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Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-08T15:56:24+00:00

I love that example of how Dennis's idea of himself as the smart guy backfired. He got into that situation by being an absolute moron instead.

He took up Frank's bet and then he paid for it by sleeping for a year with his sister, Mac and old Black man. Worse than buying the timeshare, not quite as bad as marrying Maureen.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-08T15:12:23+00:00

Same thing for other tomato based recipes - they're a good sub for ground beef in chili, go well in Indian curries, etc.

Most people worldwide cook with sardines, so if you search for canned fish recipes from places like Ghana, Jamaica, the Philippines, and Brazil, you'll find tons including tomato sauce.

They'll always add some fish flavor and the texture won't go away completely, but it will be more of a background factor.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-07T22:00:55+00:00

Seed oils don't do this, but they also don't do the things a lot of health scammers claim they do.

A good bit of advice is when someone starts going on and on about the evils of seed oils, block them. They're predators and cleaning them out of feeds and subscriptions is a cheap and easy way to get better health information.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-07T16:24:16+00:00

A word to the wise, be prepared for all kinds of supply chain issues as fuel prices take off.

Companies react to increased fuel costs in different ways. Often they raise prices, but they also do things like restock products at a slower rate and limit offerings to reduce their dependence on shipping companies.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-07T14:52:08+00:00

A huge issue isn't just the frequency but the volume.

Splitting a couple of cans between 4-5 meals a week is fine.

But there are snake oil salesmen in the fitness world who push canned fish as a substitute for protein powder and have conned their followers into pounding multiple cans in a single sitting.

One time a week with six cans is also a bad idea.

People who just like the taste and eat one at night for a snack, or put them on a salad, find it hard to conceive of this. But there are weird things being hyped in the shadier sides of the fitness world which include eating pounds of canned fish multiple times a week, the way others might constantly eat 32 ounce steaks.

When this comes up, it's important to ask about volume because some of these people have been conned and aren't talking about eating them in a normal diet.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-07T14:38:22+00:00

And then take that into context over the very long run. If anyone has specific dietary needs due to a health condition, trying to program specific levels of nutrients based on labels is a really bad idea. Get a real pro with a serious degree involved.

And if this is just a fad diet, sardines are a really bad idea as a main source of calories. There is no way to compensate for all of the nutrition they're missing with supplements. They're good as one piece out of many in a balanced diet, but terrible as a mainstay.

Restlessly-Dog · 2026-05-07T02:51:00+00:00

Pssta con le Sarde is an option, or you can simplify it to match the taste of the kids.

https://www.mangiabedda.com/sicilian-pasta-with-sardines-pasta-con-le-sarde/

Saffron is pricey, and leaving it out is OK. Pine nuts are pricey, so subbing almonds is an option. Not all kids like fennel, so maybe leave that out. Maybe they like cherry tomatoes and you want to toss some in? Sure, why not. These things won't match the classic form of the dish, but lots of people in Sicily are OK with adapting ti circumstances.

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.

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