Butter lamb! Here’s the finished product:
Here’s the shorn beast, before I used the garlic press to make the curlicues:
And here are the tools of the trade:
I think 2016 butter lamb was better. But it was a more innocent time.
Anyhoo, open thread!
debbie
What a cutie! Straight out of Wallace and Grommit!
Corner Stone
That will never not be totes creep.
Another Scott
Looks great, BC. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Scott.
Aleta
I like this one the best ever.
schrodingers_cat
OMG he is cute! Husband kitteh went for a run, and donkey on the farm that’s on his route came up to him to be petted, the woolly sheep on the farm, ignored him. I had no idea that donkeys were friendly.
BTW what happens to Connor Lamb after Easter?
NotMax
Eerie resemblance to Rand Paul’s coif.
:)
Ewe did a good job this year.
BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Donekys==Democrats, of course they’re friendly.
CaseyL
The cutest butter-lamb yet! (Do you keep photos of Butter Lambs Past?)
BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Oh my…
JPL
It’s adorable.
BillinGlendaleCA
Nice lookin’ lamb you got there Betty.
scav
Adore the ears and coif on this one,
Central Planning
My dad said he got some Easter beer…. Rolling Rock
SiubhanDuinne
Nope. This is your best EVAH. Love this BL.
Lapassionara
Wonderful! Worthy the lamb, as I always say.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Central Planning: Good choice.
Lapassionara
Also, sad about Loyola-Chicago.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Sheep shot unworthy of you. Wether or not you meant it that way.
Duane
With that much baatter, ewe need a lot of rolls.
SiubhanDuinne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Be a SHAME if anyone was to EAT it….
SiubhanDuinne
@Lapassionara:
Thanks for the Handelian earworm.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@SiubhanDuinne: LOL. YOu both crack me up.
I love your this year’s version. I didn’t make once this year, but plan to do so again next Easter. They are such great fun.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
Do people carve into that and eat it? Don’t they hesitate?
SiubhanDuinne
@Central Planning:
LOL. Good one.
Patricia Kayden
This post makes me smile. Cute lamb!!
Schlemazel
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
All art is temporal.
Elizabelle
It’s so sweet.
#butterlamb, bitchez!
JMG
Just showed Alice (my wife of some years) the lamb photo. She was enchanted. Good work Ms.Cracker.
Elizabelle
@Central Planning: In honor of your dad, might have to acquire some.
Sacred duty.
raven
Tibetan Butter Sculpture.
Ruviana
@SiubhanDuinne: Jeez, everyone has to ram these puns down our throats!
Aleta
@Ruviana: Sheep thrills are all we’ve got left.
NotMax
@raven
“Now we come to this life-size replica of the Taj Mahal, made entirely of oleomargaine. Let’s knock on the door and see if he’s in.” *squish squish*
Bumper
I’m at Korean Bamboo in Belltown. Not seeing anything familiar. Did I get the wrong location?? Help!
debbie
@raven:
Mighty impressive, but I wonder why the sculptors are wearing masks?
SiubhanDuinne
@Ruviana:
Only if they’re trying to fleece you. Otherwise, it’s shear madness.
NotMax
@Aleta
They’re mutton to sneeze at.
Schlemazel
@Ruviana:
Gives us all something to ruminant on. Ovis I am certain.
raven
@debbie: To keep from breathing in gnats.
Schlemazel
@NotMax:
sort of like Charlie & the Chocolate Factory’s palace of chocolate?
NotMax
@NotMax
Stupid typos.
oleomargarine
Schlemazel
@raven:
They are very serious about not harming any living thing, even by accident
raven
@Schlemazel: Why do you think I posted that?
Lapassionara
What a pun loving group.
Patricia Kayden
@raven: I had to google to see more. Those are so beautiful. Who knew that you could sculpt butter into such ornate patterns?
Feathers
Very impressive! I’ve made sheep cookies and honey-butter beehives, but the butter lambs are really something. There’s a local bakery that does challah bunny loaves, this would be a perfect companion. I think I make one as practice at some point. Do you just thoroughly clean your garlic press, or do you keep one just for this?
raven
@Patricia Kayden: Look for the sand mandalas too. The monks made one here and then threw it in the river.
Schlemazel
@raven:
Did you see my reply in the last thread? You missed my joke.
As for this comment you mentioned it was to avoid inhaling gnats but not why, I just reinforced your comment
Another Scott
@Bumper: That seems to be the place. The post says it’s here:
http://korean-bamboo-seattle.sites.tablehero.com/
6 PM on 3/31
Maybe scream – “WHERE MY JACKALS AT!?!!?”
;-)
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
jharp
The butter lamb is very cool.
Bumper
Ok. Yutsano and Mike J are here. Whew
raven
@Schlemazel: I’m watching, it doesn’t leave much room for nuance.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Bumper: Careful, Yutsano got the location wrong last time.
Mary G
The addition of “Mo-Fos” to the lovely Easter tradition is next level Balloon Juice!
divF
Reminds me of the Shari Lewis puppet Lamb Chop.
donnah
Not baaaaaaa-d, Betty!
It’s adorable and I’m sure it will be a show-stopper. Happy Easter!
TaMara (HFG)
I think this is the best lamb yet!
Schlemazel
@raven:
so you are entirely unfamiliar with the movie, Red Dawn? interesting
raven
@Schlemazel: All I know about it is that Milius did it.
Steeplejack
*DVR Alert *
A while back, in a thread about anime, one of the Uncle nyms (Cosmo?) asked me what’s so great about Cowboy Bebop. I came back way late to the discussion and didn’t answer. But I’m happy to report that Cartoon Network is running the entire series (26 half-hour episodes) in two-episode blocks every weekend, starting with the first two, “Asteroid Blues” and “Stray Dog Strut,” at 2:30 and 3:00 a.m. EDT tonight.
Cartoon Network just finished doing this same run last weekend. I have to say the series holds up very well—a genuine classic. Time for me to break down and get the Blu-ray set.
Anyway, for those who are interested, or even curious, here’s your chance to get a taste.
Steeplejack
@Central Planning:
LOL.
Omnes Omnibus
Easter related: Gloria
Corner Stone
AAAWWWKWAAAAARRRD!!!
satby
I really think this is your best one Betty, but I guess we would have to do a side by side comparison. Well done!
Kay
I love that.
I’m making a rectangle sheet cake with coconut on it and calling it “lamb cake”. They have to use their imaginations. Maybe they won’t know it’s supposed to have legs.
Amir Khalid
@Kay:
Close enough.
Adam L Silverman
@Patricia Kayden: BettyC did! And the Tibetans.
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
Nice butter lamb!
My Easter tradition observance tomorrow will not be so nice. One of Bro’ Man’s in-laws, a Brazilian auntie, has claimed Easter as her holiday event every year, so we’ll be trooping over to the Maryland side tomorrow to have an afternoon meal at her place. She’s a good cook, the food is great, except that on big occasions the Brazilians always include some dish featuring salt cod, apparently as a token of their Portuguese heritage. Usually it’s some sort of stew. WTF? The best I can say is that it’s interesting. Definitely more sinister than a butter lamb.
raven
@Kay: They tuck their legs when they sleep!
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: What does coconut have to do with lambs?
raven
@schrodingers_cat: it’s white
Adam L Silverman
@Bumper: Make sure you check both ID and biometrics. It’s the US in 2018, you can’t be too careful.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
It’s supposed to call their wooly coats to mind. I’m hoping if I look them right in the eye, set it down, and say “here’s the lamb cake” they’ll play along.
Major Major Major Major
Oh, I’d forgotten about this! Too fun, thanks!
Baud
@Kay: Maybe if they play the role of the blind man before he is healed by Jesus.
rikyrah
The lamb is cute, BC??
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Shredded coconut (which I personally find repugnant, but that’s neither here nor there) is white and slightly curly, and somewhat resembles lamb’s-wool on a lamb-shaped pastry.
(For several decades, I thought the boxed shredded coconut was what coconut actually tasted like. I hated it and still do. Imagine my surprise, well into my 50s, when I accidentally tasted fresh coconut and discovered how tasty it is. My mother had the same misconception and aversion. I’m really sorry she died without learning The Truth About Coconut.)
NotMax
@Kay
“Now, who’s up for a big helping of lamb sheet?”
:)
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne:
That is objective fact, not personal taste.
The Dangerman
@Lapassionara:
It was a helluva run; they basically ran out of gas at 10 to go. No more legs, no can shoot.
Plus, Villanova would have beat them BAD.
They should be proud; it was a hell of a nice run.
efgoldman
@Steeplejack:
First xmas (there were only two) mrs efg #1 and i were married, we went to her paternal grandparents’ for xmas eve dinner. Very Italian. Meatballs, sausage, pasta….
And baccala. I really tried, I really did, but I just couldn’t. And that was before i saw it just left out all year. In the sun.
mai naem mobile
Nice looking lamb.
NPR Weekend Puzzle had a puzzle a couple of weeks ago with lamb and baba. Take the letters from an animal name and the sound it makes and name a famous song. It was Lamb,Baba and La Bamba. Once in a while I’ll get the puzzle right off the bat. This was one of them.
The Dangerman
@efgoldman:
Wise choice. A long time ago, I was in China on business and I ate almost everything that was offered to me (I drew the line at something that my translator said was scorpion; no fucking way). I ate some sort of fish eggs (that were actually quite tasty, as I recall)…
…but I paid one major price (I’ll spare you the explosive details).
Yarrow
Love the butter lamb! I look forward to your artistic creation every Easter. Thanks for sharing.
rikyrah
The White House intern photo ??
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/979990783804755968?s=19
SiubhanDuinne
@Lapassionara:
Baa, Fleece-ia.
SiubhanDuinne
@rikyrah:
I can see Whitey McWhiteface from here!
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: That’s some pretty pale people right there. And by pretty I’m not necessarily referring to pleasant to look at.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
The Mayonnaise Militia.
scav
Deviant here, I loved whatever my friend Marco made with bacalhau and potatoes.
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman: Come on, it’s The White House. Trump just thinks that’s a requirement, not a description.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: My fraternity at a tiny, but expensive, private college in Wisconsin was browner than that bunch.
catclub
@Central Planning: Jesus on water skis… He’s Up!
rikyrah
The NY Daily News
What can get a Black Man killed?
https://twitter.com/NYDailyNews/status/979875246403661825?s=19
Steeplejack
@rikyrah:
The “Where’s Waldo?” caption reminds me: Google Maps is doing a “Where’s Waldo?” game in the app the next day or two. If he doesn’t pop in automatically it’s available from the menu, I think.
dm
Open thread, so….
We were discussing the potential Democrat opponents to Steve Embarassment-to-the-decent-people-of-Iowa King.
One of them, JD Scholten, just got a celebrity endorsement:
https://twitter.com/hamillhimself/status/979019818538905600
As someone who has always felt more comfortable with Star Trek‘s enlightenment than Star Wars‘s Enlightenment, I think either William Shatner (“Actually, I’m from Iowa, I only work in outer space”) or Chris Pine (whose Iowa looked pretty ravaged by climate change in the first movie) should join in the fun.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: good for you. That photo has one more black guy than my fraternity. To be fair, though, there weren’t many to rush anyway.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
The eight-pack of toilet paper I bought the other day is browner than that bunch.
The tips of my French manicured nails are browner than that bunch.
An albino Norwegian wandering naked in a blizzard is browner than that bunch.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: The best beach drink is coconut water from a green coconut.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: @SiubhanDuinne: We weren’t a poster org for diversity, but our demographics broadly matched those of the student body as a whole.
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack:
As I understand, they rinse out the salt as the first step in preparing the cod.
Patricia Kayden
@raven: Beautiful artwork. It’s nice to learn about such fascinating customs.
Feathers
@SiubhanDuinne: A cousin who was in the Peace Corps in the Philippines said folks there were horrified to learn we ate dried coconut. It was only good for the pigs there.
@Steeplejack: The whole run of Cowboy Bebop is up on Crunchyroll. I signed up, planning to watch Yuri on Ice! during the free two weeks, but ended up paying for a month to watch Bebop. Don’t know why I missed it when it was on. Pre TiVo TV was a different world. I caught the first episode at a con recently and had been looking forward to seeing the rest.
BTW Yuri on Ice! is also highly recommended, especially if you like to watch figure skating and/or romancey melodramas.
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah: Being Black.
Amir Khalid
@Adam L Silverman:
I counted 90 interns in that photo, and of that only two people of colour. I wonder what a comparison with an Obama-era photo would show.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
Yes, I know that. It does not change the fact that (a) they’re starting with dried cod and (b) the result is not good.
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: If I’m counting correctly there’s one African American young man and either an African American or Southeast Asian young woman.
Also, I don’t care what any men’s magazine’s or style guides say: do NOT wear brown shoes with a blue suit!!! It looks hideous.
Cheryl Rofer
@Amir Khalid:
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: One can do cordovan. One can only do brown or tan if one Is Italian.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Miracle Whippersnappers!
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Red shoes with jeans and a white shirt! Patriotic and chic.
Adam L Silverman
@Amir Khalid: Here’s three different pics of three different cohorts of interns in the Obama White House:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/t4sfj8rLI_Q/maxresdefault.jpg
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/files/internpote.png
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/130819140257-white-house-interns-1024×576.jpg
TL:DR: there’s more diversity in the first row of each of those pictures than in the one that rikyrah posted.
Major Major Major Major
@Adam L Silverman: groan
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep, I love my cordovan dress shoes. Though my two blue suits – one has a black glenn plaid pattern too it, are lighter or brighter blue, so I tend to go with the black dress shoes for those. I do the cordovan shoes for my black and grey suits.
Duane
I knew a girl named Mary. She was sweet. Butter lamb.
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: Point of order, sir. I say, point of order!
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Not for a dude.
Adam L Silverman
@Major Major Major Major: Decisions were made, actions were taken, no one was spared.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: or is it even more chic for a dude?
Suzanne
It’s adorable.
I have lost ten pounds by doing intermittent fasting. It is something that hasn’t been making me too crazy. So yay. I bought myself a new pair of jeans to celebrate. DAMN jeans have gotten expensive.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: The chair refuses to recognize your point of personal footwear!
Amir Khalid
@schrodingers_cat:
As long as they’re not dress shoes. Dress shoes, whatever their colour, make a jarring contrast with jeans.
Duane
@rikyrah: They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
Aleta
@Adam L Silverman: black glenn plaid, blue suede shoes
Another Scott
@Suzanne: Speaking of jeans…
J thinks that LLBean jeans look like “mom jeans” on me. Levis disintegrate too quickly these days, and they change the fit all the time, and they’re not cheap. I got a couple of pairs of All American jeans recently, but they’re pretty baggy (especially with the gusset in the crotch). I think I’m going to try a pair of these Round House jeans next.
It’s kinda ridiculous that jeans are so complicated these days. But choice is good!
Cheers,
Scott.
Adam L Silverman
@Suzanne: Congratulations!
MomSense
I love his ears.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: I am a WASP and straight. Much of my wardrobe is LL Bean and Brooks Bros.
Adam L Silverman
@Another Scott: Wranglers work for me and have held up well, which is why I switched from Levis. The Levis got real expensive and didn’t last. I wear the relaxed fit.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus:
Same with us. Available diversity was having Baltimore lacrosse players from Gilman AND St. Paul’s.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: so the problem is that it’s this dude, not a dude.
Ruckus
@NotMax:
That’s so bad it’s good.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: @Adam L Silverman: traditionally, one wears very dark brown shoes with a navy suit. And for suits, there is no blue other than navy.
Being a rebel, I will wear black or cordovan shoes with a navy suit.
Light brown shoes with any suit are an abomination.
Corner Stone
@Steve in the ATL: The Czar is dead. Long live the Czar. You can wear whatever shoes you like with a blue suit if you have the nuts to pull it off.
frosty fred
@Adam L Silverman: Another rec for Wranglers here.
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: I fully recognize (as does Omnes, I suspect) that my fashion sense is highly limited by the people and culture that I grew up with, and the world would be a very boring place if everyone dressed like I.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: Our Betas had their charter pulled shortly before I showed up. Drugs and more. The ex-Betas were pretty cool – played hockey and were drug sources. Once they were all gone, the university okay a reboot. The new Betas were proto-fascists. They decided to do an alumni thing and asked for University catering, Then they asked that no AA or Jewish students be assigned to the dinner. The school said, “Fuck you. You get who you get.” There house was next to ours. The brother who lived in the house closest to theirs was Black. He borrowed a BB gun and shot out the windows of their house. When suspicion fell on him, other brothers shot out the windows when he was obviously in class.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: This type of dude…
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: North v. South?
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
There’s a weird visual effect in that photo where it looks like they’re all leaning away from him. It’s something about the way they positioned the people behind him.
Aleta
@Corner Stone: It’s the umbrella that trips everyone up.
kdaug
Haven’t read it all, so forgive me if it’s been posted.
https://youtu.be/3pvzA6-tSqE
Pretty much sums up my feelings about holidays
Adam L Silverman
@Steve in the ATL: Mine are the brighter navy blue. I do have a pair of what is called midnight navy trousers.
Suzanne
@Another Scott: I bought some from Madewell because I had a coupon. Women’s jeans are hard. I am also all about comfort, so I like the jeans that have stretchy stuff in the fabric.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
An albino Norwegian
Nice turn of phase.
NatashaWhilk
@NotMax (#33) Is Tiny Dr Tim available?
Butter lamb is adorable and makes me miss cheese paskha. Looking for a good recipe. (I am neither Greek nor Russian—nor any sort of Orthodox Christian—but used to hang out with them.)
Ruckus
@Steve in the ATL:
I went to HS with a man who can pull off tan shoes with a suit. He’s a large black guy, very nice, quiet and smart. Looks at 68 like he could twist your neck enough times to actually make it come off without breaking a sweat.
Maybe it’s just that no one actually wants to tell him about the shoes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: Norwegians are the darkest of Scandinavians.
H.E.Wolf
Beautiful butter lamb!
Seattle meetup report… 6 attended: 5 valued commenters and a valued lurker. Good food and good conversation.
Thanks to Yutsano and Anne Laurie for getting us all shepherded into the right restaurant.
Those of you who couldn’t be there this time, we hope you’ll be baack for the next meetup.
Steve in the ATL
@Adam L Silverman: if you lived on the east coast of Florida, you could wear white Gucci loafers with your aquamarine suit!
@Omnes Omnibus: you beat me to it!
@Ruckus: I’ll bet that’s right!
Ruckus
@Another Scott:
My jeans, 501s, last as long as they ever did. But I buy them only washed once and have to wash them a number of times before they can be worn. Just like I have been doing for decades.
What are all these different colored suits you people are talking about? If I need to dress up I wear a shirt with a collar. If that’s not fancy enough, it’s not worth going to.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
LOL. Still.
Now that’s a classic.
Aleta
@Steve in the ATL:
What color spats with a lime green vest for an afternoon tea dance?
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’ve been to Norway. In the winter no less. Took one of my all time favorite pictures there.
So I’ll ask, how the fuck could you tell?
jl
thanks to Lady Cracker for this year’s butter lamb. BC posted a pic of last year’s butter lamb and what BC says is true. Last year’s looked fresh and eager for Spring. This year’s looks more tired and dismayed. But art is not always Hello Kitty stuff, and it is a butter lamb of its age.
Steve in the ATL
@Aleta: before or after Easter?
Yes, I know that my fashion sense was set in 1950, long before I was even born.
Steve in the ATL
@Ruckus: go in the summer.
They are the least blond of the Nordic countries. Why? Fuck if I know.
Aleta
@Steve in the ATL: Right on the cusp, and a fingernail moon.
jl
I almost forgot: All the animals and the fish and the creatures want to with everyone… A Great Big Spring!
Jonathan Winters On Jack Paar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrhnMUhKzI
Omnes Omnibus
@Aleta:No one would wear that. Sober.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
opiejeanne
@H.E.Wolf: I am so sorry we missed this party. We are hosting Easter and I found out one guest won’t be able to eat the carrot cake because it has raisins, so right now I am making a second dessert, an almond tart.
The house is not ready, I am not ready, and I cheated and bought the potato salad instead of making my own because I am just about out of time. The dessert should be out of the oven around 10:30 tonight. The crust has to chill for an hour before the first baking
Ruckus
@Steve in the ATL:
I’ve been to Holland and Denmark in the summer, only time to Norway was in very late November, our ship stopped in the very northern most port. It was fucking cold. No that’s wrong it was too cold to think about fucking. We left there and spent 13 days sailing to Charleston SC by way of the Azores and Maine. That’s not the normal route. Hit a winter storm that had green water coming over the bridge for days. Ripped off a couple of things that were welded to the deck. Fun times. I’m not kidding, I’ve got pics from the bridge. The color looks weird because everyone in the pics is about the same color as that water. And I’m weird because I enjoyed it and didn’t get sick at all.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Who would go to an afternoon tea dance sober?
Aleta
@Omnes Omnibus: Dancing outdoors in early spring upon the sheep meadow you’d be begging for spats.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: That explains the death metal.
Adam L Silverman
@Steve in the ATL: Nope. Not going to happen! Not even when I lived in Miami.
Ruckus
@Adam L Silverman:
It took a butter lamb to get to this level.
Well at least now we know.
Omnes Omnibus
@Aleta: Heh?
@Adam L Silverman: Does it? Does it really?
Another Scott
@Adam L Silverman: Speaking of Death Metal… RawStory:
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Steve in the ATL
@Another Scott:
Fuck that shit. I’ve heard all I need to hear from this guy from a band I never heard of before the shooting and hadn’t heard of since until today.
Though I do like the story of how they got their name.
Ruckus
@Another Scott:
Did dickhead realize or did someone tell him he was being a dickhead?
I’m going with someone told him, he doesn’t seem like the type to recognize a dickhead in the mirror.
H.E.Wolf
@opiejeanne:
Hope to see you next time!
Your Easter desserts sound great, and the non-raisin person owes you big for the almond tart.
My mother’s cousin’s emergency clean-up trick when company was coming over: throw it all in the trunk of the car. The cousin was a very elegant and soigné woman, so her Secret Method has always tickled me.
Steve in the ATL
@Aleta:
New band name!
Steve in the ATL
@opiejeanne:
You are a MONSTER.
Miss Bianca
Awesome butter lamb.
this non-artist wants to know, tho’, how you stick the little butter wool curlicues on without mashing the lamb.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Ah, it must be Spring; jl’s been hitting the Boone’s Farm again.
Steve in the ATL
Question for basketball fans: what’s the matter with Kansas?
Ruckus
@Steve in the ATL:
Have you ever been to Topeka?
jl
@Miss Bianca: Yes, good point. The link BC posted earlier today was just a description of the tradition. I request BC tell us how she does it. (My guess is that she freezes the butter curlicues and then rolls the little butter body in them, but I bet that is wrong).
@BillinGlendaleCA: Where’s you effing butter lamb, buddy?
Edit: do they still make Boone’s Farm? Back when I was a youngin’ they made that crap in humungous stainless steel tanks in a town just down the road from where I grew up.
Suzanne
@opiejeanne: Can you share the almond tart recipe? I love almonds.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
I do pictures, not butter lambs.
According to teh Google, yes.
low-tech cyclist
But how does it compare to the 2017 ‘butter emails’?
divF
@Ruckus:
I’ve been to Junction City. Dad was stationed at Ft. Riley when the 9th Infantry Division was shipping out to Vietnam in 1966.
I noticed in one of the Obama intern photos a gentlemen in the front row wearing a blue suit with pink socks. “One does want a hint of color.”
ETA: black shoes, though.
BillinGlendaleCA
@low-tech cyclist:
Congress is calling for a Special Counsel to investigate them.
Jager
@Ruckus: I’ve been a 501 guy since i was a kid. The only problem with new 501s is you have completely unbutton them to take a leak, when you get them broken in, they work just fine. I was struggling with a new pair in the men’s room at the eye doc last week, a guy walked in, pulled into the urinal next to me and said, “New 501s?” I about pissed myself laughing.
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
‘Miami chic’ sport coat found hanging in the closet (well after he’d been buried) of an elderly relative who had moved to Florida some time beforehand was a doozy. Closest picture could find right off the bat is of a necktie but it’s a nearly perfect match to the pattern of the jacket.
@Adam L.Silverman
Well played, old bean.
Corner Stone
@Jager:
You have some weird bathroom interactions.
Corner Stone
@jl:
Ruckus
@Jager:
Yes that is a pain in the something. Especially if you really, really have to go. I do find that washing them unbuttoned at least 5 times before you even attempt to wear them is best. We used to tow our dungarees behind the ship tied to a rope when we weren’t allowed to wash clothes due to lack of fresh water. That worked well to age them nicely. Six minutes at 15 knots if I remember correctly. If you left them in too long they came back shredded.
Steve in the ATL
@Corner Stone: obviously you have forgotten how to flirt
@NotMax: mein Gott.
@Ruckus: no, and God willing I will go to the grave never having answered yes to that question.
Steve in the ATL
@Ruckus:
Damn you are old!
Ruckus
@NotMax:
Eyesight seems to be one of the first things to go. Well after the hair that is.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL: That makes sense, no union thugs in Kansas.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: I lost the eyesight long ago, still have the hair.
NotMax
@Ruckus
If there wasn’t fresh water to very thoroughly rinse them afterward, then wouldn’t wearing after post-tow drying have resulted in a shipful of salted dicks?
;)
Jager
@Ruckus: Yeah almost having to take your pants off to take a leak is…ah a pain in the…
Jager
@Ruckus: It was a great relief when I was in the Army when my “fatigues” (well before the fluff and buff days) finally got to that nice, almost light green color. I recall it took about 6 months of quartermaster laundry action to get there.
opiejeanne
@H.E.Wolf: LOL! We have a pickup and a Subaru Forester. No trunks. There is the garage but it’s getting awfully full and the durned boys keep bringing more beer to these parties and they trek through the mess in the garage to get the cold ones. We’ve told them DRINK UP WHAT IS THERE AND DON’T BRING US ANY MORE, but they do not listen.
opiejeanne
@Steve in the ATL: The local grocery store makes darned good potato salad so I do not feel too guilty.
Ruckus
@Steve in the ATL:
@Steve in the ATL:
I had to go for work. On more than one occasion. It was……. interesting. I’ve also driven through. That. was. not. interesting.
Hey! Yes I’m older than dirt. That’s still not as old as it gets. But dungarees was the actual name of the working uniform. It was replaced a very few years ago with what has been termed, and not in a honorific way, aquaflage. That’s blue/blue camo gear.
Ruckus
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Talking law of averages here. I have hair, just not on the shinny part on top. And the eyes have been gone and fixed for decades. So right you are but I was thinking reading glasses. And hey you’ve got cataracts to worry about. Got those too.
NotMax
@Ruckus
Think I rode the aquaflage once at Coney Island.
:)
Ruckus
@NotMax:
Yes, yes it did. I didn’t say it was a reasonable nor rational answer to smelling bad.
Ruckus
@Jager:
Half the humans in the world take their pants off to pee. They know who they are.
Jay S
@Steeplejack: What, Lutefisk in Brazil? I am amazed at Scandihoovians corrupting the food of the world.
opiejeanne
@Suzanne:
Almond Tart
It’s not hard but what with the filling needing to sit and meld for at least 20 minutes and the pastry shell (almost a cookie) needing to chill for an hour before baking it, it’s a bit of work. It calls for Grand Marnier but you can use any orange liqueur you can find (my lord, I priced it today and got a surprise). There’s about three tablespoons left in our bottle (that’s three more tarts) and it no longer smells or tastes orange-ish so instead of replacing the bottle I just used it and added some orange zest. $44 for a bottle the size of the one we have, but there are cheaper orange liqueurs, if you can find them.
One instruction that is left out is to either line the shell with foil and fill it with beans or baking beads, or to dock the shell with a fork before baking. Either one is a method to prevent the crust from rising up too much in the middle.
NotMax
@opiejeanne
Yeah, I use a lot of Grand Marnier in Thanksgiving recipes. Price went through the roof early this century and has kept on climbing since. Drambuie is a perfectly good substitute – although that has also started to become pricey but not yet exorbitant like Grand Marnier. B&B (Benedictine and Brandy) also works well in a pinch.
If you only need a spoonful or two now and again, some liquor stores sell Grand Marnier in the miniature airplane-type bottles.
opiejeanne
@NotMax: Hiram Walker Triple Sec or Orange Curacao (imagine the curlicue under the second “c” that changes the sound to an “s”).
I think I’d have to go to Bev M0 as we don’t seem to have many liquor stores in Washington since they voted to get rid of the state liquor stores. Coming from California, those were weird.