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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

no one's ever complimented my posting before, and i aspire to be as great as swan oat one day :3:

my parents are vietnamese refugees and i was born in Westminster, CA like half the vietnamese people in the us. it was my mom that taught me about eating vegan on the first and middle (ide? ides?) of each month and on holidays but tbh I'm not really that buddhist, more agnostic and culturally buddhist. so to answer your question, i guess probably? there's lots of buddhist sects and it's all tied up with nationalism and poo poo, i just like the food, which makes me the worst buddhist, i think

also i am not the biggest fan of the dalai lama as a filthy queer and believer in the idea that the holocaust shouldn't be blamed on its victims but he is a tibetan buddhist anyway, so i don't have to listen to him. Well i don't have to listen to any monk regardless of tradition but you know what i mean

this reminds me: one of my history teachers and decathlon coaches in high school was hella socialist and sponsor of our GSA and my parents are staunch republicans but then they learned he was vegan and he became my parents' favorite teacher. actually that story was not as entertaining as it sounded in my head, but it was amusing, to me, at the time

this nonchalant posting style is really hard

I thought you were Native American?

The Texas coast has a massive Vietnamese population to the point that all official Houston public communiques are issued in English, Spanish and Vietnamese.

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paragon1
Nov 22, 2010

FULL COMMUNISM NOW
The South Carolina flag is indigo. For shame razorrozar and ReindeerF.

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx
It also makes for an efficient douchebag indicator in car window decal form.

paragon1
Nov 22, 2010

FULL COMMUNISM NOW
That would be the Confederate Flag, surely?

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I find Ron Paul and Infowars stickers to be the true infallible litmus test.

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx
Perhaps we should establish a hierarchy of vehicular accoutrement for shitheads.

Something like truck nuts > stick figure families > coexist > oval tourist trap resorts > pro-life license plates > the Ronpaul > W: the President > apple logo that came with your macbook, etc.

Calvin peeing of course supersedes every other possible option.

made of bees
May 21, 2013
wait which direction is your spectrum supposed to be going there, I legit can't tell

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
I saw Robertson '88 bumper stickers around Clear Lake until at least the year 2000ish. That's loving hardcore.

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

my parents are vietnamese refugees and i was born in Westminster, CA like half the vietnamese people in the us...
Well I got the California part (the other half were born where I'm from - Gulf Coast, Texas), but then you had to go and be kind of for real and poo poo.

FYI if you were a Caodaist that would've been even cooler, I have to say! No one is a Caodaist anymore :(

Market trip report no one asked for:



















If you want, I can go around getting pig head shots where they look like they're sort of smiling smugly until we can start a doge-like meme.

In closing, Bangkok is a land of contrasts.

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
Any proper Asian market is essentially a PETA House of Horrors.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
What do you make with a pig head? Are the cheeks like bacon?

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Chantilly Say posted:

What do you make with a pig head? Are the cheeks like bacon?

Head cheese.

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
I honestly don't know what you're supposed to do with it. I'll ask some local yokels. Probably mostly ceremonial in practice (e.g. funerals, offerings, etc), though I'm sure it's eaten too.

Maybe you can wear it around for Halloween.

EDIT: Mexicans make barbacoa out of it.

ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Jul 29, 2014

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Not eating literally every part of the animal is a fairly recent luxury.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

ReindeerF posted:



EDIT: Mexicans make barbacoa out of it.

Real barbacoa is pretty gross, unless you're really into fat. Not like Chipotle at all ;_;

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
Yeah, imagine how many Texans with no Spanish (and God knows how many transplants) have ordered barbacoa at Ruchi's or something thinking "Oh they got barbecue."

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

zoux posted:

Not eating literally every part of the animal is a fairly recent luxury.

I know that for sure, I just wasn't sure precisely what you make with the pig head. It's probably tasty.

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
You know what? Not eating every part of the animal is one of those modern luxuries I'm 100% okay with. Others include "consequence-free sex," cooking without having to burn charcoal or wood and modern medicine.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Chantilly Say posted:

What do you make with a pig head? Are the cheeks like bacon?

Soup, head cheese, roast that fucker, broil the cheeks (cheeks are good meat), ears are great pickled or dog chew toys.

poo poo, if you want you can just take the face off, wrap herbs and ground pork or breadcrumbs in it, wrap that poo poo tight with string, roast it till it's all brown and crispy and go to town.

made of bees
May 21, 2013
The tongue is supposed to be good.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

made of bees posted:

The tongue is supposed to be good.

Tongue is terrific. Either fried or in a stew. Real lean meat.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
Now I wonder if I can get a tongue curry anywhere in the States.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

made of bees posted:

The tongue is supposed to be good.

Yea tongue is great too but a lot of places cut it out to sell on its own.

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
Tongue is okay, it's not something I go nuts over, but I can eat it. Eating the pig head skin is something for Pinoys. Sisig is one of the more disgusting dishes I've tried. It's like eating a plate full of gristle covered in ketchup.

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

ReindeerF posted:

Tongue is okay, it's not something I go nuts over, but I can eat it. Eating the pig head skin is something for Pinoys. Sisig is one of the more disgusting dishes I've tried. It's like eating a plate full of gristle covered in ketchup.

Sisig is loving great man, what the gently caress is wrong with you?

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

OAquinas posted:

Foodchat. Foodchat never changes.

How is it that two threads are talking about food right now?!

Captain_Maclaine
Sep 30, 2001

Every moment that I'm alive, I pray for death!

Absurd Alhazred posted:

How is it that two threads are talking about food right now?!

I'm surprised it's only two. Guess the chat thread is working!

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

Absurd Alhazred posted:

How is it that two threads are talking about food right now?!

Goons, talking about food, especially unhealthy food?!

Rhesus Pieces
Jun 27, 2005

rscott posted:

that's what you think until you move somewhere else, though I have lived enough places now to have an accent that is 'not the south'

(i was born in new britain)

Even New Britain itself has an accent:

quote:

The New Britain accent is much more distinctive, even in the way residents pronounce the name of their city: "New Breh-EN."

"It's called a glottal stop," said Pat Gomola, a speech pathologist at the Speech and Language Institute in Middletown. "It's not a 't' sound. You say it in the back of your throat. It's the same thing when they say double-t words like cattle or bottle." In New Britain, such words come out as "CAH-uhl" or "BAH-uhl."

Ms. Morgenstern attributed this sound to New Britain's large Polish-American population. "They don't enunciate their consonants as much," she said.

"The funny thing is, you go into the next town, and you don't hear it," Ms. Gomola said.

Plus if you order a grinder and some apizza in Texas nobody will know what the gently caress you're talking about.

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Rhesus Pieces posted:

Even New Britain itself has an accent:


Plus if you order a grinder and some apizza in Texas nobody will know what the gently caress you're talking about.

Hell yeah glo'al stops!

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro

Tatum Girlparts posted:

Sisig is loving great man, what the gently caress is wrong with you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sdVx5gQz6w

Jerry Manderbilt
May 31, 2012

No matter how much paperwork I process, it never goes away. It only increases.
has anyone else had gyutan before

Cercadelmar
Jan 4, 2014
Barbacoa is amazing. I got some caramel goats milk lollipops so now I've reached peak Mexico

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
Yes. Gyutan is the cow tongue that I have had multiple times. I've actually had it with a goon here in Bangkok for double word score.

EDIT: By the way, anyone who didn't see the opening segment in Sunday's Last Week Tonight needs to go watch it ASAP. It is doubled-over hilarious.

RADIO EDIT: Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpYdapZUU1c

ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jul 29, 2014

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
I was in northern Portugal recently and got served chicken stomach and it was pretty good! They also have a ton of game meat. It's a red meat paradise, also the landscape is gorgeous, and the vinho verde flows like water. I get the feeling that Portugal is like the destination for a lot of English people because Portugal's economy is in the shitter from the recession and a tenth of their population leaving because their Prime Minister told Portuguese young people that they're overqualified and should go look for work outside the country.

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

Chantilly Say posted:

What do you make with a pig head? Are the cheeks like bacon?

If the general whitebread American public were introduced to hog jowl they wouldn't know what to do with themselves because it's too much flavor for most people to handle.

boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich
what the gently caress is this poo poo

http://leanurbanism.org/publications/lean-sprawl-repair-mall-retrofit/

Duany Plater-Zyberk is a big deal urban design and architecture firm. they're one of if not the spearheads of "New Urbanism" in america, which can be summarized as being anti-suburb. they've been active on the suburban remediation front, as in how in god's name are we supposed to convert tumor-like suburbs into useful urban fabric. it's kind of a unsolved problem

anyway one of their partners is working on remediating this mall in north carolina. their plan is to convert the mall facility itself into some kind of tech/industrial incubator. sure, fine. they want to redevelop the parking lots into surrounding commercial and residential. ok, i'm with you so far.

they want to build the infill residential entirely out of shipping containers

it's even labeled a 'camp'



yeah. "Ex-parking lot will become residential camp" good god, if you can't master the urge to build a twee shantytown at least have the common ding dong sense to avoid inflaming the already far-too-active agenda 21 set, who WILL show up at the zoning hearing and raise indefinite hell

jesus gently caress. no wonder we can't get the politicians to get anything useful done

Polygynous
Dec 13, 2006
welp
hipster concentration camp, that might not be a bad thing. :v:


one of these days I should try the lengua at the local mexican place. I assume having lengua on the menu means it's a real mexican place anyway. maybe the food truck with lengua is even more authentic.

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx
Haha, Oak Hollow Mall? Yeah, good luck with that.

cafel
Mar 29, 2010

This post is hurting the economy!
I've seen some neat structures built out of cargo containers, but uh yeah, doesn't seem like the best kind of thing for human habitation.

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boner confessor
Apr 25, 2013

by R. Guyovich

cafel posted:

I've seen some neat structures built out of cargo containers, but uh yeah, doesn't seem like the best kind of thing for human habitation.

it's just fine if you're dicking around with cheap building on your own property, but if you want the local government to pay to make children live there? come on

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