I like broccoli smothered in cheese, otherwise, NSM.

Anchovies are the NAST!

Anchovies are the NAST!

As whole fish yes (especially contaminating a pizza), but a little bit of paste is absolutely REQUIRED in the dressing for a Caesar salad. Just leave the little fishy salt bombs off the top, please.

Anchovies are delicious! If a little much whole.

Glad you liked the fish, lisah. It wouldn't have occurred to me to try pistachios (I've only ever used sweet nuts as breading).

As whole fish yes (especially contaminating a pizza), but a little bit of paste is absolutely REQUIRED in the dressing for a Caesar salad. Just leave the little fishy salt bombs off the top, please.

I'm with Frank about that. I'd never been all that fond of Caesar salad because I'd only had the wimpy restaurant all ranch/no anchovy kind. Then I got one at an airport terminal pub with the real deal dressing and I've been craving it ever since.

I am a HUGE fan of anchovy paste. All the salty fishy goodness of anchovies without the disturbing tiny bones! Everybody wins!

I would be willing to try the paste. I mean, I like the saltiness and I love a strong Ceasar salad.

What's the difference between anchovies and sardines?

(N.b. I am not a fan of either, although I like how the canned sardines look like happy little campers in their tin sleeping bags.)

So this creationist biologist was fired because he didn't believe in evolution. Now he's suing.

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Abraham, who is seeking $500,000 in compensation for a violation of his civil rights, says in the suit that he lost his job as a postdoctoral researcher in a biology lab shortly after he told his superior that he did not accept evolution as scientific fact.

"Woods Hole believes they have the right to insist on a belief in evolution," said David C. Gibbs III, one of Abraham's two attorneys and general counsel of the Christian Law Association in Seminole, Fla.

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In a 2004 letter to Abraham, his boss, Woods Hole senior scien tist Mark E. Hahn, wrote that Abraham said he did not want to work on "evolutionary aspects" of the National Institutes of Health grant for which he was hired, even though the project clearly required scientists to use the principles of evolution in their analyses and writing.

I like this part:

Eugenie C. Scott, executive director for the National Center for Science Education, which defends the teaching of evolution in public schools, said Abraham was clearly being disingenuous when he applied for the job because he was hired to work in the field of developmental biology.

"It is inconceivable that someone working in developmental biology at a major research institution would not be expected to deal intimately with evolution," she said. "A flight school hiring instructors wouldn't ask whether they accepted that the earth was spherical; they would assume it. Similarly, Woods Hole would have assumed that someone hired to work in developmental biology would accept that evolution occurred. It's part and parcel of the science these days."

"Woods Hole believes they have the right to insist on a belief in evolution"

Wow, insisting on science? For a scientific position? Crazy talk!

What's the difference between anchovies and sardines?

sardines are tiny little cured things

I actually had fun in wikipedia last night on this very topic. I even found out what kippers are!