You can have em. Carrots should not be grey. Meat? Should never be grey.
My people? Lousy cooks.
eta: except for that really salty porridge. Which is also grey...but salty!
Actually not needing validation right now, but thank you.
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beekaytee - Feb 02, 2006 8:15:52 am PST #4502 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Aims - Feb 02, 2006 8:18:24 am PST #4503 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
No kidding. No matter how many times I have made corned beef and cabbage and carrots, it's NEVER turned grey.
beekaytee - Feb 02, 2006 8:19:24 am PST #4504 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Perhaps, in our modern society, we just don't have the hours it takes to boil food to an inorganic state.
Jessica - Feb 02, 2006 8:23:10 am PST #4505 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But surely Irish bar food would involve mainly sausages and crisps, as all good and proper bar food should.
brenda m - Feb 02, 2006 8:23:27 am PST #4506 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
No kidding. No matter how many times I have made corned beef and cabbage and carrots, it's NEVER turned grey.
My dad can do it! And as a bonus, the smell lasts for weeks!
§ ita § - Feb 02, 2006 8:25:02 am PST #4507 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just try and avoid cabbage (easy enough in Jamaican food) and corned beef (less so, but we had a low sodium household).
shrift - Feb 02, 2006 8:25:15 am PST #4508 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Right? Not quite the picture I had in my head from the books, but that's quite all right.
I blame James McAvoy for the wrong thoughts I'm having.
beekaytee - Feb 02, 2006 8:25:29 am PST #4509 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
And as a bonus, the smell lasts for weeks!
This made me gasp with knowing laughter. Oh. my. gods. The Smell!! It's like a character from the Legion of Doom. Indestructible!
§ ita § - Feb 02, 2006 8:25:55 am PST #4510 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I blame James McAvoy for the wrong thoughts I'm having.
Mmm. Your thoughts are never wrong, shrift, except for the ones that keep you in Michigan.
Scrappy - Feb 02, 2006 8:27:24 am PST #4511 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I have three words for you-
Irish Soda Bread.
A wedge lightly toasted with butter....heaven.