I just make home-made pizza with some very nice pizza sauce from the supermarket, skip the cheese entirely. It's better than you'd think.

Katefate, black bodies and gray tails? That ain't right.

And wouldn't pizza be kosher until you put the pepperonis and sausage on it? (Asks the skisha.)

Tennessee has honeysuckle worth killing for. And now mentioning it on the thread has me jonesing for it. I am so missing having a fence full so that one could just grab a couple as a walking snack.

There's vegan jerky in the US. I don't think it's meant for eating so much as using an excuse to practice expressions of disbelief.

Hey, we had honeysuckle in NYC that you could pull out the middle stem and suck a drop of dewlike stuff. But just a couple of drops.

There's vegan jerky in the US. I don't think it's meant for eating so much as using an excuse to practice expressions of disbelief.

Tofurkey Jerky. I've never tried it. It just looks weird.

Vegan Jerkey - mostly ugh. Morningstar Corndogs - of the good. This carnivore prefers them to the real thing.

Serial:

However I'm on the Upper Left Coast; I suspect that I would prefer real NY or Chicago hotdogs to either. One thing I really have missed since moving to the Pacific NorthWet is decent Jewish Deli, and decent hot dogs and a. Living in LA and Houston spoiled me. Not that there aren't a few - there are a grand total of three decent Jewish delis in the whole greater Portland Area. Caroma, I'll bet there are three decent Jewish delis in walking distance of where you live.

fanny was British for goolie

My sister was over from the UK and she found it very very amusing when re-runs of The Nanny came on and the credits sequence song got to "where was she to go, what we she to do, she was out on her fanneeeeeeeee!" -- she speculates that this is why the show never made it on to UK TV.

[Australians cooking] pizza with egg. What sort of egg is this?

Everyone was assuming that this was an egg which had been pre-fried or boiled or whatever but in my experience, it's just a fresh egg broken over the top of the pizza before it goes into the oven. It gets baked along with all the other ingredients.

And wouldn't pizza be kosher until you put the pepperonis and sausage on it? (Asks the skisha.)

Well, if the cheese is from a 'kosher' animal (like a cow or a goat) and the flour was cleaned¹ properly, and if a certain amount of dough was prepared, 'challa' was taken out of the total amount, and the vegetables also had - grr, I don't have enough of that vocabulary thing - been, um, tithed?

What I'm trying to say is that the pepperonis/sausages could make a kosher pizza into a not-kosher one, but their lack is still not enough for a pizza to be kosher.

I hope I didn't vague this and confuse you more instead of answering.

it's just a fresh egg broken over the top of the pizza before it goes into the oven. It gets baked along with all the other ingredients.

When my mom bakes bread, she gently 'coats' the dough with an uncooked egg, and it improves the look of the bread. There's also a food (we call it 'shakshuka', I have no idea what other names it may have) which is pretty much a spiced tomato sauce into which you can break an egg, while it's being cooked and nearly ready, and the egg gets cooked with it. I have no idea if this has anything to do with the (egg & pizza-ed) topic of conversation.

Also, John! You married man you! I wasn't online in time to tell you this, but I was very happy for you last Thursday.

¹ There should be a different word than 'cleaned' there, maybe 'picked', but I have no idea how to translate the Hebrew into the proper English, sorry.

There should be a different word than 'cleaned' there, maybe 'picked'

"Winnowed," separating the wheat from the chaff? Or just "sifted" through a sieve for impurities?