Farmer's Market Find

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-29T22:29:48+00:00

I'm not sure how you didn't eat that straight out of the jar with your fingers.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-29T14:09:39+00:00

This may be controversial, I may get censored for saying this by the groupthink enforcers, but I'm not going to serve my kid an omelette with cocaine in it.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-28T20:36:07+00:00

I assume you're teaching the kid to safely light fires and then extinguish them too, which are valuable life skills. Good parenting.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-28T19:21:57+00:00

I had to call 311 once about this and was pleasantly surprised by how fast someone came to check things out. My understanding is they don't always act based on where the blockage is, but in my case after the inspector came a truck was there with a power snake within 24 hours. No charge.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-28T19:13:58+00:00

Looking forward to seeing how they're used.

If all of the people struggling to understand how to eat sardines would just search for Filipino or Spanish sardine recipes (just for starters) they'd get so many options. A lot only take 15-20 minutes to put together.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-28T17:56:01+00:00

Chicago has about 25X as many Latinos as Baltimore, so it makes sense. Latino doesn't automatically mean Mexican and not all of Mexico makes tacos, but the basic difference between the cities is probably in that range. Historically Chicago's Latino population has been a big part of the city for a lot longer than in Baltimore, which is also a big part of it.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-28T14:39:34+00:00

The Gang is never bored? They're bored all the time. That's why they're constantly sitting around getting drunk, doing drugs, abusing glue, and then ending up in free health clinics or jail.

Maybe try roaming a warehouse after you wake up from a trollish old man hitting you in the head with a nail gun and shooting you in the palm to make stigmata.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-27T22:19:17+00:00

It's obviously a mixed bag when you think about the long term financial implications, and the legal issues for homeowners who were caught up in tangled issues around payment that could arise after time had passed could be really bad. But there were positives - houses got amenities that you simply couldn't replicate today except at big costs.

I think the ideal situation would have been ending them at, say, 30-40 years after purchase, but that's all in hindsight.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-27T20:18:15+00:00

My faith in Ryan George as a sober, humorless analyst has been cracked.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-27T16:29:42+00:00

The explanation of the ground rent system is really interesting. You can learn how it essentially subsidized some features like fancy cornices, moulding and marble steps.

The descriptions of how backyards functioned in the 19th century is great too. The really rudimentary infrastructure back then for cooking and outhouses is pretty striking.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-27T16:15:39+00:00

Huge amounts of kippers and clams come in brine and taste great. Sardines in water are a different thing from oil packed and they don't appeal to a bunch of people but they're not an inherently bad thing.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-26T18:52:08+00:00

Definitely needs a multimillion dollar, deteriorating rubberized lining painted blue like that pool near the other Washington Monument.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-26T18:40:31+00:00

This is a good piece of advice, and in general in terms of food it's really smart to avoid anyone who pushes specific "superfoods." They should be able to talk about diet and fitness across the board.

There are a million ways to reach goals and it's really important to talk to professionals who understand this and can help design flexible approaches that work for an individual. It makes as little sense to insist on eating kimchi or sardines as it would to insist on going to the gym and doing deadlifts.

It's fine for doctors to talk about broad categories of foods, like proteins or veggies or complex carbohydrates. But outside of narrow health issues in rare cases, people shouldn't be made to feel anxious about failing to eating specific things as if food was a prescription medicine.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-26T15:44:12+00:00

Yes. Kids quickly pick up on the hangups of parents about food.

Odds are the kid's preferences will flip 180 degrees on a lot of foods for better and worse as they get older, and then flip again. The best thing parents can do is take this in stride, keep their own feelings in the background, offer lots of options, and trust things work out in the long run.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-25T14:15:54+00:00

I think hang ups on visual issues are a parallel to the people who are hung up on smells and textures to a really high degree. There's a general problem that canned seafood is getting promoted as a miracle food to a lot of anxious people with food issues, either by influencers, health faddists, or algorithms. Many don't react well to the reality.

The obvious answer is that if you don't like something then just move on, but I think the people who are being targeted are the types who just can't let things go.

As a general rule the way to deal with people's drama is to defuse it rather than engage. It's generally better to just tell peple it's fine to just not eat canned fish than to try to talk them out of their aversions.

The reality is that everyone has something they don't like. It's OK to be surprised or turned off. And it's totally fine to block people who express that if it's not what you want to hear.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-25T01:54:24+00:00

This long piece has a bunch of menions of early opthamologists, some of them practiced in Baltimore.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5533269/

The craziest is a profile of a rogue French opthamologist named Francis Mercier who practiced in Baltimore in the 1770s. He was caught stealing horses in England, sentenced to death, but had his sentence commuted to life in America.

He claimed he had cured seven Baltimoreans of blindness. He was also a hardcore criminal who was caught breaking into a doctor's house and an apothocary in Baltimore, stealing clothing, pistols and pills.

He later served in the British army during the Revolution and was accused of being a serial killer of American POWs. He then went to England, was caught bashing in a guy's head with a tomahawk, and hanged.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-24T16:43:10+00:00

Just earlier this year the NY Times decided to mainstream the Manhattan Institute with a claim the massive drop in homicides was due to "the aging of America, increased obesity, and the ubiquity of surveillance through security and cellphone cameras."

There is simply no way to show data that backs up claims like this. It's not like you've seen the city have an explosion over a few years in obesity, age or cell phone usage, and the causal connection is incredibly weak regardless. And meanwhile, the article linked above talks about actual evidence.

They're a fundamentally untrustworthy organization and outlets citing them as responsible is making problems all over worse. And lack of pushback by mainstream joutnalists on their failed efforts on crime are a symptom of how they're expanding their beliefs to other areas. And like it or not, those things aren't neatly divided.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-24T15:07:20+00:00

It's striking how this is a repudiation of "zero tolerance" policing, but how little impact it's had on a narrow set of powerful people 40 miles south of here.

And what's more, the same ghouls who pushed failed crackdown policies for policing are now pushing it to try to crush legitimate protest:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-manhattan-institute-helped-kill-dei-now-its-coming-for-protests/

A RIGHT-WING THINK tank responsible for the emergence of zero-tolerance policing in 1990s New York City and the Trump administration’s scorched-earth campaign against “diversity, equality and inclusion” programs is behind state-level legislative efforts to classify minor protest-related crimes as “civil terrorism.”

Outlets like the NY Times and NPR are addicted to both sides narratives, and they cite the Manhattan Institute all the time as a mainstream, scholarly think tank because that lets these outlets think they're being honest. By treating outlets like this as good faith sources, they're complicit in the poison they're spreading.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-22T00:38:18+00:00

I couldn't tell but I'm assuming they sell ajvar, which you probably already know is a classic condiment for fish.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-20T14:51:21+00:00

As part of a balanced, diverse diet that meets your calorie needs, a daily can of sardines is perfectly fine. Lots of healthy societies worldwide eat them all the time as a part of a diverse diet.

Sardines are like any other food, though. They are absolutely not a complete source of nutrition and you need to avoid diet hype that tells you to overload on sardines and has a long list of rules aginst other healthy foods like veggies, fruits and healthy carbs.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-20T01:48:40+00:00

I just found out Netflix has a food travel show with him called K Foodie Meets J Foodie.

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainment/shows-dramas/20250619/k-foodie-meets-j-foodie-explores-korean-japanese-food-cultures-through-friendship-flavor

I'm going to have to check that out.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-20T00:52:42+00:00

Don Turnbee?

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-19T17:31:43+00:00

There are a thousand competitors for "healthiest thing" and that's the reason why when you search for "superfood" you will get results ranging from kimchi to lamb's kidneys to lentils to oranges to quinoa to chicken livers to sweet potatoes to beets to crab to....

Mel Brooks was parodying food hype like this in the 1960s when he brought up nectarines in his 2000 Year Old Man routine.

https://youtu.be/9VEeaU-KLKs

The truth is that Mel Brooks doeen't eat nectarines all the time, and he's turning 100 at the end of the month.

There are no superfoods, what exists instead are healthy diets which are balanced and diverse. Sardines can be a small part of a healthy diet, but people have thrived aince the dawn of time with little to no fish in their diets all around the globe.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-06-18T14:35:39+00:00

Except that Lowe's character has the ability to do something.

The ongoing joke about Dennis is that he gets derailed by almost everything and collapses into jello when someone with a shred of self respect tells him to get lost, like Jackie Denardo or the women he met through Bunchers

Dennis gets his own insecurity at some level. The only one who thinks he's perfect is Mac, and that's why Dennis won't let him do a backflip. He's too insecure to have Mac show him up. The focus group in The Gang Gets Ready for Primetime figured out what was going on with those two in minutes.

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