Can we get back to the more important topic of how juvenile it is for a grown human to use the spelling “enuf”?
The Longest Day, about the Allied invasion of Normandy. Robert Mitchum is the general, Jeffrey Hunter (Captain Pike from Star Trek) is the young sergeant promoted to lieutenant five minutes before being killed.
Personally, I was amazed to find out how old he claims to be based on his choice of handle as “DrDeth”. It sounds like something an edgy teenager would choose as his XBox handle, perhaps with the flourish of xXxDrDethxXx.
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Damn you beat me to it. The character Hunter played was fictional. Mitchum played real life badass Norman Cota. Hunter was later breveted to the rank of Christ.
Just to be pedantic I will point out that referring to a rank as E4 etc didn’t happen until the Career Compensation Act of 1949 so nobody had the rank of E4 in World War 2.
The old-fashioned expression as I heard of it was “promoted to Glory.” Is that a newer version?
In the “Things that infuriate you” thread, a poster points out that environmentally unfriendly refillable pepper grinders at Trader Joe’s are so cheap that he’s better off buying a new one than getting peppercorns alone.
So it actually costs more to do the environmentally friendly thing and reuse the grinder I have, than to throw out the grinder and buy a new one.
DD replies:
Does he actually think someone would get 5 pounds of peppercorns??? Or that they’d be any good in 2050 when they’re still only halfway used up???
Or am I missing something here?
Jeffery Hunter also played Jesus in King of Kings.
(The 1961 version, not the Cecil B. DeMille version.)
If kept dry in a sealed container, they will probably be fine. Peppercorns (properly stored) can stay good for decades. The corns, while intact, will keep the flavor and potency pretty well until crushed. You’ll see some sources claim they only last 4 years before losing their potency, but I’ve read testimonials of people who’ve had black peppercorns last many years and they are still fine when used. (Green peppercorns are not quite as hardy.)
My guess is that as long as you are keeping those things in a sealed bag in a pantry, in 2050 they might not be as spicy as they’d be today, but they’d be acceptable.
Thank you. I think he does it for the explicit purpose of being annoying. For some reason, being annoying gives the good Doctor a great deal of satisfaction.
What were corporals, then, or PO3s in the navy?
Corporals were 5th grade (equivalent after the technician was created to T/5, Technician 5th Grade). You can find an archived overview of this evolution here. TM 20-205 (page 125, if this link doesn’t go there directly) puts that as equivalent to Seaman, 1st Class with PO3 being a 4th-grade rank.
(As Loach notes the use of E-n/O-n is a postwar creation of the 1949 Career Compensation Act, although the archived history from the Pentagon above implies that this wasn’t formalized until Army Regulation 615-15 took effect in 1955, at least for the Army)
FWIW I go through a lot of peppercorns in my cooking. I don’t have reason to keep five pounds of them on hand but if I did I’d definitely use them within the aforementioned four years.
Yes. This …
And i typically buy half a pound to a pound of peppercorns at a time. I’ve never had a problem with them tasting stale. I keep a big bottle of them in a dark cupboard, and use it to refill the peppermills from time to time.
The shithead continues to double down on the claim that France and Russia were responsible for starting WWI, something he evidently picked up from a Nazi coloring book.
Having worked for years for a gourmet spice/peppercorn importer that went to great lengths to get the highest quality berries, I have to tell you that there is a big difference in the quality of peppercorns when they’re very fresh and the quality even a year later. Much more flavor, more aromatic, more complex. Similar to coffee beans roasted this week vs coffee beans a year later. The trick is finding the freshest ones at the store or Amazon. Try India Tree or Penzeys (I’ve never had Penzeys pepper, but I’m guessing they’re good). And expect to pay more for the good ones.
Mmmm! Goddamn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet pepper! Usually, me and Vince would be happy with Badia or some McCormick right, but he springs this serious GOURMET shit on us!
I buy penzey’s telicherry peppercorns, and they are excellent. Much better than other peppercorns I’ve purchased. I usually buy the large bag (13.2 oz) and use it over a year or so. At any rate, that’s a spice i buy pretty regularly. And… They are out of stock‽ WTF?
I wonder if that’s a tariff thing. How the hell do you let yourself get out of stock of a staple like that?
Ah, interesting. I knew there were only seven enlisted ranks during WWII but I didn’t know the army counted them backwards much the same as the navy does yet today,* a Petty Officer first class being a higher rank than PO third class.
And the navy doesn’t mess around with this “technician but but not a leader” stuff. Probably since a ship is the ultimate crew-served weapon they’re all technicians carrying out the skipper’s will. Maybe that’s why they include an insignia indicating what their job is ( sometimes vaguely) on their dress uniforms.
* The navy: two hundred years of tradition unhampered by progress.