The flour is different over there. I buy imported pasta because I like it better, and in southern New England, we’ve many descendants from Italian immigrants. Providence has like a hundred Italian specialty stores, I have three Italian bakeries within 10 miles, it’s huge business here.
I made ravioli by hand one time, no machine, and it took all day, 6+ hours, and they came out mediocre. It’s always time or money.
We have our first Sikh Mayor in Connecticut! Many Red towns flipped blue, some for the first time in 70 years!
Just because it was the first laws/human organization, doesn’t mean it has a place in today’s society.
Tbh, if you can’t afford food idk how your supposed to afford getting a gun. How does gun taste? Heh heh
P.2025 has been decades in the making. They have been systemically cutting funding for education for as long as I’ve been alive. Add in social media and it’s manufactured division, it has been a perfect shit storm for a takeover.
Note, I’m agreeing with you and adding a thought here. I’ve always figured it would need to get ugly if any meaningful change were to happen, how ugly does it need to get? This is the only question I have now.
Goulash is better, and just as cheap. Fuck national corpo scum.
The need to to sensationalize everything needs to stop. The only place I’ve seen outrage is in headlines, which dropped at the same time of the announcement. There isn’t even time for genuine thought before they write the narrative.
The Fairness Doctrine needs to make a comeback.
Love how this is the comment they chose not to downvote
I said we.
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We already lost some rights, roe v wade had been overturned now for some time.
My local co-op is covered in rainbow flags and support signage, and I’m seeing more and more white men, young and old, cowboy boot wearing, steel toe or running shoes, even one with a supremacist tattoo on his arm, meat head looking fellas,
asking about the raw milk that comes in there and when is it delivered as it is gone very fast.
We had white men in there of course prior, but these guys I’m seeing more and more of, are … different. They really want that raw mommy udder milk juice.
I had a friend pretty into mysticism. She kept it at bay enough it was harmless. Then one day at her place, had a conversation with her 18 year old son. The first half of the conversation he said I need to teach my son jow to deal with a break up. He had just been dumped and clearly had feelings about it.
The second half of this conversation with this young person, he spent trying to tell me why the earth was flat. He used a split screen tictok as his reference material. I was taken aback by this, he just graduated high school… Another time not long after, he saw husband’s car with a behemoth sticker on it. He was clearly distressed, and asked me why we would have that, didn’t I know I will attract demons and negativite energy?
This was two years ago or so. Im not friends with her anymore, last I heard he was going to get a mining job down south. I was amazed and baffled by the words coming out this young person’s mouth.
The new ones are different.
I was speaking to my husbands grandmother (92) recently when the discussion of cooking came up. She mentioned when she was young, they never had salads, they weren’t really a thing. She mentioned most vegetables came in a can, and now salads were expected at meals.
This women eats very little, and very healthy. I bet one reason why she’s still sharp at 92. But it made me think of the culture around food we have in the sates over the last 50-60 years.
We now have full generations of folks not taught how to cook from scratch. I was lucky, growing up on a small farm, my guardian did teach me the basics, igniting a love for cooking. That plus the early 2000’s Food Network shows, I was able to self learn and now I feel invincible in the kitchen. Though I will say I still fuck up from time to time. I made zucchini bread, and definitely didn’t add enough flour, and my bread is very hit or miss. Anyways,
You can’t teach your children what you don’t know youself. So many folks out there don’t know what to do with raw ingredients. I grow oregano, and it’s just all over the yard this year. I tried giving some to my (60-ish) neighbor, and she said, “I dont know what to do with that”.
It’s a fucking herb lady, put it in your stew.
The commercialization of foods from the center isles really had damaged our, collective food knowledge. There are exceptions of folks, similar to me, but a vast number have no clue, nor is it a point in our (American) culture to make sure young folks know how to feed themselves with little ingredients. This road began its paving in the 50/60s with convenience cooking, and the loss of home gardens.
And to add, as a well versed home cook, you absolutely can make super unhealthy foods from scratch as well. Learning to cook is healthier than fast food, but you can absolutely throw down some calorie dense foods in your own kitchen too. It’s not a cure all for health.
Just want to note, just because a person gives up beef doesn’t mean you have to have tofu. I really dislike tofu. Even the years I kept vegan I never had it except to try it a few times.
There are tons of other options in the bean world for protein replacement. Otherwise love your point.
I reduced my beef intake significantly nearly three years ago. I cook it maybe twice a year for holidays. Beans are absolutely so versatile. Beef is terrible for the environment, and should be expensive.
That being said, I was looking at the sales at my local grocery and they had those “Bubba Burgers” I think the brand is called, frozen beef burgers, on sale, for $16.99 with only 6 patties in the box. I was shocked. Glad I’ve already invested myself in learning the ways of the bean.
Read this morning he wants to give Russia access to Alaska.
I am terrified for my children’s futures, for the children who aren’t mine, just the same.
“Glad I won’t be there” how selfish.
Cost is an issue for me, I buy the import stuff when it goes on sale. The semolina/flour is different. Imported, good pasta, is white, American pastas/cheap stuff is yellow.