes. It was most likely caused by ground beef that included small bits of spinal cord material; or a rendering process used to extract fat that did not kill the infection. Both of these problems have since been resolved. :-)

Kitt
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09-06-2000

Friday, January 07, 2005 - 11:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Mad Cow was almost predominantly in GREAT BRITIAN where they like to eat Sweetbreads done rare. Sweetbreads are a 'gourmet' word for BRAINS. That is why they feel that the disease was increased there."

I'm from England and I've never even heard of sweetbreads! What Karuuna said is true as far as I'm aware. And Mad Cow was all over Europe, a bad problem particularly in Britain, France and Spain. They upped the standards so that all spinal cord and brain is carefully removed before the meat gets processed, so now it's not a problem. It's also why no one eats gelatine in Britain anymore!