A Korean restaurant that opened near where I worked decades ago would alternate different kimchees “of the day.” One option was teeny tiny little salted fermented fish about the size of fingernail clippings. They were weird to me at first, but I grew to love them. Then, they stopped ever serving them. I was really bummed.
I was in the US Army in Korea and learned to love kimchi; Here in my town it’s hard to find really good kimchi.
I’ve never had kimchi - I’m afraid of it for some reason. The pub I hang out with offers an all vegan menu, on which there is an order of kimchi fries. I have no idea what I might get into with that but I’ve had their onion rings and their tofu dog and they weren’t bad so maybe I’ll take the plunge.
Maybe the zip in the sauerkraut is dependent on what octane of gasoline is used to make it.
I think that astronauts are all permitted one food item they can add to their menu, and then someone at NASA figures out how to make it happen. A professor of mine was a former astronaut, and for him, the must-have item was Louisiana hot sauce.
I used to know an older German woman who would make sauerkraut for me and my employees every year. When she brought it we’d all thank her. Once she left, everyone would give me theirs.
It was very good sauerkraut. I miss her.
no, its the cooking process that gets a lot of zing out of the sauerkraut and leaves the cooked one quite more mellow.
Today I learned about a town where a lot of Britain’s secret projects were studied and housed (and apparently no one’s sure when that ended). Sounds like an interesting place to visit.
FB does occasionally have it’s uses.
Rome’s Newest Subway Line Continues to Unearth Archeological Marvels
The Metro C expansion has been in the works for the past 40 years and has unearthed Hadrian’s Athenaeum, a military complex, and an amphitheater - FB
Can you imagine when we get some really good ground penetrating radar?
Big Ben’s clock, as with other clockworks from that era, is adjusted by placing pennies on the pendulum.
I didn’t know that.
But I did stumble across this while researching a book – In the early 20th century Royal Baking Powder had a virtual monopoly on tartaric baking powder, and tried to drive its competitors – who used different, “mineral”-based salts) out of business by claiming that their product was downright poisonous. The competitors fought back by forming a union – the Baking Powder Association. They chose as their president J. J. Higgins, who had been secretary of one baking powder company in Georgia, and who seems to have been little more than a figurehead.
It appears that, as a result of the unexpected traveling he did in this role he met a woman in Boston and fell in love. He quit his jobs as secretary and as head of the Baking powder association and became a Real Estate Agent in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Here he lucked into buying a huge tract of land close to Boston and right on the rail lines, which he turned into the largest amusement park in New England – Wonderland. That’s the reason that there’s still a stop on Boston’s Blue Line subway called “Wonderland”.
I wrote a computer-guided physics instructional piece about using tiny weights to adjust the pendulum for the UK Parliament Building clock. (“Big Ben”, as you imply, is the bell.)
I wonder how that would work? Is the weight of the pendulum distributed enough that the pennies move the center of mass? Usually we approximate a pendulum as a point mass on the end of a massless rod, but under that approximation, the added pennies would have no effect at all.
I guess them having only a very small effect is good, for making very precise adjustments.
Properly, you treat it as a Moment of Inertia problem, not as a point mass.
Which actually rings flat, due to a relatively small crack.
Huh. Didn’t know that.
It immediately made me think of the Liberty Bell, which also has a crack. Only not the one people know about – that relatively large and obvious line running up from the base is actually the repair job done on the bell to save it once it cracked.
I was watching the London New Year’s Day Parade on a local PBS Anglophile subchannel; after the parade were some documentaries about London’s history, including the tower.
Likewise. 
I’m sure I can’t be the first person to wonder if the fact that our Liberty Bell has a huge flaw in it is symbolic somehow.
Or, to resort to magical thinking for a minute, causative.