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[kaberett]

• the love meme continueth. I'm really excited by the number of threads we're getting for first-time participants <3
  
• Someone I Know has written an excellent post on the topic of why blaming the poor for eating bad food is nastier than a horseburger (not naming them because I realise I don't know whether they're okay having blogs linked! Feel free to identify yourself in comments, mystery writer <3)
  
• I'm going through a small obsessive phase in relation to salted caramel chocolate. Smitten Kitchen isn't helping.
  
• Loose-leaf Earl Grey rooibos with nothing to do with Dragonfly teas, oh yeah.
  
• have I mentioned I really like dinosaur bed linen? All my bed linen has dinosaurs on. Currently hankering after this dear little thing, but I am going to have to wait until it comes down in price.
  
• the South Korean Air Force take on Les Mis - and I think you will agree that they win.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Ooo, that bad food entry has Inspired Me To Rant, for lo, I have a *ton* of intersecting issues. Bleh.

[rysmiel]

The thing that doesn;t quite click for me about that second post is that I am kind of mentally stalling on "but horse is delicious."

[liv]

Someone more carnivorous would probably have a better idea, but I suspect that meat is the kind of thing that's delicious when it's a luxury item because of being slightly culturally unusual to eat, and really not at all delicious when it's being introduced into low-end processed foods as a cost-saving measure. And quite possibly the supply chain isn't being held to the normal standards expected of food for human consumption precisely because the meat is not culturally normal.

I would argue that the impact of the poor-blaming post is that people who don't have much money or have low cultural status have the right to correctly labelled food, coming from a known production history with reasonable QA. This seems kind of obvious except that people are either mockingly or self-righteously opining that people "shouldn't" be buying the absolute cheapest burgers or ready meals, they should be preparing high-quality food from scratch. It's not very useful that horse is delicious for people who have enough money to eat it in decent restaurants or enough time and skill to buy it from decent butchers and prepare it themselves.

[khalinche]

Hello, I don't mind being linked to that post! I just put it elsewhere rather than opening it up because I didn't want a flood of visitors to my lj. I'm happy to friend anyone who wants to read all of the comments to the OP, though, because they were fantastic and really took the discussion into lots of new places. Thank you for pointing at it :-) I appreciate you defaulting to NOT linking identities and leaving it up to me to make that decision.

[mustela_nivalis]

Unanimously from this bed: just make the caramel who needs the brownie

(can we?)

[swaldman]

you know the author of churchofnom? small world is small...

[cxcvi]

Earl Grey rooibos? How does that work?

(Edit: Question marks? How do they work?)

[kaberett]

<3

[kaberett]

's redbush flavoured with bergamot, just like normal Earl Grey is black tea flavoured with bergamot :-) (Either through being combined with the oil, or through having actual pieces of bergamot peel in with the leaves.)

[kaberett]

You're speaking to someone who is (a) horsey and (b) vegetarian. :-p

[rysmiel]

But fleur-de-sel caramel sauce on good vanilla icecream on a medium-heavy dark chocolate brownie is a wonder of the world.

[rysmiel]

Also, incidentally, I am totally squeeing about your awesome stegosaur icon. (Modulo the usual "but Robert Bakker has convinced me they were mostly bipeds" nitpick.)

[kaberett]

! That's not one I'd come across with respect to stegosaurs - link pls? <3

[rysmiel]

I came across that argument in Bakker's The Dinosaur Heresies (1986, and I am mildly boggling tthat it was that long ago) and it doesn't seem to have taken off so much as many of the other arguments in that book that are now a lot more mainstream in re warm-bloodedness of dinosaurs and the like, it's well worth reading anyway (though in retrospect, his scepticism of molecular evidence where it goes counter to morphological evidence sort of went over my head as a dinosaur-mad thirteen-year-old and very much doesn't as a working bioinformatician). I'm not finding a reasonable summary online right away, but sfaicr he principally argues based on areas of attachment for muscles in the pelvis and thereabouts being mechanically suited for a largely bipedal stance.

[pteranodon]

What is wrong with Dragonfly tea? *confuse*

[kaberett]

Here is a grumpy post about Everything That Is Wrong With Rooibos Sellers In The UK (to my delight the co-op now does own-brand fairtrade basic redbush, which I will probably buy from them when I want teabags, and I have found plausibly-ethical sources for loose leaf). Longer answer when I have dragged myself out of bed, maybe :-)