This video got kinda surreal.

I've got a bag of these (www.myspicesage.com). I don't really care for spicy (hot) food and certainly don't understand the whole hot pepper pain machismo thing. I ordered them on a goof and tried just one small flake (they're dried) on my tongue. That was plenty to sate my curiosity forever, and now they've been sitting in a cupboard in their ziplock bag for over a year. I've given some to friends who wanted to try them in food, but other than that, it's not exactly an item you (read:I) could go through a lot of quickly.

Living in China for a year reaffirmed to me the need for an FDA. The unscrupulous business people here, to cut corners, will put all sorts of dangerous chemicals in processed food to cut corners on cost. It's gotten to the point where everyone questions every item on the shelf, and there is a general feeling of insecurity about the immediate and long term effects of consuming bad food.

Thank god for the FDA. They may be a little corrupt, and I don't doubt that they may over extent, but giving capitalists free rein to put paint thinner in my frosted flakes to make them look "frostier" is not cool.

Yeah, that was what I was expecting when I opened this video.>> ^xxovercastxx:

They've overstated the connection a bit. There was a small movement at the time pushing the idea that spicy, sweet or otherwise flavorful foods had an equivalent effect on the personality of the consumer. If you wanted to control your urges, sexual or otherwise, you should eat a bland vegetarian diet. Corn flakes were created by accident during preparations of grain for normal use in bland, tasteless food.

They've overstated the connection a bit. There was a small movement at the time pushing the idea that spicy, sweet or otherwise flavorful foods had an equivalent effect on the personality of the consumer. If you wanted to control your urges, sexual or otherwise, you should eat a bland vegetarian diet. Corn flakes were created by accident during preparations of grain for normal use in bland, tasteless food.

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Guess I'm having some of these "pancakes" for dinner. Makes a change from scotch and flakes of cardboard, I guess.

>> ^spoco2:

>> ^Ryjkyj:
>> ^spoco2:
Urgh, she didn't use rock salt... who doesn't grind salt in this day and age, honestly
Also, bleurgh, do not like that collection of ingredients at all.
But upvote for her amusingness.

I've been curious about this whole salt grinding trend for a while now. Salt is not pepper, it doesn't "go bad", it's just salt. Grinding pepper brings out flavors (and aromatics btw) that would otherwise be lost if the pepper sat in powdered form for a long time. That's why fresh-ground pepper is so different. But salt doesn't change, so why would you ever need to grind it? Especially if you're just putting it in a sauce?

It's more to do with the coarseness of the grind I guess, I just don't like the fine grind of package salt like that, it helps get the flavour across I think. Salt flakes are even better, but harder to come by, so I make do with rock salt in a grinder.


But if you're making a sauce like she's doing here, doesn't it just break down?

>> ^Ryjkyj:

>> ^spoco2:
Urgh, she didn't use rock salt... who doesn't grind salt in this day and age, honestly
Also, bleurgh, do not like that collection of ingredients at all.
But upvote for her amusingness.

I've been curious about this whole salt grinding trend for a while now. Salt is not pepper, it doesn't "go bad", it's just salt. Grinding pepper brings out flavors (and aromatics btw) that would otherwise be lost if the pepper sat in powdered form for a long time. That's why fresh-ground pepper is so different. But salt doesn't change, so why would you ever need to grind it? Especially if you're just putting it in a sauce?


It's more to do with the coarseness of the grind I guess, I just don't like the fine grind of package salt like that, it helps get the flavour across I think. Salt flakes are even better, but harder to come by, so I make do with rock salt in a grinder.

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So THAT'S how Frosted Flakes came to be ...

You can observe the same phenomenon when you order an okonomiyaki with bonito flakes at a Japanese Izakaya.

>> ^raverman:

Is the mercury reacting with the aluminium here?
or
is it just acting as a catalyst preventing aluminium oxide crystalizing, so it's actually oxygen reacting with aluminium creating oxide... but not crystallizing?


If I remember correctly the mercury combines with the aluminum to form an amalgam (which is why it seems to "soak" through the beam). The part of the amalgam exposed to air reacts to form aluminum oxide which flakes off, leaving most of the mercury behind to continue the process.

A small amount of mercury can destroy a large amount of aluminum.

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@kronosposeidon oh yeah! Only because @blankfist decided to flake out and stop responding.

Incidentally, @dystopianfuturetoday, I ran across a post today from Brad DeLong about this whole Ayn Rand accepting help from Medicare business that I find, well, perfect: http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/02/deriving-their-just-powers-from-the-consent-of-the-governed.html

Here's another angle on the event...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiLeud-sxrM&feature=player_embedded

Now - when an unidentified, unauthorized person makes a mad dash with an object in their hands at a political figure in a vehicle then you sort of have to expect a bit of manhandling. Imagine if some random Bush supporter had made a similar dash at President Obama, for example. You think just maybe that security & aides would dogpile the breach until "the package" was confirmed safe? I'm surprised this nutcase got off as easy as she did.

Also consider the source. This is a MoveOn.org neolib flake with a documented history of radical behavior. As a publicity stunt this loser runs up with a trophy. Whatever. But when that objective fails she runs whining to favorable left-wing media outlets like MSN to peddler her non-story as a "woe is me" tale of Rand Paul violence. And look how freaking HAPPY she is to be on MSN hawking her balony. She's not upset. She's happy as a clam. This went better than she hoped. So boo-hoo cry me a river, toots.

Show me the video of Democrat volunteers wrestling down Republican protesters? Show me the video of Democrat candidates not condemning violence started by one of their own ... one party has a clear propensity for violence, the other does not.

You mean the Democrat party, right? Because they're the main offenders for voter intimidation, violence, and shenanigans. Democrat union thugs intimidate voters at the ballots, and even target them at their homes. Democrat supporters beat up poor black guys at rallies. Rather than condemn the sleaze, Democrat politicians act as apologists for this behavior. And hey - how about that great Etheredge vid where he manhandles a blogger? "Who are you?!?" indeed.

Examples you say?

http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/2010/09/29/violence-hatred-and-thuggery-by-liberal-extremists-against-conserva
tives-so-wheres-the-media-video/

And please no whining about the source. Yeah it's a conservative blog, but all its doing is linking youtube videos. Sorry man - but if you imagined up a world where only Repblicans are mean jackholes then you had to do it by ignoring documented fact.