Thought for the day............

The shortest job in my life was working on a chicken farm when I was about 18 in northern michigan. There was a metal building about 30 x 100 with about 4 or 5 rows of cages running the lenght. Each row was divided into hundred of cages about 18 inches wide two chickens point one way, one points the other. That was the chickens life. The place was ankle deep in shit and an atmosphere of feathers.

I was raised in Detroit and not much contact with the rural side of life so I probably stood in that chicken factory for about an hour with my mouth open and ding dong, this was the first job on my list of jobs I'm not interested in doing. I left.

ps chicken shit doesn't smell very good.
 
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Worse than detroit? :D

Most of my jobs have been , uh, breif.
Is it still called a job if you dont turn up to the interveiw, or leave in the first 15 minutes? I got this way, after managing a few days in a row, and never got my paycheck of course.
I thought, that sucks! If im gonna not get paid, i can not get paid way faster than that.
 
Just tried some cheap, dried asian style seaweed. I'd read about the health aspects of it, thought id cook some up,of course most modern asian styles (dried) are full of added salt (kind of bizarre, for seaweed), corn oil or sesame oil, all the usual suspects of mass production, but really tasty anyway.



A long way, from the traditional beach gathered kelp breakfast of southern coastal england, fried up in tallow with bacon, eggs and sourdough bread. Yummy.

Food for thought, anyway.
 
Ok, at first I though you meant you'd tried something that tasted so bad it was like seaweed, but you're saying actual seaweed, correct?

Yuck. I'm all for healthy and all that, but...

H
 
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Ok, at first I though you meant you'd tried something that tasted so bad it was like seaweed, but you're saying actual seaweed, correct?

Yuck. I'm all for healthy and all that, but...

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Yep, actual, dried, salted, soaked in msg/spices/more salt seaweed.

I had hoped for fresh stuff, but its difficult to find, i gather fishmongers are the best bet. The most nutrient rich algae on the planet!!!!!
Among the highest natural sources of iodine, it was used to treat goitre in the 19th century, high in protein, and all sorts of good stuff.

Practically every coastal culture in the world has used seaweed/sea lettuce as flavourings, survival foods, medicine and as a staple, its surprisingly good.

Of course, anything deep fried in tallow will taste pretty good, but thats not the point, the french used it too in various lobster/seafood bisques/soups etc as a flavouring and thickener, so its not just brits having no idea about fine cuisine, or whacky asians who will eat anything that walks, crawls, slithers or grows.

I just wish i could get some fresh stuff, not sure where to look-i gather it doesnt keep very well, like a washed up squid it decomposes rapidly.
 
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I just wish i could get some fresh stuff, not sure where to look-i gather it doesnt keep very well, like a washed up squid it decomposes rapidly.
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Um, i didnt mean to make a direct comparison with washed up squid, i mean squid really really stink you know, seaweed doesnt, it just turns gelatinous quickly.

In fact if it did stink, your sure to find dead crustaceans/little crabs and stuff in it, just caught up in it, before it turns into gelatinous goop.

I dont think this is helping, somehow.................it's good, i tells ya.
Eat seaweed!
:)
 
Hm, well, I'm more of a burger and fries kind of guy. Or I used to be. Yeah, now I'm older, sure, I gotta eat healthy: Fruit, veggies, fiber, vitamins, all that kinda stuff. Exercise, quit smoking, drink in moderation, and so on...

Seaweed, though, I'll pass. I mean, say it adds, like, 116 days to your life in the end. Is it really worth it to eat seaweed? Hey, take the 116 days, really, you can keep 'em. :)

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Hm, well, I'm more of a burger and fries kind of guy. Or I used to be. Yeah, now I'm older, sure, I gotta eat healthy: Fruit, veggies, fiber, vitamins, all that kinda stuff. Exercise, quit smoking, drink in moderation, and so on...

Seaweed, though, I'll pass. I mean, say it adds, like, 116 days to your life in the end. Is it really worth it to eat seaweed? Hey, take the 116 days, really, you can keep 'em. :)

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Well, im just an amateur chef, with delusions of adequacy. For example, last night i lightly roasted some mushrooms stuffed with hot cabonossi, (taste ok, maybe not the best use of either) with capsicum, i added the seaweed to a delicious leftover stew&basmati rice,heavy with fennel seeds, aniseed , garlic, and ginger slices.
The seaweed added something, im sure of it.

I dont know, older? Im friggin 33 or something, with my toxin intake i mightnt even have 116 days left, with all the vitamins or fibre or the planet.
All i know is i love good food, and most good food is simple, with traditional ingredients.

You might be surprised to know, you have likely been eating seaweed extracts for some time, its commercial use in western food is as a thickener, often for canned food, and its agar was instrumental in many groundbreaking scientific studies

My point is, just because you might only see something in a bottle in a health food shop, or elegantly wrapped around a sushi rice ball in a restaurant, doesnt mean it must be health food, or for that matter, taste bad, as a matter of course.
 
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My point is, just because you might only see something in a bottle in a health food shop, or elegantly wrapped around a sushi rice ball in a restaurant, doesnt mean it must be health food, or for that matter, taste bad, as a matter of course.
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Gee, im really winning hearts and minds for seaweed here, one paragraph a contradictory nightmare of significant proportions.

forget i mentioned decomposing squid forget i mentioned decomposing squid forget i mentioned decomposing squid
 
Branding

"In economic terms the "brand" is a device to create a monopoly — or at least some form of "imperfect competition" — so that the brand owner can obtain some of the benefits which accrue to a monopoly, particularly those related to decreased price competition."

Personal branding is the process whereby people and their careers are marketed as brands

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Now to my point. Imo, the concept of branding has gone to a new level in politics between the Dem & Reps. Each party has decided to market themselves as a personal brand. This has the unwanted side effect of dividing our country. There are legal limits regarding disparaging comments on what Coke may advertise against Pepsi and vice versa. Yet we have an anything goes attitude re our fellow citizens who run for office or vote a particular line.

Yes, we have always had mudslinging but for a society that mandates sensitivty training at the first foul comment not many in politics practice what they preach.


I'm Coke and you're Pepsi, are we supposed to villify each other? Apparently decency doesn't work.
 
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