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Early Morning Open Thread: Mardi Gras

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Welcome Shrove Tuesday, last chance for all pious Christians to indulge in rich foods and other base pleasures before bidding Carne vale — farewell to the flesh. Christian or not, enjoy your favorite high-fat, high-calorie baked sweets (is it a coincidence that Girl Scout cookies are in season?), but keep in mind the sad fate of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden, who “died of digestion problems… after consuming a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, which was topped off by fourteen helpings of hetvägg, the king’s favorite dessert.”
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  1. 1.

    Warren Terra

    For anyone else wondering what “hetvägg” is, a dessert that’s literally to die for, a descriptive passage from Wikipedia:

    The oldest version of the semla was a plain bread bun, eaten in a bowl of warm milk. In Swedish this is known as hetvägg, from Middle Low German hete Weggen (hot wedges) or German heisse Wecken (hot buns) and falsely interpreted as “hotwall”.
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    Today, the Swedish-Finnish semla consists of a cardamom-spiced wheat bun which has its top cut off and insides scooped out, and is then filled with a mix of the scooped-out bread crumbs, milk and almond paste, topped with whipped cream. The cut-off top serves as a lid and is dusted with powdered sugar. Today it is often eaten on its own, with coffee or tea. Some people still eat it in a bowl of hot milk. In Finland, the bun is sometimes filled with raspberry jam instead of almond paste, and bakeries in Finland usually offer both versions. (Many bakeries distinguish between the two by decorating the traditional bun with almonds on top, whereas the jam-filled version has powdered sugar on top). In Finland-Swedish, semla means a plain wheat bun, used for bread and butter, and not a sweet bun.

  2. 2.

    R-Jud

    It’s Pancake Day here. Savory ones for lunch (ricotta and spinach), crepes with strawberries and cream after dinner.

  3. 3.

    JoyfulA

    Happy Fasnacht Day, everyone.

    Here in Pennsylvania Dutch land, we don’t throw beads at the crowd or anything like that; we just eat the world’s best doughnuts, lots of them.

  5. 5.

    Linda Featheringill

    I read that Santorum said that global warming was impossible because the bible tells us so.

    The phrase most people quote is from Genesis 9:11. In the King James Version of the bible, God is quoted as saying:

    And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

    I personally don’t see how that precludes global warming. People have interpreted the bible to suit themselves for a long, long time and I can’t stop that.

    ETA:

    BTW, Happy Fat Tuesday, everyone!

  6. 6.

    R-Jud

    @JoyfulA:

    Here in Pennsylvania Dutch land, we don’t throw beads at the crowd or anything like that; we just eat the world’s best doughnuts, lots of them.

    Oh man. I now have a super-specific craving I don’t have a chance in hell of satisfying.

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    Egg Berry

    @Southern Beale: During the recent Cookie Drive, Girl Scouts were swarming the streets of my humble burg trying to shove RU-486 down the throats of our upstanding midwestern womenz.

  11. 11.

    Marcellus Shale, Public Dick

    @Southern Beale:

    of course and the national cheerleading association, the universal cheerleading association, and americheer are the spiritual advisors of the “planned parenthood movement”.

    those evil little skirts stole cheerleading from men back when men were busy fighting ww2. look at how the left mocked gw bush for being a cheerleader. he was merely engaging in healthy activity meant to keep the shameless harlots at bay.

  12. 12.

    HRA

    @Warren Terra:
    Thanks for the information. I always thought my Dad’s plain bun in warm milk was from his native land. Now I know it came from his 3 years in Germany on his way to the US.

    @Southern Beale:
    As a former Girl Scout leader I resent this idiocy more than I can describe without using explosive language. Then I must realize where the idiocy begins and how it has permeated our lives lately. It’s absolutely disgusting.

  14. 14.

    madmommy

    Happy Mardi Gras from Loozianna! Sadly for me, the spousal unit and kidlets get to go to the parades while I have to go to work. The perils of working retail-no such thing as a holiday :(

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    dmsilev

    @Southern Beale: How is that supposed to work? Are there roving Girl Scout snatch teams that grab unwary pregnant women and drag them to the nearest Planned Parenthood abortionarium?

    Also, too, we haven’t yet heard of the strategic arm of Planned Parenthood. I’m guessing long-range bombers capable of dusting entire cities with AbortionDrugs ™.

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    jibeaux

    @Southern Beale: I said it last night, but I am dearly hoping that November 2012 leaves all men in office or running for office constantly fearful of pissing off American women, now and forever. We need to bring the 19th Amendment Hammer of Justice down on this bullshit.

  22. 22.

    scav

    @Southern Beale: Encouraging young tender uteri to wander the streets unsupervised by their natural lords, and furthermore under the ultimate aegis of the She Obama? ! the horrors.

  25. 25.

    Precious Roy

    Carne vale—farewell to the flesh.

    Folk etymology. The most accepted etymology of the word is from carne + levare (to lift or remove), but there’s a good argument that it is actually from carrus navalis (lit. naval cart), a float-like conveyance for transporting the cult image of Isis to the sea to bless the start of sailing season.

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    Amir Khalid

    This has been noted here before, but I hope my fellow Juicitarians are following the daily streaming of songs from Wrecking Ball, the new Springsteen album, at Rolling Stone, Backstreets and the Guardian among other places. So far, the songs are as advertised: raw, angry folk-rockers with a populist, 99-percenter point of view. Track 3 is Shackled and Drawn:

    Up on banker’s hill, the party’s going strong
    Down here below we’re shackled and drawn

  29. 29.

    handsmile

    @jibeaux: (#18)

    We need to bring the 19th Amendment Hammer of Justice down on this bullshit.

    For that reason, I suspect it must be part of the Republican Party’s “long game” to take that tool out of the hands of women and seek its repeal.

    Crazy, impossible, right? Just like the possibility of Rih Santorum as the national GOP presidential front-runner. Or the nation-wide campaign by GOP state legislators to undermine women’s health and reproductive rights. Or that access and use of contraception would be an issue in 2012.

    The logical conclusion of GOP zeal for “strict constructionism” would be to return the franchise to what the Founding Fathers (!) originally wrote: the right to vote would be exclusive to white, male property owners.

    The slope will only become slipperier if electoral retribution is not exacted in November.

  31. 31.

    chopper

    the sad fate of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden, who “died of digestion problems… after consuming a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, which was topped off by fourteen helpings of hetvägg, the king’s favorite dessert.”

    but it’s only wafer thin!

  32. 32.

    Mnemosyne

    Leaving the house early today so I can pick up the two (2) king cakes I ordered for the office. I only got one last year and some people are still bitching that they didn’t get their share, so this year I’m getting two. I didn’t have a chance to pick up the New Orleans coffee, though, since I was busy driving around town test-riding bicycles. (Yes, I realize that’s ironic.)

  33. 33.

    matryoshka

    Just had a pączki and read another chapter of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, so as I scan the BJ threads, I can see that I’m all caught up already.

  34. 34.

    shortstop

    Enjoyed that Balfa Bros. tune; Dewey Balfa was the shit. I would listen more to his kids’ group, Balfa Toujours, if Christine Balfa’s voice weren’t so grating. After one round of “Jeunes Filles de la Campagne,” I have to give up. I wish they’d do an instrumental-only release.

  35. 35.

    Bill Arnold

    @Mnemosyne:
    My wife made a diet (weight watchers) king cake Sunday for a kids birthday party. It was surprisingly good considering it was low fat. The birthday girl got the baby trinket, and everyone got a necklace. This is the northeast so we don’t know what a king cake should taste like anyway.

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