Penn Jillette & Teller: How to Play With Your Food
Jillette, Penn & Teller: How to Play With Your Food
©1992 Buggs & Rudy Discount Corp. Villard Books, NY
Softcover, perfect-bound, 8.5x11", 216 pages
ISBN: 0-679-74311-1
Penn Jillette & Teller: How to Play With Your
              Food

Comments: Photographs by Anthony Loew. A collection of jokes, pranks and magic tricks using or around food. Came with a set of props, such as fake food labels, gag fortunes, and a plate lifter.

Contents (from book):

ix Introduction

3 Stabbing a Fork in Your Eye (Mac King): gag
6 How to Predict What Your Friends Will Order for Dinner: using the one-ahead
12 Build a Better Banana: when peeled, the banana is pre-sliced
13 A Milkshake as Self-Defense: a story
18 The Dribble Can
20 Maybe There Is Something to This Fortune-Cookie Thing: with a supply of suggested gags
25 The All-Purpose-Penn-&-Teller-Play-With-Your-Food Three-of-Clubs Card Force: three versions
35 The James Bond Fancy-Schmancy Restaurant Card Trick: using the above force
40 The Parsley Game: a game to play at a fancy restaurant
43 The Oliver Stone Melon-Head Trick: not really a trick; shooting a fiberglass encased melon with a rifle
46 The Irish Tea Trick: initial appears on the spectator's palm
50 How to Get Your Ethical-Vegetarian Friends to Eat Veal: just a gag
53 How to Get Your Chassidic Friends to Eat Treyf: another
54 Tying a Cherry Stem with Your Mouth: the magic way
58 This Is as Close to a Free Lunch as You'll Ever Get: by correctly predicting the meal total
65 Yeah, I Ate Half a Roach. You Got a Problem with That?: another story
66 Psychokinesis—Using Your Brain to Move a Spoon: using the plate lifter
69 Linguini A la Stigmata: Bizarre magic where your injured hand appears to supply the sauce
71 Credit Where Credit's Not Due: performer makes a push-pin rise in a carbonated drink
76 Spoon-Bending, A Really Lousy Trick for Really Lousy People
81 Heads—I Win All; Tails—You Lose Half: a can't lose coin flip
82 Practical Jokes as Gentle Surrealism: essay
86 Fear, Damage, Houdini, Drowning. Glory, and the Great Egg Drop: an essay and a juggling stunt
94 Popcorn: a scary popcorn gag
98 Warning Warning Warning: fake recipies
104 Bleeding Heart Gelatin Dessert: a dessert that bleeds when you cut it
110 Pixar's Listerine Hack: another story
112 Be Picasso, Now, Without Talent: an art gag for paying the restaurant bill
114 How to Be the Coolest Person at a Picnic: eating ants
116 The Riddle of the Six Dead Fish: intro story
118 How to Transport David Letterman's Watch into the Belly of a Fish: fully explained
128 Jesus of McDonald's: clever trick with two drink cups and straws
132 The Lie in Your Lunchbox: an apple from an Orange
134 How to Use That Stupid Little Sugar Packet: using a gag packet
136 The Story of Little Ginny Goblin and the Dancing Kandy Korn: a Halloween story and gag
142 The Vanishing Appetizer: eating your companion's food
147 Cornstarch—A Little Lesson in Life: playing with your food
148 Spoon-Breaking: a lesson in misdirection
155 How About Those Official-Looking Stickers in the Envelope?: gags using one of the included props
157 The Incredibly Dangerous Glowing Pickle Machine: a science experiment
159 Getting Creamed in the Middle of the Night at Denny's:  a messy game with coffee creamer
161 Salt in the Wounds of Credulous Fools: the fake blister trick
165 It’s About Time You Got to Know Your Pizza Person: card is revealed by the delivered pizza
169 A Scam to Help with That Pesky Cooking Merit Badge: a story
172 How to Lop Off Your Thumb and Make People Scream
176 His Satanic Majesty’s Burrito: an imprint appears in a tortilla
184 How to Be a Great Older Relative: gags to show the young'uns
185 - Funny Orange Teeth
187 - Dizzy Eggshell: dances on a plate
188 - Intravenous Grape: grape pushed into bellybutton appears at the mouth
189 Another Man's Poisson: a story about Mrs. Hooker
209 What About Secrets?
213 Thanks
215 The Penn & Teller Time Line


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