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Have a (Safe) and Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Side Dishes
Here’s the most disproportionately consumed Thanksgiving side dish in each region: https://t.co/WDpqVXnoSY pic.twitter.com/j8GuNSxmjx
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) November 22, 2017
The history of cranberries at Thanksgiving…
Hard Knocks from André the Gentleman
Andre the Giant. pic.twitter.com/2VQ4YwmOqK
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) November 21, 2017
That map showing the west eating salad for Thanksgiving…casts doubt on any other conclusions it draws.
I went to the link, and I think that the survey results were consolidated by region rather than by individual state. That’s why it uses “by region” in the title. The states aren’t individually tallied (911 votes isn’t enough to do that well for 50 states anyway). So the point is that overall, the West consumes more salad than the South, not that Idaho necessarily consumes more salad than Florida.
Because Doug has already fessed up about his weakness for Nancy’s Mac ‘n Cheese. Apparently the secret is to use a cheese the food snobs refuse to acknowledge.
Though Doug also introduced me to the concept of wedge salad.
Salad can be very dangerous. My wife is brilliant- graduated from Vandy with a degree in Art History. Everything is defined by color, texture-visible and tactile. She tries to get me to eat Arugula, Kale, little bitty tomato thingies with oil and vinegar, unborn onions. Kinda like being asked to wear lacy underwear!If I refuse I don’t appreciate how creative she is. I love vegetables, but a good Iceberg Lettuce wedge with Bleu Cheese dressing, bacon bits, roasted garlic and lots of pepper is a SALAD!!
Where I live, you are expected to love arugula and kale and chard and vegetables I never even heard of growing up in Canada. I have learned that arugula is vastly improved by dumping some sugar on it, but you have to perform this maneuver undetected.
We call it ‘rocket’ here. If it’s bitter, it’s been picked too late or grown in conditions that are too hot. I could eat a whole bowl of it with a bit of salt and pepper and a glug of olive oil.
I still don’t buy it. Frankly, with the Mormon Corridor included in the “salad” region, that means that a “salad” can be some sort of Jell-O dish. Ah well.
There were four salads to choose from yesterday amid our northern Idaho spread.
I’ll stop my mouth. That’s a new one on me!
I see that Americans have yet to grasp basic principles of displacement that Archimedes understood millennia ago.
No one here is saying, “Eureka!”
Throw away the turkey. Grill a steak.
Eureka!