Subdeacon Joe
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https://youtube.com/shorts/-UVnRsNhqeM?si=zrIV7zAUa-ANPGJs
ADDED: For some reason the above video won't embed, you need to click on it.
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I like it! Not enough to spend $30 on it, but I like it
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USS Saratoga (CV-3) entering San Francisco Bay at the the Golden Gate before the famous bridge was built with Fort Point in the foreground. Saratoga is without her distinctive black stripe on the funnel which dates the photo no later than 1929 when it was first applied. She visited Hunters Point in June 1928 to have the hull cleaned in preparation for speed trials off Point Vicente, CA later that month.
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27 minutes ago, Rip Snorter said:
Suspect you are right - I have sampled and even tried to cook all sorts of ethnic cuisine. This was just good but very different. I made a popular Japanese street food, Okonomiyaki, and it was good but like nothing I have eaten before in a long foodie life. If you want to try it, you can look online, there is even a kit, though it assumes you will have common Japanese ingredients in the pantry.
We try not to have many unusual-to-Americans ingredients that get used almost exclusively in one cuisine, but usually can find something close.
I love trying fusion receipts, "No! No way on God's green Earth that can work!" (skeptically adding weird ingredient) "Dang! That's GOOD! Strange, but GOOD."
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Throwback Thursday
What A Town!
Photographer Romanzo E. Wood visited Bodie in 1879 to photograph the rapidly growing mining town of Bodie.This view, looking west, shows mostly the north end of Bodie. Behind Main Street, in the foreground, you see the small cabins of Bodie’s red light district.
Wood, who credited his photos, “R.E. Wood,” was a Massachusetts native who came to California on the Oregon-California trail in 1859. He traveled widely over the state, photographing not only Bodie and nearby Lake Tahoe, but also cities and towns up and down the California coast. His collection, held by California State University at Chico, includes over 400 wet-plate glass negatives and albumen photographic prints. We think you’ll agree the detail and sharpness in this photo is incredible. We’ll be sharing more of his photos in the months to come.
Photo courtesy of California State University, Chico, Meriam Library Special Collections
#ThrowbackThursday
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6 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
They have these table top tablets or mini computer pods.
These all came out during Covid. Duh…stop disease by having every one handle a computer. Idiots!I saw them in a few chain restaurants long before the Fauci Flu.
6 hours ago, Rip Snorter said:Food was good, but a flavor profile I haven't encountered before. Gyros in pita that had been fried, plenty of gyros, veg and cheese, but not typical Greek flavor.
Sounds like some sort of fusion cuisine. Greek/Moroccan?
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In 1910, Mare Samuella Cromer, a rural schoolteacher in South Carolina, organized a girl's tomato club so females aged 9 to 20 could “not learn simply how to grow better and more perfect tomatoes, but how to grow better and more perfect women.” Soon, there were tomato clubs in a number of states. The idea was simple: Teach rural girls how to plant and grow tomatoes, then harvest and can them, and sell them for a profit. The only work the girls didn't do themselves was the plowing of their individual 1/10th acre plots.In one notable example, a girl harvested 2,000 lbs. of tomatoes. After sales, she earned a profit of $78 (about $2,470 today). This was *real* money for girls who came from hardscrabble backgrounds.In 1915, one tomato club girl was quoted as saying the work was “long and sometimes tiresome...It has been a way by which I could not only have my own spending money and pay my expenses at the Farm Camp, but I also have a bank account of sixty dollars." (About $1,881 today.)Credit Goes To The Respective Owner
In those days, North Carolina farmers lived a hardscrabble life earning very little money. While they weren’t typically interested in hearing about the newest agricultural techniques their young sons were. This led these young men to form Corn Clubs and to team up to grow side crops on an acre of land apiece. They quickly became a success and often produced yields that greatly outpaced their fathers’.
Armed with this knowledge, Jane McKimmon Simpson began urging girls to form their own clubs, but to produce tomatoes instead of corn because this was a less strenuous crop. North Carolina girls across 14 counties liked the idea and began planting tomatoes in patches covering one-tenth of an acre. They grew tomatoes to eating size and then packed them in tin cans. Lizzie Norris of Holly Springs, NC recorded harvesting 2,000 pounds of tomatoes and selling 800 cans. She proudly yielded a profit of $78. In her memoir Lizzie wrote:
“The motto which [the cans] bear is one that every true club member tries to live up to, ‘To make the best better’.”
These memoirs preserved in the NC State Archives, many of them more than 10 pages long, make it clear that these young female gardeners had never ventured far from their family farms. It is obvious they enjoyed the much needed social interaction their Tomato Clubs offered. Sadie Linner, a Warren County farm girl who wrote an 11-page report on her tomato garden said:
“I met some very nice girls there. It will be a pleasure to keep up the acquaintance with them.”
UNC Education Archives
These early NC Tomato Clubs slowly evolved into more formal farm education. However, in their brief history they served a powerful purpose. You can see this in the club portraits where the girls are proudly waving their tomato pennants and showing off the grit and know-how they gained with their fingers in the dirt.
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Tactical Turkey
Couldn't find on YouTube
https://www.facebook.com/reel/483934318032156/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
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14 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
SW Pennsylvania has a mix of people whose ancestors came from the “Old Country” where garlic was in everything.
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1 hour ago, Buckshot Bob said:
1 hour ago, J-BAR #18287 said:
I know him.Didn't he work for BATFE?
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3 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Not real good with Malt-O-Meal
Original flavor you can treat like cornmeal/grits or cream of wheat. Make a savory base and make the Malt-o-Meal with it. Maybe add cheese.
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10 minutes ago, Smokin Gator SASS #29736 said:
don't know if this is accurate but I've heard that here in northern California and some other states even the kids with non champion animals receive far more then market value.
Here in Sonoma County the top five or so get, or used to get, very high returns. The rest get close to normal market value. I haven't followed it in years. Our County Fair has dropped, or greatly cut back, on the a lot of the usual county fair contests. Become a beer and wine event. To be fair, much of the agricultural variety has disappeared, being replaced by vineyards. But the home and mechanical arts have also fallen by the wayside.
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This gives us the sheer scale of the XB-19 prototype heavy bomber. Here is one of its four engines, a Allison V-3420. This complex bit of kit was comprised of two Allison V-1710 V12s bolted together, for a total of 24 cylinders and 2,500 hp.
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6 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:
I sure don't think they do here or kids couldn't win previous ribbons with the same critter.
It's got to be heartbreaking for a youngster.
Maybe not entered in Market Class?
I don't know much about 4H or FFA, when my wife's kids were in 4H they raised a couple of rabbits and showed in some class that wasn't Market. 30 years ago so details are vague....my involvement was buying the feed and driving them to meetings.
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20 minutes ago, Texas Joker said:
SDJ that's her critter until she auctions it. Showing a goat or a pig or horse or cow doesn't give somebody else the right to steal it and sell it.
OK, I understand that a person that young can't be held to a contract, and I don't know what the 4H project parameters and expectations are, or what had to be agreed to in order to show the animal. Or if she, or her parents, signed an "Intent to Sell" form. If she did, should she be allowed to back out? An artist enters a work at a contest gallery with the understanding that all works in the show will be auctioned at the end of the show. The piece takes best overall. Should the artist then be able to say "Sorry, but I'm keeping it."? It's no big secret that animals entered in the Market Class division usually get, well, marketed.
Granted, it was pretty darned harsh the way it was handled, and it was a gross violation of civil rights to conduct that warrantless search and seizure.
That State Senator should have paid and donated the animal back to the girl.
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5 hours ago, Alpo said:
There has been at least one thread and probably a dozen or more memes about the squirrel that was confiscated and then killed by New York.
Something similar happened in California.
Girl raised a goat. Showed it at the fair with the 4-H. And after the show, the fair told the girl that they would now auction off the goat so it would be butchered. And she told them no they wouldn't. It was not the fair's goat, it was not the 4-h's goat. It was her goat and she did not want it sold.
They auctioned it off anyhow. A state senator bought it. And the girl refused to give it up. It was her goat. It was her pet. And she did not agree to sell it.
The police get involved. County sheriff serves a search warrant on place A, where they think the goat might be. It wasn't there. So as they're going back to the cop shop, one of the deputies suggest that it might be in place B - where they did not have a warrant to look. They went and looked anyhow. Found the goat. Confiscated the goat. Eventually killed the goat.
This ended up costing the county $300,000. The lawsuit against the fair is still ongoing.
Maybe New York should pay attention to California.
https://www.courthousenews.com/california-county-pays-up-after-illegally-seizing-childs-pet-goat/
I thought those projects were undertaken with the understanding that the animals would be auctioned off and butchered, often restaurants bidding and using the purchase in a short term advertising campaign to show support for youth and community, as well as "Look at the quality of our ingredients!"
To me the major wrong was warrantless search. I don't know what the girl had to sign to enter the show. But it likely wasn't any secret that the animal would be sold at auction. And I would guess that the fair authority gets a cut of the money from the auction, hence the fair getting involved in having the animal taken from her.
Just my opinion, but if she didn't want it auctioned she shouldn't have shown it, or even undertaken the project to start with.
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5 hours ago, Pat Riot said:
Yep! A favorite at kids and high school sporting events is “cabbage and noodles”. I wouldn’t eat it, but then one day my sister in law made some for my wife and I and I liked it.
We made it, but me being me I had to change it a bit by adding browned ground beef. It was delicious.Mmmmm.....haluški! Cabbage, onions, garlic, noodles. If not a fast period, bacon and/or sausage.
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1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:
cured pork fat
It's Almost Friday Humor Thread
in SASS Wire Saloon
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It's not gneiss of you to keep posting schist like this.