Thursday, May 10, 2007
A Sweet So Sour: Kool-Aid Dills - New York Times
...But they now have an arresting color that combines green and garnet, and a bracing sour-sweet taste that they owe to a long marinade in cherry or tropical fruit or strawberry Kool-Aid.
Kool-Aid pickles violate tradition, maybe even propriety. Depending on your palate and perspective, they are either the worst thing to happen to pickles since plastic brining barrels or a brave new taste sensation to be celebrated...
"You pull the pickles from the jar, cut them in halves, make double-strength Kool-Aid, add a pound of sugar, shake and let it sit — best in the refrigerator — for about a week.
On Kool Aid Pickles: Jesus Christ, can we modify more things to stick in gobs? Pickles are supposed to be sour, not sweet, anyone who tells you different is retarded. I mean I'm not surprised because this comes from the South, home of the Deep Fried Twinkies, Obesity and a Diabetes epidemic, but still...
It's a blasphemy I tells you, I just can't cope. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
via: The Consumerist
Thursday, April 19, 2007
People = Dicks
So I got a call from my father in law yesterday asking me if I wanted to go to a book fair. I was thinking he was in town and we would go down together, so I said "yeah", and he asked to look for a couple of books for him while I was down there. D'oh!
When I woke up this morning, the news was doing a remote from the location telling me that people were already in line for the fair...it was 6:45am for a 4pm Early Bird Day.
Since I had committed to going down there, I arrived at 3 pm and there were probably 600+ people in front of me in line.
As soon as they opened the gates, the crowd stampeded in and people began sweeping huge swaths of books into shopping carts and standing around defending them while they used their hand held computers to estimate value.
It made me really uncomfortable and took a lot of the fun out of looking for books, when the people next to you are walking in front of you Hoovering up the books sight unseen. Nearly the entire Occult section was taken in one swoop by a group with 4 shopping carts within minutes.
I spent 2.5 hours wandering around looking around for Codex Seraphinianus, but there was none for me to find.
I was also hoping to find a rare Vonnegut, like the awesome copy of "Slaughter House Five", I have, but the only book I found was "Galápagos".
Anyway, I bought a bunch of stuff for fun, but generally had a shitty time because I was surrounded not by gentle, browsing bibliophiles, but asshole sharks.
When I woke up this morning, the news was doing a remote from the location telling me that people were already in line for the fair...it was 6:45am for a 4pm Early Bird Day.
Since I had committed to going down there, I arrived at 3 pm and there were probably 600+ people in front of me in line.
As soon as they opened the gates, the crowd stampeded in and people began sweeping huge swaths of books into shopping carts and standing around defending them while they used their hand held computers to estimate value.
It made me really uncomfortable and took a lot of the fun out of looking for books, when the people next to you are walking in front of you Hoovering up the books sight unseen. Nearly the entire Occult section was taken in one swoop by a group with 4 shopping carts within minutes.
I spent 2.5 hours wandering around looking around for Codex Seraphinianus, but there was none for me to find.
I was also hoping to find a rare Vonnegut, like the awesome copy of "Slaughter House Five", I have, but the only book I found was "Galápagos".
Anyway, I bought a bunch of stuff for fun, but generally had a shitty time because I was surrounded not by gentle, browsing bibliophiles, but asshole sharks.
Labels: Rant
