Sunday, April 19, 2020

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Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx>: Apr 19 11:32PM -0400

Here is a variety of face masks you can make at home. You can vary the
level of protection but I think all are good.
 
https://imgur.com/gallery/7VJYEj1
 
I'm going with #8 since I have the material.
"itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Apr 19 09:22PM -0700

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 10:32:29 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
 
> Here is a variety of face masks you can make at home. You can vary the
> level of protection but I think all are good.
 
> https://imgur.com/gallery/7VJYEj1
 
Oh brother!
 
> I'm going with #8 since I have the material.
 
Make sure your rubber band is nice and stretchy.
 
Last week I went to a Walmart Neighborhood Market and what do I see walk
in front of my car? A guy with a face mask on and a clear dry cleaner
type bag on as well. It came down to about hip level. All I could do is
stare.
ChristKiller@deathtochristianity.pl: Apr 19 11:52PM -0500

>level of protection but I think all are good.
 
>https://imgur.com/gallery/7VJYEj1
 
>I'm going with #8 since I have the material.
 
I have never worn a face mask and I wore gloves only once. I go around
people everyday and I have not gotten sick, although I may be one of
the ones that are immune to the disease by having the antibodies
already in my blood which can only mean one thing. The idiot doctors
that were so quick to spread this "novel(new)" virus to the media were
wrong and there is Nothing new about it. Especially seeing how so many
people are not affected by it at all.
 
--
 
____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____
Sqwertz <sqwertzme@gmail.invalid>: Apr 19 10:58PM -0500

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:32:25 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
 
> level of protection but I think all are good.
 
> https://imgur.com/gallery/7VJYEj1
 
> I'm going with #8 since I have the material.
 
#10 was taken at my main grocery store 3.5 miles away. It was one
of the earliest pictures to become viral in early March.
 
Now I'm out of duct tape.
 
-sw
Sqwertz <sqwertzme@gmail.invalid>: Apr 19 11:02PM -0500

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 15:44:04 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe wrote:
 
> We are practicing Social Distancing VERY WELL!
 
> I hardly see ANY of my housemates, and we live in the SAME HOUSE!
 
In your house social distancing is NOT because of the virus, John.
 
-sw
Sqwertz <sqwertzme@gmail.invalid>: Apr 19 11:33PM -0500

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:56:24 -0600, graham wrote:
 
 
> How Covid-19 Is Making Millions of Americans Healthier
 
I can't think of a worse headline. Duh!
 
As for the substancet of the article, it's pure extrapolation.
People are eating more and not at all healthier.
 
-sw
Omni Vore <eats_all@good.things>: Apr 19 08:23PM -0700

On 4/18/2020 11:52 PM, dsi1 wrote:
 
> My guess is that the Chinese invented ketchup.
 
Nope. Indonesians.
Omni Vore <eats_all@good.things>: Apr 19 08:27PM -0700

On 4/19/2020 8:00 AM, graham wrote:
> On 2020-04-19 12:52 a.m., dsi1 wrote:
 
>> My guess is that the Chinese invented ketchup. I love that stuff!
 
> Well the word is derived from one of the Chinese languages.
 
Nope. From Indonesian/Malay "kecjap."
Bruce <bruce@null.null>: Apr 20 01:59PM +1000

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:27:26 -0700, Omni Vore <eats_all@good.things>
wrote:
 
 
>>> My guess is that the Chinese invented ketchup. I love that stuff!
 
>> Well the word is derived from one of the Chinese languages.
 
>Nope. From Indonesian/Malay "kecjap."
 
Chinese --> Malaysian --> English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchup
Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx>: Apr 19 09:51PM -0400

On 4/19/2020 8:05 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> that the racists really differentiate between the non white objects of
> their racist scorn.  Maybe it has a lot to do with buying onto the
> system that generates wealth.
 
https://www.statista.com/statistics/300528/us-millionaires-race-ethnicity/
 
Asians are about 6% of the population but 8% of the millionaires.
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca>: Apr 19 10:36PM -0400

On 2020-04-19 9:51 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> buying onto the system that generates wealth.
 
> https://www.statista.com/statistics/300528/us-millionaires-race-ethnicity/
 
> Asians are about 6% of the population but 8% of the millionaires.
 
 
I don't doubt that. They seem to value education and hard work, two very
important factors in financial success. They don't seem to have a
problem with coming to formerly whites European dominated North America,
assimilating with a success oriented culture and getting ahead. I
question have issues with the complaints of racism coming from the black
and native community because i figure that it whites were keeping people
down because of their race they would be doing the same to all shades of
black and yellow, but east and south Asians are not only not lagging
behind whites. They are doing better.
Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx>: Apr 19 11:13PM -0400

On 4/19/2020 10:36 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> down because of their race they would be doing the same to all shades of
> black and yellow, but east and south Asians are not only not lagging
> behind whites. They are doing better.
 
The trick to success in life is wanting to be. Sure, we can differ on
what we think is success but it takes effort. Money is not the only
factor, but you want to earn enough to get to your comfort level.
 
We used to get job applicants from HS dropouts. Hired some but they
never panned out. Simply, the kid that cannot make it through school
cannot make it on a regular job with expectations, such as showing up.
I always told them, get your GED and come back and you will have a job.
Bruce <bruce@null.null>: Apr 20 01:57PM +1000


>The trick to success in life is wanting to be. Sure, we can differ on
>what we think is success but it takes effort. Money is not the only
>factor, but you want to earn enough to get to your comfort level.
 
Towel warmers! Imagine living in da hood without towel warmers!
GM <gregorymorrowchicago07@gmail.com>: Apr 19 06:29PM -0700

Gruesome, kids!
 
"If women were habitual masturbators, Kellogg recommended burning out the clitoris with carbolic acid as an 'excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement, and preventing the recurrence of the practice'..."
 
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/books/review-curious-history-sex-kate-lister.html
 
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
 
'A Curious History of Sex' Covers Aphrodisiacs, Bicycles, Graham Crackers and More
 
By Dwight Garner
April 17, 2020
 
 
"Though it has passages about AIDS and syphilis, Kate Lister's first book, "A Curious History of Sex," is not about libido in times of plague and anxiety. But it's impossible not to read it now through that lens.
 
If, like me, you remain winter-stunned, feeling like a deflated basketball left too long in the basement, sex (or reading about it) can reassure you we're not living in a prolonged hallucination. I've heard reports that pornography is widely available online, but have been unable to confirm these rumors for myself.
 
Lister, an Englishwoman, is a strong writer, and her book comes with a story attached. She operates the website (and excellent Twitter feed) Whores of Yore, about historical attitudes toward sex work and desire in general. Her book, like all books issued by the British publishing house Unbound, was crowd-funded, an idea whose time has surely come.
 
Let's start with the applicable-to-lockdown sections. Baking has surged in popularity, and Lister has a chapter subtitled "Sex and Bread." I have a hard time imagining the baking deity Dorie Greenspan recommending this, but Lister relates accounts of women in the 17th century, up on the counter, kneading dough with their buttocks.
 
The women delivered the resulting loaves to their sweet-pea partners to inflame lust. Lister comments: "Should a lover ever approach you carrying an oddly squashed farmhouse loaf, don't say I didn't warn you."
 
This might be a good time to get a bicycle. Among the best chapters is one subtitled "Sex and Cycling." Lister explores the history of bicycles as agents in the emancipation of women.
 
Bicycles permitted women to become vastly more mobile; they could flee restrictive families. Cycling led to the wearing of freer clothing. "The bicycle," Lister writes, "cannot be ridden sidesaddle."
 
The machines horrified many Victorians, she writes, because "they forced a recognition that women had two legs and that they opened." Men worried that women, upon them, would become excitable and easily led astray.
 
As old postcards demonstrate (this book is lavishly illustrated), bicycles were as popular with pornographers as martinis were with Alan Alda in old episodes of "M*A*S*H." They were handy props on which photographic subjects could pose this way and that — and some other ways, too.
 
Lister writes about aphrodisiacs such as oysters. I did not know, until reading her, that oysters have eyes. I would like to unlearn this fact. Never have I better understood the historian Daniel J. Boorstin's comment that "the printing press could disseminate, but it could not retrieve."
 
If you are solitary, a more pertinent chapter might be the one titled "Turning Down the Heat." It's a history of anaphrodisiacs, which are the opposite of aphrodisiacs. Aristotle, Lister reports, thought going barefoot suppressed lust.
 
In "The Anatomy of Melancholy," Robert Burton suggested that men rub camphor on their genitals to tamp down libido. There is evidence that inhaling camphor causes breathing difficulties, so save this tip for another time.
 
If you are lucky enough to have a stash of those tasty morsels known as graham crackers in your house, dip one in milk and, while chewing, recall that they were inspired by the work of the Rev. Sylvester Graham, the dietary reformer and temperance movement leader.
 
Graham "saw a clear link between rich food and masturbation," Lister writes. The graham cracker was "designed to bore the libido into submission." Ditto the cornflake, invented by John Harvey Kellogg. Lister is enjoyable to read on Kellogg's follies. She writes: "Kellogg was filling his patients full of yogurt at one end and cornflakes at the other."
 
Speaking of masturbation, Lister adopts a liberal attitude toward self-care. For men, it is not merely the equivalent of a side quest in a video game but practically doctor's orders. She cites studies showing that men who ejaculate several times a week are less likely to develop prostate cancer.
 
There is no room to explain the context, but if the following is information you need during this crisis, perhaps you should print out this bit of Lister's wisdom and post it somewhere visible: "A farting, giggling fit that lasts an afternoon is not an orgasm." This is the sort of thing the C.D.C. will never tell you.
 
This is a poor moment for unnecessary surgery. Lister's writing about the history of that butchery known as female circumcision burns with a furious glow. There are many villains here. Since I have already mentioned Kellogg, here is Lister on his contribution:
 
"If women were habitual masturbators, Kellogg recommended burning out the clitoris with carbolic acid as an 'excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement, and preventing the recurrence of the practice.'"
 
Lister is aware that her book, dark passages aside, is a romp rather than an especially serious or comprehensive work of history or criticism. She has the double entendres to prove it: "This is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless."
 
This is a book of varying merit. At moments, when Lister is piling one fact atop another, "A Curious History of Sex" has a Wikipedia-page vibe. But she manages to pull out of these midair stalls. She's mostly quite good company on the page.
 
What next for sex? Will the hazard lights continue to flash? Will we forever mourn a lost idyll? Will we ever get out of our athleisure suits? Will young people find themselves having only unconsummated love affairs, as if they were suffering characters in a Henry James novel?
 
Will flashing make an unwanted comeback, since it can be performed while social distancing? When England dramatically raised fines for this act in 1975, Auberon Waugh jokingly complained in his diary that only the rich would now be able to afford it. "It could easily be reduced to a form of status symbol or financial boasting," he wrote.
 
Wherever we are heading, whatever your proclivities, Lister has this comment: "I promise, it's all been done before."
 
Follow Dwight Garner on Twitter: @DwightGarner.
 
A Curious History of Sex
By Kate Lister
Illustrated. 456 pages. Unbound. $28.95..."
Ed Pawlowski <esp@snet.xxx>: Apr 19 10:08PM -0400

On 4/19/2020 9:29 PM, GM wrote:
 
> "If women were habitual masturbators, Kellogg recommended burning out the clitoris with carbolic acid as an 'excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement, and preventing the recurrence of the practice'..."
 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/books/review-curious-history-sex-kate-lister.html
 
> Graham "saw a clear link between rich food and masturbation," Lister writes. The graham cracker was "designed to bore the libido into submission." Ditto the cornflake, invented by John Harvey Kellogg.
 
Never liked Graham crackers, now I know why.
 
 
Lister is enjoyable to read on Kellogg's follies. She writes: "Kellogg
was filling his patients full of yogurt at one end and cornflakes at the
other."
 
> Speaking of masturbation, Lister adopts a liberal attitude toward self-care. For men, it is not merely the equivalent of a side quest in a video game but practically doctor's orders. She cites studies showing that men who ejaculate several times a week are less likely to develop prostate cancer.
 
Yes, only for medical reasons. Or course, it conflicted with my
catholic school education so had to abstain.
John Kuthe <johnkuthern@gmail.com>: Apr 19 08:38PM -0700

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 8:29:52 PM UTC-5, GM wrote:
> Gruesome, kids!
 
> "If women were habitual masturbators, Kellogg recommended burning out the clitoris with carbolic acid as an 'excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement, and preventing the recurrence of the practice'..."
...
 
NO you MORONS! Male Homo Sapiens are often envious of the Homo Sapien females of their often much more easily obtained phenoma of a "multiple orgasm"! Homo Sapien males' often confused simultanious of ejectulation AND orgasm (two different phenomena) causes most males to believe they can only have ONE such simultaneous event! Personally I HAVE achieved two such occurrences of multiple orgasms and ejatulations, in my 20's!
 
And clitorectormies are brutal sexual pleasure depriving EVILS! Might as well lop off your PENIS! Then YOU would not be able to masturbate either, dipshit!
 
John Kuthe...
John Kuthe <johnkuthern@gmail.com>: Apr 19 06:16PM -0700

https://www.pbs.org/video/rumble-the-indians-who-rocked-the-world-vyepam/
 
White Supremacy is EVIL, STUPID and NEEDS TO STOP!
 
Homo Sapiens are One Race: The Human Race!
 
Get over it!
 
John Kuthe...
Hank Rogers <Nospam@invalid.com>: Apr 19 08:23PM -0500

John Kuthe wrote:
 
> Homo Sapiens are One Race: The Human Race!
 
> Get over it!
 
> John Kuthe...
 
Only thing worse is indian supremacists.
John Kuthe <johnkuthern@gmail.com>: Apr 19 07:26PM -0700

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 8:23:19 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:
 
> > Get over it!
 
> > John Kuthe...
 
> Only thing worse is indian supremacists.
 
Shut up, you Sock Puppet!! YOU are not even a REAL HUMAN!
 
John Kuthe...
"cshenk" <cshenk1@cox.net>: Apr 19 09:17PM -0500

Jinx the Minx wrote:
 
 
> > Is there something about America I'm overlooking?
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8207245/Six-THOUSAND-families-line-
> past month, so unless you are first in line in the morning, you're
> not getting, meat, dry pasta, rice, dairy goods, flour, sugar, bread,
> or much of anything at all.
 
It's different everywhere but that specifically is a food bank that
normally served 58,000 a week. Texas doesn't seem to have smaller
local outlets everywhere like most areas.
 
I worry that some of the smaller areas may have distribution problems
but as a whole, we are fine. Might be out of pork in one place, beef
in another, chicken in a third. No one is out of all meat, just not
getting preferred type at the time (I'd love a pork butt but ok, out,
so got something else).
 
Our problem is distribution and covid hitting food manufacturing plants
(butchers for cows and pigs etc). We aren't out of flour for example,
we are just having trouble getting wheat to the processing plant then
to bag it as flour and off to the stores.
 
The main difference is we produce more food, than we eat in the
continental USA. That may be true of Canada as well but just like us,
they have pockets that don't. That will be a problem in a bit probably.
"itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Apr 19 06:49PM -0700

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 4:41:14 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> it to keep your cooties to yourself. Breath, cough and sneeze into your
> mask and the gooey droplets stick with you instead of drifting around
> until they contact someone else.
 
That's what the health department here was saying. Wear a mask to contain
your own spit and snot and not spread it to others. Not so you won't catch
it the virus from others but to protect others from you.
"itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net" <itsjoannotjoann@webtv.net>: Apr 19 06:41PM -0700

On Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 6:47:55 PM UTC-5, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
 
> This is what really happened. Scroll down to the fourth image
 
> https://imgur.com/gallery/pCHXtS0
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
Bruce <bruce@null.null>: Apr 20 11:11AM +1000

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:50:48 -0500, Terry Coombs <snag_one@msn.com>
wrote:
 
>kinnardly wait ! We have a real fondness for good lo mein , and there's
>nowhere near here that has it . I'll probably never match our favorite
>Chinese food place , but I'm getting close !
 
What, you're eating commie Chinese food? During the corona crisis?
What kind of patriot are you?
Sheldon Martin <penmart01@aol.com>: Apr 19 09:17PM -0400

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 19:50:48 -0500, Terry Coombs <snag_one@msn.com>
wrote:
 
>kinnardly wait ! We have a real fondness for good lo mein , and there's
>nowhere near here that has it . I'll probably never match our favorite
>Chinese food place , but I'm getting close !
 
I do my own often and keep a good supply of all the chinky
seasonings/ingredients. It's actually very easy, all one needs is
left over meat, a spare pork chop works well. I always have Bok Choy,
celery, onions, garlic and some other veggies in the fridge, a case of
canned 'shrooms I'm set to go. I typically cook pork or eggs chinky
style, I rarely cook chicken... neither of us enjoys poultry. I roast
a small turkey for Thanksgiving only because it's traditional but we
generally don't eat even half, the rest feeds the outside critters.
The only meat we eat is pork and beef... not even seafood as we can't
get fresh seafood here, frozen seafood is trash. Rather than meat we
eat a lot of egg dishes.
Bruce <bruce@null.null>: Apr 20 11:13AM +1000


>> Cindy Hamilton
 
>He's got some issues for sure, but the witch hunt for impeachment is
>absolutely insane.
 
He said to Ukraine: If you go after Biden's son, you'll get a load of
money from us.
 
If you don't understand what's wrong with that, you have serious
problems.
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