Things You Just Don't Care About

yeah, i don't get how black pepper with salt became the default table setting. I have to force myself to use it. I much prefer any other pepper.

Black pepper is a delight and I put it on everything!

^^^

Pliny also complains, "There is no year in which India does not drain the Roman Empire of 50 million sesterces", and further moralizes on pepper:

It is quite surprising that the use of pepper has come so much into fashion, seeing that in other substances which we use, it is sometimes their sweetness, and sometimes their appearance that has attracted our notice; whereas, pepper has nothing in it that can plead as a recommendation to either fruit or berry, its only desirable quality being a certain pungency; and yet it is for this that we import it all the way from India! Who was the first to make trial of it as an article of food? and who, I wonder, was the man that was not content to prepare himself by hunger only for the satisfying of a greedy appetite?

— Pliny, Natural History 12.14

Pliny notm

Side note: Greek and Roman philosophers were a pretty ascetic group on the whole. They did a lot of moralizing about cookery in general and tended to frown upon anyone wanting food to be tasty or wanting a highly varied diet. Even Epicurus, who bestowed his name on epicureanism, counseled a very simple and moderate diet, but on the grounds of health, not morality.

pEGGper, like a bird's egg!

I was listening to a Epicurus discussion on the wireless the other week. Was impressed that he was quite accurately imagining atoms and matter at a subatomic level and stuff.

as the crow flies...

lol

There's a chapter about black pepper in the book "Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine" (which is a fascinating, fun read). It specifically cites an American who, searching for an alternative supply of spices post revolution, discovered a secret source of pepper in Sumatra and became massively wealthy (one Jonathan Carnes, a Salem, MA captain who sailed there in 1795 and brought home 100,000 to 150,000 pounds of pepper that sold for 37 cents a pound and produced a 700 percent profit). There are stories about its preservative qualities; iirc they would fill every inch of the ship with pepper, including coffins, which not only kept the bodies intact but allowed them to ship back even more pepper. Found some more info here:

https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/jonathan-carnes-corners-pepper-market-1795/

i roast my black peppercorns like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWVthXiQILk

and usually combine it with non-roasted ground pepper in whatever i cook, tastes very good, you should try it

woo wooooooo black pepper! Duhduhduh duh duh

Cacio e Pepe and carbonara are what really made me “get” black pepper, and I had a crazy ceviche dish at a Mexican seafood restaurant in LA that featured it prominently - I never put it in Mexican food because it just doesn’t taste right but it was so unbelievably good and necessary in that dish that I still pause and think about it longingly.

Pliny would have loved this place and would pick up his fair share of FPs

ukilxors would've dragged him for being a posho

I mean

"Hail to thee, Nature, thou parent of all things! and do thou deign to show thy favour unto me, who, alone of all the citizens of Rome, have, in thy every department, thus made known thy praise."

is the 'I would like to point put I have been otm in this thread" of its time

xp exactly :)

your protest vote; vote for who you’d like I don’t care

saturday night live
zoom

otm x2

5G

Yeah I don't remember any fuss about all the other Gs, isn't this just like extra razor blades?

Come on, are you telling me you don't want to watch the Benny Hill Show on your phone in 5d?

I've kept to a three blade razor for over a decade. Whoever the G guys are will hate me as much as Giilette.

I only just got my first smartphone 18 months ago. I got two g's! one for texting my mum and one for my ilx flagging app.

It is, as they say, a G thang.

Disney anything. Don’t care.

Karens. Don't even know what it means, don't care to find out.

too late!

WHAT DOES KAREN MEAN?
Karen is a mocking slang term for an entitled, obnoxious, middle-aged white woman. Especially as featured in memes, Karen is generally stereotyped as having a blonde bob haircut, asking to speak to retail and restaurant managers to voice complaints or make demands, and being a nagging, often divorced mother from Generation X.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/karen/Karen

All memes shall pass

Karenmeme Abdul-Jabbar

Michael Jordan and his ridiculous 10-hour hagiography. No way am I watching that shit.

youtubers or ilxors who mimic trump

Mostly I'd agree, but I think that one guy I posted is an exception--not just the voice but his uncanny syntax and absurdly spot-on self-aggrandizement--and Karl Malone is an exception, and there are always exceptions.

don’t want to see anybody fetishizing his stupid way of speaking, it’s not interesting, let’s put an end to it

I think it's a long tradition. Nixon, Joe McCarthy, they all had imitators.

Well, well, well.

-- Ronald Reagan --

Imitating a president?

Wouldn't be prudent.

Did Bush Sr ever actually say that or does everyone just remember it from the Dana Carvey impression?

Michael Jordan and his ridiculous 10-hour hagiography. No way am I watching that shit.

mr. snrub . . . otm?

oh i will definitely watch that.

MJ was an inventive, supremely skilled, epoch defining, relentlessly competitive, arrogant asshole.

Now that he doesn't play any more, he's just an arrogant asshole.

you forgot to mention that he's a billionaire but that may be implied

over/under on hours spent by wilbon, on screen, just relentlessly tonguing MJ's ass: 1.5

there is a guy who has no other frame of reference for anything

the Other Music documentary (sorry)

Um,yeah maybe

the Other Music documentary (sorry)

100% agreement. I spent a fair amount of money there once upon a time (it was my third or fourth favorite record store in that part of NYC in the early 2000s, after Tower on 4th & Broadway and Mondo Kim's and possibly Downtown Music Gallery), but what kind of person would want to watch a documentary about a goddamn record store?

People might want to when even fewer of them exist in a few months.