Re: Ahem

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From your institution's dissertation format guidelines?


Posted by: bza | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 1:25 AM
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From his momyour institution's dissertation format guidelines?


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 4:36 AM
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That's Ben's Indian name.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 5:04 AM
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3: "Ahem"? Those Indians are so inscrutable.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 7:56 AM
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Because they are filled with inner ghee.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:04 AM
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No, it's his Arabic name:

Nosflow Ben Ahem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace...


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:06 AM
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I was so horrified to find 'vegetable ghee'

anyone have any ideas on matpe gnocchi?


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:27 AM
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What's the matter with vegetable ghee? It's been around since the 1960s at least to my certain knowledge.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:31 AM
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Vegetable butter? I'm with yoyo on this, even if vegetable ghee tastes great.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:32 AM
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All the friends I've known who grew up cooking Indian/Pakistani food all used vegetable ghee. I don't think any of them used actual butter derived ghee.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:35 AM
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Wouldn't vegetable ghee be, basically, shortening?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:35 AM
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re: 11

It is just a solid-at-room-temperature vegetable fat, yeah.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:42 AM
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I should go get Indian food for lunch. Or chicken ala Peruvians.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:44 AM
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the name 'vegetable ghee' just seemed unnecessarily deceptive. "vegetable oil' is bad enough, but this seems like calling corn oil 'vegetable olive oil'


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:50 AM
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plus, i go to the indian grocer for healthy stuff.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:51 AM
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Or Mexican. I could really use some mole.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:56 AM
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plus, i go to the indian grocer for healthy stuff.

Well, vegetable ghee is basically hydrogenated rapeseed oil, so if I were you I'd use corn oil like most of the Indians and Pakistanis I know.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:02 AM
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17: doesn't that make it pretty much "margarine"?


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:05 AM
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Don't think the canola people can't get you just because you're on the other side of the Atlantic.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:06 AM
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18. I'm not a food chemist, but I should think so, yeah.

The pedia thing says:

Indian restaurants and some households may use hydrogenated vegetable oil (also known as vanaspati, dalda, or "vegetable ghee") in place of ghee due to its lower cost. This "vegetable ghee" may contain trans fat. Trans fats are increasingly linked to serious chronic health conditions. The term shuddh ghee, however, is not officially enforced in many regions, so partially hydrogenated oils are marketed as pure ghee in some areas. Where this is illegal in India, law enforcement often cracks down on the sale of fake ghee.[5] Ghee is also sometimes called desi (country-made) ghee or asli (genuine) ghee to distinguish it from "vegetable ghee".


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:11 AM
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re: 18

Yeah. I'd imagine it's much like the full-fat no-water marg used for baking and frying. Like Trex.


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:13 AM
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I googled and they now make transfat free vegetable ghee.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:14 AM
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Where this is illegal in India, law enforcement often cracks down on the sale of fake ghee

Law & Order: Special Ghee Unit.

(Ghee SI?)


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:19 AM
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"But how did Prasad get away with it for so long, Inspector Koomaraswamy?"

"Well, Sergeant, I can only assume that he must have..."

(removes sunglasses)

"...greased some palms".


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:23 AM
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24. I was hoping you weren't going to do that. But you did.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:27 AM
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I use coconut oil for indian food actually. I have some canola i used, only for seasoning iron pans, not eating.


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 9:50 AM
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25: I think this may have been linked here before, but "Stanley's big night out on the town."


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 10:01 AM
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27: Wow, that's truly awful. So that's what I'll be like when I'm all groan up?


Posted by: Stanley | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 10:09 AM
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Now! That's what you're like now!


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 10:21 AM
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But don't ever change.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 10:22 AM
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Could anyone have predicted that a post saying only "'Running Head'. That is all." would have led to a thread almost entirely about ghee?


Posted by: essear | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 7:34 PM
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31: he wasn't discussing a symptom?


Posted by: Turgid Jacobian | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 7:42 PM
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NMM to Edward Gorey being cool.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 7:54 PM
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Tim Burton, faugh. Not fit to be mentioned in the same article as Gorey.


Posted by: nosflow | Link to this comment | 03- 3-11 8:00 PM
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34: And yet.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 03- 4-11 4:56 AM
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