Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

White supremacy is terrorism.

No one could have predicted…

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

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  1. 1.

    Max

    That’s why we love you John G Cole!

    ETA – I’m cheering for the Batali/Legassi team. I love Mario.

  2. 2.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Man, I love that this thread exists.

    That’s some serious food geek love.

  7. 7.

    ajr22

    I need more Morimoto in this show. He smoked this piece of fish using an ice block the other day, it was amazing.

  9. 9.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    I heart Michelle Obama.

    I read a preview about the filming of the episode and the writer said one of the funniest moments happened off-camera. Apparently Alton Brown was walking around talking and fell ass-over-teacups into the WH garden.

  11. 11.

    General Winfield Stuck

    I have no idea what an “Iron Chef” is, though my doctor recently recommended cooking with iron pots to combat my chronic low grade anemia. He went to school to learn this.

  14. 14.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    Awesome concept. Homegrown veggies, local ingredients, grown in a sustainable fashion. This is cool.

  15. 15.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    @General Suck

    Iron Chef is a competition chef show– original started in Japan. Usually features a single ingredient that has to be incorporated into all courses of a 5 course meal, chefs only have 60 minutes to do so. Which is how you end up with amazingly tasty and scary things– my personal favorite is when someone made trout ice cream. No kidding.

  18. 18.

    Corner Stone

    I’m having a hybrid steak/chef salad for dinner tonight. Just finished hard boiling a couple eggs.
    That was the easiest I have ever peeled two eggs. I’m thinking it’s an omen for the JETS-CIN football game.
    Go Bengals!!

  25. 25.

    Max

    These judges are horrible! I like that cute guy with the bob hair cut who works at Bon Apetite.

  26. 26.

    gwangung

    Cooked up some cacciatore with mushrooms, zuccini, chopped ham and chicken strips.

    Not bad.

  27. 27.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Is anyone else a big Alton Brown fan? The wife and and I have been on a big AB kick for the past several months. We have AB to blame for the new shiny-red kitchenaid mixer sitting on our counter. (Santa brought it, I swear!)

    Although if we’re talking pure food porn tv, Nigella Lawson is second only to Giada DeLaurentiis. Clearly AB beats them both on substance over style.

  28. 28.

    demkat620

    I love Emeril. I ate at his original restaurant in NOLA.

    Oh now that’s some good eatin’ folks. Food in NOLA.

    Godamnit now I’m hungry.

  29. 29.

    Max

    @zoe kentucky in pittsburgh: He gets a little goofy for me, but he knows his stuff, that’s for sure.

    My favorite Food Network chef used to be Tyler Florence because I want to jump his bones, but I now love Guy Fieri and Diners Drive In’s and Dives. No urge to jump any bones though.

  31. 31.

    Porco Rosso

    Screw Iron Chef. I’m watching God of Cookery.

    Then I’m practicing folding chair fu.

  34. 34.

    J.

    Here in the New York Metropolitan area (NY, NJ, and CT), where Food Network’s studios are, we cannot watch the Super Chef Battle because Cablevision (aka the Dolan Family) and Scripps (owner of Food Network and HGTV) are in a pissing match. As a result, at 12:01 a.m. on 1/1/10 no more Food Network, after WEEKS of hyping this effing epic battle (and no more HGTV, meaning no more House Hunters).

    Cablevision customers were given just a few hours notice and no recourse.

    So if you want to help stick it to the man (aka the Dolan of your choice/Cablevision) and Scripps (who is partly if not equally to blame), and get Food Network back on the air, and make my 11-year-old daughter happy again, please read this. Your support is appreciated!

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    @demkat620:

    I love Emeril. I ate at his original restaurant in NOLA.

    Me too, before Katrina. It was good. Probably the best creme brulee I’ve ever had.
    But I’d say a little hole in the wall sandwich shop was better as far as food and price point. Mama’s I think it was? Right on the border between the Quarter and the Warehouse districts.
    The ends were so damn good. Line out the door at lunch in 2003.

  36. 36.

    RedKitten

    @zoe kentucky in pittsburgh: I adore Alton Brown — he understands not just that certain foods work together, but precisely WHY they work together, or why they are at their best when cooked a certain way. You feel like you’re hearing all these nifty insider secrets about food that nobody else knows.

  38. 38.

    Yutsano

    I just love this bar, but as I don’t get to see this episode until I get home from work and even then not until midnight my time, I’m gonna ignore this thread.

  42. 42.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Alton Brown is the supreme cooking geeky dork. Although he does manage to do it in a way that isn’t know-it-all, just excited-to-explain-it-all. He’s also the master deconstructor of ordinary food items. Most self-taught home cooks learned (or didn’t learn) how to make basic things through a family member or trial-and-error. AB helps you establish a base level of learning, with some fun science behind it, and you learn cooking methods you didn’t even realize that you didn’t know.

    I think Lagasse is a talented chef but I find his cooking show style really annoying. I heard him interviewed on Splendid Table recently and it made me wish that he didn’t act like a showboat on his show, instead was just himself.

  44. 44.

    psychobroad

    Damn I didn’t realize it started an hour early & I missed Michelle!! Did she do/say anything cool? I know all she has to do is breathe in & out to be cool, but you know what I mean.

  45. 45.

    Linkmeister

    Thanks. It’s delayed or rescheduled or something here, as it turns out. Looking at FN and seeing World of Cakes or something, which was disconcerting.

  47. 47.

    Max

    My BFF and I saw Bobby Flay in the Ferry Building in SF and I thought she was going to have a heart attack. He was with his wife, from Law & Order, and was holding a gelato and saying something like “I’ll tell you what it tastes like if you shut up and give me a chance to taste it”.

    For some reason, my friend and I found it funny.

  49. 49.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @AhabTRuler:

    LOL, that’s what I said, and started one. He is a good Primary Care doc, full of folk remedies he just likes rambling about in a semi serious way, but he is a solid doc.

  50. 50.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Why is Jane Seymour a judge? As Max pointed out, I seriously don’t think she’s eaten anything since 1997. (What is she famous for these days? Bad, overpriced jewelry?) More to the point– why isn’t Michelle a judge??!??

    Now I want to go out and buy all those different colors of cauliflower– purple and green and orange– just to mix them in one dish. Too pretty and odd.

  54. 54.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    @Max:

    He was with his wife, from Law & Order, and was holding a gelato and saying something like “I’ll tell you what it tastes like if you shut up and give me a chance to taste it”. For some reason, my friend and I found it funny.

    That story made my evening.

  56. 56.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    I love New Orleans– although I haven’t been back since before Katrina. I might have to try to get back there next year. The food, the history, the architecture, the freedom-loving hedonism.

    New Orleans reminds me of Key West in one specific way– if you’re there for a few days after a while it doesn’t really feel like you’re in America anymore. Or it would be what America could be if more of the country just stopped being so damned uptight and puritanical.

  58. 58.

    apikoros

    Thank Ghu! A food thread! Normally I’m a lurker, but I have a real problem of a foodie nature… I’ve got thei Bron mandoline, see? And over time it got a bit grungy, so I took it apart to clean it. All of it! Including the bits of carrot stuck in the Julienne bar. Now I have all the pieces of a Bron Mandoline spread out on a towel in my kitchen and I cannot for the life of me figure out how it goes back together.

    Does anyone else own a Bron mandoline? Have you disassembled it? gotten it back together? HOW?!?!?!

    I’d really like it if someone could point me to an expoded diagram of which washers go on which sides of the rails and where the handle goes among the washers.

    TIA!!!!

  59. 59.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    This might be the best Alton Brown quote of the night:

    “If you could manifest love into a physical form it would be lardo.” (Granted, this only applies to omnivores and not vegetarians.)

    I too loved the BobbyFlay story above. Too funny.

  60. 60.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Alton is all about the perpetual foodgasm. That’s one of the reasons he’s so fun to watch, especially on Iron Chef.

    The only other person who seems as excited about food as Alton is Lynne Rosetta-Casper. You can practically hear her drooling through the radio.

  61. 61.

    abo gato

    I just love, love, love that Michelle put in a garden at the White House. How cool is this??? Way cool. And what a way to show the country how really easy it can be to grow your own food. This is just the best thing, ever…..and Michelle is the best First Lady we have EVER had.

    Oh, and General Winfield? Using a cast iron skillet to cook a lot of your food in will absolutely increase your iron content in your blood. I use a cast iron skillet all the time and every time I give blood, my iron level is well above what is necessary to give.

    I love Michelle. I’ll never understand the wingers who hate her.

  62. 62.

    Kyle

    what America could be if more of the country just stopped being so damned uptight and puritanical.

    No wonder the Repigs sat back and didn’t give a shit as it was destroyed. Why couldn’t it be like Branson, Missouri or the Creation Museum — now that’s worth saving.

  63. 63.

    Corner Stone

    @abo gato:

    And what a way to show the country how really easy it can be to grow your own food

    It is easy when you have a full time staff to do it for you.

    I love Michelle. I’ll never understand the wingers who hate her.

    She’s black. And she hates whitey.

  64. 64.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    I love Michelle. I’ll never understand the wingers who hate her.

    Michelle has some of the highest approval ratings in the beltway, so the Michelle-haters are a pretty small group. They only hate her because she’s a dem, otherwise she’d be their poster girl for their bs version of traditional family values. Why? Michelle is a mom, had a very successful career that she put on the back burner to support her family and her husband’s career. Now she’s all about her family, supporting military families/wives, etc.

  67. 67.

    abo gato

    Corner Stone, sure it helps to have a staff, but anyone with any kind of back yard or even a small patio can grow stuff…..it is not a hard science…..you do need some solid sun time though.

    So what if she’s black? I’m white and I kind of hate whitey too a lot of times…..not as much, though, as I hate the wingers.

  69. 69.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Every time they show Michelle Obama standing next to Alton Brown (from the intro) I keep thinking she looks like she belongs in the WNBA. How tall is she? (googling) Oh, she’s 5′ 11″ but is likely wearing heels, so she’s easily 6+. Damn.

  71. 71.

    psychobroad

    We love Alton Brown. We started watching him when my son was 10–he’s 18 now. AB looks really scrawny lately–he’s not sick, is he? BTW, bonus points for me–he lives just around the corner from me–I could literally walk to his house, if I knew which one it was. His street is one of the nicest in Marietta, GA.

  73. 73.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    I read recently that AB intentionally lost 40 lbs recently– I didn’t think he was heavy before, especially considering that much of what he cooks isn’t necessarily calorie or fat-conscious. Unfortunately he doesn’t seem to be wearing the weight loss well, at least imho.

  74. 74.

    Max

    According to Ezra’s Twitter feed….

    AB directed photography on R.E.M.’s music video for “The One I Love”

  76. 76.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    @zoe kentucky in pittsburgh:

    I second that. New Orleans is a gem. It’s one of the few places in America that is still unique–on top of its many other charms.

    Look, it’s cool that the Obama’s put in an organic garden in the White House. Now let’s see them propose legislation to reform our entire nation’s food system.

  79. 79.

    Kobie

    Since people were talking about Iron Chef in the football thread, can we talk about football in the Iron Chef thread?

    :P

  80. 80.

    Food Network Nightmare

    I was at a dinner on New Years day when some folks that subscribe to Cablevision in NJ were talking about this. Food Network junkies, pray your cable or sattelite provider never does this:

    Cablevision Systems Corp. customers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut reacted angrily in more than 100 posts Friday and Saturday on the media and entertainment news site Deadline.com after about 3.1 million subscribers lost access Friday to HGTV and Food Network Friday.

    Comments accused Cablevision and Scripps Networks Interactive Inc. – but mostly Cablevision – of greed and arrogance when they failed to reach agreement over a fee increase Scripps demanded.

    Many of those who posted said they were switching to competitors or satellite or going online. Some were particularly upset at the prospect of missing a two-hour Iron Chef episode set for 8 p.m. EST Sunday that features Michelle Obama and the White House chef.

  83. 83.

    freelancer (itouch)

    @Max:

    So’s Michael D IIRC, it just seemed weird.
    How niche is a WoW thread, that a Foodie thread elicits a WTF?
    @Kobie:

    It is an Open thread, so sure. Palmer is sucking tonight, though the 5 degrees windchill isn’t helping his receivers any.

  85. 85.

    Kobie

    @freelancer (itouch): This is not exactly my dream matchup to close out the regular season. A team I hate, atttempting to make the playoffs, going against a team with nothing to play for.

  86. 86.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    No wonder the Repigs sat back and didn’t give a shit as it was destroyed. Why couldn’t it be like Branson, Missouri or the Creation Museum—now that’s worth saving.

    Too true.

  87. 87.

    psychobroad

    Zoe, you seem to be a veritable fountain of information on all things Food Network, or at least Alton Brown. Was it you who mentioned AB falling over something during the White House footage? Where did you find that?

  89. 89.

    Max

    @freelancer (itouch): I think this site needs more foodie threads. Top Chef!

    I’m a girl, so I think that disqualifies me from the f word. But, some of my best friends are… ;)

    Mario’s food looked more appetizing to me, but I’m biased.

  90. 90.

    psychobroad

    Balloon Juice has the best foodie threads. Seriously, I’ve studied this. (I’m out of work–does it show?)

  91. 91.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Yup, it was me who mentioned Alton Brown falling into the White House garden–http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/dining/04iron.html.

  92. 92.

    freelancer (itouch)

    @Max:

    Ask geg6 and SiubanDuinne, or Anne Laurie and AsiangrrlMN among others here lacking a Y chromosome doesnt prevent you from dropping the F-bomb.

    ETA- nevermind. The OTHER f word. Facepalm*

  93. 93.

    Corner Stone

    @Notorious P.A.T.: Yes. A lot of snark there on my part. Wingers hate her cause she’s black and also because there are tapes of her talking about how she hates “whitey”.

    But honestly, I’ve tried raising a small garden with a couple items and it is hard damn work. My mom has a green thumb that would make an emerald jealous and between us I barely pulled out a couple good crops in the burbs.
    It ain’t easy bein’ cheesy.

  98. 98.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    @arj

    Yes, you hate America if you hate cranberries.

    Teasing aside, I understand if you don’t like the jellied gunk that comes in a can on thanksgiving– complete with ridge lines– but there are so many ways to prepare it. Maybe you’re just not a fan of tart?

  100. 100.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Max:

    start out slow with an occasional F**k you- with suitable asterisks, to blunt the unlady like social norm demons. After a while, you can drop one asterisk until you are ready to solo with a full throttle F-bomb in all it’s therapeutic glory. Trust me, I am an expert at cussing.

  104. 104.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Watching Iron Chef always inspires me to go make a big mess in my kitchen.

  111. 111.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    Is Bobby Flay a dickhead or something? I ask only because the douchebag brother in “Stepbrothers” talked about being friends with him.

  112. 112.

    Kobie

    And on the subject of F words, the word “fuck” is perhaps the most versatile and most viscerally satisfying word in the English language. It can be used in its various forms as a noun, verb or adjective, or as punctuation.

  118. 118.

    Kobie

    @Max: How can it not be? All others pale in comparison.

    If I had to pick a second-favorite, I guess it would be “asshole.”

  123. 123.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    OMG. Just watching the beginning of the show that is on after Iron Chef, a worst cooks competition, and somebody just cut off the tips of a bunch of asparagus and put the rest in a skillet. (Yes, they threw the tips away and cooked the ends.)

  127. 127.

    Nellcote

    @zoe kentucky in pittsburgh:

    The White House has its own beehive?

    Small jars of WH honey and a tea set seems to be a favorite gift to give visiting first ladies.

    Anyone else crushing on Anthony Bourdain? His travel/food show has superior food snark!

  129. 129.

    ajr22

    I’ll say it again Morimoto is the best of the Iron chefs. I purchased a picture book of Nobu’s menu, and its beautiful. It has all the recipes in the back, but I have only heard of about three of the ingredients he uses. I like flay, his show throw down is pretty entertaining. However, when he wins I always feel bad for the challenger. Flay strolls in, and beats them at making their go to dish in front of all their friends.

  130. 130.

    Notorious P.A.T.

    the word “fuck” is perhaps the most versatile and most viscerally satisfying word in the English language.

    I fucking agree.

  131. 131.

    AhabTRuler

    Anyone else crushing on Anthony Bourdain? His travel/food show has superior food snark!

    He’s another good one. Shit, watching him eat Iguana Tamales (“This is the worst thing I have ever eaten”) in the Yucatán Peninsula is fucking hilarious, and shit. Fuck. Also.

  132. 132.

    Corner Stone

    @ajr22:

    I like flay, his show throw down is pretty entertaining. However, when he wins I always feel bad for the challenger. Flay strolls in, and beats them at making their go to dish in front of all their friends.

    I like it too except when he does pastries and shit. I’m like, “Whuh?” you’re challenging someone to a red velvet showdown?

    But he’s only won like 3 times that I have seen. Which is as it should be.

  133. 133.

    Corner Stone

    @AhabTRuler: Fucking A. Watching him eat some nasty shit on a Norse smorgasbord that one time was the worst. Like fermented shark fin or or some nasty Svensker shit.
    He said that was the worst ever.
    Of course, there was also that time the African bushmen cooked eggs in a sandy pit.

  137. 137.

    Anne Laurie

    @zoe kentucky in pittsburgh:

    Which is how you end up with amazingly tasty and scary things—my personal favorite is when someone made trout ice cream. No kidding.

    It wouldn’t be so outlandish if it were one of the Japanese episodes. As I understand it, ice cream itself is such a weird & exotic foodstuff in Japan that there’s a niche industry in creating “souvenir” flavors using local tourist-bait… flavors like eel, horseradish, and bear meat. It’s become a standing joke even in Japan by now, which doesn’t stop production of the more popular varieties. But then, I understand that ‘California roll’ originally struck most sushi-eaters as a perverse combo, too.

  138. 138.

    John Cole

    I’m dying watching this worst cooks show. I had tears streaming down my face when that guy boiled a chicken and then put layers of sliced swiss cheese on top.

    Can you imagine that rubbery, unseasoned, boiled chicken skin with cold swiss cheese sticking to it?

  142. 142.

    psychobroad

    I watched a little of the worst cooks show and it has to be fake. A woman seriously put up cans of soup all mixed together as an offering? I don’t think so.
    And I love Bobby Flay. I didn’t at first, but he has proven to be a gracious guy, as well as being a fabulous cook. He always looks apologetic when he wins the throwdowns–he always tries to make it a fluke if he wins. And he doesn’t win often. Anthony Bourdain pointed out that it takes a certain something to go up against almost certain failure in a contest, night after night, and do it with class. And Bobby does it , time and again.

  143. 143.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Aww, she is such a lovely kitteh. Maybe it’s just the angle, but it seems to me she’s beginning to grow into her ears.

  144. 144.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @John Cole:

    I’m dying watching this worst cooks show. I had tears streaming down my face when that guy boiled a chicken and then put layers of sliced swiss cheese on top.

    You food pRonners are quite shameless

  145. 145.

    RedKitten

    @zoe kentucky in pittsburgh:

    OMG. Just watching the beginning of the show that is on after Iron Chef, a worst cooks competition, and somebody just cut off the tips of a bunch of asparagus and put the rest in a skillet. (Yes, they threw the tips away and cooked the ends.)

    Fuck. Thank goodness he wasn’t cooking rhubarb.

  146. 146.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    @annelaurie

    Yeah, the original Iron Chef show is pretty much all about things that you’d have to dare most Americans to eat.

    I too have read about the way that the Japanese approach ice cream– I consider myself pretty adventureous food-wise and I’d love to go to Japan someday but really might not be able to swallow bear meat ice cream.

  150. 150.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Just watched the first 10 minutes of the Worst Cooks show– then set the dvr to record the series. Most of the contestants do seem pretty clueless and they were (supposedly) nominated by family or friends. Seems like a good bet for unintentionally bad food carnage.

  154. 154.

    jl

    @John Cole:

    “Can you imagine that rubbery, unseasoned, boiled chicken skin with cold swiss cheese sticking to it?”

    Could be pretty good grub. Simple. Filling.

    I should probably try out for the worst cooks show.

    Edit:
    @psychobroad:

    “A woman seriously put up cans of soup all mixed together as an offering? I don’t think so.”

    Give her a break. What were the flavors?

    This sounds more like a clueless cooking show. Maybe you folks should give the recipes a try. They don’t sound hard to make. Why, even I can cut the tips off of asparagus.

  156. 156.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @arguing #149

    Well, they do tend to grow pretty fast at that age (although now I say that, I realise I’m not sure how old Smudge is. Did you ever say?) but since you see her all the time you probably wouldn’t notice as quickly as someone who only sees her occasionally. Of course we see several photos of her every day, so there goes *that* theory.

    Has it really been only two weeks since she came into your life? Hard to believe; it feels longer. She sure looks like a sweetie, though (yes, even as a Fierce Pirate Kitteh).

  162. 162.

    Violet

    That Worst Cooks show seems stupid. Seems like they should keep all of the contestants around and see who learns the most by the end. Sending people home doesn’t help them learn how to cook. And if the worst cook leaves every week, it’s hardly the “Worst Cook in America” who wins.

  167. 167.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    @Nellcote:

    I wonder who the first wingnut or teabag will be who brings up the White House beehive and Africanized bees in the same sentence?

    You just know it’s going to happen.

  169. 169.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    @AhabTRuler:

    And she’s just mad about me.

    Be sure to sing that song to the first hepatitis patient you meet. ;)

  170. 170.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @aws #163: You probably did say how old she was and I forgot. I second Something Fab’s suggestion to photograph Smudge in relation to a constant to compare her size now and later.

    (I don’t suppose she’d hold still and let you balance a yardstick on top of her head so you could mark a doorframe.)

  172. 172.

    SiubhanDuinne

    BTW, O/T (yeah, like we weren’t already) but it’s bloody cold in metro Atlanta. No, we can’t compete with those -35 temps someone was mentioning earlier on another thread (geg6 or ellaesther, maybe) but the northern ‘burbs will be in single digits overnight, and there are 20-25 mph winds. Considering normal January temps are usually in the 50s, baby, it’s cold outside!

  173. 173.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Since this is a food thread, and not delineated as human food.

    I have a question. As Krista tipped me the other day that Beggin’s strips are not good for doggie treats, does anyone know some that are safe and dogs like?

  175. 175.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    @psychobroad:

    What’s funny is that my Mom came up with that ‘joke’ because of my older brother and his addiction which led to his getting hepatitis.

    What’s really  funny is that she used to be a RN at a Spokane hospital but gave it up because of the horrible stuff she saw people go through. She had no problem with the gore, just the human consequences. She was a very empathetic person.

    Still, she rode my brother’s ass like a mule with that ‘joke’ and he had it coming.

  176. 176.

    RedKitten

    @General Winfield Stuck: I sometimes used to make homemade liver treats for Dreyf, which he loved. Just buy up some beef or chicken livers, boil them for 5 minutes, rinse them and wipe them clean, cut them up into bite-sized pieces, and cook them in a 200 degree oven for about 20 minutes. Throw them in a Ziploc and you’re good to go.

  180. 180.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    My poor little kitteh is crying because her “red bug” disappeared. (red bug = laser pointer)

    G’night juicers…

  184. 184.

    Max

    @General Winfield Stuck: look into Dogswell. Max the Wheaten lives on them. I give him the ones with gluco / condro for his joints because he’s very active and flies off the top steps and jumps straight up in the air the way wheatens are prone to.

  187. 187.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Bubblegum Tate:
    from the link:

    I have a confession to make. I hate politics. That’s why I write about it, because I enjoy making fun of it. And one of the reasons I write for Big Hollywood is I am sick of other people’s politics being jammed down my throat through alleged “entertainment.”

    Which is why you write for big hollywood. The stupid. It. Burns.

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    General Winfield Stuck

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Michelle Obama, perhaps jealous of her husband’s constant face time on TV, has decided to start injecting herself in other people’s shows.

    No shit. How much stoopid does it take to say something like this?

  189. 189.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Easily the best/worst comment about Michelle Obama’s appearence on Iron Chef from Big Hollywood:

    Growltiger – November 9th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
    I don’t want to be carped at by a slightly overweight,humongous assed Klingon telling me what I should and should not eat. Mrs. Obama needs to get another cause. Like maybe teaching little girls in the Ghetto not to have babies at 13.

    Seriously, I don’t even know where to begin. So fucked up on so many levels.

  190. 190.

    reality-based

    @Nellcote:

    oh, God,Anthony Bourdain, my one true love –

    there is hysterical episode on his travel network sereis, where he and Eric Ripert decide to see if they can still hack it as line cooks, or if they are both old and washed up –

    so they both try cooking the line at Bourdains bistro – it’s hysterical, two famous executive chefs beind screamed at by hyper-efficient hispanic immigrant cooks that Tony trained himself!

    (their conclusion: Ripert can still cut it as a line cook, but Tony’s aged eyes just make him too damn slow now – )

    more info –

    http://profumoprofondo.com/2007/12/20/bourdain-and-ripert-cook-at-les-halles-joyeux-noel/

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    daryljfontaine

    @ajr22: “Throwdown” kind of cemented my general opinion of Bobby Flay as “arrogant douchenozzle,” but I’ve softened that somewhat over the years. I had to laugh at the episode where he did a jambalaya challenge with a NOLA (I think) restaurateur, and couldn’t keep himself from opening the kettle over and over again to obsessively check on his dish, thus ruining his final product.

    @arguingwithsignposts: Steel yourself for the crushing disappointment of a brilliant series cut down in the prime of its life (only 2 seasons with no real closure); this is a television heartache which seems to replay ad infinitum. (Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles was another 2-season show, and one that just kept getting better right before they yanked the rug out from under it.)

    D

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    Anne Laurie

    @General Winfield Stuck:

    As Krista tipped me the other day that Beggin’s strips are not good for doggie treats, does anyone know some that are safe and dogs like?

    If there’s a big box petstore you can reach, here are some treat brands our little guys like: Zuke’s Mini Naturals (available in chicken, peanut butter, or salmon); Charlee Bear; Mini-Dingo chicken chews; and Itty Bitty Buddy Biscuits (7 or 8 different goofy flavors). For very special bribes, Smokehouse chicken strips, which you can break into tiny bits. We actually try to buy these in bulk from KV Pet Supply because they’re cheaper than retail here in high-priced New England, but YMMV.

    If you’re shopping at the grocery store, look for ‘training treats’ that advertise no artificial colors, no sugar, and preferably no corn. A lot of the big companies seem to be jumping on the ‘organic’ wagon these days, which yeah I roll my eyes at, but toy dogs & cats really do have so little body mass that the extra chemicals hit them harder — one Red Dye #4 biscuit will double the tearstreaks, not to mention the intestinal aftereffects. And it’s not like Charlee cares whether his snackies have been dyed to look like raw steak or festive human cookies!

    Or if you have the time, you can go hardcore & make your own treats — get some chicken breasts or turkey hot dogs when they’re on sale, chop them into thumbnail-sized cubes, and nuke them into leather in your microwave. Tiny chunks of cheese work great too, although purists will tell you that cheese has too many calories to be the baseline treat. It’s hard to pelletize peanut butter at home, but stuffing some inside a rawhide or a rubber toy should keep Charlie busy for some time.

    Speaking of which, if his teeth are up to the challenge, ‘Choo hooves’ — cow toenails — are unesthetic & stink like a barnyard when chewed, but even dogs that turn up their noses at ordinary rawhides go crazy for them.

  193. 193.

    maus

    Have we mocked the wingnuts’ obsession with the White House Flickr page yet?

    Oh good god, they sound like gossipy old biddies/queens.

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    Anne Laurie

    @RedKitten: The friends who turned me into a dog-owner 25 years ago used to cube up calves liver and fry it into leather with a dusting of garlic salt for dog treats. I love liver and could never resist sneaking a nibble if I was there when they made a batch. The women just laughed at me, but their dogs were OUTRAGED!

  195. 195.

    mcd410x

    My problem with high alcohol beers is that once you get to the 12-13-14 percent range, the alcohol overwhelms the taste of the beverage. (Dogfish Head 120 min IPA, Avery Mephistopheles, I’m looking at you).

    8 or 9 percent is about as high as you want to go and still retain a complex taste. IMHO.

    (Really liking the Old Engine Oil and Bell’s Kalamazoo Stout — mcd +4).

  196. 196.

    zoe kentucky in pittsburgh

    Mmmmm….Bell’s Kalamazoo Stout.

    Might have to go out and buy some of that tomorrow.

    There are few things better than dark, yummy stouts in winter. If I only had a working fireplace…

  197. 197.

    Mayken

    @abo gato: I agree that it is wonderful that the Obama’s yanked up some of that lawn to put in a garden and all. Also that Michele herself is teh Awesome. But let’s not pretend that this demonstrates anything to the American public other than it’s great to have a full-time dedicated gardening staff.

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    mandarama

    @zoe kentucky in pittsburgh:

    Holy shit! I can’t believe someone would call the FLOTUS names like that. Damn. And the race shit. I have to say, even though I read all the nutpicking around here, this might be the worst yet. I actually feel offended and upset…not “that’s offensive,” but “I’m offended.” Chest constricting.

    I guess I really love Michelle Obama. This guy can go fuck himself with asiangrrl’s rusty pitchfork.

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    Joel

    @RedKitten: Alton Brown is great. He’s the TV-friendly Harold McGee, who’s even more awesome. If you like Alton Brown, I can’t recommend “On Food and Cooking” highly enough.

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