I used to own a core plane. It was IIRC 8 bits by 9. So 8 bytes of parity-checked RAM. It was the working memory of a photocopier. It was about 2-1/4" x 2-1/2" x 1/2". It neatly filled your palm. For 8 whole bytes. Woot! I wish I still had it.
Wiki on Scampi:
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Yes, the US has co-opted the term “scampi” to be the method of preparation, not the critter.
My silly rubric on fruits or vs starch vs veg was a joke I invented for that post as a toast to @kayaker. Who’s apparently a good cook but a great drinker. Cheers to you good sir!
Despite being a joke, IMO it’s actually fairly sensible. There are exceptions of course, but the big picture is close.
I swore off JD some years back when they debased the product from 86 to 80 proof and now drink Bulleit neat – mixed drinks I don’t care so much.
The announcement had some blather about how there were jurisdictions that limited the proof of whiskey to 80 and blah, blah, blah, Yeah? Sell them JD green label, which you already had, and leave the rest of us alone.
I’ve had tomato wine, it was horrible. I’ve also made banana wine that was awful until I fermented again, till it was dry. After aging a year it was very good.
I’ve tried several people’s attempts at chocolate wine, bleeech.
“Can you make tomato wine? And if so, why would you?” was one of my first thoughts on seeing LSLGuy’s set of questions. I couldn’t imagine its being anything but horrible. If you want tomato and alcohol, you can always mix a Bloody Mary.
As far as banana wine is concerned, I could see its being at least passable, but given that overripe bananas are wonderful for baking (banana bread, banana pancakes, banana muffins (which I regularly bake), etc.), I’m perfectly happy to stick with wine made from other fruits.
When I saw tomato wine brought up I thought, it might not be that bad because a Bloody Mary isn’t that bad. But then I thought, it isn’t that bad because it contains tomato juice. There are no guarantees that it’ll be any good fermented. It sounds like it’s not.
It’s probably still better than one recipe for prison hooch at this article.
The first (and more revolting) attempt involves taking peeled oranges and dumping them into a Ziploc bag along with some fruit cocktail, ketchup (for the vinegar), and sugar cubes. Mash that up into a paste, add some tap water, and heat it up for about 20 minutes before wrapping it up and putting it in a dark place. Bacteria, it seems, thrives on sugar and darkness. Now it’s time to play the waiting game. The bag has to be “burped” and reheated over the course of nine days. At the end, the putrid results have to be strained through cheesecloth, leaving behind a liquid that is both alcoholic and possibly lethal. Yummy.
It sure was to my great-uncle. Family lore has it that he once shouted at my grandmother (his oldest sister,) “Stop calling the bathroom the John! How would you like it if the septic tank was referred to as the Theresa? You wouldn’t like hearing people talking about their Theresa being backed up!”
Yes, but the issue is that Knowed_Out for some reason took kaylasdad99 to task, in a weirdly aggressive manner, for supposedly getting the trope/joke wrong. I was pointing out to Knowed_Out that kaylasdad99 was dead on in how they used it.
It’s possible, of course, that I’m being whooshed by Knowed_Out’s post, and there’s some sort of meta-humor there I’m not getting.
You and me both I guess. My point was I got what kaylasdad99 meant, he used it properly. Knowed_Out is the one who doesn’t get it. And then doubles down by implying mental deficiency, ironically.
I often wonder if overly-literal people get any jokes…
“I’ve been pissed off since kindergarten that no one’s given me an adequate reason for that chicken to make the effort, and brave potentially dangerous traffic, to cross the road.”
Shrimp scampi still mildly bothers me although I have accepted that in the US the word scampi on a menu has essentially evolved to mean “cooked with a garlic and butter sauce in the style in which scampi is traditionally prepared”.
EVOO bothers me although I don’t min specifying extra virgin as opposed to other olive oils since sometimes you don’t want as intense a flavor.
What bothers me is hearing children told to sit “criss-cross applesauce”. Now I understand that the term used when I was young is offensive and had to be changed, but why can’t they call it “sitting cross-legged”? Why the cutesy term and what does applesauce have to do with it? Disclaimer-I am still triggered because some of us have poor external hip rotation (yeah-I’ll never be a ballerina and I’ve come to terms with it) and cannot physically sit that way without pain.Likewise, stop making kids play “games” that rely on one person winking at another. Some of us can’t wink!
Reminds me of an incident in 4th grade at recess when a boy was setting up the Johnny Fucker Faster joke. A girl interrupted, not to complain about the bad word, but to insist “That’s stupid. Nobody would name their kid that. This whole story is stupid.”
Where do you live? I’ve never heard that in my life.
I gather it’s the same as sit cross-legged? Why not say that? And if someone can’t do it, they could sit on the floor normally, I assume. I’ve never heard kids make fun of how someone sits on the floor.
I have a friend who’s a school counselor, and another couple of friends who are (very recently) retired teachers. It’s a thing. They all agree it’s dumb, but it’s what they’re instructed to say. (Southeastern North Carolina, BTW).
