Izzardesque wrote:
Speaking of which, I’ve never seen a game of rounders, and I don’t know what one looks or feels like. I understand that baseball is descended from rounders (although it was an American variant of rounders called “townball” that was baseball’s most direct ancestor). What’s rounders like?
And one of these days, I’m going to force myself to watch this “cricket” game you brits are so big on. That is, if they ever show one on ESPN.
Mmmmmm … angel-food cake…
Its very much like baseball, except the bat is smaller and the ball larger. The main reason I call 'em cissies is that rounders is traditionally very much a girls game in the UK, especially at school.
Don’t. It may just be possible that it is more boring to watch than your baseball (but as I think being more boring may break some rule of science, I am not sure if this is possible!!) 
Sorry, Izzardesque, but any game that takes an entire day to play the short version is boring almost by definition.
For comparison, FYI, field hockey is strictly a schoolgirls’ game in the US. I understand some of you Empire types might have an issue with that.
Not the way I used to play it - practically Ice Hockey with no pads or rules (or ice for that matter). In other words, war with sticks!! But then I was supposed to be playing rugby andd was only doing for a laugh 
I thought Lincoln chopped down a cherry tree to make a cake, and then lied about it…
But maybe i’m thinking of someone else.
Izzardesque wrote:
We have something like that here in the U.S., too. We call it “softball.” It’s just like baseball, except:[ul][li]The bases are 60 feet apart instead of 90 feet apart[/li][li]All pitches have to be thrown underhanded[/li][li]The ball is 11, 12, or 16 inches in circumference, rather than 9 inches[/li][li]You have to stay on base 'til the ball leaves the pitcher’s hand, so base stealing is next-to-impossible[/li]It’s played by sissies. ;)[/ul]Despite the fact that it’s called “soft”-ball, the ball used is actually every bit as hard as a baseball. It just spreads the impact out over a wider area 'cause it’s bigger around.
You’ve had a week now to lay out a cogent argument in a new GD thread as to why Lincoln was such a presumptious, over-rated son of a gun and yet I see… nothing in GD. Have you gathered up your marbles and gone home or are you still about?
No. No you can’t.
And why is that? Because sugar is a critical ingredient in making a cake. A cake without sugar won’t have the same structure, and it will be bone-dry. Also, heating nutrasweet destroys its sweetening power. And lowfat margarine is simply margarine emulsified with water. You’d do better to simply lower the amount of butter and add water. Besides, the fats in butter are better for you than the ones in margarine. The egg whites are a valid substitution though, since it is the egg whites that add air to the cake batter. Adding or removing the egg yolks is what makes the difference between yellow cake and white cake. Whole wheat flour is a possible substitution, but be warned that the cake will be denser and more strongly flavored, and the cake will have less strength.
You’d really be better off starting with a completely different recipe. There are low-fat, low sugar cakes out there, but they require different techniques. If we used your recipe we’d have end up with a sort of unleavened unsweetened whole-wheat rock-hard brick.
Don’t these kids read Joy of Cooking anymore?
By the way, my understanding was that the classic pound cake recipe was for a POUND of each of the four classic ingredients. Although some vanilla would be good…
Perhaps. Wouldn’t that just take the cake?
Lemur866 wrote:
I disagree!
(Hah, I knew I could turn this back into a debate again!)
The fats in butter are primarily saturated fats. Saturated fats are pretty bad for you in terms of raising LDL cholesterol and causing cardiovascular problems.
The fats in margarine that are receiving so much flak in the media of late are “trans fats”. (And, yes, IUPAC rules require the term trans to be italicized.) These are fats composed of one or more trans fatty acids. Trans fatty acids are unsaturated fatty acids in which the double-bond is a trans (hydrogens are “across” from each other) double-bond instead of the more common cis (hydrogens are “next to” each other) double-bond.
There is currently strong evidence that trans fats are nutritionally equivalent to saturated fats. Therefore, they are probably about as bad for you as saturated fats. There is not strong evidence, however, that trans fats are any worse for you than saturated fats. There’s a lot of speculation, to be sure, but hardly any hard evidence. The “nurses study” of 80,000 nurses did show a positive correlation between trans fat intake and cardiovascular disease, but there were so many other variables in that study that it’s really hard to jump to any kind of conclusion about it.
But which did our Abe prefer on his slice of Malt Loaf?
Well, since margarine wasn’t even invented until the 20th century, Abe wouldn’t have had any other choice than butter.
I understand Chocolate-Chip Cookie Dough ice cream was used by John Adams to distract the masses while he passed the Alien and Sedition Act.
I have to agree with the OP on this, I hate Lincoln as well…or is that Carrottop I don’t like? Geez, I always get thsoe two confused. Yeah, I think I hate Carrottop and kinda like Abraham Lincoln…the one who was sixteenth President, he’s the one I like, not the one from the phone commercials, so whichever is which.
Mmmmm, carrot cake.
(Oh, wait a minute – carrots are vegetables, aren’t they? Drat. Don’t tell anybody I can eat carrot cake, okay? It’d tarnish my sterling reputation as a vegephobe.)
Damn. I had that trough thing a few years back on a trip to Freeport. Damn good eating. Almost makes you forget the wussy high school mascot: The Freeport Pretzels.
I like pretzels. Especially the ones from Pretzel Maker. With parmesan cheese. Wow, the goodness. Also good are the teriyaki wings at Buffalo Wild Bill’s. We just got one in a mall a few blocks from my house. I’m addicted I tell ya, ADDICTED! I think their secret ingredient is crack. I bought a bottle of the sauce to take home and put on my very own chicken, but dammitt! It’s nowhere near as tasty! They also have a way-cute bartender. I have an exam at 6:30 that I should be studying for. I’m gonna get me some wings after that exam. I really more than studying (since it’s open notes) should be writing my paper for Marketing, but that’s just no fun! I’d rather be here on the SDMB reading posts, eating wings and pretzels and finishing up the whole evening with cake and ice cream and a big giant glass of cold 2% AE milk, the very best kind of milk. Actually, in a perfect world it would be whole milk since that is the very best kind of milk, but I have to watch my girlish figure.
So I get newbie trial by fire in a race thread recently. I read this OP and think…hmmm…don’t feel like being crucified today, think I’ll just leave it alone. What does it get me? I miss three pages of the damn cake party!!!
Abe Lincoln ranks about third greaest ever on my list.
Acording to an episode of James Burke’s Connections, margarine was invented by some Frenchman during the Napoleonic Wars.
Did you know that Lincoln used a laxative with the brand name Blue Mass ?
Hello, everyone, my name is Phil & I think Abraham Lincoln is overrated. Not that he was such a bad guy, but when you practically get deified by your countrymen, you’re overrated by definition.
I can understand the opposition to slavery, at least to hereditary slavery as practiced in the American South at the time.
But did he have to frame this argument in terms of preserving the Union above all? All that “house divided” nonsense. All things being equal, shouldn’t a state have the right to secede from the Union?