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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on September 28, 2013, 08:31:20 PM
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Oh my.
In a cooking and baking thread brought here yesterday, our esteemed colleague Chris_ had made a derogatory remark about lentil bread.
<<has no idea what lentil bread is.
Texasgal (13,412 posts) Sat Sep 28, 2013, 08:51
Lentil Loaf
It is very good and HEALTHY as well. It has taste, it does not taste like shoe leather. I'd rather eat healthy than to eat gobs of margarine and a whole bag of cheetos while posting on the internet about what OTHER people are cooking. Shove that twinkie down... it's getting old.
Oh, and mashed pots? It's shorthand for M-a-s-h-e-d P-o-t-a-t-o-s. Shall I say it slower? You know, dumb it down for you?
Idiots!
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/maindishentreerecipes/r/ricelentilloaf.htm
** This post is intended for dip shit lurkers. FYI.
The deal about "mashed pots," I forget who brought that up here.
Anyway, brand-new campfire, no primitive responses yet.
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Texasgal needs more fiber in her diet.
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Since the cooking and baking primitives will probably come and read this thread, this, from another cooking and baking thread (about lemongrass) that they might've missed earlier:
I've been watching the cooking and baking forum for, uh, some time now, and there's problems with it.
It's important because the cooking and baking forum isn't just another small forum; it used to be a gem, a jewel, for Skins's island.
Not so any more.
If one looks at the "title of discussion thread" for the forum, and goes over to the "last reply" column, one notices that sometimes there's hours in between primitive responses.
There was a time, not so long ago, when there were only minutes, if not seconds, in between responses.
Traffic's down, way down, for the cooking and baking forum. The way things are going, within a few months, the deaf and hard of hearing forum, a champion at collecting cobwebs, is going to be busier than the cooking and baking forum.
The problem seems to be in dear old sweet Lu, the hostess of the forum.
Nothing personal against dear old sweet Lu; she's been a definite improvement over the now-gone hate-filled hippywife primitive Mrs. Alfred Packer.
But dear old sweet Lu's no leader; she needs to voluntarily and with good graces step aside, abdicating her role in favor of another primitive with more drive, more ambition, more energy, to get the cooking and baking forum corking again.
I suppose if my fellow alum Skins is hesitant about firing dear old sweet Lu, he could at least set some goals for her; for example, he could demand that she write more, and not just title-lines of campfires. She shouldn't be merely asking the other primitives what's for supper and leaving it at that; she should be describing to them what she fixed for supper, and what bewhiskered Bill thought of it.
If I were Skins, I would set some modest goals for Lu if she wishes to remain hostess; something along the lines of a minimum of twenty campfires lit by her each week, at least half of which each should be sixteen paragraphs or longer, so as to incite primitive interest and involvement.
I would also insist Lu be present in the forum seven days a week, just as moderators here are; as it is, she takes a day or two off once in a while, compelling another primitive to make up for her sloughing off.
Dear old sweet Lu asked for the job, and she got it. Having gotten it, she should do it.
Finally, again if I were Skins, I'd demand that Lu contact former prolific posters of the forum, reminding them of their past valuable contributions to traffic and insight therein, and begging them to help her out by resuming posting there. Getting the sparkling old dude active again, for example, would draw traffic.
If Skins and dear old sweet Lu don't do something, the cooking and baking forum--once a gem, remember--is likely to slowly wither away, evaporating.
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Texasgal needs more fiber in her diet.
Lentils must be constipating. Or maybe it was from all that metal in her mashed pots. :popcorn:
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Lentils must be constipating. Or maybe it was from all that metal in her mashed pots. :popcorn:
:rofl: :cheers2:
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You know, it's pathetic, the heights from which the cooking and baking forum has fallen.
I can't tell how much of the inventory for the DUmpster they've provided us for diversion and amusement; all I can say is that it's a lot.
And on Skins's island itself, the cooking and baking forum was known as the liveliest, the most animated, of all the "small forums"--in fact, it shouldn't have ever been referred to as a "small" forum, because it was pretty big.
Primitives were jumping into the kitchen all the time, at all hours, to post and comment.
.....especially on autumn Saturday evenings, such as this one.
But the past couple of years, the forum's gone downhill, what with the departure (or lack of interest) of PoP {primitives of prominence). Of course, some of them die, like the late Tangerine LaBamba of immortal fame, and others of them quit because their husbands tell them to, like the unmourned mean nasty bitter vile old hippywife primtive, but it's really more of a case of lack of primitive interest.
Inspect this, for example, the column showing "last reply."
(http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g419/Eferrari/sandhills2/cbsi01_zps912453f2.jpg) (http://s1100.photobucket.com/user/Eferrari/media/sandhills2/cbsi01_zps912453f2.jpg.html)
That is pathetic, a primitive showing up once every two or three hours, when the place used to always be busy, traffic-jammed, congested.
I blame the demise on dear old sweet Lu, who doesn't seem to understand that "leadership" means "to inspire." She never says much, she doesn't hang around much, she doesn't get engaged with the other primitives much.
And so the primitives quite naturally come to the reasonable conclusion, "Well, if dear old sweet Lu can be lazy, so can I."
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You know, it's pathetic, the heights from which the cooking and baking forum has fallen.
Maybe if they posted something better than lentil loaf, they'd get more traffic.
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I wonder what Paper Roses wants with a 32-year-old cookbook.
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If a real bakery made lentil loaf, they'd give it away to teachers and public servants.
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Ooh, burn.
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Maybe if they posted something better than lentil loaf, they'd get more traffic.
You know, dear sweet old Lu should take lessons from watching her fellow primitive, my good pal Manny, the "Manny Goldstein" primitive.
<<<am in awe of old friend Manny.
Manny writes nearly all of his own stuff, and after posting it, hangs around to get engaged with the primitives responding to it. He interacts with his audience.
As a result, his campfires burn big, it usually taking half an hour to scroll down the list of comments, and they burn long, staying on the front page for ages.
My inspiration Manny knows how to attract, and hold an audience. A very large audience.
Dear sweet old Lu can't just sit there like a queen bee, doing nothing.
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Dear sweet old Lu should also contemplate this:
Top 10 Boards
447505 The DUmpster
142192 The Lounge
93293 General Discussion
60768 Politics
60567 Breaking News
26939 Mind Numbing Stupidity
25586 The Spa
20436 Election 2008
19660 Cryin' in my Beer
17568 Fight Club
Notice, please, the DUmpster is more active than the next nine largest forums put together.
Now, dear old sweet Lu should ask herself why this is.
Top Topic Starters
8645 franksolich
3872 Freeper
3829 thundley4
3635 bijou
3030 Chris_
3007 SGT Snuggle Bunny
2709 CG6468
2154 Ptarmigan
1397 Wretched Excess
1371 GOBUCKS
The above, in red, are former or current moderators of the DUmpster; notice, please, dear old sweet Lu, how much lnitiative these current and former moderators took, and take, in posting topics, so as to inspire others to do the same.....hence making the DUmpster so lively, so animated.
And finally, dear old sweet Lu should think about this:
Top 10 Posters
40847 franksolich
39035 Chris_
30423 thundley4
25538 JohnnyReb
23311 NHSparky
22209 BlueStateSaint
21155 Tanker
18325 GOBUCKS
17926 SGT Snuggle Bunny
17224 BEG
Again, current and former moderators of the DUmpster in red.
Dear sweet old Lu should see by now that moderators, by being involved, by being engaged, by being sociable, with members, makes a forum popular--and active--and animated--because the moderators practice leadership not by sitting on their asses, but by inspiring.
Oh shit. I don't think dear sweet old LU's going to "get it."
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Does any sane person call mashed potatoes "mashed pots"?
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Does any sane person call mashed potatoes "mashed pots"?
My suspicion is that at the time, the primitive forgot how to spell the whole word out.
<<<an implacable foe of adults using silly baby-talk.
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Does any sane person call mashed potatoes "mashed pots"?
I did a quick google search. There are a few people who have used the term "Mashed Pots," but most of those seem to be from calorie tracking sites with self entered entries. I did find an interesting Urban Dictionary definition though. "Off my mashed pots" is a slang term for being under the influence of drugs. Suddenly the DUmmies use of the term doesn't seem so strange...
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I did a quick google search. There are a few people who have used the term "Mashed Pots," but most of those seem to be from calorie tracking sites with self entered entries. I did find an interesting Urban Dictionary definition though. "Off my mashed pots" is a slang term for being under the influence of drugs. Suddenly the DUmmies use of the term doesn't seem so strange...
:rofl:
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I did a quick google search. There are a few people who have used the term "Mashed Pots," but most of those seem to be from calorie tracking sites with self entered entries.
I did find an interesting Urban Dictionary definition though. "Off my mashed pots" is a slang term for being under the influence of drugs. Suddenly the DUmmies use of the term doesn't seem so strange...
Thanks; apparently the Texas primitive is a member of weight-loss sites too. I dunno, but it looks that way, if she's using their stupid slang.
There's hardly any spectacle more ridiculous than seeing ostensibly grown-up adults in their 50s and 60s still using baby-talk, such as "pots" or "veggies" [shudder] or "tummy" or "yummy" or "foodie" or "lappie," rather than their appropriate names. It's just so retarded.
It's like the primitives never grew up; it's like a near-senior-citizen dressing, acting, and talking as a 3-year-old little girl in pigtails. It's grotesque.
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Maybe if they posted something better than lentil loaf, they'd get more traffic.
DUmmies would tell you it's hard to make anything good when you're on EBT. (Whose's fault is that?)
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Have the DUmmies run out of fancy French recipes?
ETA: Some French recipes.
Cowardly cow peas.
Surrender TREET......TREET, the cheaper SPAM meat.
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Oh, and mashed pots? It's shorthand for M-a-s-h-e-d P-o-t-a-t-o-s. Shall I say it slower? You know, dumb it down for you?
OH MY!!! Dan Quayle is smiling.
Hey DUchebag, it is spelled potatoes. Maybe you should day it slower you DUmbass and it can't get any DUmbed downed than when coming from you.
Thanks for proving that DUches never tire of remonstrating their ignorance and stupidity to the world over and over again.
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I can't knock lentil loaf too much. Omaha Steve made a career out of them, stirring them around with a stick at the sewage plant.
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My suspicion is that at the time, the primitive forgot how to spell the whole word out.
<<<an implacable foe of adults using silly baby-talk.
Either that, or she needs to get her eyes checked.
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Ok Chris... now that made me laugh my ass off. You got two H5s for that.
I'm still giggling. Hell make it 3 H5s. :cheersmate: :cheersmate:
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Does any sane person call mashed potatoes "mashed pots"?
Not around here, Carl. We call them mashed taters or mashed spuds. Someone says mashed pots around here, we think someone done gone and backed over the cooking equipment with their vehicle. :cheersmate: :cheersmate:
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I've never heard of that before. I've heard of Bangers and Mash, but not Mashed Pots. It even sounds ugly, doesn't it?
Lentil Loaf sounds disgusting. I can picture it, too. All gray and brown and unappetizing.
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Does any sane person call mashed potatoes "mashed pots"?
YES, not speaking of my self as I am a bit odd at times.
Gets to be a habit for the adults that mimic the youngsters trying to speak English. Some of our fondest memory's are of the little ones mispronouncing words and we get a flash back years later hearing these words from another toddler.
Lots of words the baby's say get encased into us a good time a fun time and we use the pronunciation as a way to hang on to the past.
I still think of one of my sons when hearing Subgeti , meat bulls, and Hoppital for Hospital.
Odd that the words out of baby's mouth were mostly about food. An over flying plane was a pain,
a girl was a Goy, and ETC.
Mashed potatoes were known as smashed, and a baked ham as an IAM.
So these long in the past things that made one laugh stick with one, I remember being fed Kidney beans and enjoying the juice and asked for more kidney water. Both grandparents never again referred to the juice as anything but Kidney water. I so young had no idea why they both laughed with tears running down their face.
So some things cannot change, the link of the child to the adult and the embedded memories of years ago are still in place.
Sorry you all fuddy duds, these pronouncing may come from those that want to , need onto their memories and it is a joy to do so.
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YES, not speaking of my self as I am a bit odd at times.
Gets to be a habit for the adults that mimic the youngsters trying to speak English. Some of our fondest memory's are of the little ones mispronouncing words and we get a flash back years later hearing these words from another toddler.
Lots of words the baby's say get encased into us a good time a fun time and we use the pronunciation as a way to hang on to the past.
I still think of one of my sons when hearing Subgeti , meat bulls, and Hoppital for Hospital.
Odd that the words out of baby's mouth were mostly about food. An over flying plane was a pain,
a girl was a Goy, and ETC.
Mashed potatoes were known as smashed, and a baked ham as an IAM.
So these long in the past things that made one laugh stick with one, I remember being fed Kidney beans and enjoying the juice and asked for more kidney water. Both grandparents never again referred to the juice as anything but Kidney water. I so young had no idea why they both laughed with tears running down their face.
So some things cannot change, the link of the child to the adult and the embedded memories of years ago are still in place.
Sorry you all fuddy duds, these pronouncing may come from those that want to , need onto their memories and it is a joy to do so.
Guess which sentence is oh so tempting..... :lmao:
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I think she's too senstive; to post in the cooking and baking forum on Skins's island, one needs a thick skin, given the nasty, hate-filled, seditious nature of many of the primitives who hang around there.
But I myself took extreme offense at her allegation that I might be one of those who dine upon margarine.
<<<as far as knows, haven't had a dollop of fake butter in entire adult life.
<<<avoids grease.
<<<uses only real 100% dairy products, and lots of them.
And then I was put off by her insinuation that I might be one of those who snack upon Cheetos.
Cheetos is a primitive delicacy, not one of ours.
I suspect she'd find franksolich's diet of only real foods, and in modest amounts, healthier than hers, especially in keeping the pounds off (something which might, or might not, be an issue with her).
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If a real bakery made lentil loaf, they'd give it away to teachers and public servants.
If a real bakery made lentil loaf, they would go out of business.
:puke:
mashed "pots"? couldn't figure out if a "e" was supposed to be in the word if plural?
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<<has no idea what lentil bread is.
Lentils are kind of like small, flat peas, except without much flavor. Can't say I've ever had lentil bread, nor would I stand in line for it, either, it sounds dreadful.
They're available here with the dried beans in the grocery store, but they are a lot more common ingredient in English cooking - stews, soups, and such - than in the US. Like most below-the-salt English fare, the dishes made with them are made to be fillling and provide fuel, not taste particularly good.
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Someone explained earlier about lentil bread.
We can buy it here at Home Depot. It's wrapped in plastic and is very hard, like candle wax.
It's chock full of all kinds of seeds, and they sell little wire cages that fit the loaf exactly.
Then you hang it up and birds peck at it through the wire until it's all gone.
Most people outside the DUmp have never thought of eating it themselves.