I had reason to mention being a headless chicken to someone yesterday.

Or was it the day before...?

Actually, I won't dwell on that because it's probably not very important :)

Anyway... I was looking for something online a little while ago...

and I came across this:




you don't suppose it's mine do you?

*wait for EEEEEEyeuchs to die down*

Oh.

I suppose it must be... Whatever! It did make me soooooooooooooooooo glad to have turned into a vegetable a vegetarian though :)

edit: I should have told you all to step away from Rob's car really...

And we are down, plop.

Anyway... I was looking for something online a little while ago...

and I came across this:

That photo ain't been anywhere near photoshop has it

McDonalds, is that food? You don't have to turn in your carnivorous tendencies just to miss out on Micky D non-foods. The last time I've been at such a joint is over 15 years ago. Don't miss it, but I would miss chicken, pork and beef a lot, too much even. Have you tried tofu? Yuch.

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That photo ain't been anywhere near photoshop has it

Well not by me. I found this, which refers to it:

Reporters who examined the head said the batter on it looked exactly like the batter on the wings, so it didn't seem to be something she had created herself. However, lawyers advised her against suing. She had found the head before biting down into it, and a chicken head in a box of chicken parts cannot not be considered a foreign object (unlike a rat's head, for instance). Both these factors lessened her ability to make a claim of psychological trauma.

The photo of the chicken head was taken by Sangjib Min for the Virginia Daily Press.

source

edit:

Have you tried tofu? Yuch

Tofu is disgusting imo too, and I still deeply regret trying it :)

Lamb is difficult for me. I have been known to lick my fingers after turning them over on the grill* when I'm cooking them for others. I really shouldn't :/ I don't lick them when they're alive though!

* I should have added chops/cutlets in there somewhere. I generally try to avoid grilling fingers, especially mine

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I really should check this thread more often than every 2-3 weeks.

Back in February, I discussed broadband speeds.

I still find it absolutely absurd the pricing model that we have here in the States with all the limitations of only having one provider in the area, so you're held hostage, basically. That's what was so promising about Google Fiber--they would come in to a city and run fiber to every building and then lease access to the infrastructure to ISPs so that there could be 10+ choices at any location, which would drive prices down and give customers more options.

Unfortunately, and as you would expect, there is a lot of politically-driven resistance to allowing that to happen, namely the large infrastructure of "dark fiber" that the likes of AT&T, Level3, etc. own and they keep pressure on federal regulators to never even consider hearing a plea to open any of that up.

I semi-rhetorically asked a friend of mine why we couldn't have the pricing-model of Orange.fr with that minimum of 500/200mbit for roughly €50/mo and the single-word response was "socialism." I suppose... but that doesn't really fully answer the question.

Anyway, yeah, the pricing and availability of internet here in the States is absurd--there are borderline-third-world countries with faster and cheaper internet than here, so it's obvious there's something shady/corrupt afoot.

Tofu is disgusting imo too, and I still deeply regret trying it :)

I am not a vegetarian, and I almost always cook meat for company, but the majority of our nightly meals are vegetarian, just to tread a little more lightly on Mother Earth. Last night, for example, we had homemade margaritas, made from the lemons and limes we grow in our backyard, and for dinner I made vegetarian nachos using black beans, onions, bell peppers and ripe red jalipeno peppers, which I also grew in our backyard, and a some of the last of my backyard cherry tomatoes.

(Given enough tequila, 'Ol Pookers doesn't even notice we have frequent meatless meals!)

Anyway, I would like to make a case for tofu. Tofu of medium density, seared on a grill and tossed with stir fried vegetables, can be quite delicious. The key is using enough soy sauce to season your finished product so that the tofu tastes lively, but not overly salty. Tempeh is also delicious in a vegetable stir fry and it has a very nice, chewy texture. Silken tofu is best in miso soup, where it "belongs", but it is also ok blended into dips. There is not much to get excited about when it comes to silken tofu.

If you do not care for tofu, it may be that you have tried only silken tofu, or that you tried a type of tofu in an inappropriate application for its density/texture.

Chicken McNoggin LOL :)

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Ahh.....
Nothing like a fried up plate of tasty chicken beak.

The key is using enough soy sauce to season your finished product so that the tofu tastes lively, but not overly salty.

a) tofu is made from soy milk, which is made from soy beans, just as soy sauce is made from soy beans. But where soy sauce has oodles of taste, the packaging around tofu can have more taste than the tofu itself.
b) there are different kinds of soy sauce, you have a range of tastes from very sweet to very salt. And of course, where would we be without a Dutch influence here?

I use soy sauce a lot in my kitchen, as well as fish sauce, oyster sauce, tamarind, and things like rice wine vinegar. But tofu? Never again. Just as quinoa, we tried it, we hated it, never again.

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(Given enough tequila, 'Ol Pookers doesn't even notice we have frequent meatless meals!)

I once managed nearly a whole week of giving everyone vegetarian food before they twigged it :) It didn't occur to me to serve tequila too... may have got away with a fortnight or more if I had :)

Tempeh is also delicious in a vegetable stir fry and it has a very nice, chewy texture.

I do like tempeh.

it may be that you have tried only silken tofu, or that you tried a type of tofu in an inappropriate application for its density/texture.

Erm... yes... well, sometimes I get a bid tired of cooking for the different tastes/palates/dietary needs of my lot so when it comes to me I kind of just eat stuff as it is, and cold... could that be where I'm going wrong do you think?

Jord seems unswayed... :) I'll let everyone know what camp I'm in when I know, okay?

@Cosmic_Ocean

I really should check this thread more often than every 2-3 weeks.

It can take a bit of time catching up can't it? :)

There's no meat in this curry?!

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There is something on the menu at a Chinese take-out restaurant I like called Szechuan bean curd, and while the name doesn't sound too appetizing, the way they do the tofu is quite good. I bought tofu once to experiment with at home, but I think I bought the wrong texture, because as crl pointed out, choosing the type of tofu is like choosing a mattress.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

Happy birthday to David Anderson. 61, a whole year older than the same day last year.

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http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/26/video-uc-berkeley-protesters-built-a-hum#comment ,,,,,

I will decline to comment upon Jozef's post as it is vaguely political in nature.

But I will comment upon the fact that it seems that the only people that came here were political agitators, simply not interested in friendly chat. Good riddance to them.

People might be away or busy. Or not be feeling very friendly at the moment. Anyway... doesn't everyone who does politics get agitated at times? ;)

And seti isn't down, and/or maybe they've not been posting there either. There could be all sorts of reasons there really, really could.

Meanwhile, my other half has put dishes of conkers around the house because she says that they deter flies! Any truth in this??

Erm... well if you were going to do it, now would probably be the right time, due to there being few if any flies around to deter. It will help "prove" it I think ;) Apparently more people in the UK think they deter spiders, than flies, but that might not have been proved either because the spiders that it was tested on weren't in the least bit deterred apparently. Perhaps they did the experiment wrong? Could it be that once upon a time someone claimed that it was so, in order to boost sales of them from outside their hovel so that they could perhaps get a rat or a large turnip in exchange to feed their family with? Just a thought... ;)

edit: forgot to say hello again, but especially forgot to say hello to Jozef J :/

Hello! :)

another edit: I've had to reword the bit from hovel to the end of that paragraph because it gave the impression that the vendor was feeding his family, either to the conkers, the person that bought them, or to the rat and turnip, which wasn't quite where I was expecting the sentence to go. I've also been having problems recently with my their's and my there's and even my they're's *perplexed blink* Just thought I'd mention it...

and another one:...and my apostrophe's again. But getting back to conkers. Maybe in the days before people knew where flies go in the autumn and winter, people associated the arrival of conkers bouncing off their heads, the reason why the flies went away. If they'd been a spring or early summer crop, people may have tried to exterminate the trees because they "attracted" them.

educational edit: apparently theirs <----SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE there's a toxin inside that might have a repellent effect on some spiders. Are your conkers split, or punctured maybe? Or are they whole? It's a shame to pick on spiders if it's flies you don't want though. Spiders can be quite useful against flies! I've got a ten cm tegenaria gigantica in the room with me at the moment. I've grown quite fond of it :)

No, I don't know what Jozef's comment is about either, as apart from it happening on campus, what does it have to do with this thread or forums in whole? Questions.

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Yes, well, one cannot fault that logic! It's like saying that wearing a necklace of mint leaves wards off ogres. When people say tosh! You say, OK, how many ogres have you seen around here lately then??

I do, and not as many as I used to see.

Are your conkers split, or punctured maybe? Or are they whole?

No, it's just the way I walk!

Oh.

That could prove a deterrent...

;)

*turn eyes on Chris*

You really shouldn't leave such opportunities just lying about like that Chris... you really, really shouldn't. I get, undisciplined you see... :)

I've got a ten cm tegenaria gigantica in the room with me at the moment. I've grown quite fond of it :)

Did you know they're the fastest spiders? Actually, you might have to unknow that again if I'm wrong. What is relevant is that that is why they appear to scurry along and then suddenly stop, before suddenly charging off again... by which time most people are eeking on alternative ground.

It's not out of some malicious desire to petrify us that they turn to watch what scared them half to death. It's because they get tired, poor things :/ and are hoping to catch their breath whilst evaluating the best escape route. And yes... that can be running straight at us :) bless them!

I have a 6" Spider plant and I'll raise you a 7" Dionaea muscipula.

Oh nice. I'm very fond of maidenhair ferns but so are my cats :/ They look on them like vegetarians look on salad. I thought I saw that Dionaea were listed on the IUCN red list as vulnerable some years ago, so resisted the temptation to buy one. I don't know whether that's changed, but strategically placed, assuming they work, the conkers might steer the late season stragglers towards your plant? I'm talking flies here, not spiders. I had a friend who fed hers liver because she liked to keep her home insect free :\ whereupon it died. Not sure if she overfed it or what went wrong exactly...

Does yours look after its own nourishment?

edit: there was an apostrophe

I've got three Venus fly traps sitting on my kitchen windowsill. They've been there about seven years and seem to be quite happy. The occasional trap is shut so I'm assuming they've got the food they need 😀

It still surprises me at how quickly they move, day of the triffids I tells you 😀

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