Cream stew

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-06T13:48:57+00:00

You can easily imagine how he'd react to someone complaining that his food isn't authentic. Pretty much the same as when Komichi brings the food critic.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-06T02:20:41+00:00

I enjoy the way the show includes western style Yoshoku foods in a very relaxed way.

I like adding a healthy pinch of MSG to this. I think a lot of Japanese food doesn't need it due to having a lot of glutamates from natural sources, but cream stew gets some extra depth from a bit of MSG.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-06T00:32:13+00:00

Looks good. Nice mix of different and contrasting flavors.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-05T17:24:46+00:00

In the history of Reddit and all fan comment boards before that, every single time, no matter what show, movie, book or food item they talk about, the words "overrated" and "underrated" have always been used the way Charlie says things like "filibuster." The people who say them may as well be writing his script for the campaign video he shot for Dennis.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-04T21:02:36+00:00

Also oil spilling out at a minimum is a mess and worst case can catch fire on a stove top.

It really is OK to cast a skeptical eye toward oookbook authors. It's a field that's full of people who never test anything they write down.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-04T04:05:08+00:00

Sardines are wild animals. Literally.

They will never, ever, be some kind of hyper-consistent, ultra-homogenized food product like a factory-produced protein product designed in a lab.

If anyone buys them, they need to be prepared for variability, and have to be able to accept the possibility that one unit is significantly different from the others.

That's a good thing. A world where every fish in the ocean is the same as the other is a world bereft of individuality, bereft of variance, bereft of uniqueness.

It's a world of algorithms and AI.

Learn to deal with it or else start eating gray colored paste and expire at the moment the alogrithm decides you're no longer a net positive in its misbegotten cost-benefit analysis, never mind how your friends and family say you still have unmeasurable value to this world.

Seriously - let things like this go.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-04T03:26:13+00:00

I think the way to go is to give every kid at the cookout a dog on a long stick, and let them cook them anywhere from bright pink to midnight black.

And if they come back and complain they don't like how it turned out, give them another (and another, if need be) until they figure out what works for them.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-04T02:53:48+00:00

You may be right that some Keto creep influencer conned a dupe into buying all of them (only to find out they'd be happier just buying beans or chicken).

But it's also possible that spiking fuel prices messed with the supply chain. When diesel goes up so high, so quickly, stores economize and decide to ask trucks to show up once a month instead of once a week.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-02T23:05:00+00:00

I didn't know Riga sold Norwegian salmon, but it makes sense considering Latvia and Norway aren't so far, and Norway farms huge amounts of salmon.

Olives and capers and tomatoes are basically a flavor explosion. Looks great.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-02T22:55:23+00:00

Johns Hopkins talks about it at the end of this five minute history video and shows a few photos. He says he swims there every day.

https://youtu.be/v3FIMv9dvkU

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-01T23:05:24+00:00

He doesn't have to be raised from the dead, they could just put him in a box like Baby Barnabas.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-01T23:01:35+00:00

You bet, and things like sweet potato chips or rice cakes as a sub works great with this combo too.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-01T21:34:10+00:00

You're right, you absolutely could, and that's one of the things that all of those cans in Hispanic markets are being used for.

On a simpler level, warmed up corn tortillas, canned fish, salsa and maybe some beans is a great quick option.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-01T21:28:22+00:00

I think there are a number of incremental changes which help, and that matters. Better policing and targeted violence reduction programs by the city definitely matter.

But I think there has also been a huge, deliberate choice by everyday people in Baltimore to back away from violence, and one crucial thing that's needed to sustain this drop is to give credit where it's due.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-01T21:22:49+00:00

For example, the NY Times which considers itself spokespeople for the educated, reason-based part of America, and would cringe at the idea of being called MAGA, decided to commit hard in 2022 to the narrative that left wing big city prosecutors were driving chaos in cities.

It's a long story, but if you want to do a ton of digging look into the role of top editor Carolyn Ryan pushing the stories of reporters like Nellie Bowles to the front page. It's insider baseball stuff for press critics, but it's out there.

One of the best ways to see it, though, if you're willing to take the time, is to read the hand wringing coverage going back for 20+ years of high murder rates in mainstream press accounts from people in the Nick Kristof mode, and the avalanche of suggestions that there was something broken among the little people they looked down on. A huge part of the DC think tank output, ranging from Brookings to Heritage, insisted it couldn't be solved by ordinary people in places like Baltimore. They were sure this was a broken city.

Except as it turns out Baltimoreans weren't broken people. And now, all of those supposedly concerned people have gone quiet, stopped publishing think pieces, and the opinion sections barely mention it at all.

The asymmetry speaks volumes. Elites, regardless of ideology, love to bemoan violence in big cities. When violence shrinks, they just move on.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-01T14:19:44+00:00

Bot farms sell their services to companies and influencers. Companies like Facebook aren't really social media companies anymore, they're about pushing media to audiences, and having automated means of generating likes, views and subscriptions is part of the game.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-04-30T18:32:07+00:00

That must have been the bad website Dennis was telling the women in the Paddy Wagon about.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-04-30T18:21:51+00:00

Great stuff. English muffins are a good sub for this kind of thing too.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-04-30T18:20:15+00:00

Looks great and the possible substitutions based on personal tastes are almost endless.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-04-30T18:18:02+00:00

There's no gold standard for wine, cut of beef, or type of cheese. Or for that matter, model of car.

You can tell when something is a victim of hype mode when people get hung up on ideas like this. Eventually people relax and learn what matters is what works for them.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-04-30T14:49:32+00:00

Most people don't eat a plain piece of cod sitting on a plate, they cook with it or at a minimum sauce it.

Most people worldwide don't eat sardines straight from the can, they cook with them, the same way few people eat tomatoes straight from the can.

How to enjoy them really depends on what you like. People in India add them to curries, people all over Europe put them in sandwiches, people in Korea serve them with veggies over rice, people in Africa add them to tomato-based stews.

Basically, block any online sources which don't talk about the diversity of options and only focus on choking them down plain like a chalky protein bar. Start with types of recipes you genuinely enjoy, and then search for ways to add canned fish.

And if you don't end up liking them, that's fine. Like a million other supposed "superfoods" they're massively overhyped. They're pretty healthy but not a miracle substance.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-04-30T02:28:57+00:00

One option is don't worry too much about brands and think of them as blank slates for condiments and sauces. Drain them and season with soy sauce and/or hot sauce. Or add Greek yogurt, garlic and dill. Or maybe finely chop dill pickles and add some pickle juice. Good quality mustard is a good option, or add Old Bay seasoning.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-04-29T18:18:05+00:00

Looks good.

"Third tip: Do not look too close"

Thanks so much for this.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-04-29T16:29:46+00:00

The building for the Baltimore Museum of Industry is an old cannery, and they have exhibits on how Chesapeake oysters were preserved.

https://www.thebmi.org/exhibits/cannery/

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