two thumbs up on the chicken & dumplings.
mine too. It takes some effort, but it was really freaking good.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Vortex - Sep 07, 2009 5:12:51 pm PDT #22248 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 6:03:22 pm PDT #22249 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Random wikipedia-clicking has informed me that, according to botanists, neither almonds, cashews, nor Brazil nuts are actually nuts. Macadamia nuts seem valid, but some types of walnuts are questionable.
§ ita § - Sep 07, 2009 6:05:56 pm PDT #22250 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What's not nutty about almonds and cashews? We eat the fruit around cashews and almonds and as kids ignored the nutty potential. Perhaps we were right all along.
Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 6:09:37 pm PDT #22251 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Yep, they're drupes: [link]
billytea - Sep 07, 2009 6:10:18 pm PDT #22252 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Macadamia nuts seem valid
And tasty! And the only native Australian crop to achieve any sort of large-scale cultivation.
Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 6:13:47 pm PDT #22253 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
And tasty! And the only native Australian crop to achieve any sort of large-scale cultivation.
However, wikipedia also gives this somewhat startling bit of information:
1858 - Walter Hill, Superintendent of the Brisbane City Botanical Gardens, observes a boy eating the nut without ill effect, becoming the first non-indigenous person recorded to eat Macadamia.
Which pretty much gives the impression that he thought there would be ill effect, saw the boy eating the nut, and rather than stopping him, decided to observe him and see what would happen.
billytea - Sep 07, 2009 6:26:20 pm PDT #22254 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Which pretty much gives the impression that he thought there would be ill effect, saw the boy eating the nut, and rather than stopping him, decided to observe him and see what would happen.
He might also simply not have had time to react. I, however, prefer to think that he was the one actively feeding the boy macadamias.
DCJensen - Sep 07, 2009 6:33:40 pm PDT #22255 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Macadamia nuts seem valid
And tasty! And the only native Australian crop to achieve any sort of large-scale cultivation.
Every macadamia nut I have ever tried reminded me too much of munching on chalk.
ETA: Maybe I've had some bad luck?
Trudy Booth - Sep 07, 2009 6:42:18 pm PDT #22256 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
So are people allergic to nuts not allergic to drupes?
Hil R. - Sep 07, 2009 6:47:13 pm PDT #22257 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
So are people allergic to nuts not allergic to drupes?
A quick google seems to say that some people who are allergic to nuts are actually only allergic to certain families of nuts, so some of them are allergic to drupes and others aren't. [link]