Random Thoughts X: Impromptu Interpretations

[MaryKB]

But @yung.carl.jung you don't want to skimp on fat when it comes to cheesecake! It's all about maximizing the decadence

I'll keep my eye open for quark and a recipe!

 

[yung.carl.jung]

But @yung.carl.jung you don't want to skimp on fat when it comes to cheesecake! It's all about maximizing the decadence

I'll keep my eye open for quark and a recipe!

I agree, American Cheesecake is almost like a dessert to me, and the fact that it's so creamy and decadent works because you usually eat a smaller piece. I suppose German cheesecake is a lot more "hearty" than that.

There is little difference between a German Cheesecake and a Zwiebelkuchen (onion cake, kind of like a quiche), only really the sugar and onions Do you know of any regional differences between American cheesecakes?

cheesecake:

käsekuchen:

zwiebelkuchen:

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

While getting a drink I saw an ad on the TV for some medical malpractice lawyer in the U.S. (Is the U.S. the only country with sleazy lawyer commercials?) He used some headlines from the New York Times and other newspapers/magazines/whatever to show that apparently medical malpractice was a big cause of death....then a few seconds later said that you never heard about it on the news. I guess this guy's attention span is even worse than mine.

 

[cardgame]

Well of course it's a dessert, it's cake!

I can usually only have one small piece like pictured because it's so rich, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[Takhisis]

While getting a drink I saw an ad on the TV for some medical malpractice lawyer in the U.S. (Is the U.S. the only country with sleazy lawyer commercials?) He used some headlines from the New York Times and other newspapers/magazines/whatever to show that apparently medical malpractice was a big cause of death....then a few seconds later said that you never heard about it on the news. I guess this guy's attention span is even worse than mine.

It's the same type of ambulance chaser who'll say ‘the fact that my client procured this drug without a prescription on an online deep web black market and used it for purposes literally opposite to those stated in the publicly available official website –i.e. recreational purposes– notwithstanding, we're still owed 38 million dollars plus punitive interest for my client getting cut on paper while high off his rocker’.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I used to think Black Forest cake was a cake made with ham, and Child Syn could not grasp the concept of why anyone would ever do such a thing or actively go out to get one.

I also used to think cheesecake was, well, y'know.

The first time I ever had Black Forest Cake was at the Folk Festival in the mid-'70s. My grandmother and I had gone, and as I recall, our midday meal was chow mein as the main entree and Black Forest Cake for dessert (there were about a dozen different food booths so we just went from booth to booth, getting an assortment of stuff; my favorite was lefse). So we're sitting down at a table, trying to finish before the Bhangra dancers are about to start... when the wind came up and blew my cake not only off the plate, but down on the ground!

At least I got to enjoy a few bites before that happened. And the Bhangra dancers were very good (I still have the photos I took).

Kraft used to send out these free "What's Cooking" magazines that had recipes that always conveniently included Kraft brand ingredients. Sometimes it was Cheese Whiz, and sometimes they tried to pass the Cheese Whiz recipes off as fancy gourmet ones which always amused me. Unfortunately all of the magazines I had were destroyed by mold.

I remember those magazines. That was before I started autocrating SCA feasts, though, so I didn't pay much attention to recipes back then.

I am reading a novel in which the author does not use contractions in dialogue. It is weird. If you are a writer, I do not suggest writing dialogue in this way, unless you want your characters to all sound stilted and formal. But maybe it is just me.

Do not worry. I endeavor to make my characters sound like real people, in the context of whatever source material I am using. However, that does not mean that my 11th-century characters will speak in older dialects of English, given that it would be nice if modern readers could understand what they are saying.

But @yung.carl.jung you don't want to skimp on fat when it comes to cheesecake! It's all about maximizing the decadence

I'll keep my eye open for quark and a recipe!

Cannibal. Even if Ferengi are another species, it's still cannibalism.

And given Quark's opinion of root beer, I can just imagine his opinion of cheesecake.

I would definitely eat this, and damn the consequences.

While getting a drink I saw an ad on the TV for some medical malpractice lawyer in the U.S. (Is the U.S. the only country with sleazy lawyer commercials?) He used some headlines from the New York Times and other newspapers/magazines/whatever to show that apparently medical malpractice was a big cause of death....then a few seconds later said that you never heard about it on the news. I guess this guy's attention span is even worse than mine.

We have a sleazy lawyer in Alberta, who is constantly making announcements that read like commercials. However, he is currently employed as the Minister of Health, and even though he has committed multiple breaches of ethics, privacy, and conflict of interest guidelines, and has openly harassed numerous doctors by phone, email, and standing on their front driveway and literally screaming at them, not to mention threatening one of them by saying he would have their children taken away from them... he remains in office, with Jason Kenney's full confidence.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I saw a truck with both a Confederate flag and a pro-Trump bumper sticker. It had a Nova Scotia license plate.

 

[Synobun]

I saw a truck with both a Confederate flag and a pro-Trump bumper sticker. It had a Nova Scotia license plate.

Sounds like a rant.

 

[MaryKB]

I saw a truck with both a Confederate flag and a pro-Trump bumper sticker. It had a Nova Scotia license plate.

I do not understand why so many of my family members in Canada are Trump supporters

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I do not understand why so many of my family members in Canada are Trump supporters

He speaks to the lowest common denominator for a certain segment of the population. There are separatists in Alberta who wear MAGA hats.

In some cases it's just that Trump hates Trudeau, so people here who hate Trudeau approve of Trump.

 

[choxorn]

Ignorance and bigotry know no borders.

 

[Takhisis]

And yet it's all about US nationalism and how Canada and Mexico were shafting the US with the NAFTA agreement.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Racism is pretty bad in Nova Scotia. I mean there was someone swinging a noose around at a black couple, literal Nazis buying up land in Cape Breton to start a colony, and now people firing flares off at Mi'kmaq fishing boats. We're kind of like the deep south of Canada.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Racism is pretty bad in Nova Scotia. I mean there was someone swinging a noose around at a black couple, literal Nazis buying up land in Cape Breton to start a colony, and now people firing flares off at Mi'kmaq fishing boats. We're kind of like the deep south of Canada.

Welcome to Alberta. We've had Aryan Nations (neoNazis) around for decades (I worked with a Keegstra supporter in the theatre one year; the cast and crew all told him to leave the trial outside the theatre, we didn't want to hear about it... and he managed for most of the time).

Edmonton has the same racial issues that larger cities do. It doesn't seem to matter if the cops are RCMP or municipal. They all have problems treating everyone like people who have Charter rights.

 

[amadeus]

George Lincoln Norman Rockwell:

A Nazi who freed the slaves and then painted it.

 

[W|M]

And yet it's all about US nationalism and how Canada and Mexico were shafting the US with the NAFTA agreement.

there's plenty of trump supporters in south america too, including actual presidents, despite what trump thinks of everyone south of the US border

 

[Takhisis]

I… know.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

What's with all the Americans sneaking into Canada to do touristy stuff? The borders are supposed to be closed. Do we have to build a wall and make them pay for it??

 

[Cutlass]

What's with all the Americans sneaking into Canada to do touristy stuff? The borders are supposed to be closed. Do we have to build a wall and make them pay for it??

Good luck with that...

 

[amadeus]

Thailand’s flag is Dutch Yugoslavia.

edit 1:08pm local time

I don’t know if the back of my neck is protected from the sun after applying my sunscreen but I know the palm of my left hand is.