# Why is this tolerated? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 28, 2011, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026 "2011-10-28T00:39:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/41 "2011-10-30T14:13:34Z")
I just can’t imagine having salsa and maple syrup in the same dish. Bleaugh. Though I did once had an amuse bouche made with egg yolk, maple syrup, and sweetened whipped cream with chives, served in a shot glass. That was weird but good. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/42 "2011-10-30T15:17:08Z")
So your bouche was amused? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/43 "2011-10-30T20:15:39Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Yes. You’ll take it and you’ll like it! All of a sudden, this thread has acquired a funky bass soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/44 "2011-10-30T20:49:50Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > All of a sudden, this thread has acquired a funky bass soundtrack. What’s fish got to do with it? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/45 "2011-10-30T20:55:05Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > What’s fish got to do with it? I’m confused. Is this a music thread or a food thread? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/46 "2011-10-30T23:38:31Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > So your bouche was amused? It could not stop laughing. ---
**Author:** ![BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/47 "2011-10-31T01:07:18Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > It could not stop laughing. I don’t get it. Isn’t this what the phrase means in the first place, as in here’s something to amuse your mouth? Or was it just because bouche is a funny-sounding word? Because I can get behind that. ---
**Author:** ![JBDivmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b4bc9f/32.png) [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/48 "2011-10-31T07:58:49Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Get some dang flour, you have fat if you have bacon (already salty, I might add), and make some tortillas. Seriously, unleavened bread is easier than pancakes. Mmmmmmm, homemade tortillas. _ **When you have homemade tortillas, you don’t need to eat a breakfast burrito. Just eat tortillas with butter until you can’t move anymore.** _ (bolding mine) +1 _ **Mmmmmmm!** _ Fresh homemade tortillas with _ **real** _ butter! (A little pepperjack cheese will make that “stick to your ribs” _ **good** _!;)) ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/49 "2011-10-31T08:13:18Z")
> [@BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed](#): > > I don’t get it. Isn’t this what the phrase means in the first place, as in here’s something to amuse your mouth? > > Or was it just because bouche is a funny-sounding word? Because I can get behind that. In the context of amuse bouche, the French word ‘amuser’ does not mean ‘to incite laughter’ (though in other contexts it can, but that’s not the word’s most common meaning). It’s closer to divert or interest. On s’amuse means ‘kept oneself busy’. Amusing, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/50 "2011-11-01T00:25:20Z")
Ok, I’ve looked at this, and thought carefully about the only comment in this thread that actually is usefully on topic. (the rest of your recipe discussions, however, seem interesting, and I will be thinking carefully about those, too, as breakfast suggestions) On to my response to the only actually responsive and substantive post: > [@Irishman](#): > > I don’t know, you do seem to have a history of posting insults out of the Pit. > > That’s not what you’re talking about? Actually, I just checked my infractions. Only one is for ‘personal insults’. The rest are for ‘being a jerk’. That said, on to the rest of **Irishman** ’s comment. > [@](#): > > No, **FTXMastermind** does not appear to be junior modding, imo. He is stating what he thinks occurs. He is not giving anyone instructions. Whereas **Cheshire Human** makes a personal comment that did draw a mod note to take it to the Pit, and follows up with this thread where he begins his comment with an insult (minor, but still violation). I’m playing true to form. **FXMastermind** may be annoying, but I see no rule violation on re-examining what I was bitching about. I was responding to the annoyance I felt in my characteristically jerkish manner. A warning would not be inappropriate, and I will not contest it if given one. Please return to your regularly scheduled breakfast recipe discussion, or the thread-closing. Whichever comes first. :smack:⭕smack:☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026/51 "2011-11-01T01:17:40Z")
> [@Cheshire\_Human](#): > > I’ll get back later, to bend over and take my punishment, for my own obvious foolishness in posting this, but right now, I have to take it. > [@Autolycus](#): > > Yes. You’ll take it and you’ll like it! > [@Miller](#): > > All of a sudden, this thread has acquired a funky bass soundtrack. > [@samclem](#): > > What’s fish got to do with it? I’m starting to hear [banjo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliverance) music in the distance as I’m fishing… > [@Czarcasm](#): > > I’m confused. Is this a music thread or a food thread? Neither. It’s a thread started by a jerk, which should be laid to rest by warning the jerk that started it… [sub]Oh… That would be me.[/sub] Ignore the banjo music. That’s only in my head. The warning, if issued, should stand. I’m wr… Wro… Wron… [sub][whisper] wrong [/whisper][/sub]. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-this-tolerated/601026.md?page=2)