They don't taste much like peas - they have their own peculiar taste and texture - it's difficult to say what they're like as there is nothing I know of that is similar.
But we even have a smilie that illustrates their method of production.
Things that annoy me, if you ascribe yourself as a DJ don't bitch about a woman who was raped by the cops as being "an attention whore." If your profession is the face of a glorified shuffle button, maybe you're just jealous.
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I TOLD them I needed NTSC, but I got a PAL disc, and now I have to figure out how to read it so I can finally watch the movie I've been trying to watch for over one thousand years now.
Heat is a terrible thing to do to a pea. Raw peas, on the other hand, are one of the yummiest things EVAR!
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This could probably go into the trivial things that amuse you thread instead, but I converted the first PAL DVD and put it on my server, and Plex is pretty sure that the first couple hours of Bela Tarr's Satantango is Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.
It scared me a little at first, but I can see how you'd get those mixed up.
My cooker (stove) has an electronic timer you can set when simmering soup or rice or whatever needs timing. You hold in one button marked "timer" or something and then there are + and - buttons to set the time.
It also has some other buttons that let you do fiendishly complicated things like make the oven switch on at a certain time and then off again after some cooking time - but I never use those.
So my gripe is with the setting of the simple timer - say I want to set it for 15 minutes. Now I can either press and release the + button fifteen times like a refugee or hold it down and then it increments automatically. I prefer the latter method as, remember, I'm already having to hold the other 'timer' button down at the same time.
The problem is with the way the time setting increments: it goes like 1................2...............3 so that I begin to fall into a catatonic trance and wonder if my life will end before I get to 15 or perhaps I should set it to 14 as it will take at least a minute to get there. But then it goes like 7............8.....9.101112131415202530 and by the time I see it moving at ludicrous speed and release the button it's already gone at least 5 minutes past the setting I want and then I have to rewind it with the - button at the initially glacially slow rate.
The programmer who wrote the firmware for this thing was either an idiot or a sadist - I think probably both of those things. The only fitting punishment for this programmer would be to be locked in a cage with some flesh-eating spiders or similar and have 20 people all have to enter a code number to release the locks on the cage - the code numbers, of course, being entered using the programmers own 'set' '+' and '-' button system.
I really hate those automatically flushing toilets in public restrooms. The damn things flush before I can inspect my work product. How am I to know whether I am a good boy or not if I can't see what I did?
Also posted elsewhere for maximum effect.
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Movies that don't bother with a science consultant or dictionary.
Rewatching Pacific Rim I'm still annoyed that the movie's two main moments of peril revolve around 1. No one looking up what Analog means in a dictionary, and 2. no one looking up the difference between a nuclear bomb and nuclear reactor. It's like saying, gas explodes, let me just throw this V8 engine at them, kaboom! Although I do like the OSHA unsafe concept that they send out live nuclear bombs to defend a city against giant monsters.
They're such easy fixes too. 1. Claim Gypsy Danger's older construction method gave her a Faraday cage like outer skin. 2. You already have giant robots fighting giant monsters, just say her power core was an experimental design that was dropped after it was discovered a loss in battle could level the city you're trying to protect.
I'd still say the biggest problem with Pacific Rim is not enough screen time for giant robots beating on giant monsters. Just do that for 90 minutes, it's what we all came for.
Indeed. Or if you're going to spend time with the two obvious stereotype scientists and an intriguing idea of merging their brain with a giant monster, do something more than repeat Independence Day. It's such a let down that what amounts to the C story is "they're here to steal our resources." Wow, that puts this whole giant mechs fighting giant monsters thing into perspective now! Glad we spent time watching that instead of say, giant mechs fighting monsters!
I swear this isn't a dig at Ang -- although it probably should be after that toilet spam ordeal he put us through -- but I have become increasingly intolerant of picky eaters. I don't mean when people have some individual items whose flavor or texture repulses them. I'm pretty sure everyone but Andrew Zimmern has a few of those. God knows I do. I'm talking about people who dismiss entire massive categories of food as if they were one thing.
I read a comment the other day where some dick was like "I don't like salad materials." Salad materials? Even if we assume he means your most basic of salad, that's like 8 ingredients at least. Then he followed up later and it turned out he meant vegetables. All of them. He doesn't like vegetables. How is that even possible? You can't possibly feel the same way about a beet as you do zucchini or arugula or cauliflower or asparagus. They are completely different in flavor, texture, color, scent, EVERYTHING. There is no way this asshole has tried every vegetable and judiciously deliberated on his opinion of them. It's just some little kid bullshit he never outgrew and it grinds my fucking gears.
I've started to assume that when people say "I don't like vegetables" what they really mean is either, 1. I don't like the flavor of 'green' and have never had them prepared properly and/or 2. the only vegetables I've eaten have been genetically selected to look perfect but taste like wet cardboard.
Like people who say they don't like tomatoes but love tomato sauce, could it be they actually don't like the green cardboard that often ends up on fast food burgers instead.
I have a kind of sloppy rule of thumb where everyone gets maybe three basic food items they can avoid just because they don't like them. I don't count things like not liking spicy food (unless you're a huge diaper baby about it and/or you count things other than capsaicin type heat), or cilantro or capers other less common things like that. Three basic things like brussels sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc.
If you have more than that, I consider you pretty much an adult baby. I don't accommodate that sort of thing, and I think people pretty much self-select, because if you are not down with eating big piles of smelly, unidentifiable food, you probably won't be hanging around me for long, but I will think that about you from afar.
I guess I haven't been paying very close attention, because I didn't know Ang was one of those guys. Hmmmm.
Like people who say they don't like tomatoes but love tomato sauce, could it be they actually don't like the green cardboard that often ends up on fast food burgers instead.
I don't like tomatoes but I love some kinds of tomato products and don't like others.
like:
ketchup
salsa, pico de gallo, etc.
marinara, bolognese, etc.
sun-dried tomatoes (sometimes)
don't like:
fresh raw tomatoes
tomato soup
bruschetta
I'm always willing to try again, though, cuz I figure I'm probably missing out. You bring me a non green cardboard tomato next time I see you and I promise I will try it!
(I bet I won't like it tho)
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I have a kind of sloppy rule of thumb where everyone gets maybe three basic food items they can avoid just because they don't like them. I don't count things like not liking spicy food (unless you're a huge diaper baby about it and/or you count things other than capsaicin type heat), or cilantro or capers other less common things like that. Three basic things like brussels sprouts, onions, mushrooms, etc.
Tomatoes, olives, avocados.
It's a wonder they let me live in California at all!
As a vegetarian I hope I can just group all meat as one item so as to avoid the ire of Rea.
I figure I make up for it by being willing to try any veggie. Mmm Durian.
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I'm always willing to try again, though, cuz I figure I'm probably missing out. You bring me a non green cardboard tomato next time I see you and I promise I will try it!
Challenge accepted!
Really the key is to stay away from most 'normal' tomatoes, like beefsteak. Heirlooms often have a good flavor, then there's Kumato or brown tomato, which was genetically selected more for flavor than looks, and cherry tomatoes which aren't just small but often sweeter. Unripe and flavorless tomatoes often lack both acidic and sugar flavors. You may notice the tomato items you listed often included added vinegar (as well as sugar and salt).
I am not really one of those guys and I don't know why Liv is picking on me. My list is really not very long, but it does contain more than three items.
Peas (Regular green table peas. I like the ones with edible pods.)
Beets
Squash (except for pumpkin pie and zucchini bread)
Asparagus
Okra (unless is it is battered with a lot of cornmeal, fried crisp in bacon drippings and you can't taste the okra. I actually had some fried okra today. It wasn't great but it also did not make me gag.)
Rhubarb (I just don't see the point of rhubarb.)
Lutefisk
Now, I have two basic rules:
1. If I am dining in your home and you serve me one of those things on the list I will eat it. That is the way I was raised, but I'll be damned if I am going to pay to eat one of those things in a restaurant. That is just a bridge too far.
2. I will try just about anything twice so long as it doesn't kill me the first time.
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