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Wroughtirony posted:I've actually never seen corn syrup mislabeled as maple, just referred to as such on menus or verbally. I miss N.H. and Maine so drat much. I haven't even eaten seafood since I left. My only consolation is I live near a soon to be majority-Hispanic city. My weekly Saturday trips to the taqueria almost make the move worth it. $2.50 beans and rice with a taco, plus an additional dollar per taco with options like tripa, lengua, chorizo, pig stomach, cabeza, and "regular" meats owns. Finally getting my organ meat on. Never had tripe, tongue, or stomach before moving back to Iowa.
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Happy Hat posted:Done! Get the pirate virus song playing on all the company computers, and have an Archerific Monday.
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I had to go to a Ducks Unlimited banquet this past Saturday for work. The booze was free, and the steak was actually really good. I sat across from my old boss at the grocery store I worked at in high school. S.O.B. actually put ketchup. On. His. Steak. I have heard people bitching about it in GWS forever, I just never encountered it in the wild. On the bright side, my boss and I entered our free raffle tickets. We put his auction bid number on all of them to save me writing my name on 20 tickets, and wouldn't you know it, he was the first one called. He had his choice of six guns. Long story short, while he was filling out his NICS paperwork, his number was called again! He went home with a Mossberg lever action 30-30 and I took home a Remington 870. Aside from watching a man eat a well-done steak with ketchup, an excellent night.
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pnumoman posted:It's the hypnotic gaze of the old ones that makes you sympathetic. Just know that a bloodsucking demon lies beneath that harmless elderly gaze.  I couldn't finish the article because it hurt my head, but someone who is doing small-town "journalism," that's about par for the course. My boss is trying to sell an area dining guide. We would run their monthly specials and do a review of the joint for extra exposure, something to hang in the window, etc. There are some pretty fantastic places like a Lao/Thai joint, great authentic Mexican places, etc. He went to our in-town, longtime advertisers first. An area pizza buffet was the first one to bite  . I...I'm hoping I don't have to write it up, though it could be funny.
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bunnielab posted:I have a singe can in my fridge that I plan on keeping forever, or until I am on a tear and it is the last booze left in the house. I never had 4 Loco. I have, however, had a knockoff 4 Loco and honest to goodness "store brand" malt liquor while riding in a former school bus with strobe lights and a ridiculous stereo system being driven by a former gay porn star. ...It was an interesting couple of months away from my wife while I was working out of state last fall. I am in no way a baller. Also, PBR is a fine dirt beer.
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therattle posted:It helps me deal with my barely-repressed homosexuality. You can do whatever you want as long as it's through a hole in the sheet!. One of my favorite clips from the UCB show on Comedy Central. One of the weirdest myths, but they made it pretty funny.
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My scouting experience was pretty tame. My friend's dad was the troop leader. We watched nature videos a lot and went fishing a ton. The go-to nature video was a PBS piece on hyenas. The leader, a high school teacher, thought their mock penises were hilarious. And in my 11 year old mind, a lady animal with a dick showing dominance over other hyenas was pretty damned funny. edit: one of my favorite hyena pics: 
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The Macaroni posted:Both mediaphage and KWC are correct: oil as a garnish rather than a major ingredient, and roasted garlic > raw garlic in hummus. I'm with you. My friend from Iraq introduced me to hummus and he was an oil drizzler on the top rather than a major component guy, so that's the way I started eating it, and therefore it's "right" to my palate. He also introduced me to Turkish coffee, falafel, samboosak, etc. I didn't grow up around any middle easterners (or any non-white folks, really), so I suffered greatly. I learned late what good food was. Damned Midwestern hot dishes 
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bunnielab posted:How hard is it to hide a pint flask in your back pocket? Not difficult, but then it wouldn't be heated to a balmy 98.6 degrees by your junk. That's the way I like my whisky. Tasting like plastic from a pouch that smells like my balls at a temperature warmer than most summer days at the ball park. Freedom 
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Halalelujah posted:Yeah, don't try to dick wave about having mid-grade knives on a magnet if you aren't prepared to get (rightfully) smacked down. Bullshit. If the last tangent in this thread (and the old biggest kitchen fuckups thread) is any indication, when I drop a knife, I gotta catch 'em all  .
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Mar 31, 2012 15:44
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Flash Gordon Ramsay, your PM inbox is full FYI. I can't reply  .
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Vegetable Melange posted:An excuse to buy kimchee is a good one. Also my favorite bar is playing the boy with the Arab strap and that makes my bike home so happy. Speaking of kimchee, does anyone have a line on a good source online? I'm not opposed to making my own, but it's been a good 8 months since I've had any and I'd like to have a solid base of what's "right." The Asian population in my neck of the woods now is almost exclusively Lao and there are no Asian grocers (or grocery stores that stock fermented cabbage outside of sauerkraut) in Northwest Iowa. There was a Cook or Die recently that tackled it a few weeks ago, but I'm gonna puss out on making my own for a bit.
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Somedays I love my job. I was writing a piece on a local gun club, so I went to the grocery store and bought som lettuce, a 5 lb bag of flour, and a couple gallons of water (please don't repost the starving kid, thanks). My wife took pictures as I broke in my new shotgun by exploding a couple heads of lettuce trap-style at the club. That was fun. Fun fact: the club was started after WWII by vets. They built their clubhouse at the dump. There, they would dust clays and go on rat hunts  .Writing at the office on a Saturday isn't nearly as fun though. Yay procrastination! edit: rat hunt snype 
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:Mustard-based bbq is really freaking good. Carolina BBQ is the best BBQ.
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pile of brown posted:if you don't know what it is it kind of sounds like a duck that lives in a burrow or something To be fair, "sea dong cooked in acid" could turn some people off if you explain to them what it is. Or at least how I'd explain it to them anyways.
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May 3, 2012 21:13
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Halalelujah posted:...Though I found the most terrifying drivers in the world to be in the Middle East/Central Asia. So good luck Wiggles! I don't know where you're getti--  Oh.
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May 8, 2012 22:52
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Phummus posted:Wow. Blue stars are hopping around like crazy. Are Bart and Adobo playing pong? Just noticed that Adobo wasn't listed as a mod on the roster, but I went back to page 58 and he/she's still starred up. Dunno, might just be some hiccups with New Radium doing something.
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May 9, 2012 21:42
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Pfefferbao posted:Has anyone paired tomatoes with chocolate? Today I found out that tomato-flavored chocolate exists. There's a mole recipe in this month's Draft (a beer) magazine that calls for both. Never made a mole before, but I'm going to try it out.
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Scientastic posted:Any UK goons who missed it the first time, there's a repeat of my Come Dine With Me appearance tomorrow night: More4, 1845. Is it up on 4od by chance? I'm on my phone so I can't really check.
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May 16, 2012 00:51
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EVG posted:D'oh. Wish I'd thought of that. Any recommendations for the next great GWS recipe to try? I've had mixed results from the wiki. I made bulgogi the other day from the gws wiki (cazu maru's recipe, I think) and was tasty as hell.
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I, too, had my first two-day weekend for the first time in six months. poo poo was glorious, beer and fishing and sleeping in and oh God. My boss and I are also quitting smoking together this week. Should suck around the office for a good long while. We each have a pack-and-a-half left and weekly deadlines to meet and ridiculously long hours and oh God. My wife and I are in the process of buying a house and might be moving in in a week and oh God. Not a good time to quit smoking, but when is? Hopefully this "last cigarette" will stay that way. In a food related note, I made pad thai last night from the GWS wiki recipe. That was fantastic. Bravo, goon-who's-name-I-forgot, and thanks.
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Vegetable Melange posted:Quitting is easy, done it a dozen times. I'm currently uninsured so gently caress going to the doctor for a 'sript, but Chantix (smoking cessation drug) gave me some profoundly hosed up dreams the last time I quit. Watching myself from a wide angle in the ocean uppercutting a full sized blue whale in the face, beating the poo poo out of Puff Daddy. It was really cool. Needlessly violent, but incredibly vivid dreams.
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Halalelujah posted:I was going to go on chantix, but despite my insurance covering it, I'm not going to. I lived for years taking strong malaria meds and every night was a coin toss on whether or not I had a cold-sweat nightmare. That combined with my day job made for an unpleasant life...I would rather deal with cold-turkey anger and frustration than have my nights punish me as much as my days. I didn't know the open ocean thing was commonplace. That's kinda neat. Going into Chantix, I was already on edge because of some depression issues (a side effect of "you might want to kill yourself when taking this drug" made me pretty uneasy). Luckily, it was just dreams beating people and things up. Given your line of work, I'm sure you're making the right decision. Good luck, and Godspeed. This time around, I'm going cold turkey with an occasional packet of snus to take the edge off if, say, I give myself hives like the last time I quit cold turkey. Also giving up drinking for a while. There's no way in hell I can get off smoking if I continue to drink, so adios booze for a bit.
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Happy Hat posted:Ah - the statesanctioned one we've had since '89 - new thing is that they're allowed to do so in the church, the priest can say no though due to 'conscience issues' but if they can find a priest that says yes (as 80% will), they can get married. State churches are weird to me as an American, but that's a hell of a good thing.
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Happy Hat posted:Will there ever come a name-change thread again? Dunno, but that would kick rear end. I can only eat so many globs. And I'm too uninspired to make a joke about pr0k's mom about eating globs.
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Just bought a house, which is cool. I don't know if it's the heatwave or this house is an annex of Satan's rear end in a top hat, but it hasn't been below 80 in here since I moved in a week ago. No central air, but this window unit in the bedroom isn't doing poo poo, well, beyond the bedroom. I'm now a cranky old man. Head indices around 110 suck for someone who spent the last decade dealing with 5-10 times a year with "scorchers" of 85-90. You desert dwelling bastards are nuts.
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Finally got around to reading the Emerald City throwdown thread for EC's reaction,  to Bart for the probation. I didn't know we had other Iowans around this place. Well, I wasn't born here, and Bart doesn't live her anymore, but still for people defending my fair (adopted) state.
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:You Look Like poo poo. Home of getting healthy and dressing well. Also home of low carb diets and people wearing mime shirts with skinny jeans. And every once in a while, some 'Yad lad's nads. I laugh so goddamned hard every time those pop up. I don't think there's been an incidence in that thread since Wayne Gretzky's magnum opus all over the forums, but I can remember a couple of times, including the time the thread got its current title. I don't read that thread mind you, I just wait for the balls to be linked  .
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Drink and Fight posted:Leafy greens should not come in cans. Vegetables, in general, aren't very good out of a can, but especially leafy greens. He's cultivating mass, dammit!
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dino. posted:For a skinny little gay kid who grew up in far too many backwards towns, where every single one of his classmates knew that he was the resident fag from the time he was in middle school (long before he knew himself), who thought that he'd never have even an acquaintance, much less a friend, you guys make me feel like all that was worth it. Thanks for accepting me for who I am, unapologetically. You don't ask me to change. You don't laugh at me even though my flame does burn rather brightly. It really means a lot to me that I can know a group of people who really are intelligent, and interesting to be around, and over-all awesome, who actually /want/ to hang out with me too. dino, you're the poo poo  . Thank you for being a friend. Pertinent for GWS, even!
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Wiggles, plum wine owns. I don't have a how-to or recipe for it, but I'm sure you can find someone knowledgeable. I know you said you made prunes, but here's an use for them. One of the go-to events in my neck of the woods is when the Czech grandmas make kolaches to sell at the town celebration. The old Czech Catholic Church is shut down (town used to have two, now it's down to Catholic house of worship). It's now run as a historical site here that opens up once a year for pastries, but if you've got any Eastern European ladies in your Parish, I'm sure they'd love if you made some apricot or prune kolaches for an after Mass social/coffee treat.
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MisterOblivious posted:Stop forgetting to pick it up and get out your credit card. A pound of yeast for about the same price as a jar or 6 packets at the grocery store. This place sells a pound for $3 just pay $12 shipping! I was grocery shopping yesterday and for the first time I saw two pounds of yeast for $5.99 . Three ounces was $3.99. Shame it wasn't brewers yeast. I'm planning on making my first batch of homebrew shortly.
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Butch Cassidy posted:I just made your Bánh chuối nướng for my wife and kids as a farewell desert before my hike through the presidential range and it is awesome, just so you know. Good luck and godspeed on your hike, Butch. I'm missing the mountains, lakes, and ocean (seafood!) Of N.H. like a mofo. Have fun!
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Phummus posted:"Chef" Aaron Sanchez just said a plaintain is "nothing like a banana. Its a root vegetable " Ouch. I don't know Aaron Sanchez by name, but I really hope he's a french chef or something. I've ran into plaintains once. Once. Since I left the northeast, and they were more brown than yellow, much less green. I need me some mofungo y tostones.
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Still kinda pissed I never made it back to Montreal before I left New England. I really wanted to do Au Pied and the Unibroue restaurant (hands down my favorite North American brewery). I love that town. Have fun, H.A.!
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I have to write a history piece on a local church celebrating their 125th anniversary. From 1922-1948, the Lutherans were preached to by a Rev. J.O. Wangberg. Not "James Oliver," or whatever the initials stand for - "J.O." J.O. Wangberg. I've been giggling all day when I flip through their info. I'm pushing 30, but I think I'll be destined to have a twelve year old's sense of humor until I die.
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I just yelled at a thunderstorm. Sang "Luang Prabang" by Dave Van Ronk as the rain hit me. It's either the drought or stress. Either will work, but it was cathartic.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I harvested beets. The biggest was about 13 pounds, and there were lots of water smaller ones. I need the best borsht recipe. That's a big rear end beet. As much as it shames me, I've never had borsht. Hopefully some Eastern European goon helps you out, and then you all hook us up with a Big rear end Borsht recipe.
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Manuel Calavera posted:TBH, that's a good song to yell at a storm. Better than some cliche metal song. I love you, Pandora, for letting me know of that song. Gotta ask you where Pandora sent you on that path, Miggy. I love Pandora, I love Van Ronk. What was our common thread?
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