Absolutely beautiful morning going on right now. Sitting on the back porch, euthermic and unmolested by biting insects. The sweet spot of the year only matched by a similar pattern in the fall.
I have never seen any of the Magic Mike movies. They really ought to have a marathon of them for the month that must not be named that is otherwise known as June.
Also I have to comment — from the heart of Pop Tart country, only a short drive from Cereal City — do not butter your pop tarts. WTF. Y’all ain’t right.
And from a health standpoint, toss the pop tarts to your birds and save the butter for your eggs.
She also would make a dinner that consisted of toast covered with “tomato gravy” which was essentially a simmered tomato sauce with lots of salt and pepper added. And that was it.
If I were inclined to relocate, I’d consider North or South Carolina, Tennessee or West Virginia.
Once upon a time I thought Montana or Idaho, but those states are being overrun with liberals fleeing California and Oregon. They fucked those places up beyond belief, and now they can’t tolerate living there anymore. So they’ll go to ID or MT and begin FUBARing those places.
As someone with paternal grandparents from the Wichita/Kansas City area, any meal without a substantial piece of beef (preferably grilled or BBQ’d) was considered incomplete. Toast and tomato sauce didn’t make the grade.
The former MIL was a New Englander, what can I say. Bland was the rule.
rural, I remember that in my family as a kid, too. Mom was born in ’39 and knew hard times. Showed in a lot of the food she would prepare. I’m guessing that’s where it comes from.
So, West Virginians, where would you say is the best place to live? As a former Buckeye I lean to the west side of the state, but I am open to any location. Where are the highest mountains? Where is the most coal or gas? Where is the most arable?
It’s worth a visit if you are thinking of living there. Morgantown and Huntington are the two biggest college towns, WVU and Marshall. There are smaller colleges all over the state, with mostly good recommendations. Most of the active surface mining is in the south, Mingo and Logan counties. There are some big underground union mines in the Morgantown area, Consol and folks like that. Most of the big underground mines in the south and west have been worked out.
There is a lot of oil and gas developed in the south, west and northern panhandle (think Marcellus Shale). If you are interested in this sort of thing, here is a link to the WV Oil & Gas Information Service, which has an interactive map that gives an overview of well by type and status. You have to order well records through the OGIS which is a contractor custodian of records for the state. There is a fee, but they do a really good job of delivering what you order.
The highest mountain in WV is Spruce Knob which stands tall at 4,863 feet. It is in the Allegheny Ridge in the Eastern part of the state.
The most arable land in the western part of the state was taken by the Feds for flood control, Beech Fork and East Lynn Lakes specifically. That leaves the Greenbrier valley, also a beautiful area (think White Sulfur Springs). I’m not really up on agricultural statistics here, so help please if you can.
There are beautiful areas of the state and there are dumps. I would avoid the southern counties of Wyoming and Logan. Directions to a church there may include the number of burnt cars you’ll pass on the way. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of great, hard working people there, but there is also a lot of poverty and not many employment opportunities. Natural beauty abounds in the northern and eastern parts of the state. I’m thinking about Seneca Rocks, Blackwater Falls, etc. The Beckley area has the New River Gorge National Park with white water rafting on the Gauley and New Rivers. There is also a lot of historic coal mining in the area, and Bridge Day near Fayetteville
I chose the area of Teays Valley, which is between Huntington and Charleston, mainly because my wife is a north Charleston native. If I were starting out fresh with no ties, it would be a tough choice. I’m more familiar with the western and southern parts of the state because of my previous jobs, but I like the northern, central and eastern parts of the states also. Notable towns include Huntington, Charleston, Charlestown, Beckley, Martinsburg, Wheeling, Fairmont, Parkersburg, Bluefield, etc.
West Virginia has five casinos, which are all located at racetracks. The one in Nitro (Cross Lanes) features greyhound racing, while the one in Charlestown features horse racing. There are other casinos at Wheeling Island, White Sulfur Springs and New Cumberland (about 30 miles from Pittsburg). There are also the video poker machines, which are limited to 5 machines per location and I think the state only issues 5,000 licenses statewide. They are at the casinos too, and the number is not limited to 5.
BTW, Charleston, the capital of WV, started as a salt brine processing area, where the salt brine was produced from wells. It lies in the Kanawha River valley, which is also known as chemical valley. Industrial facilities include Dow chemical, Monsanto, Bayer Crop Science and Rhone-Poulenc. Nitro was a government built town for the purpose of making ordnance for World War I, but it came online too late to be of any use, however, the town is still there.
Yeah, I have a friend who spends half the year in Ann Arbor and half in Charlotte — which sounds like a total liberal paradise.
She worked thirty years for the Dearborn schools as a counselor, retired, and has been living for the past twenty years on a full pension with full health insurance.
Now she has a house in both cities (she grew up in Charlotte, has family there, etc.), but is a blue dog democrat.
Who needs capitalism when your union can just extort it from the taxpayers?
One more comment about WV, If you have a few minutes, look up “The bunker at the Greenbrier”. It was a secret facility built in 1958 located underneath the Greenbrier Resort as a place to relocate Congress in the event of nukular attack. It was closed in 1992 after a reporter discovered it’s existence. They had kept it fully stocked and ready until then. They now offer 90 minute guided tours explaining the design features. They put a lot of thought into this for the 1950’s.
ah yes, the retired librarian on full city pension extolling the virtues of Mike Obama’s book while calling Orange Man the Anti-christ. Yep, I know that person.
Sorry Car In. I think I was in so many patches of it when I was surveying that I think I got some kind of immunity to it. My wife swears by a thing called “Sure Shot Poison Ivy Lotion” and we still have a bottle in the medicine chest. It is distributed by Loop Pharmacy and Home Medical of St. Albans, WV. It contains Calamine, Zinc Oxide, Menthol, Cortisone and Pyrilamine. I think they mix it up at the pharmacy. I don’t see it online. Good luck.
Testing for infection when there are no symptoms has never made sense.
Birx needs to be on the gallows next to Fauci, and that’s my most generous offer. I’d prefer to see them both dragged on 20 miles of gravel road by a horse in no particular hurry, but I’m willing to be merciful if they confess to their crimes.
HOT MIC: @SenJoniErnst to @SenJohnKennedy following the Senate GOP border press conference — “Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.”
Speaking of which, after finishing Robinson Crusoe, I’ve decided to read Huckleberry Finn again. I haven’t read it since high school – right after we finished our McGuffey Reeaders.
Vocabulary-wise, in that book they call a spade a spade, and I appreciate that honesty.
Just saw some thing about an “out ” male gymnast. Dude – if you’re a male gymnast I think you need to advertise that you’re straight. We assumed you were gay.
Somebody (I think it was rural) mentioned corn mush versus grits yesterday and this came to mind. It’s not the same, but I’m going to put two recipes here because it’s what I have for this dish.
Spoon Bread (Sadie Smallman) 1 cup self rising cornmeal
2 cups water
1 tsp salt
touch of sugar (optional)
1 cup milk
3 eggs, beaten
butter Boil to make a mush, let cool add milk to mixture with beaten eggs melt butter in heated casserole and add to mixture bake at 400 for about 50 minutes
Berea, KY Spoon Bread 1-1/4 cup cornmeal
3 cups milk
3 eggs, beaten
1 tsp salt
1-3/4 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp butter, melted Add cornmeal to rapidly boiling milk, cook until very thick, stirring constantly and vigorously, do not scorch Allow to cool thoroughly Add eggs, salt, baking powder and butter Beat mixture for 15 minutes Pour into greased casserole dish Bake at 350 for 30 minutes
It’s been a while since I made the Berea version, but it’s simple and tasty, YMMV.
Just got back from a trip into town, and the skies opened up. Rained hard for 10-15 minutes. Thunder. Lightning. Good summertime weather!
I won’t have to water the cukes and squash plants over on the manure pile today, or the raised beds. My 3 rain barrels were already full, so it was a waste in that regard.
The website to watch lightning strike locations in almost real time …
Before I left, I noticed I’ve got asparagus plants coming up in one of the raised beds. I finally got around to putting my ginger plants outside, and they seem to like the full sun. And I have about a dozen hot pepper varietals sprouted.
Took Dad to the Ear Doctor today to get his ears checked out. He has a tube in one ear to drain the fluid that builds up behind the eardrum. During this Dad asks if he can get something for a spot on his ear that’s bothering him. (First time I’d heard about it!) Dr. asks ” This part here?” “Yeah.” “Oh, that’s actually probably skin cancer.” Me: “Say what now?” Dr: “Yeah basil or squamous cell carcinoma. He’ll need a biopsy to find out for sure.” Then he asked Dad how long it’s been there – and he answered several weeks later amended to a few months. We go back in two weeks to get the biopsy and figure out what to do from here.
My dad had a variety of skin cancers in the last 10 years of his life (late eighties to late nineties). He was bald from the age of 30, so they were mostly on his scalp and forehead and ears.
The treatment seemed to be they burned the spots off with liquid N2. They were a little unsightly, but they didn’t seem to bother him very much.
Which is my way of saying I hope it turns out to not be a big deal.
Intellectual Froglegs is out with a new episode. I’m partway in and I like this guy. The intro to this episode is a little fuzzy but his production values are usually pretty good.
Looking back at Hotspur’s comment on nuking DC, I have to agree.
The biggest loss would be the National Gallery of Art, the US Botanic Garden, and the Smithsonian’s.
And I’m personally partial to the sculptures on the west side of the Capitol in front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool that are part of the Ulyssus S. Grant Memorial.
Poptarts weren’t something that frequented our grocery list, even before, during, and after kids. They were the sort of thing we bought for backpacking trips.
There are a lot worse things than butter on poptarts. We had friends from Vermont that put ketchup on cottage cheese. I knew a guy that ate chocolate syrup on cottage cheese as part of a weight loss strategy. Just the visuals would make me lose weight.
My wife, who is an excellent cook, just tried to make breaded “fried chicken” in her air fryer. We now have a couple of pounds of expensive dog treats. Shit was nasty.
Wasted food is kinda my pet peeve. My wife is really conscious of the dates on everything. I pay attention to the dairy mostly and give the visual or smell test to anything else.
A medical event makes sense. Losing consciousness for whatever reason on a freeway is a death sentence. Very good reason not to drive alone when you’re tired.
Darkly, I sometimes wonder how many single-car ‘accidents’ are people deciding to check out.
As a tyke, I put ketchup on scrambled eggs. At some point, being a contrary kid, I switched over to yellow mustard. That phase passed, and cheese and/or salsa or hot sauce is my go-to.
Cheese, warm hot sauce or salsa here. If I put ketchup on the adjacent hash browns and a little gets into the eggs, no bother. I’ll put up a Migas recipe sometime unless somebody says no or beats me to it. Also, buttered and rolled up flour tortillas on the side make a good tool to corner the eggs with.
I like cheesy eggs, Velveeta is my favorite but Mrs. Pupster thinks eggs with any moisture at all are a death sentence. I usually make two different skillets of scrambled eggs.
If you ever get a Micky D’s breakfast, get an egg McMuffin and ask for strawberry preserves. I’m telling you it is amaze balls.
I probably will not eat that shit again unless there is no other option these days…I had a hankering for their breakfast burritos so I went through the drive through and ordered by the number next to the picture of 2 burritos, comes with small coffee and hash-brown for $8. No shit eight dollars I’m out Ronald.
I’ll fry up like 2 pieces of bacon, then eat those while I cook the eggs in the fat, then add cheese just as the finish, then dish all the eggs onto some toasted Ezekiel bread. Solid meal right there.
Desired number of corn tortillas, sliced into rectangular pieces.
Desired number of eggs, beaten.
a splash of milk.
chopped onion, hot peppers or other veggies, as desired.
salt & pepper to taste.
desired number of flour tortillas, buttered.
Hot sauce, picante sauce or salsa, as desired.
Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Fry tortillas in the skillet, stirring constantly, until they are just starting to get crisp. Mix up the eggs, milk, onions, veggies, pepper and any desired meat (bacon is fine) together. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet with the tortillas, stirring until the egg is cooked through. Season with salt to taste. Serve with warm picante or salsa and warm, buttered flour tortillas.
I usually fry up some sausage patties and leave the grease in the pan and use that for frying the corn tortillas. I crumble up a little of sausage to put in the egg mixture and eat the rest on the side.
Whey is waste from cheesemaking, at least, not from making cotton. On the scale of things, it’s not half bad.
We’re also talking 1996 or so. I was 80# lighter and could run up 6 flights of stairs without getting out of breath. Can’t have been toooooo bad for me.
Poptarts are something I remember as being a LOT more tasty than they are.
Nailed it. Ben gets them often and I’ll have a pack in a weak moment every 3 or 4 months when there’s no other sweet food around and they just seem blah compared my take on them as a kid.
Had a coworker who was telling me about her teenage son taking ballet lessons. I made some quip about at least he won’t have any trouble meeting girls.
If I had to guess, the amount of filling they put in poptarts has been steadily decreasing over the years. The dough they use for crust has got to be the cheapest ingredient.
I do have to wonder if doing ballet would have lightened me in my loafers. It certainly would have been tough to be around all the lisping prancers all the time just for the sake of access to gals in tutus. Might have become a case of go gay or go home.
After that faux pas with my coworker, I have to admit there were about 24 hours I was wondering if I was going to get a call to go up and see the HR ladies.
Rocketboy used to like frosted brown sugar cinnamon Poptarts, though he had a bad habit of eating one and leaving the other in the opened package instead of putting it in a ziplock or taping the mylar bag shut. So I used to put butter on the nonfrosted side of the stale Poptart and eat it, rather than throw it out.
I can’t remember the last time I bought Poptarts, but it’s probably over a decade.
Some years ago, there were MRE pastries that were kind of like Poptarts, only much, much better. They were made by Bridgford. Cinnamon “bun” and apple turnover. They weren’t cheap, but they were supposed to be shelf stable for 5 years if you keep them in reasonable storage, not a hot attic or garage.
Weird … no email that I noticed.
THE INTERNET IS BROKEN !!!
Joe looks like he’s next to a stripper pole
Absolutely beautiful morning going on right now. Sitting on the back porch, euthermic and unmolested by biting insects. The sweet spot of the year only matched by a similar pattern in the fall.
Jimbro, I think it’s from one of the Magic Mike movies.
Email?
It was a false alarm Roamy – I missed the email announcing a new post. Upon further review it was there.
THE INTERNET IS WORKING AGAIN !!!
I have never seen any of the Magic Mike movies. They really ought to have a marathon of them for the month that must not be named that is otherwise known as June.
Good morning.
Yes it is a lovely day. Overcast here but I can dig it, after back to back sunburns.
Supposed to be another hot dry day and then our rain pattern returns tomorrow. We shall see.
Gotta go pick a humongous salad before work today, the lettuce is out of control.
https://thepostmillennial.com/black-panthers-founding-member-backs-trump-for-president
https://laughingsquid.com/testing-third-thumb/
Overwhelming presence of icebacks in the middle of the country
it’s true. we vikings kept kicking their ass in the boats and just gave up
Also I have to comment — from the heart of Pop Tart country, only a short drive from Cereal City — do not butter your pop tarts. WTF. Y’all ain’t right.
And from a health standpoint, toss the pop tarts to your birds and save the butter for your eggs.
That’s like putting butter on a cookie.
What about putting butter on a butter cookie?
Lockheed martin pride
https://x.com/kopopoulous/status/1798331324157350064?s=19
mmmm butter
Never heard of people buttering poptarts.
Now my former MIL used to spread canned icing on graham crackers. Sort of a lazy person’s “homemade” cookies.
pupster made it up to fuck with us
There was a pattern.
She also would make a dinner that consisted of toast covered with “tomato gravy” which was essentially a simmered tomato sauce with lots of salt and pepper added. And that was it.
I want to take that video back in time and explain it to Martin Marietta in about 1987 or so.
If I were inclined to relocate, I’d consider North or South Carolina, Tennessee or West Virginia.
Once upon a time I thought Montana or Idaho, but those states are being overrun with liberals fleeing California and Oregon. They fucked those places up beyond belief, and now they can’t tolerate living there anymore. So they’ll go to ID or MT and begin FUBARing those places.
wakey wakey
I forgot Washington. Those liberals are invading Idaho and Montana as well.
Cunts.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13492243/NATO-plan-troops-line-fight-RUSSIA-Alliance-prepares-rapid-deployment-American-soldiers-amid-fears-Moscow-plotting-major-war-Europe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline
As someone with paternal grandparents from the Wichita/Kansas City area, any meal without a substantial piece of beef (preferably grilled or BBQ’d) was considered incomplete. Toast and tomato sauce didn’t make the grade.
The former MIL was a New Englander, what can I say. Bland was the rule.
rural, I remember that in my family as a kid, too. Mom was born in ’39 and knew hard times. Showed in a lot of the food she would prepare. I’m guessing that’s where it comes from.
So, West Virginians, where would you say is the best place to live? As a former Buckeye I lean to the west side of the state, but I am open to any location. Where are the highest mountains? Where is the most coal or gas? Where is the most arable?
It’s worth a visit if you are thinking of living there. Morgantown and Huntington are the two biggest college towns, WVU and Marshall. There are smaller colleges all over the state, with mostly good recommendations. Most of the active surface mining is in the south, Mingo and Logan counties. There are some big underground union mines in the Morgantown area, Consol and folks like that. Most of the big underground mines in the south and west have been worked out.
There is a lot of oil and gas developed in the south, west and northern panhandle (think Marcellus Shale). If you are interested in this sort of thing, here is a link to the WV Oil & Gas Information Service, which has an interactive map that gives an overview of well by type and status. You have to order well records through the OGIS which is a contractor custodian of records for the state. There is a fee, but they do a really good job of delivering what you order.
https://tagis.dep.wv.gov/oog/
The highest mountain in WV is Spruce Knob which stands tall at 4,863 feet. It is in the Allegheny Ridge in the Eastern part of the state.
The most arable land in the western part of the state was taken by the Feds for flood control, Beech Fork and East Lynn Lakes specifically. That leaves the Greenbrier valley, also a beautiful area (think White Sulfur Springs). I’m not really up on agricultural statistics here, so help please if you can.
There are beautiful areas of the state and there are dumps. I would avoid the southern counties of Wyoming and Logan. Directions to a church there may include the number of burnt cars you’ll pass on the way. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of great, hard working people there, but there is also a lot of poverty and not many employment opportunities. Natural beauty abounds in the northern and eastern parts of the state. I’m thinking about Seneca Rocks, Blackwater Falls, etc. The Beckley area has the New River Gorge National Park with white water rafting on the Gauley and New Rivers. There is also a lot of historic coal mining in the area, and Bridge Day near Fayetteville
I chose the area of Teays Valley, which is between Huntington and Charleston, mainly because my wife is a north Charleston native. If I were starting out fresh with no ties, it would be a tough choice. I’m more familiar with the western and southern parts of the state because of my previous jobs, but I like the northern, central and eastern parts of the states also. Notable towns include Huntington, Charleston, Charlestown, Beckley, Martinsburg, Wheeling, Fairmont, Parkersburg, Bluefield, etc.
West Virginia has five casinos, which are all located at racetracks. The one in Nitro (Cross Lanes) features greyhound racing, while the one in Charlestown features horse racing. There are other casinos at Wheeling Island, White Sulfur Springs and New Cumberland (about 30 miles from Pittsburg). There are also the video poker machines, which are limited to 5 machines per location and I think the state only issues 5,000 licenses statewide. They are at the casinos too, and the number is not limited to 5.
BTW, Charleston, the capital of WV, started as a salt brine processing area, where the salt brine was produced from wells. It lies in the Kanawha River valley, which is also known as chemical valley. Industrial facilities include Dow chemical, Monsanto, Bayer Crop Science and Rhone-Poulenc. Nitro was a government built town for the purpose of making ordnance for World War I, but it came online too late to be of any use, however, the town is still there.
Hope this is a start on answering your questions.
Stay away from the urban areas in NC, Hotspur. They are just a FUBAR’d already. Maybe if you go back in the hills.
Is Three Year Letterman trolling us?
https://x.com/3YearLetterman/status/1798341716170478042
My mother grew up in the outskirts of Pittsburgh in 1927, near the train tracks, and she recalls hobos coming to the backdoor asking for food.
She knew the trick of ordering a bowl of hot water, and using the ketchup and salt and pepper at the table to make yourself a bowl of “tomato soup.”
I meant the frosting/graham cracker thing. The rest not so much.
Yeah, I have a friend who spends half the year in Ann Arbor and half in Charlotte — which sounds like a total liberal paradise.
She worked thirty years for the Dearborn schools as a counselor, retired, and has been living for the past twenty years on a full pension with full health insurance.
Now she has a house in both cities (she grew up in Charlotte, has family there, etc.), but is a blue dog democrat.
Who needs capitalism when your union can just extort it from the taxpayers?
One more comment about WV, If you have a few minutes, look up “The bunker at the Greenbrier”. It was a secret facility built in 1958 located underneath the Greenbrier Resort as a place to relocate Congress in the event of nukular attack. It was closed in 1992 after a reporter discovered it’s existence. They had kept it fully stocked and ready until then. They now offer 90 minute guided tours explaining the design features. They put a lot of thought into this for the 1950’s.
I would agree on the urban NC thing. We only have a democrat governor because of Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro, Wilmington, etc.
Seems like nuking congress would be a feature, not a bug.
I’d have a really hard time seeing whoever did that as an ‘enemy’ these days.
I’d mostly lament the property damage.
ah yes, the retired librarian on full city pension extolling the virtues of Mike Obama’s book while calling Orange Man the Anti-christ. Yep, I know that person.
BTW, I know how to spell nuclear, I just like the way George W. said it.
2 u’s, like all those Texans do
first poison ivy outbreak of the year.
on my face, of course.
hmm, shokz has waterproof headphones, with onboard MP3 storage and play.
BTW, I know how to spell nuclear, I just like the way George W. said it.
Jimmy Carter pronounced it that way too, but the liberals never made fun of him for it.
Sorry Car In. I think I was in so many patches of it when I was surveying that I think I got some kind of immunity to it. My wife swears by a thing called “Sure Shot Poison Ivy Lotion” and we still have a bottle in the medicine chest. It is distributed by Loop Pharmacy and Home Medical of St. Albans, WV. It contains Calamine, Zinc Oxide, Menthol, Cortisone and Pyrilamine. I think they mix it up at the pharmacy. I don’t see it online. Good luck.
Jay, sort of like the Gerald Ford thing with falling down.
Yeah, because he wasn’t a football player for Michigan.
Or Duke, like Brandon was.
Did you know he gave up his seat at Annapolis because a less qualified friend wanted to get in?
Went on to sit on the bench at Delaware. What a guy!
Oh, and because they already had Roger Staubach.
And speaking of falling down. Brandon’s bit the dust a hundred times more often than Ford. Fucker even has special shoes to keep him upright now.
Everybody ready for the Birx-flu? They’re going to start pushing this HARD. “We should be testing every cow, weekly”
https://x.com/JordanSchachtel/status/1798357290439029091
hehe, forgot about Staubach. Like Brandon had a chance over a hall of famer.
Testing for infection when there are no symptoms has never made sense.
Birx needs to be on the gallows next to Fauci, and that’s my most generous offer. I’d prefer to see them both dragged on 20 miles of gravel road by a horse in no particular hurry, but I’m willing to be merciful if they confess to their crimes.
Calm down Mr. Caruthers! I’m going to need a sample of your brain tissue to test for Birx Flu.
From over at Hotair regarding solar power and electricity prices. What a cluster
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/06/04/i-see-what-you-did-here-california-n3789659
Poison ivy lotion … Calahist. It’s commonly available in national chain drugstores. Sounds a lot like what Markie suggested.
I used it extensively on wild parsnip rashes back in my farming days.
Calm down Mr. Caruthers!
You just assumed their gender. You must be new here.
You’re gonna need an ocean,
Of calamine lotion.
This is great, from an article on Redstate
HOT MIC: @SenJoniErnst to @SenJohnKennedy following the Senate GOP border press conference — “Bottom line, never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals.”
I mean, I like Joni, but I’d have clarified that he’s someone who claims his uncle was eaten by cannibals.
If it actually happened, no knock. But he’s just making shit up like he has his entire life.
The President is in cognitive decline, you guys.
Comment by Hotspur on June 5, 2024 12:33 pm
The President is in cognitive decline, you guys.
– – – – – – –
He doesn’t look like he’s got much more altitude to lose before he hits the hard deck.
Hots new nickname is Mr. Obvious, which made me think of this.
I think someone else is commenting under Hotspur’s login. There wasn’t any vulgarity or deleted expletives in that post.
Either that or his Xanax has kicked in.
I’ve expanded my vocabulary.
Speaking of which, after finishing Robinson Crusoe, I’ve decided to read Huckleberry Finn again. I haven’t read it since high school – right after we finished our McGuffey Reeaders.
Vocabulary-wise, in that book they call a spade a spade, and I appreciate that honesty.
I can’t seem to find calahist locally. I’ll try harder.
Just saw some thing about an “out ” male gymnast. Dude – if you’re a male gymnast I think you need to advertise that you’re straight. We assumed you were gay.
https://x.com/lporiginalg/status/1798278733117153594
I really missed my calling as possibly the only straight ballerino on the continent.
I love rasslin. You know it’s all real, right?
Car In, I did a search on Calahist at the local Walmart. They don’t have that brand name in stock but have a few generics in stock. Again, good luck.
I knew some good calahists at my last parish, very well-read.
My lutheran bishop won’t let me see a calahist
Somebody (I think it was rural) mentioned corn mush versus grits yesterday and this came to mind. It’s not the same, but I’m going to put two recipes here because it’s what I have for this dish.
Spoon Bread (Sadie Smallman)
1 cup self rising cornmeal
2 cups water
1 tsp salt
touch of sugar (optional)
1 cup milk
3 eggs, beaten
butter
Boil to make a mush, let cool add milk to mixture with beaten eggs melt butter in heated casserole and add to mixture bake at 400 for about 50 minutes
Berea, KY Spoon Bread
1-1/4 cup cornmeal
3 cups milk
3 eggs, beaten
1 tsp salt
1-3/4 tsp baking powder
2 tbsp butter, melted
Add cornmeal to rapidly boiling milk, cook until very thick, stirring constantly and vigorously, do not scorch Allow to cool thoroughly Add eggs, salt, baking powder and butter Beat mixture for 15 minutes Pour into greased casserole dish Bake at 350 for 30 minutes
It’s been a while since I made the Berea version, but it’s simple and tasty, YMMV.
He doesn’t want you to have itch relief or the fullness of truth.
Poon Bread
Poon bread sounds like one of those nasty things like the ‘beer’ they make in Africa by spitting in a big pot of grain mash to start the fermentation.
I’m going to leave the source of leavening for ‘poon bread’ as an exercise for the reader.
Post your Poon Bread recipes here:
Here ya go:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/food-news/this-blogger-prepared-sourdough-bread-with-the-yeast-from-her-vagina/photostory/74082905.cms
And I was starting to think you people were normal. It has been a rude awakening.
MY BRAIN DON’T STOP.
BLESSING?
CURSE?
YES!
LMFAO
Honey, we’re out of Fleischmann’s. I need to get this bread baked.
Hold on, Mom, I’ll be right back.
Gang bang poon bread
It takes a village …
Life… finds a way.
Well, OK.
Just got back from a trip into town, and the skies opened up. Rained hard for 10-15 minutes. Thunder. Lightning. Good summertime weather!
I won’t have to water the cukes and squash plants over on the manure pile today, or the raised beds. My 3 rain barrels were already full, so it was a waste in that regard.
The website to watch lightning strike locations in almost real time …
https://map.blitzortung.org
Before I left, I noticed I’ve got asparagus plants coming up in one of the raised beds. I finally got around to putting my ginger plants outside, and they seem to like the full sun. And I have about a dozen hot pepper varietals sprouted.
That is today’s garden report. Carry on.
Took Dad to the Ear Doctor today to get his ears checked out. He has a tube in one ear to drain the fluid that builds up behind the eardrum. During this Dad asks if he can get something for a spot on his ear that’s bothering him. (First time I’d heard about it!) Dr. asks ” This part here?” “Yeah.” “Oh, that’s actually probably skin cancer.” Me: “Say what now?” Dr: “Yeah basil or squamous cell carcinoma. He’ll need a biopsy to find out for sure.” Then he asked Dad how long it’s been there – and he answered several weeks later amended to a few months. We go back in two weeks to get the biopsy and figure out what to do from here.
Prayers for dad Mitchell.
Dayumm, tell us how you really feel:
https://bustednuckles.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ssstwitter.com_1717440905951.mp4
My dad had a variety of skin cancers in the last 10 years of his life (late eighties to late nineties). He was bald from the age of 30, so they were mostly on his scalp and forehead and ears.
The treatment seemed to be they burned the spots off with liquid N2. They were a little unsightly, but they didn’t seem to bother him very much.
Which is my way of saying I hope it turns out to not be a big deal.
Intellectual Froglegs is out with a new episode. I’m partway in and I like this guy. The intro to this episode is a little fuzzy but his production values are usually pretty good.
https://www.intellectualfroglegs.com/episodes/war
https://www.themainewire.com/2024/06/maine-gun-safety-coalition-oversees-negligent-firearm-discharge-at-gun-giveback/
The “experts”
https://x.com/AntiWuCoalition/status/1798449558609117613
Yes, yes I do butter my microwaved pop-tarts.
Looking back at Hotspur’s comment on nuking DC, I have to agree.
The biggest loss would be the National Gallery of Art, the US Botanic Garden, and the Smithsonian’s.
And I’m personally partial to the sculptures on the west side of the Capitol in front of the Capitol Reflecting Pool that are part of the Ulyssus S. Grant Memorial.
I’ve not had a poptart since my kids were in middle school. My youngest is 32. I’m marking myself safe from buttered poptarts.
At least it isn’t salt on french toast.
Poptarts weren’t something that frequented our grocery list, even before, during, and after kids. They were the sort of thing we bought for backpacking trips.
That same accident happened about 10 miles from here.
HOV exit, guy never touched the brakes.
Texting?
There are a lot worse things than butter on poptarts. We had friends from Vermont that put ketchup on cottage cheese. I knew a guy that ate chocolate syrup on cottage cheese as part of a weight loss strategy. Just the visuals would make me lose weight.
My dinner is ruined, and I’m the guy who drinks raw eggs.
My wife, who is an excellent cook, just tried to make breaded “fried chicken” in her air fryer. We now have a couple of pounds of expensive dog treats. Shit was nasty.
Wasted food is kinda my pet peeve. My wife is really conscious of the dates on everything. I pay attention to the dairy mostly and give the visual or smell test to anything else.
Oh, did I tell you that I have a little OCD?
I’ve got no info other than that clip. Amazing how it just explodes on impact. Texting or medical emergency are my guesses.
Since we’re talking about weird/unusual (no judgment here) ways to eat food …
What do people put on their scrambled eggs?
The only thing I’ll put on/in cottage cheese is canned peaches, fruit cocktail, or pineapple.
A medical event makes sense. Losing consciousness for whatever reason on a freeway is a death sentence. Very good reason not to drive alone when you’re tired.
Darkly, I sometimes wonder how many single-car ‘accidents’ are people deciding to check out.
Cheese and/or hot salsa on eggs.
Knew of a guy who tried to commit suicide by driving into a bridge abutment. Survived but lost his arm. Talk about messing up your life.
As a tyke, I put ketchup on scrambled eggs. At some point, being a contrary kid, I switched over to yellow mustard. That phase passed, and cheese and/or salsa or hot sauce is my go-to.
Cheese, warm hot sauce or salsa here. If I put ketchup on the adjacent hash browns and a little gets into the eggs, no bother. I’ll put up a Migas recipe sometime unless somebody says no or beats me to it. Also, buttered and rolled up flour tortillas on the side make a good tool to corner the eggs with.
Pears or peaches with pepper is my choice for cottage cheese.
I like cheesy eggs, Velveeta is my favorite but Mrs. Pupster thinks eggs with any moisture at all are a death sentence. I usually make two different skillets of scrambled eggs.
If you ever get a Micky D’s breakfast, get an egg McMuffin and ask for strawberry preserves. I’m telling you it is amaze balls.
I probably will not eat that shit again unless there is no other option these days…I had a hankering for their breakfast burritos so I went through the drive through and ordered by the number next to the picture of 2 burritos, comes with small coffee and hash-brown for $8. No shit eight dollars I’m out Ronald.
Also it tasted terrible, chalky cheese dried out eggs no sausage to speak of and flavorless microwaved tortilla.
Menstrual Discharge.
I’ll fry up like 2 pieces of bacon, then eat those while I cook the eggs in the fat, then add cheese just as the finish, then dish all the eggs onto some toasted Ezekiel bread. Solid meal right there.
Pepper on cottage cheese seems to be a thing. I’ll have to give it a try. I like black pepper on potato salad.
MIGAS
oil as needed.
Desired number of corn tortillas, sliced into rectangular pieces.
Desired number of eggs, beaten.
a splash of milk.
chopped onion, hot peppers or other veggies, as desired.
salt & pepper to taste.
desired number of flour tortillas, buttered.
Hot sauce, picante sauce or salsa, as desired.
Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Fry tortillas in the skillet, stirring constantly, until they are just starting to get crisp. Mix up the eggs, milk, onions, veggies, pepper and any desired meat (bacon is fine) together. Pour the egg mixture into the skillet with the tortillas, stirring until the egg is cooked through. Season with salt to taste. Serve with warm picante or salsa and warm, buttered flour tortillas.
I usually fry up some sausage patties and leave the grease in the pan and use that for frying the corn tortillas. I crumble up a little of sausage to put in the egg mixture and eat the rest on the side.
Had a GF who liked diced fresh apple in her scrambled eggs, along with shredded cheese. It was okay.
One of my college gym-bro meals (not to be confused with Jimbro) was cottage cheese mixed with flavored whey protein. Usually vanilla.
Flavored whey protein? I thought we were talking about food, not bio-waste.
Whey is waste from cheesemaking, at least, not from making cotton. On the scale of things, it’s not half bad.
We’re also talking 1996 or so. I was 80# lighter and could run up 6 flights of stairs without getting out of breath. Can’t have been toooooo bad for me.
We buttered unfrosted pop tarts. We never got the frosted. Mmmm…butter.
Sorry folks, Migas is Tex-Mex scrambled eggs with additives, but it is good. Some use fritos instead of corn tortillas.
Just teasing. I never had any attraction to those body-building products. They always looked disgusting.
Vanilla whey + cottage cheese was damned close to cheesecake, at least compared to the rest of my diet at the time. It felt like a cheat meal.
I think the closest I got to eating anything like that was Wheat Germ.
Oh, forgot the critical 3rd ingredient: sugar-free cheesecake pudding mix.
Absolute junk food. At the time, 90% of my diet was brown rice, canned tuna, black beans, mustard greens, and boneless, skinless chicken breast.
Oh, and mountains of steel-cut oats.
Poptarts are something I remember as being a LOT more tasty than they are.
But I may add them to the list for the Ragnar. That much running – last year, a coke saved my life. I was crashing hard.
Tree is gone (mostly). Rabbit fence will be finished tonight. SO the garden will go in over the next few days. Late, but what you gonna do?
“”I really missed my calling as possibly the only straight ballerino on the continent.””
i vaguely remember reading a study that was done back in the 90’s that seemed to indicate that that sort of thing could stunt your growth…
We don’t have anyone coming with us this year to support us for the Ragnar, so that’s going to be different. Just the runners.
It might sorta suck.
i vaguely remember reading a study that was done back in the 90’s that seemed to indicate that that sort of thing could stunt your growth…
There is basically no way I could have ended up shorter without life-threatening malnutrition.
Poptarts are something I remember as being a LOT more tasty than they are.
Nailed it. Ben gets them often and I’ll have a pack in a weak moment every 3 or 4 months when there’s no other sweet food around and they just seem blah compared my take on them as a kid.
Had a coworker who was telling me about her teenage son taking ballet lessons. I made some quip about at least he won’t have any trouble meeting girls.
I didn’t know her son is gay.
She seemed sort of pissed.
Paula bought some of these for race/training fuel and they were a little tastier than Poptarts
https://naturespath.com/collections/toaster-pastries
Too expensive for regular purchasing
If I had to guess, the amount of filling they put in poptarts has been steadily decreasing over the years. The dough they use for crust has got to be the cheapest ingredient.
Where’s it written that gay men can’t have female friends? Normal ones, not just fag hags!
I do have to wonder if doing ballet would have lightened me in my loafers. It certainly would have been tough to be around all the lisping prancers all the time just for the sake of access to gals in tutus. Might have become a case of go gay or go home.
This is pretty good mixed with yogurt
https://naturespath.com/products/heritage-flakes-cold-cereal-np-us
I’m not sure what’s up with their prices on that site, there’s NFW I paid $60 for a bag of cereal
Maybe it was for a case?
After that faux pas with my coworker, I have to admit there were about 24 hours I was wondering if I was going to get a call to go up and see the HR ladies.
Well he won’t have any trouble meeting guys, either.
Not those mythical “str8 acting” gay guys that all the twinks seem to be after, but such is life.
Perfect dessert after you have some poon bread.
Are you telling Biden isn’t all there? He’s slipping? Losing it?
Lost his fastball, you might say.
Rocketboy used to like frosted brown sugar cinnamon Poptarts, though he had a bad habit of eating one and leaving the other in the opened package instead of putting it in a ziplock or taping the mylar bag shut. So I used to put butter on the nonfrosted side of the stale Poptart and eat it, rather than throw it out.
I can’t remember the last time I bought Poptarts, but it’s probably over a decade.
Some years ago, there were MRE pastries that were kind of like Poptarts, only much, much better. They were made by Bridgford. Cinnamon “bun” and apple turnover. They weren’t cheap, but they were supposed to be shelf stable for 5 years if you keep them in reasonable storage, not a hot attic or garage.
Oooh, cherry turnover.
https://theepicenter.com/collections/mre-sandwich
What is being turned over, I wonder?
What kind pf sammich would you make with gang bang poon bread?
Your mom would have to serve as the meat. After that I don’t guess it prolly matters.
Dana expected reasonable publicity.