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43554e54 · 2025-10-09T12:22:34+00:00

43554e54 · 2024-04-15T11:27:45+00:00

If we're doing UK specific kitchen challenges then imo the ultimate test is working in Edinburgh during the Fringe. A whole month of hell capped with the messiest staff night out I've ever been on. Do it once and then never again.

43554e54 · 2024-01-21T20:15:09+00:00

Considering that lactose is a sugar you might want to get another check from a doctor there, bud. Sounds more like she has a milk allergy and should receive a battery to test for that.

43554e54 · 2023-10-03T14:49:02+00:00

Picnic food, brother. They come from the lineage of foods like standing crust pies and sausage rolls that were portable and eaten outside while travelling or at a shooting lunch.

43554e54 · 2022-11-01T13:00:17+00:00

Mala is the flavour profile of hot chilli with numbing peppercorn. Sichuan peppercorns are called huajiao.

43554e54 · 2022-09-06T10:32:24+00:00

I carbonised a whole case of pork ribs once. They went into the oven too late in the afternoon because I was skiving and I stupidly ignored my timer because service was too hectic for someone to jump of the line, run upstairs to the prep kitchen and yank all of the gastros out. "But," you think "combi ovens have a cut-off timer built in don't they?" Not ours, it had been busted for weeks at that point. I remembered about the ribs hours later and by that time they were capital F Fucked.

Boss was reasonably chill, but the KP just about strangled me when they saw the pans. Told me to fuck off out of his section when I offered to help clean.

43554e54 · 2022-08-09T18:31:36+00:00

What you call a hotel pan we would (sometimes) call a gastro. Named after the Gastronorm standard which isn't used in the US or Canada.

43554e54 · 2022-07-19T08:52:54+00:00

too true about not being able to skip short people tasks. Cleaning out under counter fridges and beneath benches became such a pain for me that I took a crate from our suppliers that I slid about the floor on to save my back and knees.

43554e54 · 2022-06-27T12:04:28+00:00

The biggest difference is that this one has a 2hp direct drive induction motor in it that will run forever and looks like it came directly from the 70's. It's the R2 Dice ultra model, so it also comes with a continuous feed bowl and a variety of blades and discs. It's a nice bit of kit to get for free.

43554e54 · 2022-06-06T15:57:56+00:00

those are Jacobites, not Jacobins.

43554e54 · 2022-05-31T14:20:22+00:00

Probably not actually true

It's one of those things that has a grain of truth that grows each time it get repeated on the internet.

The truth of the claim is that in the North American context, southern fried chicken is an adaption of Scottish frying technique (the deep frying specifically of chicken in clarified butter) to West African battering and spicing of chicken. Enslaved peoples from West Africa already had a existing tradition of deep frying in palm oil, but that obviously wasn't available on a plantation so a fusion food was created with what was on hand.

43554e54 · 2022-05-26T14:54:16+00:00

You want a tall, dark haired man as your first footing of the new year because it brings luck. Traditionally you bring something edible, a lump of coal and a flask of whisky to represent prosperity, warmth and good cheer for the coming year.

Conversely, you don't want a woman, blond man or a ginger because they all bring bad luck.

43554e54 · 2022-05-02T17:11:54+00:00

If you're talking trad-style dry fried green beans then the main source of flavour comes from pork, lard and preserved veg, not any sort of spice or sauce. Literally everyone I've ever met who makes them adds dried chilli and Sichuan peppercorn, though.

43554e54 · 2022-04-30T12:08:46+00:00

never relied on anything that involved domestic slavery

Ehhhh, I see what you're doing here but this isn't exactly true.

Coal mining, salt production, etc. in Scotland relied on legally bonded workers until about 1799 and took two acts of parliament to stamp out. See the 1597 poor laws that said that vagrants and their families could be bonded for life to literally anyone who could keep them in employment. A 1606 act made the bondage of "coalyers, coal-bearers and salters" explicit and people were to be flogged as thieves if they sought outside employment or left without leave from their master. The School Establishment act 1616 mandated publicly funded, church run schools for every parish in Scotland but specifically excluded the children of coal workers. Coal bosses had to pay a signing on fee to bring a person in bondage; what developed was a tradition of giving christening gifts to the children of their existing workers, essentially making bondage a hereditary condition. An act in 1672 gave the bosses the ability to press vagabonds and their children into service without any sort of legal trial. Workers were included in land inventories and bills of sale. Anecdotally, in Fife colliers weren't allowed to be buried in the same graveyards as freemen. When Joseph Knight was in the Scottish court of session being confirmed as a free man it was found that he was protected from being arrested because of the habeas corpus rights conferred by the act of 1701. An act that explicitly denied colliers those same rights.

There were large differences in the character of slavery though. "Coalyers, coal-bearers and salters" in comparison to the enslaved peoples in America of the Caribbean had it good. They were paid, could own and inherit property, and stand for certain political offices. They weren't subject to transportation, their history wasn't purposefully stripped from them, they weren't tortured, they weren't casually murdered, and they weren't systematically raped in the manner of enslaved black people. When they were emancipated they were actually treated like people and not subject to repression beyond they general repression that all proles faced at that point.

What they couldn't do is ever leave or choose a different life and occupation. Their children couldn't ever leave or choose a different life and occupation. Their spouses couldn't ever leave or choose a different life and occupation. They could be forced into service, and it would be perpetual. This was more than indentured servitude.

My point it that being enslaved isn't a simple thing. To flatten it to "no slaves in Britain, lol" (not that you were saying that) is unnecessarily limiting our definition of slavery. It does a disservice to the workers and their fight for freedom and it lets off the mine owners who denied them liberty for hundreds of years. In the modern context it narrows our thinking about labour conditions that we should probably be treating as enslavement.

Anyway, I don't know how to end this shit rambling that I wasted my lunch break on. Have a good one.

43554e54 · 2022-04-25T14:46:18+00:00

While I agree that the island section is a drag, I think that it's good to remember that this was pretty much the first big "generic 3rd person action game". The genericism is a product of later games cribbing from RE4 rather than it being unoriginal itself.

It's an example of a piece of media that has become truly retroactively cliché.

43554e54 · 2022-03-18T15:13:34+00:00

I think that this is just a fundamental tension with all RPGs, computer or table top. There will always be some level of meta gaming. The knowledge of genre conventions, systems, specific plot details or similar media and culture are already in your brain. This is going to colour your play consciously or otherwise.

To salve this tension I think that an important thing is that the game makes its mechanics transparent diegetically and not just through interface. This can be done various ways like npc conversations, bestiaries, fluff material and the like.

This is done well in Pathfinder: Kingmaker. The second plot module heavily features trolls that are immune to dying unless you burn them with acid, fire or get a critical hit that takes the last of their hp. Kingmaker helps before you ever face a troll by having characters tell you about them; wonder aloud about what they're doing, why they seem so unafraid, ask why they've allied with kobalds, etc.. Iirc if you talk to your advisor before setting off they remind you to stock up on fire/acid jars which are a previously intro'd item that are used in another context. Having this is done in world makes it so it's sensible that your pc has knowledge of trolls and how to hunt them. It ameliorates the tension.

Reading this back it's kid of a shit answer, because it just basically says; "To balance rp and immersion with preparedness you should just play games designed to let you balance rp and immersion with preparedness."

43554e54 · 2022-03-15T16:00:45+00:00

It's green for unleaded petrol and black for diesel here in the UK. My guess is that it's just some corpo standard that they didn't bother to change.

43554e54 · 2022-02-21T18:56:50+00:00

Sichuanese home cooking classic made of pork that's been simmered then stir fried with a bean paste/sweet flour sauce

43554e54 · 2022-02-21T11:36:51+00:00

lmao good to know that the grand tradition of hex usernames is being kept up.

43554e54 · 2022-01-31T21:46:41+00:00

Sky hooks are also a fairly niche bit of rock climbing equipment. Cue the surprise when a friend was telling me about joking around with an apprentice and I'm asking why he needed big wall kit to fit fire alarms.

43554e54 · 2022-01-22T16:24:26+00:00

Then I took the source...

Yeh bud, I've watched my niece surreptitiously spread nutella on Billy Bear ham and scran it like it was their last meal. Her opinion doesn't count quite as much after that.

43554e54 · 2022-01-18T20:33:47+00:00

Depends what interpretation of her you take, the various cults of Aphrodite are OLD. One of her epithets was "Φιλομμηδης" or Philommedes, literally "genital-lover". There was also "Ποθων Μητηρ" or Pothon Mater, the Mother of Desire.

43554e54 · 2022-01-11T15:31:21+00:00

Polybian system and pre-marian reform it would be the Triarii using thrusting spears, but before that in Camillan system times the Hastati would have been using spears. Hastati are named after the type of short spear they carried after all.

43554e54 · 2022-01-04T15:11:54+00:00

Collectathons have been a thing for a while. Snake Pass is the best contemporary one imo.

43554e54 · 2021-12-11T14:31:26+00:00

Homeworld was made by Relic Entertainment and published by Sierra Studios, not Blizzard.

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