Food Thread: Raccoons, Brisket, And Latkes...A Match Made In Heaven!

America took the brisket to the heights of culinary excellence when we figured out how to smoke it. But that is the gold standard of barbecue, and there are lots of examples of mediocre, dry, bland, stringy smoked brisket to be had in barbecue joints across the nation. Not so much in Texas, but even there it isn't always perfect.

Braising brisket is another thing entirely. Braising in general is pretty easy, but when you start with a cut that has a fair amount of fat, and needs a lot of time to become tender, braising is the way to go.

However, it seems like brisket is the red-headed stepchild of braising. Pot Roast is America's sweetheart, and everyone's mother made it. That's usually a chuck roast, or even shoulder (clod). How come brisket isn't in the forefront? It is an inexpensive cut, is forgiving, and comes in large sizes so it is perfect for big dinners.

I made one for Hanukkah, and it turned out very well. No particular recipe, other than using a lot of onions (2+ pounds!) and carrots and celery. And I cheated and used some homemade beef stock (remember the Yorkshire pudding from last week...). It was tender and tasty and the gravy (sauce?) was flavorful. Just about exactly what I wanted.

But...there is a ton of gravy left over! All of those vegetables converted very nicely into liquid, so what's a fellow to do?

Of course I just bought a couple of pounds of chuck and am in the midst of making a stew. That's what a fellow should do!

So from one brisket I am getting about 20 meals. Not bad!

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Organic food is a scam. It is inefficient, more expensive for the consumer, and the only benefit is the virtue signalling that pompous hipsters wield as they brag about their free-range strawberries and organic lamb lips.

But there is a dangerous downside to the developed world's desire to one-up the neighbors. All of that land dedicated to organics could be producing more food at a lower cost!

Factory Farming is Better Than Organic Farming

Read the whole thing...there aren't any money shots because the entire article is worthwhile.

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Cleaning cast-iron pans is a challenge. Dish soap tends to erode the painstakingly earned nonstick coating, so elbow grease is the preferred way to clean.

That thing is simply a square of chain mail, and it works wonders on my cast-iron pans! It's fantastic! Of course there is some knight who has a very obvious weak spot in his armor, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to make.

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Lurker "RTW" sent me this, and it is one of those foods that sounds pretty awful, but might actually be delicious. Smoked Bacon Wrapped Oreos? I will admit that I would try one. Or four. Smoked bacon is delicious. Oreos are good. Why not combine them? Lots of reasons, but I can't think of any right now.
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Legette on the @StBrownPodcast talking about eating “Coon”… bro their reactions 😭🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/v5j0pvXDsS
— 𓃮 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙖 𝙋𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙙𝙚 𓃮 (@CPPfanfromtheD) December 11, 2024

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Latkes are deep fried potato pancakes, traditionally served during Hanukkah. They are also a messy pain in the *ss to make, because stove-top frying is the worst sort of cooking for anyone who likes a clean kitchen. But this recipe (sort of) fries them in the oven, which is great, because ovens often have cleaning cycles that work very well! Besides, they also have doors, so no matter how dirty they are, you can just close the oven door...like you close your bedroom door when company comes over!

Shockingly Crisp Baked Latkes

Good recipe, excellent technique!They were tasty and crisp when made fresh, and even today, out of the refrigerator, they had a bit of crunch. I recommend it.

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Compostable storage bags? Talk about virtue-signalling bullsh*t!

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What the hell happened to all the vegetables? And send me garlic that isn't grown in heavy metals and human waste in China, well-marbled hanger steaks and elk chops to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

~~Who are those poor deluded souls~~ We know who shake their Manhattans! These are the same people who drink fine bourbon with coke, and probably shake red wine with ice too.

$1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty of fifty years, but it is worth it!

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM

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1 Food fight

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

2 Good afternoon food threadists.

Just putting in the standing rib roast.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 04:02 PM (WXNFJ)

3 I have some chicken thighs and going to do something I wouldn't do this time of year. Grill them.
Better get on it while it's reasonably nice outside

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 04:02 PM (fwDg9)

4 The content was stupendous.
What a rookie!

Thanks for the food thread CBD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 29, 2024 04:03 PM (7VJFP)

5 I am told that you have to get the glands off the back legs of the coons when you field dress them, otherwise the meat tasted worse.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 04:04 PM (D7oie)

6 Amazing dinner for guests last night...

So, now, leftovers being used as is and repurposed today. Using the beef tallow to fry a mashed potato pancake (with green onion, garlic, a few TB flour and 2 eggs into my leftover mash and then dipped in panko)...

Cooked the ribs from the rib roast today, and then having the leftover rare rib roast meat as well. And having roasted carrots and the leftovers of the raw fruit and veg tray.

Used up the leftover roasted bell peppers, poblanos, and mushrooms with some sauteed onion and garlic and tomatoes with my Christmas homemade duck broth into grits for lunch. Again, grits are a conduit, never a recipe. These were awesome...

Gonna be ready to reshop tomorrow for New Year's and my 3rd guest visit on NYD...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 29, 2024 04:05 PM (exHjb)

7 Mmm...brisket.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2024 04:06 PM (Wnv9h)

8 I use a stainless steel scrubber for the pans. It works well. It looks like those copper scrubbers you can find, but it is a little more durable

It was sort of a slog to get my wife OK with washing the cast iron, it is heavy for her, but her first husband was a jackass and yelled at her for washing one with water.
Pro-tip, properly seasoned pans can be washed with soap and water if you insist on it.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 04:07 PM (D7oie)

9 I made an asparagus strudel for dinner guests Fri night. Phyllo is a pia to work with, but the results outstanding.

Served with a prime rib roast, mushrooms, taters, salad and a green peppercorn sauce made with homemade demi glacé.

Pumpkin tiramisu and rum cake.

Very time consuming, but it was lovely to set the table with the good china and wine glasses and silver and celebrate with friends.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 04:09 PM (mT+6a)

10 Are the organic lamb lips ethically-sourced?

Posted by: Karen, at Whole Foods at December 29, 2024 04:10 PM (PiwSw)

11 One of the solutions proffered in the factory farming article is that people need to be stopped from growing food however they choose.

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 04:11 PM (Sf2cq)

12 Just discovered the hanger steak cut in the past year. What a delicious piece of meat!

Organic veggies are fine for those who like stuff that's shriveled and partially chewed up by insects.

Posted by: Paco at December 29, 2024 04:11 PM (mADJX)

13 Pro-tip, properly seasoned pans can be washed with soap and water if you insist on it.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 04:07 PM (D7oie)

Certainly. And sometimes it's unavoidable. When I do, I use very little soap. However, I also reseason every year or so, so it isn't an existential cast-iron crisis.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:12 PM (d9fT1)

14 Haven't got a damn thing in the house. Thinking of heading out to a local kitchen/ bar that has good fish and chips.

Posted by: From about That Time at December 29, 2024 04:13 PM (4780s)

15 Speaking of breaking taboos: I got a brisket a couple of months ago, cut it into smaller chunks to freeze, and then one at a time pickled them with sugar cure in ziplock bags for a couple of weeks in the back of the fridge, then cooked each one up in the crock pot with water to cover. They come out still too salty, so they need to be cooled. sliced, then simmered again to get the extra salt out and then used in hash, or with gravy and taters, or used in sandwiches.

Smoking is not a skill I have, but this way is very tasty.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 04:13 PM (D7oie)

16 Afternoon.

Apologies to CBD but Jimmy Carter FINALLY tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/4crewadp

Posted by: Robert at December 29, 2024 04:13 PM (1Yy3c)

17 Just discovered the hanger steak cut in the past year. What a delicious piece of meat!

I saw that scene in "Goodfellas"!!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 04:14 PM (WXNFJ)

18 I visited distant Dwarven relatives during the holidays and their Mithril eggs-over-easy were some of the best I had in Middle Earth in a long time.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 04:15 PM (/MR36)

19 The really dangerous downside to organic** crops is bad bacteria from the 'organic' fertilizer (read crap).

If one is concerned with land usage then one could argue against nature reserves too.

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**organic to me is something made out of carbon and other elements. Not a farming description.
I'm all for nature reserves and game parks. Kruger National Park is fantastic.

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickory Dickory Moose Trap at December 29, 2024 04:15 PM (i0xsb)

20 I just finished of the last of the "Jewish Brisket" from San Zein's cookbook, using his leftover recipe for grilled cheese sandwich.

I prefer it over BBQ.

But yikes. I will never ever cook that much meat again.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:16 PM (ZmEVT)

21 Factory Farming article:

"It’s a complicated system. We no longer, however, have the luxury of just letting everyone do what they want to do and what they think is in their best interest. Optimally there would be some voluntary coordination for the world’s agricultural system to maximize efficiency and minimize land use. This can come through science-based standards, and funding to help poorer countries have access to more modern farming techniques, rather than just converting more land for inefficient farming."

At least they mention "voluntary" coordination, but we all know what that turns into.

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 04:17 PM (Sf2cq)

22 Another devil was needed in hell.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:17 PM (ZmEVT)

23
Apologies to CBD but Jimmy Carter FINALLY tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/4crewadp

Posted by: Robert at December 29, 2024 04:13 PM

another grim milestone for the biden-harris administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 29, 2024 04:18 PM (tljrc)

24 16 Afternoon.

Apologies to CBD but Jimmy Carter FINALLY tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/4crewadp
Posted by: Robert at December 29, 2024 04:13 PM (1Yy3c)

Peanut dishes for the week are in order...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 29, 2024 04:18 PM (exHjb)

25 One of the solutions proffered in the factory farming article is that people need to be stopped from growing food however they choose.

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 04:11 PM (Sf2cq)

That flows from his supposition that organic farming is less efficient, therefore immoral from the point of view of starvation caused by that inefficiency. I disagree with that, but it is a defensible position.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:18 PM (d9fT1)

26 2 soft boiled eggs and toast for this sick girl tonight. Have had some kind of cruddy bug since Tuesday. Feel better today but still not 100%. It sure put a damper on my enjoyment of the son's standing rib roast and Yorkshire pudding Christmas dinner.

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 04:19 PM (oaGWv)

27 We are unwilling to believe that the women of America are slackers, in other words, traitors to our beloved country and its beautiful emblem, within whose folds are wrapped all that makes existence worth while. A woman, if there be such, who says, “I will not use corn in place of wheat,” who says, “I will not save a teaspoonful of sugar each day,” who says, “I will eat beef, mutton and pork daily,” is as truly a traitor to her country as was Benedict Arnold or Aaron Burr.
—“Win the War” Cook Book, 1918

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 29, 2024 04:20 PM (EXyHK)

28 Just discovered the hanger steak cut in the past year. What a delicious piece of meat!

Posted by: Paco at December 29, 2024 04:11 PM (mADJX)

Fist bump!

Try flap steaks if you can find them...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:20 PM (d9fT1)

29 How did you make the braised brisket, CBD?

Recipe please

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 29, 2024 04:21 PM (Wx316)

30 "organic" farming as the USDA defines it, is regulatory capture bullshit, so of course just about anything is better and cheaper.

But this is also bullshit:
>>> 11 One of the solutions proffered in the factory farming article is that people need to be stopped from growing food however they choose.
Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 04:11 PM (Sf2cq)

Nothing wrong with trying to do things more efficiently but when that's the *only* concern, the product may not be as good as claimed.

And I'm too lazy to expand on this further in the little grey box before heading to the "factory" grocery store...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at December 29, 2024 04:21 PM (YTktQ)

31 I have eaten a bale
Of spinach and kale,
And I’ve never raised a row.
I have swallowed a can
Of moistened bran,
And feel like a brindle cow.
I am taking a snack
From the old haystack,
In the evening shadows gray,
And I’m glad, you bet,
At last to get
To the end of a meatless day.
—Washington Star, as quoted in the 1918 “Win the War” Cook Book

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 29, 2024 04:22 PM (EXyHK)

32 Apologies to CBD but Jimmy Carter FINALLY tits up.

https://tinyurl.com/4crewadp
Posted by: Robert

Anyway

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 04:22 PM (oaGWv)

33 If you want to talk about land destruction, look at what solar panels and wind farms do to the land underneath them.

Green energy is bs. A giant money laundering scheme.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 04:22 PM (mT+6a)

34
*Apologies to CBD but Jimmy Carter FINALLY tits up.*

Another grim milestone for the Biden - Emhoff administration.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at December 29, 2024 04:23 PM (dg+HA)

35 Oven frying is a great technique. It's how my mom fried chicken for a family of six kids.

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at December 29, 2024 04:23 PM (kOluj)

36 Finally, I am trying to work up a recipe for German Broetchen rolls for a friend. He thought the first batch was close, but not really Broetchen. I think the problem is the hard red wheat has too much gluten to get properly flaky, so I made a follow up batch yesterday with pastry flour.
My wife liked it so much she decided she would eat those for breakfast as long as they lasted, instead of the bagels she bought.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 04:24 PM (D7oie)

37 On that factory farming article, I did read the whole thing. The penultimate paragraph is rather lacking with its prescription for a "science" based solution of cooperation that "optimally" would be "voluntary", along with throwing money and technology at poor countries to get them to go along. Those words worked out so well in Sri Lanka and the Netherlands to promote organic farming. I have little expectation they will work out well to promote factory farming, which the new UK tax is projected to achieve.

Posted by: Sam at December 29, 2024 04:24 PM (7jMef)

38 Carter finally going to that big peanut farm in the sky.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 29, 2024 04:25 PM (kpS4V)

39 Got one of those chain mail thingies in my Christmas stocking this year.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 29, 2024 04:25 PM (hoCmQ)

40 You can freeze that sauce/gravy stuff, CBD.

Also, I have recently discovered a YouTube channel called Early American. This lady cooks meals from very old recipes and does it the way it would have been in the late 1700's to early 1800's, in a fireplace. The woman knows how to use a cast iron dutch oven correctly!

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2024 04:26 PM (4XwPj)

41 😃 Bet his meeting God isn't going well

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 04:26 PM (fwDg9)

42 Joel Salatin has been tapped by Thomas Massey to work under him in the dept Agriculture.

Salatin has been very loud about regenerative farming, which is not organic, but does focus on the health of the land.

If you are interested, this is his website

https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com/

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 04:28 PM (D7oie)

43 This calls for a celebration drink

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 04:29 PM (fwDg9)

44 *Apologies to CBD but Jimmy Carter FINALLY tits up.*

Another grim milestone for the Biden - Emhoff administration.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

They're going to need to bury him double deep so can't stink out the place. That sanctimonious prick fucked my life up more ways that I can count when he was president. Biden's going to have to be bearing 10 times deep cuz he such a corrupt son of a bitch; to outdo Carter take some real stupidity and then there's Biden who managed to be worse by magnitudes.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 29, 2024 04:29 PM (lEyUm)

45 33 If you want to talk about land destruction, look at what solar panels and wind farms do to the land underneath them.

Green energy is bs. A giant money laundering scheme.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 04:22 PM (mT+6a)
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And no one mentions the huge concrete bases to hold those windmills. They go deep and practically indestructible and too expensive to remove when the wind farm goes belly-up.

Posted by: Ciampino - Hickory Dickory Moose Traps at December 29, 2024 04:30 PM (i0xsb)

46 I pray that Jimmy Carter ends up in Protestant Heaven.

Not like Catholic Heaven with feasting and wine and mariachi band and Irish fist-fighting.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:30 PM (ZmEVT)

47 I agree with most of the points in the article
Factory Farming is Better Than Organic Farming
But one line stuck out like a fist to the face:

“We no longer, however, have the luxury of just letting everyone do what they want to do and what they think is in their best interest.“

Oh yeah, you and what man’s army? I will grow what I see fit on my farms, you can tend your own. But you come to me with your demands how I run mine, and it’s FAFO time!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 29, 2024 04:30 PM (ZVgZ4)

48 Gilroy, California is known as the Garlic Capitol. Good stuff, never paid any attention to it. Till it became NLA.

I don’t get it. I’m willing to pay the extra .25c ; but the grocers don’t carry it. The stuff available now, it just isn’t any good. F&$ckers

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 04:30 PM (Lqx3s)

49 Madame Mayhem, Early American channel is very interesting, I have read it on and off. Neither of them can actually act, which makes it nicer.
I bet one day they will buy a second camera for close ins on the hand work.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 04:31 PM (D7oie)

50 Jimmy is mort. Is bubba next?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 29, 2024 04:31 PM (O8bOp)

51 On the bacon smoked Oreos...I gotta think they are subpar. The fat from the bacon is just gonna fully soak the cookie, sogging it.

Dates and Figs are better for bacon wrapping, just b/c they don't soak in the fat like a cookie would.

I mean, an Oreo is already a thing. Now, you take the bacon and all the fat, which normally runs away when you're eating bacon straight up, is in the cookie.

Eh...I think separate, but equal, is the play here...if you want a bacon smoked Oreo...smoke the bacon and then take a piece and add it on top of your Oreo before you bite it...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 29, 2024 04:31 PM (exHjb)

52 They're reporting that Jimmy Carter has died. Gird your loins for Trump to be compared unfavorably to him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent at December 29, 2024 04:32 PM (L/fGl)

53 Jimmy Carter: The good die young.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:32 PM (ZmEVT)

54 43 This calls for a celebration drink
Posted by: Skip

Agreed!

Cheers! Rot in hell, Carter.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 04:32 PM (mT+6a)

55 Jimmy has a lot of of work against Israel to atone for

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 04:32 PM (fwDg9)

56 In other news, Jimmy Carter will continue to vote Democrat.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 29, 2024 04:32 PM (ZVgZ4)

57 Our 40 year old Cephalon pan set is looking pretty sad so I talked the Betterhalf into a set of tri-clad induction ready pans (made in Brazil). She's still using the old set for everything... sigh...
New plan: Induction range arriving Jan 10th. The old set will not work on it.
(I have no idea if she'll move to cooking on the 2nd kitchen that was here when we moved in!)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 29, 2024 04:32 PM (7VJFP)

58
Won the Nobel Peace Prize for criticizing the United States. Yay, Jimmuh!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 04:32 PM (dxSpM)

59 I know a brisket aficionado and he said there's some magic to making brisket in which you have to get the core of the meat to a certain temp for an extended time to make it super tender and start some chemical reaction. But smoking can only get it so high and direct heat will ruin it.

So at the right time they take it out of the smoker, wrap it in something, then put it in an insulated cooler. Then at that point it keeps cooking and the core temp goes up?? My college thermo prof wouldn't be too happy about that. Then towards the end they put it back in the smoker to finish. A whole day process. Or you start the night before.

But anyway, it seems like magic and lots of work.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 29, 2024 04:33 PM (Y6IkP)

60 My slow-cooked, pulled pork was a big tender, delicious hit, and the rich, meaty flavor of the leftover juices thus far add a whole new level of texture and complexity in the year-end beef stew.

'Tis the season!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 04:33 PM (/MR36)

61 Daughter home for holidays from Europe. She handed me my cast iron chain mail scrubber and suggested it would make a fantastic stocking stuffer for my favorite (only) daughter.

What's a dad to do?

Posted by: RS at December 29, 2024 04:33 PM (E7m29)

62 What is NLA?

I pay very close attention to the garlic that I buy.

I am "sick and tired" of buying a bulb to find many, many tiny cloves.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:33 PM (ZmEVT)

63 Tonight is hot bbq roast beef and cheddar on King's Hawaiian rolls.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2024 04:33 PM (RIvkX)

64 The brisket looks A-may-zing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 29, 2024 04:34 PM (RIvkX)

65 what solar panels and wind farms do to the land underneath them. Green energy is bs. A giant money laundering scheme. Posted by: nurse ratched

All the states that have banned fossil fuels are planning on having New Mexico and Arizona supplying all their virtue energy.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 29, 2024 04:34 PM (lEyUm)

66 What's a dad to do?

Put it in her stocking dumbshit.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:34 PM (ZmEVT)

67

Cheers!!!! I'm really enjoying my celebratory drink, thanks to the Carter news.

Posted by: four seasons at December 29, 2024 04:35 PM (3ek7K)

68
Not like Catholic Heaven with feasting and wine and mariachi band and Irish fist-fighting.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:30 PM (ZmEVT)

________

"Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!"

- Hilaire Belloc

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 04:35 PM (dxSpM)

69 58
Won the Nobel Peace Prize for criticizing the United States. Yay, Jimmuh!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 04:32 PM (dxSpM)

They have a prize for that now? Quelle Surprise

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 29, 2024 04:36 PM (2NXcZ)

70 Clean cast iron with coarse / kosher salt.

Beautiful brisket!

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 04:36 PM (NFX2v)

71 Nice looking dinner, there.

Posted by: long night ending, dawn in January at December 29, 2024 04:36 PM (2NXcZ)

72 My cousin raises beef cattle and is taking a couple to the meat locker for slaughter and butchering. She had a quarter that wasn't spoken for and asked if we would be interested. I of course said yes! In a few weeks we will get between 250 to 300 pounds of beef wrapped.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 29, 2024 04:36 PM (4XwPj)

73 54 43 This calls for a celebration drink
Posted by: Skip

Damn right it does.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 29, 2024 04:37 PM (dg+HA)

74 "Put it in her stocking dumbshit."

Well, we skipped that part and it went straight into the luggage for the return trip to Europe. She said she'd just tell EU Customs she's making a skirt.

Posted by: RS at December 29, 2024 04:37 PM (E7m29)

75 Is the feast of the Lord a metaphor?

I really, really want to be at a banquet with the Lord with the choicest wines and succulent meats.

Yeah, I know that these are carnal desires. But they are not illicit desires.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:38 PM (ZmEVT)

76 > So from one brisket I am getting about 20 meals.
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That's awesome.

But... what if it's just the two of us and it's the kids coming over to mooch off us, and don't eat... braised meats, stews, or anything not remotely like something from Burger King or Olive Garden?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 04:38 PM (Q4IgG)

77 My cookware consists of Cuisinart multi-clad and they've been lovely to use over the years, the big red Lodge Dutch oven, a griddle on the gas stove, and the BBQ.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 29, 2024 04:38 PM (lEyUm)

78 All the states that have banned fossil fuels are planning on having New Mexico and Arizona supplying all their virtue energy.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 29, 2024 04:34 PM (lEyUm)

Argentina has declared that they will proceed with modular nuclear reactors, with a focus on supplying energy to the remote areas of the country.
As an aside, during the speech announcing this, President Milei quoted Hunter S Thompson

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 04:38 PM (D7oie)

79 But anyway, it seems like magic and lots of work.

Glen on the Glen & Friends YouTube show has shown how this is done. It is a long process but it doesn’t seem difficult.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 29, 2024 04:39 PM (EXyHK)

80 65 Los Angeles already gets a lot of its energy from power plants that pollute Indian reservations in Arizona.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 29, 2024 04:39 PM (ZVgZ4)

81 I will celebrate Jimmy's passing with a Manhattan shaken by Dwarves in their Middle Earth habitat.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 04:39 PM (/MR36)

82 Victory! I found non-Chinese garlic at the grocery store!

It's Peruvian. That's okay, right?

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 04:39 PM (Sf2cq)

83 Clean cast iron with coarse / kosher salt.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 04:36 PM (NFX2v)

I use both!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:40 PM (d9fT1)

84

The breaking news alert on my home page says, Jimmy Carter, 39th US President and noted HUMANITARIAN has died.

There was nothing human about him.

Posted by: four seasons at December 29, 2024 04:41 PM (3ek7K)

85 I will celebrate Jimmy's passing with a Manhattan shaken by Dwarves in their Middle Earth habitat.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 04:39 PM (/MR36)

On such a happy occasion, I guess that's allowed...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:41 PM (d9fT1)

86 I got a sleeve of USA garlic at Walmart. Big cloves. I am happy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:41 PM (ZmEVT)

87 banana Dream--

Your brisket-loving friend is talking about what smokers know as "the stall" and that technique is a classic way of overcoming it.

But in my experience, sous viding the brisket before smoking works better with less aggravation.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 29, 2024 04:41 PM (FEVMW)

88 Ding dong,
The peanut's dead.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 04:42 PM (mT+6a)

89 I made a wonderful prime roast beef for Christmas dinner.

I also made one large Yorkshire pudding using the drippings, in an 8" cast iron skillet.

Other sides were my Caesar salad (my son has always raved over it, and now his bride loves it, too), and mashed potatoes with sour cream and parmesan.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 04:42 PM (4tmpE)

90 The chinesium garlic has an off flavor, like so many ersatz. Sort of derivative. It isn’t as strong, however, when something is inferior to begin with making it stronger just makes it taste worse.

I’m no foodie either. Where is all the Gilroy garlic going? I should grow my own. Pretty easy, sow the bulbs in the fall. Hope that doesn’t invoke the ire of the “experts” who know what’s best for us.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 04:42 PM (2OKI5)

91 I got a sleeve of USA garlic at Walmart. Big cloves. I am happy.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

I love big cloves and I cannot lie!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 04:42 PM (WXNFJ)

92 It's Peruvian. That's okay, right?

One of my favorite cookbooks is Peruvian. A Russian Jew Cooks in Peru. Great food.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 29, 2024 04:43 PM (EXyHK)

93 My gmom made pot roast with brisket. Might be a German thing. I agree it’s superior to other cuts for pot roast.

I’ve eaten raccoon. Its tasty. Would eat again.

That dude in the video talking about eating raccoon … that’s not a real guy, is it? No human in 2024 could talk like that. He’s like Wayan Bros caricature.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 29, 2024 04:43 PM (kmjdo)

94 No. Fight me. Chuck roast is for pot roast.

Fat is flavor.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:45 PM (ZmEVT)

95 83 Clean cast iron with coarse / kosher salt.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 04:36 PM (NFX2v)

I use both!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:40 P

Salt will clean a glass coffee pot too. Salt and ice and swirl. The stains come right off.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 29, 2024 04:45 PM (p4SQR)

96 76 > So from one brisket I am getting about 20 meals.
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That's awesome.

But... what if it's just the two of us and it's the kids coming over to mooch off us, and don't eat... braised meats, stews, or anything not remotely like something from Burger King or Olive Garden?
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 04:38 PM (Q4IgG)

Put it in a bun and have ketchup, mustard, and pickles handy?

Posted by: Nova Local at December 29, 2024 04:46 PM (exHjb)

97 I’ll celebrate Jimmy’s death by taking a big shit

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 29, 2024 04:47 PM (kmjdo)

98 Brisket...mmmmm. Leftover Christmas prime rib and ham are gone. Tonight doing hot Italian sammiches. Junior loves them and they are easy to make.

Posted by: scampydog at December 29, 2024 04:47 PM (41CYW)

99 Carter ruined millions of lives around the globe, but hammering some boards for a photo op on a few shacks totally made up for it.

Herbert Hoover, now there was a great Humanitarian. Highly respected around the world, unlike the peanut farmer.

I’ll give Carter this much, his team totally rooked everybody. They gamed out the silly Caucus system very effectively.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 04:47 PM (2OKI5)

100 Okay, upon reflection, perhaps a very slow roasted brisket could be a good pot roast.

I have been a fool before and prejudged. I will not do that again.

I did have some Smoked pot roast in Charlotte last month. Ay Carumba.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:48 PM (ZmEVT)

101 I made refrigerator rolls on Tuesday for Christmas. Now I’ve been taking out enough for six at a time to make in the toaster oven. What an incredible way to make the house smell great.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 29, 2024 04:48 PM (EXyHK)

102 But... what if it's just the two of us and it's the kids coming over to mooch off us, and don't eat... braised meats, stews, or anything not remotely like something from Burger King or Olive Garden?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 04:38 PM (Q4IgG)

Get new kids.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:48 PM (d9fT1)

103 >>>Your brisket-loving friend is talking about what smokers know as "the stall" and that technique is a classic way of overcoming it.

But in my experience, sous viding the brisket before smoking works better with less aggravation.

Posted by: Art Rondelet

>Sucking up to the COBS is barely tolerated during the holiday season.

But I'll make note about the sous vide.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 04:49 PM (/MR36)

104 One of the new guys on our security team at church cleaned all the coffee mugs and coffee pot late last night without authorization (or good sense). As most of the team are vets, this action was met with a great deal of angst and shouting this morning.

He'll probably be assigned to the parking lot until hell freezes over.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 04:50 PM (WXNFJ)

105 Cost of eggs in Colorado is rising with no end in sight. Governor Jarred Penis, a notorious homosexual 'married' to a man who is a radical animal rights fetishist, is responsible

all eggs sold in Colorado must be cage-free, because it makes left wing assholes feel better about themselves

Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 04:50 PM (/7KEl)

106 I made french toast this morning (well, closer to noon). I am still working on my recipe, but this time I added vanilla, cinnamon, milk and a pinch of kosher salt to a dozen eggses.

It turned out well. We added Kerrygold butter and (at the risk of being banned) a bourbon-aged maple syrup. Really good.

Too bad the bacon was shite.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cotton-headed ninny-muggins at December 29, 2024 04:50 PM (Ad8y9)

107 The Duck Breast with Cherries and Port Sauce came out perfectly and for most of the crew was the star of the show for Christmas Dinner.

However, for me, the Grilled Picanha with Salsa Verde took that prize.

Honestly, if there is a tastier piece of beef or meat in general than a properly cooked piranha, I have yet to taste it. And it's stupidly easy to prepare properly.

Buy one today and Picanha-ize yourself post-haste!

The Salsa Verde was from a Gordon Ramsay recipe and not at all like a Mexican salsa. This was more like a Brit dealio made out of capers and mint and parsley and anchovies and mustard and red wine vinegar and garlic and olive oil all bashed together.

I used like he did with a roast tenderloin, which was generously spoon some over the top of the, in this case, picanha right after it finished cooking and was resting. The sauce got sort absorbed by the meat and lent a nice herbal hit to the flavor. The rest of the sauce was available for table use. YUM!!!

Another hit was a Jamie Oliver, the once Nekkid Chef guy's, recipe for Roast Potatoes with Garlic, Sage and Clementine (Orange) peel. That was really great and I'll continue making that.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 04:51 PM (iJfKG)

108 But in my experience, sous viding the brisket before smoking works better with less aggravation.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 29, 2024 04:41 PM (FEVMW)

I have sous vided a brisket to great acclaim! And a friend swore by the technique...he would do a 60 hour cook!

[The Platinum Membership is in the mail]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:51 PM (d9fT1)

109 Get new kids.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Wait until the January White Sales.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 04:52 PM (WXNFJ)

110 But... what if it's just the two of us and it's the kids coming over to mooch off us, and don't eat... braised meats, stews, or anything not remotely like something from Burger King or Olive Garden?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 04:38 PM (Q4IgG)

Get new kids.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:48 PM (d9fT1)
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Burger King tastes like it was cooked in someone’s asshole and shitted onto your plate.

Olive Garden ain’t bad. Is it authentic Italian? No. But as the chain restaurants go, it’s pretty good, and they give you big portions for the $.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 29, 2024 04:53 PM (kmjdo)

111 Jimmy Carter’s death is going to overshadow my comment at 47 about farming, but I do own a 1/3 share in three farms that I share with my brother and sister, so when I say “my” farms, I meant it.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at December 29, 2024 04:54 PM (ZVgZ4)

112 I wonder what Carter's last meal was?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 04:55 PM (D6PGr)

113 Biden is now unchallenged as America's Worst Living President.

Come and pick up your trophy at the cashier's cage, Joe.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 29, 2024 04:55 PM (nOjd9)

114 Hello horde,

Rack of pork going in the pellet stove shortly. Busy day back at the ranch.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 04:55 PM (heexZ)

115 I agree that brisket is gorgeous!

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 04:56 PM (Sf2cq)

116 I know a brisket aficionado and he said there's some magic to making brisket in which you have to get the core of the meat to a certain temp for an extended time to make it super tender and start some chemical reaction. But smoking can only get it so high and direct heat will ruin it.

So at the right time they take it out of the smoker, wrap it in something, then put it in an insulated cooler. Then at that point it keeps cooking and the core temp goes up?? My college thermo prof wouldn't be too happy about that. Then towards the end they put it back in the smoker to finish. A whole day process. Or you start the night before.

But anyway, it seems like magic and lots of work.
Posted by: banana Dream at December 29, 2024 04:33 PM (Y6IkP)

*cough* wood pellet grill and a Bluetooth thermometer *cough*

Science beats "magic" every time.

Also you don't need all that wrapping stupidity. Just maintain a low and slow temp and your brisket will be perfect every time.

Easy peasy.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 04:56 PM (iJfKG)

117 I am actually tickled that Jimmuh's way-overdue demise has not totally derailed the food thread.

I am chuckling.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cotton-headed ninny-muggins at December 29, 2024 04:57 PM (Ad8y9)

118
Another hit was a Jamie Oliver, the once Nekkid Chef guy's, recipe for Roast Potatoes with Garlic, Sage and Clementine (Orange) peel. That was really great and I'll continue making that.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 04:51 PM (iJfKG)

All of this sounds delicious.

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 29, 2024 04:57 PM (eRERE)

119 Get new kids.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:48 PM (d9fT1)

Too late.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at December 29, 2024 04:58 PM (ZmEVT)

120 82 Victory! I found non-Chinese garlic at the grocery store!

It's Peruvian. That's okay, right?

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 04:39 PM (Sf2cq)
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If it's got white powder on it then you can snort your garlic.

Posted by: Ciampino - I dropped my toothpaste, I'm crestfallen at December 29, 2024 04:58 PM (i0xsb)

121 Rack of pork going in the pellet stove shortly. Busy day back at the ranch.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 04:55 PM (heexZ)

That is good eating.

Have you ever Sous Vided a whole rack?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:58 PM (d9fT1)

122 Posted by: Elric Blade at December 29, 2024 04:53 PM (kmjdo)

I like Olive Garden. You can definitely eat a hardy meal with the endless soup and salad. Especially the touscana soup.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 04:59 PM (D6PGr)

123 Our dinner will be the remnants of the vegetable tray, cold cuts, crackers and cheese.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cotton-headed ninny-muggins at December 29, 2024 04:59 PM (Ad8y9)

124 Jimmy's 'Habitat for Humanity' was an awesome initiative.
Ole Jimmy could swing a mean Estwing hammer..
So there's that. Inflation ,hostages and gas lines not so much..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 29, 2024 04:59 PM (wDJaI)

125 Anyway
Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 04:22 PM (oaGWv)

Pretty much where I'm at.
The unqualified backwater governor did start some of the deregulation and Afghan-resistance which Reagan kicked into high gear.
On the other hand... the mullahs. And he left flaming turds all over Central America which Reagan had to clean up.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 29, 2024 04:59 PM (gKWVE)

126 Obama is the worst living president. Maybe the worst ever. Clinton is the 2nd worst living president. That is probably controversial. But hear The Blade out tomorrow when he explains his reasoning.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 29, 2024 04:59 PM (kmjdo)

127 112 I wonder what Carter's last meal was?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 04:55 PM (D6PGr)
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A bag of Ringer's and a glucose drip for dessert.

Posted by: Ciampino - I dropped my toothpaste, I'm crestfallen at December 29, 2024 05:01 PM (i0xsb)

128 all eggs sold in Colorado must be cage-free
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How is this fucking legal? They are trying to dictate to other states, and prohibiting the free exercise of trade. If Iowa sells eggs in Colorado for $2 a dozen, guess what eggs people will purchase?

But they are engaging in an unlawful restraint of trade.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 05:01 PM (jIaF7)

129 Another good use for the braising liquid from a brisket is to brown some ground beef and turn it into bolognese sauce. Or cook some meatballs in it. Lamb meatballs are especially good.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 29, 2024 05:02 PM (78a2H)

130 Absolutely yums😛!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 29, 2024 05:03 PM (L83z3)

131 Carter did broker the Camp David accords which I consider a huge success. How much he had to do with it I don't know but I'm not going to nitpick just because I didn't like him.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:03 PM (D6PGr)

132 Pro tip: never elect a homo as your governor

Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 05:04 PM (/7KEl)

133 Olive Garden may be cheap, but what you're getting is crap so it doesn't matter.

Seriously: it's supposedly an "Italian restaurant." If the food they serve isn't recognizably Italian, and sucks, then it doesn't matter how cheap it is. Go to a diner and get a hamburger instead. It's also cheap, and the diner will make you a _good hamburger_.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 29, 2024 05:05 PM (78a2H)

134 Pro tip: never elect a homo as your governor
Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 05:04 PM (/7KEl)

Fell on deaf ears in my AO.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cotton-headed ninny-muggins at December 29, 2024 05:05 PM (Ad8y9)

135 Obie was unquestionably worst, not so much himself per se, he was an empty suit. The figures behind the administration remain among the more odious figures in modern life. Absolutely vile people and intended that way.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 05:05 PM (jIaF7)

136 Oh, yeah!

Found a new snazzy yet stupidly easy cocktail recipe that you should make tonight cuz it's larrupin'!

Atlas Martini

2 oz gin
0.5 oz Blanc Vermouth
0.5 tsp Champagne vinegar
2 dashes Orange Bitters
1 Lemon Peel

Add all ingredients except lemon to mixing glass with ice
Stir until very well chilled. About 20-25 seconds
Strain into coupe class
Express lemon peel over cocktail, and drop in drink

You're welcome!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (iJfKG)

137 Have you ever Sous Vided a whole rack?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 04:58 PM (d9fT1)

Well, when I was younger I got a very buxom woman into the hot tub. Does that count?

I have not tried to sous vide the pork rack because pellet stove method is delicious and easy. Was thinking of throwing it in a roasting pan for the drippings and potentially pork fat Yorkshire pudding.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (heexZ)

138 "Latkes are deep fried potatoe pancakes,"

CBD has given us a clue about his secret identity.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (CHHv1)

139 Mangiano is supposed to be the finer Italian chain but I actually like Olive Garden better.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (D6PGr)

140 But they are engaging in an unlawful restraint of trade.
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They've been passing every Democrat piece of crap law they can think of over the last few years along with stupid ballot initiatives that only make sense in the cities. I have my own chickens, so it doesn't affect me as much, but I think people are starting to tire of these guys.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (Sk4iO)

141 We live in chicken country and our egg prices are all over the place. Aldi has a sign on the egg fridge with swap-out number digits so they can change the price as often as needed.

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 05:07 PM (Sf2cq)

142 sorry, food thread
I bought the 73% lean ground beef cuz it was on sale

I think the little extra fat makes it taste really good
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I'm going to do a roast in the slow cooker this week, with the cooker set to the PROBE mode

Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 05:07 PM (/7KEl)

143 I wonder what Carter's last meal was?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 04:55 PM (D6PGr)

Peanut butter and jelly sammich. On white bread.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at December 29, 2024 05:07 PM (iODuv)

144 Greetings!
For cleaning non stick pans without damaging them, give them 2-3 tablespoons of baking soda and hot water. Sticky gunk comes right off.
I'd have to be darn near starving to eat raccoon. I go back and forth between hating them and thinking they are cute, but they are omnivores, like bears, which I also would never eat.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 29, 2024 05:07 PM (c6hLR)

145 Posted by: Trimegistus at December 29, 2024 05:05 PM (78a2H)

It's not near as bad as you make it out to be.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:08 PM (D6PGr)

146 Pro tip: never elect a homo as your governor
Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 05:04 PM (/7KEl)

Since Kitzhaber, and honestly since Goldschmidt, being homosexual is pretty much a prerequisite for being the Oregon Governor.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 05:08 PM (D7oie)

147 I'm going to agree that Obama is the worst president, maybe of all time. Others may have been corrupt, or incompetent, but Obama was literally trying to destroy America. We've never had a truly malicious president before. I still daydream about seeing him end his days in jail.

Posted by: Trimegistus at December 29, 2024 05:08 PM (78a2H)

148 I think people are starting to tire of these guys.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (Sk4iO)

For everyone's sake, I sure hope so.

*feels smug about moving away before plastic bags were outlawed*

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 05:08 PM (Sf2cq)

149 Leftovers here; pork roast, mashed purple sweet potatoes, green beans, and spiced peaches.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 29, 2024 05:09 PM (kpS4V)

150 We live in chicken country and our egg prices are all over the place. Aldi has a sign on the egg fridge with swap-out number digits so they can change the price as often as needed.
Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 05:07 PM (Sf2c

Which is funny because their commercials focus on their competitors doing just that.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:09 PM (D6PGr)

151 >>>I am actually tickled that Jimmuh's way-overdue demise has not totally derailed the food thread.

I am chuckling.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cotton-headed ninny-muggins

You'd have to marinade and simmer that crusty, old bastard over the weekend to end up with something that wasn't dry and stringy, and repugnant without a greasy beef stock.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 05:09 PM (/MR36)

152 The hyper-hagiography has begun:

https://is.gd/mKL7OW

And sous vide is good. *shifty eyes*

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, not thread-jacking, no siree at December 29, 2024 05:10 PM (PiwSw)

153 Been busy. Is jimmuh daid?

Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2024 05:11 PM (LHPAg)

154 Been busy. Is jimmuh daid?
Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2024 05:11 PM (LHPAg)

He's just resting his eyes.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:12 PM (D6PGr)

155 Have you ever Sous Vided a whole rack?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at

He's a real cook.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 05:12 PM (mT+6a)

156 148 I think people are starting to tire of these guys.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (Sk4iO)

For everyone's sake, I sure hope so.

*feels smug about moving away before plastic bags were outlawed*
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Post-Californication, it's getting difficult to restrain them.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:12 PM (Sk4iO)

157 Our younger bog guest starred on the flattop last night making “smash burgers” a technique I had not tried. Really tasty.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 05:12 PM (heexZ)

158 Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 05:12 PM (heexZ

I still don't understand the concept as I've never had one or really learned how they are different other than being smashed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:13 PM (D6PGr)

159 I once worked as a prep cook for an Italian restaurant that was the polar opposite of Olive Garden. everything fresh-made, wood-fired pizzas, pasta, local meats, salads and fresh-made dressings, even the caramel for desserts.

Guess which one failed.

People can be very stupid. Oh! and the price for a meal was not much different. Maybe a couple of bucks.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cotton-headed ninny-muggins at December 29, 2024 05:14 PM (Ad8y9)

160 Jimmy - Record inflation, creation of Department of Ed, and RBG in 4 short years. And 43 years of retirement creating havoc.

9. Very time consuming, but it was lovely to set the table with the good china and wine glasses and silver and celebrate with friends.
Posted by: nurse ratched

It sounds lovely. Another of your many talents.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 05:14 PM (NFX2v)

161 > Not like Catholic Heaven with feasting and wine and mariachi band and Irish fist-fighting.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

We both have you beat, mang.

Posted by: The Vikings and the Muslims at December 29, 2024 05:14 PM (W5ArC)

162 147 I'm going to agree that Obama is the worst president, maybe of all time. Others may have been corrupt, or incompetent, but Obama was literally trying to destroy America. We've never had a truly malicious president before. I still daydream about seeing him end his days in jail.
Posted by: Trimegistus at December 29, 2024 05:08 PM (78a2H)
If it was just stupidity it was bad enough, but his deliberate destruction was aided by the media selling stupid voters a pig in the poke.

Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2024 05:15 PM (LHPAg)

163 Greetings!
For cleaning non stick pans without damaging them, give them 2-3 tablespoons of baking soda and hot water. Sticky gunk comes right off.
I'd have to be darn near starving to eat raccoon. I go back and forth between hating them and thinking they are cute, but they are omnivores, like bears, which I also would never eat.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Mmmmm.
Black bear stroganoff...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 05:16 PM (/lPRQ)

164 Invited to the BIL's for dinner. It seems CO's mandatory testing of harvested deer came back negative for wasting disease.
Venison burgers on the menu.
I caramelized onions on the new griddle and will be bringing homemade onion dip with tortilla strips.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 29, 2024 05:16 PM (7VJFP)

165 > Our younger bog guest starred on the flattop last night making “smash burgers” a technique I had not tried.
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The last time we had our kids "guest cook" they treated us like gods.

With burnt offerings. 🔥

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 05:17 PM (Q4IgG)

166 Our younger bog guest starred on the flattop last night making “smash burgers” a technique I had not tried. Really tasty.
Posted by: Pete Bog

I'll be trying this technique soon!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 29, 2024 05:19 PM (7VJFP)

167 what is a bog guest

Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 05:19 PM (/7KEl)

168 Having been recently diagnosed with The Diabeetus, I've been trying to create snacks that are tasty that I can actually stomach (there will be no kale chips in this house, thankyouverymuch).

Cottage cheese with sunflower seeds has an interesting texture, and not too many carbs.

In fact, cottage cheese mixes well with many things, I've discovered.

I'm just glad my cholesterol is still good, so meat, eggs, and dairy are still on the menu.

I hope Jimmeh Earl felt some satisfaction at having lived long enough that history will only count him the third-worst President, after Dopey Joe and That Fucking Guy.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:19 PM (W5ArC)

169 Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:13 PM (D6PGr)

He carmelized onions. Then made a little pile of onions, placed a seasoned five oz meatball on top and flattened with the spatula on a 500 plus degree griddle to about three eights of an inch thick. Crisped up the meat, flipped it to sear the other side, piece of cheese onto a toasted bun.

Voila!

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 05:19 PM (heexZ)

170 Jimmy Carter: two words...Panama Canal

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 05:19 PM (4tmpE)

171 Mmmmm.
Black bear stroganoff...
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 05:16 PM

Leave my late night activities out of this!

Posted by: The bear at December 29, 2024 05:20 PM (Wnv9h)

172 Jimmuh is dead.
Probably choked to death on some Hamas [CENSORED].

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 29, 2024 05:20 PM (elaR+)

173 > He's just resting his eyes.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:12 PM (D6PGr)

He's pining for the peanut fields.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:20 PM (W5ArC)

174 Only carnivore I eat is fish. Though I guess that would be a piscivore.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:20 PM (D6PGr)

175 what is a bog guest
Posted by: Don Black

You already know!
20 bucks same as in town.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 29, 2024 05:20 PM (7VJFP)

176 136 Oh, yeah!

Found a new snazzy yet stupidly easy cocktail recipe that you should make tonight cuz it's larrupin'!

Atlas Martini

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (iJfKG
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Is this an Algerian or Moroccan recipe?

Posted by: Ciampino - I dropped my toothpaste, I'm crestfallen at December 29, 2024 05:20 PM (i0xsb)

177 Around the same time Fukushima was going on ther was a bunch of contaminated organic vegetables in Germany that killed quite a few people. So you can correctly say that organic food has killed more people than the Fukushima meltdown.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2024 05:21 PM (b4o9z)

178 what is a bog guest
Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 05:19 PM

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Danes at December 29, 2024 05:21 PM (Wnv9h)

179 Jane D'oh!

Have a handle of Tito's in honor of Jimmuh's passing on to his reward.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 29, 2024 05:21 PM (kpS4V)

180 > 174 Only carnivore I eat is fish. Though I guess that would be a piscivore.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Should we tell him?

Posted by: The Hog Farmer's Association of America at December 29, 2024 05:21 PM (W5ArC)

181
Clinton is the 2nd worst living president. That is probably controversial.

__________

Clinton

1) Intervention in the Balkans. Forever set Russia against us.

2) Pushed to admit China to the WTO. With the results we see today.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 05:21 PM (dxSpM)

182 Apparently there are at least two schools of thought on washing cast iron.

The one says "Wash them in hot water and soap, and then oil them afterwards, but don't even take steel wool to them, you'll ruin the seasoning."

The other says "Don't wash them in hot water and soap, you'll ruin the seasoning. Just scrub them with steel wool."

Since my parents' household has one person of each school, I compromise, by washing them in hot water without soap, scrubbing them with a plastic scrubber, and wiping them with a light coat of oil afterwards.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 29, 2024 05:21 PM (MXSed)

183 So there's that. Inflation ,hostages and gas lines not so much..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at December 29, 2024 04:59 PM (wDJaI)

But, but, but...Billy Beer!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 29, 2024 05:22 PM (ufFY8)

184 Jane D'oh!

Have a handle of Tito's in honor of Jimmuh's passing on to his reward.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 29, 2024 05:21 PM (kpS4V)

Lol. Those days are past. How are ya, girl?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 05:22 PM (4tmpE)

185 Anybody had Tempranillo?

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2024 05:22 PM (3Ope8)

186 Lol. Those days are past. How are ya, girl?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 05:22 PM (4tmpE)
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Good!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 29, 2024 05:23 PM (kpS4V)

187 Anybody had Tempranillo?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2024 05:22 PM

*raises hand*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2024 05:23 PM (Wnv9h)

188 I only eat animals that eat plants, mostly. That’s almost as good as being a vegan.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2024 05:23 PM (b4o9z)

189 > Have a handle of Tito'

Josip Broz Tito's?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:24 PM (W5ArC)

190 Carter might be 4th worst, when you throw in Buchanan.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 29, 2024 05:24 PM (ufFY8)

191 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2024 05:23 PM (Wnv9h)

Pass the gouge....

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2024 05:24 PM (3Ope8)

192
Wanna see Joeys eulogy

Posted by: Auspex at December 29, 2024 05:24 PM (XXgge)

193 Not like Catholic Heaven...

So no bingo and raffle tickets?

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 05:24 PM (NFX2v)

194 Just finished a large plate of Manicotti.

I cannot move.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 29, 2024 05:24 PM (XV/Pl)

195 There was an old Shoe comic strip, something like "Salad isn't food. Salad is what food eats."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:24 PM (W5ArC)

196
I only eat animals that eat plants, mostly. That’s almost as good as being a vegan.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2024 05:23 PM (b4o9z)

_________

Meat = Processed vegetables

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 05:25 PM (dxSpM)

197 Not like Catholic Heaven with feasting and wine and mariachi band and Irish fist-fighting.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

I would just like to point out that you can probably blame mariachi (in part) on the Germans - probably not Catholic - who fled to South America after WW2.

This post is presented with absolutely no corroborating evidence whatsoever.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 29, 2024 05:26 PM (MXSed)

198 You people are over rethinking cleaning cast iron.

Once it's well seasoned, there is absolutely no harm in washing it in hot, soapy water and then drying it well. I've inherited all my late mother's pieces, including a Dutch oven that belonged to her grandmother.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 05:26 PM (4tmpE)

199 The thing I remember the most about the Carter years was just the malaise and general feeling of depression in the country. Iran had embarrassed him silly and the country just felt lost.

Reagan was a shining light in the darkness.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 29, 2024 05:26 PM (mzM2O)

200 Next in the dead pool...?

Pelosi?
Turtle McConnell?

Then after noon on the 20th:

FJB?

Clear some decks.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at December 29, 2024 05:26 PM (ufFY8)

201 Grant and Harding were pretty bad, though I don't think Grant himself was a bad man. He was a man of honor, who'd fought among and against men with honor, and made the terrible mistake of assuming that DC politicians were also men of honor.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:26 PM (W5ArC)

202 One aspect of farming I don't hear discussed much is robustness. The old "How much food is grown in your zip code?" question.

I also think that this factory farm versus organic farm debate is kind of a false dichotomy. We do not have to pursue all one of the other. Let people experiment and learn and see what comes of various approaches.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:26 PM (Sk4iO)

203 > Atlas Martini
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An abomination. Horrible. Illegal.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 29, 2024 05:26 PM (Q4IgG)

204 MISSISSIPPI POT ROAST ... Made this in an InstantPot the day before Christmas so I could refrigerate the liquid portion overnight (strained/separated from the solids) ... Needed only a fraction of the chilled solidified grease for making gravy, which was super tasty thanks to the Au Jus gravy mix, jarred pepperoncini peppers, butter, and dry ranch dressing mix (homemade to cut down on sodium) ... Before thickening, some of the liquids were also used to stew carrots, celery, and potatoes -- all of which were YUM!

FYI, after browning, the InstantPot rendered the meat fall-apart tender in 65 minutes ... Several recipes say boneless pork loins are equally delicious cooked this way.

Posted by: Kathy at December 29, 2024 05:27 PM (qpw89)

205 Posted by: The Hog Farmer's Association of America at December 29, 2024 05:21 PM (W5ArC)

Heh. I guess an animal worse than a goat about eating any thing would be a trashivore.

Commercial pig farms though just feed them grains and soybeans.

I did see a special on Las Vegas and the casinos sell or give away all their Buffett leftovers to local pig farmers. Or at least used to . It did include protein other than soybeans.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:27 PM (D6PGr)

206 168 Having been recently diagnosed with The Diabeetus, I've been trying to create snacks that are tasty that I can actually stomach (there will be no kale chips in this house, thankyouverymuch).

Cottage cheese with sunflower seeds has an interesting texture, and not too many carbs.

In fact, cottage cheese mixes well with many things, I've discovered.

I'm just glad my cholesterol is still good, so meat, eggs, and dairy are still on the menu.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:19 PM (W5ArC)
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Cream cheese also mixes well. You can get the already mixed stuff or make your own flavored. The basic cheese is cheap, important when the bank account has a minus sign.
I've been diabetic for over 20 years. Doing very well lately with glimepiride.

Posted by: Ciampino - I dropped my toothpaste, I'm crestfallen at December 29, 2024 05:27 PM (i0xsb)

207 Grandma’s Dutch Oven sounds like an elicit sex act.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2024 05:27 PM (b4o9z)

208 Good!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at December 29, 2024 05:23 PM (kpS4V)

Great to hear!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 05:27 PM (4tmpE)

209 CrotchetyOldJarhead, yes and Red Caboose Winery in Clifton makes the best one. They Ship.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 29, 2024 05:28 PM (XTmTf)

210 Having a glass of Laphroaig
Good ridden you old bastard, made years of my military life more miserable than needed

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 05:28 PM (fwDg9)

211 Been busy. Is jimmuh daid?
Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2024 05:11 PM (LHPAg)
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Does it matter? His vote still counts!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 29, 2024 05:28 PM (BpYfr)

212 The big difference between organic and not organic farming is crop yield per acre.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:28 PM (D6PGr)

213 Grandma’s Dutch Oven sounds like an elicit sex act.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 29, 2024 05:27 PM

Jill Biden is all too familiar with it.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 05:29 PM (4tmpE)

214 205
I did see a special on Las Vegas and the casinos sell or give away all their Buffett leftovers to local pig farmers. Or at least used to . It did include protein other than soybeans.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:27 PM (D6PGr)
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There was a Mike Rowe 'Dirty Jobs' on that. Very educational.
Love that show.

Posted by: Ciampino - I dropped my toothpaste, I'm crestfallen at December 29, 2024 05:29 PM (i0xsb)

215 I would just like to point out that you can probably blame mariachi (in part) on the Germans - probably not Catholic - who fled to South America after WW2.

Posted by: FeatherBlade

Maximillian would like to have a word with you.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 29, 2024 05:29 PM (7VJFP)

216
Grant and Harding were pretty bad

______

If Hoover had done what Harding did in 1921 (i.e. nothing), the Great Depression would have been over before 1931.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 05:29 PM (dxSpM)

217 Anybody had Tempranillo?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2024 05:22 PM (3Ope

Yes, a principal grape in lots of Spanish wines. If a little more expensive bottle it definitely benefits from some age. Great with roast and smoked meats.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 05:30 PM (heexZ)

218 159 I once worked as a prep cook for an Italian restaurant that was the polar opposite of Olive Garden. everything fresh-made, wood-fired pizzas, pasta, local meats, salads and fresh-made dressings, even the caramel for desserts.

Guess which one failed.

People can be very stupid. Oh! and the price for a meal was not much different. Maybe a couple of bucks.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cotton-headed ninny-muggins at December 29, 2024 05:14 PM (Ad8y9)

Was that in a small town? I've seen that happen in the last two small(ish?) towns I've lived in. Quality places couldn't attract enough customers to stay afloat but the Chili's parking lot is always packed.

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 05:30 PM (Sf2cq)

219 Anybody had Tempranillo?
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2024 05:22 PM (3Ope

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Probably everyone has. They just didn’t know it. Tempranillo is an inoffensive grape that is easily and relatively cheaply grown. It’s used as a mixer in many wines (eg, Syrah).

On its own, I find it a bit dull. Not bad, just dull. It would probably find more favor with casual wine drinkers looking for something with decent flavor but inoffensive. The wine-snob favorites are almost always dry and steely, with flavor profiles the casual wine drinker usually wont like.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 29, 2024 05:31 PM (kmjdo)

220 Our 40 year old Cephalon pan set is looking pretty sad

Calphalon will close their US plant in a few weeks.
CEPHALON was the drug company that invented fentanyl.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 29, 2024 05:31 PM (zdLoL)

221 Jimmuh brought us nuclear North Korea, Iran, Zimbabwe, and commie Venezuela. Such a humanitarian.

Food recipe:

2 cups of water in a pot
Add 2 slices of American cheese (none of that commie foreign cheese)
Add a generous amount of parmesan cheese
Heat until boiling
Once boiling, add 2 cups of minute rice and stir in rice
(Must be Minute Rice)
Remove from heat and cover
Let sit until water is absorbed
Enjoy

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 29, 2024 05:32 PM (elaR+)

222 Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States, dead at 100

Pretty sure he'll still vote for Newsom or Harris or whoever has a D next to his name in 2028...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 29, 2024 05:32 PM (oZhjI)

223 For me Obama, Wilson , Buchanan and Carter in that order are the worst.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:32 PM (D6PGr)

224 > Commercial pig farms though just feed them grains and soybeans.

Well, unless a farmer happens to slip and fall in the pen and they go after him. Happens a few times a year, from what I've heard.

There's a story from a small town post-WWII France. A local was a notorious Nazi collaborator, snitching on his neighbors, etc.

When the war was over, the villagers lowered a bunch of hogs into the bottom of an abandoned quarry, threw down a wagon load of turnips, and tossed in the collaborator.

Idea being that he would have plenty of time to think about what was going to happen when the turnips ran out.

After a couple of weeks they came back and had a pig roast.

Supposedly a true story.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:32 PM (W5ArC)

225 >>>Grandma’s Dutch Oven sounds like an elicit sex act.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe

>Grandma was a big fan of French Onion Soup before bedtime.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 05:33 PM (/MR36)

226 Anybody had Tempranillo?

One of my favorites. I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad one from Spain. And Texas Hills Vineyard has a great one, or did from 2011.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at December 29, 2024 05:33 PM (EXyHK)

227 I was in the Fresh Market before Christmas, picking up a few odds and ends. A woman at the deli counter was picking up a couple of eggplant rollitini, and I asked her how they were.

She replied, "They're very good with a little tomato sauce. Savannah is really lacking in great Italian restaurants, except for Olive Garden."

No. Words. 😬😬

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 05:33 PM (4tmpE)

228 Pass the gouge....
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2024 05:24 PM

Concur with the above comments. Pleasant enough Spanish red. Would drink.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2024 05:34 PM (Wnv9h)

229 CEPHALON was the drug company that invented fentanyl.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver

heh, heh, heh, no.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 29, 2024 05:35 PM (7VJFP)

230 Well, when I was younger I got a very buxom woman into the hot tub. Does that count?

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (heexZ)

Absolutely. In fact, buxom women make everything taste better!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 05:35 PM (d9fT1)

231 I haven't gone to Olive Garden since they they gave me food poisoning.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 29, 2024 05:36 PM (elaR+)

232 212 The big difference between organic and not organic farming is crop yield per acre.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Indeed. The next time someone starts going off on the wonders of "organic" farming, show them this and ask them who they think should starve to death.

https://tinyurl.com/47wfyt4f

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:36 PM (W5ArC)

233 The one says "Wash them in hot water and soap, and then oil them afterwards, but don't even take steel wool to them, you'll ruin the seasoning."

The other says "Don't wash them in hot water and soap, you'll ruin the seasoning. Just scrub them with steel wool."
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It seems to me that steel wool will scour that extremely thin coat of mainly carbon so you'd have to redo the oil baking.

Posted by: Ciampino - Becoming vegetarian was a huge missed steak. at December 29, 2024 05:36 PM (i0xsb)

234 Jimmuh is dead.
====

They just figured that out?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 05:37 PM (/lPRQ)

235 Thanks 'errebuddy! Off to the grill!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 29, 2024 05:38 PM (3Ope8)

236 The thing I remember the most about the ~~Carter~~ Biden years was just the malaise and general feeling of depression in the country. ~~Iran~~ Afghanistan had embarrassed him silly and the country just felt lost.

~~Reagan~~ Trump was a shining light in the darkness.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 29, 2024 05:26 PM (mzM2O)

Do you agree?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 05:39 PM (d9fT1)

237 Rest In Peace Mr. President. Heaven Awaits.

Posted by: The man from Athens at December 29, 2024 05:39 PM (yFcKl)

238 Meat = Processed vegetables

Was recently asked "what's your favorite vegetable?"

"Meat".

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 05:39 PM (cwI6g)

239 231 I haven't gone to Olive Garden since they they gave me food poisoning.

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at December 29, 2024 05:36 PM (elaR+)
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I think Africa made me immune to food poisoning.

Posted by: Ciampino - Becoming vegetarian was a huge missed steak. at December 29, 2024 05:40 PM (i0xsb)

240 If Hoover had done what Harding did in 1921 (i.e. nothing), the Great Depression would have been over before 1931.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 05:29 PM (dxSpM)

Just the opposite in Milton Friedman's opinion. Hoover did nothing on the advice of his Secretary of Treasury? when there was a run on the banks and let them fail. The relatively new Fed was created to prevent just that. Trying to fix the resulting disaster near impossible.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:40 PM (D6PGr)

241
Having a celebration cocktail for Jimmah passing.

Posted by: Auspex at December 29, 2024 05:40 PM (33AwL)

242 Notice that you almost never see people trying to make fake plants out of meat.

Well, Arby's did have "meat-based plants" for a while, but I'm pretty sure that was a troll, aimed at pissing off the vegan contingent. I mean, what are they gonna do about it? Stop eating at Arby's?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:41 PM (W5ArC)

243 In fact, cottage cheese mixes well with many things, I've discovered.

Tried it in scrambled eggs with pleasing results.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 29, 2024 05:42 PM (hoCmQ)

244 Was hoping he would get to see Trump sworn in again.

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 05:43 PM (fwDg9)

245 In fact, cottage cheese mixes well with many things, I've discovered.

Tried it in scrambled eggs with pleasing results.
Posted by: olddog in mo

Cottage cheese with applesauce was pretty much my diet this week. Went down easy and stayed down.

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 05:44 PM (oaGWv)

246 Indeed. The next time someone starts going off on the wonders of "organic" farming, show them this and ask them who they think should starve to death.

https://tinyurl.com/47wfyt4f
_-_-_-_-_

I fully understand the productivity differences, but having a variety of types of farming going on is unlikely to starve anyone. In fact, that _seems_ to be what we have now, is it not?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:44 PM (Sk4iO)

247 Idea being that he would have plenty of time to think about what was going to happen when the turnips ran out.

After a couple of weeks they came back and had a pig roast.

Supposedly a true story.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 05:32 PM (W5ArC)

I like happy endings.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 29, 2024 05:44 PM (dR6yv)

248 Grandma’s Dutch Oven sounds like an elicit sex act.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Old ladies need love too.

Just saying.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 05:44 PM (WXNFJ)

249 > I think Africa made me immune to food poisoning.
Posted by: Ciampino - Becoming vegetarian was a huge missed steak. at December 29, 2024 05:40 PM (i0xsb)

Sorry, man, we only blessed the rains. No other water.

Posted by: Toto at December 29, 2024 05:45 PM (W5ArC)

250 Good afternoon/ evening! I just put Greek Lemon Chicken into the oven. We have eaten a lot of beef lately (I had fish when we went out, but still, it was lot of beef even for me) so I wanted to go a little lighter. In fact, I felt like gravity was just holding me down more than it should be while I taught and worked out today! 🤣

Also drinking a chlorophyll juice, which is normally a daily or every other day thing and I honestly can’t remember the last one I drank. Time to crawl back on wagon.

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2024 05:47 PM (pZEOD)

251 having a variety of types of farming going on is unlikely to starve anyone. In fact, that _seems_ to be what we have now, is it not?
Posted by: Don in SoCo

Raise the price of staples by turning productive land into power generating *will* cause people to starve (corn, solar, and wind).

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 29, 2024 05:47 PM (7VJFP)

252 The thing I remember the most about the Carter Biden years was just the malaise and general feeling of depression in the country. Iran Afghanistan had embarrassed him silly and the country just felt lost.
Reagan Trump was a shining light in the darkness.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Too many more parallels to count: worst president ever to date, out of control inflation, fueling Goatfuckers Gone Wild, mismanaging energy, fucking up everything automotive, leaving most folks worse off after 4 years, and, mercifully, one term.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 29, 2024 05:48 PM (rNXgZ)

253 Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:44 PM (Sk4iO)

Yes but always expect to pay more.

And don't think that the advocates aren't pushing for 100% organic farming.

They have no problem with trying to prevent donations of 'GMO' foods to starving countries because yada yada yada.

But hey don't forget your mRNA shot !!!

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:48 PM (D6PGr)

254 > I fully understand the productivity differences, but having a variety of types of farming going on is unlikely to starve anyone.

The US Midwest essentially feeds the world.

Sure, having a few "organic" farms doesn't really hurt anything, but any large-scale adoption would result in millions starving to death.

It's also generally quite labor-intensive, and I think there'd be much resistance to turning 90% of the population back into agricultural serfs (or outright slaves), as was universal before the invention of modern farming techniques.

Posted by: Toto at December 29, 2024 05:48 PM (W5ArC)

255 Carter won because people were sick of Nixon and also because people are extremely gullible.

Posted by: fd at December 29, 2024 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

256 Bacon wrapped Oreos must be smoked for 90 minutes. 🥱

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 05:49 PM (NFX2v)

257 251 having a variety of types of farming going on is unlikely to starve anyone. In fact, that _seems_ to be what we have now, is it not?
Posted by: Don in SoCo

Raise the price of staples by turning productive land into power generating *will* cause people to starve (corn, solar, and wind).
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 29, 2024 05:47 PM (7VJFP)
_-_-_-_-_-_-_

I'll buy that. The chasing of green energy generally seems like it is causing more trouble than benefit by a large margin!

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:50 PM (Sk4iO)

258 Too many more parallels to count: worst president ever to date, out of control inflation, fueling Goatfuckers Gone Wild, mismanaging energy, fucking up everything automotive, leaving most folks worse off after 4 years, and, mercifully, one term.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

Thank goodness we won't have to view the spectacle of him being wheeled in to Trump's inauguration. You just know he would have insisted on being there.

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 05:50 PM (oaGWv)

259 During the Carter years we lived in a small town in Wyoming, so we didn't really feel the effects of gas rationing and such; but, on the other hand, we ate a lot of tuna, rice, potatoes, and macaroni.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Cotton-headed ninny-muggins at December 29, 2024 05:51 PM (Ad8y9)

260 And Carter tried to force the metric system on us

and the 55mph 'national speed limit'
and if you're cold cuz your can't afford electricity, just put on another sweater

Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 05:52 PM (/7KEl)

261
The only thing sad about carter achieving mort status today is "they" finally let the man die, not out of pity or for the sake of his comfort, but because they had no more use for carter maintaining a [faint] pulse for "their" political purposes.

They kept him alive for the last 4 years for one reason: to use him to help win Georgia for the Democrats. He was a but a prop.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 05:52 PM (BEPTv)

262 also something about food

Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 05:52 PM (/7KEl)

263 Carter won because people were sick of Nixon and also because people are extremely gullible.
Posted by: fd at December 29, 2024 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

They had two years to get over Nixon but the Lefty hit job was extremely successful.

Just another example of the sheep not recognizing between the sheepdog and the wolf.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:52 PM (D6PGr)

264 Oh, yeah!

Found a new snazzy yet stupidly easy cocktail recipe that you should make tonight cuz it's larrupin'!

Atlas Martini

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (iJfKG
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Is this an Algerian or Moroccan recipe?
Posted by: Ciampino - I dropped my toothpaste, I'm crestfallen at December 29, 2024 05:20 PM (i0xsb)

Atlas Bar in Singapore.

Singaporean!

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 05:52 PM (iJfKG)

265 258. Thank goodness we won't have to view the spectacle of him being wheeled in to Trump's inauguration. You just know he would have insisted on being there.
Posted by: Tuna

Do we know for a fact? Carried via urn?

Heh.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 05:53 PM (NFX2v)

266 It’s a complicated system. We no longer, however, have the luxury of just letting everyone do what they want to do and what they think is in their best interest.

And who is like the Almighty God who commands the rain and locusts? The author is categorically rejecting the Unseen Hand and is begging for Communism - or centralized control.

Optimally there would be some voluntary coordination for the world’s agricultural system to maximize efficiency and minimize land use.

Optimally everyone drives orderly, eats properly and gets the perfect balance of sleep and exercise. And who decides when we have enough efficiency so that they don't stomp on voluntary coordination?

As I recall, the US Federal Income Tax is deemed "voluntary".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 05:53 PM (rHxhM)

267 Another tragic political figure. At least he lived long enough to see the worst president title go to Biden.

RIP Jimmy.

Posted by: Unkaren at December 29, 2024 05:53 PM (Ah6GP)

268 I hated Carter since I was in 8th grade and he boycotted the Olympics.

I knew some of the athletes who had trained so very hard and had their opportunity to compete taken from them.

Carter was a prick for many reasons, but for me, that was #1.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 05:54 PM (mT+6a)

269 The US Midwest essentially feeds the world.

Sure, having a few "organic" farms doesn't really hurt anything, but any large-scale adoption would result in millions starving to death.

It's also generally quite labor-intensive, and I think there'd be much resistance to turning 90% of the population back into agricultural serfs (or outright slaves), as was universal before the invention of modern farming techniques.
_-_-_-_-_
Important to also factor in demographic trends. Gets very complex very quickly. Probably the reason planned economies always fail.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:54 PM (Sk4iO)

270 the metric system is good tho

Posted by: gKWVE at December 29, 2024 05:54 PM (gKWVE)

271 Somewhere a swamp rabbit mourns.
Lost its purpose in life.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 05:55 PM (/lPRQ)

272 Make sure to cancel Jimmahs next marathon entrance!

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 29, 2024 05:55 PM (/6GbT)

273 “Salad isn’t food. It is food for food”.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 05:56 PM (NBNnb)

274 Jimmy and RBG are working out in an afterlife gym somewhere.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:56 PM (D6PGr)

275 OMG I so LOVE food! :-)
Thank you CBD and all y'alls

Posted by: NC Ref at December 29, 2024 05:56 PM (XgFy0)

276 Sure, having a few "organic" farms doesn't really hurt anything, but any large-scale adoption would result in millions starving to death.

It's also generally quite labor-intensive, and I think there'd be much resistance to turning 90% of the population back into agricultural serfs (or outright slaves), as was universal before the invention of modern farming techniques.
_-_-_-_-_
Important to also factor in demographic trends. Gets very complex very quickly. Probably the reason planned economies always fail.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:54 PM (Sk4iO)

Or we can burn it for fuel...foods not important

Posted by: A dude in MI at December 29, 2024 05:57 PM (/6GbT)

277 272 Make sure to cancel Jimmahs next marathon entrance!
Posted by: A dude in MI at December 29, 2024 05:55 PM (/6GbT)
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I dunno, he might still be viable like Biden.
"Hey, Don! Stay away from that wheelbarrow! You know you don't know nuthin' 'bout machinery!'

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 05:57 PM (Sk4iO)

278 273 “Salad isn’t food. It is food for food”.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 05:56 PM (NBNnb)

Salad is just the vehicle to carry salad dressing and croutons for me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:57 PM (D6PGr)

279 Thank goodness we won't have to view the spectacle of him being wheeled in to Trump's inauguration. You just know he would have insisted on being there.
Posted by: Tuna

Do we know for a fact? Carried via urn?

Heh.
Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 05:53 PM (NFX2v)

A Planters jar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 29, 2024 05:57 PM (dR6yv)

280 Will Carter's funeral be interrupted to cover Trump's Inauguration?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 05:57 PM (cwI6g)

281 Carter, the 100 year plague.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 29, 2024 05:58 PM (LnFA8)

282 I usually point to that drunkard Pierce for worst. Buchanan was dealt a bad hand, and admittedly played it bad, but Pierce set him up to fail.
I suppose we'd have to vote Harris to see what happens when a drunkard succeeds a Presidency that does everything wrong but somehow avoids the fall of the house of cards in his own four years.

Posted by: gKWVE did not vote for Harris at December 29, 2024 05:59 PM (gKWVE)

283 Look who made some of the biggest donations to his Presidential library.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 05:59 PM (D6PGr)

284 Will Carter's funeral be interrupted to cover Trump's Inauguration?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 05:57 PM (cwI6g)

Jeebus. Don't give the Carter family spawn any ideas.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 06:00 PM (4tmpE)

285 It took until comment #271 before a rabbit got to nibble Jimmy's bum.
This isn't the HQ I know.

Posted by: gKWVE did not vote for Harris at December 29, 2024 06:00 PM (gKWVE)

286 I fully understand the productivity differences, but having a variety of types of farming going on is unlikely to starve anyone.

The author waves the hand at "sure its complicated" but does he understand Adam Smith in "Wealth of Nations"? Just like it isn't efficient for a CPA to spend his time balancing the average person's checkbook, not all wheat capable growing fields should plant wheat if they can produce a higher value crop.

And what do we do with pineapples, asparagus and blue agave? They take an eternity to grow and other calorie crops can be turned over quicker. So do reduce human choice to only permit the most efficient foods regardless of taste, allergies or desire?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:01 PM (rHxhM)

287 My Grandmother knitted for me a sweater for the Jimmy Carter years, because she lived thru the depression and didn't learn to drive.

Most people thought Jimmy Carter was a amiable dope.

I wanted to slide a bushel of raw peanuts up his ass in grammar school.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 06:01 PM (/MR36)

288 It took until comment #271 before a rabbit got to nibble Jimmy's bum.
This isn't the HQ I know.
Posted by: gKWVE did not vote for Harris at December 29, 2024 06:00 PM (gKWVE)

We're getting more refined and selective and avoid low hanging fruit. That's what happens when you make it big.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:02 PM (D6PGr)

289 My Lemon Chicken
1 whole cut up chicken, I cheated and just used a package of split breasts and 4 thighs.

1 bag of mini potatoes, I used red because I have them. 1.5 pounds. If you have big potatoes, just peel them and cut them into quarters or more depending on size.

1/3 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
Juice of 2 lemons
1 tablespoon oregano
4-5 cloves of garlic chopped
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
Salt and pepper
1/2 cup water

Preheat oven to 380. Cut potatoes in 1/2. Drizzle a little olive oil into a baking pan, I use my Le Creuset braiser. Put the potatoes in and sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Place the chicken pieces on top of the potatoes, also salt and pepper to taste.

Add the following to a mason jar- olive oil, lemon juice, Dijon, garlic, oregano and cayenne. Put the lid on it and shake until it’s emulsified, and pour it over the chicken and potatoes. Add about 1/2 cup water to the jar, mix it around to get all the remaining sauce and pour that over the chicken and potatoes.

Cover the baking dish with a lid or foil and put in the preheated oven for 1 hour 20 minutes. Take the lid off and cook another 40 minutes until browned and done.

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2024 06:02 PM (pZEOD)

290 NPR, Politics
President Biden says Jimmy Carter asked him to give his eulogy
March 14, 20232:14 PM ET

So there IS a plan. 🤔

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 06:02 PM (NFX2v)

291 Carter’s dead? Well, bye.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 29, 2024 06:03 PM (QSrLX)

292 55mph federal speed limit was a Nixon debacle, not Carter

Credit where due, I guess

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 06:03 PM (oDIDz)

293 I spoon the juices over the chicken as it cooks to keep it moist. Add some green beans and voila, dinner.

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2024 06:03 PM (pZEOD)

294 Why some conservatives think Nixon was All That is baffling.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 29, 2024 06:03 PM (KAi1n)

295 It’s a Jimi thing.

Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2024 06:04 PM (LHPAg)

296 > I fully understand the productivity differences, but having a variety of types of farming going on is unlikely to starve anyone.

The US Midwest essentially feeds the world.

Sure, having a few "organic" farms doesn't really hurt anything, but any large-scale adoption would result in millions starving to death.

It's also generally quite labor-intensive, and I think there'd be much resistance to turning 90% of the population back into agricultural serfs (or outright slaves), as was universal before the invention of modern farming techniques.
Posted by: Toto
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Rhodesia, Ukraine, and Libya too.
Something something man-made global warming...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 06:04 PM (/lPRQ)

297 P-Nut the Squirrel>>> Peanut the President

Posted by: R at December 29, 2024 06:04 PM (A75H2)

298
737 crash-lands in Korea, today. Possible bird-strike -- lost one engine (of two) and evidently lost some hydraulics because it was a Gear-Up/Flap-Up landing.

This happened as the Jeju Airlines 737 was on Final approach, a couple of miles from the runway. The pilot made a straight-and-level "landing" but, alas, the plane did not slow down and ran out of runway and eventually crashed into the large dirt-berm a few hundred feet after the runway.

181 passengers and crew.

Two survivors.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:04 PM (BEPTv)

299 Dang

Posted by: Rex B at December 29, 2024 06:05 PM (A75H2)

300 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:01 PM (rHxhM)

It's not either /or .

It's based on necessity. Right now that's not necessary.

I'm reminding myself of the movie Interstellar where only corn was grown. At least I assume that's what they were intending to show.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:05 PM (D6PGr)

301
Peanut vendor
https://youtu.be/jxo8C32g7mk?si=I3PfYbEoGfbElAxE

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 06:05 PM (cwI6g)

302 banana Dream--

Your brisket-loving friend is talking about what smokers know as "the stall" and that technique is a classic way of overcoming it.

But in my experience, sous viding the brisket before smoking works better with less aggravation.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at December 29, 2024 04:41 PM (FEVMW)

"The Stall" is just a physical/chemical reaction of the collagen(IIRC) in the brisket breaking down.

The process requires energy to happen, so the internal temp of the brisket doesn't rise until the breakdown has finished.

There's no "getting around the stall" if you want a tender brisket. It just is. One of those things that must happen. If you keep the brisket in the grill, it will happen there anyway.

I think it's just a pre-wood pellet grill/bluetooth meat thermometer lazy man's way of not having to baby sit the brisket and fire until the stall process is finished.

Wrap if you wish but it's totally unnecessary.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 06:05 PM (iJfKG)

303
NPR, Politics
President Biden says Jimmy Carter asked him to give his eulogy
March 14, 20232:14 PM ET

Perfect!

How fitting.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:06 PM (BEPTv)

304 Why some conservatives think Nixon was All That is baffling.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 29, 2024 06:03 PM (KAi1n)

Not all that but also not what you think of him.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:06 PM (D6PGr)

305 Biden said. Then the screen goes blank

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at December 29, 2024 06:06 PM (QSrLX)

306 Late to the thread … busy day.

I have one of those chain mail scrubbers and I love it. I also got another one that's wrapped around a rubber base and easier to use. https://tinyurl.com/Cast-Iron-Chainmail-Scrubber

Posted by: jix at December 29, 2024 06:07 PM (Leoj5)

307 The US Midwest essentially feeds the world.

Except Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter with the US, Canada, France and Ukraine next in the list.

Isn't it interesting that two of the top five world producers are subject to perpetual War as demanded by the US and UK?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:07 PM (rHxhM)

308 Sanctimonious Carter, Chicom Clinton, The Homo Marxist, and Biden whose corruption and failure which takes a month catalog - it is a miracle we still, barely, have a country.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at December 29, 2024 06:07 PM (lEyUm)

309 Mostly remember cannibal parts on aircraft to make others flyable because parts couldn't be had. Once a plane had a flying issue it gave up all its parts to others.
Thanks Jimmy

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 06:08 PM (fwDg9)

310 Oh, yeah!

Found a new snazzy yet stupidly easy cocktail recipe that you should make tonight cuz it's larrupin'!
Atlas Martini
Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 05:06 PM (iJfKG
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Is this an Algerian or Moroccan recipe?
Posted by: Ciampino - I dropped my toothpaste, I'm crestfallen at December 29, 2024 05:20 PM (i0xsb)

duh. C1, obviously

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 06:08 PM (D7oie)

311 That sounds awesome, Piper!

Similar to a dish I make, but substitute grapefruit for lemon and spatchcock the chicken.

Add some fresh herbs and yum!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 06:08 PM (mT+6a)

312 Thanks, Piper!

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 06:08 PM (NFX2v)

313 talking about what smokers know as "the stall"

The stall where you got your buddies wife stump broke?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 06:08 PM (cwI6g)

314
Has the rotten Carter family come out and said President Trump is Not invited to the funeral, yet?

Because they will, I suspect.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:08 PM (BEPTv)

315 And if you think 380 is a weird temp, it is. A lot of my recipes come from my mom, who most of you know was French, so it’s converted.

Also, may Jimmy Carter rest in peace.

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2024 06:08 PM (pZEOD)

316 Carter grew peanuts for food, probably boiled peanuts, the top of the food pyramid.

Posted by: Eromero at December 29, 2024 06:09 PM (LHPAg)

317 Nixon was anti-communist, and also invokes the hatred of a thousand burning suns in all the right people. He couldn’t have been all bad for that reason alone.

“Bob, this Bohemian Grove thing is the faggiest thing I’ve ever seen” LOL

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 06:10 PM (S79R3)

318 Piper, that sounds delish. I would probably use all thighs.

I have a bounty of very large Meyer lemons on my trees this year. I'm always looking for ways to use them.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 06:11 PM (4tmpE)

319 That chicken sounds nommy, Piper!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2024 06:11 PM (Wnv9h)

320 I just took a 2 or 2 1/2 pound piece of corned venison out of the freezer. Not sure exactly what cut it might be so will wait until it thaws and the wrap will come loose.

Corned venison is extraordinarily good. My daughter turned me on to it couple years ago.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 29, 2024 06:11 PM (hKoQL)

321 Wrap if you wish but it's totally unnecessary.

I have smoked a lot of brisket with foil, peach paper and without wrapping.

With foil, it is much faster and the meat stays juicier. Peach paper has its own benefits and I prefer to wrap in paper.

Without wrapping doesn't make much sense. After six hours, the bark isn't going to benefit from any more smoke and all one accomplishes is drying out the meat.

If you insist on going unwrapped, inject the heck out of the brisket and make sure the rub is on for more than just overnight.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:11 PM (rHxhM)

322 I have a bounty of very large Meyer lemons on my trees this year. I'm always looking for ways to use them.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 06:11 PM

My lemon tree is only 18" tall at the moment. I haz a sad.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2024 06:12 PM (Wnv9h)

323 288
We're getting more refined and selective and avoid low hanging fruit. That's what happens when you make it big.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:02 PM (D6PGr)
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Hey, speak for yourself ..... wait, ...

Posted by: Ciampino - Becoming vegetarian was a huge missed steak. at December 29, 2024 06:12 PM (i0xsb)

324 Most people thought Jimmy Carter was a amiable dope.

Posted by: Dr. Bone
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Pretty much my perspective. As a human being he was a good man, but as a politician very naive.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 29, 2024 06:13 PM (XeU6L)

325 >>>P-Nut the Squirrel>>> Peanut the President

Posted by: R

>These squirrels today are blood-thirsty, carnivorous killers. If I had a bag of peanuts in one hand and a vole in the other, which one do you think the Perfessor would choose?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 29, 2024 06:13 PM (/MR36)

326 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:11 PM (rHxhM)

I like watching Pit Masters.

Funny now I can't remember how most do their brisket.

I'm not a griller.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:13 PM (D6PGr)

327 737 crash-lands in Korea, today. Possible bird-strike -- lost one engine (of two) and evidently lost some hydraulics because it was a Gear-Up/Flap-Up landing.

This happened as the Jeju Airlines 737 was on Final approach, a couple of miles from the runway. The pilot made a straight-and-level "landing" but, alas, the plane did not slow down and ran out of runway and eventually crashed into the large dirt-berm a few hundred feet after the runway.

181 passengers and crew.

Two survivors.
Posted by: Soothsayer
====

Looked a demolition heap with big ass chunks of concrete etc. and dirtpile.... In a clear zone.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 06:14 PM (/lPRQ)

328 >55mph federal speed limit was a Nixon debacle, not Carter

---

I stand connected

Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 06:14 PM (/7KEl)

329 300 Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:01 PM (rHxhM)

It's not either /or .

It's based on necessity. Right now that's not necessary.

I'm reminding myself of the movie Interstellar where only corn was grown. At least I assume that's what they were intending to show.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:05 PM (D6PGr)
_-_-_-_-_-_-_
Just when you think they're not making any good movies, that one comes along. Loved it. "We used to dream about our place in the stars, now all we do is talk about our place in the dirt.". (Maybe I got the quite right.). 'course it is very important to pay attention to how we feed ourselves, lest we all wind up in the dirt at once. There are lots of issues swirling around farming. Here in Colorado, I hear constant complaints from the urban areas about how farmers and ranchers use too much water _just_ to make money. Then they encourage growing marijuana in this dry state. Of course, that has another side to it as well. Perhaps the people growing dope will innovate in ways that are helpful in other areas of agriculture.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 06:15 PM (Sk4iO)

330 318 Piper, that sounds delish. I would probably use all thighs.

I have a bounty of very large Meyer lemons on my trees this year. I'm always looking for ways to use them.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December

I want a Meyer lemon tree! I wonder if I would kill it…. You can send them to me and I will send back lavender and Meyer lemon cookies to you!

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2024 06:15 PM (pZEOD)

331 I also got another one that's wrapped around a rubber base and easier to use. https://tinyurl.com/Cast-Iron-Chainmail-Scrubber
Posted by: jix at December 29, 2024 06:07
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That's like the one I found in my Christmas stocking, but in black.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 29, 2024 06:15 PM (hoCmQ)

332
Carter was in office during the BlizzardS of 1978.

Clarification: Until yesterday, I did not know there was more than one "Blizzard of '78.

Apparently, the Ohio region had their Blizzard of '78 on January 26-27th, and Boston had its Blizzard of '78 over a week later, February 6-7th.

Both storms were massive -- both storms were snow blizzards + hurricanes.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:15 PM (BEPTv)

333 Jimmy is finally mort.

Posted by: Bulg at December 29, 2024 06:15 PM (v6JzV)

334 Jane Doh,
Have you tried making preserved lemons? It's just lemons and salt packed into a mason jar and left to get happy on the counter top for a week or so.

Preserved lemons are great in salads, but my boys really liked it when I added them to pasta carbonara.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 06:15 PM (mT+6a)

335 311 That sounds awesome, Piper!

Similar to a dish I make, but substitute grapefruit for lemon and spatchcock the chicken.

Add some fresh herbs and yum!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December

I am going to try this!

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2024 06:16 PM (pZEOD)

336 I like watching Pit Masters.

Funny now I can't remember how most do their brisket.

I'm not a griller.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:13 PM

If you want to have fun watching some ZZ Top looking rednecks barbecuing, go to the BBQ Pit Boys on EweToob. The grilled stuffed gator is impressive.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 29, 2024 06:16 PM (Wnv9h)

337
Joan Speedometer Whore Claybrook.
She also served in the Carter administration as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) from 1977 to 1981.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 06:17 PM (cwI6g)

338 328 >55mph federal speed limit was a Nixon debacle, not Carter

---

I stand connected
Posted by: Don Black at December 29, 2024 06:14 PM (/7

You got your gas shortages /embargoes mixed up.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:17 PM (D6PGr)

339 Jimmy joins the choir eternal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2024 06:17 PM (bss/y)

340 I was going to give CBD some grief for not browning the roast in bacon fat but, then I realized, well, Hanukkah.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 29, 2024 06:18 PM (tT6L1)

341 “He was a good human being”

Bullshit. He was by most accounts a total dickhead extraordinaire. Horrible chief executive, miserable to work for.

Even the fucking press turned on him, because he replaced ltheir caviar and top shelf booze with beanie weenies and kool-aid as part of his “austerity measures”

That’s when it was revealed (somehow) that the briefcase he was always famously carrying around was actually empty. True story

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 06:18 PM (u+/Fy)

342 Most people thought Jimmy Carter was a amiable dope.

Posted by: Dr. Bone
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Pretty much my perspective. As a human being he was a good man, but as a politician very naive.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
===

Really nice guy that knew his policies were hurting people but did it anyway.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 29, 2024 06:18 PM (/lPRQ)

343
I wasn't even in Kindergarten when Ford became President.

The man did not instill confidence. He was a squish. It's mostly his fault he lost. But, the important thing is he beat Reagan for the nom, and that's all the Weak Cuck Republicans were worried about.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:19 PM (BEPTv)

344 Carter on the energy crisis
youtu.be/oy2S6c6oX58

Posted by: gKWVE at December 29, 2024 06:19 PM (gKWVE)

345 ...Without wrapping doesn't make much sense. After six hours, the bark isn't going to benefit from any more smoke and all one accomplishes is drying out the meat.

If you insist on going unwrapped, inject the heck out of the brisket and make sure the rub is on for more than just overnight.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:11 PM (rHxhM)

I never wrap and I never have dried out brisket.

Maybe you cook at a higher temp. Anywho, I don't like soggy BBQ and the bark is better when unwrapped.

YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 06:19 PM (iJfKG)

346 315 And if you think 380 is a weird temp, it is. A lot of my recipes come from my mom, who most of you know was French, so it’s converted.

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2024 06:08 PM (pZEOD)
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380F is 193C so make it 200C. Makes sense. However 390F would be closer to 200C.

Posted by: Ciampino - Do trees feel releaved in the Spring? at December 29, 2024 06:21 PM (i0xsb)

347
You're going to hear a lot about Carter "building houses" for the poor.

WRONG.

Carter pretended to build houses and pretended swing a hammer for purpose. Plus, the whole Habitat for Humanity "charity" is a scam -- a great big political scam. Much like the Unicef scam, and the Peace Corps scam, and the United Nations scam.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:21 PM (BEPTv)

348 Even the fucking press turned on him, because he replaced ltheir caviar and top shelf booze with beanie weenies and kool-aid as part of his “austerity measures”

Really and truly? That bumps my opinion of him up a notch.

Posted by: Emmie at December 29, 2024 06:21 PM (Sf2cq)

349 Apparently, the Ohio region had their Blizzard of '78 on January 26-27th, and Boston had its Blizzard of '78 over a week later, February 6-7th.

Both storms were massive -- both storms were snow blizzards + hurricanes.
Posted by: Soothsayer

I was living in Columbus during that blizzard. It was. not. fun. People stranded on the interstates were instructed to break into the travel rest stops for shelter by the governor.

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 06:22 PM (oaGWv)

350 to cross the streams, Jimmah has been fetched by Inle-rah

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 06:22 PM (D7oie)

351 I think we can pretty much agree that the worst presidents tend to be Democrats.

Posted by: fd at December 29, 2024 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

352 The Paolo would never, how you say, wrap Paolo's brisket.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 29, 2024 06:22 PM (WXNFJ)

353 344 Carter on the energy crisis
youtu.be/oy2S6c6oX58
Posted by: gKWVE at December 29, 2024 06:19 PM (gKWVE)
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That's a good one.

They are still doing that "I have been very clear." nonsense.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 06:22 PM (Sk4iO)

354 An un opened Billy Beer tastes exactly the same today as when Carter was preznident.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 06:22 PM (cwI6g)

355 IOW, blech.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 06:23 PM (cwI6g)

356
btw, in case you missed it, Weirdo Dave posted an image of his Christmas Standing Rib Roast. You need to see it.

It should win awards. Really.

Go look at it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:23 PM (BEPTv)

357 Why some conservatives think Nixon was All That is baffling.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 29, 2024 06:03 PM (KAi1n)

Because he was bookended by Johnson and Carter

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 06:23 PM (D7oie)

358
Bullshit. He was by most accounts a total dickhead extraordinaire. Horrible chief executive, miserable to work for.

________

I read a book about the Secret Service Presidential Detail. Said Carter, like most Democratic presidents, was a jerk toward the agents.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 29, 2024 06:24 PM (dxSpM)

359 I wonder if any dems are pissed that he waited 2 months to drop.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2024 06:25 PM (bss/y)

360 Brisket played a minor role in "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel".
I think it was the only thing she knew how to cook.

Posted by: sal at December 29, 2024 06:26 PM (f+FmA)

361 Can you even imagine wanting FJB to deliver your eulogy? Yikes.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 29, 2024 06:26 PM (mH6SG)

362 I never wrap and I never have dried out brisket.

Maybe you cook at a higher temp. Anywho, I don't like soggy BBQ and the bark is better when unwrapped.

I have a Rectec grill and set it to Extreme Smoke which is around 180°F I let this go for the bulk of time to get a good bark that can handle wrapping.

For Pork Butt, no question, no wrap I can keep spraying Apple Vinegar on it. For Brisket I'll separate the Flat from the Point, inject the Flat and only consider wrapping if I'm running out of time.

I don't like foil wrapping only because the captured steam raises the chances of wrecking the bark, but it does allow me to ratchet up the heat to speed the cook.

Regardless, 220°F + when it hits stall. If anything I run a much lower temperature than the Pros recommend.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:27 PM (rHxhM)

363 No way Jerry Ford was gonna win anything. We needed Reagan in ‘76 very badly. ‘68 would have been much better, he was in his natural prime still.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 06:27 PM (90Mjm)

364 My two bits,
Organic farming is definitely a farce and always has been. The rules are so loose it’s shocking.
It’s right there with gluten free, if you don’t have Celiac disease any benefits are probably in your head.
And don’t get me started on the excessivly processed milk replacers and FAKE meat!

Posted by: Rancherbob at December 29, 2024 06:27 PM (21WHr)

365
You all remember Ron Popeil's informercial for his Rotisserie Oven?

First, how many of you bought that thing? Second, it was just a toaster oven...with an electric spit. Right? Third, toaster ovens have come a long way, yes? They can do Everything, today, except clean themselves (and work after a couple years because they're all chinese junk).

But do you remember How Delicious Ron's oven cooked things? Do you remember the Rib Roast in that informercial? That's what Weird Dave achieved on Christmas -- the Perfect Rib Roast.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:28 PM (BEPTv)

366 I think we can pretty much agree that the worst presidents tend to be Democrats.

Lincoln got us into a hot war against ourselves, and Warren Harding was about as corrupt and scandal soaked as they come.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:29 PM (rHxhM)

367 351 I think we can pretty much agree that the worst presidents tend to be Democrats.
Posted by: fd at December 29, 2024 06:22 PM (vFG9F)

May take some heat here but I hold GW Bush’s tenure as President in very low regard.

He was terrible.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 06:29 PM (heexZ)

368 I think I had a Billy Beer once, 40 years is long ago but think someone went home and brought a 6 pack back

Posted by: Skip at December 29, 2024 06:29 PM (fwDg9)

369 Will Carter's funeral be interrupted to cover Trump's Inauguration?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 05:57 PM (cwI6g)

Jeebus. Don't give the Carter family spawn any ideas.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 06:00 PM (4tmpE)

Does this mean we have to view little amy in her hag years? I'll guess shes giving zombie Feinstein a run for its money.

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it. Today is not that day! Dangerous Radical at December 29, 2024 06:29 PM (89Sog)

370 I've got a genuine painting of Billy Carter's horse that I have been saving in anticipation of a windfall upon Jimmy's demise. I am about to be set for life.

Posted by: fd at December 29, 2024 06:30 PM (vFG9F)

371 I wonder if any dems are pissed that he waited 2 months to drop.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Look at it this way. Be glad he didn't drop the week before the Trump inaugural.

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 06:31 PM (oaGWv)

372 "Lincoln got us into a hot war against ourselves, and Warren Harding was about as corrupt and scandal soaked as they come.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure"

Didn't you hear? The parties swapped.

Posted by: fd at December 29, 2024 06:31 PM (vFG9F)

373 346 380F is 193C so make it 200C. Makes sense. However 390F would be closer to 200C.
Posted by: Ciampino - Do trees feel releaved in the Spring

If my mom haunts you for questioning her math, that is on you! 😂😂🤣😂

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2024 06:32 PM (p4NUW)

374 Posted by: Rancherbob at December 29, 2024 06:27 PM (21WHr)
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Organic tree farming is legit!

Posted by: Weasel at December 29, 2024 06:32 PM (lG3Q4)

375
He was terrible.
Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 06:29 PM (heexZ)
--------------

Yep.

I'm still irritated I defended him.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 29, 2024 06:32 PM (tT6L1)

376 Yep.

I'm still irritated I defended him.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Same here.

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 06:33 PM (oaGWv)

377 Pete Bog,
GHW Bush was worse. He caused me to vote for Billy Jeff. Once. The one time I ever voted for a democrat.

Eeeeesh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 29, 2024 06:33 PM (mT+6a)

378 Carter will make Wellstone look like a piker.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 06:34 PM (cwI6g)

379 Not much on X about his death. Guess he went with a fizzle.

Posted by: Piper at December 29, 2024 06:34 PM (p4NUW)

380 Imagine if John Connally had run in 76 because no one trusted Agnew

Posted by: Kindltot at December 29, 2024 06:34 PM (D7oie)

381 Weasel, I think you fall in the "Let Nature take it's course" mode of tree farming.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 29, 2024 06:34 PM (XTmTf)

382 The Democrats used to be a proper Party.

Posted by: James Polk at December 29, 2024 06:34 PM (gKWVE)

383 Carter pretended to build houses and pretended swing a hammer for purpose. Plus, the whole Habitat for Humanity "charity" is a scam -- a great big political scam. Much like the Unicef scam, and the Peace Corps scam, and the United Nations scam.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:21 PM (BEPTv)

Correct. Well off, guilt ridden white libtards donate their excess property which is then developed into a shotgun house for some career welfare queen and her 19 children to live in and everyone involved except the neighbors glad hands themselves like they accomplished something.

Posted by: Century 21 Real Estate at December 29, 2024 06:35 PM (R/m4+)

384 Weasel, I think you fall in the "Let Nature take it's course" mode of tree farming.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 29, 2024 06:34 PM (XTmTf)
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Organic and also caffeine free!

Posted by: Weasel at December 29, 2024 06:35 PM (lG3Q4)

385 I saw some vids about raccoon...you have to remove the scent glands, or it tastes aweful.

https://tinyurl.com/2uvntddy

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2024 06:36 PM (ynpvh)

386 May take some heat here but I hold GW Bush’s tenure as President in very low regard.

• PATRIOT Act
• DHS
• TSA
• Trillions of new debt
• Kicked off a 20 year war that accomplished nothing but enrich the MIC and kill/maim millions and cost trillions

OTOH,

Nixon gave us: NOAA, ATF ,EPA, DEA and OSHA.
May that asshole burn in Hell for all eternity.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:36 PM (rHxhM)

387 Oh good Lord. My classical music station is playing Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man in honor or Carter's passing.

Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 06:36 PM (oaGWv)

388 Weasel a seminar on forestry management at the MoMe would be great. And Ramen.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 06:36 PM (heexZ)

389 367
May take some heat here but I hold GW Bush’s tenure as President in very low regard.

He was terrible.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 06:29 PM (heexZ)
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I agree. Not only Iraq but he also didn't fight against the Ds and never repudiated all the calumnies thrown at him.

Posted by: Ciampino - Do trees feel releaved in the Spring? at December 29, 2024 06:38 PM (i0xsb)

390 Oh good Lord. My classical music station is playing Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man in honor or Carter's passing.
Posted by: Tuna at December 29, 2024 06:36 PM (oaGWv)
\

What?

Yakety Sax wasn't available?

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 06:38 PM (iJfKG)

391 I've got a genuine painting of Billy Carter's horse

We of the Brattleboro Wyman's Health Clenic apeel to you too doughnate that for the wayting rume ofs are clenic.

- Mary Cloggensteen

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 06:38 PM (cwI6g)

392 Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 06:36 PM (heexZ)
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An organic caffeine free pine twig really brings out the flavor in ramen.

Posted by: Weasel at December 29, 2024 06:39 PM (lG3Q4)

393 364 My two bits,
Organic farming is definitely a farce and always has been. The rules are so loose it’s shocking.
It’s right there with gluten free, if you don’t have Celiac disease any benefits are probably in your head.
And don’t get me started on the excessivly processed milk replacers and FAKE meat!
Posted by: Rancherbob at December 29, 2024 06:27 PM (21WHr)
_-_-_-_-_-_
All TRUE. If course that doesn't mean all of the other 40-ingredient crap in the grocery store is good. I looked at the ingredients on a container of sour cream while back , and it took a minute to find a brand that was just, you know, sour cream. And they put soy in everything. I only care about that because when I eat the stuff, it makes me vomit later(food allergy).

Posted by: Don in SoCo at December 29, 2024 06:39 PM (Sk4iO)

394 Posted by: Ciampino - Do trees feel releaved in the Spring? at December 29, 2024 06:38 PM (i0xsb)

You guys have issues. I'm glad he stood strong with Clarence Thomas for one thing.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:40 PM (D6PGr)

395 391 I've got a genuine painting of Billy Carter's horse

We of the Brattleboro Wyman's Health Clenic apeel to you too doughnate that for the wayting rume ofs are clenic.

- Mary Cloggensteen
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 06:38 PM (cwI6g)

Am I the only one who had to sound that one out to try to figure out what the hell she is trying to say?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2024 06:40 PM (bss/y)

396 Paging TonyPete (or any other Eye-Talians)

Ever heard of Pasta Sucha?

I just made some. It's a great soup for a Nona to make for her grandkids. That's the place it has in my heart.

Like most Italian dishes, start with sautéing garlic in butter, then equal parts chicken broth and tomato juice. The special part was the ABC pasta. But can only get those online around here.

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 29, 2024 06:40 PM (NMT5x)

397 Just relistened to Fanfare for the Common Man.

Yeah, not a favorite. It is pretty much just commercial blurbs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2024 06:41 PM (bss/y)

398 And send me garlic that isn't grown in heavy metals and human waste in China

Spent a couple hours at a Chinese family's house helping them with a medical claim. They said never eat food from China. They would know....

Posted by: Ghost of OrangeEnt Past at December 29, 2024 06:41 PM (0eaVi)

399 Learned this holiday you're not 'spose to use metal spoons to eat or serve caviar. Oxidation reaction or something. Mother of Pearl spoon is preferred. Plastic spoon is ok substitute. Just don't use metal.

You're welcome.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 29, 2024 06:41 PM (hoCmQ)

400 That's like the one I found in my Christmas stocking, but in black.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 29, 2024 06:15 PM (hoCmQ)

Mine's black too. Hope you like it as much as I do. Saves me from dishpan hands and really cleans my cast iron pans well.

Posted by: jix at December 29, 2024 06:42 PM (Leoj5)

401 Don't get the GH and GWs confused.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 29, 2024 06:42 PM (bss/y)

402 Yakety Sax wasn't available?

Judges would also have accepted the "Looney Toons" opening/closing tune called "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down".

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:42 PM (rHxhM)

403 Sorry but i thought it was Bush 41. I stand by my comment and sub in Alito though he should have stuck with Mier.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 29, 2024 06:42 PM (D6PGr)

404 People that worked in factories in the old days praise OSHA.

Posted by: Ciampino - Toddler not wanting a nap is that resisting a rest? at December 29, 2024 06:42 PM (i0xsb)

405 Organic tree farming is legit!
Posted by: Weasel at December 29, 2024 06:32 PM (lG3Q4)

No market for organic lumber.

And Bush signed some bad bills

Posted by: Rancherbob at December 29, 2024 06:43 PM (21WHr)

406 Caffeine free? Weasel, it's like I don't even know you any more....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 29, 2024 06:43 PM (tT6L1)

407 Yakety Sax wasn't available?

Sammy Davis Jr as a child actor singing I'll be glad when you dead you rascal you.
https://youtu.be/DICgr6m7HOA?si=7jyFe-_U7-BTZvuT

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 06:44 PM (cwI6g)

408 279. A Planters jar.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

With Joe doing the eulogy. 🫣🤣

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 06:44 PM (NFX2v)

409 An organic caffeine free pine twig really brings out the flavor in ramen.

I told ya!

Posted by: Zombie Euell Gibbons at December 29, 2024 06:44 PM (mH6SG)

410 A pox on compostable storage bags. Straight to the garbage. If I don't replace them with a regular plastic bag immediately, they start composting my fresh vegetables.

Posted by: jix at December 29, 2024 06:44 PM (Leoj5)

411 Have you harvested your organic pine nuts weasel?

Posted by: Rancherbob at December 29, 2024 06:45 PM (21WHr)

412 Learned this holiday you're not 'spose to use metal spoons to eat or serve caviar. Oxidation reaction or something. Mother of Pearl spoon is preferred. Plastic spoon is ok substitute. Just don't use metal.

You're welcome.
Posted by: olddog in mo at December 29, 2024 06:41 PM (hoCmQ)

News you can use! A rare thing but I love caviar.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 06:45 PM (heexZ)

413 People that worked in factories in the old days praise OSHA.

Now because of OSHA the workers in factories are in Asia.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:45 PM (rHxhM)

414 Ever heard of Pasta Sucha?

I just made some. It's a great soup for a Nona to make for her grandkids. That's the place it has in my heart.
Posted by: haffhowershower

I have not heard of it. Oh, fyi, no person of Italian heritage "sautés", anything. We 'fry' it.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 29, 2024 06:45 PM (WXNFJ)

415 Dang Emmie, that Factory Farming business is "all econ" isn't it?
This li'l fella has a neurological condition (noting who published him) I might roughly describe as "sick fuck." They MBA their Big Corporatism behind this notion of efficiency, as if we all were the last ones on the lifeboat, while they row the other way and whistle "Lili Marlene" under their breath.

We don't yet have land tenure and land-use policy dictated by The People's Council. Not quite, anyway. A man is still entitled to fail, or succeed at lesser levels, by his own lights.

I seriously 'farm' a fraction of an acre, yet usually produce a surplus of something or other sufficient to give away in some quantity, even sell from time to time. To bring in the kind of capital equipment the author envisions for 'peak efficiency' would tear up the lawn, knock down trees, piss off the neighbors and scare the stock.

We're used to seeing fields of hundreds or thousands of acres -- in tracts on farm theory. When you look at all the land people are actually using to grow food, it takes in a lot of little bitty allotments, accessible only to one tractor, a rototiller, or even one mule or a hoe.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 29, 2024 06:47 PM (zdLoL)

416 Uh oh... I'm next aren't I...

Posted by: GRANPA BADFINGERS at December 29, 2024 06:47 PM (1FWWQ)

417 People that worked in factories in the old days praise OSHA.

Now because of OSHA the workers in factories are in Asia.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:45 PM (rHxhM)

Would it make you feel better if the little kids working as slaves were doing it here ? Or if there was a legit, expected body count for any major construction project again ?

Yes - OSHA has far exceeded it's original mandate. But lets not bullshit each other. Left unchecked ? We'll be right back to mills with chains on the doors, to hold the workers inside.

Posted by: Context at December 29, 2024 06:47 PM (CpTN0)

418 I'll be lookin' out for those flap steaks, CBD!

Posted by: Paco at December 29, 2024 06:47 PM (mADJX)

419 404 People that worked in factories in the old days praise OSHA.
Posted by: Ciampino

And often, well deserved - in the old days.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 06:48 PM (NFX2v)

420 With Joe doing the eulogy. 🫣🤣

Could we please have the Dancing Pallbearers and Thamsanqua Jantjie reprise his role as the guy who did the sign language for Nelson Mandela's funeral?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:48 PM (rHxhM)

421 Recipe please

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at December 29, 2024 04:21 PM (Wx316)

Oops! I missed this.

Try the SeriousEats.com recipe for Jewish-Style Brisket. I hate the owner of the site, but the recipe is solid. Just use a bigger brisket...not just the flat. I use the whole thing, and really trim it down. You can render the fat and use it for all sorts of stuff.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 06:48 PM (d9fT1)

422 Pro-tip, properly seasoned pans can be washed with soap and water if you insist on it.

THIS. I have cast iron pans that are over 50 years old, and wash with soap and water every time. Then I dry it on the stove, use a very little of castironchris.com seasoning, wipe it down and it's non-stick for next time.
Also recommend his videos on caring for cast iron.

Posted by: Toni at December 29, 2024 06:49 PM (ugzWe)

423 Carter lived to see a worse president than himself. Nothing left to live for after that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2024 06:49 PM (ynpvh)

424 An organic caffeine free pine twig really brings out the flavor in ramen.
--
I didn't know that some pine trees have caffeine. Who knew?

Posted by: Ciampino - Toddler not wanting a nap is that resisting a rest? at December 29, 2024 06:50 PM (i0xsb)

425 Let’s clarify something you guys are touching on

The Democrats job is to fuck everything up

The Republicans job is to make sure it stays that way

Any Questions?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 06:50 PM (lDzxK)

426 I don't know if this suggestion has been made yet, but I believe it would be appropriate to transfer Jimmy's remains to his final resting place in the Nutmobile.

https://tinyurl.com/bddrxh4j

Posted by: Paco at December 29, 2024 06:51 PM (mADJX)

427 With Joe doing the eulogy. 🫣🤣

Could we please have the Dancing Pallbearers and Thamsanqua Jantjie reprise his role as the guy who did the sign language for Nelson Mandela's funeral?
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at December 29, 2024 06:48 PM (rHxhM)

Can we get a parade of rabbits chasing the coffin?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at December 29, 2024 06:51 PM (VNX3d)

428 Okay folks...the cocktail hour has arrived!

Thanks for reading and commenting...the peanut farmer's demise was just too good to ignore!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 06:51 PM (d9fT1)

429 Weasel, I think you fall in the "Let Nature take it's course" mode of tree farming.
Posted by: Ben Had
----
She can be a harsh mistress. ~40% of the trees lost here in Buncombe county NC.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 29, 2024 06:51 PM (XeU6L)

430 279 Thank goodness we won't have to view the spectacle of him being wheeled in to Trump's inauguration. You just know he would have insisted on being there.
Posted by: Tuna

Do we know for a fact? Carried via urn?

Heh.
Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 05:53 PM (NFX2v)

A Planters jar.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 29, 2024 05:57 PM (dR6yv)

No rabbits allowed at the memorial...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2024 06:51 PM (ynpvh)

431 Holy Cow! Here's that Korean plane wreck:

https://x.com/WSJ/status/1873444176223728003

I'm surprised even two people survived.

Awful.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 06:51 PM (iJfKG)

432 CBD, thanks for a good food thread. See you next Sunday to discuss New Years dining resolutions.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 06:52 PM (heexZ)

433 I have not heard of it. Oh, fyi, no person of Italian heritage "sautés", anything. We 'fry' it.
Posted by: Tonypete

Maybe it's a state of mind. I tried to make bagna cauda for my in laws years ago, since it's been a family staple (especially on Christmas Eve), and burned the garlic when I was frying it.

So I use "saute" instead of "fry" to help me get my head in the game so I don't overcook it, lol!

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 29, 2024 06:52 PM (NMT5x)

434 Finally. I have been avenged!

Posted by: The Plains Killer Wabbit at December 29, 2024 06:52 PM (mH6SG)

435 > Except Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter with the US, Canada, France and Ukraine next in the list.

Now do corn.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 06:53 PM (W5ArC)

436 See you next Sunday to discuss New Years dining resolutions.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 06:52 PM (heexZ)

I'll tell you one a bit early.

Drink more Champagne.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 06:54 PM (d9fT1)

437 Imagine all the Deep State commies who will attend Jimmy's funeral. The Bushes, Clintons, Obamas, Bidens,..."Reverend" Al, Nancy Pelosi on a walker, the Turtle, Chuck Schumer...too many terrible human beings to list.

🤬🤬🤬

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 29, 2024 06:54 PM (4tmpE)

438 431 Holy Cow! Here's that Korean plane wreck:

https://x.com/WSJ/status/1873444176223728003

I'm surprised even two people survived.

Awful.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 29, 2024 06:51 PM (iJfKG)

Officials were rather coy about the number of dead early on...they knew, and it was obvious the death toll was high when they set up a temporary morgue. terrible.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2024 06:54 PM (ynpvh)

439 "Well off, guilt ridden white libtards donate their excess property which is then developed into a shotgun house for some career welfare queen and her 19 children to live in and everyone involved except the neighbors glad hands themselves like they accomplished something."

My oldest nephew became a doctor, but married a woman with a couple college prof parents, who in 2020 declared "We are a Biden Family, I've heard it all". Sad because they homeschool, and it seems her statement was in response to her fellow homeschoolers trying to bring her some reality.

But one argument she had with me was "don't you think Carter is great, because of habitat for humanity?"

I was surrounded by libtard family and relatives and went soft, but now regret now pointing out "Sure, but USA is not a charity". Withholding "political facts" in family situations is generally a bad compromise.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 29, 2024 06:54 PM (Cus5s)

440 435 > Except Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter with the US, Canada, France and Ukraine next in the list.

Now do corn.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 06:53 PM (W5ArC)

Which country is the Corn Hub?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2024 06:55 PM (ynpvh)

441 > I didn't know that some pine trees have caffeine. Who knew?
Posted by: Ciampino - Toddler not wanting a nap is that resisting a rest? at December 29, 2024 06:50 PM (i0xsb)

Pine, maybe not. But another seasonal favorite, holly, does. The South American yerba mate is a holly. The yaupon hollly found in the southern US also has a good dose.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 06:55 PM (W5ArC)

442 Carter lived to see a worse president than himself. Nothing left to live for after that.

It's a tough call. Carter watched Iranians hold Americans hostage - and did very fucking little about it, other than a shit scheme to get servicemen dead. Because Jimmy was all about the moral superiority of Jimmy.

How do we compare that to Biden ? The senile old dude didn't really have much of a handle on the political prisoners we've taken domestically.

For me ? I can't stand Carter. Of course, part of that was all the religious folks around me as a kid - when I knew than Carter was a moron, while they told me "He's a Man of God".

Jimmy Carter is part of why the social Zeitgeist is so anti-religious. Because he covered himself in religion. Like the Emperor with No Clothes covering himself in shit.

Posted by: Context at December 29, 2024 06:55 PM (CpTN0)

443 I was told that if I have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything at all.

So with regard to Jimmy Carter:

" "

Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 29, 2024 06:56 PM (kahh3)

444 424 An organic caffeine free pine twig really brings out the flavor in ramen.
--
I didn't know that some pine trees have caffeine. Who knew?

Posted by: Ciampino - Toddler not wanting a nap is that resisting a rest? at December 29, 2024 06:50 PM (i0xsb)

It's also a meat-free, caffeine-free, organic pine twig...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2024 06:56 PM (ynpvh)

445 > Which country is the Corn Hub?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2024 06:55 PM (ynpvh)

The United States, followed by Brazil, Argentina, and (once again) Ukraine.

It requires the evil incompetence of Marxism to have famines when you have the Ukraine sitting right there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 06:57 PM (W5ArC)

446
lol

"Terrible President" is trending on Twitter, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:57 PM (BEPTv)

447 >May take some heat here but I hold GW Bush’s tenure as President in very low regard.

michelle_O_GWB_hug.jpg

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 29, 2024 06:57 PM (lhenN)

448 America was a better country when the Cuyohoga had an octane rating

Jus Sayin’

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 06:58 PM (8DbYW)

449 435 > Except Russia is the world's largest wheat exporter with the US, Canada, France and Ukraine next in the list.

Now do corn.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 06:53 PM (W5ArC)

https://worldstatistics.net/
the-largest-corn-exporters-in-the-world/

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2024 06:58 PM (ynpvh)

450
What I hate most about carter dying is it gives that little shit zelensky another excuse to come here.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:59 PM (BEPTv)

451 Ok, maybe one.

Carter never aged well. The older he got, the more he looked like an old Don Knotts.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at December 29, 2024 06:59 PM (kahh3)

452 "Terrible President" is trending on Twitter, now.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 29, 2024 06:57 PM (BEPTv)

Even I, as a single number of years mind of mush, remembers the "Misery Index".

Jimmy Carter was awful. It took that level of awful to shake America into a Reagan. We've still not reached the same level of awful.

Posted by: Context at December 29, 2024 07:00 PM (CpTN0)

453 >>>It requires the evil incompetence of Marxism to have famines when you have the Ukraine sitting right there.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Bovine encephalitis
Bird flu pandemic.

If you cook that bird flu chicken well done will it transmit the virus or will frying chicken kill it?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2024 07:00 PM (0b3lL)

454 May take some heat here but I hold GW Bush’s tenure as President in very low regard.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 29, 2024 06:29 PM (heexZ)

Not from me. I think his born-again teetotaler crap went to his head. He had to love everyone...including the enemies of America.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 07:01 PM (d9fT1)

455 " Carter lived to see a worse president than himself. Nothing left to live for after that."

heh. I have an aunt that lived to 100, while others kicked off in early 90's at best. She was small, and a nurse ... I think some determine they want to make it to ... 100 (or whatever), and having achieved that ... "OK, I'm done".

My goal is 110 via modern medicine, good diet, and keto. And now with a Trump win under our belts ... "Live Long and Prosper" is in order. Or maybe fenbendazole and ivermectin will not be enough, and I find stage 5 cancer next year ... been an interesting ride. heh.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 29, 2024 07:01 PM (Cus5s)

456 6 Amazing dinner for guests last night...

Posted by Nova Local

You, too, are wonderfully creative with your family's meals. I love to read how you put them together.

Posted by: L - Rooster one day, feather duster the next at December 29, 2024 07:02 PM (NFX2v)

457 450
What I hate most about carter dying is it gives that little shit zelensky another excuse to come here.
Posted by: Soothsayer
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That's OK, the Donald can have a little talk with him without having to fly over there.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at December 29, 2024 07:02 PM (0b3lL)

458 What was it Carter said, impure in his heart or something...

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 29, 2024 07:04 PM (cwI6g)

459 Fun Fact: Virtually every famine in history was human caused, not some force of nature.

Usually a result of some marxist or totalitarian twat. Despite this, “progressives” remain undeterred.

I wonder if Norman Borlaug would be villified today. Or maybe his plane would crash under questionable circumstance.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 07:05 PM (zO1No)

460 Not from me. I think his born-again teetotaler crap went to his head. He had to love everyone...including the enemies of America.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 29, 2024 07:01 PM (d9fT1)

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis

Piss on Jimmy Carter and all those like him.

Posted by: Context at December 29, 2024 07:05 PM (CpTN0)

461 You know, I kinda wish that Carter had succeeded in the metric thing.

We'd be over the dislocation by now, and it'd make life so much simpler if you only had to have one set of tools and measures.

Could be worse... people who work on old British cars and bikes have to have THREE sets, SAE, metric, and Whitworth... sometimes more.

A friend of mine way back was into vintage Triumph motorcycles, which if I remember right required tools for a couple of other standards as well as those three.

I remember him bitching about how hard it was to get tools.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 07:06 PM (W5ArC)

462 461 You know, I kinda wish that Carter had succeeded in the metric thing.

We'd be over the dislocation by now, and it'd make life so much simpler if you only had to have one set of tools and measures.

Could be worse... people who work on old British cars and bikes have to have THREE sets, SAE, metric, and Whitworth... sometimes more.

A friend of mine way back was into vintage Triumph motorcycles, which if I remember right required tools for a couple of other standards as well as those three.

I remember him bitching about how hard it was to get tools.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 07:06 PM (W5ArC)

We do use the metric shit-ton...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 29, 2024 07:08 PM (ynpvh)

463 > It requires the evil incompetence of Marxism to have famines when you have the Ukraine sitting right there.

Hmm... It just occured to me that you could distinguish among the rival sects of the evil socialist death cult by putting Nazis in the "evil and competent" category, and Marxists in the "evil and incompetent" category.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 07:09 PM (W5ArC)

464 "I'm surprised even two people survived. Awful."

There was also a bird strike, pilots felt they could not go around again (allegedly). seems they set down way too late on the runway, but not sure what control they had.

The two survivors were crew in the tail, apparently. We will have to wait to see if there were other issues involved ... it was a Boeing.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 29, 2024 07:09 PM (Cus5s)

465 The US converted to the Metric system a long time ago for anything that matters.

What we didn’t do, is fuck up our highway system with kilometers or liquid measurements for everything.

Imagine trying to sing Bobby Bare’s “500 Miles”. “I’m 937.5 kilometers away from home” is awkward.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 07:09 PM (zO1No)

466 I remember him bitching about how hard it was to get tools.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

Metric crescent wrenches are handy!

Posted by: haffhowershower at December 29, 2024 07:13 PM (NMT5x)

467 What was it Carter said, impure in his heart or something...
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism
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"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do--and I have done it--and God forgives me for it"

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 29, 2024 07:13 PM (hoCmQ)

468 The US converted to the Metric system a long time ago for anything that matters.

Exactly. And it's "close enough". Four quarts to a gallon. Three and change liters to a gallon. Two miles to three kliks. And so on.

Unless, for all you Europhiles ... that you just get a hard on looking at temperature in Metric. Because every C is 1.8 F.

A meter is about a yard, and on and on.

Posted by: Context at December 29, 2024 07:13 PM (CpTN0)

469 He also said this, " I try not to commit a deliberate sin. I recognize that I'm going to do it anyhow, because I'm human and I'm tempted. And Christ set some almost impossible standards for us. Christ said, 'I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery."

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 29, 2024 07:14 PM (hoCmQ)

470 Man, you just never know when or where the metricists will pop up.

I did not know GHW Bush was a teetotaler, or born-again.
I don't want to be like Nazi Cow and accuse everybody of being drunk, but Jesus guys. Try to keep your antecedents straight.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at December 29, 2024 07:15 PM (zdLoL)

471 We'd be over the dislocation by now, and it'd make life so much simpler if you only had to have one set of tools and measures.

Yeah ... a set of sockets by the millimeter. Same for wrenches. It would be great.

Going to the lumber yard to get a 50 mm x 100 mm. Absolutely fabulous.

Posted by: Context at December 29, 2024 07:15 PM (CpTN0)

472 We do use the metric shit-ton...

And SF conventions have the Asimov (As) asshole scale. Like, Raimondo is something like a centi-As; Greg the concern troll who comes around every two-to-four years is 1/2 As's.

Posted by: gKWVE at December 29, 2024 07:16 PM (gKWVE)

473 "Not from me. I think his born-again teetotaler crap went to his head. He had to love everyone...including the enemies of America." Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Yeah, the failure of "Christians" to recognize evil is endemic. At my older sister's recent funeral, my other sister brought in a new pastor from the Lutheran church of or local youth. He spoke of All People being of God, or some such absurd nonsense.

This is where I do like the "tribalism" of Judaism over the current corruption of "mainstream Christianity". We have to stand for something, or we will "fall for anything". There is good and evil ... our institutional churches are compromised.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 29, 2024 07:18 PM (Cus5s)

474 Things God should have said ... "That guy from Georgia that's done good with peanuts ? Don't put him in charge of anything. He's a fucking moron. A special, smart moron, with an advanced degree and Navy experience. That's on you people."

Posted by: Context at December 29, 2024 07:18 PM (CpTN0)

475 Imagine trying to sing Bobby Bare’s “500 Miles”. “I’m 937.5 kilometers away from home” is awkward.
Posted by: Common Tater
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I walked 75.639 kilometers of barbed wire, ...

Posted by: George Thorogood at December 29, 2024 07:20 PM (XeU6L)

476 Yeah, the failure of "Christians" to recognize evil is endemic.

So I piss off people with this, but I know I'm right on it. Never trust anyone so interested in the next world that they're using this one as an audition.

That applies to anyone that's Evangelical. Look - most DEI people at this point are Evangelical. The fucks that love them some LGBTQ ? Evangelical.

I'll get some push-back here for the word, and the capital E. Don't care. It's the same thing. A blind, don't care about consequences, faith based all in dogma.

Posted by: Context at December 29, 2024 07:21 PM (CpTN0)

477 Metric crescent wrenches are handy!
Posted by: haffhowershower
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I have one...200mm

Posted by: George Thorogood at December 29, 2024 07:22 PM (XeU6L)

478 > The US converted to the Metric system a long time ago for anything that matters.

Plumbing and electrical still use US customary units.

Electrical work uses metric measures for the actual electrical circuit (volts, amps, ohms) but things like wire gauge, conduit, etc. are all still inch-based.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at December 29, 2024 07:25 PM (W5ArC)

479 Yup, like I said anything that matters

Posted by: Common Tater at December 29, 2024 07:26 PM (+jJCu)

480 "Look - most DEI people at this point are Evangelical. The fucks that love them some LGBTQ ? Evangelical."
Posted by: Context

I'm not involved in that world now, but it would sure be a surprise if the Evangelicals were the most DEI. Other than maybe Baptists, or a couple others, I'd guess other Protestants would be more DEI ... and even the Catholics, except for some USA bishops.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 29, 2024 07:29 PM (Cus5s)

481 We spent 3 hours at the PBC Shooting Center today. Lots of my fellow Palm Beachers firing their Christmas presents. The range officers deserve a thank you, they are first class.

We had .22. .32. .38. .45 , and some new AK s. Youngest was 14, I'm 70. Great fun, fantastic facility.

Posted by: Dr kill at December 29, 2024 08:25 PM (BSNnK)

482 I like the idea of baked latkes! Sounds nicer than being stuck over the spattering stove while company is here.

Posted by: MammaB at December 29, 2024 08:35 PM (6Vyvk)

483 The most important thing to remember in making latkes is to squeeze out as much of the liquid from the potatoes as possible.

Peel and cut large russets into four pieces each. Run through the julienne disk of a food processor. Squeeze out all the water. Add matzo meal, chopped onion, an egg or two, a little oil, salt and pepper, and any other spice or additive you find intriguing. Heat the oil first before frying. Happy Chanukah!

Posted by: Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed at December 30, 2024 05:52 AM (kvDvI)

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