Is it hard to be called out on your past mistakes? Of course. Would you have made the mistake if you knew better? Probably not. But learning about it after the fact doesn't make it not your fault or not a problem. It just makes it a problem you now know not to repeat! Handle it with grace.

seriously.

I am amazed how much white people suck at this, in general. It's insane.

First batch of Latke-Crusted Turkey Stuffing Fritters With Liquid Cranberry Core has been fried. One didn't get golden brown around the equator, so I made that my sample. Yum. Not sure how they will reheat tomorrow, but hot from the oil = yum.

Looks right to me

Thank you for making the hard call for my benefit, Hec. I can trust you for that where my skull is concerned.

That's as short as the place can go without straight razor. I guess that's extra money, and definitely extra weight.

I read a conflicting article about appropriation yesterday. I don't know what to make of many of his points, especially the bit where he's mad at straight people appropriating AIDS. If I can see that he's mad that if an AIDS movie has to be made after this long, why does it have to pointedly be about a bigot, isn't it likely that if it was about a gay man by this writer or director it would be appropriating even worse, and whoever did it, some complaint that if you're going to make a big budget movie with gay leads, why does it have to be about AIDS? There are a lot of no win situations in it, and mostly I come away feeling the biggest message is "write what you are AND NOTHING ELSE."

Also there are no allies.

In 180° news, I really really want some oatmeal right now. But it's for breakfast. I can't break the rules and have it now. That way lies chaos.

Is it hard to be called out on your past mistakes? Of course. Would you have made the mistake if you knew better? Probably not. But learning about it after the fact doesn't make it not your fault or not a problem. It just makes it a problem you now know not to repeat! Handle it with grace.

It's brutal. I mean, honestly, who easily says they flat-out fucked up before they knew different and they're sorry?

Because they might do it differently knowing what they know in this moment but, honestly, they lived in a different snapshot of time.

People make bad choices and we give them a way to move on and be better or we don't.

Or you could be like Colton Haynes who tacked up his costume more than one Halloween--you can be called out a fucking lot, and then flip the finger at your public and plan someting trivial to you for next year.

Second batch of fritters is fried and cooling/draining on the counter. One cup of sort of whole berry cranberry sauce (I added the pulp back to the strained sauce that didn't go into the fritters because I couldn't bear to throw all that lovely pulp away), one cup of NPR cranberry relish and 20-ish fritters (there are 23 right now, I plan to have at least one for breakfast to see if they are okay cold or how they reheat, so probably two) will have to be enough of a contribution to the pot luck.

I am very impressed, -t!

I kind of am, too! This somehow didn't seem that complicated when I read the recipe, even though all the steps were clearly spelled out.

For the record - cold fritter is okay, but my tolerance for cold fried potatoes and cold stuffing is, I suspect, above the norm. One fritter zapped on "Reheat" for 1 minute seems adequately heated, although the cranberry sauce gets hotter than it ought to be. On the whole pretty tasty, though. My co-workers will have to make do, I don't think we have an oven in the lunchroom I can warm them up in and I'm not going to attempt to fry things at work.

It's a Thanksgivvikuh miracle - my office is finally upgrading from XP to Win7!!

I just noticed your new tag, Jessica. Heh.

Fritters with stuffing and cranberries sound really good.