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Wiggles, that is a bad idea. Please, for your sake and the sake of those who will be around you immediately prior to and after the wedding itself, do not do this. Also, this Billy Mays SushiCaulk™ 6000 serious post made me lol: quote:Exactly. EXACTLY. He mad?
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2013 16:29 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:18 |
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That's fascinating. What is it about South Indian culture that led them to refuse initial offers so fervently?
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2013 18:00 |
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dino. posted:THAT BEING SAID. It applies mainly to situations where you're dropping in on the person. NOT in situations where you're invited to dinner. So like, if your buddy invited you over specifically to eat food, you're sitting around, and will be served a meal. There's no point in refusing any amount of times, because it's understood that you came to eat. That's why when someone who's not used to that sort of thinking is introduced to the concept, they think that it's silly. It's not about putting someone out who expected you to come over and eat, it's about not asking someone to make you something at a moment's notice (even though s/he is usually happy to do so). This tends to come up in Indian households, because you've got your family and friends living in walking distance of your house, and they'll pop in for a few minutes on the walk home. Ahhhh, now I understand. That's why I was confused - if I invited someone over for dinner, I'd be offended if I had to ask them three times if they wanted something to eat, but for drop-ins, that makes much more sense. Hell, if I ever drop by someone's place unexpectedly, I usually refuse any refreshments myself. Thanks for the explanation!
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# ¿ Jan 24, 2013 22:06 |
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Wroughtirony posted:I probably never had any cilantro as a kid. When I was finally exposed to it, I found cilantro very unpleasant and soapy and it would ruin anything it touched. Then I ate it some more and it wasn't so bad. Now I like it a lot. Here's an interesting article from a few years back about some of the science behind cilantro and the "soapy" tastes some people detect. I'm not sure if I fully buy into it, but it's pretty neat. Personally, I never had cilantro until I went to college and expanded my palate dramatically, and I gobbled that poo poo up since day 1. I feel bad for those who don't like it because it's so delicious, and I can't help myself from looking down on people who don't like it through no fault of their own. Sorry, babbies!! I really can't help myself!
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2013 23:16 |
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Fun DD&D drinking game - after Guy puts his hand up for a fist bump, take one drink for every second it takes for the white guy he's invariably interviewing to realize what's going on and respond with his own fist.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2013 17:57 |
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Sociopastry posted:Hey dudes, I was gonna make some bacon rice stuffing for the bird I'm cooking for dinner tonight, but then my roomie chucked out the bacon fat I'd saved. I have fresh basil and chives. Suggestions? I'd suggest you kill your roommate. Use the basil and chives and make a pesto. Rub the pesto under the skin of the bird and roast as usual. Cook the rice separately and serve the chicken over it.
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# ¿ Mar 1, 2013 22:16 |
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rj54x posted:Is it hard to get ahold of cheese curds in most places? Even the cheese stand in my local Kroger carries passable squeaky lil' Wisconsin curds, but perhaps that's a function of proximity (NW Ohio)... Hard? No. Impossible? Yes. Cheese curds are such a regional thing - here in NC most people wouldn't even know what they are. This is to our detriment.
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2013 17:02 |
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Casu Marzu posted:I am so sorry for your loss. I have three cheeseries within 20 miles and my neighbor makes cheese in her basement so I get all the curds I want. I just found a dairy farm in NC that sells 12-oz packages of cheese curds so I impulsively purchased two packages. Now, uh, what do I do with them?? haaaalllp
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# ¿ Mar 6, 2013 19:23 |
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Vice is blocked at work but is that the guy who created that Soylent drink? I think there's a part where he goes "if I had money or a girlfriend things might be different" so yeah, I'd peg him as a candidate for being severely depressed.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2013 16:34 |
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Four words - meat tuxedo, Gaga style.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2013 21:25 |
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Speaking of cheese curds, I just got the curds I ordered from a farm here in NC...I never really understood how a food could "squeak" while eating it but I sure do now!!! Mine are cheddar-colored with annatto - is this traditional? I could swear all the pictures I've seen of filthy Canadians and their poutine that the curds are typically white.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2013 22:37 |
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Delicious Sci Fi posted:What farm here in NC did you get them from? http://www.ashecountycheese.com/ EDIT: Hmm, upon further investigation it looks like it's not technically a farm, but a cheese plant. Oh well, it was the quickest I could find local cheese curds, and they're tasty as hell. The Midniter fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Mar 15, 2013 |
# ¿ Mar 15, 2013 20:50 |
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Currently attending an engagement encounter weekend. It is thoroughly awful. What the hell is an "engagement encounter weekend" anyway? Is that some sort of Laser Tag-themed engagement party or something?? Casu Marzu posted:Just went through a shotgun wedding. That was something. You yourself went through one (in which case congrats!) or you attended one? What made it "something"? Strippers? Hookers? Strippers who hook on the side?
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2013 04:39 |
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Fo3 posted:Which fish sauce is the best fish sauce? The undisputed Heavyweight CHAMPION OF THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD fish sauce is Red Boat. It's pretty drat expensive and I've never had the pleasure of trying it but apparently it's the bee's knees.
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# ¿ Mar 22, 2013 15:32 |
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Allahu Snackbar posted:Waiting for my dumb state to pass anti-prohibition laws and looking at $500 worth of brewing poo poo in my Amazon cart, just waiting to click. Is it illegal to actually purchase the homebrewing products, as in Amazon won't sell them to you? If you can buy them, I'd say go ahead and do it...unless you're afraid someone's going to snitch on you.
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2013 15:29 |
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I remember hearing something about putting super cheap vodka through a charcoal filter like a Brita or something making it more palatable. Does this work?
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 16:47 |
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FishBulb posted:You have I run it multiple times and it still won't make it amazing or anything, but you can do that if you want. I wouldn't bother, just mix it with something if its that harsh. I wouldn't expect it to make the vodka amazing, but help to lessen the bite somewhat. If only I'd known about this in college (and had a Brita, for that matter) - Dubra (or as we called it, Vitamin D) would've been a lot easier to drink.
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# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 16:56 |
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I was shocked (SHOCKED) that this was not the very next post in this thread.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2013 18:42 |
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That's adorable
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2013 15:20 |
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She even somehow dumbed it down even further, from "one yellow and one red bell pepper" to "two bell peppers". Oh, also omitted this: SPECIAL EXTRA Top with sliced black olives or green onions just before serving. Now if that doesn't just make this the fanciest loving poo poo since using Nutella instead of jelly with your peanut butter then I don't know what does.
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# ¿ Apr 9, 2013 20:56 |
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GrAviTy84 posted:Reminds me of that damned TAM mild jalapeno. Texas ruins everything. Honestly, it's not even how mild they are. I can get past that - I just either use more, leave in more seeds, or buy a hotter pepper. But just the way they look...it's like an Americanized jalapeno. Squat and fat. Nothing like a beautiful traditional jalapeno.
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2013 17:33 |
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I prefer a simple guac of avocado, lime juice, salt, and finely minced garlic. I add some finely minced onion if I'm making it for a crowd, and tomato by request or if I have really good tomatoes which is rare. I'm going to be the weirdo who says he likes his guacamole very smooth - avocado is delicious but if I'm eating guacamole I want every bite uniformly seasoned without big chunks of it.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2013 15:29 |
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It sickens me that there are people out there so lazy that they're not even willing to make their own hand soap.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2013 18:41 |
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Have I been doing something wrong? Soap is great, but ammonia and bleach in my bread dough makes it so airy. Duh, buy the restaurant.
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2013 23:23 |
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I had my air conditioner going all last weekend when it got up to the mid-80's. Last night I had to close all the windows because it was so chilly, and shivered taking my dog out this morning. (North Carolina)
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# ¿ Apr 23, 2013 20:51 |
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Wiggleswedding liveblog: You did ask the wedding photographer to take a subset of pictures specifically aimed at GWC, correct?
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2013 18:30 |
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Wiggles would you take a Costco membership as a wedding present? (congrats!)
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2013 19:34 |
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Hooray! Congrats again Wiggles. Even if you don't have any pictures of the food, you should still post some from the wedding itself, I'm sure we'd all love to check them out!
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# ¿ Apr 29, 2013 17:57 |
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What a freakin' scam! I want to buy all of the Guy Fieri 5008 Knuckle Sandwich Big Stick 8" Chef Knife in stock so I can resell them for a premium on eBay, but:quote:Limit 3 per customer Bullshit, man! Supply and demand! That ain't American!
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2013 14:36 |
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Wiggles actually had a bare-knuckled boxing ring at his reception and got punched in the kidneys one too many times. That's how I imagine what happened, at least. Feel better man!
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# ¿ May 1, 2013 14:57 |
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One of my good friends got married this weekend. The invitation had the following entree choices: ___ Moo! ___ Cluck! ___ *the sound of vegetables growing* (this is exactly how the invitation was written, by the by) I signed up for the beef but ended up getting chicken at the buffet-style semi-catered dinner, since the beef (strips in some sort of jus) looked so desiccated I wanted no part of that. Unfortunately, the chicken (fried breast portions with some generic gravy-type sauce over it) was terrible too. Anyway...one of my other friends who was attending the wedding is a vegetarian, as is her sister who came too. Obviously, they both signed up for the vegetarian option. When we were in line to get our food, we asked the people working the line what the vegetarian option was. They pointed to the large bowl of salad at the front of the table. When we scoffed a bit, they shrugged their shoulders and said that they were not told to prepare any veggie entrees. Who the gently caress has a vegetarian option on their wedding invitation, then basically invites all vegetarian attendees to go gently caress themselves and eat salad? I'm happy for my friend, really. It was a lovely wedding otherwise and I wish them well. But seriously??
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# ¿ May 13, 2013 20:09 |
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Holy loving poo poo. Just got around to watching that episode of Kitchen Nightmares and it is just astounding. That woman is so unbelievably neurotic - when she just goes off on a tirade against "online bullies" moments after Ramsay even meets her, and he gets sort of a "what the gently caress?" look on his face...priceless. I also love how the husband actually threatens Ramsay and says something like "I'm the real gangster" as if he'd have any chance against someone 20 years younger who appears to be quite fit. Then again, if he really is a gangster, who knows if he has a gun hidden under the counter and that's why he wouldn't let anyone else use the POS system so they wouldn't find it.
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# ¿ May 14, 2013 23:51 |
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quote:The owners will likely be holding a press conference before the Grand Re-Opening and answer falsehoods depicted on a reality television show, including assertions that the restaurant confiscates tips from servers. Right, the "falsehood" "depicted" straight from Samy's mouth, when he confirmed on-camera that he keeps all the tips. Who the gently caress are they kidding?
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# ¿ May 16, 2013 15:55 |
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As amusing as their insanity is in this whole situation, those are the types of people who should not be rewarded for their behavior with a TV show. Unfortunately, it's poo poo like this that actually DOES invite reality TV producers to create something. I honestly hope they live and die by their sociopathy and don't become any more of celebrities than they already are.
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# ¿ May 16, 2013 18:38 |
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Here's a handy little guide to some good food in Austin...if you aren't interested in those specific dishes highlighted, I'm sure these places would have sometime you'd enjoy.
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# ¿ May 17, 2013 15:34 |
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Welcome back! Glad to hear you had a great time. Now where are our wedding pictures?!
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# ¿ May 20, 2013 17:45 |
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# ¿ May 22, 2013 16:49 |
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That dude needs to be wearing a Utilikilt, full-stop.
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# ¿ May 30, 2013 17:54 |
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I don't think I'll ever cook a turkey again without spatchcocking it. Much reduced cooking time as well as more even temperature? Yes please.
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2013 18:41 |
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# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 23:18 |
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Mature and open, just like pr0k's mom's legs.
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# ¿ Jun 17, 2013 21:59 |