Time to Change Your Snark Plugs

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mbay1455 said:
What's in these?
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sausage base with the bacon wrapped around it forming a "cup." Inside is a mixture of cream cheese and shredded cheddar cheese and then the topping is a brown sugar/honey mixture.

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Where would humans be without the humble yet mighty yeast?

GSO1962 said:
And on a historic, rather than spiritual, note, I read an article a while back debating the history of beer and bread. Scientists used to assume that beer was an accidental discovery made by bread bakers. The article proposed that bread was discovered when some poor brewer accidentally cooked his yeast starter (grain, water and yeast mix). I'll have to do some more research including extensive testing of both products... :D
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Makes sense to me. From my limited reading, many modern scholars feel that ancient agriculture developed at least in part because of wine and beer, not the other way around. I'll hazard a guess that other than roasting meat, producing alcohol on purpose in various forms was probably among the very first forms of "cooking". Once you realize how awesome a good stiff drink can be, you're obviously gonna want to stick close to the naturally-occurring orchards or grain fields, protect them, and cut down their competition. Next thing you know, boom! (OK, probably more like a slow burn over a few generations than a "boom"), you've got yourself a farming community.

It doesn't really matter if you know that yeasts are all around us, or you just think it's magic (there's that damn word again :rolleyes:). It's just a whole lot easier (and therefore a lot more likely) to stumble across wine-making by simply noticing that fruit and whatnot ferment under the right conditions (even primates and birds and other "dumb beasts" will happily gorge themselves on semi-rotten fruit and get ripped), than it is to learn to gather grain, mill it into flour, invent an oven of some sort, make a dough, leaven it, bake it, and then work backwards to isolate the yeast. Knowledge, like water and electricity, follows the past of least resistance. You don't invent a 600HP racecar before you invent the wheel ;)

This sort of thing fascinates me. The first people who remembered where and when the fruit and veggies and grains would be ready every year, had a huge advantage over the folks just wandering around hoping to get lucky and find some berries or catch a bunny. Just like the first ones to discover rubbing a piece of bone to a point/edge or heat-treating a stick to get more durable tools... and that first dude or dudette in any area who discovered how to chip certain rocks purposely to make really sharp tools was likely almost worshipped by his peers.

So, who was first, the farmer, the brewer or the chef? The knifemaker :D
 
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wacbzz said:
sausage base with the bacon wrapped around it forming a "cup." Inside is a mixture of cream cheese and shredded cheddar cheese and then the topping is a brown sugar/honey mixture.
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Thanks, noted and added to the list of 'must do next time' things.
 
james terrio said:
... and that first dude or dudette in any area who discovered how to chip certain rocks purposely to make really sharp tools was likely almost worshipped by his peers.

So, who was first, the farmer, the brewer or the chef? The knifemaker ;)
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I think you will find it was an ancestor of the Becker family, their stones were more comfortable for extended use and sharper than the others and the users of these stone knifes often modified them to make them more personal to them ;)
 
Today I got up and it was closer to normal (for me.) It was 140/90. Still elevated but better, and he put me on new medicine that I start tomorrow and see how it goes. I've also toned down my coffee/caffeine intake. I'm down to half a pot a day, which still sounds excessive I KNOW, but it's better than 2-3 pots a day. And I upped my water intake, and I upped my walking/exercising which with the ankle being (...) sucks a bit but not horribly so, so I'm toughing it out.

The ankle is doing better, I went to an urgent care last night and got it X-Rayed, sure enough not broken just a WICKED bad sprain. They told me to put a brace on it and if I have boots that support the ankle to wear them. They also told me R.I.C.E. which is Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation. Which is what I was already doing anyway lol but that's what I'm going to keep doing.

Moose glad to see you around more! It's been far too tame around these parts lately!
 
Hope everyone who's feeling poorly feels better soon.

In other news, I don't know the history behind this pic, or even what branch of the service this guy was in. But for some reason I immediately thought of Murph when I saw it...

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There's a strong South wind blowing into Wisconsin today and some above freezing temps are coming with it! It sounds ridiculous, but mid-40'swill feel so good.
 
All time record low for the month of March here. Minus 6 this morning. Forties and fifties this weekend though.
 
GSO1962 said:
One of our elders at church has mentioned several times that for those of us of northern European descent, beer and wine are proof that God loves us and wants us to live and be happy. Drinking plain water during the middle ages would have killed off nearly everyone due to any number of diseases and many of us wouldn't be here today if it weren't for our ancestors using tasty alcohol to make the water safe to drink.

And on a historic, rather than spiritual, note, I read an article a while back debating the history of beer and bread. Scientists used to assume that beer was an accidental discovery made by bread bakers. The article proposed that bread was discovered when some poor brewer accidentally cooked his yeast starter (grain, water and yeast mix). I'll have to do some more research including extensive testing of both products... :D
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It has been theorized/fantasized that mead was the first fermented beverage. The theory goes that some tribal hunter/gatherer found a bee hive full of honey and filled an "empty" water skin with the honey. After emptying the honey from the skin, the skin was re-used for water. Since all the sticky honey never came out, naturally occurring yeasties triggered fermentation when the water and honey residue mixed. A few days later, viola, not real good mead but something with a "kick" to it. And the race to a better mead was on. :D
 
grass fed bacon is good for you! (I think)
free range meat produces high omega-3 fats, which balance out the others, reducing chronic inflammation from over-ingestion of omega-6 and other fats. Saturated animal fat is often good for you. Just lay off the damn home fries cooked in canola, soy, or overheated olive oil.
 
daizee said:
grass fed bacon is good for you! (I think)
free range meat produces high omega-3 fats, which balance out the others, reducing chronic inflammation from over-ingestion of omega-6 and other fats. Saturated animal fat is often good for you. Just lay off the damn home fries cooked in canola, soy, or overheated olive oil.
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One of the reasons I particularly like a nice 100-ish pound wild sow when hunting. Tastes great, and good for you!
 
Little Caesars has a bacon crust deep dish? Hmmmmmmm. that might be good.

James that pic has an American M1 rifle (paratrooper stock) and an American GI belt. Probably one of the Army 101'st (Vietnam). Seems like something they would do.
 
GSO1962 said:
One of the reasons I particularly like a nice 100-ish pound wild sow when hunting. Tastes great, and good for you!
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Feral hog and javelina both are leaner than "store-bought" pork. Store-bought pork comes from hogs/pigs that are raised in relatively small enclosures where they get very little "real" exercise, hence their meat is "fattier".
 
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