Well, I… guess that answers the question.

Thank you for answering!

(hmm, where does the word “answer” come from, anyway?)
(it seems so odd across common English)

Je crains que ce soit un service payant, monsieur.

…

Interesting. You sound old as hell (like myself), but someone who took a different path.

I tended to do ‘forums’ while you got the good ol’ newsgroups, it sounds like?

Oh wow, thank you so much for that, FP. Golly.

Okay, I’ll… need to get some of that stuff at other places, since my local ‘super’ doesn’t stock them. Right-then, to work!

When Asia and India start getting as round as Americans I’ll reconsider the evidence of toxic rice.

Hahaha. A nicely asshole reply to an asshole complaint. Bien joué, monsieur.

Enchanté!

I’ve known ‘FP’ for some time now, but I don’t believed we’ve had the pleasure, mssr.

Glad you picked up the reference there, compañito. XD

P.S.: “Naw Jawn, are there really that many girls named <Johnny> in NYC?”
–Bennett Cerf, on “What’s my Line?”

it smells like fruit loops when you open the package.

Hahaha, I love it.

Btw, FP-- do you have a base, Indian-style curry mix that you like to start dishes with?

And… a side-note, asshole opinion fired in to the void:

White rice (including basmati) is essentially junk food. Not just because the nutrient and fibre-rich hull has already been stripped away before you taste, but because that particular cereal crop is naturally infused with arsenic as part of its growing process.

So for chronic rice eaters, it’s a great way to: 1) rocket your way to D2 disease, 2) regularly spike your glycemic index, and 3) mildly poison yourself, ala… yup…

https://www.google.com/search?q=Monsieur+Noirtier+de+Villefort&udm=2
Monsieur Noirtier de Villefort

I agree with some of that kvetching, and no doubt ActivityPub and the FV still have much to achieve, but I still feel good about the overall model of the FV, and that I’m not being monetized nor exploited as with F------k, R----t, T-----r, and other social media platforms.

Indeed, there’s a fundamental truth about us naked apes that consistently leads us down one slipshod path after another, and that has to do with our chronic discomfort upon uncertainty, and our aching need for surety across all things possible. Unfortunately (or fortunately as it were), reality tends to be a little more complicated than merely meeting our existential needs in such ways. Still, I can understand the sentiment, haha.

Or as an inciteful American once said: “Number One, I order you to take a Number Two!”
https://skipcut.com/watch/r2Y8RUGFlK4

OIC. So the tiny, barely-seen ingredients complementing the snap peas/snow peas, mushrooms, and julienned carrots? But sometimes a tiny little bit of other ingredients can add a nice little low-key zest.

Never tried Char Siu sauce, but it sounds pretty yummy…

available at asian groceries all over

I guess there’s always something lost when moving from one place to another, but man… the scarcity of Asian groceries (from tiny shops to warehouse size places) around here is a serious, serious bummer.

The typical SE Asian selection at the local supermarket is laughably WASP-y in variety, and the prices are typically 5x-10x what I was spoilt with, back East.

And frankly… there are also true upsides to that, mais non?

(sorry Rimu, I’m trying like hell to learn this language (French) and I’m just inserting things fluffing everywhere, for no good reason. 😅

Cheers, mate. <3

Good to know; thank you!

That said, our PF posts and content don’t seem to be getting much FV traction the last 1.5wks or so. Or maybe it’s just me, I don’t know.

But also:
Is there actually a way to search the FV that includes PieFed content? Because so far it all seems to be Lemmy-oriented, you know?

Haven’t used it for a while, but Reveddit used to be able to give good info on what stuff of yours might have been shadow-removed, and why.

https://www.reveddit.com/

c/shittyfoodporn !

La Boulette À Mamie

Haha, my little A2-level French is starting to serve me well!

Anyway, looks delish. oO
But I also wanna comment that caramelized onions are like the nuclear bomb of food porn! (and if you’re mainly ‘veggie’ like me, check out Lebanese Lentils, s’il vous plaît)

Also, I gotta admit-- and holy smokes! Beef & potatoes is like a combination handed down by the food gods. (and actually fairly nutritious, too, as potatoes are a ‘super food’)

Oh yeah, I agree a lot about the evolution issue, and I think the lack of such is directly reflected in people commonly feeling overwhelmed by this modern life. Also common for us to be poor at perceiving global issues of the day (like sustainability), and being easily manipulated in to voting against our own interests as kind of a knee-jerk reaction to all that.

Okay, gotcha.

I guess my main reason for piping up there is that the more I’ve learned from history, the more I’ve noticed a wider and wider gap between what it’s like living in actual communes (which to me are probably the closest thing to our traditional living system, i.e. “tribes”), and the huge autocracies which declared themselves “communist.”

The other problem is that many in the west (especially the USA) were either disingenuous or completely ignorant about what was really going on over there, and of course The Red Scare became an awful lever and power-play which ruined a lot of peoples lives.

Bah, sorry for all the ranting.

Plastic cheese

Haha. So… American or Cheez Whiz?

I get corporations fuckin’ suck, but communism???

It’s not even actual communism either, but more like tankie-ism. Stalin’s USSR and Mao’s China weren’t communist either, but more like dictatorships / autocracies dressed up with ‘communist principles.’ But I digress, maybe.