So, this image showed up in my messages:
I’m just hoping this isn’t a Betty Cracker creation already featured here that in my semester-starting-addled brain I somehow forgot.
Anyway: here’s a chance to talk about anything to do w. abuse of or abusive foodstuffs — or anything else that whets your appetite.
trollhattan
Brill!
And I don’t care how many defenders its harvested recently, the only proper use of American cheese to date.
rikyrah
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
AliceBlue
Well, this is going to haunt my dreams.
?BillinGlendaleCA
“Cold Turkey, has got me, on the run…”
Jay Thurber
That’s turkey? Looks like a pile of baloney to me.
Elizabelle
Well there’s a way to raise Trump’s IQ (and EQ). Head made of cold cuts.
Yutsano
Gee thanks Perfesser. Right as I’m eating lunch.
(Which is not a ham sandwich, so carry on.)
Yutsano
I r modererated for borked e-mail. Please to fix?
Keith P.
Fight to the death with Ham Rove.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Here’s a much more appealing visual image.
Yutsano
@Yutsano: Wait never mind it’s gone now. Sigh.
Elizabelle
WRT the title of this blogpost: I was thinking “oh no, what happened to Cole as he was fixing a turkey sandwich? What has he done now?” I was imagining blood.
The Moar You Know
Odd how the color of the foodstuffs is so true to Cheetolini’s actual hue.
Jamey
Tom DeLay: “You can indict a ham sandwich.”
Elizabelle
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I love that. The Korean-American Friendship bell, in San Pedro. You got a better photograph than I ever have.
Love that whole area along the coast, and the Palos Verde peninsula.
SFAW
Don’t know if this has already been picked up here, but:
TPM is reporting that Wilbur “Vying for the ‘Evilest Motherfucker in the Maladminstration’ Title” Ross apparently threatened to fire a bunch of NOAA staff if they did not issue a statement retracting/contradicting their earlier contradiction of Dear Leader’s Sharpie adventure. Some might interpret that as him demanding that they commit a Federal crime — or else!
SFAW
@Elizabelle:
Here’s a hint: we’ll have to call him “Lefty” from now on.
prostratedragon
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks so much, though I think I’ll need to enjoy the whole page of your lovely photos to get that sandwich out of my head.
I will admit it’s (the sandwich) impressive in a way, but whoever did it probably should move on to other things for a while.
Yarrow
Yuck. Turned my stomach.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Noticed some debris in the pic, here’s the updated link.
JPL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: well drat.. It’s says page not found
JPL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: nope
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle: Yup, framing could be a tad bit better.
@prostratedragon: Just click on the photostream link at the top left, there’s pages and pages(37 or 38) of my pics.
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Live peace in Toronto. . .
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL: I updated the pic and link. And re-updated the link, it works now.
Elizabelle
@SFAW: LOL.
RedDirtGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Strange, but I’m getting an error message, and no photo.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Yup, that’s the live version.
Litlebritdifrnt
Well it would appear that our Hotel in Carlisle might have had bedbugs because I am covered in tiny bites. On my hands, arms and legs. Didn’t notice them while at the hotel but the bites have now got fever blisters so I am noticing them. Damn!
Mike in NC
@SFAW: I got a Facebook link that showed a picture of Fat Bastard redrawing the Russian border westward with a Sharpie to include the Crimea and about half of Ukraine. (That’ll be next week.)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@RedDirtGirl: Checked the new link again, works now.
joel hanes
@Litlebritdifrnt:
If they’re not itching intensely, they’re probably not bedbug bites.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks. Very nice pix.
RedDirtGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks. Trying to link to one of my favorite Trump images, but having a hard time of it.
Maybe this time it’ll work.
ETA: Dagnabit! It’s the ad for Der Tagesspiegel that shows a stack of the papers with Trump’s face on it.
trollhattan
Chrissy Teigen is apparently twitterfighting with Trump and has coined #PresidentP***yAssBitch, which if it catches on is another thing to thank Chrissy Teigen for.
He just can’t help himself.
JPL
@SFAW: We are so f..ked with this guy in office. We’ll be lucky if NOAA survives the assault.
trollhattan
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Yikes!
Where is Carlisle so I can avoid it?
Mart
About an hour ago Cheetolini was giving another helicopter presser where he said the incompetent Obama handed him the gift of 138 federal judges and a SC judge. He bragged he already has two SC judges and will have over 200 federal judges this term. The blood, it boils.
Yarrow
@Litlebritdifrnt: @joel hanes: This is true–bedbug bites itch a lot.
zhena gogolia
You guys! Sarah and Todd Palin are getting divorced! I’m gutted!
https://people.com/politics/sarah-palin-and-todd-palin-divorcing-report/?cid=428752&did=428752-20190909&mid=24356715517&utm_campaign=people-breaking-news_newsletter&utm_content=090919&utm_medium=email&utm_source=people.com
JPL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It was worth the wait.
Yarrow
@zhena gogolia: Guess he got tired of her throwing cans of food at him.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: This will not end well for Trump.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: Thanks, went on a shoot with the group last night.
@JPL: Heh, much better than “Cold Turkey”.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@zhena gogolia: Thoughts and Prayers.
mrmoshpotato
@zhena gogolia: Gutted with joy?
wasabi gasp
That’s turkey!?
I’ll stick with my paste.
JPL
Red Girl.. I’m just posting the link because it’s that good
https://www.adweek.com/creativity/the-story-of-the-brilliant-incendiary-trump-ad-that-has-cannes-buzzing/
Must see AD of trump
Litlebritdifrnt
@joel hanes: They are that is why I am noticing them.
JPL
@RedDirtGirl: I tried to hit the reply button but I didn’t see it because it was on the left hand side. Thanks so much for the laugh.
germy
olive oil is going to get expensive.
rikyrah
@Mart:
grrrrrrrrrrrr
germy
Yarrow
@Litlebritdifrnt: If it is bedbugs you may have a lot of work ahead of you. They can come home with you in suitcases and other bags. Did you do anything else that would have given you bites? Leave the windows open? Midges still around?
Litlebritdifrnt
@trollhattan: Very North West of England, just before you get to Scotland. (Hadrians Wall)
JPL
@germy: I might go shopping this weekend for cheeses and pasta. I’ve had good luck freezing cheese.
Do you know if he is going after the Marzano tomatoes?
TenguPhule
@SFAW:
Not Stumpy?
zhena gogolia
@germy:
OMG, this is exactly what Putin did to Russia at one point. You couldn’t get any decent cheese for love or money.
TenguPhule
@germy:
Trump is determined to make the rest of us live on the same diet he does.
TenguPhule
@germy:
They’ll have to switch to good old American pork fat.
germy
@JPL: Marzano tomatoes? The NYT is reporting Italy’s economy will take a hit, so maybe everything will get more expensive.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Yarrow: I initially thought that the bites were from ants as I brushed past a plant with them on (they are farming the aphids and I hate to get rid of the plant) as I went outside to hang out my washing when we got home. However, it would appear that I have way too many bites to be the work of a single ant (or maybe two) in so many diverse places that it doesn’t make sense.
Raven
@Litlebritdifrnt: Chiggers.
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: ITTFMT – Impeach the Turtle-faced Motherfucker Too
NCSteve
I just flashed on the “This is that good processed turkey!” line from “The Rainmaker.”
Matt McIrvin
@Litlebritdifrnt: are the bites lined up in rows of three? Bedbugs do that. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Martin
@germy: Most imported olive oils are fake anyway.
That said, that 72lb wheel of parmesan from Costco might be a better investment than gold right now.
Elizabelle
@germy: Cool. Soap Crafters Against Tariffing Trump. Can be SCAT Trump. Satby can help organize them.
Bring it on. I suspect the soap crafters are a lot brighter than the still Trump-humping farmers (not every farmer, I realize, but too many).
trollhattan
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Okay, think I’m safe. :-)
We have a very different climate and I have no idea what you’ve encountered. We don’t lack for things that bite, to be sure. Got a boatload on my feet a couple months ago and they took weeks to heal (two of which the itch persisted). I’m going with fleas, as I usually wander around in flip-flops, but there’s no way to tell.
Martin
@JPL: Those too are usually fake.
Barbara
@trollhattan: If you were wandering around in high grass or brush it could be chiggers.
catclub
@Elizabelle:
Depends if intelligence is rated by how effectively they get on the government dole.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Matt McIrvin: Yup exactly! You nailed it.
Anonymous At Work
@Elizabelle: I was under the impression that it was impossible to ruin a turkey sandwich…because you can’t go downhill from “turkey sandwich”.
Gelfling 545
@zhena gogolia: I’m shocked they seemed like a match made in, well, wherever such matches are made.
CindyH
I think that’s a “baloney” sandwich
JPL
Tom If you want a more impressive picture of trump, look at RedDirtGirl’s comment @31 The link didn’t work so I posted a naked link at 45
Yarrow
@Martin: I’ve read that California has the strictest quality control on olive oil. If it’s California olive oil you’re actually getting olive oil.
TenguPhule
/snort, choke, muffled guffaw
Raven
I’m sending a special thanks to Immanentize for some wonderful fishing tackle and a “Kiss My Ass” card for my retirement!
TenguPhule
@Elizabelle:
The associated image has made me go temporarily blind.
TenguPhule
@Anonymous At Work:
Bologna sandwich on white with mayo.
Mnemosyne
@trollhattan:
Here in the Southland, they’ve been warning us about a new invasive species of mosquitoes that carries West Nile and dengue fever. They call them “ankle-biters” because they usually attack the lower limbs, and they’re unusual because they bite during the day.
Martin
@Yarrow: Correct. But has others have noted, the price of CA olive oil will go up similarly because of demand, and it takes a while to plant new olive trees…
TenguPhule
@JPL:
Narrator: “We were not lucky”
SFAW
@JPL:
Well, those staffers would have survived — if they hadn’t been in Huntsville when it got flooded by Dorian. They couldn’t escape when that wall of water hit, and they drownded.
prostratedragon
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks, have done (and enable flickr.com and staticflickr.com; heaven help me, I’m fussy like that). Lovely.
trollhattan
@Mnemosyne:
We’re basically the West Nile nexus here and one of our gazillion mosquito breeds carries it. Don’t know about dengue, probably don’t want to either!
West Nile is tricky to track because a good many infected remain asymptomatic, some get flu-like symptoms and then some are hospitalized and die. They monitor mosquito traps for it, also collect and analyze dead birds (corvids and raptors are vectors).
I wish we put a massive tariff on imported communicable diseases.
Steve in the ATL
@germy: any news on Nutella?
JPL
@Martin: San Marzano aren’t are they? The label says Italy.
Roger Moore
@germy:
I try to buy American- there are several olive farms that sell oil at my local farmer’s market- but it’s not as if domestic production can fill the gap quickly. Olive trees take 5-8 years to produce a commercial crop, so this will just raise prices without doing much to spur domestic production. Instead, it will encourage us to purchase from Morocco, Tunisia, and other olive-producing countries outside Europe.
trollhattan
@Barbara:
My Iowa granny would get those things and wow, are they ever miserable! (shudder)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@prostratedragon: Thanks.
Yutsano
@Roger Moore: I happen to have a bottle of Tunisian olive oil right now. Can tell you it’s quite good.
J R in WV
Perhaps a law suit against Fat Don to recoup expenses due to illegal “National Security” tariffs against our oldest allies. Doesn’t make any sense. Why Italy? What a chunk of pig fat for brains!
RedDirtGirl
@JPL: Thank you. Not sure why I always have such a hard time with the linky-links!
JPL
@Yutsano: I’ve purchased Spanish Olive Oil before and it was quite good but expensive. Maybe if he is targeting just Italy, I’ll go back to that.
JPL
@Martin: Before Whole Foods purchased the local farmer’s market, they had different bottles of olive oil out to taste. I can’t remember the name, about fifteen/twenty years ago I purchased one from Italy. It was in a rectangular bottle and was priced over twenty dollars. When I checked out, the person at the register asked for my ID. It did look more like whiskey but the store only had a beer and wine license
Whole Foods sells a line under the 365 brand that is processed in European Countries, including Italy.
laura
@trollhattan: And if she wants to print up and sell foul mouthed wife tee shirts – to raise money for Bahamian disaster relief, id buy at least one!
President ham head doesn’t look any less skeezy in processed Turkey slice than he does in ham.
Roger Moore
@Yarrow:
The California Department of Food and Agriculture seems to be very well run. They have strict standards, and they seem to understand that the farmers do better in the long run when they enforce those standards rather than allowing a race to the bottom. An example of this is the California Certified Farmers Market program. Not all farmers markets are part of CCFM, but the ones that are require the farmers to grow everything they sell on their own farms; they can’t buy from a neighbor’s farm and sell it at their booth. Once in a while, one of the farmers I buy from will disappear from the market for a while, and it always turns out that this was because they got caught selling somebody else’s produce and were forced to stop selling for 6 months. Knowing those rules are strictly enforced gives me some confidence that they’re enforcing the rest of the rules, too.
Kathleen
The official portrait of our Commander in Cheese.
laura
@Raven: Serious congratulations for your 1/2 century of toil following service! The very thought of retirement is so enviable and just begs for speculation. Decades of work makes it easy to think about work, but how not to work . . . That’s got to be so wierd at first, and then settling in to a whole new routine. How satisfying.
Have you captured the emotional support yellow fin tuna yet, or is the trip still pending?
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
Lots of olive acreage in the north Sacramento Valley and some of it is processed for oil, most is still fruit.
But it’s been interesting to learn that a lot of olive trees are just there as landscaping and not used for anything, but now quite a few folks are harvesting and pressing oil because there are mobile olive presses that can come on site and handle it. In particular, a lot of wineries have olive trees and now sell their own oil in the tasting room.
The differences among them (flavor, color, fragrance) is astonishing. I truly had no idea.
Roger Moore
@trollhattan:
My alma mater had a lot of olive trees that were just used for landscaping. Then the school hired a Frenchman as president, and he decided there needed to be an olive harvest festival on campus to take advantage of the bounty. It was fun, but a day of work by a whole gang of students and alumni produced a relatively paltry amount of oil for the effort involved, and while it was technically classified as extra virgin it still wasn’t anything special. After doing this a couple of times, everyone decided it wasn’t worth the effort, and they went back to spraying the trees to keep them from fruiting, since unharvested olives are a PITA.
Basically, olive trees used for landscaping are nice, but there’s a reason farmers plant their trees in carefully laid out orchards. The effort involved in going around and harvesting a bunch of scattered trees makes trying to get a crop from landscape and back yard trees economically uncompetitive. It still makes sense for somebody who owns a tree to try to harvest it as a hobby, but it’s only able to compete with big farmers by pretending that the land, water, and labor are free.
Ohio Mom
@Litlebritdifrnt: Are there chiggers in your part of the world? They are here in Ohio but just five hours north in Michigan, my sister has never heard of them (the winters are too long and cold for them). We certainly didn’t have them growing up in the Bronx.
Yuck on the bedbugs. A good friend of mine had them a couple of years ago —she is a social worker and thinks they got into her house via her purse, stored in her office on the floor, not far from where her clients sit. She never said anything more specific than that but I’m guessing she knows which client that was — no doubt the one who came in one week with a story about bedbugs.
It is a hassle and expense to get rid of them but it is doable.
Can I assume from this story that your husband made it over to you? Whew, sigh of relief, Hooray and Congrats!
JAFD
Also Portugese olive oils (Live near Newark’s ‘Ironbound’ – capital of Lusophone North America) Check
seabrafoods.com or
seabrasmarket.com
for week’s deals
(Pronounced ‘see-ah-bruhs’)
(For those few jackals who haven’t heard it…
“Why did The Little Mermaid wear sea shells ?
Because ‘B’ shells were too small for her’ and ‘D’ shells were too big.”)
Amir Khalid
@JAFD:
It’s only Ariel, Disney’s Little Mermaid, who wears a seashell bra at all. The Hans Christian Andersen character is traditionally depicted topless, as in the statue of her in Copenhagen harbour.
Ruckus
@Anonymous At Work:
Have no personal knowledge but have been told that the American cheese on dry white bread lunch sandwich at the LA County Jail is just a tad worse than any turkey sandwich. He said it smelled like feet and didn’t taste as good. And he had tasted them on more than one occasion.
Ruckus
@laura:
I’m just a touch older than his royal majesty – recently retired raven, and can say pretty truthfully I doubt I’ll have any trouble figuring out how to spend my retired days, if ever get to actually retire. I started working, paying taxes 57 yrs ago, I’m past ready.