You're viscerally embracing your Judaism?
You know what is fantastic? Chop a jalapeno into sour cream ahead of time, and use it on your mexican food.
Or, add sour cream to your homemade whip cream. Also very good.
(a) it's "whipped cream"
(b) that sounds nast.
I agree with (a), but (b) I thought that was the way you were supposed to make half-assed creme fraiche if your local market was insufficiently froggy to carry it.
(a) You are right.
(b) You are wrong.
Sour cream in whipped cream approximates Devonshire cream.
Sour cream and whipped cream and mayo. Do things right.
I scream
You scream
We all scream
For ice cream
Except neb
Who says "it's iced cream"
Thereby eliminating the play on word boundaries.
6: If you're going that route might as well throw in a bunch of jello cubes with grated carrots and call it a salad.
9: don't forget the mini-marshmallows.
Sitting on a single leaf of iceberg lettuce.
Chop a jalapeno into sour cream ahead of time, and use it on your mexican food.
Or canned chipotles, because those will make it all orange.
4: You put a tablespoon of yogurt or sour cream or cultured buttermilk into a pint of heavy cream and let it sit for a few days.
Actually, just one day. And not in the fridge.
A million years ago I went to a party hosted by a friend's utterly awful boyfriend. UAB served chicken nuggets on iceberg lettuce leaves on a platter (in einer Silberschüssel... Gewiß doch!) UAB later died in a kind of awful way.
You know, there are worse ways to go, but I can't think of a more undignified way than autoerotic asphyxiation.
17: https://www.google.com/search?q=mr+hands
Vaguely on-topic, there's a sexy froyo chain? Really?
When a sign advertising CUPS Frozen Yogurt, with two perky little containers of yogurt and the slogan "That's hot," went up in Barracks Road Shopping Center a few months ago, it didn't go unnoticed by parents concerned about serving their kids a helping of sexual suggestions along with their sweet treats. After all, last spring, as CUPS began gaining popularity in New Jersey and New York, viral news website BuzzFeed described it as "The Hooters of Frozen Yogurt" in a piece accompanied by photos of teen girls with long hair, big...smiles, and pink tank tops with plunging necklines.
When a sign advertising CUPS Frozen Yogurt
How do you print frozen yogurt?!?!
And instead of whipped cream, use Cool Whip.
20: For the blog's sake, let's assume the printing process involves some sort of yogurt-dipping technique.
A rhyme of childhood.
I hope this takes off like "folk joke!"
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Alas, it looks like I'm going to have to run the Parent-Teacher Org next year, though I won't know for sure until Monday. I was hoping someone competent would step forward and I could just live my life, but so far nope. But I think I'll pressure one of Mara's Latino immigrant classmate's moms to run for something. I think she'd be great and I'd like to stick it to the people who still do everything in English even though we shouldn't.
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26: Well, then it will be within your power to add a "y", won't it?
23: So how much of the blog thought of that before realizing the reference was decidedly more vanilla?
27: Not only will I not get to be dictator of anything important, but I'll have to work at the McDonald's fundraiser once a month. How the mighty have fallen!
"Would you like improved public education with that?"
19: Man, that article is just full of great quotes:
"The atmosphere, the combination of the sexual innuendo and ice cream," said Maton. "It's just not something I'm comfortable with."
He noted the irony of Sweet Frog--whose name is an acronym for "Fully Rely on God" --being across the street from the new spot.
"You've got the God yogurt on one side, sex yogurt on the other," Maton said, noting that his biggest concern about the shop is the message it sends to kids, both male and female.
"It says that girls can use their own sexuality to market things, to sell things," he said. "And that's a dangerous message to be sending."
I like TBT, but with half the people in my feed, my first thought is "you don't still look like that?"
30: We made almost $300 tonight with whichever cut of the sales were made in 3 hours, and because they were mostly drive-through we didn't even have to clean up much and empty much trash. Made enough money to have the zoo visit each class this year.
The WYLD Morning Zoo? I bet they could entertain the kids with a presentation on sex yoghurt.
1-22: if I'd known it was going to be that kind of party...
This thread makes me want a chocolate sour cream cake.
UAB served chicken nuggets on iceberg lettuce leaves on a platter (in einer Silberschüssel... Gewiß doch!)
I'm sure there were other reasons why UAB was just A, but I'm always solicitous of this kind of incompetence. One of the really charming things about the old Queer Eye, when it was fresh, was the good will toward guys who were willing to try, but were learning a lot of basic stuff in a hurry.
It's supposed to be nuggets on cottage cheese on lettuce, right?
Garnished with either a cherry tomato or maraschino cherry.
With split banana along the sides of the cottage cheese.
Before scrolling up I assumed 37 was referring to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Silver platter! Wow!
I really wouldn't mind some of my grandmother's green Jello salad right now. And baked chicken with rice, cheap white bread with butter, Green Giant mixed vegetables, red Kool-Aid and apple pie with generic French vanilla ice cream for desert. I'll pass the pickle-and-olive dish around too, but won't take any. Then retire to the spare bedroom to watch an old James Bond movie or "Connections" on the 13" black-and-white TV while lying on the old steel framed bed with the maroon-and-gold counterpane. Wouldn't mind hearing my father and grandfather arguing about whether Reagan was crazy, incompetent or evil or some mixture of the three, either.
Man, when my niece is my age, those days will be gone 60 years and more. I should really write all of those memories down for her.
Just point her to the Unfogged Archives.
Won't that be something though? "Uncle Natilo, what's a lolcat?" "RTFA and I'll give you a quarter."
Nice memories. Jello salad was taught in home ec forever. I've enjoyed that meal.
Seng from my phone.
43: Any specific reason for the sudden wave of nostalgia?
My father used to record audio tapes and mail them to his parents. (They were illiterate, and he didn't want to write personal things in letters that someone else would read to them. Long-distance phone calls were expensive back then.) I remember he'd sit by himself, in the basement next to the window, talking to the tape recorder. I don't think he got many replies to his tapes, but maybe it made him feel better to talk, or maybe he felt he owed it to them to keep the conversation going, after moving so far away from the rest of the family.
Neb and Benquo are right about creme fraiche. Also a tip, if you're buying creme fraiche in France look carefully at the ingredients. Almost all brands are chemically fake glop, like generic crema supermarket brands in the US.
One of the really charming things about the old Queer Eye, when it was fresh, was the good will toward guys who were willing to try, but were learning a lot of basic stuff in a hurry.
Yeah I liked that sweetness about the show, too. A friend of mine referred to the show as a minstrel show, which I can't totally disagree with.
And yeah, UAB's sins extended far beyond lettuce. He was humorless and whiny and uninteresting and hated cats and in the end caused my friend a lot of woe.
Well, it seems my guess about the identity of the president in 16 was correct.
"You've got the God yogurt on one side, sex yogurt on the other"
Mouseover quote, surely.
(b) that sounds nast.
Weirdo. It's fantastic for dessert topping, where you probably don't want full-on creme fraiche, but it's nice to have a hint of tanginess.
A quick glance Recent Comments sidebar momentarily tricked my brain into thinking that there was a thread called "Sour Cream On Reptiles".
If you're Herpys-conscious, reading everyone's name as "On Reptiles" is pretty pervy. Holy shit Barry Freed is on reptiles!! Look out reptiles!
He was totally fucked up on reptiles, man, it was a bad scene.
55: if you're academically minded it just sounds like a rather antiquated bibliography. "This is indeed an interesting specimen, and I believe it may be new to science. Padeen, be so good as to fetch me down volume two of Apostropher on Reptiles."
Mixing up reptiles and amphibians - common mistake.
51: Everyone always knows so it didn't seem worth typing the whole pseud-psued again.
Mouseover quote, surely.
Prefer to think of it like the angel on one shoulder, the devil on the other.
"You've got the God yogurt on one side, sex yogurt on the other"
Don't mix the two yogurts.
Don't mix the two yogurts.
Tantric yogurt is nothing to be afraid of.
"You've got the God yogurt on one side, sex yogurt on the other"
It occurs to me that those aren't even the only two frozen-yogurt options in town. There's also a very popular locally owned (and secular?) place on the main drag of student bars and coffee shops. In fact, I think this town might have more froyo shops than Starbucks locations.
Apropos of nothing above a system has arisen where a friend of mine communicates by text with his mentor in bee keeping but I have to translate all the texts for him. His mentor mainly speaks Irish by choice and I believe has published a slim volume as Gaeilge on the topic of bee-keeping and possibly also on same as discussed in the Brehon laws. * This all started at Christmas when I translated a seasonal message and composed one for dispatch in return. They haven't met in person since and the texts are about how my friend's hive is getting on and how the further hives the mentor will be giving him are ditto. The words I don't know usually turn out to be the ones my friend knows himself being technical terms & English in disguise.
* actually quite a large topic in said laws even allowing for chance in that text having survived in a fairly complete state. Reasonable when you consider it was the only sweetener, main preservative, main source of booze etc.
Best system ever.
How do you acquire a bee-keeping mentor with whom you do not share a preferred language? Does the mentor speak English at bee-conferences, or did they bond over a swarm by mime?
Maybe Riverdance is actually just an elaborate plea for help? Or honey?
I read 65 with the expectation that it was an elaborate set-up for a bad pun, and I was half-disappointed when it did not end accordingly.
The mentor whom I will call S (native speaker, lives in a Gaeltacht area 20 miles from where I grew up & where friend lives) can speak perfectly good English afaik and they must have spoken it initially. However since the seasonal greetings the texts have all been in Irish. My friend A gets a kick out responding likewise. He understands some but not all of it. Both A's wife and I await what will happen when they meet again, which from today's messages may be this Sunday.
S has another earlier protegé in my home area, P, who is A's brother in law. I think P & A might both work for the health service in a town between the two areas. I sort of know S in fact as he was a friend of my father's though he might or might not recognise me if I passed him in the street.
Drat, I mean P and S may have worked together.
I was just after translating a couple of texts when I started reading today's comments in this thread and thinking what Padeen would say in reply to 57 and in what language.
Oh and you can be guaranteed I won't be setting up any elaborate puns.
The beekeeping story is so great! I'm glad you were prompted to share it, emir. It's those sorts of things that of course are going on but I'd never think about until someone tells the story that are extra wonderful.
It was a great story. Still, could have used a pun at the end.
Emir should write some kind of "way of the beekeeper" type book, in which the mystic Irish sage who doesn't speak English translates his simple Gaelic ways of living learned through the ancient ways of the bees. I bet it would sell well in the US.
77: A lot of people who bought that one were disappointed, because they were expecting rooster-based advice on approaching each day in an energetic and positive manner.
"One night with smoke pot makes a hard man humble."
You could do half the song without changing much.
"I'd let you watch. I would invite you. But the queens we use would not exite you."
The book can be punctuated with allegories from a mythic beekeeping-centric Irish past extrapolated from the medieval law Graeber cited about the bee-sting tort.
"Heebee-Geebee: The Self-Hating Bee."
This book really does write itself! Especially with the cuter-than-cob-house beehive huts and Saint Gobnait for historical perspective!
I'm thinking "Rún na mBeach; Wisdom from the Bee-Loud Glade". The wisdom would have to be largely concocted because the actual tract on bee-judgements is all obsessive detail about torts by and to bees and property rights in their honey and in them when they swarm. So trespass of bees, distraint of bees, compensation right up to ginormous fines if they sting you in the eye and prevent you becoming king ...
It does contain the not very exciting maxim "no-one is obliged to give something to another for nothing" but I'd be afraid that might be taken up the wrong way by glibertarians.
The wisdom would have to be largely concocted...
That's the way it always seems to be.
91.last: Or that the bees would take it the right way.
Well, my role has been outed. S apparently is hoping my brother will take up bee keeping (this brother has a few acres & some sheep a mile or two from S). I may be off duty so no more phrases to translate from English like "Flow of pollen from a small blue flowering weed in the field where the pigs were." The Irish phrases were mostly easier.
That was me, as if you couldn't guess.
91: yes, I think there are people who have grave moral qualms about honey and beeswax since it is obtained by force.
I do like the story about the neon-coloured honey from bees who were foraging at the M&M factory (instead of from flowers like a bunch of old-fashioned suckers). Did I see that here sometime?