Strange times are afoot. Between random people dropping dead due to being uneducated, lack of qualify healthcare, lack of access to healthcare, mask deniers, vaccine deniers, being forced to get an ID, police brutality we still have something else bigger than all of us to attend to…
This is my review of Tombstone Brewing Mexican Vanilla Imperial Stout:
Naturally, we Americans eat a lot of beef, and why not? Its delicious. Except according to right wing news and subsequently disputed by other outlets, President Harris wants to limit out intake of beef to such low levels, if successful would limit Americans to approximately one 1/4 pound hamburger per month.
Which is pretty awful for me, I typically eat a burger once a week. Two if I’m hungry.
I will not bore you of details of the paper from University of Michigan where this rumor began, or the CNN Op-Ed that insists this is all just a ruse created by right wing nut jobs that refuse to engage in such policy debates because their opinions are increasingly unpopular. Nor will I point out whoever wrote that Op-Ed argued the UM paper is a hypothetical and not advocating policy, which is believable only if the writer didn’t read the last line of the abstract which states:
Nationally sizable reductions are possible without complete elimination of animal-based foods from the diet can make diet shift strategy more palatable. Such changes, however, will require the concerted efforts of policymakers, the food industry and consumers. The projection scenarios presented here point to the urgency of such efforts, as decisions made now will have a cumulative impact over the next decade.
I am much more interested in how such a policy affects “the unseen”.
Netflix has a series called Taco Chronicles, where they go around various regions of Mexico and they feature a type of taco. One episode they feature tacos made from Buché (that’s offal). What is offal? Its animal byproducts that Americans typically don’t eat, in part due to legal restrictions but mostly is a cultural distaste for mystery meat. Turns out, Mexicans eat a lot of it and most of it happens to come from the United States.
Its even more popular in Asia, with China and Hong Kong importing approximately a third of the $8.2 billion trade worldwide. In fact, many of the countries listed on the graphic to the left aren’t countries we often think of when we think of affluent countries (Japan and Hong Kong aside). Am I implying that if we drastically reduce the amount of meat we eat it will affect people in developing countries who might depend on mystery meat to get protein? Certainly nobody likes to ponder the idea we progressed to the point the average American is affluent enough people abroad might depend on our table scraps. They may not starve but it certainly makes their lives more difficult. Its a part of the debate I doubt either side has given much thought.
Another stout? Yes, deal with it. The weather was cool until today. This one comes from a town famous for a blood feud; the most infamous person is arguably the archetype for police brutality. They made an awesome movie about it. The story itself is a bit disappointing if you ever go to see the OK Corral in person. Its an empty lot, and they should have never paved main street. The beer however, is solid. Good enough after a few of these, I recommend this as a hangover cure. Tombstone Brewing Mexican Vanilla Imperial Stout: 4/5
So it’s good but not offally good?
Quit horsing around.
Uh oh. Mo’s got me by the giblets.
I’m going to have to ruminate on that for a while.
I’m not in the moo’d for this.
Guess I’ll just hoof it on outta here.
Tombstone? Sounds OK to me!
Ordure! ordure!
That’s just gravy.
Swissy’s response is udderly predictable. Be advised.
Again with this tripe?
We have to milk it for all it’s worth.
*Narrowed graze*
*wild applause*
Haven’t we heard suggestions that we be made to eat bugs instead of beef?
Are cicadas good eatin’? Gittin’ a bumper crop soon!
Many bugs have bugs of their own and they can be very dangerous pathogens. There are good reasons we don’t eat bugs.
+1 deMorgan.
I ate grasshoppers rolled in corn dough at a Mexican restaurant in Massachusetts.
Crunchy.
I probably wouldn’t do it again.
All the more for John the Baptist to eat.
https://dwightlongenecker.com/did-john-the-baptist-really-eat-grasshoppers/
Apparently Agkistrodon Contortrix, the eastern copperhead, *loves* to eat cicadas.
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/the-story-behind-the-photos-a-copperhead-vs-a-cicada/article_39f9b3bb-c715-58b0-bf2a-13b01f5ef9a7.html
They showed a cicada outburst on one of those nature shows. The things basically only come up to fuck and die. And I guess lay some eggs somewhere. They’re so clumsy and stupid they practically offer themselves up to the local wildlife who then gorge on them.
Their swarm and lay eggs strategy is specifically designed to overwhelm the ability of the predators to eat them all before the eggs are laid. After that, bugs don’t care.
If anyone is going to try to take away my cheeseburgers and replace them with invertebrates, they’d best come a-shootin’.
Worms.
But are skrimps not, in actuality, sea bugs?
Crustaceans.
I was trolling for Swiss with sea bugs. It’s an old joke between us.
However, I was serious about worms as food. I know that the Greta crowd want to force that on us.
In other odd Grocery Outlet finds, I’ve probably said I saw a cricket-based cookie mix there once, which I did not buy even for lulz. Still have the pic somewhere.
That sounds like something my sister & BIL would put in our Christmas stockings because they thought it was “a hoot.” 🙁
I remember years ago on a Carson-era Tonight Show, they had the high school-age winners of a worm recipe contest. The winner – or at least a finalist – had made Quiche Lorraine avec Ver de Terre, with you-know-what subbing for the bacon.
Wait. Is that vegetarian?
Depends on the vegetarians. I believe Hindus draw the line at anything with a face, however small.
Ew. Don’t remember seeing that in the recent reruns.
I may be misremembering the age of the contestants – perhaps getting it mixed up with the frequent bird call contest champions.
In grade school we read a book titled something like 50 Ways to Eat Fried Worms. It was meant to be gross but these days people might take it as a suggestion.
Heh, that has been lingering in a local wee free library.
Sea bugs?
*shudder*
Good eatin’ on a giant isopod.
Indeed we have.
https://www.amazon.com/Chirps-Cricket-Protein-Chips-Gluten-Free/dp/B07FKXPK1G
It’s certainly the case that the millions of us who are concerned about climate change, sustainability, human health and the cruelty of factory farming are cutting down our meat consumption and telling others about the benefits of a more plant-heavy diet.
STFU, you preening twats.
Please, please, feel free to keep telling me about your virtue signaling-based lifestyle. I love the weepy look you get when I tell you exactly how little of a fuck I give.
anything that’s yummy and sweet…
Bee spit…
Another stout?
I see nothing wrong with another stout.
The beer looks good.
Late, as always, so from the last thread.
Y’all are slipping. No snark on the picture of Joey getting a little frisky with the Doktor. You do have to scroll down the article aways.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9530549/Biden-considering-ordering-military-members-COVID-vaccine.html
He’s just trying to pick one o’ them lemons for some lemonade! 😉
I love the tone of stuff like that Filipovoc thing.
“You’re so stupid. We’re better than you. Why are you so mean to us?”
They won’t ban beef. They’ll just make it so expensive that you can’t afford it.
Feature, not bug.
Make it so expensive? Have you bought a steak recently.
Pick up a sous vide stick. You can slow cook cheap cuts over several hours if you don’t have the space or the attention span for a smoker.
Got one a few years ago, I’ve only used it about 4 times, not sure why but probably due to a combination of not being all that impressed with my results and not being very good at planning a head of time.
I found you need at least four hours, set at 120 degrees or less.
You guys and your sous vide crushes.
This is true. I can get pork chops for about a third the price of steak already, and they’re nearly as good.
This, I can either get one ribeye or an entire pork loin or 4 whole chickens. I could buy the steak but at those prices the miser in me comes out.
I prefer two fried chickens and a coke.
white bread, toasted, dry.
?
The pork chops I bought this morning were $7/lb. Just under half the steak. Though to be fair, the pork was boneless chops.
I get the pork tenderloins and cut them up.
Me too. Cost effective and I get the exact thickness I want for whatever I plan to do with them.
? #metoo except today the whole loin is going on the Weber for some indirect lump charcoal slow cooking.
Yeah, I was able to get bone-in pork chops for exactly half that price. Boneless meat has its places but I think the chops come out a lot better with the bone. Then again, I’m not a great cook.
I am grilling chicken thighs today in honor of Old mans first morning link.
Two bone in ribeyes this morning. $15/lb. $45 total – gonna be good eats.
This is the new way. That’s why so many places are still mandating face masks and social distancing in areas where the local government has lifted restrictions. The CDC has granted immunity from COVID lawsuits who follow CDC guidelines, and removed it from those that don’t. The businesses don’t _have_ to mandate masks (and many local mom and pops don’t), but the big corps expose themselves to costly legal liability if they don’t.
In a functioning constitutional republic, this sort of unconstitutional bullshit would get shitcanned by the courts in short order. Alas…
How the fuck does the CDC get to grant immunity from anything, to anyone?
Wait, don’t answer that…
I have noticed this. We have no mask mandates anymore in the two counties I frequent, however, the national chains still mask up their employees and still have the mask signs on the doors. I would guess 10% of people (outside of employees) follow it. 90% are ignoring them and nobody says anything. The Karens even keep quiet around here now. My guess is they have been shouted down enough times they know to keep their traps shut since they figured out they are in the minority.
Same way up here in the valley.
Do you have a link to the CDC granting immunity to businesses from COVID lawsuits?
The US Congress and some state legislatures were considering legislation granting immunity to businesses from COVID lawsuits IF the business followed CDC guidelines or similar guidelines.
Covid lawsuit immunity by state.
Hey Mojeaux, aren’t your kids supposed to go on a mission? Does that work to give them discipline and direction the way the military does for some?
My kids have an adversarial relationship with the church and I don’t believe in sending kids on missions to “straighten them out”. I don’t mind if the military does it, but I’m not paying for them to a) do something they absolutely do not want to do, b) do something I am ambivalent about anyway, and c) do something for the wrong reason.
My family’s adherence to doctrine pretty much ends with me and Mr. Mojeaux. We didn’t do a good job of teaching them and then some things happened that actively drove them away. In addition, I believe the church itself is going astray a bit, so I’m not going to press the point.
That said, 2 out of 3 of my mom’s children left the fold too, so I don’t feel so bad.
Wait, you have to pay to send them on a mission?
Yeup. And it ain’t cheap.
We have a mostly lay clergy and other positions (nursery leader, choir, administrative, teachers). The only thing that could bankrupt the church would be a class-action labor claim.
Oh, I’ll amend that. If you truly are impoverished, the church will pay for it. My dad went on his mission on the church’s dime.
Collegiate work-abroad visas can be fun if any exist anymore.
Huh. It was my assumption that Mormons donate so much to the church that missions would be covered.
MOAR! It’s always more. Give us more. More money, more time, more loyalty, more sacrifice. The Lord will bless you.
Maybe the Lord will bless you and maybe he won’t, but I (and anyone else) can choose whether to give more or not.
My husband tithes out of his check (my business is too unpredictable). There is a slot for “fast offerings”, which is used to feed people who are impoverished.
So I may sound bitter, but I’m not. The church does do a lot of temporal good. The bishop of a ward (congregation) is responsible for the well-being of ALL the people in his boundary, not just members. If he gets wind of someone in need, he makes sure they get taken care of.
So where do you think the Church is going off track lately? I haven’t been keeping up since becoming a Counted On Membership Rolls Only Not Really Mormon TM.
I don’t think the current leadership has the best interests of the members at heart. Ithink Nelson is a little drunk on his own power.
With all the changes that have been made since Monson died, and in such rapid sequence, makes me think he’s trying to keep us away from each other, to divide and … I don’t know why. It’s an active effort, it seems.
I’ve seen some checks mailed into my CU from a couple of local wards over the last few months. I haven’t opened the envelopes, but I suspect they’re making loan payments for unemployed folks.
OT: Big Bore Stopping Power up for auction at Rock Island Auction.
Works of art. I’m way too practical. In other word, cheap. I’ve too much stuff, time now to use those things for their intended purpose.
Hey Mojeaux, as far as XX enlisting….getting an extended education is more fun when you’re getting paid for it. There are a LOT of different jobs that give you good practical training and if she can swing one that grants a TS clearance, she can make bank even without a college degree (although taking a class or two remotely while enlisted and winding up with a degree before you get out – fully paid for – isn’t a bad idea either). My experience has all been army/navy so I can answer quite a bit about the current programs – especially in navy if she’s interested.
Alternate type options – if she wants something kinda practical that has a lot of options – https://www.as.edu/programs/ isn’t a bad option either – also getting paid while you’re in school (look at the advanced disciplines page too). I tried to get into this one last year, but I think I’m a little too old for them.
XY, I think, though.
Yeah, daughter has too many health problems to enlist.
I’d be happy if son enlisted. As it is, I’m trying to get him to do the trade school program just for something to fall back on. He’s ambivalent about that.
AS.edu is an awesome trades program from what I’ve seen – but it is a little far from KC. Potentially gets him tied up with some of the unions too, but VA is a right to work state.
The trade school my daughter attends is a program where, the last 2 years of high school, they go half the day there. Unfortunately (because I was lazy), I didn’t get her in the first year, but am delicately prodding my son toward that.
On the Ag Sciences page, “Landscaping & Groundskeeper” under the Career Opps should get his attention…but the higher wages in the middle of the list might REALLY pique his interest!
A period in the military can be educational and help with paying college expenses for when a person has a better idea of what their skills and interests are. You aren’t just limited to active duty. Both the Reserves and National Guard have educational benefit programs. Some states basically offer free tuition and boarding through their NG programs. I don’t remember what MO offered except that it was pretty generous.
Now that the war in Afghanistan is drawing down and the efforts in Iraq remain SOF focused (and small) there is little chance of a year plus involuntary mobilization into the active duty.
The military isn’t for everybody, but they do a good job of forcing young people to learn to grow up and the world doesn’t care about your issues- plus technical skills.
Has the National Guard Bureau stopped pushing their regular mobilization plan they’ve been getting wet over for twenty years?
The downside of reserves is usually the commitment length for educational benefits was much longer. At least pre-9/11. Six year initial enlistment (imo far too long for a first hitch) for GI Bill eligibility.
You can get free training in trades in the military. I got HV hotline certified in the Air Force, not that it will matter in the real world but most contractors are looking for experienced workers they know will show up to a rough job.
Also a good way to get your foot in the door for medical training if they think they might like that. More states are starting to accept military certifications or fast tracking for EMTs, etc – and if you want to put more time in, they might even pay for nursing/med schools.
Yes, at least in the Regular Army, there is the AMED program. It is essentially an ROTC scholarship for medical school. I am not sure about the particulars but if you are willing to put up with Army nonsense for a few years, it doesn’t seem like a terrible deal. There are also sub-programs where enlisted folks in medical MOSs can become, PAs, MDs, Licensed Practical Nurses, etc. A large number of Special Forces medics become PAs under that program, after they finish selection, the Q, and MOS training they are very close to being PA. It only requires a bit more schooling for them.
if you want to put more time in, they might even pay for nursing/med schools.
This was nearly ten years ago, but they were willing to pay for that while I was still in. Nursing is always in high demand, anywhere. .
If your son has any aptitude and interest in the trades he should do fine. Doesn’t even need to be in one of the traditionally high paid trades (plumbing/electrician) If the current trends continue, anyone willing to hang drywall or swing a hammer will be in very high demand.
See Adam Carolla.
Forum topic, Mo?
I may, at that. Good idea.
You had me at Mexican Vanilla and Stout. Hard would. I must find that one.
As to, President Harris wants to limit out intake of beef to such low levels, if successful would limit Americans to approximately one 1/4 pound hamburger per month. She can suck a dick. Take that as a command or as her lifes history how ever you want. Our own state commander in chief here is trying that shit too. He tried this. Pretty much the entire state outside of the front range metro had massive public BBQ’s because fuck that.
How unobservant does one have to be to think that might fly in CO?
That was pretty much my question when I first heard about it. “Does that asshole know what state he is Governor of?” On Polis’s “meatout” day I ate the first (and last) bovine testicle of my life. How is that for non-compliance?
The cowboy who first thought idea up was a sick mofo.
No wait, I am mixing up my weekends. The testical was after the meatout day. The past few weeks have been a blur of bulls and testicles.
I used to be unobservant, if theoretically sympathetic. Driving partway across country was very educational.
Denver Metro. The Springs has a large number of barrel-chested, beef-eating freedom fighters,
TY for the correction.
“She can suck a dick.”
At the pro level, apparently.
Even if you don’t care a whit about the contest itself, you may find it amusing to know that tomorrow’s NASCAR event in Kansas is the Buschy McBusch Race 400.
😀
I am grilling chicken thighs today in honor of Old mans first morning link.
You’re going to wash them down with purple drank, I hope.
How the fuck does the CDC get to grant immunity from anything, to anyone?
Like rent, for example?
This has been a fun bit of twitter the last couple of days: https://twitter.com/DrumChronicles/status/1388116730518638594
Some great pics/vids/follow up data in the replies too.
Better vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAvqDF3Wujc
When I was in a certain place at a certain time some assholes tried to steal the payroll for the local guys under our employ from “the company”. The local “police” caught the want to be bandits and took them out on a boat and beat the bottom of their feet raw with the flat side of a bush knife. There were no further attempted robberies.
“Cash in transit crew” —is that a sort of armored car moving cash? I didn’t quite get the context.
And, no, I’ll stay here for now, thanks.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1388523410624495616
Meanwhile, in Paris…
С первомаем, товарищи!
Silicone Saturday is back and better than ever!
https://archive.is/zd4hr
The state and town dropped their outside mask mandate on Friday.
I just walked around for a couple of hours and 90% of the people are still wearing masks.
People are insane.
Dumb human shit man.
Bless their hearts. At least we are us.
In the last week and a half I believe the share of people walking outside wearing a mask dropped from 95% to 90%. A noticeable improvement.
I thought it was just rules followers keeping the proportion high, but nope. True believers all.
I suspect of Fauchi and co pivoted to “you shouldn’t wear a mask” we’d still see a large number of masks.
Social signaling Massholes gonna social signal, yo. Wouldn’t want to be outside the collective.
Which state?
MA. In the deepest blue area.
I live in North Texas. Kids have been playing soccer and baseball since last summer.
No one even wears masks to the games. During the summer, there was a period where the leagues asked people to wear them and they sort of did in a half assed way.
I traveled to Florida a weeks ago for soccer nationals for my daughter. They required masks at the national games. Maybe 15% of people actually were wearing them.
Same around here. I’m beginning to understand Tucker’s point.
What I am mostly seeing is people having them over their mouth, but not their nose.
Showing their good sense.
Massachusetts dropped its mask mandate? Seriously?
for outdoors only
Grisham is promising to open up “fully” (with limited capacity and mask mandates for certain venues, like movie theaters and concerts) in June… provided we hit her 60% vaccination peg.
So which is it, June, or 60%? I’m betting neither. I’m guessing it gets kicked down the road to August at the end of May because the numbers are entirely arbitrary and the impositions are all for show. Like it’s been all along.
Joe Biden promised there would only be federal mask requirements for 100 days.
Two weeks to flatten the curve.
That rat fucking bastard just extended our mandate until September 13. It’s literally a federal crime for me to not wear a very specific mask at work. Biden want’s that to be the case until at least Sept. Fucking punk assed bitch.
Happy May Day, comrades!
Enjoy someone else’s means to compensate for your lack of ability!
Double chocolate rations for everyone!
Better May Day.
To hell with Commies.
Better video
Nice little party.
Just when I thought I couldn’t admire Elon Musk’s “Fuck off” attitude to government and main stream media, he does something like telling a Washington Post* reporter pestering him for a quote to twist: “Give my regards to your puppet master.”
*in case you’ve been living under a rock, WaPo is owned by Jeff Bezos, who is also trying to design and build spacecraft (Blue Origin). Unfortunately Bezos is not an engineer, and Musk is an extraordinarily well-informed systems engineer.
Lolol
“Admire…more”
Editing good.
Hurrying bad.
I think Musk is a mostly a con artist and that we will never colonize Mars or do half the shit he likes to talk about, but I do admire that he doesn’t abide media bullshit.
Maybe, I still think we need people that are willing to give their middle finger to the establishment, whether their words are in earnest or not.
Maybe he’ll be one of the ways we find out what we can do.
Anyway, Samuel Morse was…I won’t say a con artist, but a showman with a bad side…but the country still owes him something.
Is that code for something?
No, dot’s just something I dashed off.
No, dot’s just something I dashed off.
@trashy from dedthred
A woman I know on Twitter is talking about her daughter having issues with her period after getting the shot. Of course, she says this and starts hearing from other women who are having issues. I’m not sure I want to ascribe plumbing problems to the shot, but it also wouldn’t surprise me.
I don’t know how risky the shots are.
But I know the risk to me from COVID is vanishingly small, so that makes skipping the “vaccine” the obvious choice for me.
And anyone who asks, even conversationally, if I got the shot is going to be asked if she had her Pap smear or he had his prostate exam this year.
I refuse to help to make asking personal health questions an OK thing to do outside a medical setting.
I wonder how to delicately tell my boss to pound sand the next time he asks me.
My go-to when asked annoying questions is “What are you going to do with that information?”
That should shut him up, and it might even make him think.
We had an asshole on a conference call ask how fellow employees could be forced to get vaccinated.
Did you call for his forced sterilization?
I was out fortunately, and didn’t have to hear it first hand. I hope his coworkers gave him some shit.
“go pound sand”
Seriously though, a dispassionate “sorry, I don’t talk politics or personal Healthcare at work” usually does it.
And anyone who asks, even conversationally, if I got the shot is going to be asked if she had her Pap smear or he had his prostate exam this year
Relevant
I was in a campus “leadership” meeting yesterday. Interestingly, the HR people told us that asking someone if they had (or had not) had the vaccine was not allowed under because it was violation of confidentiality rules. We also can’t ask someone why – or why not – on masks. This also means, of course, that the campus admin can’t require us to get the vaccine in order to be on campus in the fall.
On the risk, yeah it’s small from covid. AND, there seems to be few benefits to getting the vaccine (mask rules still in place, etc.).
Man rule #1: Ignore all conversations dealing with women’s plumbing. Man rule #2: refer to rule #1. Rule #3: All plumbing repairs require at least 3 trips to the hardware store.
Rule #3 also applies to being high and wanting to smoke weed out of a new contraption you just thought up.
Can confirm.
Seems wise.
Rule #3: All plumbing repairs require at least 3 trips to the hardware store.
Five trips if the repairs were done by STEVE SMITH.
Gonna differ from you on that. Granted there are a few local hardware stores a little closer than the big box stores, but I prefer to have all my ducks in a row before starting a project otherwise it feels like a lot of wasted time.
It looks like the non-mRNA shot can be associated with blood clots at like 1/3 the rate of birth control pills. While its finite, the risk is repeatedly glossed over any time a teenage girl wants to go on the pill so…:
I’m not sure I want to ascribe plumbing problems to the shot, but it also wouldn’t surprise me.
Same with the poor little baby. Maybe it was related, maybe it was just one of those things that happens. I know a perfectly safe way to prevent that from being an issue, though….
Happy May Day, comrades!
*sings*
First of May, First of May, outdoor fucking begins today!
Back from the grocery store. That $20.00 bag of groceries I used to buy? It’s closer to $30.00 now.
I’m pretty much the only person not wearing a mask, but at least they’ve stopped giving me shit about it.
They’ve said inflation has doubled so far but it seems worse than that.
I think it seems worse because there are a few asset bubbles that are inflated. It’s also worse because there’s no viable way to escape risk due to the interest rates. Either your money gets eaten by the imminent economic downturn or by inflation. There’s no other path.
“Give my regards to your puppet master.”
You’re a caution, Elon.
It’s hard to dislike the guy. I’ve given up trying.
NH DHHS fires up the vaccine registry
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has finally launched the long-contested vaccination registry to track all vaccination “events” which includes vaccination administration as well as refusals.
The intent of the vaccination registry is to create a complete repository of records to “remind registrants to receive required vaccinations,” as well as “assisting in the identification of individuals who require immediate immunization/vaccination in the event of a disease outbreak.” That’s right, they will use this system to target those who refuse vaccinations.
Every state has a vaccine registry. The NH government drug its feet on the vaccine registry as the registry has always been a bit controversial. With the Lil Rona Panic, Sununu used his emergency orders to get the vaccine registry going. The vaccine registry, by state law, is supposed to allow NH residents to opt-out of the registry except Sununu overrode that provision of state law with respects to the Lil Rona vaccines. Under his emergency orders, you must take part in the vaccine registry with respect to the Lil Rona vaccine. In other words, if you receive or turn down the Lil Rona vaccine (say you go to the doc for a routine visit, your doc offers the vaccine, and you turn it down), your information goes into the registry.
I wonder what they think they are going to do with this information.
It’s experimental. There’s a federal database, although it doesn’t track refusals. That’s some Orwellian shit.
Mexican vanilla? Is this the new phrase for white hispanic?
Mexican vanilla has a reputation for being excellent quality and inexpensive.
It’s not Madagascar vanilla, but it’s better than McCormick.
I like it better than the Madagascar. But there’s also the knockoff Mexican vanilla to avoid so easier to just order the Madagascar stuff.
It is now.
The best vanilla comes from Papua New Guinea. They sell raw beans in the shops around the departure lounge at PHC.
Pretty common throughout the spice islands. When my folks worked in Indonesia, my mom would buy the beans and make her own extract by steeping them in vodka (more difficult to track down in some areas) for a few weeks.
wanting to smoke weed out of a new contraption you just thought up.
I had a friend in high school who made pipes out of hardware store bits and pieces and sold them.
Skip the galvanized bong.
A song to honor the first of May:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1GD_T-3oLU
My wife and I sing this this song to each other on May 1st.
You and your wife are fucking weird.
Video or GTFO.
On the subject of offal, has anyone here ever eaten a faggot?
Looks like sort of a miniature haggis.
I suppose that’s not a millions miles away, although I don’t know how much it’s wrapped in caul these days, which I guess would be analogous to the stomach for a haggis.
I’ll pass on the “nose-to-tail eating” trend.
Not tempted by some chit’lin’s?
Tempted by chitlins of another,
Tempted but the truth is discovered….
Squeeze are one of those bands who are really good musicians, who wrote some really good songs, with some great lyrics, but I’m just not into it much.
chitterlings
We’ll ma’am, that’s not how we say it in jauw-jah. Might I interest you in some bauwled peanuts?
How one says it doesn’t make any difference to its established spelling. *haughty sniff*
*bald peanuts
I’m a midwesterner and therefore pronounce things correctly. boy-ell-d peanuts
Okay, Chef Boy-Ell-D
Jugsy, having just returned from NYC, was astounded how her employees were making fun of her ‘southern’ accent. The time she recently spent in SC, the employees called her a ‘yankee”.
“assisting in the identification of individuals who require immediate immunization/vaccination in the event of a disease outbreak.”
Que?
I recommend watching the doc Sacred Cow on Amazon. Fantastically dinner piece that absolutely dismantles the whole anti meat lie fest.
Whether you choose to eat meat or not, cows are a fucking rounding error on climate inputs.
Beer sounds great Señor! Thanks for the review.
I’ll have to check it out
All’s I know is that a lot of people like to ________, and if they were honest they would say “I cannot have perfect knowledge of this whole ecological and climate situation, and don’t really know either way, but this documentary seems to make me feel like it does, and I will trust in that, but if I am to be completely honest, I just really like ________, and/but based on that, and the information I have received, I’m going to continue to/stop/cut back on _______.
Fill in the blanks with something that allegedly has a measurable impact on the climate.
Limey!
Missed ya. Luv the avatar.
Missed you too, Tox. Top posting, very readable.
Thanks I got really creative for this one.
I filled in with “masturbation”. It worked.
Can you share a link to the documentary? Asking for a friend.
The site starts with ‘y-o-u’…
YourTube?
I’d clap, but I only have one hand free.
My eyesight is not good enough to type that in. ’bout all I can manage is to comb my palms.
“California college professor is put on leave after flipping out at a 19-year-old student for calling cops ‘heroes’ during a presentation on ‘cancel culture’ – and telling him police were created in the American South to track down runaway slaves”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9532545/California-college-professor-slams-student-calling-police-heroes.html
“College professor ignorant of history.” “Dog bites man” “Water is indeed wet.”
The bubble needs to burst and these rotten edifaces need to be burned down.
Methinks he never heard of “Bow Street runners.”
Or Robert Peel.
Or the 1285 Statute of Winchester and the shire reeve.
Say what you will about The Dispatch, but Goldberg can still make the occasional good point. In one of his G-Files this week, he talks about this one – going back to….IIRC 8th Century England for a policing force reference.
Whelp, time to fire up the hibachi to cook this year’s ration of bovine goodness. Good bourbon and good beef. Thank you, lord. Or whomever is responsible for letting me be born in what was the greatest republic ever. And fuck off and die to those who don’t appreciate it or wish it destroyed. Amen.
Also, grilled corn on the cob and asparagus. Let the pee stink!
Good man. I will have a Manhattan in your honor!
Also, because I want one. And I want to try the bitters I just bought.
Squirrels ate my cleverly crafted post.
What bitters?
I know I have linked this before but I don’t care. I drank canned Pinot Grigio today.
Somebody get me a CHEESEBURGER! Stand back dieticians!
Try some of this. Try to not stare at the middle backup singers rack.
She paid good money for those. Stare away (if you’re attractive).
Oh, and while we’re fading…
Nice.
Have some more!
I have consumed worse things than canned wine. Canning tech is pretty great these days.
My review will go: That high dollar’d canned Pinot Grigio was right on par with Franzia boxed crisp white in which you get 3L for the price of two of those canned Pinot’s. And Franzia makes damn good chicken stock!
+1 “Some people end up drinking cheap wine out of a brown paper bag in an alley, I started out drinking cheap wine out of a brown paper bag in an alley!”