Things You Just Don't Care About

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.

it's just that *this* record store, where I too spent a lot of money, would seem to lack the qualities that would merit a documentary. I was bummed when it closed but it's hard to feel anything like nostalgia for it...it was never exactly the warmest place, or staffed with "characters"....it's not like it has some deep, rich history. It was just a kind of a sterile place w/ a nicely curated inventory.

I will prpbably end up watching it some day though.

I saw a still from this film of Chloe Sevigny browsing the racks, and that pretty much cemented my decision to skip it

iirc they never had a Rex Manning Day

Dealing with another cat now. But yeah I still owe you story I guess

it's just that *this* record store, where I too spent a lot of money, would seem to lack the qualities that would merit a documentary. I was bummed when it closed but it's hard to feel anything like nostalgia for it...it was never exactly the warmest place, or staffed with "characters"....it's not like it has some deep, rich history. It was just a kind of a sterile place w/ a nicely curated inventory.

I will prpbably end up watching it some day though.

Oh snap. Mixed post, sorry.

May the Fourth

heaven needed a holiday that's actually an enormous free advertisement for disney

at the expense of lispers everywhere

yeah it's sorta terrible, but this is grate:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B_xiL8GFYlT/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet