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Crappy Food Writing

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gfweb

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"melty cheese" I read as a property of the cheese  ie meltable.  "Melted cheese"  refers to the state of being melted at the moment.

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1 hour ago, gfweb said:

"melty cheese" I read as a property of the cheese  ie meltable.  "Melted cheese"  refers to the state of being melted at the moment.

 

Yes, that's what @liuzhou wrote earlier today -- and I concurred. So now we're three. Does that constitute a quorum? 

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

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liuzhou

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Does an English breakfast make men more attractive?


https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-07/does-an-english-breakfast-make-men-more-attractive

 

I have rarely read such semi-literate garbage in my life. 

 

The UK's ITV (Independent Television) site almost guarantees typos and tortuous sentence structures in every story but even ignoring that, this is patent nonsense.

 

Must have been a slow news day.

 

...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
Mark Twain
 

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Tropicalsenior

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52 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Does an English breakfast make men more attractive?

Are you not at least tempted to test out the theory?

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liuzhou

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54 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

Are you not at least tempted to test out the theory?

 

Not in the least.

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
Mark Twain
 

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liuzhou

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I just read this comment in response to an article on a certain internet food site.


"I often ate lotus seeds growing up in congee..."


Was the writer growing up in congee or the lotus seeds?

 

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
Mark Twain
 

The Kitchen Scale Manifesto

liuzhou

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The UK's Independent Television News (ITV) is one of the few foreign news sites not blocked by Beijing's paranoid censors.

 

Unfortunately, it is semi-literate at best. Typos and downright errors are the norm. They routinely use 'infer' when they mean 'imply', one of my many pet hates.

 

This garbage assaulted me this morning before my first coffee. Unforgivable!

 

"William Maughan keeps 30,000 free range hens near Darlington. Like all British farmers his birds are vaccinated against salmonella."

 

All farmers aren't vaccinated! All farmers' birds are! Which is what they meant to convey.

 

Grrr!

 

https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-19/polish-chicken-imports-may-be-banned-as-salmonella-cases-rise

 

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot"
Mark Twain
 

The Kitchen Scale Manifesto

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gfweb

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Unless all the brits i see on BBC are eating French breakfasts I think the evidence favors "no effect"

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I'm good with a glug or a splash, but not a bunch. Maybe a handful? Bunches are arbitrary divisions made on the basis of your grocer's pricing guidelines. Here in northern CA a bunch of chives is typically no thicker than a small pinkie finger. In Atlanta we found bunches of chives consisted of about ten times that much. For the same price or less.

 

I agree with posters who are annoyed by endless overwritten preambles to a recipe; most of them are inane and repetitive to say nothing of poorly written. But what irritates me the most is the paragraph titled: "Why you will love this recipe."

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