Long ago, in an area of the blog consigned to the archives, I was asked by some glib or other about Romanian fast food. My first answer was what like Romanian McDonald’s? For some reason I associated the term fast food with US style fast food joints. Not in the abstract “food that you get and eat without wasting much time”. By my first thought, most street food was not fast food.
In the end, every country has something to eat for people on the go. Although the definition of fast food may not be all clear. So what about Romania?
Well, right now, off course, the larger cities of Romania have most types of worldwide popular fast foods. Of variable quality. Sandwiches are to be found everywhere, but on our fair shores most are not that good, consisting of mainly low quality cheap bread with tiny amounts of filling.
But what about traditional fast food? Well I am unsure what to say about it. We really did not have anything resembling US fast food. Most roadside places where people stopped for a quick bite had a few pots of soup/stew kept warm and a grill that, in busy places, was constantly full and whenever someone came, there was probably something ready or close to ready. So this is not a post on fast food in the end, but one of food that is ready to eat ehm… fast.
Among the more traditional things is mici, translated as little ones which are skinless sausages that are grilled fast on a hot grill to be slightly charred on the outside and still moist on the inside. These were originally a mix of beef and mutton but now it is either pork and beef or pork and mutton. They are served with cheap yellow mustard and cheap bread. Usually on the grill you also find regular sausage and bell peppers roasting.
Another is pastrama, which is salted mutton and is probably the origin of US pastrami. This is generally grilled or pan fried and was popular during harvest season, especially with tulburel (meaning murky) which was wine that fermented some, but did not have the chance to finish fermenting and have the sediment clear. The salty pastrami provoked enough thirst for the booze to go down in quantity. In these times beer is the drink of choice. It is usually served with mamaliga (polenta cornbread whatever you may call it) and pickles. It can be served more or less fast food-y.
The places serving the local soup, ciorba (yes a Turkish word) usually make large pots in the morning or overnight and serve thorough the day. Usually with bread and a hot pepper, and a bit of plum liquor does not hurt.
There are pastry shops everywhere on the streets, saving mainly something pretzel like, and pastries with cheese or mushrooms or apple.
And when there is a special occasion, the grills extend as far as the eye can see. But this is no longer about fast food, more like street festivals.
And the same with stews. And pork shank with beans or cabbage. Or sarmale – stuffed cabbage leaves.
Now what is the most popular fast food? That would be shawarma, which is served whether in a flatbread or on a plate, with meat fries salad and sauce – garlic aioli style sauce being almost compulsory. There is, of course, also doner and gyro and other variations on the theme. Back in the day – my college days – the standard by which all were measured was Genin, a place where even at 3 AM there were long lines. They made their own excellent sauces and due to the turnover you knew everything was fresh. This was a sign of a good place, own sauce. The question was very spice, medium or mild sauce. The bad places asked do you want hot or mild ketchup, because they used store bought ketchup not house sauce. And some store bought mayo. No thanks.
Besides all that there is pizza, there are burgers, there are sandwiches, McDonald’s, KFC and Springtime – the first western style fast food chain in Romania started in the 90 by a Lebanese gentleman. And with the rise of the food truck, we have many many more options from arepas to curries to US pastrami sandwiches and more.
I’d eat all of that.
(And when I was younger, it might’ve been all during the same meal . . . )
I’d eat all too much of it.
Sweet! I would eat every single one of those things.
Are drive through fast food joints a thing in Romania?
Drive through? they ain’t allowed to own cars, it’s Europe.
Heh. When we were in London, we’d roll down the window of our car and ask how to get to Wales. Three times people told us which train to take. I would then say, ” assuming we’re going to use the car we are sitting in?”
And you were very confused when they handed you a bottle of Grey Poupon?
If I’d have asked how to get to Australia, they’d have said, ” First commit a felony…”
+1 forcible transportation
only McDonald’s has drive through
Edging out the Burger King, eh. Sneaky
IrishScottishClown bastards.Burger King left Romana after it did not catch on
Ah, so Chic-Filet pushed them out…
Count your blessings.
Aha. Found one.
yes. that is one of the closest to my house
Why are so many of the business names and signs in English?
like what?
Just “walking” around with street view, it’s all over. Hotel, Restaurant, Car Wash (huge banner all in English), Supermarket, Mini Market, etc. There’s even a place called “LEBANESE FOOD.”
Hotel, Restaurant are romanian words
but overall young people in romania speak half english. I blame the internet
I blame the internet
It’s a fair cop.
i also spoke romglish in high school
Blame Discord – many people use it for gaming, so they learn American English (at least the younger Dutch people that sound like Americans) and plenty of slang.
When Pie posts his Romanian themed articles, I usually spend too much time walking through with street view.
Found a pickup truck!
Sorta. Funky looking cap.
Lotta gang looking graffiti up the street from Mickey’s.
Reminds me of “south central racing stripes” A visitor once asked me why there’s stripes painted slightly off color and at eye level on all the buildings here. I coined the phrase and then explained it was covering all the gang tags.
Yeah, I noticed the graffiti, too. Somebody even drew a swastika.
Ooh… If that back opened up from the top (bi-fold maybe; open hatch or big tailgate), it would make quite a fancy shooting car.
A friend of mine just bougt this. In a crowded city with little parkig and narrow streets it is a very silly purchase
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vpNxWYsDm2KbYdoz6sz3xJg1YjTBWJzY/view?usp=drivesdk
What you found, Sean, is a Toyota Hilux pickup! Possibly the most ubiquitous pickup on the planet, and I really, really wished they were in North America. Cheap and practically indestructible.
The Technical Sans Machinegun?
Obligatory.
you find plenty Toyota Hilux in Romania
And so close to
Dammit, “Jewish Neighborhood”
So I went to my very favorite Reddit, to post some Hilux action. Instead, I squealed with delight at seeing my old gun system getting a new lease on life, fighting the KSA. https://www.reddit.com/r/shittytechnicals/comments/oh7s75/yemen_houthioperated_20mm_vulcan_technical_makes/
Common to see English-language signage throughout most of Europe. English is practically the lingua franca of the European Union; in my own experience, one of the EU states that resists English signage the most is the land of my ancestors, France. My French cousins told me that when the EU was forming, the Germans didn’t want French to be the trans-national unofficial language and the French didn’t want German to be, so they settled on English.
No idea if that’s true, but it certainly sounds like the attitude of the Germans and French I’ve met.
this as well
For sure. We had a French neighbor who was trying to tell my Mom something. She was having trouble understanding him, so she asked him a question in German, and he answered her right away. But then he refused to admit he spoke it and would not use it. It was pretty funny.
Now I’m all hungry.
No, it’s Romania, not Hungary!
Well, Czech this guy out!
Who is going to narrow their gaze for that?
Angustum coartatur et fixis oculis ad quem? (Google Translate, have no idea how accurate that is.)
The person who did the most to narrow the gays was Richard Simmons.
Otherwise, I’m struck by how much of the street food mentioned by you, Pie, is actually fairly available all over the Western world now (although I imagine each country has its own “spin” on all of these dishes). Globalism ain’t all bad.
Every country has eat at 3 AM drunk street food and it is similar.
Also rise of food trucks helped a lot for variety, at least in Romania. Kebab you could get brick and mortar. arepas and tacos not so much
Sounds like a death sentence.
There is a NOLA restaurant that offers Deep-Fried Grits, it’s really just disks of polenta- chilled/egged/breaded, and it is delicious.
I sometimes do chilled polenta triangles, mixed with cheese such as Parmesan, on the grill until they’re nice and toasty.
The Spousal Unit always complains that I don’t make enough.
Yeah, I could easily eat my weight in those.
Holy Crap! I’d shove ALL of those within reach into my gullet.
Here you make like a large disc, put cheese in, wrap the polenta and create a ball, baste it with butter and grill over hot coals or bake in an oven. called bulz.
HOLY SMOKES! Those are the kinda balls I want in my mouth.
https://www.romaniajournal.ro/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Bulz-Ciobanesc-prelucrata.jpg
https://www.retetelemeledragi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bulz-simplu.jpg
OMG, yes!! Those look delicious. Is that a stone slab cooking surface over a heat source?
i assume the cooking surface is a cast iron grate the stone is just the support part
Yeah, the food has clear grill marks, but now I’m wondering if thinish granite or marble can withstand high temps.
Pizza stone, FTW?
OK, fine…I guess I can eat a little carbs.
They do look tasty.
Romanian hush puppies
I know there is a missing comma there, but in a just world there would not be.
Julienned skirt steak? Sort of like a thick Ropa Vieja?
When I was low-carbing I thought steak-fingers should be a thing, heard them advertised this past year. I should be getting big bucks.
My local Chinese place makes meat fries, only we call ’em “Ginger Beef” because of the breading and spices. ;-)
Something, something everybody decrying burger king upthread, something, something hypocrites.
If you want to get royally screwed on some fast food, that’s the place.
I just want Catrinel Menghia to serve it to me.
Catrinel Menghia
Yowza. Thank you very much, Romania.
*Bings*
Ay caramba!
*Bings* … Schwings
*looks at pictures*
*looks at own lunch options*
I miss my gallbladder
(not really, hurting to inhale was a bad place to be. But I am still told I have to wait before reintroducing a lot of normal foods with fats in them.)
Heh.
Since I’m in the office, I decided to order lunch. I got delivery from a Japanese place. The plastic take out tray is set up like a bento box. It’s just so fitting.
you need to find a keto guy to tell you you should eat only fat
The whole function of the gallbladder is to help digest fats by storing bile for when it’s needed. Having that disrupted means an adjustment period before I can handle them again properly.
Be prepared that there will likely be some issues with really fatty meals and foods. Prime rib I’m looking at you.
I’m starting to work my way towards normal food composition. So far I’ve been able to handle sandwiches containing both cheese and mayo. The salmon I had for lunch may have been too much for right now. I’d forgotten just how fatty that fish was when I ordered it. But I haven’t had any catastrophes.
One of each, please
OT – Lesson learned; never purchase cans of compressed air (Endust For Electronics brand) at the Family Dollar. 3rd can and I’m having better results by just blowing with my sad, smoker’s lungs.
At that rate, it would be cheaper to buy an air compressor.
What are you using them on?
A PC with a whole lot of dust and cat hair. I would break out the CO2 tank, but it’s sitting in my storage unit.
How do you go through 3 cans of compressed air? I live in a house where my CPU looks like a sand box after a year, and I’ve gone through like 4 cans in 10 years.
They are surprisingly ineffective cans.
Those are the ones you set aside and flip upside down to scare the cat off when it wanders onto the desk.
YUM.
Thanks, Pie. That was fun – and, like the others, I’d eat all of it.
Inspired by this wonderful article, I’m gonna go fry up some sausages. Mmmm… sweet Italian sausage, dipped in wasabi
Wisconsin is the US’s top producer of Horseradish!
Someone has to be.
It is a fact I was not aware of for the first 35 years or so of my life, mostly as a Sconnie. Everyone eats it around here, but you’d think we’d have some stupid festival or some such.
https://internationalhorseradishfestival.com/
Looks like IL beat WI too it.
Is the salted mutton smoked?
And the mushroom pastries sound like a cruel prank to play on someone.
/looks over at the local place that offers cabbage strudel
The SU would eat mushroom pastries until she exploded. I’ve never been able to figure out how she remains at a normal weight (and I’m envious).
Bulimia?
Heh.
None of the tell-tale signs (like fingernails partially pitted from stomach acid). I’m convinced she’s a space alien.
Is the salted mutton smoked? – no
After having subpar Saurkraut and dumplings from the inferior Polish descendants, I’m more resolved than ever to cook up some good ol Bavarian style of such this weekend.
That pastrami sandwich tho….
Yeah, I’d murder that too.
I wanna Ruben now.
Hmmm. I have all the fixins. I may do that for dinner.
Don’t accidentally make a Toobin. That’s where you beat the meat on camera first.
that is 7.5 USD which is pricey for Romania
$11 – $15 here in NYC, but it would likely come with a side of French fries.
Perfect lunchtime post! Thanks Pie.
“…a bit of plum liquor does not hurt…”
Slivovitz damn sure hurts my head the next morning!
Everything sounds and looks great—except for pastries with mushrooms. Must be a vampire thing.
pastries, in general, aren’t my thing. So maybe I’m not a vampire, even though I sleep all day, am up all night and suck…
I sleep all day, am up all night and suck
“Vampire” is not the only profession that is the job description for, you know.
the pastries in the pics are with salted feta-like cheese (local variety)
but mushroom pastries are very popular in Europe
I was expecting the cheese to be more along the line of a sweetened cream cheese (as most cheese fillings for pastries are around here).
Mozzarella en carozza has a sad.
But cherry cheese strudel is delicious!
there are also those I prefer the salty crumbly stuff
My wife just told me that Kamala is campaigning for Newsom, so I googled it. The second hit is from SFist and the headline is,” Kamala campaigning for Newsom” and the pic is of Elder, smiling big and holding two thumbs up. I laughed.
All Black people look the same.
They all look happy when they find out Kamala is campaigning for their opponent? She is hated here in Cali even more than the rest of the country.
So hated she’s been elected how many times?
They sent her to the Senate to get her out of the state and inflict her on the rest of the country.
Really we all should have seen that as a declaration of war.
Democrats run the elections here. Who do you think wins all of them?
Someone posted yesterday* a link to an article (“The Most Powerful Woman in DC Is Actually The Weakest” or similar) that made, to my naive self, a lot of sense. Basically, the Dems in Cali have the system so locked up that the party can get anyone they want “elected.” As a result, all the Cali pols, even the high profile ones, have no skills to actually campaign or work in an environment outside California.
The article also suggested that Biden selected Harris specifically because he knew she’d be incompetent and hated, and would serve as a disincentive to anyone that wanted to 25A Biden. That could be true, but I doubt Joe was the one that thought of it.
*I can’t be arsed to look for it.
Yup. My money’s on Frau Doktor Professor Jill.
Here
except shaq
Did you know, he can fit into an S10 pickup? Barely, of course.
I’ve seen Police Academy.
I picked up him and his bike once, when it broke down. Drove him home in an s10 truck. Luckily it wasn’t very far.
When he shakes your hand, it makes you feel like a small child.
His credit card was declined at Walmart; he’s reg’lar folks, just us.
Fucking white trash extremist obese motherfucker!
Oh, snap! he comes off as quite awesome in this (although, at about the 9 minute mark, I remembered the only thing I disliked about my time in TV production). https://youtu.be/-eNFUU7ea-Q
Forgot the punchline, ‘When You’re Not Racist’
Imagine how shocked Willie Brown was when he discovered he was actually shagging Larry Elder.
Imagine how shocked Willie Brown was when he discovered he was actually shagging
Larry ElderKamala Harris.FTFY.
I was reading the wiki page for Kamala and this gem stuck out:
ZZ Top haz a sad.
So is Lisa Simpson. But Lisa is smarter.
I’m left to wonder if it was trolling, or they just don’t know how she came (sorry for the pun) to power.
I Binged. She actually does wear pearl necklaces (I mean the kind with pearls from oysters).
Paging Dr. Freud . . .
As others have said, Pie, all of that looks really tasty. I’d definitely have just about any of it.
Also, your cheap yellow mustard looks better than our cheap yellow mustard.
I mean I don’t think I ever had uneatable mustard
Speaking of food the berry harvest in my mom’s garden started well this year
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vo1jQWpTp4lCgVZ1_1d7Cnc5zS5xs5J_/view?usp=drivesdk
Nice blueberries & blackberries. Are the red ones currants?
Mici looks like cevapcici, which I think means little kebab.
lots of food is similar in the region
I was going to make a joke about everything looking positively edible, but it all looks really good! Thanks for putting this together for us.
Great looking eats, Pie! I really don’t see anything bad.
Perhaps one of my biggest complaints about the bureaucratization of the US is the disappearance of that style of cooking and eating – street vendors and the like.
It’ so minimal here because of all of the regulations, but it’s such a better way to cook and eat – AND significantly less onerous on a business.
Of course the “what if they poison someone!?!” crowd has all but destroyed it, despite food trucks fighting for space and playing the game as best they can.
Indeed. I would try all of the food in these videos. I would likely suffer some gastro-intestinal troubles, but… worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLcg_WnTBKYKZg3m1jkngvw
Thanks Pie. I’ve no issues eating most of what you’ve got pictured!
OT – Olympic opening ceremony creative director Kentaro Kobayashi fired over Holocaust joke
You know who else got fired over issues with the Holocaust.
Fired? You mean like in an oven?
Gina Carano?
Dafuq was his joke anyway? How do you print a story about a guy getting fired for a joke and we don’t get to know even the gist of it?
WSJ had a better explanation. Sadly our Japan based Twitter expert aka straff is asleep.
That’s it?
That’s all that’s needed now.
Isn’t the time we’re alive in wonderful?
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20210722/p2a/00m/0na/002000c
I figured straff was passed out on a commuter train at this time.
I guess that qualifies as asleep.
Hm. No love for Life is Beautiful then?
No love, period.
Just indignant outrage 24/7
Relevant
Literally, a heater.
I’m getting a little more adventurous about my eating than I have been in the past. That said, if it’s got cheese or BBQ sauce on it, I’ll probably eat it.
Is pastrama as heavily-spiced as pastrami? While I like pastrami, it doesn’t like me. ☹️ Always gives me a bellyache. Corned beef – no problem. Pastrami = problem. Maybe pastrama is different enough that I could eat it.
Is pastrama as heavily-spiced as pastrami? – not spiced. just a looot of salt. it was old timey preservation. pack it in salt. sometimes soak it in water before cooking to remove some salt
I’d like to think that Kamala is going to help tank Newsom’s chances, but she probably won’t even make it to our border for six months or so. Safest way to keep her from showing up is to put her in charge.
Just a girl and her sledgehammer.
I have doubts that AZ is turning blue, serious doubts. Hell, I doubt Cali is true blue if you stop all of the cheating. Norcal, maybe, but socal is not very blue feeling generally. It’s just the election outcomes. Which I find suspicious. I hope the office space wannabe wins out there.
I have always wondered what a “no fraud” election map would look like.
I mean there’s been fraud in the system from the word go.
I actually think AZ could be turning true blue (although perhaps not as fast as the “election results” would indicate), because AZ is urbanizing. More AZians live in Phoenix and Tucson than before, and I think the single biggest predictor of which side of TEAM BE RULED you vote for is whether you live in a city or not.
So, the parts of a state where it’s easiest to control the most amounts of votes? If you want to pump up one side in an election, you go to where the most votes are and irregularities are most easily hidden. Like Maricopa county.
Feds infiltrating feds (Michigan?) Thats straight up “Man Qho Was Thursday” material.
Sitting in San Diego Airport right now about to fly back east. 10 days of AT done – might be back next month for a little more. Trying to decide if I want another Stone Buenaveza lager or not.
Most expensive gas I saw this time was $4.89 – but that was next to the rental return so maybe not the best sample.
I paid $2.90 yesterday.
Lucky. I paid $3.059 last Friday, but a lot of the gas stations are two or four cents higher.
No, that’s what I pay. I use premium, though, because of the turbo.
Trying to decide if I want another Stone Buenaveza lager or not.
Seems an easy decision. Do you have time before boarding?
I don’t drink when I fly. Gives me a headache while we’re in the air. Heroin, though? No problem.
Mr. Kobayashi, the performance overseer who was fired Thursday, was formerly part of a comedy double act that performed a skit in which the comedians imagined creating toy characters for a game about Holocaust victims. A video of the performance from the 1990s was shared widely on social media this week and became a trending topic on Twitter.
Copyright infringement; unapproved use.
You know that these crusaders are looking for anything to upset them when they have to dig into the 90’s to find their next victim.
Progress means steadily getting better over time.
By definition then, the past is always worse than the present.
And people should rightly be punished in the present for being worse in the past regardless of whether or not they are better in the present.
Thus spaketh the woke.
Who doesn’t like little baby goats slow-cooked over a wood fire?
Greatest of all time!
+ 1 cabrito.
True (culinary horror) story:
I decided to try the “Mexican” restaurant downtown, and was puzzled by “cabrito flautas” since I would have imagined that the meat wouldn’t have responded well to being deep-fried. So I asked the waitress about it. The conversation went like this:
“Tell me about the cabrito flautas.”
“Well, they take veal and slice…”
“Wait — they’re made with veal?”
“Yes, why?”
“Because cabrito means baby goat.”
“Oh well, I don’t speak Spanish.”
https://armedamericannews.org/house-republicans-ready-articles-of-impeachment-for-david-chipman-in-case-hes-confirmed-as-atf-director/
Good.
I think it’s a huge mistake of the republicans to not be introducing articles of impeachment against Biden and everyone he ever met constantly. It lends credence to the dem’s obvious bogus impeachments. If the R’s did it back, it would be clear that it’s all bullshit and the game has changed such that bullshit impeachment is the way things work now. By taking the “high road” you’re tacitly admitting they might have had a point, or at least giving that impression.
Concur. There are far more skeletons in Biden’s closet than in Trump’s, as far as I can tell.
If the GOP take Congress in 2022, they should immediately impeach Biden and remove him from office. If they don’t, they’re (still) the biggest pussies ever.
You mean when.
Well, that’s what I hope. But I don’t think we’ve yet dismantled their massive election fraud machine and they’re working to double down on that as we speak.
I meant, when they don’t impeach.
It would be glorious. The Democrats decided that they wanted to use impeachment as a weapon and they would be reaping the whirlwind of their stupidity,
Well, the dems have just enough to control to stop impeachments from getting traction, but the same dilemma never stopped them from trying when they were on the other side of the equation. Bonus, they’d be spending energy stopping the efforts, instead of ramming through all of the lefty bullshit. It’s a no brainer, which is why the R’s won’t do it.
Turtlehead actually promised that. He said ‘every democrat president from this point on will be impeached’. Of course, then he did his best turtle impression and ducked his head back into his shell and you know the rest.
he’s just slow.
No way he’ll be removed (still too many Dems in the Senate), but I agree on the impeachment.
Even if the Dems want him out and Harris in, they won’t go along with impeachment. He’ll resign, as soon as Frau Doktor Jill gets a good enough deal to get her to go along.
They have to try. Every democrat president from now on, forever, must be harassed to within an inch of their life, every day, 24/7.
“his confirmation would be a failure to support and defend our constitutional rights.”
In that case, just impeach all the democrats.
They can’t impeach him, so their only recourse is to make sure he’s not confirmed.
Even Asshat Toomey said he wouldn’t vote to confirm this guy.
Biden’s a house plant. And his far lefty handlers are just throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks.
They’re treating the country like they stole it.
They did and they fully plan on doing it again. They committed mass election fraud in a national election and got away with it. The likely scenario in my opinion is that on their way there, they intentionally leaked an altered virus from a Chinese lab that killed millions of people and wrecked economies for the sole purpose of tilting US elections in their favor. Is there anything they wouldn’t do to hold on to power now? No.
I doubt the Dems were behind an intentional virus release. Their initial reaction was to downplay it (including Fauci). I don’t think they realized for awhile what a crisitunity it was.
Like locking up “dissidents”?
Like silencing opposing views?
Like sending people door to door to peddle poison?
Like letting real criminals savage the law abiding?
Yeah, they “pounced” on it, once they realized what a goldmine it was, though.
“doubt the Dems were behind an intentional virus release.”
I have absolutely no doubt they were behind it. It was probably a complete surprise to the Chinese. Look at who was involved in and behind getting that research funded. And now they’re involved, have been, in a massive coverup.
Want to know who did it? Look at who is trying to cover it up.
I think the coverup can be explained by the US funding for the research.
If it was an intentional release by the Dems, why was it released in Wuhan? They would have needed the Chinese to be in on it, and I don’t think the Chinese would release it intentionally in China in order to affect an American election.
Of course you’d release it in Wuhan first. Then you just wait for it to spread abroad. And it did. Releasing in the USA first would definitely be suspect and easily traced.
It that a Reuben sandwich, and if it were, would you have translated “Reuben” into its Romanian analogue?
I was thinking a Monte Cristo, since it looks like it could have been fried.
You know that these crusaders are looking for anything to upset them when they have to dig into the 90’s to find their next victim.
Doin’ right ain’t got no end.
*insert tobacco juice emoji*
I gotta watch that movie again soon. Pretty sure its on Netflix or Prime now.
I’ll try all of that.
The other day, as I was discussing our closing “hiccup” with my buyer (His lender said they’re still waiting for an appraisal and have not approved the loan), I dropped “I guess we shall have to endeavor to persevere”.
He was momentarily floored, and then said, “I LOVE THAT MOVIE.”
Closing has been pushed back.
Fuckitty fuckitty fuck.
So, after you thought about it, you declared war on the Union?
After what they did to him and his, I ain’t blaming him.
Speaking of international food, I tried the Atkins Mongolian-style beef for lunch today. It was all right. Had to remind myself that it was Bhutan, not Mongolia, where my ex-SIL was served bad meat and got horrible food poisoning. (“Look! Meat! We’ve been saving it for you!” “Oh, you shouldn’t have. No – really!”)
I’m a lot more reluctant to say, “That could never happen” than I used to be.
Do I think they intentionally released the virus to get Trump out of the White House? I do not. I don’t think they’re that smart.
However, I think they knew/know goddam good and well the virus escaped from that lab, and that’s why they went so completely apeshit over it. They were afraid it might really be the Big One. All the larper wet dreams of saving the world from wholesale death and destruction were brought out of the closet.
Later, as they began to realize what they could get away with in the name of “an abundance of caution”…
I agree with this.
No, but they do have a degree of low cunning. And ‘ratfucking’ is an area they’ve given a large share of whatever brain power they have.
Pretty much where I am.
And the coverup of the lab leak was because we helped pay for this virus.
So, after you thought about it, you declared war on the Union?
Not yet. But I am sharpening my tommyhawk.