Making a Hash of It

by | Jul 24, 2020 | Cooking, Food & Drink, LifeSkills, Recipes | 223 comments

One of the best meals I ever had was at a tiny, tapas style restaurant in Vancouver.  I was heart broken when I returned and discovered it was closed.  Among other things, I had a duck and green bean hash.  It was sublime.

This year I planted green beans in my garden and they have been productive.  Because I hate eating the same thing over and over, I have tried to find new ways to use them.  Looking at the pile in my fridge, I remembered the duck and green bean hash and decided to recreate it.  Alas, I wasn’t able to find duck.

Hash is a dish made of meat, potatoes, and onions (plus other vegetables), chopped and fried.  Typically, leftovers are used. This dish was made for me.  It offers so many possible variations.  Since I couldn’t get duck, I took some pulled pork out of the freezer and set about making a hash.

I’m going to use pulled pork, shallots, potatoes, green beans and a little rosemary from my garden I also plan to serve an egg on top of the hash.  I keep bacon fat in my fridge and since I’m using pulled pork as the meat, I use bacon fat instead if butter or oil. I chop everything small so that I don’t need to par boil them. Since leftovers are typically used, the items are usually pre-cooked.  Using mostly fresh ingredients just means that my hash will take a little longer.

I start by sautéing the shallots, then I add the potatoes.  When they are about half cooked, I add the green beans.  Lastly, I add the pulled pork and rosemary along with a little chicken stock.  The chicken stock helps to make a nice glaze on the vegetables.

While that cooks, let’s talk about hash variations.  Growing up, my mom used to make something she called Red Flannel Hash. She would use bacon, leftover pork, potatoes, onion, and leftover beets.  I have since learned that red flannel hash actually means corned beef hash with beets added, but I loved her version.  It was the only way I liked beets.  These days, I roast my beets and love them.  If there are any leftover, I use them in a Faux Flannel Hash, my name for Mom’s version.

A third type of hash I love, isn’t called hash at all.  I consider the British dish Bubble and Squeak to be a hash.  Purists will disagree, because traditional Bubble and Squeak calls for mashed potatoes.  I don’t care.  If I have mashed potatoes and cabbage, I make it that way.  If I don’t, I’ll just use uncooked, unmashed potatoes along with cabbage and whatever other leftover vegetables I have on hand.

I have frequently made hash using whatever vegetables I have available.  Personally, I love a little celery in a hash.  If I had any, I would have added it to the pulled pork hash.  Carrots, brussel sprouts and bell peppers also work well.  Next time you have leftover vegetables, or just small amounts of vegetables, consider trying a hash.  Here’s how mine turned out.

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223 Comments

  1. UnCivilServant

    What animal is that egg from, it looks a little big and spotty to be chicken.

    • leon

      Among other things, I had a duck and green bean hash. It was sublime.

      I’m guessing Duck

      • UnCivilServant

        Alas, I wasn’t able to find duck.

        I have some doubts.

      • leon

        Well if she had let the egg hatch, she could have found duck.

    • Not Adahn

      looks like a chicken’s egg to me.

      • Sean

        Yeah, but is it free-range and non-GMO?

      • Rhywun

        And brown – oo la la!

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s the speckling pattern that makes me doubt.

      • Rhywun

        Yeah. I’ve never cooked one of those fancy things is all.

        #whiteeggsmatter

      • leon

        Hey Rhy! How are you doing?

      • Rhywun

        Recoverin’. They let me out yesterday.

      • Not Adahn

        Nah, speckles are definitely a thing on hen’s eggs. Like the color of the shell, it depends on the hen.

      • Plisade

        What about on cock’s huevos? Is that like the Spotted Dick referenced elsewhere in the thread?

      • Not Adahn

        I don’t know. Of all the shitty jobs I’ve had, at least I’ve never been a chicken sexer.

      • UnCivilServant

        What? You’ve never had to squeeze the poo out of a freshly hatched hen?

    • mrfamous

      SASQUATCH

    • Aloysious

      I think its a Chupacabra egg. They’re really hard to find.

  2. leon

    That looks amazing Tulip.

    Would you consider this a good breakfast, lunch or dinner meal?

    • Creosote Achilles

      Can’t speak for Tulip, but I’d say Yes.

      • Rhywun

        Ditto. I’ll eat it for any meal.

  3. Creosote Achilles

    This looks delicious. My only question is, you store your bacon fat in the fridge? I keep mine on the counter in a mason jar beside the butter dish.

    • EvilSheldon

      How long does your bacon fat keep, stored thus?

      Enkidu knows I eat enough bacon, I probably ought to start doing something with the fat.

      • Creosote Achilles

        That’s a bit hard to answer. I am constantly using it and refilling it with hot grease from making more bacon. Which melts what’s there, mixes, and then congeals. I’ve had to throw some out, like, 1 time in the last 7 years.

      • Plisade

        I have a friend in Kentucky who has to cook bacon just to keep his bacon grease supplied, not because he’s wanting to eat bacon. …though he does eat it.

    • bacon-magic

      My family always stored on the counter but it got used a lot. I store in the fridge and it lasts for several months.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I keep mine on the counter in a mason jar beside the butter dish.

      Well lah-di-dah! Look who is so special he can afford store bought lube and doesn’t have to keep his jar of bacon fat on his nightstand.

  4. gbob

    Huh. Now I have something to do with my bean harvest other than pickle them with peppers.

  5. PieInTheSky

    duck and green bean hash. – that don’t sound like tapas to me though it should be tasty minus the green beans

  6. TARDIS

    Looks delicious, Tulip. Definitely better than today’s “brunch” here. Can you make me a sandwich?

    *ducks*

    • mrfamous

      Contacting your employer. Also making a note on your credit report.

  7. Suthenboy

    Suddenly I am hungry.

    Sadly I can no longer grow green beans. It took a couple of years but the rabbits discovered them. The first year it looked like someone had run a lawn mower over them. The second year they barely sprouted before they disappeared. Same story for sunflowers. We have so many cottontails around here it is hard to believe and the golden eagles that used to nest here are no longer around to keep them down.

    I really miss fresh green beans….and the eagles. Now all I have are rabbits running around the property tossing ticks around like confetti.

    • Drake

      We are overrun with rabbits right now. If we lived a bit further from neighbors, I would have shot them all by now. They even banded and killed a tree I planted.

      Rabbit hash anyone?

      • Grosspatzer

        Rabbits suck. Over the years I’ve come up with a list of things which deer will leave alone. Viburnums are right at the top of that list, but I’ve lost several to the rabbits which gnaw away the bark at ground level. Rabbit hash sounds tasty.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        I have some strawberries on the front porch in a container with telltale rabbit bite marks on the leaves. This neighborhood is lousy with them, and they have no fear because the yotes aren’t this far in the city.

      • Grosspatzer

        We have a red fox, couple of stray cats, and the occasional hawk on our property. This year, they are vastly outnumbered by varmints.

      • Grosspatzer

        Why not, we’re going to the dogs anyway.

      • Not Adahn

        I love rabbit. I have no idea why it isn’t insanely popular. You should be able to pick up a bag of backstraps like you do chicken tenders.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s the cuteness factor.

        People are less willing to eat ‘cute’ animals, no matter how tasty.

      • grrizzly

        Cows are cute, to some extent, but people eat them just fine.

      • Not Adahn

        And lamb and Bambi.

        I have no idea if eating habits changed when Charlottes Web came to the theaters.

      • Gustave Lytton

        No. Less staple meats, and even many traditionally popular cuts and organs were falling in popularity well before that. Other than some regional preference variations, I’d say post WWII as the country became rich enough to refuse protein sources and stopped raising/hunting/slaughtering/butchering their daily food sources. A lot of the increase in selection around here has been partly due to foofoo tastes but far more due to increasing Hispanic shoppers.

      • bacon-magic

        One of my favorite game meats. The store bought is a bit bland.

      • Not Adahn

        It is mild. More flavor than chicken or veal, imo. Less than pork.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m not a fan of rabbits. Not sure why, but it isn’t worth the trouble.

        Growing up with a beagle, I shot thousands of rabbits over the years. She would hunt pheasants and grouse, but she lived for rabbits.

        This year I have trapped at least 10 rabbits trying to eat various garden things and grape vines.

      • Not Adahn

        I will admit ti being pretty wasteful. I typically only cook the hindquarters and the backstraps. There was a youtube video that taught me how to jiggle the knife around the vertebrae and it was a huge help.

    • The Other Kevin

      I have the same problem. I have a pretty big garden, so this year I fenced off a small part using chicken wire, and I put the beans and leafy stuff in there. My bean plants are doing fine.

      I usually plant sunflowers along the long edge, which is too much to fence in, and this year the rabbits ate the tops off. So I started them in a pot on the deck, hoping to transplant them when they got big, but the damn rabbits climbed on the deck and ate the tops off those too. So then I tried the same thing, but I put the pot up high. This time they grew pretty well, and I transplanted them yesterday. So fingers crossed.

      We tend to have waves of various critters. Sometimes it’s voles, and this year there are 3 or 4 big rabbits doing all the damage.

      • Drake

        I’m waiting for a wave of hawks or owls.

      • UnCivilServant

        I love the local redtails. Keep the varmint population down and look majestic soaring over the highway.

      • The Other Kevin

        We had one hanging out in our back yard this spring, but he hasn’t been around for a while. Which is a shame, because in addition to the rabbits we have chipmunks.

      • Not Adahn

        I have too many neighbors with outdoor cats to have to worry about rabbits.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        back in my previous neighborhood here in Dallas, there were a fair number of outdoor cats, not to mention a few bobcats, a half dozen coyotes, great horned owls, and various hawks.

        Still, there would be rabbits by the dozen frolicking around, chewing everything up. My cats would get 2 or 3 a week, and got chubby doing so, and it didn’t make a dent.

  8. Nephilium

    The concept of left over mashed potatoes confuses me. I think it only happens here on Thanksgiving.

  9. Fatty Bolger

    British food in general may not be that great. but the names are extraordinary. Bubble and Squeak, Spotted Dick, Toad-in-the-Hole, Bangers and Mash, etc.

    When I read Vance’s Wyst, the names for their synthetic food put me in mind of England: Gruff and Deedle, with a bit of Wobbly to fill in the cracks.

    • UnCivilServant

      I never had bad food in Britain.

      /Stayed at a 4-Star hotel.

    • Not Adahn

      Would you like Hot Fun or Cold Fun for dessert?

    • UnCivilServant

      Also, don’t forget, a good chunk of the core American Cuisine comes from Britain. Sure, we’ve stolen from every corner of the globe, but the rootstock is colonial UK.

      • TARDIS

        Nothing like having potatoes 3 different ways for breakfast.

      • UnCivilServant

        What do you mean by that?

        /Irish

      • TARDIS

        I just remember us being served leftover potatoes with breakfast. Fried, New, and mashed, or some such. It was a small family place somewhere near Mildenhall AFB.

      • UnCivilServant

        They didn’t turn the mash into pancakes? It’s breakfast for crying out loud.

      • TARDIS

        Nope, it was weird. But I actually did like the bacon though. I don’t think I’ve had bacon that thick since.

      • Not Adahn

        Triangle Diner has potato pancakes with corned beef the week before St. Paddy’s.

      • Gender Traitor

        Now I want potato pancakes with sour cream and homemade applesauce.

      • UnCivilServant

        I made a homemade sauce that was 50/50 apple/pear.

        It was delicious.

      • Nephilium

        Not Adahn: You guys don’t have corned beef boxty year round?

      • Gender Traitor

        …homemade sauce that was 50/50 apple/pear

        Please say they were D’Anjou pears. Please please please please please…

      • Not Adahn

        Alas, no.

        There was an Irish pub that had chicken curry boxty that was awesome, but it got bought out and now has more generic pub food.

        They only serve black and white pudding at breakfast on Sundays now if you can believe that. Especially since they can’t serve beer before 10:00 on Sundays, and what’s the point of a Full Irish without a couple of pints?

      • UnCivilServant

        @GT, I honestly don’t recall the type of pear. Though if you want to use them in your own attempt, it wasn’t that hard to make.

        @NA, how long does black and white pudding keep in the freezer, because I still have some (which I do believe flew here from Ireland when I placed the order)

      • Not Adahn

        I don’t know exactly, but I would imagine close to indefinitely as far as health concerns, though freezer burn might be a problem.

      • Nephilium

        NA: Sorry to hear that man. We’ve got a couple places that do up various boxties up here. There used to be a couple more, but they closed a while back. I don’t think we’ve got anywhere that still offers up a full Irish at the present (there were a couple that did before the lockdown).

        The place I linked to has a limited Sunday liquor license. They can only serve beer up until 12:00, it led to some issues one St. Patrick’s Day as people were waiting for the ability to order Irish coffees.

      • Nephilium

        Quite a bit of regional cuisine comes from the new world anyway. Between tomatoes, potatoes, squash, hot peppers, chocolate, and I’m sure quite a bit more. We’ve really influenced the world’s cuisine.

    • Gustave Lytton

      All of those are delicious dishes.

    • Akira

      I think it gets a bad rap.

      If I went to Britain, I would definitely have to loosen my belt from all the roast beef, Yorkshire puddings, Shepherd’s pie, fish and chips, not to mention all the awesome beers.

      • DEG

        #metoo

  10. This Machine

    I love hash of any and all varieties. Corned beef is my favorite but there’s a little brewery in Raleigh that has a fantastic duck hash (and duck poutine!) as well.

    Had Spam hash this morning on account of my mom sent me some as a joke and I was determined to find a way to use it. Delicious, but might have been deliciouser with more seasoning than just salt and pepper. I’ll have to keep experimenting.

    • hayeksplosives

      Spam does go with pineapple…

      • TARDIS

        Spam goes… in the trash. J/K, it’s not that bad.

      • UnCivilServant

        So you’re into Hawai’ian cuisine?

      • R C Dean

        You’re just dropping apostrophes into words randomly to provoke Ted S., aren’t you?

      • bacon-magic

        S’top i’t

  11. Aloysious

    *drools*

    • Aloysious

      btw, that is an admirably clean stove top.

      • UnCivilServant

        *scrubs carbonized lumps from burners*

        I envy Tulip.

      • Aloysious

        If I’m not forcing myself to be disciplined, I’ll get stuff on the walls while the oven catches on fire or the element explodes in a giant blue ball of pants shitting excitement.

      • TARDIS

        Hell’s Kitchen

  12. Ozymandias

    You can always tell “real” cooks because they have those glass bowls for holding various ingredients they’ve prepped. And they measure stuff.
    /guy who doesn’t cook very much

    • Nephilium

      I have small silicone ones and plastic ones I use. Less chance of breakage that way.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        ditto, but a kitchen scale (or three) and some mise en place is the foundation for an organized cook.

        I make pancakes every Saturday, and the 3 year old has picked up on the fact that we weigh some things (flour), we scoop some things (other dry ingredients), we pour some things (wet ingredients), but they each get their own bowl before we start mixing. Oh, and that we clean as we go. Hopefully it’s a lesson that takes.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I have small silicone ones and plastic ones I use.

        Did you just blurt out details of your wife’s cosmetic surgery?

      • Nephilium

        When did I get a wife?

      • Not Adahn

        Are you also claiming that this is not your beautiful house?

    • hayeksplosives

      I like to set up the pretty bowls of ingredients in preparation for the real cooking.

      It’s a mostly aesthetic, but also gives plenty of warning if there is a substitution needed etc. I like to get the ingredients together, peeled, chopped etc, then take a breather, maybe have a drink.

      Then the cooking is all Zen time, like an assistant has done the grunt work for me.

      • Akira

        I’ll do an actual mise en place if it’s a stir-fry or something where taking an extra minute to chop something can throw off the dish.

        If I’m making stew or something, nah. I’ll just toss the things in as I chop them.

    • leon

      Truly the man is the devil

    • mrfamous

      “Most New Yorkers support Cuomo’s pineapple on pizza statements, though many seniors in the state were curiously unable to respond to the survey.”

      That will leave a mark

      • juris imprudent

        They will of course vote in Nov.

    • This Machine

      The mandate adds to previous food orders by the New York state government declaring that “a hot dog is a sandwich” and that “ketchup goes great on steak.”

      *rumbles with inchoate rage*

      I know it’s the Bee, but I can’t help it

      • Gustave Lytton

        I beginning to think that the hate for ketchup on steak is from people who have never tried it.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        You probably like hot lettuce and cheesy seafood too.

      • Suthenboy

        What the hell is hot lettuce?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s when you order a sub and they put the lettuce on the bread before sending it thru the toaster oven.

        Crime against humanity.

      • l0b0t

        Gross! Also, tangentially related, a terrible thing I’ve only encountered here in NYC, but I encounter it EVERY SINGLE TIME*. When one orders fried food here, dine-in, delivery, or take-out, it invariably comes served on a bed of lettuce. The concept of Texas Toast has not yet caught on here in the Big Apple; soggy, warm lettuce and wet batter await anyone who desires calamari, clam strips, chicken fingers, shrimp, etc..

        *Chinese and Japanese takeaway are the only occasional exception.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Seafood pasta is excellent. But hot lettuce? You’re worse than Hitler.

      • TARDIS

        Trump<Hot Lettuce<Hitler. Got it.

    • hayeksplosives

      Ok people, we have undeniable proof now. One of you works for the Bee, or a Bee employee lurks here.

      • Suthenboy

        I see a fair amount of stuff here days ahead of it appearing in more mainstream venues. If you ever watch Tucker Carlson you’d swear one of his writers is a Glib.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        a lot of it is general internet memes. heck, even our vaunted woodchipper meme isn’t our own. Thinking of glib/TOS generated memes, Warty, John-o’s, cat asses, the cryptids, H&H, and drugs falling out of asses are the only ones that immediately come to mind.

      • Suthenboy

        I dont get out much and this is about the only place I come to so….

      • Drake

        Well one his guys was just hurled into the void for racism…

      • Ozymandias

        No doubt about it. I’m pretty sure I know who it is, too, but I ain’t tellin’.
        I dig it the mostest.

    • Rebel Scum

      Savage.

  13. TARDIS

    Instruction bowls. I don’t see a trash bowl though.

    • TARDIS

      Thread fail. Meant as a reply to Ozy.

  14. hayeksplosives

    One of my favorite things about making a big pot roast (with taters, carrots, and onion) is having the leftovers in hash form.

    I like to put down a layer of frozen shredded potatoes (sold as hash browns) into oil in the skillet, then add the cut up carrots, potatoes, and roast beef on top of that, and finally loosen the cooked crispy bottomed mass from the skillet using beef juices or gravy.

    Yummy with or without an egg on top.

    • Not Adahn

      The best part of political slapfighting is it prevents “comprehensive bipartisan reform” from being enacted.

      If DC would just legalize drugs and prostitution, we might see a rapid decrease in the amount of laws being passed.

      • Grosspatzer

        Because Congress would have better things to do?

      • Incentives Matter

        Because Congress would have better things people to do?

        FIFY.

      • Not Adahn

        True. UT supplies a high-quality talent pool for the local strip clubs.

      • mrfamous

        Local what? The term sounds familiar, but it must be something from a long ago time.

      • Not Adahn

        Of course.

        There’s a reason why TX is so successful.

        1. Their leg. only meets every two years
        2. Most of the time is spend partying.

      • R C Dean

        Trust me, relatively few laws and regulations are not why TX is so successful. Both their statutes and administrative code are voluminous and wide ranging.

      • hayeksplosives

        No income tax has to help.

      • R C Dean

        Their property and sales taxes are pretty high. My total state tax bill didn’t really change that much when I moved Wisconsin -> Texas -> Arizona.

      • leon

        Honestly, i’d perfer an income tax over onerous property taxes.

      • hayeksplosives

        The trouble with wrestling in the mud with a pig is that eventually you realize that the pig enjoys it.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Awesome! also, Amash is calling himself a Libertarian now?

      • leon

        He officially joined the party, as part of seeking the nom-nom for president.

      • hayeksplosives

        He and Kanye can form a ticket. They will take turns on the manic/depression phases.

    • Grosspatzer

      Wow, that is some top-notch objective reporting there.

      • hayeksplosives

        I can’t believe they hit “enter” on that story. The basic skills of communication were absent. I couldn’t follow the pronouns. Which “he”/“him”/“his” are we talking about?

      • R C Dean

        You know, that guy.

    • Incentives Matter

      Very nice!

  15. robc

    Someone at work just sent a meeting invite, accidentally, to everyone.

    It had no description, was titled “Friday Meeting” and was scheduled for next Thursday. Needless to say, people were confused, but they kept replying asking questions about what the meeting was about and etc. I got 20 emails in a bit over 10 minutes before people understood it was a mistake.

    • Not Adahn

      Good for them getting their Friday meetings done a day early.

    • hayeksplosives

      Send the originator a meeting at 2AM in hell. Hope to wake him up with the phone ping of a new calendar meeting arriving a moment before it’s “due”.

    • Rebel Scum

      I see very little in the way of details there.

      • grrizzly

        Who needs details? WEAR A MASK.

    • DEG

      The comments are pretty shitty.

  16. hayeksplosives

    I’m not liking the odds on the Dems taking the House and Senate.

    In the past, it would just have been worthy of a massive eye roll. But now the Republicans are filling the role of “conservatives” from the perch newly vacated by regular lefty Democrats, and the Dems are really socialists who openly want to destroy American Culture.

    So aside from Paul and Massie, we are screwed. Utterly and possibly permanently.

      • leon

        62.3% in Floridia for Biden pretty much seals the fate of Trumps re-election. Of course things can change, but as it were, he’s two feet in the grave.

      • UnCivilServant

        That number does not ring true.

      • leon

        Betting Probability, not polling.

      • UnCivilServant

        So they’re betting that the Broward Ballot Bonanza will defraud the nation again?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I’m starting to not fucking care. They’ve pretty much sealed our economic fate already.

      Malicious idiots. All of them.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        this. multi-trillion dollar bailouts from the fiscal “conservatives” make me want to just sit back and watch the boat sink. Personal responsibility is passe, and responsible people are about to take it up the ass. the only question is how long and how wide the ramrod is going to be.

      • leon

        Yeah. It’s pick your choice of the socialists or the other socialists.

      • mrfamous

        Well, sure. But can I at least have my gym back?

  17. DEG

    That looks delicious.

  18. Negroni Please

    Mmmm this looks good.

    Seared duck breast over red flannel hash is one of my favorite meals. I need to make that this weekend.

    • UnCivilServant

      Have you been lurking only of late? Or merely absent?

      • Negroni Please

        I was absent for a long time. Teaching means I’m actually busy during the day and cant goldbrick for hours at a time like I used to.

        I’ve been back over the summer but lurking more than posting.

      • UnCivilServant

        Good to know it wasn’t something we did to drive you off.

      • Negroni Please

        Not at all. There aren’t many internet neighborhoods that let obnoxious ancaps hang around. Y’all are stuck with me.

  19. Not Adahn

    I may be getting acculturated to this masking thing. My boss’s boss stopped by my desk and I instinctively grabbed the mask off the desk and put it in front of my face.

    Of course, I also wear steel toes and safety glasses when mowing, and a face shield when using the weed eater.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I’ve had enough things come back at me that I’m glad I use a face shield with the weed eater/brush cutter.

      I’ve found it’s easier to just wear my prescription safety glasses all day at work than flipping back and forth or accidentally forgetting when walking into a required area. “It’s only for a movement” and then get called over to get involved in something else.

      • R C Dean

        “It’s only for a movement”

        I try to only do that in the bathroom, but, hey, every workplace is different.

      • Pope Jimbo

        BMLives Matter!

  20. grrizzly

    Until recently Baker thought it was unconstitutional.

    In a dramatic escalation of the state’s travel rules, Governor Charlie Baker on Friday unveiled a new order requiring all people entering Massachusetts to quarantine for 14 days or show they have a negative coronavirus test if they’re coming from anywhere except a few lower-risk states.

    The new order, which goes into effect Aug. 1, applies to both out-of-state travelers and Massachusetts residents returning home, and carries a $500 daily fine for those who don’t comply with the new rules.

    Everyone entering the state must fill out a “Massachusetts Travel Form,” available online, and quarantine for 14 days unless they are coming from a so-called low-risk state, a list which as of Friday included just eight: New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, and the rest of New England.

    How will I return home?

    • UnCivilServant

      Wait, wait, wait, why would you regard New York, the hotspot, a ‘lower risk’ state? There are 49 states in the union of even lower risk than New York. If it’s safe to come from here, it’s safe to come from anywhere.

      • grrizzly

        Nobody cares about the deaths from COVID-19 anymore, it’s all about the cases now.

      • hayeksplosives

        I wasn’t expecting the ISA during my lifetime to get to where interstate travel includes “Are your papers in order?”

      • hayeksplosives

        ?? USA, not ISA.

      • Gender Traitor

        Isolated States of America?

      • TARDIS

        Idiocracy States of America

      • Urthona

        Because they got through their COVID early on when everyone died.

    • R C Dean

      If masks, social distancing, and lockdowns work, why make people quarantine?

      • Nephilium

        Because… FYTW?

    • Grosspatzer

      Waiting to see how Murphy reacts to this. We have a quarantine gap, and this is unacceptable!

      https://covid19.nj.gov/faqs/nj-information/travel-information/which-states-are-on-the-travel-advisory-list-are-there-travel-restrictions-to-or-from-new-jersey

      Please note that this advisory does not apply to individuals:

      Who passed through a designated state for a period of limited duration (i.e. less than 24 hours) through the course of travel.
      Who are passing through New Jersey on a layover for a period of limited duration (i.e. less than 24 hours) through the course of travel.

      24 is the magic number.

      Who are traveling to New Jersey for business matters that are exempted from the application of the travel advisory associated with His Majesty’s cronies.
      Who are traveling to New Jersey and work in critical infrastructure fields, such as health care and federal, state and local law enforcement. Consult with your employer regarding whether there is industry-specific guidance that may apply to you.

      It’s good to be the King.

      • leon

        Wasn’t it NY that was going to tax individuals who volunteered their time in NY for their income from their other jobs in other states.

      • Grosspatzer

        You mean this?

        CWAA

      • leon

        Governor Cuomo has suggested a quid pro quo deal with federal lawmakers where he’ll consider waiving the income tax bill New York plans to send to out-of-state emergency health workers, so long as New York gets more federal financial assistance.

        Seriously. “Bail out my state, or i’ll soak these saps who volunteered their time to save lives of people in my state”

      • Grosspatzer

        It would be insulting to La Cosa Nostra to call Cuomo a mafioso. At least they provide essential services.

      • Suthenboy

        Yep. I imagine they are fresh out of volunteers now.

    • DEG

      Fuck Baker.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    It’s pick your choice of the socialists or the other socialists.

    Exactly.

    • R C Dean

      *insert superhero button meme here*

      • hayeksplosives

        How about “This one weird trick that Morpheus doesn’t want you to know about!” wherein we reject both the red and blue pills and say “Fuck off, slaver!”

        What a catchphrase!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Moldbug calls it clear-pilled.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    If masks, social distancing, and lockdowns work, why make people quarantine?

    Can’t
    Understand
    Normal
    Thinking

      • hayeksplosives

        Mojeaux approved version.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I can see something Brooksie…….

      • Nephilium

        Don’t worry, he’ll see you next Tuesday.

      • R C Dean

        see you next Tuesday evening

      • Nephilium

        /golf clap

      • Rebel Scum

        The future? You were right about my ac unit. And you diagnosed it from 2,000 miles away. Cheers to tall can time!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Awesome! you got off cheap, enjoy Comfort……

      • Nephilium

        Obligatory music link.

  23. The Other Kevin

    Just found out my younger sis’s job was eliminated. She was a NP working with elderly patients. Which means there are a lot of elderly patients not getting their normal preventive care. It may not be this month or next month, but there’s going to be a big surge in deaths and they’re not going to be from a virus.

    • Suthenboy

      *straightens pointy tin-foil hat*

      I may have mentioned before that if they were deliberately culling older, more expensive people I dont know what they would do differently than what they are doing now. They are culling by attrition before they force single-payer down our throats.

      • The Other Kevin

        Unfortunately that’s not the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.

        Older people are more likely to watch the news, and the news is all about how dangerous and scary this virus is, so it’s safer to hide in the house. Except it’s not.

      • SUPREME OVERLORD trshmnstr

        it feels like there may be a correlary to an iron law buried in there.

        The relevant iron law is: foreseeable consequences are not unintended.

        The correlary is something like “actions that prepare the path for totalitarianism assume the moral condemnation of the result, regardless of intent or lack thereof”

        or “ends don’t justify the means, but they can corrupt the means”

      • leon

        What about bad ends people, who end up doing good things? So someone who wants a bad outcome, but through incompetence, ends up achieving a good outcome?

      • Suthenboy

        Isnt that more or less the foundational principle of our constitution?
        That is the reason the Democrats want it burned.

    • Grosspatzer

      Jesus. And “essential” govt employees continue to draw paychecks while twiddling their thumbs and barking on social media.

      • leon

        We’re all in this together!

    • Not Adahn

      there’s going to be a big surge in deaths and they’re not going to be from a virus.

      Of course not. They’ll be from DRUMPF!

    • DEG

      Sorry she lost her job.

      there’s going to be a big surge in deaths and they’re not going to be from a virus.

      Certain individuals will happily take advantage of that situation. Lockdowns forever!

      • The Other Kevin

        They’re looking for something else for her within the hospital network. She’s great at what she does so I’m not too worried.

    • Akira

      It may not be this month or next month, but there’s going to be a big surge in deaths and they’re not going to be from a virus.

      I’m sure every death that is above the previous year’s average will be chalked up to COVID by the corporate media.

    • Rebel Scum

      Then they tugged on his leg hair. Then drugs fell out of his ass. ///honkhonk

    • Suthenboy

      *Imagines scenario*

      First debate: Biden walks on stage with Trump waiting

      Trump: “Ah! You made it. Did someone blow in your nostrils to get you moving?”

      Biden: “Gah! Take this Fat!” *charges at Trump, throws a punch worse than a Fauci pitch, trips and falls to the floor. Entire audience does a facepalm*

      • Not Adahn

        And CNN reports that Trump assaulted him and demands that DC police arrest the malefactor.

      • Suthenboy

        Arent they the ones that had the live reporter in Portland call the protests mostly peaceful while cars and buildings in the background were blazing, people running willy-nilly all around him?
        When I saw that I thought…’who is this guy? Kevin Bacon?’

      • Akira

        CNN is also the ones who got caught feeding Hillary the debate questions ahead of time.

        Why anyone takes them seriously is beyond me.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Audience at home laughs so hard it can be heard from space

      • The Other Kevin

        Biden: “And the nurses did you know, the thing, and Cornpop was there blowing in my nostrils…”

        Moderator: “YOUR TIME IS UP!”

        Biden: “But it’s only been 6 seconds!”

        Moderator: “Sorry! Debate rules! But for the benefit of our audience, what you were going to say had your time not expired, was…”