Luke Skywalker is Dead

The_Golden_Turd · January 24, 2017, 11:45pm

Knock it off.

Mr_Reasonable · January 25, 2017, 3:19am

Will people finally stop talking about those movies now?

The_Golden_Turd · January 25, 2017, 4:15am

Did the Greeks ever stop talking about the Illiad or Odyssey?

Mr_Reasonable · January 25, 2017, 2:30pm

I don’t associate with those kinds of people so I wouldn’t know.

The_Golden_Turd · January 25, 2017, 2:44pm

What people? Book readers? Foreign People?

Mr_Reasonable · January 25, 2017, 3:16pm

Greeks. They’re just kind of generally grubby, their food is overrated, their nation is the shame of the economic world, and their philosophy is just so/so.

The_Golden_Turd · January 25, 2017, 3:20pm

Don’t say that to Satyr, you’ll make that Turk cry.

Mr_Reasonable · January 25, 2017, 3:22pm

Like people who live primarily off olives, feta, and overcooked lamb. It’s just gross. I think the soul food that came from the slaves in America is way better.

The_Golden_Turd · January 25, 2017, 3:40pm

I use olive oil primarily, even had it in my Humvee in Iraq. Lots of Greeks in my neighborhood. I was pissed when everyone would hijack it, not for food (I wouldn’t care) but to drip rags into it for lubricating weapons. I had it in Tupperware, then switched over to little bottles so they couldn’t pull that.

It’s a damn good survival food, can be turned into lamp oil, or used to lubricate parts, cover wounds, or consumed. Should always keep a plastic bottle in the trunk just in case,nd a giant metal can indoors for emergencies, and use a smaller bottle for daily needs. Has fantastic versatility.

Mr_Reasonable · January 25, 2017, 4:24pm

Gross.

The_Golden_Turd · January 25, 2017, 5:24pm

Greeks used it like KY.

MagsJ · January 25, 2017, 6:55pm

Using olive oil like its WD40 is gross? Odd!

The_Golden_Turd · January 25, 2017, 7:11pm

Depends on where you squirt your WD-40

MagsJ · January 25, 2017, 7:44pm

In your eye

Pandora · January 26, 2017, 9:45am

Pellagra was common in the American South, especially among the poor. That’s what you get for eating primarily corn and pork fat.
usslave.blogspot.com/2012/01/sla … auses.html

Mediterranean diet by far beats southern soul food.

The_Golden_Turd · January 26, 2017, 12:15pm

You shouldn’t eat vegetables Pandora, it is the cause of gay.

Mr_Reasonable · January 27, 2017, 2:51am

This is how things get infected. Only use water based lubricants.

Mr_Reasonable · January 27, 2017, 2:53am

I’m not clicking any links because I don’t know shit about computers and I think you’re trying to give me a virus.

If you think a plate of olives and feta is better than a fried pork chop, then you’re just factually mistaken and there isn’t really anywhere else for this conversation to go until you do the research and can see that we’re dealing with an established, inalienable fact.

Pandora · January 27, 2017, 3:49am

I’m not aware of any diseases due to malnutrition in Mediterranean diet. Nutritionally, it is well-balanced diet, and has been so for thousands of years.
In many European countries corn isn’t even considered fit for human consumption and is used for animal fodder instead.

Olive oil is many healthy properties. Can’t say the same for reused pork fat (or Crisco).

Slave owners fed their captive workers as cheaply as possible, often with leftover/waste foods from the plantation, forcing slaves to make do with the ingredients at hand. In slave households, “vegetables” consisted of the tops of beets, dandelions, and turnips. Soon, African-American slaves were cooking with new types of “greens”: collards, cress, kale, mustard, and pokeweed.

They also developed recipes which used cornmeal, lard, and offal; discarded cuts of meat such as ham hocks, oxtail, pig’s ears, pigs’ feet, pork jowls, skin, and tripe. Cooks added garlic, onions, and thyme as flavor enhancers. Slave owners provided their slaves with the poor parts of the pig such as the small intestines: chitterlings or offal.

Sheep intestines had been a common dish in Africa for thousands of years before the Atlantic slave trade; since African-Americans did not have access to sheep intestines, chitterlings came to fill that culinary void. Some African-American slaves supplemented their meager diets by gardening small plots given to them for growing their own vegetables; many engaged in subsistence fishing and hunting, which yielded wild game for the table. Foods such as opossum, rabbit, raccoon, squirrel, and turtle were, until the 1950s, very common fare among the then still predominantly rural and Southern African-American population.

Traditionally-prepared soul foods tend to be very high in starch, fat, sodium, cholesterol, and calories. In contemporary times, some traditional-style soul foods have been implicated in the abnormally high rates of high blood pressure (hypertension), type 2 diabetes, clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), stroke, and heart attack suffered by African-Americans – especially those living in the Southern and Central United States.

A foundational difference in how the perceived health of contemporary soul food may differ from ‘traditional’ styles is the widely different structures of agriculture. Fueled by federal subsidies, the agricultural system in the United States became industrialized as the nutritional value of most processed foods, and not just those implicated in a traditional perception of soul food, have degraded.

This urges a consideration of how concepts of racial authenticity evolve alongside changes in the structures that make some foods more available and accessible than others.
An important aspect of the preparation of soul food was the reuse of cooking lard. Because many cooks could not afford to buy new shortening to replace what they used, they would pour the liquefied cooking grease into a container. After cooling completely, the grease re-solidified and could be used again the next time the cook required lard.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_food

Mr_Reasonable · January 27, 2017, 5:44am

I’m not talking about olive oil vs crisco.

I’m saying it’s just a fact that some food that’s whipped up by some elderly black ladies is going to be better than a bunch of leaves and feta and olives and shit no matter what. Anyone who can’t see that is blind.