Useful for situations where you are on the losing end of a wager involving the consumption of one's cranial apparel.
Comes in a variety of flavours and forms including baseball caps, berets and sombreros.-- hidden truths, Aug 11 2005 Edible Hats http://www.thescrea...2-2/hatsofmeat.htmlMight want to cook first though. [skinflaps, Aug 11 2005] Eating crow, hat, words, heart and dirt. http://www.worldwid...rticles/eatcrow.htmFive course chinese banquet! [calum, Aug 11 2005] Carmen Miranda https://www.ebar.co...ture/movies//228900... sporting her chapeau d'apéritif. [Amos Kito, Aug 12 2005, last modified Apr 16 2021] Make a rice paper hat. http://www.foundati...ps/illeatmyhat.htmlSimilar to this idea, but only referring to one sort of hat and sounds as though it would taste terrible. [hidden truths, Aug 14 2005] Is it made of beef jerky?-- skinflaps, Aug 11 2005 A Pork Pie Hat?-- etherman, Aug 11 2005 It would provide a convenient landing pad for flies and other airbourne insects.-- skinflaps, Aug 11 2005 mmmm...pork pie.-- zen_tom, Aug 11 2005 Coming next: edible crow.-- DrCurry, Aug 11 2005 [Mr.Jafreisi, Phd]I don't get that, is it for all those occasions when one finds oneself exclaiming "I'll eat my crow!"?
I'd accept a meandering crow that follows non euclidian flightpaths in order to justify wildly innacurate estimates of distance.
"No, I meant, as *this* crow flies!"-- zen_tom, Aug 11 2005 As per calum's link.
"to eat one’s hat, expressing one’s complete confidence in the outcome being described"
Well [HT] I'm looking forward to it (please provide evidence)-- skinflaps, Aug 11 2005 I should probably have gone with my gut feeling and written "If you bake this, I will eat my hat" instead. Would you like me to post you a half-digested hat [skinflaps]?-- hidden truths, Aug 11 2005 Well I never, you really do learn something new (about Americans) every day here on the hb. I'd never come across eating crow before.-- zen_tom, Aug 11 2005 Same material as edible panties?-- Eugene, Aug 11 2005 This hat is made out of a high-starch dehydrated custard.-- joeforker, Aug 11 2005 Three things:
1) I love the phrase "I'll eat my hat" and similar phrases, like "I'll be a monkey's uncle."
2) I love the term "cranial apparel."
3) I love the idea of an actual edible hat. Beef jerkey sounds great. Now, if we can only find a way to actually become a monkey's uncle.-- Machiavelli, Aug 11 2005 [Mach] re #3 there, all you have to do is marry a monkey, and wait till one of your spouse's brothers or sisters have some baby monkies. Simple, providing you have the supporting legislature.
[edit] Ah, but that would make you a monkey's aunt. Nope, looks like the monkey's uncle dream is out the window.-- zen_tom, Aug 11 2005 zt: crow is, of course, edible, just very bitter. Much the same flavor as humble pie, I imagine.-- DrCurry, Aug 11 2005 //Nope, looks like the monkey's uncle dream is out the window.//
Geeze, news like that should be given a little more gently, [tom]!-- Machiavelli, Aug 11 2005 I'm sorry [Mach], I didn't know how to break it any other way. Sometimes the truth hurts. I've heard of monkey reassignment therapy, but you have to spend years living as a monkey, adapting to a banana based diet, and wearing a big all-over monkey wig. I think the last time I heard about it, was on a documentary; They were following a day in the life of a former tax inspector from Grimsby, called Bobo (not his original name) as he adapted to his new role as a Costa Rican Howler monkey. It was very moving.
[DrCurry] yes, I've not thought about this before, but this and talk a few months ago about lactation makes me wonder what it is that makes things that eat graze on a simple food sources (i.e. grass) taste preferable to those that have more varied/complex diets.
As for pie, my Granny and Mum both make the most wonderful cottage/shepherds pie, I have yet to stop myself from vicariously bragging about it. And don't (whatever you do) let me get started on apple crumble.-- zen_tom, Aug 11 2005 I dunno. Chickens eat bugs and all sorts of things, and they taste pretty good to me. I think this has more to do with early man domesticating the animals that tasted good, and leaving the rest alone.-- DrCurry, Aug 12 2005 This is fairly widely known to exist, based on google: edible hats -halfbakery.
Why shouldn't this be MFD/E, just to be fair?-- oxen crossing, Aug 14 2005 Looking throgh the search criteria that you suggested, I found one genuine instance of a hat that could be eaten, which I had already found in a preliminary search before posting this idea. I had decided that the web-site that you are presumably talking about (link), was considerably more limited than this idea.-- hidden truths, Aug 14 2005 "Nacho, nacho man. I want to be a nacho man!"
[-]-- contracts, Aug 14 2005 Well, yeah, and a bunch of other sites that looked good on google, but turn out to be either cakes (unwearable), or refer back to the one site you point out.-- oxen crossing, Aug 15 2005 To be fair [oc], I suppose you could wear a cake. It just wouldn't be advisable.-- hidden truths, Aug 16 2005 //This is fairly widely known to exist// - It is? I think that anything that returns less than ten proper hits on google is pretty esoteric.-- wagster, Aug 17 2005 Not really widely known. Lord knows i've never heard of it, and I must spend 30 hours a day on the Internets.-- shapu, Aug 17 2005 I don't know how you come up with //10 proper hits//, but whatever. I hereby retract any fledgling objections I may have been incubating regarding this idea.-- oxen crossing, Aug 17 2005 Well, I think that the edible hats that show up on google are all food that is prepared to be eaten, but is hat-shaped. This idea, on the other hand, is based on hats that you wear around town (perhaps jauntily, if it suits), that just happen to he edible as well.-- shapu, Aug 17 2005 Precisely. Google will almost always return something, a proper hit is one that refers to what you intended. There are about 225,000 results for 'Edible hat', less than ten of which refer to a hat that you can wear and eat (ok, I haven't checked them all). There are about 166 results for '"Edible hat"', the first of which brings you right back here.-- wagster, Aug 17 2005 [shapu], jaunty wearing of an edible hat is recommended, maybe even mandatory.
[longshot], that sounds like a pretty fine idea that I would probably vote for. You should post it.-- hidden truths, Aug 20 2005 My edible hat is a secret, so you have no way of knowing whether it is edible or not. In fact you have no way of knowing it exists. These matters are for me alone.-- wagster, Aug 20 2005 random, halfbakery