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  1. Why does the value of an object have anything to do with whether taking it is theft?

    If the value is zero it's probably not theft.

    In every state I know of, there are levels of larceny with the division between petit and grand falling somewhere around $500. This doesn't mean the smaller amounts are not theft, but it does indicate that one is less serious than the other.

    But I don't think the question with something like a produce bag is value. It's more one of implied consent. The bags are out there. They have no purchase price assigned to them. There are no rules written on them ("Take only one bag per six oranges") and most likely no such rules exist even in the corporate manual. Etc.

    Hmmm

    What if I took all the rolls of veg bags in the whole store?

  2. That's a different issue than the one initially proposed.

    I suppose it would be theft of some sort if the cashier intended it to be. But brainless inefficiency isn't theft.

    I know that but I think the distinction illustrates that it isn't sophistry to talk about a spectrum of culpability.

    The question that started all this was "is this within the spectrum of normal behavior or is it theft? "

    I think this question set up a false dichotomy and it is tangling up the duscussion. Some argue that it is theft and others that it is trivial. I'd say both are right.

  3. ....

    And Tyler Florence because he's a tool.

    TOTALLY !! You just know he's preening into an off-camera mirror, admiring how studly he is.

    I think I remember a comment on top chef from one of the Voltagios who was judged harshly by TF. He dismissed him with a smirk as a TV chef.!

  4. Look at the sodium content in the bullion cube. Unless there are significant amounts of other Na sources that will tell you how much salt there is. Then go back to your chemistry text and find the molecular weight of Na and figure out how many moles of Na is present. Then take that number and multiply it by the MW of Cl. Add that product to the Na weight on the label and that will be the amount of sea salt (or any other fairly pure salt) to add back.

    I knew college chemistry would come in handy some day. :laugh:

  5. You can still consider it one of your worst shows!

    I can't remember what the other Italian show was, with Maryanne Esposito, but she used to drive me nuts. She seems like a perfectly fine woman and good old-fashioned Italian home cook but she would drive me crazy and he food wasn't exactly wrong but it wasn't like the food I was eating in Italy.

    Unfortunately, Mary Ann Esposito, or shall I say mary ANN esPOSito, is still on in the LA basin, and apparently still producing new shows.....forever, I'm afraid. She's already been on since dirt was young, and shows no signs of going gently into that good night.....

    The show is "Ciao Italia" and it is dreadful, miserable, painful to watch. Did I mention it makes me twitch when I hear her voice....which is like the voice of your least favorite elementary school teacher. The one who treated you like a blithering idiot, even though you could understand the periodic tables in 3rd grade? THAT teacher.

    She comes on in the middle, the dead, smack middle of the block of cooking shows one of the local PBS stations in SoCal programs on Saturday afternoons. After the Martha show and before Lidia. Although I program my TV for the whole block, I walk the dogs while mary ANN esPOSito is....on....the....tele.....vis....ion.

    She is like fingernails dragging on a chalkboard to me, and her recipes suck. Plus, she's got helmet hair. She may not be the worst, I've not seen a lot of the ones who have been mentioned (and I rule Sandra Lee out as NOT being a cooking show, so she doesn't qualify....), but mary ANN esPOSito is right up there in the most annoying.

    YES!

    And Tyler Florence because he's a tool.

  6. the worst show I can remember was Chef Rene the Black Hat Chef A production of the public tv station in Allentown PA. This featured Chef Rene who was some sort of riverboat chef. The worst part was the stories he told affecting fake racial accents and dialect. Later they added some public tv guy to try to control him this was in the 80's I think It was horrible.

    Anyone else remember this dog or any other real bad shows

    Oh yeah.He sucked.

  7. Crispy bacon has always been my favorite but recently I worked out something a little different. I fry it over a low heat in a non stick pan and brush on some blackstrap molasses, enough to cover both sides. It stays fairly flat this way and tastes like candy when it's done. Goes especially well with hamburgers.

    Doesn't the burned molasses screw-up the non-stick?

  8. Is it a noun or a verb or both? I'd say both. It is both a temp short of boiling and a method.

    Some of the issue is one of usage rather than strict definition As you say poaching and simmering are done at the same temperature, yet some foods are said to be poached and others simmered.

  9. Deb and I were in WS a year or so ago and a British chap came in and when sked if he could be helped, he replied "I'm looking for some pots and pans for my new flat." The response he got was "If you want pots and pans, go to Walmart. We sell cookware."

    HC

    Exactly what I was talking about upthread. LOL

  10. I recently stumbled on a decent one on the cooking channel. A Canadian thing called French Cooking at Home. The cook is Laura somebody and she teaches a bit. Not bad to look at but not a tart or a trollop either. She seems intelligent and reminds me of Julia a little.

    I LOVE her and that show. Laura Calder is her name, and she rocks. Her show, the reruns of La Julia and "Chuck's Day Off" are about the only shows I watch on either FN or Cooking Channel any longer.

    Given that her show doesn't suck, I don't expect it to be around much longer. Especially if she doesn't learn to say "BAAAAAAM" or "YUMMMMMM-OH" or "MONEY".

    Sounds like I need to check out Chuck. Thanks.

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