Not sure who was more excited. Glad she remembers me after a year! pic.twitter.com/sScVXHMHJn
— Christina H Koch (@Astro_Christina) February 13, 2020
This is indeed heartwarming! It is also, to me, hilarious — because the dog is obviously glad to see Mom again, but she has to keep going over to reassure Daddy that she still loves him best.
Our rescue bitch Gloria… well, I’m not saying she’s intensely competitive, but she does lift her leg to pee. She also makes a point of letting me know, on the regular, that she could do a much better job as Alpha Bitch than I do, given the chance.
Like Dr. Koch’s dog, she’s incredibly happy to see me if I go away for a while, but still.
Whoever wrote this…?????? pic.twitter.com/jPH4LtWFBW
— ?*~*DONNA*~*? (@Dcl_60) February 12, 2020
this is canon pic.twitter.com/bVq6cTC2kO
— corey kindberg (@coreykindberg) February 13, 2020
CarolDuhart2
Hee!
feebog
Imma stealing the canvassing signage.
Nora
With respect to the second sign, does it mean they WON’T make fun of you if you say something else that’s stupid and banal?
Sab
Back from canvassing for Warren. It was fun. We met some very sweet Bernie people who were nice about Warren so I am heartened about November. There finally seems to be a local ground game developing. Door to door canvassing lets people know there IS a ground game.
I really liked Warren’s script and approach. Very uniting.
LuciaMia
Insight # 27: ‘Cauliflower is the new kale.’
Jeffro
I really need to make more use of signs like those. Both at the house and at the office.
MattF
@LuciaMia: I believe it. After all, Trader Joe’s sells frozen cauliflower gnocchi.
Sab
@LuciaMia: How can anemic broccoli replace lushly green kale as a healthy food?
John Revolta
@Nora: Obviously they forgot to run it past Legal. How’s this:
“Any use of stupid and banal language, including but not limited to the following phrases, etc. etc.”
Mnemosyne
@LuciaMia:
Unfortunately for me, I dislike cauliflower even more intensely than I dislike kale. ?
trollhattan
@LuciaMia:
I’ll gladly boot kale and welcome cauliflower but suspect I’ll instead be living with both. Naturally, cauliflower’s price has quadrupled, so a built-in damper on the fad.
trollhattan
@MattF:
Costco has “cauliflower rice” in a non-refrigerated bag, which has me seven-ways confused.
mrmoshpotato
@MattF: They ought to be ashamed of themselves, and slapped with a fresh octopus.
Sab
Thanks to Balloon Juice food threads I finally asked my husband if he thinks cilantro tastes like soap. He said YES(!). So now I know to leave out the optional cilantro and maybe he will be more receptive to some of my more adventurous recipes.
He loves cauliflower, but only if it is draped in cheese. Sigh. He can have the cauliflower, and I will have welsh rabbit on toast, where it belongs.
Baud
@LuciaMia:
Cauliflower: The Other White Vegetable
mrmoshpotato
@trollhattan: It’s probably dehydrated. Otherwise, hello shredded, moldy cauliflower blob!
Also – an affront to nature.
Sab
@trollhattan: I hope I can keep spouse away from that aisle. Tastes like soggy rice?
Baud
@trollhattan: I’ve had it. It’s ok, but I prefer rice rice.
trollhattan
@Sab:
With the chicken craze we have a lot of new chicken joints. One makes a surprisingly tasty cauliflower “hot wing” appetizer. I suspect it’s not the healthiest delivery system but it gets two thumbs up from this diner.
MattF
@Sab: Yeah, I’m also in the ‘cilantro tastes like soap’ club. I once saw a discussion thread claiming that this gustatory disorder can be cured by taking cilantro in small doses until it tastes like food, but I’m skeptical.
Quaker in a Basement
Clearly, that second sign is not posted in the columnists’ parking area at the NYT. Could an NYC jackal remedy this?
MattF
@Quaker in a Basement: OTOH, they could just fire Friedman.
sukabi
@feebog: that no politicking sign is PERFECT!????
Steeplejack (phone)
@trollhattan:
Cook’s Country or America’s Test Kitchen did that on a semi-recent show, and it looked pretty good. I haven’t tried that yet, though.
LuciaMia
“Yeah, I’m also in the ‘cilantro tastes like soap’ club”
Ive felt like that. But then had some dishes with cilantro that I loved. I think its a question of quantity and finesse. When cilantro was the new kid on the block people just dumped too damn much in!
John Revolta
@MattF: Way I heard it, it’s genetic. You either have the cilantro soap tasting gene or you don’t. Now, as to whether you can eventually learn to like the taste of soap, well………………I mean, I learned to like country music kinda, so wotthehell.
jeffreyw
@Sab: You have to soak it in olive oil, salt it generously, grate parmesan onto it and cook it in an air fryer for 20 minutes+- at 400
Emma from FL
I get my riced cauliflower in a Steamfresh bag and it’s quite good. No, it’s not “like” rice but it works in some recipes. And sue me but I like broccoli. I just made a spicy beef with broccoli that even my 85 year old father loved.
(added) and I love cilantro.
Citizen Alan
I’m Gen X, but tbh, I do think the Millennials have it worse than any other generation. Has any other generation had to deal with their own grandparents essentially trying to leave them destitute before the age of 30 if not outright kill them?
Martin
Looks like admissions mistakes season has kicked off.
I’m always amazed at how shitty these processes are that this reliably happens every year. It’s not hard to prevent.
Baud
@Citizen Alan:
What does that have to do with cauliflower or cilantro?
sdhays
For me, the new kale is Swiss chard. It’s delicious and colorful. I can’t bring myself to like cauliflower. Or Brussels sprouts. My wife and parents like them roasted, but to they’re still icky.
sdhays
@Citizen Alan: Other generations got wiped out in wars, depressions, and pandemics. That hasn’t happened to us yet.
J R in WV
I have a great recipe for a cauliflower casserole, with rye bread crutons, onions, cheese, and spices as you wish. I grind carroway, fennel etc, black pepper, add garlic, bake until everything is bubbling and browning. A Moosewood Cookbook with a wide variety of different ethnic dishes, I’m thinking the cauliflower casserole is Finnish.
You toast the rye bread, saute the cauliflower and onions, add the rye and ground spices, cheese, sllide it into the oven to melt and brown…
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: If you’re trying to cut carbs, it’s a useful substitute. Madame even liked the Spanish rice made with shredded cauliflower.
Mousebumples
Saw the first candidate specific canvassing event in my local Wisconsin city today. (R-Gallagher, for geographic reference) it was a Pete event at a local shop. I’ve seen League Of women voters around doing registration too, but since we have a judicial primary next week (and actual primary in early April, I think), it was good to see ground game effort on going.
I’m trying not to pick a favorite until after Super Tuesday, and I’m definitely team #BrokenGlass. But good to see positive democratic vibes around.
Jay
@Sab:
another Genetic Cilantro person here. T loves it. Me, not so much.
Roasted Cauliflower is an eye opener. So is any cabbage cooked in a 316 stainless steel pot, ( no sulphur).
Via CBC, T learned of a great, fast cooking technique. They are called “sheet pan” meals. Quick prep, everything fast roasted in a 400F oven, Tasty, healthy dinners for 4, 8 or like last night, 12, in 20 minutes. Italian chicken and vedge, yummy. Quick clean up, skip the dishes.
so good that we are going to try most of the recipies, including the vegan ones, and try to adapt some of our favorites to that cooking style, ( eg. Pre Marinating ).
cliosfanboy
@sdhays: yet.
sdhays
@J R in WV: I don’t cook with cheese much, but that sounds interesting.
cliosfanboy
Whoever wrote the political canvasser note was too kind to independent candidates.
schrodingers_cat
I like cauliflower and cilantro both.
If you blend together chilies, cilantro, ginger and garlic you can use it as a marinade/rub for fish, shellfish, chicken, meat etc. Add other spices if you wish to.
For cauliflower, I roast the florets at 425 with olive oil and lime juice. Then give it a phodni/tarka (season oil at high heat with whole spices)
Heat oil in pan with a heavy bottom, just before it starts smoking add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, one whole chili, mustard seeds if you have them add curry leaves and hing (asafeotida) and turmeric. When you hear the the seeds sputter toss the roasted cauliflower.
Garnish with fresh chopped cilantro and coconut and a dash of lime.
sdhays
@schrodingers_cat: That makes me almost want to buy a cauliflower to try.
CaseyL
Cauliflower is the new carb for people who have to avoid the starchy ones. (Pet peeve: why is everything a carb now? It was easier to distinguish between the good carbs and the bad carbs when the bad ones were called “starch” and the good ones were called “roughage.”)
I’ve had cauliflower-crust pizza. It was OK, but gave me some, um, lower-GI upset.
Cauliflower rice is just sad.
schrodingers_cat
@sdhays: Its my quick and dirty and healthier version of cooking cauliflower the Punjabi way.
schrodingers_cat
@CaseyL: Cauliflower rice is soy burger level pathetic.
drunkenhausfrau
Are we sure the canvassing sign wasn’t written by John Cole?
Jay
@schrodingers_cat:
you had me right up until the cilantro. Luckily, because I built Joseph’s restaurant for him in 20 days, ( Coconuts), he leaves the cilantro out of the cauliflower for me, makes the pecoras extra spicy and gives me extra chicken in the butter chicken dosa.
We argued for a while about me paying for my meals but I convinced him that if he’s going to give out free food, there are people who need it much more than me.
JAFD
My father (may he rest in peace) referred to cauliflower as ‘cabbage with a college education’.
Our family had arguments over who had dibs on the cauliflower pieces in the ‘sweet mixed pickles’ jar. (Somehow or other jars purely of sweet pickled cauliflower are really expensive…)
Anyway, sometime in next couple of years, ye Balloon Juice Lexicon oughta be expanded, some new stuf added – Murc’s Law, Wilholt’s Law, eg – and some ‘history lessons’ added to older items.
Perhaps of note
https://weeklysift.com/a-conservative-to-english-lexicon/
(You all know about “The Weekly Sift”, right ?)
sdhays
@schrodingers_cat: I’m established as not a fan of cauliflower, but this isn’t fair. Cauliflower rice is just finely chopped cauliflower whereas soy burgers are super processed to make you forget you’re eating tofu. People have all kinds of reasons for not being able to eat rice – it has a very high glycemic index so it’s really not suitable for people with diabetes and some people, like my mother, are allergic to it – and it can be a nice substitute to use in all the wonderful rice-centric dishes.
Morzer
@John Revolta: The cilantro tastes like soap thing is, indeed, genetic. Oddly enough, I know a brother and sister – he likes cilantro, she.. thinks it tastes like soap.
Brachiator
@MattF:
Isn’t this kind of genes/taste bud thing?
A co-worker is into whisky tasting, but notes that some supposedly fine brands taste “soapy” to him. He consistently reacts this way to certain brands.
Morzer
@Citizen Alan: There’s a book to be written entitled “From Boomers to Doomers: How The Greediest Generation Screwed Everyone Else While Whining Endlessly About Their Victimhood.”
Jay
Brachiator
@trollhattan:
I’ve heard about these hot wings and have been mildly curious, just as I am about the “impossible burger.” But I note that the “impossible burger” has more salt than regular meat, and concluded “what’s the point?”
Jay
@sdhays:
soy burgers are tofu?
most of the soy burgers I’ve had are a veggie mix but mostly cooked dried soybeans and lentils for the protein and mouth feel.
Jay
@Brachiator:
a greener footprint than clearcut rainforest beef or feed lot antibiotic cattle,
a vegetarian/vegan fast food option other than fries or the “apple pie”.
like the vegetarian/vegan “chicken nuggets” that are being introduced.
Brachiator
@Jay:
I did not know this little detail. Very cool.
A fun little Black History Month tidbit.
Sab
@J R in WV: That actually intrigues me. Rye bread makes up for subterranean broccoli (cauliflower.)
Jay
@Brachiator:
what I find really cool is that they could barely fit Josephine Baker in her dresses, how did they hide photos’s?
Brachiator
@Jay:
Increased sodium may not be good nutrition. Things seem to be moving in a good direction, but this is not an acceptable trade-off for some folks.
schrodingers_cat
@sdhays: I just don’t think cauliflower has either the taste or the texture of rice. So riced cauliflower is fine by me, just not as a substitute to rice.
Rice is a great accompaniment to Indian style curries because it absorbs the flavor of whatever it is mixed in. I just don’t think that riced cauliflower would stand up to that treatment. But if it works for people that’s fine by me.
schrodingers_cat
@Jay: Cilantro and coconut garnish is optional, leave it out.
Marcopolo
@Sab: Thank you and everyone else on the blog who is doing campaign work. Very much. And honestly, though I am partial to Warren, no matter who you are out and supporting still thank you very much.
Marcopolo
@schrodingers_cat: Hey, I saw on an earlier thread you were going as a delegate to your state convention. Thank you also for being involved & have fun.
Jay
Brachiator
@Jay:
Ha! Very good question.
HumboldtBlue
Cinderblock the cat has lost three pounds and is now walking unaided on the water treadmill.
Here she is on Super Bowl Sunday.
zhena gogolia
@HumboldtBlue:
She’s doing great! (Your link goes to a soccer match, but I googled Cinderblock.)
Jay
@Brachiator:
A&W’s “Beyond Meat” patty, contains no salt, just like their beef patty or chicken breast. The same salt/spice mix is added as seasoning while cooking, in theory, in the same amounts. YMMV as some of the cooks have a light hand, some, a heavy hand.
I would guess that the retail “Beyond Meat” patties often come “pre-seasoned” like many of the “ready to grill” convenience foods. Up here, for example, I can buy “The Keg” burger patties, in both seasoned and unseasoned frozen forms.
Unseasoned “Beyond Meat” patties might be available elsewhere.
zhena gogolia
@Jay:
Colbert said he’s on the stump shaking hands and frisking babies.
zhena gogolia
@Marcopolo:
How about me sitting on my butt and clicking ActBlue all the time?
mrmoshpotato
@CaseyL: Well when you carbonate your meats… :)
P.S. Everybody poops.
C Stars
I made the cauliflower buffalo wings for Super Bowl. I made them totally vegan, so vegan butter (it’s called “Earth Balance,” for the sauce) and no blue cheese dip (but I gave my husband and the kids a dipping bowl of ranch and they were good with that). They were TASTY but yeah, probably not the healthiest thing in the world. Heavily battered in seasoned white flour & water, baked at a very high heat and then doused in a butter/tabasco sauce. I recently became full-on vegan (albeit the cheatin’ kind, when I’m feeling like it) so I have kind of a low bar for substitutes but my husband ate the heck out of them and commented that it was nice not having to think about all the veins/gristle you’re sucking up when you eat real chicken wings.
I have to agree with some others here that cauliflower rice and pizza crust is kind of depressing. Maybe it’s just the brands/recipes that I’ve tried. I’d rather have it in big chunks, oily and salty and roasted crisp in the oven until there’s a little char.
schrodingers_cat
@Marcopolo: Thanks! It will be my first time there.
mrmoshpotato
@drunkenhausfrau: Noted absence of multiple “fuck”s.
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: LOL What night did Colbert say that?
HumboldtBlue
@zhena gogolia:
Well at least Liverpool won, you can cheer up Amir with that news.
Argh! Here you go.
She also has her own subreddit. It happened when fans of the cat started posting in a dormant sub dedicated to actual cinderblocks.
The original creator of the sub left this message when he saw Cinderblock for the first time.
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: It’s possible that he has no more fucks to give.
HumboldtBlue
@C Stars:
Next time try Frank’s Red Hot instead of Tabasco, it’s vegan.
Jay
Mohagan
@Emma from FL: I love broccoli also, and since my husband dislikes green beans (!), it’s about the only green vegetable I serve. We must eat it about 3+ times a week. I feel lucky, since most of my other favorite foods are not nearly so healthy ?
Brachiator
@Jay:
Thanks for the info. I will check these out.
zhena gogolia
@mrmoshpotato:
I don’t know — I just put on YouTube when I’m doing my daily stretch, and I heard it today. It must have been in the last couple of days. I can’t seem to find it.
Ruckus
Anne
Those tweets are great.
I like the get off my lawn one.
And the last one. I started working at 12-13 yrs old, had a SS card because I got paid by check, on the books. At that time and many many months over the next 30+ yrs I would work 50-70 hrs a week, as everyone did. Unions got us the 40 hr work week. And overtime. It’s one reason why, at 70 and getting on to 71, I’m more than ready to retire. The other is that I’ve worked mostly in physical jobs and the body is just pretty much worn out. And now trump to beat up on the spirit.
C Stars
@HumboldtBlue: Thanks! But isn’t tabasco vegan too? Anyway, looks like there are some interesting recipes on that website.
schrodingers_cat
@Mohagan: You can make the recipe I have above with 50% broccoli and 50% cauliflower. Makes a pretty side dish.
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Well played, good sir.
debbie
I love all of these vegetables, but I loathe cilantro.
Amir Khalid
@HumboldtBlue:
I knew that already. 25-point lead! Only five more wins to clinch the title! But Liverpool need an alternative to their long-passing game for windy days like today.
mrmoshpotato
@C Stars: Someone’s never had a ribeye fall out of a Tabasco sauce bottle.
HumboldtBlue
@C Stars:
Pretty sure Tabasco is, I just don’t like it. I like a more vinegar sauce and that’s Frank’s or Cholula (also vegan)
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: How do you feel about Zest? Dial? Irish Spring?
MagdaInBlack
@Jay:
That is very cool, Jay. Thank you ☺
HumboldtBlue
@Amir Khalid:
Here’s Tim Sherwood (of all people) making all sorts of sense about Hendo.
jeffreyw
@Jay:
Micro dots replaced the sequins. I heard she could fit the text of an encyclopedia in just those that “covered” her bosoms.
///
lamh36
It doesn’t matter what I’m doing, if Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is on television, I’m gonna change the channel and watch it! It’s my FAVORITE Indiana Jones film. What movie would you do the same for?
BTW, only some rich 1%-er would belive that Jesus woulda used a golden cup…smh…dude he was the son of a carpenter…with lowly beginnings…
J R in WV
@HumboldtBlue:
Tabasco is distilled vinegar, red peppers, and salt, according to the bottle in the kitchen. How is that NOT vegan???
Steeplejack
@zhena gogolia:
Thank you for your service!
Jay
@MagdaInBlack
41 Strange is taking a twitter break, so I am glad I found another cool/weird site that posts. This one is also amazing and beautiful, and weird.
So needed during the time of The Turd Reich.
Ruckus
@Jay:
Just checked and they are available at Vons markets, which is where I shop. Also Walmart where I refuse to shop. There are many others carriers.
HumboldtBlue
@J R in WV:
It’s vegan, I just don’t like the flavor, much more prefer Frank’s and Cholula. I’m pretty sure all the major brands are vegan.
HumboldtBlue
For whoever was looking for shaking hands and frisking babies, here ya go
That goes very well with this headline: Bloomberg hires thousands of canvassers to stop black men on the street and force them to hear campaign pitch.
lamh36
@lamh36:
Oooh… Raiders of the Lost Ark is on now.
Been a while seince I saw it from the beginning!
Guess I’ll watch it til something else comes on.
Wait…is that a young Alfred Molina in the opening scene?
Ah…here we go…the iconic opening action number…one of the MOST iconic in all of movie-dom…RIGHT?
Raiders of the Lost Ark – Golden Idol and Boulder Scene https://youtu.be/aADExWV1bsM via @YouTube
<a href=”https://media.giphy.com/media/GIKxvhc3X48Ss/200.gif”>Oh…and there’s dead young Molina…mahn that was a crappy supposed replica of Molina…smh Madama Tusseaud would be appalled</a>
C Stars
@HumboldtBlue: Yep, I mixed Cholula with the tabasco in my cauliflower buffalo wings sauce. Ran out of tabasco because I only had those tiny novelty jars of it that my parents always put in my stocking at Christmas. I was worried about mixing the two but it was very, very tasty.
Omnes Omnibus
Could we maybe get a spoiler alert?! Jeez!
Sab
@J R in WV: Where is this recipe written down? Sounds delicious.
Omnes Omnibus
The explosion could have been catastrophic.
Ruckus
Just got a couple of mailers and I’m stunned.
The first is called Cops Voter Guide. First time I’ve seen one of these that I actually agree with 100% on first read.
Problem is that I’ve gotten another from a group called Senior Citizen Voter Info. Funny that both of them have the same pics and that both have asterisks next to each person and proposition, which means that the candidates and the proposition proponents are paying for these.
Another Scott
@Jay: It may be different in Canukistan, but the US nutrition statement says a bare A&W beef patty has 80 mg of sodium(2 page .pdf). They don’t list the particulars of the Beyond Meat thing there.
(Their whole hamburger sandwich has 650 mg of sodium, so the patty seems to be in the noise anyway.)
Cheers,
Scott.
C Stars
@Omnes Omnibus: Boom!
debbie
@mrmoshpotato:
I could eat Ivory, but the other soaps are blech.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus:
lamh36
trying to remember if I ever had a “hot professor” for any of my undergraduate classes, and either I didn’t have one, or if I did they sure weren’t memorable enough like a Dr. Indian Jones would have been I’m sure
https://media1.giphy.com/media/oRnIxmixs2J9e/giphy.gif
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: I did NOT expect that.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Somehow, whenever The Birdcage comes on, we HAVE to watch it.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I love how you block quoted the spoiler in case anyone had missed it! That’s a lawyer thing, right? Juicers, please disregard when lamh said she’s sure this guy murdered that guy.
On the new site, spoilers are supposed to be white text on white background, so they can only be viewed if highlighted. :-)
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
We got to go to a screening a few months ago that included a lecture by two of the sound guys. It was really cool and the movie holds up very well despite the passage of the years.
Sab
@C Stars: What was wrong with your parents? Who gives their kids tabasco for Christmas? You either feed it to them or you don’t. You don’t save it for Christmas! It’s scorching hot. If you aren’t used to it it’s awful.
Brachiator
@Mnemosyne:
Did you ever get to Disneyland and go on the new Star Wars rides?
WaterGirl
@Sab: I’m pretty sure that if your parents are putting tabasco in your stocking, you are already used to it.
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Thanks!
mrmoshpotato
@lamh36: Oooooo punching Nazi trash!
HumboldtBlue
Sweet mother of sporting absurdities, Armand Duplantis (USA-born Swede) breaks his own pole vault record at the indoor Grand Prix in Glasgow.
CaseyL
@Jay: That is an octopus? I’d love more info, because it doesn’t move like an octo: it swims!
But I adore those unfurled banners. Even better if the patterns are chromatophores and change with the critter’s mood!
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Isn’t it more like mixing ammonia and bleach – spicy, poisonous fumes?
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: LOL Ewww. :)
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Let’s be honest. Far more people have me pied than have her pied.
Steeplejack (phone)
@lamh36:
I wouldn’t even say that it’s one of my favorite movies, but one that I can never turn away from is The Fifth Element.
C Stars
@Sab: It’s so weird, every Christmas since I was a kid I’ve been getting several of these tiny little novelty tabasco sauce bottles in my stocking, and I always (internally) roll my eyes about it, and every year, I always end up using them all. I’m not a big fan of tabasco sauce but throughout the year there’ll be a recipe or two that calls for it. I used to wish they’d just throw a whole regular-sized bottle in but I guess it’s tradition now.
https://www.amazon.com/Tabasco-Pepper-30-pack-Miniatures-Bottles/dp/B01N80WHYS?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B01N80WHYS
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I would be surprised if there’s anyone who hasn’t seen Raiders.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Wow, I forgot Alfred Molina was in that. Of course I’ve only seen it once, during its theatrical release.
Brachiator
@lamh36:
Great little video on how Spielberg is a master of the one shot in Raiders and other films.
The Spielberg Oner.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack (phone): For me it’s Sense and Sensibility with Emma Thompson. Great adaptation!
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: What. The. Fuck? Do Not Want.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: https://gph.is/2JoRZQP
OMG…I LOVE the Birdcage.
So much so, I actually ended up watching the original French version afterwards
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: Do I look like a scientician?
Ruckus
@Brachiator:
@Jay:
The ingredient list for various Beyond Meat products is on their website and they contain salt, various amounts for different products.
I was going to pick some up and try it but the sodium levels are too high for me, I have to be on an extremely low sodium diet. It’s not a lot of fun but then neither is falling down or losing hearing.
lamh36
@lamh36:
Marion Ravenwood (and the great Karen Allen) def my FAVORITE “Indy girl”. Much as I love her and her chemistry with Indy, watching as an adult that “I was a child line”…hits me so differently now..
Still loved how her and Indy’s “romance” mythology ended
#RaidersOfTheLostArk
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West of the Rockies
Don’t know if anyone has commented on this yet, but today Daily Beast has three separate anti-Blomberg stories. I’m not on team Bloomberg, but that strikes me as… notable.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: that sounds so cool…I’d loved to be able to go to seminars like that any time I wanted to.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: You really think people have you pied?
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Truth be told, I was mostly taking the opportunity to razz Omnes. :-)
I had to stop watching the movies when all the snakes were in one of them, so I don’t know if I’ve actually seen it or not.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I am sure at least one does. That would be infinitely more than have pied lamh.
WaterGirl
@West of the Rockies:
Happy dance!
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
Yes, we went last weekend and we did get on Rise of the Resistance. It’s worth the hype and they have it organized really well using the boarding group system. The one sucky thing is that the boarding groups get assigned INSANELY fast, like within 5 minutes of the park opening.
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Huh. I wonder if people have me pied. I have never thought about that before.
Mai naem mobile
@HumboldtBlue: Aldis has a hot sauce that’s is basically a private labeled Frank’s. I bought it in CA just to see what it would taste like and it tasted pretty much exactly like Frank’s. For those who really love Frank’s, Costco business has huge commercial sized bottle – the same size as the big pickle jars you see at delis.
Mnemosyne
@zhena gogolia:
It was one of Molina’s very first movies, so you wouldn’t have recognized him anyway. ?♀️
Another Scott
@Brachiator: Neat. Thanks.
(I generally don’t like the Spielberg movies that I’ve seen because the music is so over-the-top manipulative. But he knows how to do the visuals.)
Cheers,
Scott.
Mai naem mobile
@Sab: try purple cauliflower. It doesn’t taste different but it looks more attractive and interesting.
Barbara
@HumboldtBlue: Wow, with centimeters to spare, as the announcer said. It is especially astonishing to see in slo mo.
lamh36
@Steeplejack (phone): Same…Fifth Element is my top 5 Bruce Willis movies, and might be my fav Mila Jovanovich (sp?) movie
Sab
@C Stars: That is so sweet, and reassuring. So nobody is trying to poison you. Just acclimatize you, and apparently successfully.
Marcopolo
@zhena gogolia: That works too! Just be careful you don’t wind up like me occasionally watching the ActBlue donation counter in real time with a stop watch running so you can estimate how much is coming in on a daily basis–right now it looks to be ~$6-7 million so they/we are on course for a $2 billion year. Last year at this time it was more like ~2-3 million.
frosty
@lamh36: You have the best collection of GIFs!
For me it’s not Indy, it’s Karen Allen, my fave (after Sandra Bullock).
Omnes Omnibus
Well, Casablanca is just starting on TCM.
lamh36
@lamh36:
Stunt choeropgraphty has sure come a long way. Theway its filmed and the stunt acting. Cause much as I love the market fight scene and chase sequence in #RaidersOfTheLostArk mahn…you can 100% tell that none of the hits landed.
Still can’t beat the gun scene…#ICONIC
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mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: I was referring to Omnes being a scientician.
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: I asked if I looked like one.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: I can def see Casablance on many HAVE to watch lists
Baud
@WaterGirl: Who are you talking to?
frosty
@lamh36: I see we have a love for Marion Ravenwood in common. I’d forgotten that they brought her back in one if the later movies.
Omnes Omnibus
@frosty: It’s best to forget that any of them exist except the first one and the Last Crusade.
lamh36
@frosty: Yup…Bout the only thing I liked about the dud Crystal Skull was having Karen Allen back and Indy and Marion getting married
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: As someone elsewhere said, Last Crusade kinda ended perfectly, with Indy, Dad, Marcus and Sallah riding off into the sunset!
Baud
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Ok ok, you look like a non-existent word too! Happy?
debbie
@Mai naem mobile:
There’s also orange cauliflower. My favorite, though, is the lime green one that’s a cross between cauliflower and broccoli.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Who are any of us talking to when you think about it?
CaseyL
I found an absolute treasure trove on youtube: someone named Guy Jones and another (group?) Yesterday Today post photographs and home movies from the 19th Century. The film is speed-corrected and ambient sound is added. I can’t tell you how enchanting these are, particularly the films of Paris in the 1890s.
Early Traces of Reality: Photographs of People in the 1840s
A Trip Through Paris – Late 1890s
… the latter includes people riding on a moving sidewalk!
lamh36
@lamh36:
The scene where Indy and the workers start to dig for the Ark in the true location, makes no sense…he didn’t go THAT far from the Nazi dig site,in fact he seemed to go higher…so uh…wouldn’t the Nazis have seen him & his folks digging long before they did
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#RaisdersOfTheLastArk
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: Ahem.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato: I try not to think about it. It hurts my brain.
Steeplejack (phone)
@zhena gogolia:
I know there’s a rom-com in my “have to watch” list, but I cannot think of it now to save my life.
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Merriam-Simpsons dictionary, I presume.
lamh36
@Baud: Lordt…I try to forget all bout that…LOL
Steeplejack (phone)
@CaseyL:
Cool.
Did we talk about this here? Iconic Lumière film “upscaled.”
Omnes Omnibus
@CaseyL: It is amazing how much of Paris I recognize.
debbie
@CaseyL:
I especially love the photograph of the grandmother with her grandson. You can feel the love.
Baud
@CaseyL: So many horsies!
lamh36
Oh and kudos to @JordanPeele and his PR team, cause almost every commercial break has during the Indiana Jones marathon on Paramount Network has had a commercial for his new Amazon Nazi Hunters series!
#RaidersOfTheLostArk
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HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
Never.
And I linked to Tank and the Bangas two years ago following their award-winning appearance on Tiny Desk concert.
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: Then you do have some redeeming qualities.
lamh36
@lamh36: So Every time I see the snake in the crypt scene, I now alway think of this line from Snakes on a Plane,
Indy should TOTALLY say this line in the next installment…LOL
#RaidersOfTheLostArk
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HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well-hidden, but yes.
Did you ever followup on the story of Tottenham Hotspur and their Yid Army?
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: Yes, I did, but I still support Arsenal.
lamh36
I’m interrupting my #RaidersOfTheLostArk watch for this…
Don’t play with my emotions Bakula…I fuqn’ LOVED Quantum Leap back in the day!
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HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, at least you have Troopz.
This series on the great Derbies in European football is pretty good.
This episode on the derby between Brescia and Atalanta is far more an excellent historical and social program as opposed to a sports doc. Fascinating.
C Stars
@Sab: It is kinda sweet, now that I think about it. When I was a kid I guess the bottles just went in our family spice drawer. Now I have my own spice drawer!
WaterGirl
@mrmoshpotato: Oops. I was replying to Omnes at #144. :-)
WaterGirl
@Baud: Omnes, of course!
WaterGirl
@lamh36: That would be awesome! But that would also mean he would be leaving NCIS New Orleans.
Morzer
@West of the Rockies: One for every reader!
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: We are all DougJ.
lamh36
Another ICONIC moment from #RaidersOfTheLostArk
#TopMen…LOL
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C Stars
A report from Beyond Burger land, in case anyone’s interested. We had them for dinner, got the 8-pack from Costco a week or so ago, thawed some today and my husband grilled them. I’d had an impossible burger at a restaurant a while back (pretty sure it was fried on a griddle) and wasn’t terribly impressed.
However, these Beyond Burgers I really liked. On the grill, they developed a crunchy crust the way a beef burger does, and the inside was red and tender but with a toothsome bounce the way you’d get from a beef burger. We looked through the ingredients and it wasn’t as processed or chemically as the pro-beef folks would have you believe; mostly just organics and grains (pea, carrot, beet, rice, coconut oil, pomegranate, apple); the only ingredient I didn’t recognize was methylcellulose–which, when I looked it up just now, appears to be a common ingredient in thickeners and laxatives, so make of that what you will…. Anyway, my husband, a who loves red meat, said he’d definitely have them again, and the kids ate a whole patty each which is unusual. They lack that intensely oily, dead-animal taste that I think can be overwhelming to kids sometimes (it’s not a flavor that I was even aware of until I became a cheatin’ vegan, but now I recognize it right away).
So the kids insisted that if you did a blind test no one would be able to recognize that they weren’t beef; I don’t know that I’d go that far, but they were definitely very similar. 15% daily value of sodium per patty, so that could be an issue if you are watching salt intake.
My big objection is that they come in about 3 lb of hard plastic packaging. It’s ridiculous. I’d hesitate to buy them again for that reason alone.
lamh36
Alright folks! That’s the end of my #RaidersOfTheLostArk watch. They’re bout to reshow #LastCrusade but I’ve got to stop watching before I get started up again…LOL
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lamh36
@lamh36:
Ooh one last thing before I go! How awesome was River Phoenix as Young Indiana Jones in #LastCrusade!!!
Another reason why Last Crusade is my FAVORITE in the entire franshise!
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1/10) Movie CLIP – Young Indy (1989) HD https://youtu.be/AwH6-Yh7_SM
mrmoshpotato
@C Stars: Mmmmmm excessive packaging.
Morzer
@lamh36: You have chosen… wisely.
C Stars
@mrmoshpotato: Yeah, future historians puzzle over the sudden proliferation of rectangular, heavy plastic jewelboxes with disc-like indentations that seems to coincide with western civilization finally weaning itself of ruminant flesh. Could there be some connection….?
TomatoQueen
Old Bay has put out a hot sauce that apparently compares favorably with Frank’s.
Another Scott
@C Stars: Let me guess – it’s #1 plastic (PET), isn’t it?
We thought we were doing well with our recycling, but recently realized that only #1 bottles are recycled around here. So the #1 clamshells used for salads and salad fixing and all the rest just end up in the trash. (The rationale is that the paper labels can’t be removed efficiently, so that and the adhesive makes the plastic worthless to recyclers.)
[eta:] Oh, and the PET used for bottles is slightly different (melting point, etc.) than the PET used for clamshells.
Grrr….
Cheers,
Scott.
catclub
@Baud: I’ve had it. It’s ok, but I prefer rice rice.
I am guessing you are not diabetic. Cauliflower rice is great – but better is salad made with grated cauliflower, fresh chopped veg., feta cheese., oil+ red wine vinegar.
PsiFighter37
Doing this ahead of time, so I don’t bury myself when I remember last minute: who is in town:
-in Birmingham, AL to celebrate Doug Jones’ last few months as a U.S. Senator, in early April, or
-in Denver, CO, in mid-May 2020, as this is a state that has gone true-blue the past 10+ years (except for Mark Udall fucking us over). Last time I did this, Jagged Mountain Brewery was mighty tasty.
PF37 +5 and about to dream feed the bebe
HumboldtBlue
@TomatoQueen:
No way. I use Old Bay nearly every day.
TomatoQueen
@HumboldtBlue: The yellow can or the new sauce, which has been out for about a month?
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: Obligatory
geg6
Valentine’s Day dinner at the local fine dining place, the Wooden Angel. OMG, so good. Crab cakes to start. I had a beet, arugula and goat cheese salad and John had a romaine heart, bacon and bleu cheese salad. He had rack of lamb and I had a surf and turf (filet and lobster tail) Oscar. Tiramisu for dessert. And since they are best known for their award winning all American wine cellar, a Cabernet Sauvignon and a Pinot noir.
Total food porn. This is as good as sex at our ages.
PsiFighter37
@geg6: I disagree with your last sentence.
dww44
@debbie: No cilantro in this household at all. Both spouse and I despise it. Some of the other veggies are not high on my list either. This cauliflower subbing for everything I’ve not yet kenned to. Not into Kale either. I’ve tried the roasted brussel sprouts and while they’re better than other ways of preparing, there’s something about their smell that’s just a turnoff for me.
J R in WV
@Sab:
1 cup flat beer
3 cups rye bread cubes toasted at 300 degrees for 20 minutes
1 head of cauliflower cut into bite sized florets
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon carroway seeds
3 cups grated extra sharp cheddar cheese
4 eggs
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander seed or a little more
black pepper to taste
Saute the cauliflower in butter until just tender and beginning to brown, with carraway seeds. Proportions can easily be adjusted to personal preference. I prefer to grind the carraway seeds in a mortar and pestle a little bit.
Put cauliflower, rye cubes and cheddar cheese in a buttered 2 qt cassarole dish. Beat together beer, eggs, mustard and coriander, pour over cauliflower, rye and cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes until puffy and golden brown. Adding some minced garlic is a good addition to taste.
After a Moosewood Collective cookbook “Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant”
HumboldtBlue
@TomatoQueen:
Pucka-pucka.
A few years ago I heard they were gonna change out the can for plastic.
That’s just not right.
I didn’t know they had a hot sauce. Should I be skeptical?
Omnes Omnibus
@J R in WV: How do you get flat beer?
ziggy
@CaseyL: Nice, I’ve never even heard of that moving sidewalk thingy, I bet that was quite the novelty at that time. I can see why people were thrilled when cars first appeared (so clean and quiet!).
smike
@Omnes Omnibus: I know this old bar on the outskirts…
CaseyL
@ziggy: I got a kick out of watching the carriage traffic. No lanes, no signals, pedestrians and bicyclists in the mix… and many piles of horseshit (pedestrians avoided it; bicyclists didn’t seem to care).
Omnes Omnibus
@CaseyL: To be fair, if you’ve ever driven near L’Etoile, it is still much like that.
frosty
@Steeplejack (phone): Notting Hill. Best one ever.
Sab
@J R in WV: Thanks. I will try this for tomorrows dinner.
Sab
My dad with dementia who has remembered his Republican roots just got a mailer from Trump. I filled it out and mailed it back so that they have to pay postage. Our Republican Sec of State disenfranchised him since he hasn’t voted for a while.
LOL. Trumps pay the postage but dad can’t vote because of them.
J R in WV
@lamh36:
Now you want logic and continuity as well as excitement and drama? YOU ask too much young Lamh36, too much! ;-)