TIL: Today I Learned

[civvver]

Ham is a different part of the pig. Bacon is the belly. Ham is like the leg, or rear haunch. Canadian bacon, or what Americans call it, isn't a belly cut afaik. Italians have pancetta which is pretty much the same as american bacon, but Americans almost ubiquitously smoke their bacon. Both are cured but pancetta is not smoked. If you use american bacon in a pasta dish it'll taste smokey like bacon. That's part of why american bacon has such a strong flavor and can overwhelm dishes.

A new fad is to serve pork belly at restaurants. That's very similar to bacon but I don't think it's cured, and it's not sliced, they just cook it like a steak and it has more meat in its meat to fat ratio than normal bacon. I think it's kind of gross.

Spoiler :

In germany there is bacon in a different version available called "Bauchfleisch" or "Bündla". It is usually either chopped into small cubes or grilled as a 0.5-1cm slice

That just looks like ribs with the belly fat still attached. Or pork belly with the rib bones attached.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

For more confusion: the difference between ham and bacon is the part of the pig, amd not anything else, right?
(Honestly no idea how i cannot know this)

Ham is the back leg. Bacon is cut from the pork belly.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

TIL that far and away the most nutritious part of a banana is the peel. I should have guessed, since it tastes awful.

 

[Zkribbler]

TIL that far and away the most nutritious part of a banana is the peel. I should have guessed, since it tastes awful.

Also, the anti-tarantula poison won't wash off.

 

[Synobun]

Also, the anti-tarantula poison won't wash off.

Are you a tarantula?

 

[Zkribbler]

No, but I'd like to be.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

No, but I'd like to be.

I've met quite a few tarantulas, and none of them really seemed to be having that good a time. Of course, they weren't living the high life out in the wild.

 

[Zkribbler]

There have been over 220 proposals to partition California. In the early days many proposed the creation of a new state called "Colorado." Then Colorado came along and stole our name.

 

[Zkribbler]

Oregon is one of four states which have outlawed bounty hunters. In Oregon, bounty hunters are kidnappers.

 

[Kyriakos]

Oregon is one of four states which have outlawed bounty hunters. In Oregon, bounty hunters are kidnappers.

TIL that the US still has bounty-hunters...

 

[Traitorfish]

Oregon is one of four states which have outlawed bounty hunters. In Oregon, bounty hunters are kidnappers.

Pfft, the EU isn't canon anymore.

 

[Takhisis]

There have been over 220 proposals to partition California. In the early days many proposed the creation of a new state called "Colorado." Then Colorado came along and stole our name.

There's more than one Rio Colorado, too, in the US alone.

 

[Broken_Erika]

TIL that the US still has bounty-hunters...

It's a Legacy of a bygone era. I guess most states never got around to eliminating it.

 

[Commodore]

TIL that the US still has bounty-hunters...

It's not as bad as it sounds. Modern bounty hunters in the US are nothing like the bounty hunters of the "old west" days. Bounty hunters now are just bail bondsmen or are hired by bail bondsmen to apprehend people that skip bail and don't show up for their court date.

"Why not just use police for that?" I hear you ask? Well because police are limited by jurisdiction, which makes it hard to pursue someone who is fleeing from state to state and possibly even leaving the country. Bounty hunters have no such limitations and can more easily pursue someone anywhere they may choose to flee.

With that said though, the "old west" style of bounty hunter and their "bring 'em in dead or alive" attitude are long gone. Modern bounty hunters can only employ non-lethal methods in order to apprehend someone and they are closely monitored by both local and federal law enforcement agencies. In fact, the most famous modern bounty hunter "Dog" (had his own TV show there for a while) ran into some pretty big legal trouble because some of his methods crossed the line of what is acceptable for a bounty hunter.

 

[Zkribbler]

, the most famous modern bounty hunter "Dog" (had his own TV show there for a while) ran into some pretty big legal trouble because some of his methods crossed the line of what is acceptable for a bounty hunter.

IIRC, he went into Mexico after his quarry.

 

[Snerk]

Does he have a bounty on his head?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

"Air gapping" is the principle of keeping electronic devices secure via physical separation.

 

[Zkribbler]

007 sang in only one of his movies.

 

[Commodore]

TIL: Sweden has activated its entire Home Guard for the first time since 1975 and has been telling its population to prepare for war and sending out emergency preparedness manuals to Swedish households.

What does Sweden know that the rest of us don't?

 

[Kyriakos]

TIL: Sweden has activated its entire Home Guard for the first time since 1975 and has been telling its population to prepare for war and sending out emergency preparedness manuals to Swedish households.

What does Sweden know that the rest of us don't?

I don't get how anyone in Sweden could believe they will be invaded by Russia.
It would make zero sense.
I mean... baltic states like the triplet of small states there would at least make some sense, but Sweden? Why? Seems to be full paranoia.