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What an unhelpful, Visigothy, hairy-footed wacko bird.
What Darth said plus off you go to the gulag to break rocks with Joe Wilson, Jim Bridenstine.
– considered half the Establican media today.
It’s not a suggestion. If it sounds like a suggestion, somebody’s being courteous to a rabid dog.
Cut McGehee’s gruel too. We shall have order.
Hear, hear! Oklahoma is the future.
“The only problem is that his vice-president is equally unfit, and even more embarrassing.”
I’ll grant that this is a big problem, but it’s hardly the only problem. Other problems are that this president’s allies in Congress and the media refuse to hold him to account; that decades of
brainwashingmaleducation have led most Americans to believe they must accept these abuses; and that tar and feathers have fallen out of fashion.But don’t let my little quibbling detract from the truth and necessity of the words of the Gentleman from Oklahoma.
The most truthy minute of oratory the House floor has seen all century.
The only problem I saw was saying Obama is incompetent.
The man has accomplish more of HIS agenda than any president in modern history, I would assert.
Not that he hasn’t had a whole lot of help of course.
The only reason Bridenstine hasn’t been audited or otherwise put in his place is because Obama hasn’t read about this in the paper yet.
“I’ll grant that this is a big problem, but it’s hardly the only problem. ”
Definitely not, because even if you managed to impeach Joey Plugs too, The Orange Man is next in line.
I almost wrote “next in lie”, which would also have worked.
Can’t hear that enough.
Damn, where’s this guy been? And here was I, reserving all my crush for
Ted Cruz.
I wish I could believe we could wait it out while we elect more guys like this, and the old guys retire or croak.
angstlee, he’s only been in office since January. He ran a rather breathtaking upset primary against long-time GOP drunkard and representative John Sullivan. All the establishment types were basically saying this guy takes bribes to eat babies, but he won pretty handily. It was a beautiful sight.
One thing they tried to argue was that the guy was a carpetbagger imported by scary Tea Party / Democrat types to run out their awesome RINO-in-good-standing Sullivan. He really hadn’t been in the state but for the past 2 years or something … because he was active duty Navy before then.
Getting rid of Obama and Biden would only be a very small start.
The Leftist infestation is too deep and wide-spread in the national government.
I see no reason to waste our time and efforts on saving what can’t be saved.
I’m willing to listen to arguments that would show me my sentiments are wrong.
OUTLAWS!
Honestly Bob, I can omly think of one reasonable argument.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE
no really
MSNBC’s Martin Bashir: ‘IRS’ Is the New ‘N****r’
HARRUMPH!
Okies are OK in my book.
Blitz, you won me over.
I’m open to suggestions for what should be our ‘really futile and stupid gesture’.
Oh…and who’s bringing the Jack Daniels?
I’ll bring the Jack. Other than that? How about President Goldstein? Vice President Dicentra? Definitely Squid as joint chiefs chairman, Leigh as head of HHS, Darleen? hmm.. either AG or Speaker of the House. Danger for sure CIA,and Happy? President of the New state of Sanfran.
Me? I’ll be in the freakin’ motor pool.
Either that, or form the Visigoth Party. or maybe OUTLAW!!
Oh. And to oversee the termination of these agencies? Jho for the fed, Carin for the Department of Education, Mcgehee foe the EPA And I will personally turn the ATF into a convienience store.
I volunteer to head the Dept. of Agriculture, if long enough to stamp out the Spinach Menace.
And Brussels Sprouts too, for their god-awful stench and intrinsically un-American nature. I mean, seriously, they might as well be called “EU Commie Weed”…
San Fran has lots of tasty vietnamese foozle.
Mr. Bradley brussels sprouts are popping up at more and more of my favorite places. Down the street there’s a hipster bar and they do a fried sriracha brussels sprout thing… it’s worth going just for that.
Shit. I summoned the electric hamster. Sorry y’all. And HEY!! I liike brussel sprouts.
I am indeed a foe of the EPA, and will dismantle the agency just as soon as I have used it to seize ownership of every piece of land that I want to exclude you proles from.
Wouldn’t want you doing it to me after I’ve returned to private life…
hey i also enjoy brussels sprouts we might could be related
I want to run the IRS and ATF. Granted, I would only run the job long enough to issue a boat load of tree killing pink slips, but, hey, it’s worthy cause.
I used to drive frozen brussel sprouts off my back deck into the woods with a golf club.
Completely off topic and totally unrelated to this blog, but does anyone know if Google indexes tweets? Seems they didn’t for awhile but now?
JB
I never cared much for brussels until I had them after being sizzled for 40 minutes in a bunch of bacon fat then served with crumbled crunchy bacon
I’ve never seen a tweet come up in Google search results. When I view source on an individual tweet’s web page at Twitter, I don’t see any recognizable HTML code.
Cut ’em in half and saute fast in a very hot pan.
There are chemicals involved.
The internet calls them “glucosinolates”. Sulfur-ish with too much time.
McGee in On Food and Cooking, pg 322, suggests that you can also just blanch and shock them.
I never cared much for brussels until I had them after being sizzled for 40 minutes in a bunch of bacon fat then served with crumbled crunchy bacon
That’s cheating. Old tennis shoes would probably be a delicacy, prepared in that fashion!
Okay, perhaps I’ve unfairly maligned the benighted brussels sprout, prince of foods. In my defense, my mother’s cooking of same in my youth, left me permanently scarred. Her technique, such as it was, involved boiling the wretched little things until the entire house reeked like the inside of a sick cow’s ass. Or so I imagine.
Can’t say I’ve ever actually tasted the things. Whenever one of these thankfully rare Brussels Sprout Events would occur, I’d hide at a friend’s house until the coast was clear — the dissipation of the visible green stench cloud surrounding my home being the signal. Much like sewer rat, they could taste like pumpkin pie and I’d never know.
But I love the smell of sauerkraut. Go figure.
Crucifers can be edible, even tasty, raw. Cooking of any sort turns them into an abomination unto the Lord. Cole slaw? Good stuff. Raw cauliflower and dip? Good stuff.
No cooked cabbage. No cooked broccoli. No cooked cauliflower. And definitely no friggin’ cooked Brussels sprouts.
Or so says my religion.
While I think your suggestions are pretty damn good, Blitz, and I like the idea of John running the DOA, I notice I’m not mentioned.
I would like the ATF, please. I’ve had much experience with the A and the T, and am now learning about the F.
1) Brussels sprouts are the Devil’s vegetable. Frying them in bacon fat is an unconscionable abuse of the sacred meat. They will be eradicated. Plus, they’re Belgian.
2) I don’t want to be part of any visible Cabinet position. I want to be the invisible guy behind the scenes telling everybody what to do. Also, I have pitchforks to sell.
Steamed cauliflower is really yummy in macaroni and cheese. I know, I know — it strains credibility, but hear me out. I, too, was quite skeptical when the Lovely Bride proposed it. I’m not a big fan of the mutant cabbages to begin with. But in reality, the nasty little brain stalks add a really good note to what is otherwise a kinda bland dish. Don’t get me wrong, I love me some mac and cheese. But the addition of the boxer’s ears just…elevates it.
I suspect Lucifer is involved.
Brussels sprouts need a lot of preparation. They need to have all the yellowing leaves plucked off and a cross cut into the stem to speed the cooking. Blanch them in boiling salted water for five minutes and drain. Heat a heavy pan, melt some fat (butter/olive oil/bacon fat) and fry them in the fat on the stove top or put the pan in the oven at about 375F for 20-30 minutes or so, stirring occasionally. They get nice and crisp on the outside and soft and tender on the inside. Everyone in my house hates them except me, so I only make them on Christmas (which is also my birthday, so they can suck it up and eat them one day a year).
I dislike cauliflower and the whole “Roasted cauliflower tastes like French fries!” is a big fat lie. No, it doesn’t. It tastes like stinky cauliflower. Ditto cauliflower masquerading as mashed potatoes. Just no. I don’t like broccoli either, but I suspect that is because we had it all the time when I was a kid since it was grown locally and was very cheap.
bh says June 5, 2013 at 10:44 pm
Cut ‘em in half and saute fast in a very hot pan.
There are chemicals involved.
I do this. It makes them my favorite vegetable. I can’t stomach them otherwise.
As for cauliflower, with a little work and a food processor you can make a decent pizza crust out of it.
Man, you guys make an awful lot of work out of an easily cooked veggie.
Rinse, cut in half, throw in glass dish, butter, cover, microwave, serve with fresh grated Parmesan cheese.
Rinse, cut in half, throw in glass dish, butter, cover, microwave, serve with fresh grated Parmesan cheese.
You forgot the last step: stuff down garbage disposal.
Squid’s mom evidently made him eat far too many vegetables.
Me, I generally enjoy the hell out of them. Still can’t eat lima beans, though.
Brussels sprouts braised in cream with a little nutmeg (at the end only; if you cook the nutmeg with the brussels sprouts it gets a bitter-er taste) is fairly divine.
In general, crucifers like broccoli and cauliflower and the like get a sulfurous smell/taste if they’re overcooked. This is actually sulfur dioxide, IIRC, being released.
So don’t overcook.
Broccoli and cauliflower both make fantastic cheese soups.
If you like your cauliflower with mac n cheese, a good cauliflower-cheese soup will do you just fine.
We grew a surfeit of cabbage this year, so I thought: why not make some sauerkraut? All you need is some vinegar, right?
Wrong. Real sauerkraut has never seen vinegar. It’s fermented (which produces lactic acid, which is the source of all of the acid in sauerkraut), which takes time, darkness, and a willingness to remove moldy part and eat the rest. So I gave up. But when I get my place in the country and my root cellar, I will be making the stuff.
You folks are a riot! OK Bob, you can have the ATF, but I get the DOE. Soon as I finish firing everyone, we;ll hold a regulation burning. Should be enough to fire a power plant for a year or so.
Oh, Brussel sprouts? yes, lightly spli the tops, then steam. Serve with butter and whichever kind of vinegar you enjoy.
Bob, when you’re finished with it? May I borrow the “shall issue” regulation? I’ll slightly rewod it to “Shall Drill” and return it posthaste.
My approach with Brussels sprouts is to let them grow into full-sized cabbages and make cole slaw. Will that work?
Works for me. I actually like cabbage and sauerkraut quite a bit and it is always inexpensive. Well, cabbage anyway and it keeps for ages. Everyone at my house will eat stuffed cabbage, coleslaw, sautéed cabbage, brats and sauerkraut and that sort of thing. So thank you God for the humble cabbage since it’s one of the few vegetables that I don’t have to disguise with cream sauces and cheese.
McG, only you would ruin perfectly good Brussl sprouts and put them in that grotesque concoction known as “cole slaw.” Blech…
John Bradley,
The best and worst smell I’ve ever encountered was Bleu Cheese being rendered in an oven.
It’s a testament to your depravity that you all can carry on so long about frigg’in brussel sprouts. It’s like having a two day conversation about the virtues of dog poop.
Yes, cabbage is a miracle vegetable. Lamb stuffed with rice herbs sauteed onion and a light sweet tomato sauce…heaven.
Not everyone eats canned vegetables, Lee.
Lee? you WILL eat your vegetables young man. I don’t care if you sit there until the morning.
The hash made with leftover spuds and brussels we call bubble and squeak. Brilliant name for a brilliant leftover. Piccalilli was made for such as this.
You folks across the pond have the most fantastic names for food. My boys love Toad in the Hole.
I’ve done that SW!! Didn’t know it had a name though. I like the leftover carrots in it too, then frying it like a hash.
OT, but at 4 my time I’m doing a pre eval with my grandbaby for an online school. I have no bloody clue what this is, and she’s only 4, but just wanted to thank y’all for letting me know this even existed.
Please let us know how it goes, Blitz. Did you check into the Montessori schools? Darth also has his daughters in Montessori.
I looked it up Leigh, but my daughter wants to take this slow. She”s not enven eligible untinext year
you know, I wish I could type.
Squid, That’s exactly WHY I want you on as the Chief of staff. YOU can appropriate the money to buy pitchfork,tar and feathers and sell them to us at a discount! Win/Win!!
The Scottish version with taters and turnips is called clapshot. It’s bonny with leftover haggis.
something like 30 posts on Brussel sprouts. I’ve been here a long time but am just realising that PW is a strange world…I LOVE it!!
And now we have haggis… Let’s see what we can do with that.
What exactly does haggis taste like? I know what it’s made of, but have never had the pleasure.
I’m afraid I must draw the line at haggis. Did you know that you can buy canned haggis? I imagine it is quite hideous.
That’s right up there in silliness with canned bread.
I’ve seen canned whole chickens, too. Eeshh.
What exactly does haggis taste like? I know what it’s made of, but have never had the pleasure.
What does haggis taste like? There’s a lot of black pepper, so that is the dominant flavour, on top of the stock, onion and oats. The mutton unmentionables don’t really appear in the taste. Great with fried egg and bacon for breakfast.
Maybe it is like scrapple in flavor?
I detest scrapple. I’ve had the crummy store bought and the slightly less crummy homemade versions and they must be a taste best acquired in childhood.
Blitz, PW is not strange. The rest of the world, however…….
Maybe it is like scrapple in flavor?
Well, there’s none of that tasty scrapple piggyness, geoff, but a hint of sheep. Kind of hard to describe. This is my favourite one.
I like scrapple, mutton is ok ( barely ) braised. so maybe Haggis is not for me.
Blake? the world is a strange place also. PW however? borders at times on a fun loving bizarreness that you’d have to be here to get it. Aramadillos? Conversations with Cory Haim? Threads devolving WITHOUT the help of the Pikachu into foodie nirvana?…Yes, we are strange.
“Faces look ugly… women seem wicked… no one remembers your name, when you’re strange.”
Haggis tastes something like Kishka which greasily tastes kind of like chunky chorizo with less seasoning. It’s just a sheepy european take on a fatty cereal extended sliceable scraps sausage (as opposed to being formed into links like a summer sausage).
John…
Into this house you’re born, into this world you’re thrown….
That’s what it seems like here.I love it.
Paleo, I could have gone my whole life without knowing that, but thank you. and by the way? EWWWW
Leigh, I’m not a fan of scrapple but my wife likes it, her family having come from the Lancaster Pennsylvania area. I’ve always gotten her this brand and she has liked it okay. Me, I prefer Spam & eggs to scrapple & eggs.
I’ll sit by you with the Spam and eggs, geoff. I lived in Reading, PA for about 5 years and scrapple was on every diner menu. Blech.
“Not everyone eats canned vegetables, Lee.”
Are you kidding? I live in California’s central valley. I eat local fresh vegetables in January.
Not brussel sprouts though. those taste like feet.
Toe jam to be exact. (says my imagination, having never tried toe jam, but I have gagged on Brussel sprouts, they can’t be much worse…
Canned bacon is supposed to be pretty good, or so say the people I know who’ve had it.
You can get it by the case on Amazon.
Damn. This thread has to be epic.
serr8d, maybe we should ask Jeff if he’d consider a sponsorship from the Food Channel. Although, the Food Channel may draw the line at whole canned chicken. Might be a bridge to far.