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Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon: New Orleans! May 20-22, 2005!


DavidS - Jun 23, 2004 2:47:39 pm PDT #5889 of 9999
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I say this with love, but you all know that you are BIG GIANT FREAKS, right?

If you had a muffeletta you'd understand.


§ ita § - Jun 23, 2004 2:48:09 pm PDT #5890 of 9999
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

you asked specifically what you were eating if you only ate the olives. I think in that instance, you're eating olives.

I was going by the bit of his argument I now see he has now discarded.

Because now he seems he thinks there is an irreducible essence too. Which involves bread, so far.


deborah grabien - Jun 23, 2004 2:48:30 pm PDT #5891 of 9999
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

(blinking)

I just realised something - I'm arguing about sandwich zen.

Hooookay, time to go contemplate my belly button.


DavidS - Jun 23, 2004 2:48:41 pm PDT #5892 of 9999
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

So you're saying that, if you put the meat and cheese and olives onto a sub roll, you'd still have a muffaletta, rather than a sub with olives?

It would be a poor muffeletta but would have greater claim to that name than having everything but the olives on the proper bread.


Sean K - Jun 23, 2004 2:50:46 pm PDT #5893 of 9999
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Because now he seems he thinks there is an irreducible essence too. Which involves bread, so far.

Mostly I'm giggling my ass off, trying to figure out just how far into the absurd we can push the muffaleta conversation.

And when Dana is going to come kill us all.


Sean K - Jun 23, 2004 2:51:16 pm PDT #5894 of 9999
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

It would be a poor muffeletta but would have greater claim to that name than having everything but the olives on the proper bread.

And you think my rebuttal was lame?

Weak.


deborah grabien - Jun 23, 2004 2:53:22 pm PDT #5895 of 9999
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Hec, I've not only eaten tapenade without the capers - which by the way can kill me - I've made tapenade without capers.

And it was, though I say so myself, tapenade. Damned good tapenade, too.

And if some guy named Anatole in Villefranche-sur-Mer wants to dis my caperless yet nonfatal tapenade because the essence of tapenade is surely the capers?

He can baiser mon cul.

Damn it. I'm still arguing about fucking sandwich zen.


Dana - Jun 23, 2004 2:53:45 pm PDT #5896 of 9999
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

And when Dana is going to come kill us all.

I'm perfectly content. I know what I'm eating. Or not eating, unfortunately, since I am muffaletta-less.


DavidS - Jun 23, 2004 2:54:48 pm PDT #5897 of 9999
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

And you think my rebuttal was lame?

Try this then salami swami, find an online muffaletta recipe that doesn't include olives.


Hil R. - Jun 23, 2004 2:55:11 pm PDT #5898 of 9999
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Dude. Olive salad comes in a jar. You can put it on almost anything. The presence of olive salad will not turn, say, a hot dog, into a muffaletta.

However, muffaletta bread is specifically muffaletta bread. It doesn't have any other functions. Once you've taken muffaletta bread, and put some standard sandwich fillings on it, it becomes a muffaletta sandwich. (If you put, say, peanut butter and jelly on it, then it's just muffaletta bread with peanut butter and jelly. The fillings need to come from the standard meats and cheeses and salads.)