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You are here: Home / Food & Recipes / What to do with all that zucchini… (open thread)

What to do with all that zucchini… (open thread)

by Betty Cracker|  May 16, 20233:25 pm| 149 Comments

This post is in: Food & Recipes, Garden Chats, Open Threads, TV & Movies

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We had a bumper crop of zucchini this year, and since we live in the middle of nowhere, we can no longer carry bags of it around the neighborhood to place in unlocked cars. This week, I found a new way to get rid of six zucchinis in a meal for two: Spaghetti alla Nerano.

If you watched Stanley Tucci’s “Searching for Italy” program, you may have had your curiosity piqued by the superlatives ladled onto this simple pasta dish. It’s a pain in the ass to make, but it’s damn good. Here’s an easy-to-follow version:

Does the dish live up to the hype, which includes descriptors like “life changing” and “best thing I’ve ever eaten?” It does not, or at least my version did not. But it was damn tasty, and it subtracted half a dozen gourds from the massive store that has overtaken my vegetable crispers, so it was worthwhile in my book.

Open thread.

ETA: To reiterate, this thread is open. The discussion is not restricted to zucchini, gardening, recipes, etc.

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  1. 1.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    May 16, 2023 at 3:31 pm

    I once heard someone say that every experienced gardener fears zucchini.

  2. 2.

    Eunicecycle

    May 16, 2023 at 3:35 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: also eggplant.

  3. 3.

    cain

    May 16, 2023 at 3:41 pm

    @Eunicecycle: yet eggplant costs like a zillion dollars per eggplant. I’ll never understand that.

    ETA I love zucchini especially grilled with middle eastern spices. Makes a great salad.

    I’d take a bag :-)

  4. 4.

    Danielx

    May 16, 2023 at 3:41 pm

    BC: Florida is a very strange place. Four days in the Keys, three days in Orlando. From one extreme to another…

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    May 16, 2023 at 3:44 pm

    Yuck-o. My palate instantly, stridently and adamantly rejects zucchini as even within shouting distance of being edible. Cannot abide the vile stuff, no matter the form in which disguised.

  6. 6.

    Eunicecycle

    May 16, 2023 at 3:44 pm

    @cain: I love eggplant but it seems impossible to grow just a few!

  7. 7.

    SuzieC

    May 16, 2023 at 3:45 pm

    Loved that recipe.  Do you have a spiralizer?  If so, make a ton of zucchini noodles and use them as pasta substitutes or make a Mediterranean salad with feta, cherry tomatoes, and kalamata olives.

  8. 8.

    Ken

    May 16, 2023 at 3:46 pm

    We had a bumper crop of zucchini this year

    Looks at calendar in puzzlement, then remembers that Betty is in Florida…

  9. 9.

    UncleEbeneezer

    May 16, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    Completely OT (sorry I don’t really care much for zucchini) but, my old MAGA neighbor is going to prison!!:

    LOS ANGELES (CN) — A Southern California man was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for terrorizing a Planned Parenthood clinic in Pasadena for almost a year by shooting at it from his car with automatic BB guns on at least 11 separate occasions.

    Richard Chamberlin, 53, was also ordered to pay $42,000 in restitution to the clinic for the damage he caused and for the security upgrades it had to make to the building because of his attacks.

    Thank you Merrick Garland/DOJ!!!

  10. 10.

    Betty Cracker

    May 16, 2023 at 3:51 pm

    The mister also grows eggplants every year. I make eggplant parm, and he makes baba ganoush. This year I’ve also made eggplant rollatini a couple of times, and it’s super tasty and not nearly as much of a chore to make as eggplant parm. Recipe I use here.

  11. 11.

    Delk

    May 16, 2023 at 3:52 pm

    I knew Chef John would have a Puccini rhyme.

  12. 12.

    CaseyL

    May 16, 2023 at 3:54 pm

    I’ve tried so hard to like zucchini, and never managed to do so.

    The texture is either weirdly spongey or outright mush.  The taste is practically non-existent.

    One restaurant did serve a sauteed vegetable medley that included zucchini, and it was pretty darn good, but IIRC the may have been due to the quantities of butter and garlic.

    Enough butter and garlic can make anything taste good.  (Exhibit A: Escargot.)

  13. 13.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    May 16, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: Was he really your neighbor? The guy deserves jail

  14. 14.

    Hoodie

    May 16, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    Did that recipe.  It was very good (I’d do it again), but not exactly life changing.  Like most Italian dishes, probably depends more on the quality of the pasta, olive oil and cheese you use.

  15. 15.

    Betty Cracker

    May 16, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    @SuzieC: Been meaning to get one of those…

  16. 16.

    JPL

    May 16, 2023 at 4:01 pm

    @Betty Cracker:  Zucchini curly fries.

  17. 17.

    narya

    May 16, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    Oh good lord; that singsong voice! What I would do (and might try later in the year when zukes start showing up in the farm share) is grate it in the food processor–ALL of it–and then roast it for awhile with a little olive oil to dry it out and brown it a bit. Basically, I would do a massive amount, then freeze anything I don’t use. Then you don’t have to break up the zucchini in the pan, either, and you’re eliminating the oil from the frying. (I’m a huge fan of doing a big bunch of X–pot of beans; shredded carrots; roasted veggies–and freezing portions. It’s super handy for quick meals.) I might even chop up a tomato or two and cook that down a bit before adding the zucchini.

    Thanks for sharing, though! I will keep this in mind . . . it’s inspired me.

  18. 18.

    Manyakitty

    May 16, 2023 at 4:07 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: excellent!

  19. 19.

    Rachel Bakes

    May 16, 2023 at 4:09 pm

    Farmshare gives us zucchini every year and 90% of it gets shredded for bread/muffins/chocolate cake. My husband has trained himself to kind of like it but the rest of us don’t. Baked into bread however and disguised with spices? That works

  20. 20.

    Sure Lurkalot

    May 16, 2023 at 4:12 pm

    I do not really like squash, too watery, but I buy the summer variety from time to time for variety. I think zucchini bread is good and fritters too. Sliced pattypans grill well but still, not much of a cravable flavor,

    No success growing eggplant. I like the Japanese variety but we’d get like 2 a week…not enough to make even a side dish and they don’t store well. We’re taking a break from them this year.

  21. 21.

    BigJimSlade

    May 16, 2023 at 4:16 pm

    “place in unlocked cars” LOL

    We zoodle (or slice and quarter) zucchini all the time :-) (but not deep fry).
    And a new way to cook eggplant 👍

  22. 22.

    Jackie

    May 16, 2023 at 4:16 pm

    Intruder walks into Jake Sullivan’s house in the middle of the night:

    ‘“The U.S. Secret Service is investigating how a man entered the home of President Biden’s national security adviser in the middle of the night roughly two weeks ago without being detected by agents guarding his house,” the Washington Post reports.

    “The unknown man walked into Jake Sullivan’s home at about 3 a.m. one day in late April and Sullivan confronted the individual, instructing him to leave… There were no signs of forced entry at the home.”

    “Sullivan has a round-the-clock Secret Service detail. But agents stationed outside the house were unaware that an intruder had gotten inside the home.”’

    Good grief! First Pelosi’s house and now Sullivan’s! Can’t these people afford an actual alarm system??? The guards need to be replaced by a trained guard dog!

  23. 23.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    May 16, 2023 at 4:20 pm

    @Jackie:

    The Secret Service has been useless for years, going all the way back to the Obama administration.

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    May 16, 2023 at 4:22 pm

    @NotMax:

    I would normally agree, because as a kid I was fed zucchini made only one way on a regular basis and had the same response as you. As an adult I learned other ways to cook it and the staunch rejection of it went away. I still not all that much of a fan but I have eaten some rather reasonable zucchini dishes. I think that early life of mom (born in 1918 and lived through the depression) and food and leaving anything on the plate (even if I didn’t put it there or want it) was the downfall.

  25. 25.

    zhena gogolia

    May 16, 2023 at 4:23 pm

    @Jackie: Major!

  26. 26.

    Glidwrith

    May 16, 2023 at 4:24 pm

    Combination of zucchini and tomatoes makes husband deathly ill. Either one alone, no problem. Weird hubby☺️.

  27. 27.

    David Rickard

    May 16, 2023 at 4:26 pm

    What to do with all that zucchini? Kill it will fire, before it breeds and takes over the world.

  28. 28.

    JMG

    May 16, 2023 at 4:27 pm

    I make zucchini by slicing it into 1/4-1/2 pieces, then saute in a pan with green pepper and onion. When all are good and soft, stir in some sour cream and chopped fresh dill. When the sour cream partially liquefies and covers the veggies, it’s all done. Easy and a good side with grilled meats or fish.

  29. 29.

    Jackie

    May 16, 2023 at 4:28 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Great idea!

  30. 30.

    Barbara

    May 16, 2023 at 4:30 pm

    I am not generally fond of summer squash, but I have two zucchini recipes  I like — one is sauteed with fresh corn, and the other is a soup that combines zucchini and garden peas, with some basil.  It uses 9 cups of chopped zucchini and freezes well.

    I made ratatouille last year in accordance with the recipe that Thomas Keller concocted for the movie, and it was good, but my kids don’t like squash either and wouldn’t eat it.

  31. 31.

    Michael Bersin

    May 16, 2023 at 4:31 pm

    True story. Years ago the in-laws had an orchard in rural southern Wisconsin. Big vegetable garden, too. One year they had one zucchini plant. For one reason or another, the plant didn’t make it. The next season they planted three (it was a big garden, right?). Big mistake. Big. huge. The three plants thrived and produced. And produced,

    It got to the point that they kept bushel baskets on the porch as the main part of the hostage negotiation for passersby who were lost and seeking directions back to civilization.

  32. 32.

    MikefromArlington

    May 16, 2023 at 4:31 pm

    The guys right.  You don’t need all that butter.  Adding pasta water that’s full of starch makes your pasta creamy.  Works with this, seafood pasta dishes and carbonara.  The key is save the pasta water and mix it in at the end until you get the ideal creaminess you want.

     

    cheers

  33. 33.

    RSA

    May 16, 2023 at 4:32 pm

    @narya:  Oh good lord; that singsong voice!

    OMG yes. I had to turn off the sound. It got to be intolerable.

  34. 34.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    May 16, 2023 at 4:36 pm

    @CaseyL: I often toss zucchini with some bell pepper and onion in oil and salt then throw it into a grill basket and charcoal grill it, then drizzle some more olive oil and balsamic vinegar on it after it’s done cooking, add some black pepper and fresh Italian herbs if I’m feeling ambitious. Maybe add some parmesan if I’m feeling really decadent. Either with or without the cheese it’s pretty delicious.

  35. 35.

    UncleEbeneezer

    May 16, 2023 at 4:37 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Yes.  He lived in the apartment complex across the street from us.  He used to walk around in MAGA hat/shirt, had Hillary For Prison, Infowars and 3%er (or Oathkeeper) bumper stickers on his car.  Which is VERY out of place for a street that is probably 80% Black or Latinx.  I remember the morning when the FBI came knocking on his door.

  36. 36.

    sdhays

    May 16, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I seem to recall some scandals during the W administration that already should have sending off warning sirens. I’m thankful that somehow the Obamas were able to get through his Presidency safe.

    It really seems like it’s a pretty sick agency. A Congress focused on its job would have long ago held hearing and introduced legislation to address the shortcomings. But with Republicans so often holding too much power, Congress doesn’t have much time for doing much of its job.

  37. 37.

    lowtechcyclist

    May 16, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    Here’s an easy, tasty, healthy recipe to get rid of three or four zucchini:

    ZUCCHINI BOATS

    Ingredients:
    3-4 zucchini
    1lb. ground chicken
    1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
    1/2 cup Frank’s buffalo wing sauce

    Cook the ground chicken, mix in the Frank’s.
    Cut zucchini in half lengthwise, scoop out the seeds.
    Arrange the zucchini in a 13×9 baking pan.
    Fill the hollowed-out zucchini with the chicken.
    Spread the mozzarella over the zucchini and chicken.
    Cover with foil, cook @400° for ~35 minutes.

  38. 38.

    Betty Cracker

    May 16, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    @RSA: My husband calls Chef John “Yogi Bear.”

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    May 16, 2023 at 4:38 pm

    @Barbara: Can I get the fresh corn and zucchini recipe, please?

  40. 40.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    May 16, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I’m not the biggest eggplant fan though I do love baba and eggplant parm is good. I made it in an air fryer and that was a game changer as it was easier and crisper than the results I get from pan frying, and I just don’t deep fry at home so that’s not an option. The flavor has a bitterness I’m not a fan of. I like some other bitter veggies but eggplant unless something is done to it to hide that flavor just leaves me cold.

  41. 41.

    Anyway

    May 16, 2023 at 4:41 pm

    No zucchini bread?

    Once every summer in the peak of zuke season I make a savory chickpea pancake/fritter with shredded zucchini – I’ve fed it to people and it’s a hit. I also make ratatouille once a season.

    ETA – never developed a taste for zucchini blossoms — had it in Italy even and didn’t care for it

  42. 42.

    Betty Cracker

    May 16, 2023 at 4:42 pm

    @sdhays: I suspect there are lots of sick agencies and institutions that will never get better until the sickest American institution of them all — the Repub Party — either gets better or goes away.

  43. 43.

    hw3

    May 16, 2023 at 4:42 pm

    … we can no longer carry bags of it around the neighborhood to place in unlocked cars.

    ROTFLMAO.
    If the window was down, the zuke is on the seat.

  44. 44.

    Betty Cracker

    May 16, 2023 at 4:43 pm

    @What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Do you salt the eggplant slices and let it drain in a colander for awhile? That gets rid of the bitterness.

  45. 45.

    Cacti

    May 16, 2023 at 4:45 pm

    I read that in his last set in San Francisco, Dave Chappelle started ranting about having to look at homeless people. About a year ago he used his wealth and status to scuttle a proposed development zoned for affordable housing in his own town, then turned around and bought the same land for gentrification projects. Dude’s gone full reactionary.

    Money really does change people and seldom for the better. ☹️

  46. 46.

    Manyakitty

    May 16, 2023 at 4:47 pm

    @Cacti: yeah. Chappelle used to be funny until he decided to become an aggrieved, mediocre white guy.

  47. 47.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 4:48 pm

    My experience is that the #1 trick with zucchini is to pick them when they’re small. This has two big advantages. On the one hand, small zucchini taste better and are more tender. On the other hand, smaller zucchini are smaller, so you don’t have as much to eat.

  48. 48.

    mrmoshpotato

    May 16, 2023 at 4:49 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: I think you told us about the feds paying your neighbor a visit.

  49. 49.

    Uncle Cosmo

    May 16, 2023 at 4:51 pm

    @Ruckus: I’d take all the eggplant and zukes the Crockers have, add a couple of large onions, a half dozen garlic cloves, and a 10-gallon can of diced peeled tomatoes & cook up a kickass Nekkid Ratatatatouille to feed the whole block. Food of the demigods, I tells ya, and them that yammer about how much they hate the ingredients are most cordially invited to fa in culo, since no one’s gonna shove it down your pizza-piehole.

  50. 50.

    UncleEbeneezer

    May 16, 2023 at 4:54 pm

    An inspiring thread about resistance (TW: Nazis/holocaust):

    On this day in 1943, German Nazis suppressed the four-week-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It was the largest and longest Jewish uprising during the Holocaust. Remembering this rebellion today as Jewish people, as we all, face a resurgence of neo-Nazi violence across the world. 1/

  51. 51.

    2liberal

    May 16, 2023 at 4:55 pm

    slightly OT (nothing to do with zucchini) :  My new computer has Windows 11 home edition build  22621.1702   and I don’t have a photo editor (Paint)  and can’t download it from the MS Store even tho I am logged in.  I click on the icon and nothing happens.

     

    This is where the app is:

    https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/paint/9PCFS5B6T72H

    can anyone else download this?  I turned off the firewalls , no change

  52. 52.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 4:57 pm

    @sdhays:

    I think moving law enforcement agencies under the DHS umbrella has been almost uniformly bad for them.  It actually makes sense for different parts of the government to have specialized law enforcement agencies that focus on their specific needs and interests.  Putting them all in one place dilutes their specific missions and exposes them primarily to other law enforcement rather than people interested in their specific mission.

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    May 16, 2023 at 4:59 pm

    Like cooked zucchini blossoms, which are a garden win-win: they have flavor, which the squash lacks, and each blossom represents a zucchini avoided.

    There ends my gardening tip.

  54. 54.

    KrackenJack

    May 16, 2023 at 5:00 pm

    @Sure Lurkalot: ​
      Same here on the Japanese eggplants. Produced a dozen total and the last few were rather small. Gave it pass this year, too.

  55. 55.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 5:01 pm

    @Cacti:

    You can tell a lot about someone by their ideas about homelessness.  Anyone whose primary concern about homelessness is that homeless people are ruining their neighborhood’s aesthetic- rather than that there are actual human beings who need places to live- is part of the problem.

  56. 56.

    sdhays

    May 16, 2023 at 5:03 pm

    @Roger Moore: I think you’re right.

    Who would have thought an idea championed by Joe Lieberman would be a disaster?

  57. 57.

    Ruckus

    May 16, 2023 at 5:04 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    the Repub Party — either gets better or goes away

    It can get better?

    I’ve always thought that some things just can’t get better.

    They don’t want to, don’t know how, wouldn’t be them if they got better, think that they are already the world’s greatest (at what is unknown) and don’t need to change – it’s just the rest of the world that doesn’t understand their whatever the hell it is that they supposedly like…..

    And unfortunately their issues will never go away as long as humans exist. Doesn’t mean we can’t be better but expecting them to seems, well possibly highly unlikely.

  58. 58.

    Barbara

    May 16, 2023 at 5:04 pm

    @WaterGirl: It’s super simple, and you can vary quantities according to preference and also size of your vegetables.  I would take 4-5 young zucchini and cut them into half or quarter rounds, depending on size.  Put an appropriate amount of butter (or oil) in a skillet and saute the zucchini on medium heat until tender but still bright green.  Add kernels from two ears of corn and cook 2-3 additional minutes until corn is tender and hot.

    Add salt, and you could also add thyme or oregano if you like.

  59. 59.

    Mike in NC

    May 16, 2023 at 5:05 pm

    Stanley Tucci couldn’t save the lameness of “Citadel” (Amazon Prime), which also stars Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas as badass spies in a nonstop series of explosions and fights that looked like they were rejected from some James Bond movie for being absolutely ridiculous.

  60. 60.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    May 16, 2023 at 5:10 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: Wow

  61. 61.

    Josie

    May 16, 2023 at 5:16 pm

    I make moussaka with eggplant. It’s kind of like lasagna, only without the pasta. Delicious.

  62. 62.

    Scout211

    May 16, 2023 at 5:19 pm

    Zucchini! The vegetable that makes every vegetable gardener feel like a success.

    I always plant one zucchini and one yellow squash each year and that provides squash for the whole summer.  I second the advice to pick them when they are small.  Not only are they more tender, you don’t have to cut out all the huge seeds that form as they get larger.

    Finding recipes to use both is always fun.  We also add diced zucchini and yellow squash to many of our main dishes, especially sauces and casseroles for a veggie boost.

  63. 63.

    Miki

    May 16, 2023 at 5:24 pm

    I really like this (gift link) Hasselback Zucchini as a side. It re-heats well, too.

    I’m serving it tonight with Blue Cheese-Stuffed Pork Tenderloin (subbing walnuts and dried cranberries because that’s what I have).

  64. 64.

    thruppence

    May 16, 2023 at 5:26 pm

    Growing up in the 60s my mom only had canned zucchini (!) and we kids called it squeeny squash and HATED it. If we had taken the time to grow some, we might have had a different opinion. Maybe.

  65. 65.

    karen marie

    May 16, 2023 at 5:31 pm

    @JMG: Mmmm … sour cream …

    I’m still mad at my parents that I didn’t taste sour cream until my brother’s wedding rehearsal dinner in 1984 where there were baked potatoes with sour cream.

    I love it so much, I would willingly eat it out of the container with a spoon.  I try to control myself though and, at a minimum, I put a baked potato under it.  Potato chips?  Who needs “dip” when you have a bucket of sour cream.  That’s all the dip I need.

  66. 66.

    Kayla Rudbek

    May 16, 2023 at 5:32 pm

    @Roger Moore: yes, I know someone who used to work for INS/ICE (before and during the merger with Customs) and he said he would never work for another DHS agency again.

  67. 67.

    billcinsd

    May 16, 2023 at 5:35 pm

    My mom used to make Zucchini Jam, and Zucchini Salsa, in addition to Zucchini Bread

  68. 68.

    les

    May 16, 2023 at 5:40 pm

    Horde o’ gourds, eh. Where are the feral pigs when you need ’em?

  69. 69.

    E.

    May 16, 2023 at 5:44 pm

    Ugh. I get Harper’s because I love to do their puzzle. The new issue came today. Main article: Why are we in Ukraine? At least they didnt say “The” Ukraine.

  70. 70.

    NutmegAgain

    May 16, 2023 at 5:45 pm

    Zucchini straight up grilled with balsamic vinaigrette. So easy, so yummy. Sez me with no grill and no garden!

  71. 71.

    JPL

    May 16, 2023 at 5:48 pm

    OT   According to Slate magazine Feinstein is pretty much out of it.   She told a reporter that she never missed a vote.  Fox will run with it, but I’m a firm believe that if Strom could be wheeled in to vote, then Dianne can also.

    fkem

  72. 72.

    JPL

    May 16, 2023 at 5:49 pm

    @E.: That makes me sad.

  73. 73.

    Betty Cracker

    May 16, 2023 at 5:49 pm

    @karen marie: 😂 I have many similar childhood food traumas / deprivations!

  74. 74.

    cain

    May 16, 2023 at 5:50 pm

    lolol – Lauren Boebert just served her husband divorce papers. Apparently, her husband completely lost it when he got served and set the dogs after the person who delivered it.

    https://gazette.com/politics/lauren-boebert-divorce-filing/article_cbfa149b-f7e1-5766-a881-b601f4c0d554.html

  75. 75.

    JCJ

    May 16, 2023 at 5:56 pm

    The comic strip “Pickles” had a series a few years ago where the old couple had a few too many zucchini

    https://www.gocomics.com/pickles/2012/09/30

  76. 76.

    JPL

    May 16, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    @cain: Sad

  77. 77.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    May 16, 2023 at 5:58 pm

    @cain:

    “Once he learned that he was being served with Dissolution of Marriage papers he was extremely angry,” the process server wrote. “I tried to hand him the documents but did not take them. He started yelling and using profanities, and told me that I was trespassing, and that he was calling the Sheriff’s Office. I told him I was leaving the documents on the chair outside of the door, he closed the door then let the dogs out.”

    The document noted that Jayson was cleaning a gun and drinking a “tall glass of beer” when he was served.

    No one’s more devoted to gun safety than…..

  78. 78.

    Miki

    May 16, 2023 at 6:02 pm

    @karen marie: Oh, honey ….

    My mom hated onions and garlic, my dad hated tomatoes, canned corn was added to everything for “flavor,” pizza was made from a box and had hot dogs on it. They became much more adventurous once we all left home, go figure.

  79. 79.

    Betty Cracker

    May 16, 2023 at 6:02 pm

    @cain: Boebert makes a big to-do about being “always faithful” in her statement about the divorce. That definitely means a video of her boinking an aide or him exposing himself to Girl Scouts will surface soonish. 🤔

  80. 80.

    zhena gogolia

    May 16, 2023 at 6:03 pm

    @E.: We’re not in Ukraine!

  81. 81.

    Miss Bianca

    May 16, 2023 at 6:06 pm

    @UncleEbeneezer: Yay!!

  82. 82.

    NotMax

    May 16, 2023 at 6:09 pm

    @2liberal

    Totally free photo/graphics editor with a slew of features: Irfanview.

    Been a more than satisfied user since last century.

  83. 83.

    oldgold

    May 16, 2023 at 6:10 pm

    Living on the sparsely populated outer rim of the Hardy Twilight Zone, in a dense boreal forest, along a cobalt blue glacial lake, my home security is as loose as a long-neck goose. Hell, when I Snow-Bird south for the winter, I do not lock our home’s front door.

    This lax home security comes to a screeching halt each year for a period of 4 weeks as Summer slips into Autumn. Then, my home security becomes as tight as a hungry tick on an anemic Xoloitzcuintle‘s ass.

    The gate is chained shut and the front fence is electrified. The border walls my neighbors erected and paid for, Phil Anders’s 16 foot high, knotty pine wall and Neandra Tal’s 20 foot high, stone wall are each topped with 6 strands of barbed wire. The beach front is mined to prevent amphibious encroachments.  Every door to the house is double bolted shut and all window curtains drawn closed. Finally, new this year, a large blinking neon sign has been installed on top of the house that warns: “The Kraken Have Been Released.”

    Why, you might ask, in this sweet time of the year that Keats described as “a season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,” would I take such extreme home security measures? The answer: it is when the demonic, deplorable Denizens of the Damned are running amok – The GOZ!

    Givers Of Zuchini

  84. 84.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 6:11 pm

    @cain:

    I try not to take joy in someone else’s marriage having problems, but it’s really hard in Boebert’s case.  I just wish people like her had the tiniest bit of empathy and could imagine that other people might have the same kinds of problems they do.

  85. 85.

    WaterGirl

    May 16, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    @cain: Probably because she is fucking around with Gaetz?  They sure seemed cozy at the “it takes 15 votes to make The Squeaker the Squeaker” event.

    At least it seemed so until she was so coked up that she could only site there and look like she was feeling very very weird.

  86. 86.

    brendancalling

    May 16, 2023 at 6:12 pm

    Last night I made some seriously nice flank steak that was on sale at the local Shop Rite, coupled with a baked potato and zucchini/summer squash mix that I seared in the rendered steak fat, then finished in the oven. Then I got really stoned because I didn’t have to work today, and made stuffed potato skins with the zucchini and some cheese. It was very delicious, but not quite as delicious as reading about Rudy911’s disgusting adventures and watching “America’s [Worst] Mayor” exposed (again) as the disgusting piece of shit he’s always been.

    This past Sunday, I ran 15 miles for the first time in God knows how long. Great run, but the 3 miles I did this afternoon were BRUTAL as a result.

  87. 87.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 6:14 pm

    @NotMax:

    If you want a serious graphics editor, I would recommend the GIMP.  It’s way more than most people need, and it’s actual Free/Open Source Software, rather than just free to use.

  88. 88.

    WaterGirl

    May 16, 2023 at 6:14 pm

    Zucchini might be my favorite vegetable.  You can make it a hundred different ways.

    What to do with all that zucchini... (open thread)

  89. 89.

    Quinerly

    May 16, 2023 at 6:15 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    MTG also divorcing her husband.

  90. 90.

    Scout211

    May 16, 2023 at 6:15 pm

    It’s been a point and laugh week for Elon so far. Here’s two more:

    Elon Musk says George Soros hates humanity — while, unrelatedly, a filing shows the financier sold his Tesla stake

     

    That was quick.

    After a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed that Soros Fund Management sold the entire $16 million stake in Tesla TSLA, +0.10% that it had bought last year, Musk took to the social-media platform he owns to attack the 92-year-old.

    First — without any apparent provocation — he tweeted a comparison between Soros and Magneto, an X-Men comic-book character who, as the name implies, can generate and control magnetic fields.

    Elon Musk still needs ‘Twitter sitter,’ judges rule

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost an appeal to unwind parts of a consent decree that he and the automaker struck with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle civil securities fraud charges in 2018.
    . . .

    The ruling, issued Monday by a federal appeals court, affirms a prior decision from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which issued the initial denial.

    . . .
    The agreement required “pre-approval” for tweets by Musk that contained information material to Tesla, and which extended to “certain senior executives,” according to the judgment.

    A February letter from Musk attorney Alex Spiro said the terms of the consent decree amounted to “unconstitutional” infringement of his free-speech rights.

    But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dismissed those claims, writing that the court saw “no evidence to support Musk’s contention that the SEC has used the consent decree to conduct bad-faith, harassing investigations of his protected speech.”

  91. 91.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    May 16, 2023 at 6:16 pm

    I love zucchini, but I’m not a big fan of the yellow variety. That (or at least the version we get here) tends to turn into mush pretty easily. Green zucchinis seem to be best when they’re small. I like to cut them fairly thick and then roast in a frying pan so they’re blackened on one or both sides; the trick is to cut them thick enough so that the texture doesn’t go to hell before they’re blackened. They’re also good grilled.

    Eggplant I’m not as fond of. I do like it when it’s prepared in certain ways, but I’ve never been able to make it the way I like it consistently–the texture is usually too damn chewy.

    This place in Beijing when I was there twenty years ago had roasted egg plants served with a dipping sauce and it was fantastic (texture and all), but I’ve never come close to replicating it. I can never get a decent texture out of the narrow purple eggplants you can get here, though.

  92. 92.

    JPL

    May 16, 2023 at 6:17 pm

    @Quinerly: hmmm  Interesting timing, and why not speculate.

  93. 93.

    Frankensteinbeck

    May 16, 2023 at 6:17 pm

    @Ruckus:

    It can get better?

    It can!  I don’t see it happening soon, but it can.  A generational shift may be needed.  The evangelicals are killing their religion fast by driving away their children, who aren’t into the hardcore lunatic bigotry.  The most reactionary stuff skews overwhelmingly older.  There should be plenty of assholes in the younger demographics who would be okay with compassionless government, polite racism and misogyny, if they can get it without the anti-abortion, gun fetishism, Christian Nationalism, and overt queer hate.

    The transfer process would be tricky, sure, but the potential is there.  There is a constituency.

  94. 94.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 6:18 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    Given her husband’s legal history, I think the most likely case is that he was involved with a much younger woman.  Maybe even below the age of consent younger.  The leopard doesn’t change its spots.

  95. 95.

    brendancalling

    May 16, 2023 at 6:20 pm

    BTW, I almost don’t understand this zucchini hatred, except I remember my mom was awful at cooking with it. It has to be done right to be delicious.

  96. 96.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 6:20 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Probably because she is fucking around with Gaetz?

    I doubt it.  Gaetz seems to like them too young to vote, and certainly too young to run for the House.

  97. 97.

    JPL

    May 16, 2023 at 6:20 pm

    @Roger Moore: Maybe even the son’s girlfriend who is pregnant.   Enquiring minds want to know.

  98. 98.

    2liberal

    May 16, 2023 at 6:20 pm

    @NotMax: thank you!

  99. 99.

    NotMax

    May 16, 2023 at 6:21 pm

    @Roger Moore

    GIMP has always been a fine option, though geared more to professionals and has a steeper learning curve.

    For the average Jane or Joe, IMHO Irfanview is an easier to grok tool (metaphorically speaking) right out of the box.

  100. 100.

    Frankensteinbeck

    May 16, 2023 at 6:21 pm

    @Scout211:

    he tweeted a comparison between Soros and Magneto

    No anti-semitism there, no Sir.  Just a coincidence Magneto is a Jew and holocaust survivor.

  101. 101.

    lowtechcyclist

    May 16, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    @NotMax: ​
     

    I tried Irfanview once, I wasn’t a big fan. It’s been several years now, but one thing I distinctly remember was the absence of any way, when editing a bunch of photos in a file, to move directly from one photo to the next without having to close one file, go to the file folder, and open the next. With the editor that had come with my previous laptop, I could crop, adjust redeye, adjust light/dark balance in a few quick motions, then click directly to the next photo, so having to back out, find the next file, and open it made things noticeably slower.

    There was some other adjustment that was either not included or didn’t work well, might’ve been the light/dark balance.

  102. 102.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    @Quinerly:

    MTG also divorcing her husband.

    So we can expect the Boebert-Greene announcement any day now?

  103. 103.

    zhena gogolia

    May 16, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    @WaterGirl: She’s way too old for him.

  104. 104.

    Spanky

    May 16, 2023 at 6:22 pm

    @JPL: Rule 34 still is in effect.

  105. 105.

    JPL

    May 16, 2023 at 6:23 pm

    @brendancalling: The year of the bountiful zucchini crop, I was pregnant and could not eat it without a violent response.  We gave away zucchini bread to strangers passing by.   Okay not that bad but close.

  106. 106.

    Manyakitty

    May 16, 2023 at 6:25 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Matt Gaetz. Did you see the two of them during the speaker vote? She wouldn’t leave him alone for a minute. (Would be irresponsible not to speculate, of course)

  107. 107.

    JPL

    May 16, 2023 at 6:25 pm

    @Spanky: 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  108. 108.

    Manyakitty

    May 16, 2023 at 6:27 pm

    @WaterGirl: hahaha yes! It was so obvious!

  109. 109.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    May 16, 2023 at 6:31 pm

    If the zucchini gets too big, you can’t eat it. But you can make hooch! https://www.instructables.com/Marrow-Rum-or-Booze-from-Otherwise-Useless-Vegeta/

  110. 110.

    Scout211

    May 16, 2023 at 6:34 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck: Yep. That part is not at all funny.

    The ADL responded:

    Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, a civil right group that tracks and battles incidents of antisemitism, criticized Musk’s comment and said it “will embolden extremists.”

    “Soros often is held up by the far-right, using antisemitic tropes, as the source of the world’s problems,” Greenblat tweeted. “To see Elon Musk, regardless of his intent, feed this segment — comparing him to a Jewish supervillain, claiming Soros ‘hates humanity’ — is not just distressing, it’s dangerous: it will embolden extremists who already contrive anti-Jewish conspiracies and have tried to attack Soros and Jewish communities as a result.”

  111. 111.

    gene108

    May 16, 2023 at 6:35 pm

    Gaetz’s BIL founded Ocular VR. BIL sold to Facebook for around $2 billion. BIL donates to Republicans.

    I can picture Matt having an affair, but no way he’d dumps his current wife, and preferential access to all that money, for a mistress.

    I doubt anything between Matt and Lauren would be more than a fling.

  112. 112.

    WaterGirl

    May 16, 2023 at 6:42 pm

    @Obvious Russian Troll: I’m with you.  LOVE zucchini, hate yellow squash.  (Which isn’t technically zucchini.)

    Have you ever tried the round varieties?

    Here are some I grew last year.  Slice them thick and you can roast them, grill them, coat them and fry them, scoop them out and stuff them…

    Reverse Festivus? 5

  113. 113.

    JWR

    May 16, 2023 at 6:43 pm

    @2liberal:

    My new computer has Windows 11 home edition build  22621.1702   and I don’t have a photo editor (Paint)

    Have you tried IrfanView? It doesn’t do some of the things you can do with Paint, (ie. not much), but it does have basic editing tools, and it’s small as far as photo editing software goes. And don’t forget about Gimp – (GNU Image Manipulation software), the poor persons Photoshop. Good luck!

  114. 114.

    WaterGirl

    May 16, 2023 at 6:44 pm

    @Manyakitty: The coked up part or the goo-goo eyes?  Or both?

  115. 115.

    persistentillusion

    May 16, 2023 at 6:44 pm

    @cain: Good Lord, why are you reading that glibertarian rag?  Asked with deep knowledge of their dishonest reporting as a long time COS resident.

  116. 116.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 6:46 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    Here are some I grew last year. Slice them thick and you can roast them, grill them, coat them and fry them, scoop them out and stuff them…

    The “gray” ones are fine raw, which is probably my favorite way to have them.  They are firm, if not exactly crisp, when raw and avoid the sliminess that a lot of people don’t like about zucchini.

  117. 117.

    Jackie

    May 16, 2023 at 6:50 pm

    @Quinerly: She’s been dating a RWNJ radio host or podcaster since last fall.

    As for Boebert, she won’t be single long; as a 36 yr old gun toting gramma, she’ll be hot property. //

  118. 118.

    eversor

    May 16, 2023 at 6:51 pm

    For zucchini we tend to stay away from what most eat and go with a few things.

    • Japanese style with onions.  This is a stir fry so prepare for calories
    • Japanese katsu style.  This is breaded in panko flakes and fried but is always a hit with people.
    • Chinese spicy stir fry style.  This is really good and can be cranked up to nuclear.
    • Pickle the hell out of it.  IMHO this is the best as it will keep for ages.  As we grow our own (reaper, ghost, habenero) hot peppers making it super spicy is easy.  While you can do this in the fridge with vinegar we have fermenting crocks and use that.  IMHO fermenting is the better process but then people come into our home and realize it stinks like fermented stuff from kimchi, to pickles, to fish.
  119. 119.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    May 16, 2023 at 6:52 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Boebert and MTG basically left their small towns and started interacting with the monied and powerful. By comparison, their husbands seem pretty mediocre. Plus, they do have their fans. Its easy to let all that go to their heads. Most conservative men I have known wouldn’t have tolerated playing second fiddle to their wives. I wonder if something similar happened with Palin too.

  120. 120.

    prostratedragon

    May 16, 2023 at 6:56 pm

    Love eggplant. In my own cooking it’s usually caponata or a pasta sautee with zuchini/summer squash such has been described. Have learned to make a good babaghanous and destroyed the kitchen a couple of times making moussaka. Loved every Chinese-style eggplant dish I’ve ever had. Can hardly imagine having too much of this kind of stuff.

     

    And yet, as I read the thread, the words, “Would you like kudzu with that?” wandered through my mind.

  121. 121.

    eversor

    May 16, 2023 at 7:00 pm

    @prostratedragon:

    https://zaatarandzaytoun.com/makdous/

    Lebanese stuffed and pickled eggplant.  It’s rather good.  Easy to make but takes time to age.  Or you can buy it premade from a takeout or even in a jar from Labanese place.

  122. 122.

    JWR

    May 16, 2023 at 7:09 pm

    @NotMax:

    For the average Jane or Joe, IMHO Irfanview is an easier to grok tool (metaphorically speaking) right out of the box.

    Like you, I’ve been using both IrfanView and Gimp since forever. Only thing about the former is when you d/l the complete, updated Extensions package, there’s a slightly annoying delay when opening certain files. And they’re both fweee!

  123. 123.

    persistentillusion

    May 16, 2023 at 7:14 pm

    @persistentillusion: Followed your link and answered my own question.  Some poor sap at The Daily Beast has reading it as part of their job.

  124. 124.

    Miss Bianca

    May 16, 2023 at 7:17 pm

    @cain: Aww – couldn’t happen to a nicer pair of psychopaths.

    I do feel sorry for the guy serving the papers, tho. And the dogs, too, come to think of it. I bet the Boobert fuckers mistreat their dogs as well as their kids and their neighbors.

  125. 125.

    Roger Moore

    May 16, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    @Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:

    Most conservative men I have known wouldn’t have tolerated playing second fiddle to their wives.

    I’m sure this is at least part of it.  It’s an inherent tension within the conservative movement.  They want to and need to appeal to more than just straight White Christian men (SWCM), which means letting women, minorities, LGBTQ people, etc. have success within the movement.  But at the same time, the movement is really built around SWCM supremacy, so letting anyone but a SWCM be successful is in some sense a betrayal of the movement.  It has to grate on the SWCM who lose out that they’ve lost out.

    I also wonder if this is part of the Hillary Clinton hate.  She actually succeeded in one of the few genuinely approved ways for conservative women to succeed, by helping her husband.  In so many ways, she is actually living the life they say women are supposed to live.  She put her own ambitions on the back burner to help Bill, forgave him and worked to make their marriage succeed when he had affairs, and did a fantastic job as a mother.  She did everything they’re supposed to do, but didn’t need to subscribe to their exact worldview in order to do it.

  126. 126.

    Miss Bianca

    May 16, 2023 at 7:21 pm

    @Roger Moore: Second the GIMP recommendation. My only complaint is that it runs better on Pal D’s Linux set-up than on my Mac OS – it crashes the Mac every so often. Other than that, it’s all good, and you’re right – way more bells and whistles than I really need!

    @Quinerly: Maybe Boobert and MTG are the ones hooking up? Eww…I think I need to order myself some brain bleach..

    ETA: I see I’m not the only one whose mind devolves straight to the gutter…

  127. 127.

    karen marie

    May 16, 2023 at 7:23 pm

    @Betty Cracker:   I’m definitely making up for lost time!

    What food item/items were you deprived of?  May be a good topic for a thread.  I LOVE FOOD.  If I can’t eat it, I love talking about it

    @Miki: You poor thing!

  128. 128.

    There go two miscreants

    May 16, 2023 at 7:27 pm

    @Spanky: Rule 34 still is in effect.

    I had to check to make sure this wasn’t about the zucchini

  129. 129.

    MazeDancer

    May 16, 2023 at 7:30 pm

    Donna Deegan likely to be first woman elected mayor of Jacksonville tonight.

    Florida man SteveSchale says:

    Unless something I’m not seeing, Deegan has it won. Only 15k or so left to count & she’s up 10k

  130. 130.

    RinaX

    May 16, 2023 at 7:33 pm

    Yes! Suck it, Dirty Daniel Davis! Thank you, Jacksonville! Go Donna Deegan! Thank God this city didn’t go for the BS!

  131. 131.

    MazeDancer

    May 16, 2023 at 7:33 pm

    Split Ticket – and others – calling it for Deegan.

    Noting Jacksonville the largest city in America with a GOP mayor. Not anymore!

  132. 132.

    Miss Bianca

    May 16, 2023 at 7:34 pm

    @There go two miscreants: OMG – thank goodness I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that!

    I actually remember seeing a really weird cult classic pron-o movie  that featured some…creative…uses for a zucchini. Or maybe it was a cucumber. Can’t remember now, I’m just sort of breaking into a slightly queasy sweat thinking about it.

  133. 133.

    gwangung

    May 16, 2023 at 7:43 pm

    @Roger Moore:I also wonder if this is part of the Hillary Clinton hate.  She actually succeeded in one of the few genuinely approved ways for conservative women to succeed, by helping her husband.  In so many ways, she is actually living the life they say women are supposed to live.  She put her own ambitions on the back burner to help Bill, forgave him and worked to make their marriage succeed when he had affairs, and did a fantastic job as a mother.  She did everything they’re supposed to do, but didn’t need to subscribe to their exact worldview in order to do it.

    This applies to Obama, too. Played by their rules, won and did well…and they HATED him for it.

  134. 134.

    Another Scott

    May 16, 2023 at 7:46 pm

    Meanwhile, … Whitehouse.gov:

    Q Anything about the border that you want to say?

    THE PRESIDENT: It’s looking much better.

    Q The border?

    THE PRESIDENT: It’s looking much better.

    Q Getting much better?

    THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, you see it.

    Q Does Texas get any credit for that?

    THE PRESIDENT: (Laughs.) Give me a break.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  135. 135.

    Ruckus

    May 16, 2023 at 7:47 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    I was being slightly sarcastic…..

    A lot of things in the world can get better. Quite a few things in the world NEED to get better. It is always possible that they can go the other way just as or even easier, being as humans are involved.

  136. 136.

    Baud

    May 16, 2023 at 7:58 pm

    @Another Scott:

    Good on Biden, but who even thinks to ask that question?

  137. 137.

    CaseyL

    May 16, 2023 at 8:06 pm

    I’m waiting for someone here to post a zucchini dish recipe that involves slicing it carefully, putting it in a separate bowl while you mix all the other ingredients, and then – the crucial step! – throwing out the zucchini :)

  138. 138.

    Betty Cracker

    May 16, 2023 at 8:11 pm

    Holy shit!

    Democrat Donna Deegan will serve as the first female mayor of Jacksonville..

    After months of hard campaigning and millions of dollars spent between both sides, Degan won the highly contested election against Republican Daniel Davis.

    This is like Cousin Lee showing up sober to a wedding! Maybe the backlash thing is real.

  139. 139.

    Spanish Moss

    May 16, 2023 at 8:17 pm

    I love, love, love zucchini! My car is always unlocked, but unfortunately nobody has ever left me a gift of zucchini in it. This is a great recipe that I make often:

    https://ottolenghi.co.uk/recipes/turkey-courgette-burgers-with-spring-onion-cumin-a

  140. 140.

    eversor

    May 16, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    MTG is on record for cheating on her husband with multiple partners during the crossfit days, Palin started getting some on the side the moment she left Alaska and is now fucking sports players in NYC with photos taken of the dates, Boebert doesn’t have such confirmed things but the information is there.  She just doesn’t have photographic evidence of hanging out with people along with “yeah, we fucked” testimony to back it up.

    This isn’t isolated to women but “person goes to city, starts sleeping around” is pretty much what does happen.  It’s as common as “preacher fucked a kid”, or “actress/actor turns to porn star in LA” it’s just what happens.  It’s why you keep your head down about your social life.  That was Cawthorns fuck up to admit all these high powered people in DC were doing coke and sleeping around.  No shit.  Everyone here knows that and you can find them doing that at bars but everyone keeps shut about it.  The problem Cawthron, Beobert, Gaetz, MTG, Palin, and more made for themselves is turning it all into a public circus.  At which point it will get looked at.

    Fucking Graham’s sexual exploits up too and including his ass moles are common information here.  That a bunch of country bumpkins came to the big city and landed their ass in trouble when they didn’t realize the actual non said rules is expected.  That the current crop of GOP morons are women has nothing to do with it.  Morons are morons.

  141. 141.

    Baud

    May 16, 2023 at 8:35 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    👍

  142. 142.

    WaterGirl

    May 16, 2023 at 8:36 pm

    @Roger Moore: I do not like zucchini raw, but I have never tried those raw. Maybe I’ll try it.  Maybe. :-)

  143. 143.

    WaterGirl

    May 16, 2023 at 8:44 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    This is like Cousin Lee showing up sober to a wedding!

    I love that so much.  Is that a Betty Cracker original, or is that a phrase I have just not heard before.  Or, I suppose, you could have a Cousin Lee! :-)

  144. 144.

    cain

    May 16, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Perhaps they will each take advantage of the bumper crop of zucchinis.

  145. 145.

    cain

    May 16, 2023 at 8:47 pm

    @Scout211: Good to see ADL out there. But where is AIPAC?

  146. 146.

    cain

    May 16, 2023 at 8:48 pm

    @gene108: Surprised his marriage survived that last thing about affairs with underaged women?

  147. 147.

    Jackie

    May 16, 2023 at 8:51 pm

    @Betty Cracker: That’s wonderful news!!! I wonder what Pudd’n Boots reaction is/will be. I hope it’s a cannonball shot to the anti-woke momentum.

  148. 148.

    karen marie

    May 16, 2023 at 8:56 pm

    @cain: You’re kidding, right?  Gaetz’s marriage was bullshit from the start – the wedding took place when the news broke that there was evidence that he was fucking underage young women.  What’s in it for her?  Probably a pile of money from dad that she wouldn’t otherwise see until after his death.

  149. 149.

    Manyakitty

    May 16, 2023 at 10:05 pm

    @WaterGirl: both, lolol. Admittedly, she’s on the old side for him, but it sure looked like it.

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