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11-05-2020, 06:23 AM
riser4

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

I know, especially this week of all weeks, we are supposed to be mortal, binary enemies of everyone that isn't with us 100%, and I am generally of the mindset that there's something to like in everything and everyone. But man, I can not get down with a blanket hatred of olives, too fucking good.

What do you put in your gin when there's no tonic n limes around? Huh? WHAT?

I do however have a strong dislike for kids that stick them on their fingers. And the parents that allow that shit.
11-05-2020, 08:22 AM
skaredshtles

I'm well aware that *other* people don't mind olives. And I'm OK with that. Eat all the olives you want. It's cool.

But those nasty little things can fuck right off.
11-05-2020, 08:38 AM
glademaster

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Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

Cleaning the flue.
The ladder that has about 8" clearance off the 2 story+ high gutter, getting the ropes setup, all the toxic soot, the gutter funkwater, slipping on a 4/10 metal roof.

So over this.

(excuse my intrusion into the finer points of Olive Oyl, I hadn't looked...)

You need a SootEater and a powerful drill. Clean that shit from the bottom up. Sweeping a chimney from the top down is so Dickensian.

Also, burn drier wood (2 summers split and stacked, minimum) and run your stove hotter.

You're welcome.
11-05-2020, 09:55 AM
riser4

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Originally Posted by skaredshtles

I'm well aware that *other* people don't mind olives. And I'm OK with that. Eat all the olives you want. It's cool.

But those nasty little things can fuck right off.

That's it, you are going into a FEMA camps until you love olives! Not just tolerate or like them, but love them.
11-05-2020, 10:14 AM
hawkgt

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I do however have a strong dislike for kids that stick them on their fingers.

come on.... some of us are just trying to see.

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11-05-2020, 10:25 AM
skaredshtles

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Originally Posted by riser3

That's it, you are going into a FEMA camps until you love olives! Not just tolerate or like them, but love them.

FTS.
11-05-2020, 10:36 AM
powdrhound

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Originally Posted by riser3

You shut your whore mouth! I fucking love olives.

Green olives for me.
I still recall farm-cured olives from my great uncle. Put me on a life long quest of green cured olives.

The black ones are sawdust in comparison.
11-05-2020, 10:46 AM
riser4

Kalamata olives, long method are freaking tastey and they look black to me.
11-05-2020, 10:48 AM
Dantheman

If you're ever on the I-5 corridor north of Sacramento, this place is olive heaven: https://www.granzellas.com/

The Italian Dry Oil Cured are like no other olive you've had.
11-05-2020, 11:08 AM
2bjenny

People that eat on zoom conference calls.

There is no place in eastern Idaho that I have found where one can purchase a decent baguette or good cheese. Broulim's has tried to up their cheese game. I usually stop in at Whole Grocer to pick up some cheeses and breads when on that side of the pass.
11-05-2020, 11:27 AM
Bobcat Sig

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Originally Posted by 2bjenny

People that eat on zoom conference calls.

That's what the tiny tech-bro baby Jesus gave us the mute and camera-off button.

Also, zoom annoys me. There's no good reason to use that pile of unsecured garbage. Same with MS Teams.
11-05-2020, 11:32 AM
Bobcat Sig

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Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

I know, especially this week of all weeks, we are supposed to be mortal, binary enemies of everyone that isn't with us 100%, and I am generally of the mindset that there's something to like in everything and everyone.

This bears repeating; frequently. And should be based in the 'America's Burning' thread, or anywhere where politics leaks into that's not PolyAss.

Be awesome and love each other.
11-05-2020, 11:36 AM
Boissal

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Originally Posted by old goat

Do they have sourdough in France?

Some but it's definitely not as big as here. I really like it and I'll now pick up a sourdough baguetter over a french-style one if I have the option. The sourdough is a bit denser and doesn't seem to dessicate as fast.

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Originally Posted by powdrhound

Green olives for me.
I still recall farm-cured olives from my great uncle. Put me on a life long quest of green cured olives.

The black ones are sawdust in comparison.

This. Black olives are an abomination, I can't understand why they're left on the tree so long. Pick the fuckers before the texture goes to shit! Farm-cured greens OTH, now that is some delicacy I wouldn't mind stuffing my face with more often.
11-05-2020, 12:26 PM
BmillsSkier

Just to bring things full circle, the olive loaf from my sister's bakery is some of the best snacking bread you've ever had.

Dip it in equally good olive oil with a bit of fresh grated parm mixed in and pair with a bottle of white and you've got dinner.
11-05-2020, 01:02 PM
half-fast

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Originally Posted by 2bjenny

People that eat on zoom conference calls.

Call a noon zoom meeting and you're going to see me eating every time
11-05-2020, 01:43 PM
plugboots

Boissal, there's no good bread within 20 miles of our Issaquah house. There was a great boulangerie within walking distance of our house in Berkeley, and I miss it so much. Americans mostly suck at cheese, bread, pastries, and cured meats. Basically anything good to eat that takes a bit of time and is subtle.
11-05-2020, 01:49 PM
Bobcat Sig

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Originally Posted by plugboots

Boissal, there's no good bread within 20 miles of our Issaquah house. There was a great boulangerie within walking distance of our house in Berkeley, and I miss it so much. Americans mostly suck at cheese, bread, pastries, and cured meats. Basically anything good to eat that takes a bit of time and is subtle.

The FDA does a great job of preventing us from having quality cured meats.
11-05-2020, 01:52 PM
skaredshtles

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Originally Posted by Bobcat Sig

The FDA does a great job of preventing us from having quality cured meats.

I dunno - these guys are doing a pretty damned good job of it, locally:

https://www.ilporcellinodenver.com/
11-05-2020, 01:54 PM
abraham

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Originally Posted by plugboots

Boissal, there's no good bread within 20 miles of our Issaquah house. There was a great boulangerie within walking distance of our house in Berkeley, and I miss it so much. Americans mostly suck at cheese, bread, pastries, and cured meats. Basically anything good to eat that takes a bit of time and is subtle.

There was a guy in Bellevue making good baguettes but that was several years ago. I should check with my parents if that place is still open, a friend of theirs from France recommended it.

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Originally Posted by Boissal

This. Black olives are an abomination, I can't understand why they're left on the tree so long. Pick the fuckers before the texture goes to shit! Farm-cured greens OTH, now that is some delicacy I wouldn't mind stuffing my face with more often.

I like black olives, good ones at least. I'm not picky about the variety. The pale black olives that taste like sadness do not count in the discussion.
11-05-2020, 01:57 PM
old goat

Order a chainsaw chain. It arrived in a couple of days. USPS. In a locked package locker. With the top of the undersized padded envelope open, the box flattened, and the chain missing. First thought was stolen by a postal employee, but thinking about it maybe the envelope was run through a sorting machine for letters and the chain got squashed out of the box. If so it's probably inside the broken sorting machine along with 10,000 mail ballots.
11-05-2020, 01:59 PM
Single Track

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Originally Posted by 2bjenny

People that eat on zoom conference calls.

There is no place in eastern Idaho that I have found where one can purchase a decent baguette or good cheese. Broulim's has tried to up their cheese game. I usually stop in at Whole Grocer to pick up some cheeses and breads when on that side of the pass.

460 Bread in Driggs! You can find their baguettes at Barrels and Bins. The dude is pretty good at this baking thing
11-05-2020, 02:35 PM
2bjenny

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Originally Posted by Single Track

460 Bread in Driggs! You can find their baguettes at Barrels and Bins. The dude is pretty good at this baking thing

Can you stop by the bakery and buy direct? I think this is what I usually pick up in a few places Jackson or Driggs, or bread from Persephone.
11-05-2020, 03:57 PM
Single Track

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Originally Posted by 2bjenny

Can you stop by the bakery and buy direct? I think this is what I usually pick up in a few places Jackson or Driggs, or bread from Persephone.

They didn't in the past but I do know they moved their HQ to a new building in the past couple years. Me thinks probably not (especially in these times).
11-05-2020, 08:47 PM
Meadow Skipper

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Originally Posted by Boissal

Bread is a life blood in France. Bread + butter is the go-to snack.
...When I lived back home I was eating a baguette a day no matter what, I would snag it from a boulangerie on my way back form work and it would be gone by the end of breakfast the next day.

In France I saw like thousands of folks carrying and chomping on baguettes on their way home from work every day.

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EDIT: the actual saying about a day without bread is "long comme un jour sans pain" which is used to mean something endlessly boring or painful. As long as a day without bread.

Gotcha, thanks for that.

BTW, an Italian told me that the best cheese in France is the butter. :D
11-05-2020, 09:54 PM
KQ

God damn fruit flies! Something I bought brought in an infestation. Never in my life have I seen fruit flies like this. Totally out of control. I have an apple cider vinegar trap set up and could change it every hour dumping out hundreds of dead flies. Fork me!

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