I just can't believe we made it through an entire "Who ate the first XXX" discussion and nobody mentioned olives! (Most seemingly odd food preparations can be chalked up to discovering them by accident, but who accidentally soaks something in lye for a week, spends another week soaking off the lye, and then even more time and effort brining it? And then still remembers that they were planning to try eating it?)
Aaaah! I am SO GLAD someone brought that up (though kinda going "man, someone brought that up four posts before I got to the end?!?!")
Lobsters freak me out a bit too, but I figure hey, if your'e hungry you'll try eating anything. But things like olives, that require PREPARATION, are what gets me. I mean...sure, you try eating it. You try smoking it and eating it. You try drying it and eating it. But then you GIVE UP!
My take on this whole thing is that we are completely underestimating the kind of time hungry people had on their hands.
Lavender creme brulee though? Da bombity bomb bomb. There's a place in San Diego that made the best...
isn't creosote the stuff that builds up in chimneys?
That's just regular ole soot.
I just can't believe we made it through an entire "Who ate the first XXX" discussion and nobody mentioned olives!
Then there's hominy. "Let's drip water through ashes until we have a caustic liquid, then put dried corn in it until the skins come off. Then let's dry the kernals again and grind them up."
But things like olives, that require PREPARATION, are what gets me. I mean...sure, you try eating it. You try smoking it and eating it. You try drying it and eating it. But then you GIVE UP!
My theory on olives is that they fell in the ocean and then someone ate them.
It's sad, but even though it's been at LEAST four years since Jesse was a cowgirl at my come-as-you-aren't party, I see this and think she ought to have it. :)
I still think it's funny that on Twop they started off calling Padalecki Cute!Dean (from GG) and Ackles Hot!Dean. Because, it needed to be MORE confusing.
Skipping a kajillion posts to say: Holy Crap, people, why am I up at 12:45 am doing this $*&%*$& puzzle?! I only meant to take a look, sneak a peek, and here I am, three hours later, banging my head on the desk. I got the farm part, and I'm working my way through religions. This is evil crack. I have to go to bed, dammit.
Anyone watch Eleventh Hour on BBCA? I missed the first showing and need to decide in the next nine minutes. Patrick Stewart. On BBC. It sounds lovely. And if it is, I can grab Studio 60 elsewhere. I just need others to decide for me.
I have to run my own life? Tragedy!
There's more than one creosote-- [link] including the fragrant bush and the byproduct of fire.
