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Bread
(one) fried egg
fried potato chips
layer of mixed mayonnaise and ketchup (optional: mustard)
meat patty or similarly shaped thinly-sliced meat
fried minced onion
Lettuce and tomato (position may vary)
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^Is the only way to eat a fried potato unless you have the benefits of Spanish culture.
 
Then Spanish culture it is.
 
Broken_Erika said:
They sound like they should be a lot grosser than they are. They're actually good.
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Like fries, good potato chips don't require anything extra. If it is just a carrier for the dip you are after, just eat the dip by the spoonful. ;)
 
TIL another way pot can kill people... CHS is a condition which rarely ends in death but with higher concentrations of THC its becoming more common. In some people the pot smoke can cause severe nausea and stomach pain accompanied with vomiting. If it gets bad enough a person can die from dehydration and kidney failure. The cure: stop smoking and eating pot and pray you didn't do too much damage. Acid reducers are modern medicine's solution but continued pot use is unwise.
 
At 1:40 pm MacArthur ordered General Perry Miles to assemble troops on the Ellipse immediately south of the White House. Within the hour the 3rd Cavalry led by Patton, then a Major, crossed the Memorial Bridge, with the 12th Infantry arriving by steamer about an hour later. At 4 pm Miles told MacArthur that the troops were ready, and MacArthur (like Eisenhower, by now in service uniform), said that Hoover wanted him "on hand" to "take the rap if ..."

Although the troops were ready, Hoover twice sent instructions to MacArthur not to cross the Anacostia bridge that night, both of which were ignored. Shortly after 9 p.m., MacArthur ordered Miles to cross the bridge and evict the Bonus Army from its encampment.[21]

At 4:45 p.m., commanded by General Douglas MacArthur, the 12th Infantry Regiment, Fort Howard, Maryland, and the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, supported by six M1917 light tanks commanded by Maj. George S. Patton, formed in Pennsylvania Avenue while thousands of civil service employees left work to line the street and watch. The Bonus Marchers, believing the troops were marching in their honor, cheered the troops until Patton ordered[citation needed] the cavalry to charge them, which prompted the spectators to yell, "Shame! Shame!"[citation needed]


Shacks that members of the Bonus Army erected on the Anacostia Flats burning after its confrontation with the army.
After the cavalry charged, the infantry, with fixed bayonets and tear gas (adamsite, an arsenical vomiting agent) entered the camps, evicting veterans, families, and camp followers. The veterans fled across the Anacostia River to their largest camp, and Hoover ordered the assault stopped. MacArthur chose to ignore the president and ordered a new attack, claiming that the Bonus March was an attempt to overthrow the US government. 55 veterans were injured and 135 arrested. [16] A veteran's wife miscarried. When 12-week-old Bernard Myers died in the hospital after being caught in the tear gas attack, a government investigation reported he died of enteritis, and a hospital spokesman said the tear gas "didn't do it any good."[22]

During the military operation, Major Dwight D. Eisenhower, later the 34th president of the United States, served as one of MacArthur's junior aides.[23] Believing it wrong for the Army's highest-ranking officer to lead an action against fellow American war veterans, he strongly advised MacArthur against taking any public role: "I told that dumb son-of-a-***** not to go down there," he said later. "I told him it was no place for the Chief of Staff." [24] Despite his misgivings, Eisenhower later wrote the Army's official incident report that endorsed MacArthur's conduct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army

TIL Douglas MacArthur rolled tanks on US citizens. Re-affirming beliefs about Patton and Mac.
 
The marchers were obviously communist agitators attempting to overthrow the government!
 
Broken_Erika said:
The marchers were obviously communist agitators attempting to overthrow the government!
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Things not covered in American History classes. . .
 
On the subject of colonization and smallpox: I recently learned (not today) that the huge amounts of death in the Americas from ~1500-1650s caused the planet to become cooler. There was so much abandoned farmland reclaimed by wild vegetation, that CO2 levels dropped globally by several percent.
Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate whether the decline in global atmospheric CO2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late 1500s and early 1600s which globally lowered surface air temperatures by 0.15∘C, were generated by natural forcing or were a result of the large-scale depopulation of the Americas after European arrival, subsequent land use change and secondary succession. We quantitatively review the evidence for (i) the pre-Columbian population size, (ii) their per capita land use, (iii) the post-1492 population loss, (iv) the resulting carbon uptake of the abandoned anthropogenic landscapes, and then compare these to potential natural drivers of global carbon declines of 7–10 ppm. From 119 published regional population estimates we calculate a pre-1492 CE population of 60.5 million (interquartile range, IQR 44.8–78.2 million), utilizing 1.04 ha land per capita (IQR 0.98–1.11). European epidemics removed 90% (IQR 87–92%) of the indigenous population over the next century. This resulted in secondary succession of 55.8 Mha (IQR 39.0–78.4 Mha) of abandoned land, sequestering 7.4 Pg C (IQR 4.9–10.8 Pg C), equivalent to a decline in atmospheric CO2 of 3.5 ppm (IQR 2.3–5.1 ppm CO2). Accounting for carbon cycle feedbacks plus LUC outside the Americas gives a total 5 ppm CO2 additional uptake into the land surface in the 1500s compared to the 1400s, 47–67% of the atmospheric CO2 decline. Furthermore, we show that the global carbon budget of the 1500s cannot be balanced until large-scale vegetation regeneration in the Americas is included. The Great Dying of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas resulted in a human-driven global impact on the Earth System in the two centuries prior to the Industrial Revolution.
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source (paper talking about it)
 
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Truthy said:
On the subject of colonization and smallpox: I recently learned (not today) that the huge amounts of death in the Americas from ~1500-1650s caused the planet to become cooler. There was so much abandoned farmland reclaimed by wild vegetation, that CO2 levels dropped globally by several percent.

source (paper talking about it)
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Did they factor in Europeans dying from the syphilis imported by Columbus's crew?
Syphilis was a major killer in Europe during the Renaissance.In his Serpentine Malady (Seville, 1539) Ruy Díaz de Isla estimated that over a million people were infected in Europe
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No and I don't think that would have been enough to make an impact.

I think the climate impact of the Black Death has been studied and that also caused large drops in CO2
 
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