Hey Guys.....
Just a note to let you know I'm still here. I've been extremely busy with the real world of work, board meetings that lasted 4 days, competition BBQ cooking, helping my mother in law downsize, work around the house and helping my family in Columbia rebuild after the flood. We finally got the kitchen part up and running for take-out at my brother's restaurant, but the dining room will be a couple of weeks. My sister is already up to $70,000 in damage to her house and trying to get that finished up.
There has been a lot of crap going on in CMS that I wanted to post about, but it's all the same bullshit we've been dealing with for years. I did noticed y'all have been commenting on much of it in the last post.
I did cast my vote against the status quo last week, but alas, the status quo won. That reminds me of the Bobby Fuller Four - I fought the law and the law won...LOL... Geeeze I'm frickin' old.
I hear one of my regular posters has a birthday in a couple of days... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!.
Lots of stuff will be coming our way in CMS and also with the new emboldened minority of people who are getting away with the New Racism as is happening in Missouri.
The only bright spot in all this is that the liberal universities and their ilk, who have preached their liberal "go out and destroy corporate American and conservatism", is coming home to roost as at Missouri.
These colleges and universities will be going the way of the urban public school system.
Wiley!
ReplyDeleteYou're back! Thanks for the birthday wish. Blue Ribbon winner in the BBQ cook off? Sorry about your family's flood damage.
Same ol, same ol back on the CMS ranch.
We finished 14th in brisket, which is our best category, out of 63 teams. We did beat several highly ranked national teams, notably the 12th ranked team.
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ReplyDeleteJust ran into this and thought it was appropriate for today's environment in "modern educayshun".
http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/10/this-viral-video-about-campus-social-justice-warriors-is-fantastic/
Also, lots of stuff out there on the poop swastika.
ReplyDeleteWas it a hoax?
Pretty sad that people get fired over this type of stuff.
And we know that those with a "cause" will not let truth get in their way of a good story.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/11/10/was-the-poop-swastika-incident-at-mizzou-a-giant-hoax/
Well, I've had my say about the crackpots in the "social" sciences in our colleges.
ReplyDeleteThis professor Click has a resume which sounds suspiciously like the old sociology professor running the place at one of my alma maters.
The one who sent students out to gay bars to study the "clientele" for a special project.
This has really been festering in our universities for decades.
Jeez, though, sounds like you've been busy, Wiley.
ReplyDeleteWe're planning to take a trip back to the US next month. First time back in a year and a half.
BBQ is definitely on the list. As is Mexican food. Or Tex-Mex or something like that.
But probably NO CHINESE!
LOL on the Chinese.
DeleteMaybe Canadian food? That's always baffled me in that we have every type restaurant known to man in the US except Canadian food restaurants.
Yeah and toss in four elderly parents, one with Alzheimer's, one that's had 4 heart attacks and had another two nights ago and this same one downsizing, it's all I can handle.
Between Kindergarten and 3rd grade I attended a public elementary school in upstate NY within a half hour of the Canadian border. Our school flew the American and Canadian flag out front. Every morning we would recite the Pledge of Allegiance, sing 'God Bless America' and then sing the Canadian national anthem, 'O Canada'. I think the words I sang in the late 1960's to 'O Canada' were changed to something more politically correct.
DeleteI can't imagine a public elementary school in Texas within a half hour of the Mexican border flying the Mexican flag out front or having students sing the Mexican national anthem every morning. Can you? Lol.
What a long, strange trip it's been...
Well, there's always "Canadian" bacon...
DeleteNot sure what else they have.
Maybe maple syrup and moose sausage?
And pancakes, of course.
I'll probably be visiting my family near Birmingham, AL.
That city is downright depressing compared to the Birmingham I grew up in. I don't even like to drive through it anymore. It is really dangerous in most places, but I have to go through what used to be a nice suburban area where I shopped a lot as a youngster.
It's a dump now. Full of pawn shops and auto title loan places.
Oh, well, most of my immediate family still lives nearby, so I'll have to make a stop.
After a week in Hilton Head island, though.
Then from B'ham, maybe Atlanta then Charlotte again.
Last time I went to Canada was to Windsor.
DeleteHad to drive through some slummy part of Detroit to get there.
Holy crap, what a dump.
Windsor was pretty nice in comparison. It was like a different world.
That was back around the early 2000's.
Hey, hit it pretty close on the Canadian food without even trying...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.buzzfeed.com/perpetua/canadian-foods#.qxOykDrVL
And don't get me wrong, I'm fine with Chinese food.
ReplyDeleteI just know it won't be NEARLY as good in the US unless I really go out of my way and pay a relative fortune for it.
A bit like Thai food in the US.
Also on our list is pumpkin pie from Costco and a spiral cut ham.
ReplyDeleteAnd the kids want to visit an "all you can eat" KFC buffet.
Because KFC is REALLY BIG in Asia, so the thought of an all you can eat buffet of the stuff pretty much boggles their minds. Especially my girl who is only six years old and can't remember ever seeing one.
I actually despise KFC and have since I was a kid. My grandmother cooked much better chicken, as did most southerners I grew up with.
My neighbor used to keep chickens in a pen and wring their necks every weekend for Sunday lunch.
We all used to love to go out and watch the chickens flop around with their broken necks, blood spewing all over the place until they finally dropped dead.
U'mm, H'mm. Good eating.
With a mess of Polk salad, you couldn't go wrong.
Shamash,
ReplyDeleteIs it true that the Chinese consider dark meat chicken better than white meat chicken? I swear to God I read this somewhere once.
My bucket list includes visiting China someday.
Well, c'mon down to China and grab a bucket.
DeleteI suspect that they most likely do prefer dark over light.
And the menu is a little bit different, with some unusual flavors such as garlic and ginger crusts on occasion.
You really don't see those huge white chicken breasts here.
Most of the time it is wings, thighs and legs.
And feet, of course.
They seriously LOVE chicken feet. Especially for dimsum.
But I think they really like duck better, overall, but it's a little more expensive.
Also, you will find more black skinned chicken in Asia.
The meat's the same, only the skin is black or dark gray instead of pink/yellow like you almost always see in the US.
I've been to mainland China a few times. It's really a LOT more interesting than the USA to me, and I'd really rather go there for our trip, but my wife wants to go back and she wants to make sure the kids stay in touch with the place, too.
We still have a few of the kid's friends who keep in touch, but I don't think they have very strong bonds back here compared to China and Hong Kong now.
Odd Chinese cuisine fact...
ReplyDeleteThe Paul Simon song "Mother and Child Reunion" was named after an item he saw on a Chinese menu.
It's a dish made of chicken and eggs.
No I would not give you false hope
On this strange and mournful day
But the mother and child reunion
Is only a motion away, oh, little darling of mine.
Most likely that "motion" is stir frying.
My 7th grade science teacher had our class try tripe, frog legs, calve testicles, and a number of other kinds of foods none of us had ever eaten. I don't recall if the menu including chicken feet. At least we didn't eat anything that was still moving on the plate.
ReplyDeleteIn French class we made crepes. I think both teachers would be sued today for making and serving food that wasn't FDA approved. I fondly remember my mother bringing in homemade cupcakes every year on my birthday for my class to share. Today, moms bring in disgusting cookie cakes from Harris Teeter. One of the things I liked about private school was the ability for students to participate in international food activities that didn't require FDA oversight. "Diverse" food was considered an educational experience right down to Southern BBQ day. At least CMS served rubber turkey in its cafeterias the week of Thanksgiving.
My 7th grade science teacher also had a human fetus in a jar of phemaldehyde in the back of the room in addition to jars of giant spiders and other formally living things.
That's probably what's wrong with me today, smelling too much formaldehyde and handling dead perch and frogs.
DeleteLol
DeleteOops. Formaldehyde.
DeleteWell, I did have an interesting dish in China called drunken shrimp.
DeleteAt first, I thought it was going to be either something stir fried in some beverage or "beer batter" fried.
But they brought out a bowl of live shrimp and a bottle of baijiu which is basically Chinese rice vodka, just a clear high alcohol drink very popular with them.
Then they poured a bunch of it over the shrimp so they were swimming in alcohol, thrashing around and basically slowly dying of alcohol poisoning.
The idea was that once they settled down sufficiently, you were supposed to eat them.
I watched them squirm around for a few minutes, got tired of the "show" and then sent them back to the kitchen to be cooked.
Didn't want to eat them while they were still twitching.
Lol.
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