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  1. On 4/27/2018 at 12:59 PM, Brisketexan said:

    Fucking this.

    Which pisses me off, in retrospect.  It's not like they didn't know how to make a real quesadilla, but I got a store-bought flour tortilla folded over a slice of cheese and nuked.  Of course, when we got our first microwave when I was about 10, mom thought it was a miracle machine and everything should be cooked in it.

    To really dress up the quesadilla, I'd sprinkle some Bacos in there.  Not bacon, but Bacos -- those soy-powder or whatever they are "fake bacon" pieces that we always seemed to have on hand because they were shelf-stable (no need for the fridge space).  Nuked gummy tortilla, sliced cheese, and bacos.  And I actually thought I was livin' right.

    Did she refer to it as a science oven?

  2. On 4/25/2018 at 8:05 PM, DixonHur said:

    Pickled pigs feet, anyone?

    My maternal grandmother was from Germany, and she loved pickled pigs feet and pickled eggs.  Anytime she ate it, I would just stare in slack jawed horror.

    My family owned a grocery store on Gulfway in Port Arthur for several generations. We sold pig's feet out of a giant jar and those things went fast. Never tried one myself.

  3. 8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Well, you gotta understand a few things.

    1 -- my parents were from the poverty class, or damned close to it.  And we were firmly lower middle class most of my life.  So, packed sandwiches on roadtrips and whatnot were the order of the day.  And our hunting camps and fishing set up were pretty damned rudimentary.  No power, water, fancy shit like that.  I stayed in a cabin that was built using leftover campaign signs from my aunt's last race for county clerk (she held the office for 20 years).  Not fancy, but it kept out the wind and rain.

    2 -- caveat: my dad's mexican.  SO, if we were going to the beach....shit was totally different.  Mexicans don't do baloney sammiches at the beach.  Oh no, we packed up the Weber kettle grill, and bags full of marinated fajitas, ribs, and whatnot.  And dad built a good charcoal fire and grilled stuff for lunch.  We ate like kings (kings eating really cheap cuts of meat) at the beach.

    So wayyyy back in the beginning of Shaggy, there was a post about how some school districts in the US were giving cheese sandwiches on white bread to kids who didn't have lunch money, and people were freaking out at how disgusting that was, and how anyone could do that to kids. Now, my family is, by Port Arthur standards, currently well-off, but in elementary school we lived in a trailer park in Nederland and battled tree roaches for counter space. A cold cheese sandwich on white bread was my standard lunch and I liked it just fine. I just remember being flummoxed at how so many people thought it was shameful to serve that to poor kids.

  4. 6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    Fuck yes it is.

    It's like some of you heathens never went fishing or hunting in the 1970s.

    Olive and pimento loaf sammiches. Vienna sausages and mustard.  Saltines and PB.  Saltines and margarine.  LIVING RIGHT, that's what that was.

    Hunting camp fare definitely lowers the bar on what's acceptable. We evacuated to my dad's hunting camp in Zavala when we were trying to dodge Hurricane Andrew, and there were things I will never unsee.

    8 hours ago, Dewey said:

    I haven't thought about olive loaf in a longtime, I'll have to look for it at the store.

    As for gross foods, my dear mother liked to get recipe ideas from the local paper, one such recipe was to wrap fish in foil and cook in the dishwasher. She did this several times before my father led the coup and we were able to overthrow her.

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    Jesus Christ. Was there...other stuff in the dishwasher at the time? I have so many questions about the logistics of this.

    5 hours ago, otisdog said:

    My mom's Saturday bacon and eggs. She would clean the entire house while she cooked this meal. Hour and a half to fry the bacon, ended up looking and tasting like yesterdays campfire. Then another hour and a half for the eggs...no bacon grease left after that long, she just cracked the eggs and slow fried them. The egg white would turn green and take on the properties of 1/4" hardware cloth, and the yolk would render down to some form of Sulfa tablet. Just Awful.

    I took over the cooking duties in the 7th or 8th grade.

    My mom worked full-time and was always on a diet (for the record, she's tiny and weighs 110 lbs on a fat day), so she was always eating weird shit, like canned stewed tomatoes. I also took over the cooking detail in middle school. We ate lots of Hamburger Helper, spaghetti with meat sauce, and boudin with saltines.

  5. On 4/17/2018 at 9:32 AM, zman13 said:

     

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    So why was she forbidden from entering the basement? Maybe I missed it, but there didn't seem to be a clear reason.

     

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    I guess it was because he was working with a ton of frequencies for her hearing aid and didn't want it to hurt her or mess anything up.

    My 10-yo loved it. The worst part for him was

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    When she steps on the nail and then pulls her foot off of it.

     

  6. On 4/9/2018 at 10:07 AM, HornOnTheBayou said:

    The text messages are cracking me up. "BULLET DELIVERED!!!" with confetti had me rolling.

     

    On 4/9/2018 at 11:07 AM, Thiefery said:

    and the "Hang in There " Cat meme

    I'd watch a show just with this guy and his texts.

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  7. On 4/7/2018 at 11:39 PM, GreenspointTexas said:

    Great for a directorial debut but a little overrated. Still enjoyed it bigly

     

    Alien looks great. Movie should have been R instead of PG 13

    You think? (Regarding the R rating) It's definitely intense, but no sex, violence, or really any gore. My 10-yo is dying to see it and I think he could handle it.

    This movie was what Signs wanted to be. The acting was really outstanding, and I think we can expect lots of greatness from John Krasinski as a director.

  8. 2 hours ago, hornfan785 said:

    It's not claymation, it's stop motion. And do you hate all stop motion animation? I'm curious why.

    Yeah, I generally don't like it at all. It's just really clunky and jerky, and I can't think of a modern case where it added to the movie experience. But, I haven't seen Fantastic Mr. Fox, so I'll be sure to check that out.

  9. I appreciate Wes Anderson even though I've only really liked a few of his movies (The Grand Budapest Hotel and Moonrise Kingdom), but this one seems like the next level of pretentious even for him. Like he's saying "Critics love my movies no matter what so I'm going to do the next one in the worst animation style possible because I can." Because fuck claymation.

  10. Had blackened catfish Opelousas last night at Schooner. It's not the prettiest picture or plating but damn it was good. And I had totally forgotten about their au gratin potatoes. Been a few years since I'd eaten there.

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