My preferred muffaletta serving is to get it with the olive salad, keep it wrapped in the paper for a little while, and then scrape the olive salad off. You get all the nice flavor without any of the actual icky olives. (Of course, my muffalettas are generally homemade now, they've got to have fake meat and non-dairy cheese. I haven't actually tried this yet, but I think that tempeh or seitan might work -- I tend to like those better than the packaged fake meats. I've seen a recipe that skips the meats altogether and uses grilled vegetables, but that seems wrong. Tasty, but wrong.)

My preferred muffaletta serving is to get it with the olive salad, keep it wrapped in the paper for a little while, and then scrape the olive salad off.

You know it.

Okay, this is exactly how the kerfuffaletta started.

Sometimes I worry if I truly am a Buffista. I've never had a muffaletta, but they do not sound appealing to me. I dislike cilantro, a lot. Grammar, while I appreciate its need, I inadvertently butcher it (and spelling), and have no opinion in the great comma debate. Sorry about that. And I don't drink enough to have an opinion on fernet and absinthe, as most booze just smells/tastes of alcohol and has no flavor. Perfume is similar for me, in that I can't smell the fragrance, just the alcohol. Except that cheap lavender crap that just makes the baby jesus cry. I also like broccoli.

But I love you all, and this thread is made of WIN!!! I also jump on bandwagon that the lurkers stay unlurked. Hard to believe, I can be very shy irl, but in here, jump into the conversation easily. But I understand that sometimes conversations whiz by at such a speed. Especially Natter and Bitches, which is why I only subscribe to Bitches, because I can't keep up in both. But everyone who has introduced themselves has been interesting and brought a smile to my face, and I instantly recognized as a Buffista!!

ETA fixed typo as mentioned in next post.

(okay, a lot of us are thinking this, so I might as well)

it's need

its need.

runs away

Hello, darling lurkers! It is so much fun to meet you! I'm Andrea, sometimes called Andi, or Windi. I think I might be able to join Sumiko's coalition. Askye introduced me to the Buffistas just as the transition from WX was happening, after I met her and Daniel at the Hellmouth Cafe chat room. That was at least seven years ago, as Daniel and I did the long distance relationship thing for three years then met in person. We hit it off so well that we decided enough was enough, so I moved from Arizona to Minnesota to live with him. That was four years ago. We have two cats, one of whom is a female Orange Cat, a bit fluffy, called Sammie. The other is the infamous Harvey, a blue-point part Siamese, who often sits on Daniel or on my wrists as we are posting, and purrs his little heart out.

SlartibartfastSLBNRLB, you have no idea how happy it makes me that you and askye are so happy together. I wish you both the best, and hope all the right things happen so the two of you can spend more time in arm's reach.

Any right-thinking person would agree that it's Ammitch and Ammith.

But of course.

I'm pro-cilantro and serial commas. Never tried muffaletta but based on descriptions would love it, especially with olives. I'm so pro-olive that once when I was a little girl, my family was eating dinner at a restaurant, and I asked for olives. The waitress brought me a plate full of them, and I happily ate them all. Haven't tried Fernet, no way to tell if I'd like it or not, but I'm willing to try it. My one true whiskey is whatever is on sale. Beer? Tastes too much like beer.

Hi, I'm davers, but answer to bj. This is a terrific thread, it's like having a posting safety net. Or training wheels.

I share a house in Central Florida with two cats, neither of which is orange. I started following BTVS on TT and followed the migration to WX and then to the b.org board, where I've lurked since. The board moves so fast, it's always been too daunting to try to hop on mid-spin, especially since anything I might add has usually been said...and said well.

You are an amazing group of people, the source of some of the biggest laughs and the most eclectic information in my life...in no other venue would I have learned, among others subjects, about teabagging, corsets, slash, or the intense and incomprehensible anti-cilantro constituency. I'm a better person for knowing these things.

I just re-watched Buffy S1 – S7 and have begun Angel again, currently at S2. Season 5 promises to be especially exciting because I have not seen all episodes, so there will be New Angel in my future.

I'm pro-olives and muffulettas, ambivalent about the serial comma, and inordinately fond of the ellipsis. I've never tried Fernet and have learned not to click Buffista links when accompanied by a warning.

Welcome davers.

Hi, davers! I share your... fondness for the ellipsis. Welcome!

It's so cool to meet these lurkers who have been on the board way longer than I have!

And I agree with everyone else who chimed in about it, olives are wrong it's really interesting to learn new things about people I've known for so long.