In case you missed it:
The president on violent protesters: "Cans of tuna fish. They go out and buy tuna fish and soup. You know that, right?…Because they throw it. It's the perfect weight, tuna fish, they can really rip it, right? And that hits you. No, it's true. Bumble Bee brand tuna."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 23, 2020
This and the responses are going to get me through the day. https://t.co/0G4f24C9QW
— Miss T Has A New Book (Underway available now) (@TaMarasKitchen) September 23, 2020
I regret I have but one can to throw for my country ?
— Teresa (@THollandParker1) September 23, 2020
I can’t stop laughing bc I can picture this perfectly in my mind pic.twitter.com/YsPz8AcD6V
— isMommaYoDancing? (@YepShesDancing) September 23, 2020
Click on the little bird to read either thread, they will make you both face-palm and laugh. We could all use some levity.
What food product would you throw at fascists if you could?
Open thread
Anonymous At Work
As if there was any question about what to throw…”P.U. Stinkbait”, the original problem with O.G. catfishing.
germy
A thrown pie will rob its recipient of his dignity.
piratedan
habanero peppers….
Tom Levenson
Food missile of choice?
Balut.
Ken
As germy said, the traditional answer is pies. Whether to use cream or something more… flavorful is left to the individual.
Say, is this why we have a pie filter?
FelonyGovt
I just can’t any more… please tell me this isn’t really happening
AnotherBruce
Thanks for reporting whatever Trump hocks up out of his pie hole. Do we really have to listen to what a malignant idiot has to say? Ignore this bullshit.
Sloane Ranger
Got to be baked beans, with some mechanism to make it open on impact.
Phylllis
Palmetto Cheese.
Wapiti
Food product… it’s plum season in Seattle. All of my neighbors and family with trees are trying to give me product. My neighbor to the south gave us two dozen. An hour later my brother texted, letting me know he left 3 dozen on the back porch. (in a lightweight cardboard box).
After they sat on the counter for a week, they started self-pressing. So we picked up the box; the soggy bottom collapsed, and there were a few moldy plums among the mix suddenly on the counter.
And no fascist targets visible. Ah well, another sacrifice to the compost god.
jonas
Fruitcakes
Bex
Mackerel cat food.
Nora Lenderbee
Does Bumblebee make dog food?
oatler.
You can tune a piano but…oh forget it.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Aunt Jemima syrup.
Betty Cracker
@Phylllis: Big WTF moment for me when I read that this morning. I like that brand and didn’t realize it was owned by racist assholes. Guess I’ll have to make my own pimento cheese going forward. Oh well, it’s not hard to do.
mrmoshpotato
I would use Woosh Innovations’ salmon cannon to shoot rotten fish at all of the Kremlin’s bitches. Fucking fascists, all of them.
Bluegirlfromwyo
Ketchup, matches the blood on their hands.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: Killer Klowns From Outer Space!
Minstrel Michael
Sauerkraut seems appropriate. Mit senf.
Ken
@Wapiti: Plum season in Seattle sounds a lot like zucchini season everywhere.
Bruuuuce
Kimchee. Or surströmming
gene108
I cannot decide between Hákarl (Icelandic fermented shark) or Surströmming (Swedish fermented herring).
R-Jud
My cat threw up some roundworms today; I’d save that to throw.
(He’ll be fine, the dipshit. Treatment in progress.)
Saintlywife
I spent almost 4 weeks evacuated from my Hurricane Laura-ravaged hometown of Lake Charles, LA. We just got power back on in my neighborhood. I’d love to throw the contents of my freezer at them, if I could somehow catapult it without smelling it myself!
mrmoshpotato
@piratedan: Carolina reaper puree.
Barbara
The stupider Trump is the better his supporters feel about him. Not laughing anymore.
Phylllis
@Betty Cracker: Same. Their packaging was deceptive as hell, and you can’t convince me it wasn’t deliberate, with the Black lady on the label & the story about the family recipe. Here I was thinking I was supporting a Black-owned mom & pop business; duped all the way around.
Try the Mt. Pilot pimento cheese recipe from Aunt Bee’s Mayberry Cookbook. My favorite.
BruceFromOhio
@mrmoshpotato:
This. Add some rotting potatoes for flavor.
TaMara (HFG)
@AnotherBruce: I see you’ve checked your kindness at the blog door, may I suggest you step outside and retrieve it before commenting further on any of my posts.
mrmoshpotato
@BruceFromOhio: Who lets potatoes rot? For! shame!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: That’s going a bit too far.
Czar Chasm
This HAS to be mentioned: The Bumblebee Tuna Song
https://youtu.be/td9fqGlhxts
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Take it up with Ken.
Betty Cracker
@Phylllis: Yep, they deceptively marketed it that way, the liars. “The pimento cheese with soul” my ass.
ciotogist
According to Gavin de Becker, including “unnecessary details,” like the exact brand of tuna fish, is a sign that a predator is speaking. They add those details because they know they’re lying and want to sound plausible.
SiubhanDuinne
@Tom Levenson:
I was two minutes ago years old when I learned about balut, and now I want to get in a time machine, go back three minutes, and make a different choice that doesn’t involve googling.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Tom Levenson:
Nice…
JCJ
Launch durians with a trebuchet
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Betty Cracker:
I mean, there’s nothing more wonderful than fresh made pimento cheese.
AnotherBruce
@TaMara (HFG): Why do you assume that I’m attacking you? I made a general point about the media. I made that comment early in the thread. I didn’t know how the thread was going to turn out. Why so harsh?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
It’s the wrong question; the correct question is asking our conservative friends what food product they fear the most from us. After all, are we liberals not the touch feely ones. we should invite our Most Serious conservative Betters share with us these fears.
Keith P.
@Tom Levenson: I’d go with cans of Surströmming
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Six minutes on the Louisville announcement. I’m in the American lounge at CLT, so I’ve missed the joys of my shut down city this week.
Hopefully, we can remove the boards – I’ve been considering a total relocation to a blue state as things have so dried up.
chopper
@Wapiti:
my plum tree (n. seattle) went bonkers this year. i’ve been giving away bags of em.
mrmoshpotato
Natural peanut butter – with the oil removed aka PB & Bricks.
JPL
@Phylllis: Oh no! Thanks for letting us know.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
And I’m not speaking to my RWNJ mother. She’s text bombing me.
Ryan
Don’t Goya beans use roughly the same sized cans as condensed soup?
Kent
Jar of stink eggs. They are fermented salmon eggs made by Alaska natives. You take salmon eggs, soak them in seal oil and place them in a porous cloth (seal skin) and bury them. They stay underground for two or three months at which time they ferment. Then they are dug up and eaten. It is an acquired taste to say the least.
TaMara (HFG)
@AnotherBruce: Why do you assume I thought you were attacking me? Like I’d even care about that. Your comment was just a general snarky downer comment to what was supposed to be a thread with some levity.
Miss Bianca
I think the disgusting glob of fat, gristle, meat and ribs from God-Know-What-and-Where that I just wrested away from Roxy the Wolf Girl – after two days of her brooding over it like a carnivorous mother hen – would be my missile o’choice.
Now I gotta remember to dispose of it today somewhere else than in the back of D’s truck, where it currently resides…
trollhattan
Camo-clad motherfuckers armed with AR-15s take siege on a state capitol building and Trump’s trying to scare us with canned food flingers?
JoyceH
@JCJ: Ha! I came here to say durian! That odor would make them forget what they were doing, certainly.
geg6
@Tom Levenson:
BWAHAHAHA! I’d love to see that!
I was thinking durian, myself.
mrmoshpotato
@chopper: Bonkers
AnotherBruce
@TaMara (HFG): ok I can see your point. My post was not directed at you I apologize.
different-church-lady
Crow. A very large helping. Served cold.
RobertB
@Anonymous At Work: I’ll second that stinkbait.
Yutsano
@Tom Levenson:
This is both monstrous and genius at the same time.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@chopper: Two words, Plum Brandy.
RobertB
@Miss Bianca: Fat, gristle, meat, and ribs? Are they selling the McRib again?
hueyplong
Borscht
Betty Cracker
WaPo alert says a cop was indicted in Breonna Taylor case.
FelonyGovt
Got to be something very exotic and foreign. Or maybe lattes and sushi courtesy of us coastal elites.
trollhattan
Like mother unalike daughter.
TaMara (HFG)
@AnotherBruce: No worries, I was trying to navigate giving people a safe place for a while and still understand that some of us are beyond levity when it comes to the orange disease. We are all a raw nerve away from the edge of despair these days.
Chief Oshkosh
Throwing rotten tomatoes and cabbage is traditional. Followed up by tar and feathering. Then running ’em out of town on a rail.
I think I got that right…
Yutsano
@hueyplong: I would never waste such a cromulent soup. But puréed beet peels? Oh yeah.
EDIT: hoo boy I forget how long-winded Unca Joe can get…
Marcopolo
Not my idea but saw it suggested on twitter yesterday:
Spotted Dick
I don’t think I’ve actually ever seen it on a grocery shelf (have definitely never eaten it) but if you threw it you could say, “I hit them with my spotted dick.”
Sent out my “time to vote email to my Missouri friends” this morning. I’m thinking by the end of the week we’ll be looking at over 1M votes cast:
gene108
I think, going beyond cans, is to take stinky foods and liquify them. Pour them into balloons, and then chuck them at your enemies making the reek so badly they cannot stand their own smell.
Miss Bianca
@RobertB: It looks like a giant McRib, actually, but with an extra layer of fat on top, about the size of a catcher’s mitt, and, oh…raw.
Just super glad that both the flies and the bears opted not to visit us on its account.
Phylllis
@JPL: It’s been quite the scandal in these parts.
Miss Bianca
@Marcopolo: Yeah, except Spotted Dick is actually supposed to be tasty, at least by the culinary standards of the British Navy circa 1800.
Ken
@gene108: Poul Anderson’s Operation Chaos had a similar idea, except chemists were involved so the mix included skatole, putrescine, cadaverine, mercaptans, and a few others. I think they added something to make it harder to wash off, too.
Illegal nowadays, I’m sure, since some of those compounds are known to be toxic.
John Revolta
Lutefisk!
Jeffro
@Czar Chasm: I didn’t have to click – I know that one by heart ?
CarolDuhart2
@Marcopolo: And the only reason we aren’t already there is that some states haven’t opened up yet and a lot of people are waiting to get their ballots. But the number is amazing. And supports my intuition that the election may be practically decided by 10/10.
Chief Oshkosh
@Chief Oshkosh: Sorry, I mis-read the question. Throwing pineapples at fascists was quite popular the last time they caused problems on a global scale.
For run-of-the-mill scoundrel politicians, the weapons of choice traditionally were rotten tomatoes and cabbage.
Just Chuck
And here I thought I was going to be first to say Durian. The odor is nice (er, for the purpose) but the spikes are also a bonus.
And to think, some 40% of voters are still going to pull the lever for this fucking insane babbling idiot.
Wag
Sloppy, wet tofu. Just because.
Marcopolo
@Miss Bianca: Well, if they are still selling it in cans after 170 years (first citation for it is from 1849) there must be some market for it.
In the “this is normal” news (or the new normal news), MO’s first lady just announced she has the Corona! Is it wrong for me to hope that she’s shared this with her husband?
clay
@Betty Cracker: It’s an insulting indictment. Wanton endangerment due to shooting into neighbors’ apartments. One cop only.
No charge due to, you know, the actual murder of an actual person.
Yutsano
Okay I got it.
Natto.
Fermented soybeans with sticky tendrils that are hard to get out of clothing.
p.a.
Alley biscuit (brick ?)
Open thread, hive mind question: glucosamine/chondroitin: works, or just turns into expensive urine (h/t Sheldon of BBT)?
Bruuuuce
@Yutsano: Good call! I remember hearing about it on the original Iron Chef, and am very glad in retrospect that I only saw, and did not smell, the dishes prepared with it.
laura
Count me amongst Team Durian.
p.a.
Oh to be a fly on the wall in tRump debate ‘prep’ rooms.
Ruviana
@different-church-lady: Or revenge.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@clay:
I personally know one of the special prosecutors- solid guy. There were definite legal and factual reasons for this to go down this way; at least one person who should have been dealt with on this wasn’t a subject at the GJ at all (he prepared the warrant application), so his ass is still in the barrel.
I’ll add this – there is no SOL on Kentucky felonies. The other two had best tread very carefully in supporting their asshole brother in blue, because they’re still in a jam – he can’t count on their support at trial.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Good to hear. How’s the mood with this announcement?
Leto
@Phylllis: I grew up with that shit. It’s a war crime to make people eat it.
Food product: molasses. Super sticky, coats everything, hard to get off, plus the broken shards of glass are another fun item (and yes I know that’s a Geneva convention violation. Fuck’em.)
mali muso
Another vote for team durian. Big spiky HARD fruit on the outside with incredibly noxious smelling pulp on the inside (the fumes last).
cleek
i only throw ex-food.
Hungry Joe
@trollhattan: Re “camo-clad motherfuckers … “: That’s not camo — it’s just clothing with a bunch of leaf-like images (or sand-/rock-like images) on it. Camouflage makes the wearer, or the machinery, or whatever blend into its surroundings. These guys are in the city, so their camo should have, maybe, the image of a parking meter post on one leg, and part of a trash can on the other. The shirt could be either green and black, so that the local patriots will blend into a Starbucks, or dark gray with blue slash so that they can stand next to an Amazon van and just … disappear.
”Camo.” Please.
zhena gogolia
@Marcopolo:
Shoot, at first I thought you were talking about Mylanta Trump. Darn.
japa21
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Listening to the KY AG, it sounds like based on the law as it stood at the time, the results are to be expected and correct. Doesn’t make it right. Stay safe.
Betty Cracker
@clay: Was just reading that. Terrible.
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I read something about the case yesterday, can’t remember where. It implied Taylor’s ex-boyfriend was being targeted by the cops not because he was some dangerous kingpin but rather because he was somehow in the way of a development deal. Do you think there’s any truth to that?
Stacib
Chitlins (or Chitterlings to be correct).
Ken
@Stacib: More of an impact if you don’t extract them from the hog first.
clay
@japa21: The law is an ass.
LuciaMia
Whoooo-eee! I bet BumbleBee is just de-lighted with that endorsement.
Leto
@Marcopolo: When we lived in England, I had spotted dick a few times. Even though I laughed like a 5 year old at the name, it wasn’t bad. Most English desserts are pretty nice, even when they have funky names.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
Angry. Nobody seems happy, but I never expected anything less.
Martin
CA just banned the sale of gas powered (non-zero emission) passenger vehicles by 2035. Asked the legislature for a bill to ban fracking.
M31
@Yutsano: hahaah count me in as another one who has only heard of natto because of the old Iron Chef episode, and glad to never have come across it in the wild
mmm sticky tendrils
Baud
@Martin: Good. Let’s give CA a federal government that will have its back.
M31
hahaha Bumblebee has already tweeted ‘eat it, don’t throw it’
Not yet as woke as Steak-ums, but it’s a start
?BillinGlendaleCA
@zhena gogolia:
Heh, Mylanta.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
It sounds like you think they couldn’t have gotten more given the deference cops get under the law.
zhena gogolia
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Credit to J.-L. Cauvin, my present-day guru.
I have to watch this every day to keep my spirits up.
MisterForkbeard
@Czar Chasm: Oh goddammit. I was hoping no one would post that. It’s the worst fucking earworm ever.
Fun story, as my high school senior prank I actually found a way to tap into the PA system from one of the men’s bathroom stalls (they had really lazy wiring). Left that song on repeat with a cheap MP3 player, and it took them 25 minutes to shut it down. It was hell for everyone.
Sloane Ranger
@Miss Bianca: Spotted Dick was a standard dessert in school meals when I was growing up. It’s certainly very filling and no worse tasting than rice pudding and jam rolly polly (other standards). My favourite was Bread and Butter Pudding
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Betty Cracker:
Its a little far fetched. I’d been hired for about two minutes for something involving that neighborhood 30 some-odd years ago, and suddenly got cast to the wind, but that involved the direct expenditure of significant redevelopment dollars and was vaguely understandable. The theory I heard about this one makes zero sense and is too indirect to be believable.
Goku (Amerikan Baka)
@Martin:
Holy shit! This just reminded me that Jello Biafra ran on banning cars from the SF during his joke mayoral campaign
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: If y’all don’t, we may make our own.
Martin
Salt, by the ton.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: Now let’s see if they can get their shit together on getting the infrastructure necessary to support that. Cause right now, it ain’t there.
Just Chuck
@Goku (Amerikan Baka): Hunter S. Thompson ran on tearing up the streets in Aspen when he ran for mayor there. The platform was something of a joke of course, but he ran a real campaign.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
I think it really difficult. There have been some major policy concessions as the result of this and I suspect that the FOP is going to learn that they really overplayed their hand for the past 30 years or so when they renegotiate, but insofar as crimes are concerned, it’s hard to make.
Frankly, I want that 12 mil settlement to come up in conversation every time FOP talks about city contributions to their retirement.
I also want a total ban on moonlighting, just because.
Back when I was a PD over 30 years ago, police brutalization over those who were arrested was common knowledge and the subject of countless ironic jokes, but without any way to prove it, there was simply nothing to be done. Now, we have more in the way of video, and are struggling to shift the public narrative away from “selfless, brave public spirited heroes in uniform” to something realistic. I blame a lot on movies and TV.
Soprano2
Jesus Fucking Christ I read that Atlantic article, and now I’m kind of sorry I did. I guess better to be forewarned and forearmed than not, but hell now I’m not going to sleep well for months. Voting isn’t going to be enough, Biden has to have a massive legal team that’s ready to go toe-to-toe with Trump’s people over ballots. Scary, scary, terrifying shit.
JoyceH
I actually tried durian once. I’d seen an episode of The Food Hunter about it. (“This is Pete Luckett, your traveling greengrocer…”) Was at an Asian market and there was a big pile of them and I was curious. The Food Hunter episode had someone describe it as ‘like eating custard in a sewer’. So – I tried it. Cut it open and portioned out a bit. Ate a few bites. Hey, this isn’t bad, kinda sweet… And then the smell arrived and grew and grew… I dumped the serving and the entire rest of the durian into a plastic bag and tied it up. Put the plastic bag in another plastic bag, and tied it up. Several more plastic bags. And then I set the whole mess out in the garage until trash day.
kindness
I would throw rotted fruit of vegetables. I’m not wasting a can of good tuna on them.
Sister Golden Bear
It’ll surprise no one that reportedly Bumble Bee opposed Twitler’s China tarifs.
thruppence
@p.a.: Anecdotal only, but it seems to have helped me. I work nights standing up, over sixty and overweight, my ankles were killing me. Now they only bitch and grumble. Losing weight will help more, but that is a slow process. YMMV, but good luck.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@JoyceH:
I’ve smelled it in markets In Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Truly special…,
Leto
Right wingers practicing their self defense. – h/t Avalune
FelonyGovt
@p.a.: My husband swears glucosamine/condroitin (sp?) helps him. Don’t know if that’s real or placebo effect.
Just One More Canuck
a mentos and diet coke rocket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuPSDuS3UiA
Jager
@John Revolta: You betcha!
J R in WV
@p.a.:
My family practice and gerontologist doc thinks the anecdotal evidence is so strong that there is no question that it helps. Cost/benefit analysis, who knows? It isn’t prohibitively expensive, tho.
Benw
Haggis
J R in WV
@Benw:
Haggis? Too good, old, left out in the sun Haggis… ;-)
Also enjoyed the thought of unwashed chit’lings~!~
Just Chuck
@p.a.: glucosamine chews seemed to help my old cat. He was able to jump up onto the bed again after we started feeding it to him. Placebo effect seems unlikely in pets, and I see no reason it wouldn’t work on humans.
My mother who was an RN and normally didn’t take supplements liked the stuff too, though she said it won’t perform miracles. So there’s my two points of anecdata.
Phylllis
@Leto: Dude. Well-made pimento cheese is the bomb. Ain’t never eating no molasses again though.
The Lodger
I thought Trump’s tuna brand was Chickenshit of the Sea.
cain
@Martin:
That’s pretty awesome – I suspect the northwest to follow suit – the entire west coast is fairly well wired for electric cars.
Tesla is going to clean up – but you can get the other auto manufacturers have something on the assembly line fairly quick.
The south and the midwest will be the only folks who will be lagging behind. They’ll be all pissy too because all the jobs are gonna be green jobs regardless of who is president.
trollhattan
@Benw: @J R in WV:
At the local Italian market recently I found canned haggis in THREE varieties. I’d have impulse-bought one (but: which flavor?) had it not been $12/can.
trollhattan
@cain:
IIUC the Germans are poised to jump into the e-car market in a big way and domestically, the Chevy Bolt is already very competitive WRT range and performance.
Ken
Haggis comes in flavors? Let me guess: Original, Spicy Nacho, and Cool Ranch.
Ksmiami
@Martin: rotting mackerel- it’s super oily and hard to clean up
JoyceH
It’s real. Every time I stop taking my glucosamine, after about a week, my knees start to hurt. And it’s not placebo, because the times I stop taking it, I’m usually in some sort of crisis mode and not thinking about joints at all.
Martin
@?BillinGlendaleCA: There’s more there than people might realize, but there’s a LOT of packaging and regulation needed.
The state of the art charging at a commercial station gets you ~20 miles per minute. A standard gas stop is 2-3 minutes, so an equivalent EV stop would get you about 40 miles of range. A full 300 mile charge would be 15 minutes.
If homeowners and renters with garages/carports can charge at home, then the demand for those commercial chargers will be relatively small. Municipal street lights can be converted to moderate speed chargers given the surplus of capacity thanks to the move to LED streetlights (those are surprisingly beefy circuits).
And of course, mass transit buildout.
The power generation isn’t really a problem. Stations aren’t really a problem – the state is already having the automakers/oil companies pay for their sins through charging build-out. Mandating that all EVs have that state of the art charging needs to happen, municipal build-out will take some work and allocation of dollars, regulations on home chargers for renters needs some work.
Not easy, but feasible.
The Moar You Know
sulfuric acid.
Oh wait…FOOD products.
Fuck it, I’m sticking with sulfuric acid
Nutmeg again (formerly MoxieM)
@JCJ: Yeah, Durian Cream Pie. (when I was in Jakarta a long while ago, Durian cream donuts were on the menu at the Dunkins. Worst mix of east and west.)
Alternately, the classic rotten eggs. If you have good aim.
Nora Lenderbee
My sister is a physical therapist and she says that glucosamine and chondroitin have helped her patients, unlike other supplements. She’s very level-headed and not woo-woo at all.
JoyceH
BTW, since we’re on the subject of joints, time for a Public Service Announcement. Even if you have arthritis, even if you’ve seen the x-rays and are ‘bone on bone’, do NOT assume that every problem you have with your knees is arthritis.
I limped for literally a decade before I went to a physical therapist and learned that, yes, I have arthritis, but the reason my right knee popped painfully when I bent and straightened it was because my kneecap was out of alignment. We worked on it in therapy for a few months, and now I walk limp-free and my bone-on-bone knees only hurt when I overexert myself. And when the backs of my knees hurt, I know it’s tight hamstrings and know what to do about it. Like my therapist said, “Not every knee pain is a joint pain.”
Basically, if you have bad knees, even if you’re thinking total knee replacement – see a physical therapist first!
Soprano2
I’ve taken glucosamine sulfate for a long time, and it does help my back problems. My chiropractor didn’t think the chondroitin actually did anything helpful, so he told me to take just glucosamine. My husband takes MSM and swears by it. We’ve also used MSM for our dogs when they have a hard time getting up and down, and it does seem to help their joint problems some.
Miss Bianca
@Sloane Ranger: I’ve always wanted to try it – I am a fan of English “pud”.
At least, that’s what a late boyfriend – almost husband! – from Portsmouth used to cry routinely after dinner: “What’s for pud?”
He used to lament the fact that he couldn’t find suet in American grocery stores except for bird food. He explained that suet was an integral ingredient for English desserts.
Damn it, now I’m missing Mike. He died a few years ago from cancer of the appendix, of all things, which I’m given to understand is very rare and equally deadly. : (
Juju
I have a can of spotted dick that my nieces and nephew gave me as a joke now I know what to do with it.
Betty Cracker
We started giving our elderly dog glucosamine recently, and I can tell it’s helping. She has a much easier time on the stairs. There’s zero chance of a placebo effect because…she’s a dog!
catclub
Vile, gag inducing, and what’s the third?
Geminid
It’s not food, but tightly woven poison ivy wreaths would sail like frisbies….maybe too mean. But maybe not.
lowtechcyclist
Shit is a food product, defined as something that is produced from food. So that’s my choice.
Czar Chasm
@MisterForkbeard: HAHAHAHAAAA
My 5 year-old daughter & 18 month-old son adore it, & she’s now asking for more ska to explore.
My partner…is glad that I’m helping her raise our kids.
Nutmeg again (formerly MoxieM)
@Betty Cracker: Yep! I brought one of my dogs for acupuncture–I swear it gave her an extra year of life. At 130 lbs, she needed to be able to walk, the sweetie. She looooved being needled, and no placebo effect, either!
JoyceH
@Nutmeg again (formerly MoxieM): Oh, ditto on acupuncture! My sister had a cat that had a bad hip – she was a rescue, so uncertain if she’d been born with it, or injured it on the street. But the upshot was that sometimes Ada would have seizures – she’d fall over and thrash around and scream and pee. Was harrowing! Jane took her to an acupuncturist, and that cleared up the seizures. So long as she had her maintenance needling about once a month, no seizures. And, she was a cat. That’s why I believe in acupuncture. Cats don’t do placebos.
Betty Cracker
@JoyceH: Fascinating.
Jay
@p.a.:
worked well on my dogs when they got older, worked well when I was rock climbing.
talapia, poo fish, wrapped in 6 layers of rice paper, and well aged. It takes about 6 months for it to age out of it’s own wrapper, can be left like a time bomb in the HVAC ducts, and the result from the smell, is that you are actually heaving, microseconds later. Makes it’s own sticky soap in the process, so tough to clean off.
Safe to throw until about 4 months old, after that the wrapper is dodgy.
Searcher
Can you throw fascists at each other?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE
WaterGirl
@CarolDuhart2: @Marcopolo:
I don’t really understand what that map is supposed to be telling us.
It looks like 3 states are voting. Why is that a big deal?
bluefoot
Foodstuffs for fascists: I’m a traditionalist and would go for rotten tomatoes. Easy to obtain, easy to throw, won’t actually hurt anyone if my aim is bad, and make a nice mess.
If I were sure of hitting only fascists? Hm, something sticky that would stain.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Yeah, the color intensity isn’t the best way to show what’s happening.
As I understand it, the color intensity is the total fraction of all votes received to date (not just Democratic = blue).
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
has more information.
Note the table below the graph – Democrats are leading the GOP by a large margin, in the 3 states that have party ID declared.
tl;dr – North Carolina has the most early votes returned so far.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
The Lodger
@catclub: And trollhattan found it in an Italian food store. I still can’t wrap my mind around that.
The Lodger
@lowtechcyclist: Velveeta is also defined as a food product. I’m going to leave it there.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
How can anyone eat haggis (sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, and stomach ground together) ?
J R in WV
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
Well, we are talking about using it as a projectile aimed towards fascists, not eating it!!!
JaySinWA
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch: By not thinking about what it is?
JaySinWA
The Flight of the Bumblebee cans means my stockpile food not guns & ammo policy may actually be a dual use policy.
ETA this thread is probably as dead as a mackerel.
Amir Khalid
@JoyceH:
There’s a reason durians are banned on public transport and in hotels here in Southeast Asia.
Amir Khalid
@David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch:
How can anyone eat a Mars bar, battered and deep-fried? Such is what Scots consider food.
brantl
@p.a.: works. Good for sore joints, especially permanently sore joints.