Spices and herbs and citrus juices are all just plant parts. Miso and soy sauce are fermented from plants. Bland vegan food is a skill issue.

Regarding that essay, "fetish for being yelled at" meme goes here.

One dead-on aspect of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is the description of taking lunch and smoke breaks with colleagues who are so painfully facepalmingly ignorant that you don't even know where to start.

Lots and lots of water!

Did you catch this?

Inventing trains but without the aspects of trains which are useful and good

At this point I'm assuming that there's a very specific target audience for these things. They're aiming for people who like their familiar cultural foods, but want fewer dead animals without having to experience any new tastes or textures ("what the farmer doesn't know, he doesn't eat").

Totally. I mean, I do think airfried crispy tofu is good stuff because I flat-out refuse to deep-fry anything in our open-plan kitchen, but that's just baked tofu which is nothing new.

Spices and herbs and citrus juices are all just plant parts. Miso and soy sauce are fermented from plants. Bland vegan food is a skill issue.

What the hell IS it with Matts?

A friend got me into Flavorful Origins and A Bite Of China. They're these very gentle mellow shows with grannies cooking delicious regional dishes against a backdrop of misty mountains.

We would.

I didn't even consider a shirt, but I got a sweet hookworm-in-resin keychain.

You are the first person I've ever heard saying anything relatable about Hegseth.

The poor man's Ozempic

I have a picture of myself with the Meguro giant tapeworm too! Did you enjoy the gift shop?

Oh it's a GLOVE. I thought for a moment that his hand had gone gangrenous.

Anyway, I don't care who it "brings down". What Epstein did was *wrong* and *criminal*. Anyone involved should be in court. Full force of the law, due process.