Tonight’s Dinner
For tonight’s dinner we’re following what might well be the world’s largest recipe - as it’s written in large type all over the surface of Google Earth.
To start with, on the coast of Nova Scotia a vineyard uses the fields to do more than grow the grapes - they also advertise wines and their website.1
So we’ve got some wine. Next, if you happen to be driving down this motorway on the Danish island of Zealand, and feel a little peckish, you can stop off and buy some peas from the top of the hill.
You’ll know when you’re at the right place by the giant advertising for “Ærter” (that’s Danish for peas), but it sometimes it says “Æbler” instead (apples).
Lastly, a roof in Columbus urges us to “Eat Trout“. Clearly not a trout farm, from what I can gather the building is (or at least was), some sort of night club - so perhaps it’s just a public service announcement?2
So there we have it, a complete meal in Google Earth: fish, peas on the side and a glass of wine! But can anyone find me some dessert?
Thanks to Greg_Yetman, sladys and Dave Collins
(This post was updated 8th September to correct the location of the peas. Thanks to those in the comments!)
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Hang on, is that not spam? ↩
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The Trout Association claim all sorts of wonderful benefits from eating the fish. ↩
I live very close to one of the pictures. “Ærter” is not Dutch, but Danish. It is a hill, that is clearly visible from the street, and they usually sell something on the top of the hill, so the idea is, that you would normally drive off the street to buy what they write on the field. They don’t always sell peas, sometimes they write Apples (”Æbler”).
Jostwine.com/location = 404.
@SYSS Mouse - WFM?
“Dutch for peas if you hadn’t guessed”
No, I hadn’t guessed that. But then, who’d have guessed that Holland is the capital of Copenhagen, right?
here’s some desert!
Yep, there’s a mix-up in the post between Zealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealand), Denmark’s largest island (excluding Greenland), where the sight is located, and Zeeland or Zealand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeland), a province of the Netherlands (http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=51.648703,4.070435&z=9).
PS: The Dutch word for ‘peas’ is ‘erwten’.
looking at http://www.jostwine.com/ now! looks like v.good marketing to me!
@Lars, Romanov: Thanks for the corrections, I’ve updated the post.
That ‘eat trout’ place is, or was, a night club. In fact it’s been about a million different unsuccessful night clubs. It’s a pretty crappy area.. stuck between a thrift store on the right and a national guard place on the left.