Don’t fall prey to the siren song of nostalgia.
Just. Don’t.
I did. And do. And I am an addict and I need a 12-step group.
Disclaimer: I have the palate sophistication of a toddler, so keep that in mind.
Spaghettios with franks. Awesome treat when mom and dad went out on a very rare date and we had a babysitter. Now…blurgh.
Mom’s cooking. Well, her recipes, the things from my childhood I loved.
Weirdly, some of the Christmas cookies don’t taste as good as the store bakery versions (e.g., “goodie cookies,” aka Russian tea cakes/Mexican wedding cakes). At the time, they were vastly better than anything you could buy off the shelves and grocery stores didn’t have bakeries then. I have to assume that with the rise of the store bakery and their longevity, they just got better at baking. I fix some of the bland with different extracts.
That very tiny hamlet Gma and Gpa lived in where I used to go visit and thought was magical but it was really just a run-down shack in a run-down former mining town and marginal rail hub. The motel in the college town nearby was a treat, though, when we got to stay there. Midcentury modern. Two levels. Each door a different color. A kidney-shaped pool. And then there was the favorite restaurant, which was also a treat and the urban legend of its competing sister restaurant (Mary’s! No, Annie’s! No, Mary’s! Let’s fight!) Their claim to fame (besides the fried chicken) is their onion rings and their spaghetti (little more than ketchup and butter) and their potato salad is German. But what do you expect from a bunch of German immigrants? And oh, the tales of nationalism; my grandmother was not allowed to date Germans, EYEtalians, or Polacks. That left few “real” Europeans. Strangely, her people were Huguenots via Kentucky coal mines, but they didn’t know they were Huguenots; they came from somewhere very near Butcher Holler (six degrees and all that).
Now? Well, the motel’s gone marginally upscale and painted the doors a nice red. The Googie sign is gone and midcentury lobby is hidden behind a plain-Jane glamour and decorated in little ol’ country woman. The little hamlet is now half the size (pop. 234) and a meth haven. And the local chicken place, whose food I loved as a kid, is also bland and maybe even trending to crappy.
What still works for me?
Spritz cookies, which is just shortbread with an egg. I actually have a vintage cookie press just like my mom’s, only mine was NOS (new old stock) and has all the pieces hers doesn’t. In order to keep them from being blah like the Russian tea cakes/Mexican wedding cakes/goodie cookies, I throw different extracts in, peppermint, orange (not lemon; lemon’s for summer), almond. Stuff like that. But hey, you just can’t go wrong when butter is involved, with a little flour and sugar for garnish.
Creamed chicken, which is simply butter-and-sour-cream-on-baked-potatoes goodness. Nothing special about it. It was an expensive dish back then because sour cream was expensive and came in small cartons. In our house, it was a treat. I would request this about every other birthday.
Beef stroganoff, which I requested this on alternating birthdays with creamed chicken, which is also an expensive dish, but so is Hamburger Helper* when you eat it in quantities we do. XY loves this. This and my not-marinara spaghetti sauce.
Meatloaf, a poor woman’s steak tartare. I haven’t made meatloaf in a while, but last time I noted that it’s the Worcestershire sauce that makes it. Come to think of it, XY has been asking for it. That’s one of his charms, XY, is his demanding I cook for him. There’s something deeply satisfying about that, that he actually does value me for something.
Lemon sugar cookies. That’s new to me, not to Mom. Because lemons. And summer. And there is no such thing as too much lemon.
Speaking of lemons: 1 c bottled lemon juice, 1 c sugar, 6 c water. Lemonade, boom, done.
*The comment that tore a hole in a long-time, but already fraying friendship.
Next time: Toys and games
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar
and an urge for the foreign and strange.
As often as not, we are homesick most
for the places we have never known.
Except when it comes to complaining about Coronavirus lockdowns or the Patriot Act.
Someday, future generations will ask us about COVID19.
The discussion will be about:
1) How it was much ado about nothing but cost trillions.
2) How it was when the American experiment collapsed as the golden goose was slain by the takers.
Or
3 How sleepy Americans were roused once again to fight for freedom.
I can’t countenance option 4).
4) When the country finally achieved a single position for all media after all alternative viewpoint tv, radio and internet sites were declared to be dangerously spreading misinformation. The First Amendment was conclusively declared to not apply to speech that could be considered hateful, or which was outside the prevailing government-approved popular opinion. The few remaining dissenters were shamed into compliance or disappeared from public view. This, my grandchildren, was when we reached utopia. Now finish your gruel ration and get ready for evening allegiance chants.
I still about that YouTube taking down that video with the two doctors from Bakersfield. Since when do doctors have to agree with each other?
Agreed. That was the silencing that has made me concerned for the future. Those docs made a reasonable case and it should have been part of the debate. Instead they had their video deleted and national medical organizations said they were greedy liars just trying to get business for their Urgent Care facilities. Yikes.
Thanks, Mo. I think I gained weight just reading that.
Woo hoo! My work here is done.
*dusts hands*
I like the old time picture of Mulberry, KS.
Beef Stroganoff is great. That lemon sugar cookie recipe looks good.
Thanks!
When I was small, my grandfather tried to set up a pool hall. They called it “the store.”
Easiest-peasiest lemonade (and even a dumb kid can make one glass at a time):
https://www.wholesaleclub.ca/Food/Drinks/Drink-Mixes/Powdered-Drink-Mixes/Lemonade-Drink-Mix/p/20040522_EA
Best iced tea EVAH! (only available in Canada, I’m told):
https://www.wholesaleclub.ca/Food/Drinks/Iced-Teas-%26-Coffees/Iced-Tea-Mix-%26-Drinks/Goodhost-Original-Iced-Tea/p/20093202_EA
Iced tea is easy to make. I go through about half a gallon a day, no mix needed. Just black tea bags.
Perfect balance of high-quality tea, lemon and sugar. I’ve never tasted better, after a lifetime of searching.
I drink unsweetened iced tea, the sweetened stuff is always too sweet for my tastes.
And moves you away from being GlibFit.
Sun tea is the best iced tea. Glass dispenser, giant wad of cheapo mint or black teabags, set it on the driveway on a sunny day. In the evening toss it in the fridge. Add a slice or three of citrus if you’re so inclined.
You just want people to die!
I’ve got a Takeya pitcher that I use to make my iced tea in. I’m switching it up between just doing a cold extract and doing boiling water, letting it steep, and filling the pitcher with ice.
My old school comfort food is Tuna Noodle Casserole. Objectively, it’s not that good, and is terrible on calories. But that’s one of the things that got made almost every other weekend during Lent when I was a kid, and even my mom couldn’t mess it up that much.
Speaking of lemon cookies this is the recipe I used for some of the cookies I sent you.
Grilled cheese sandwiches, sourdough bread, Velveeta, fried in bacon grease.
That’s how my Mom made them, so it’s obviously correct. Tastes like love.
The Velveeta part hurts, but sourdough and bacon grease. Mmmmmm.
Pretty much identical to First Nations fry-bread (minus the Velveeta, natch).
We had “Indian tacos” last year (for the first time) after Burning Man as we passed thru the reservation. Damn tasty.
Velveeta is the only correct cheese for grilled cheese, just like cheeseburgers.
This may just be the single most incorrect opinion ever expressed on this site, and that’s saying something. Congratulations.
This may just be the single most incorrect opinion ever expressed on this site
Other than all the opinions Hyperbole expressed, of course. :-p
Coming from Hype, that is a stunning statement.
So Amash is talking about “bringing people together”. With all his talk about virtue and institutions he sounds like a statist fuck.
Virtue brings to mind the Reign of Terror and all the talk about institutions glosses over the importance of values. People won’t stand up for rights that they do not believe in. And who are these virtuous people who will be running these institutions? Canadians now believe that gun rights are an anachronism in our modern world so our institutions aren’t going to protect us. Not to mention how everyone is allowing the government to shut them down due to coronavirus
And then there is the whole “educated virtuous pragmatic clearheaded people will obviously agree with me on pretty everything now and forever” stuff.
Holy crap! Clicked on the cookie press link and… omg so that’s that is! I remember now that my mom had one of those. Never used it and didn’t know what it was. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
my grandmother was not allowed to date Germans, EYEtalians, or Polacks
Always a solid rule. Don’t forget the No Irish!
Legit reason
https://youtu.be/y5D9OUKYr0c
I’d have made bierox for comfort food today but I am out or flour and couldn’t be arsed to go get some.
(Bierox are a bread stuffed with meat. Lots of latitude. Cabbage, potato, onion, sausage, with nutmeg etc, wrapped in a yeast dough and baked. Single servings.)
Yumptious.
I smoked a batch of chicken thighs on the weber and made a stock with a thigh, onion, a couple guajillo chilis, random spices and white wine. It is all sorting itself out in the crock pot on warm. Baked chicken tacos tonight.
My maternal relatives are cattle ranchers so we had beef, beef, beef. Everything but the moo (or the brain, don’t feel like getting CJD).
I liked beef liver deep fried in bacon fat.
I had sheep’s liver in Vienna during my last trip to Vienna. It was… different.
Fun fact: Fried brain sammiches were a thing for a long time in St. Louis. Reportedly, a favorite setup for a spoof yearbook photo was to stand in front of this sign and caption it, “Somebody loan me a quarter?”
I’d happily give one a try if it wasn’t for the prion diseases. No food’s worth that risk though.
My parent’s generation is eaten up with the diabetes. Their eating habits are horrible.
In one generation we went from generations deprived of carbohydrates to one drowning in them.
Food pyramid, my ass.
Thank you George McGovern.
Hey, Suthen, now that we know Govt food pyramid was a terrible idea that has killed millions and disabled more, we can sue the government over the pyramid and school lunches, right?
I mean, we have a case, right?!?
(Facepalm)
It was never about your health.
Who created the US Food Pyramid? The USDA.
The purpose of the Dept. of Agriculture has nothing to do with the nutrition or health of the citizenry. Its purpose is to advance the interests of America’s farmers and ranchers.
The Food Pyramid was composed with solely those interests in mind.
I heard an older Tom Woods (I think) podcast to that effect. One of the stakeholders, I think it was a consortium of grain farmers, complained that there weren’t enough grain based servings in the food pyramid and, what do you know, they added some in.
The food pyramid, is, always was pure horseshit. HM is right on this, it’s all about being the propaganda wing of the food industry, it has nothing to do with health.
I clearly dont understand the food business well enough. It puzzles me why this is the case. A farmer grows stuff. Hell I grew up on a farm…a small one. You grow what you need. Why grow 10x the carbs that the planet can eat when we can simply grow what we need?
Is corn somehow more profitable than oats or pigs or bell peppers?
One year I drove for two hours and there was nothing to see but corn. The next year on the same route it was nothing but sugar.
(you hear a lot about Iowa fields….you should see the river valleys in Louisiana)
We like to blame the government for things, but people eat what tastes good to them. I don’t think the food pyramid gave us pizza and donuts. i think the people who give us pizza and donuts gave us the food pyramid to make us happier as we ate them. The issue is self discipline, and I say that as a guy who has put back on almost all of the weight I lost (and I am talking well over 100 lbs). It isn’t some magic curse of sugar or starch. You can eat any foods and stay in shape. You just need to exercise discipline. I didn’t get fat eating a donut. I got fat eating a box of donuts.
I remember when the one pound bags of M&Ms first appeared. Oh, look, the single serving size!
Yes, by a great deal thanks to government ethanol subsidies and the demand to grow corn for HFCS as opposed to using foreign sugar cane.
That’s also why we are the largest producer of soybeans even though soy isn’t a big part of our diet.
Soy!
“Is corn somehow more profitable than oats or pigs or bell peppers?”
Yes, because subsidies and market distortion.
I don’t think people were deprived of carbs. There were potatoes, corn, bread, rice and other carbs for a very long time. What there wasn’t was processed sugars, sodas, and TV dinners with long lists of chemicals that you can’t even pronounce.
Most people did not eat like Kings like we do now, until very recently, I mean less than 100 years. Most people had to work their fucking asses off every damn day to get enough to eat. So you had a combination of caloric restriction as well as a lot of excercise to get enough to eat. There wasn’t anyone sitting on their ass all day at their computer or in front a TV and having enough food delivered right to the door to consume thousand of calories in calorie rich food every day. Right there is the problem.
It’s probably arguable that there was a great deal more physical labor within the workforce prior to the 70s. We may have changed our work far more than our diet.
We didn’t change our diet that much since then, people were already eating like Kings by the 70s, along with tons of highly processed foods. But we have been changed by the fact that a very large percentage of our population are sedentary most of the time.
I blame the medical industry as well, because almost no doctor will tell you that diet and exercise is important. If you have a health issue, the first thing they want to do is prescribe drugs.
I had a doctor, the guy is retired now, but he’s among the most honest that I’ve known. He told me ‘sure diet and exercise will prevent a lot of modern diseases, especially the most prevalent ones like diabetes and heart disease. But it doesn’t really matter, we need the drugs. If I tell my patients to exercise and practice calorie restriction and eat healthy food, it’s a waste of time. 90% or more will ignore that, so we need the drugs.
I lost 60 lbs in around 90 days just by calorie restriction and exercise, a LOT of walking. I’ve gained about 20 of it back by being lazy. Damn, I really felt good back then, I need to get back to that.
I blame the medical industry as well, because almost no doctor will tell you that diet and exercise is important. If you have a health issue, the first thing they want to do is prescribe drugs.
Bullshit. I mean bullshit worthy of CNN. You can’t go to a doctor being even slightly over weight without instantly triggering a lecture. I have been lectured by dentists for God’s sake.
It’s not bullshit. They might tell you that, but they’ll then drop it. The only thing important is that you take some drugs they want to prescribe you. And it you don’t, they’ll get angry. They won’t care if you follow their diet and exercise tips, and they’re probably wrong anyway. They’ll also tell you that vitamins and supplements do not work, only drugs. They know nothing about diet and nutrition or exercise because they are not trained in that. They’re trained to diagnose problems and prescribe drugs. That’s it.
Beyond telling you to lose weight what do you want from them? I am going to piss off our fitness gurus here but losing weight and improving fitness is not rocket science. You don’t need a doctor to tell you move more/eat less.
But you do need a doctor to get prescriptions. Voila!
So what do most consumers want from their medical provider?
“Beyond telling you to lose weight what do you want from them?”
I try to stay the fuck away from them as much as possible. It’s a business and their business it to sell drugs and surgeries, not to make you healthy. If we were all healthy, they’d have to find something else to do. But the medical industry is a multi-trillion dollar industry and their job is not to make you healthy, it’s to make money. And the US pharm industry is the biggest legal drug cartel on the planet. The FDA is their guys who will send Guido and Bruno down to break your knees if you try to horn in on their territory or dare to do a startup to compete with your people.
“Beyond telling you to lose weight what do you want from them?”
I try to stay the fuck away from them as much as possible. It’s a business and their business is to sell drugs and surgeries, not to make you healthy. If we were all healthy, they’d have to find something else to do. But the medical industry is a multi-trillion dollar industry and their job is not to make you healthy, it’s to make money. And the US pharm industry is the biggest legal drug cartel on the planet. The FDA is their guys who will send Guido and Bruno down to break your knees if you try to horn in on their territory or dare to do a startup to compete with your people.
In trying to press young men into service for WWI the army found that an unacceptably high number of young men were unfit for service due to being underweight, underdeveloped and weak due to a lack of carbohydrates in their diet. My knowledge is spotty on the subject but this had been a problem for a long time….probably since antiquity. That is how Kellog made his money on corn flakes…he touted them as carbohydrates for a deprived population.
It wasn’t until industrial farming really got cranked up that we had a wealth of food…especially carbohydrates. The shift from family farms to giant industrial farms was deliberately engineered to solve that problem.
I am sure there is someone around here with more complete knowledge on the subject than I. have.
I’m not doubting that here were many people not getting enough food 100 years or more ago. Then we went from people not getting enough food to getting too much, and we did it in a every short amount of time from a historical perspective.
Rich people historically got fat. Hence fat cats. We made everyone rich. Every good thing has a downside.
The short answer is that the power of fossil fuels was harnessed to grow food.
John Kellogg was also interested in stamping out masturbation. He believed spicy foods encouraged masturbation, so he sought to create the blandest food possible, Corn Flakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg#Masturbation_prevention
I…ahh…like spicy food.
Ironic. The last thing I want to touch after a bag of flaming hot cheetos is my dick.
Kellogg was a hardcore 7th Day Adventist and his disciples hijacked our diets and have been beating the drum ever since. Yes, it also helped immensely that their religious prescription for diet also dovetailed nicely with other powerful interests (agri-farming) – and the fact that corn was plentiful and could be turned into HFCS. Coca Cola was originally putting cocaine in your soda pop and when that got yanked, they went to HFCS. Berkshire Hathaway is the largest single shareholder of Coke, also gets Ag subsidies, and owns DaVita, a kidney dialysis company. They’ve got you covered cradle to grave, but Buffet is the “right kind” of billionaire.
“GATORADE SUBSTITUTE
1 liter water
1/4 tsp (minimum) Lite Salt (Lite Salt is half sodium, half potassium)
5 Tbsp equivalent of sweetener
1/2 tsp of Kool-aid powder”
I’m pretty sure that the oddest recipe I’ve ever seen.
Id be tempted to use an electrolyte tablet in lieu of the salt.
Nuun is good.
Yep. Nice low calorie exercise drink.
Yup, are there flavorless nuun? I’ve only had flavored Nuun.
There are or at least used to be, currently unavailable though:
Nuun Plus Tablets: Unflavored, Box of 12 Tubes https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0138V9ZX0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_mo1REb4K2JE1G
I don’t believe they have a flavorless one. At that point, you’d be better off just going with salt tablets.
“1/4 tsp (minimum) Lite Salt (Lite Salt is half sodium, half potassium)”
Potato wants people do die! You can’t eat bathsalts!
JK, that’s interesting…
Slutty Sunday discovers that narcissistic instathots are truly the Earth’s only non-renewable resource.
http://archive.li/AZEti
I would’ve said “totally renewable resource,” but whatevs.
Dammit dammit dammit.
That’s what I meant to say.
SHAME
6 and 29.
#6 is cute.
#8’s shoulder made me think she is GlibFit. I checked her gallery. Yes. Yes she is. I’ll take her along with #6.
OMG! Numbah 17 now, 17 forevah! Also, #30 is nice as well.
We mostly ate box Mac n’ cheese which my mom bought in bulk. Spaghetto’s were way out of out price range. Occasionally we might get dry meatloaf with lots of bread filler or the thinnest chili you can possibly imagine. Nothing special spaghetti or overcooked pork chops for a special occasion. For cookies it was either sugar cookies or sugared cookies. We only bought powered milk. I remember the first time I had real milk. I said what is this. I was told it was milk. No, milk is horrible, this is wonderful. I thought it was nector from the Gods.
Brother? Is that you?
*Since we cultivated several acres we also had a wealth of fresh vegetables, we had beef, pork and chicken. We even had duck and goose. The majority of milk was powdered but we did have fresh milk but the two cows didnt produce enough that we could just drink the stuff…it was used for cooking.
There is definitely something wrong when certain plants are illegal but powdered milk is not:)
Reading your cookie recipes and the last threads on sweets and snacks I have to admit I have been craving cookies lately. I rarely do. I am like some of the others, I don’t buy them because I will eat them. Although reading the cheesecake recipe kind of makes me hate you right now. I really want some cheesecake tonight.
Happy to help! ?
Dinner tonight:
Left-over striploin steak sliced into matchsticks, stir-fried with thinly-shredded Savoy cabbage and glass noodles in oyster or black bean sauce (or, in a pinch, Kikkoman’s Teriyaki). Gonna go with the oyster, I think. Served up in bowls and finished with roasted sesame seeds sprinkled on top.
The spousal unit’s gonna have a bath first, and I’ll deliver the wine to her, properly chilled, of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBgnxDNdNmQ
I think I see the direction this is going!
Tonight’s dinner at chez imprudence was potato gnocchi with portobello mushrooms, onion, garlic, asparagus and diced pancetta (deglazed with marsala). With a drizzle of extra-virgin olive oil and parmesan-romano.
I ate damn near my body weight in shrimp and chicken soft tacos and steak/shrimp/chicken sincronizadas from Yummy Taco, a Chinese run chain that provides the best Tex-Mex fast food in all of NYC. Just finished a growler of Teapot Stout from our local brewery and am about to start the Bourbon and fire up Borderlands 3 for a lazy night off.
We had French Toast, French scrambled eggs, sausage and hash browns.
My middle daughter and I had a hash brown cooking contest. She likes to constantly move the hash browns so they all get browned. I like browned on the outside and creamy on the inside. She won because mine were slightly under cooked. It was the first time she has offered to cook ever.
Go Taiwan, Fuck China.
https://time.com/5831203/us-tweets-support-taiwan-china/
Taiwan is the good China. I’d be fine with supplying them with nukes.
Yes.
“strong indignation”
Aww, well then, Pooh Bear, we take it back. Not really, go fuck yourself with a chainsaw.
1 c bottled lemon juice
Maybe I’m buying the wrong stuff, but I can never get bottled lemon juice to taste good in lemonade. Fresh lemon tastes so different.
Honestly, same thing goes for lemon-forward cooking. Lemon on whitefish? Go fresh. Lemon in a lemon cake? Fresh. Just need the acidity? Bottled.
Need it to taste like lemon but with no acidity? Zest the outer skin.
Any lemon juice drink is improved by soaking the zest in the juice for an hour or so before use.
Some bottled lemon juice has lemon oil in it.
I have a Meyer’s lemon tree. Every few years it makes a truck load of the sweetest lemons I have ever tasted. The lemonade made from them is incredible. I will squeeze a couple hundred of them and freeze the juice.
Most years it just makes a hand full.
Watching the news. How in the everloving fuck can so many people engage in such massive willful self-deception?
“You can’t do that. You’re all gonna die!”
STFU.
Nuyorican heaven: red rice and beans, 5 days a week. Usually with chicken cooked in the red sauce, occasionally pork chops. Abuela’s sauce recipe is lost forever (never written down), key ingredient IIRC was olives stuffed with pimientos. Spaghetti with Ragu on Wednesdays because Prince Spaghetti day – my Italian wife cringes in horror at this – and beef once a week. Usually 1/4 of a Florida avocado, salted, as appetizer. Those were the days.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/coronavirus/0OwrC7bg/nj-should-collect-data-on-sexual-orientation-of-coronavirus-patients-legislator-says
?
Wut?
WTF? Critical data needed to help develop effective treatments, to be sure. I am fortunate indeed to be represented by such an outstanding legislator. Most of my neighbors likely voted for this genius. Just shoot me.
Here’s all the proof we need that college, especially tax payer funded and subsidized, is not for everyone.
All the PhDs in psychology aren’t going to turn these researchers into net contributors.
I don’t see why we should blame psychologists for something said by a state legislator.
She did start an HOA….much worse than any Ph.D/researcher title she may or may not have.
I wonder if intelligent life will ever evolve? It seems like it would be a good thing.
A tribute to Sean. Steak, hardware, and harvest gold. https://imgur.com/gallery/BUCIcTl
Love ribeye.
⬅
Rockin’ ?
Nice
Nice
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
– C. S. Lewis
(Pope Benedict-XVI, Truth And Tolerance: Christian Belief And World Religions)
True believers are the worst, certain that they are backed up by “the right side of history.”
Beef Stroganoff for Dummies: Heat up Dinty Moore Beef Stew. Turn off heat and stir in a bunch of sour cream. (Mr. GT doesn’t like mushrooms, so we skip that part.) While heating stew, cook up a mess of extra-wide egg noodles.
Dump stew on top ofServe stew/sour cream mixture over noodles. #NotAFoodie(We have not had this for quite a while since we’ve been trying to reduce carb consumption, but it was a favorite late-in-the-work-week, feeling-too-lazy-to-cook dinner.)
This doesn’t sound bad, actually. Unfortunately, I’ve never found any canned beef stew in Canada that wasn’t approaching “vile” on the scale of Execrable Delicious.
Ahem.
“Execrable to Delicious.”
Venison Stroganoff is what I cook every year for the first night of Deer Camp. I ladle it over spaghetti squash for me to lower the carbs. The rest of the guys like it over egg noodles.
Good idea! IIRC from the few times I fixed spaghetti squash years ago, it’s easily nuked up in the microwave. One less pot! Thanks!
Substitute the noodles with chickpea pasta. My youngest hasn’t detected the difference yet, and it’s loaded with protein.
Another good idea! I like chickpeas. I’ll have to see if my grocery carries the pasta.
I found my chickpea rotini at Costco, but since I’m in Canuckistan, you probably have different stuff in the U.S. stores (and I wouldn’t be surprised if there were regional differences, too).
If you have a Sprouts near you, they carry it.
Well, almost 530. Reckon I’ll have me a drink.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/0hyL_sPwQ9W57lhza49NyQ.3nwH_1qykO3GiylLnOZMBZ
Cheers.
Jesus on a diamond encrusted pogo stick. These people would form an orderly line for the gas chamber. Take a number for faster service.
Who in particular?
“Whom”
Nah, “who” is correct in reference to “These people,” the subject of the sentence. /pedant to the pedant
I have no idea. It’s one of the few rules I never learned, because who uses whom anymore? I was just having fun 😉
Perhaps the 80+% of Californians in today’s LA Times poll who say it’s too soon to start lifting the lockdown?
Baaaaaaaaad idea to these sheep.
Sure, and 97% of scientists agree with that poll.
Yeah, those goals posts are moving at damn near relativistic speeds.
I think it is safe to say that coronavirus has revealed that the entire post-Cold War “liberal” globalization edifice of modernity is nothing but a pack of lies. Free Trade and Open Borders were the most important things until suddenly they weren’t. Human rights are important until people got sick. Things were getting better until suddenly it got worse.
So what will replace this paradigm? Is this the kick in the pants that Gillespie thinks libertarians needed at the beginning of this year? Or will it lead to communism? Or fascism?
Lead to fascism? I think we are full blown fascist now.
You do realize that the list of wants the socialists came out with 100 years ago, they have gotten. The govt picks winners and losers, dictates through regulation how companies can operate…etc.
We already have fascism
“‘Manspreading has crossed over to the realm of running, and it’s not OK’
Taking up space in the world seems hardwired for men – but right now, it reeks of selfishness, says Helen Coffey”
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/women/manspreading-running-social-distancing-jogging-men-coronavirus-a9491926.html
She looks like she takes up plenty of space.
At least she appears to have a bit small upper deck. Also, why doesn’t she just trip them?
*not small
I find myself wishing people ill. I spent years trying not to do that, but 2020 is making me want people to get what they deserve.
Athens very concept of manspreading is silly. We have balls, damnit, and I’m not going to crush them just because sitting with my legs a bit apart offends some broad’s sensibilities.
Athens? WTF Apple spellcheck?
This is Sparta!
I moved my picnic table (tall glass top with umbrella and 4 chairs with a nice rocking motion) from where it was just kinda taking up space on the patio.
I put it over in a side corner or the yard, and it has given me a new vantage point to view the yard and beyond. Mount Palomar is in easy view.
Nice to mix it up a little just by moving furniture.
Ever since they started this shit, I manspread on purpose every time I get a chance. Every meeting at work now, I’ll do it. Not sure if I did it before, but there is zero chance of me not doing it now, forever.
When she jogs past, people would often make the old car horn “ah-ooog-ah!” sound. She was enjoying social distancing because she couldn’t hear the catcalls. But the patriarchy unfortunately intervened once again.
DeWine says his mandatory mask order ‘went too far.’ No shit! Ya reckon??
***BARF!!!***
He said that?
/reads article
Fuck. Is the Sun still rising in the East?
I almost threw a tantrum at the grocery store. My store (the one at which I work) and our store (the one right by our house, where we usually shop) have seemingly given up on the ChiComPox restrictions. The one-way and social distance markings are still on the floor but are not enforced. Today, our store was doing the whole 1 customer leaves another can enter, so I went to Five Towns, Lawn Guyland as the Yummy Taco franchise has reopened. The fucking Stop & Shop there was mandating masks (I pulled my mock-turtleneck over my nose until inside the building) but the big problem was that they only had ONE LINE FOR ALL THE REGISTERS and all the self-checkouts were turned off. All I needed was a case of ginger ale (“JUST ONE PEPSI! BUT SHE WOULDN’T GIVE IT TO ME!”) and the single line was wrapped around the store. After a few minutes of commiserating with others on line, I lost my patience and walked to the front of the line, gave a very nice lady who already had groceries on the belt a $10 to scan my case of ginger ale with her groceries. To sweeten the pot, I let her use my employee discount (10% off everything). We both left slightly less annoyed than we otherwise would have been. This shit needs to end!
That’s crazy. King Soopers was only letting in a few people at a time for like a week, then stopped when we had a cold snap. The local Home Depot does too, but I just go a few miles to one in Englewood- no limits, just on which door you can use, which I think is only so they can use the pro doors for pickup.
It’s all just kabuki theater.
Yep. But not until enough of these thugs identify themselves so we know who to look out for, and also ID the useful idiots who still think the government wants to help them .
+1 Suicidal Tendencies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxcJW6bs5os
Obligatory.
The store near my parents has the one way markings. Most people obeyed them, but the Asians were consistently going the wrong way. They can’t even drive a shopping cart.
LACIST!
Sure, now that you’ve made 80% of the population petrified to leave the house. Looking forward to the response to this.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/state-asking-employers-to-report-employees-who-refuse-to-return-to-work
If you return to work, you’ll die. But if you refuse to return to work, you’ll die! Sounds about right.
This has got to be a dream, right? We’re all stuck in a book by Vonnegut or the russian guy starts with a k.
I don’t know but I don’t want to play anymore.
If you’re thinking Franz Kafka, he weren’t no Rooskie.
Not Kafka, you moran. He’s talking about Kurosawa.
No, he meant Kaptain Krunch.
I already posted this, but it didn’t take:
That is who I was thinking of, and you’re right he wasn’t Russian, sir. This is probably evidence that we are living in a hologram, and/or a computer simulation
There is this little hope of a ray of sunshine peeking through the gloom.
When certain people, inevitably, seized on this issue to use for political reasons, I think most people knew it was a very, very risky game with little margin for error. Is there anyone who thought that they would not fuck it up in spectacular fashion? Because I didn’t. And there is where our hope lies.