He's cooking bullets, not rice cakes.

My assumption is that people don't do these things because they are intrinsically better (even though I can accept that they could easily be), they do it to make themselves seem important and special.

Eating sushi in "the correct way" is also not popular, the wrong way is popular - who's the one trying to avoid conforming to the peasantry now?

People make fun of this video, because it's not about teaching you how it should be done, it's about him showing off all the fancy things he knows about sushi and talking japanese; Look I'm so cool, I do it the right way. It reminds me of that hilarious application video that was spoofed by Michael Cera: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_(video_r%C3%A9sum%C3%A9)

If the main point is to teach people to do something right, then teach it nicely - it's even more compounded by the level of self-importance in this thread.

Some times there's a correct way and there's another perfectly fine way - I know, shocking. People don't all like the things you like, oh gosh, say it isn't so.

You, @NinjaInHeat and @arekin (and I suppose the guy in the video) are the three amigos who want to cram the "correct sushi" down everyones' throats - I am not trying to force you to eat the regular rice-cake sushi that normal people do, you can do what you want.

In essence what you would call "correct sushi" is an entirely different dish than what is normally known as sushi, so it's sort of a silly argument in the end.

I guess my main point of contrition has nothing to do with sushi, but to do with the way in which it is presented. It stinks of aristocracy - people who know the right way and therefore snub their nose at all the others who clearly "just don't get it" - well fuck, there's not really much to get, you like to eat it in a certain way - whoopdefrickingdoo.

"You know, real hambruger is hand picked from the kobecow and processed right in front of you. And be careful to only use a light touch of ketchup as a pallate cleanser, and to convey the intended feelings of camaraderie that the chef wanted you to feel with him and his cultural heritage.. and be sure to drink plenty of Sprite - this is the way to properly enjoy hamburger, otherwise you might as well just eat some raw fish or something like a fucking retard who don't even know that you only lightly dip the corner of the bun in grey poupon mustard".

Bah humbug.

>> ^scannex:

The normalization of obesity is a problem. The letter while technically unkind was done in a calm and constructive manner.
This woman IS in the public eye, and she does have the capacity to change her appearance.
People in this thread have drawn all sorts of parallels that just do not work, such as homosexuality.
A proper parallel would be something that is negative to her health, negative to the health of those that choose to follow her example, and something that is remediable...
Her obesity, by overwhelming odds is likely to be a behavioral issue, not a medical issue.
Therefore a more proper parallel would be her smoking while in front of the camera. Its not healthy, it is difficult but possible to modify the behavior, and it sets a poor example.
Do we bully people every time we tell them not to smoke? This woman did not appreciate being eluded to as fat. End of story, this guy wrote her a letter. He didn't soapbox in front of her kids school.


If millions lose weight by exercise and eating right and a few are clinically depressed because of it, I think that speaks to a psychological/neurological issue.

Or, they just haven't found the right foods to eat. I'd go insane if I ate rice cakes everyday, but it's not my body's fault that I'm depressed.

I hate rice cakes! If I hadn't upvoted this video, I would have downvoted it! (She won me when she had to spell out how to count to 50! She knows her American audience very well!)

I made some of this last week for myself. I use ready-made frozen rice cakes from the asian market though. It's a favorite of mine and reminds me of my mommy.

I love that slo-mo shot of him cutting the rice cake. He almost looks like some sort of hasidic super-hero.

Here's where MINK gets his, a bit late, had to shove wheat-free gluten up some hippie's sterile ass, and kill some game-now that that there is no game, guess we're eatin' crackers n' kale, you have some bitter Prussian bitch's mother to thank for us havin to suffer another mix and match, but that's a mirror's gaze away from where you sit right now, if you are reading this, you half-breed, genetically scarred wart on the planet's surface.....

So the official Roast of MINK had commenced...here follows a few opening thoughts, if you can call stream of consciousness ball-busting any effort whatsoever...

Firstly, some of the other users who chimed in without following proper decorum on past roasts only to find yer clever little asses thrown in the pool of future roastees??? That's yer dumbass, no rules readin', wanting to be noticed, luck. Get ready for the die to fall yer way at a most inopportune time, most likely when you feel really passionate about some issue you have no business touching, because of your grab-bag, anything goes, let everyone do what they think is right for them, sensibilities....fuck you , yer clock is ticking, and we may all be here with you now but wait until you have to actually open yer brain up to the chopping block.......hope ya like, foi grois of useless fat blended.....

Lithuania.
Otherwise known as Stalin's Fistfuck....yer real smart now, but just a few ticks ago, you couldn't decide yer heads from ass as it relates to yer own. Well, guess yer off the hook by now, you and every other ass-bag in the Baltics..it's a wonder someone with a computer and some time to kill, that isn't a complete wife-beating alcoholic, has enough synaptic wherewithall to be here with 2 cogent thoughts to rub together......Heh...ooops , sorry....we only have one asshole from there and he has yet to prove my wonder anything more than hopeful fantasy-

MINK fancies himself a musician, and has even given us a taste of something he feels just fine about....I listened to his theme-song, and his friends need to stop buying the shit Antanas approved for sterilizing goat nipples with back in the 30's, and try some proper grain.....oh wait, they used all barrels for bathtubs after 42'....

I have been told by the man himself, that his decision to become a vegetarian, proceeded his decision to become a vegan, after he had a wittle food poisoniong that took him to the next level, and made him face mortality at the hands of someone not wiping their ass....Is this true MINK? next time you decide to swear off meat, make sure you don't let yer girlfriend. cook for you again....speakin' a which....

in his questionairre, mink answered this when asked what he did when he was not on the computer....
"1. What do you do when you are not on the computer?

"eat vegetarian food, fuck a vegetarian, buy vegetables, that sort of thing.
And make music, but that's on a computer... so.... but I play trumpet... Into a computer"

So you hang out near a feedbag, copulate with Bossie after staelin' her grain, and hum to yerself??....that's no trumpet yer playin', it's a skin flute!!

You nall of late, well, some of you, have a problem with semantics..or tone, or whatever....lemme tell ya what it really is..Most of you were never taught how to derrive meaning from the written word....As a result, you hold some grudge against MINK for coming off, as some frustrated geezer, disillusioned with the sift, with life, with the world at large...

Get over it, you ineffectual meatbots!!! MINK is the man in your mirror that tells you how fucking ugly that mole is is from that angle(straight ahead, you can't miss a schizm like that) or how similar to methane in an elevator that last comment you pulled from Urectum was. He has a better handle on what smells anyhow, seeing as how all you poor sunsabicthces suffer from the many ailments that come with the ingestion of sweatmeats, and he himself, in all his rice-cake eatin', guilty-cheese coveting, politely cared for before being tapped for their juices loving, gonna live better than any of us because he don't kill nor go with those who do, assholes here.

Dude, you really need a vacation. Try Poland-Maybe you can find someone there that is not so pissed that they can't forgive you for your complicity with the Krauts...a deaf, dumb, blind Jewess, that owns a liquor store....

agreed. it's all down to individual interpretation of the data. i was just contemplating the idea from douglas adams' HGTG where a crazy scientist extrapolates the whole universe from a single rice cake which i think is similar to what these guys are trying to do

So...basically...you only eat fish...and rice cakes?

Oh, Susanna, don’t you cry for me,
I’ve come from Alabama with a *banjo on my knee.

Everyone see my Lunar New Year video about the Vietnamese rice cake called *banh chung? Really delicious stuff.