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True, but then my German flatmate kept making us fresh pretzels so he redeemed the country
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I better have used caustic soda to make them. 
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May 23, 2017 20:22
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Two Finger posted:True, but then my German flatmate kept making us fresh pretzels so he redeemed the country Must be a good dude. Making pretzels is a pain in the rear end.
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May 23, 2017 20:23
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Yeah twisting them is a giant pain. But they came out pretty good. A+ would
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May 23, 2017 20:29
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The real pain is the lye bath imo, but it's worth it.
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May 23, 2017 20:36
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Richard Bong posted:The real pain is the lye bath imo, but it's worth it. It's not really a pain if you do some basic calculations to either narrow down what you need to buy, or how you need to dilute it. You have something like a 6% threshold around the sweet-spot of the PH value, so it's not hard to gently caress up. And I wouldn't even call it "worth it", because it should be a necessity for the recipe of proper pretzels, not something that's optional. I've seen the atrocities wrought upon pretzels in the USA, and shortcuts or alterations to the original recipe should be punishable by death.
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May 23, 2017 20:48
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Fortunately I live in a city that had more German than English speakers at one time, so pretzels tend to not be awful here. I can't wait until I get to Germany next week so I can gobble up a pretzel and döner within minutes of arriving. Btw what is this cheesy pretzel sausage thing called: 
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May 23, 2017 20:57
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DoktorLoken posted:Btw what is this cheesy pretzel sausage thing called: Adolf Hitler.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:Adolf Hitler. Something I've always wondered: Did the hitler name die with Adolf or did he have family that carried on the name? I never hear the name Hitler used for anyone but Adolf Hitler. Is there like a distant removed cousin Jahn Hitler the sanitation engineer or whatever?
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Happiness is eating a soft pretzel the size of a small child and while drinking German beer out of a glass that is also the size of a small child. e: And then getting a donner box for 5 euro later on after you're trashed
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May 23, 2017 21:18
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IIRC some/all of his family chose to not have kids specifically so they didn't pass on that name
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DoktorLoken posted:Btw what is this cheesy pretzel sausage thing called: A sandwich
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Something I've always wondered: Did the hitler name die with Adolf or did he have family that carried on the name? I never hear the name Hitler used for anyone but Adolf Hitler. Is there like a distant removed cousin Jahn Hitler the sanitation engineer or whatever? He did have some family in America, actually, but the descendants all chose to not have kids and let the family line end. https://nytimes.com/2006/04/24/world/americas/24iht-web.0424hitlers.html
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Something I've always wondered: Did the hitler name die with Adolf or did he have family that carried on the name? I never hear the name Hitler used for anyone but Adolf Hitler. Is there like a distant removed cousin Jahn Hitler the sanitation engineer or whatever? Some grand-nephews in the Long Island area, one was an IRS agent. http://www.odmp.org/officer/12936-special-agent-howard-r-stuart-houston
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May 23, 2017 21:28
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That's all actually quite interesting. I've kind of wondered that myself a few times. I mean, why couldn't they just change the last name by a few letters to something totally benign, like maybe Himler? I dunno just a thought.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:It's not really a pain if you do some basic calculations to either narrow down what you need to buy, or how you need to dilute it. You have something like a 6% threshold around the sweet-spot of the PH value, so it's not hard to gently caress up. I've succeeded once so far in not loving up making pretzels and it was when I used some left over sourdough and did it just to gently caress around and experiment. It was loving delicious though. Sourdough is also an enormous pain in the rear end to work with
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Blind Rasputin posted:That's all actually quite interesting. I've kind of wondered that myself a few times. I mean, why couldn't they just change the last name by a few letters to something totally benign, like maybe Himler? I dunno just a thought. How about 'Smith'. Like 9 million other German immigrants.
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Well the story of the Hitler name is a strange and short one. Alois, Adolf's father, adopted his stepfather Johannes Heidler's surname late in his thirties but spelled it differently as Hitler for reasons unknown. It's quite possible Adolf, his parents and siblings, and their descendants were the only Hitlers ever to exist. Anyone further removed in the family tree would still be a Schicklgruber. Also RE: pretzelchat the most important thing is getting your hands on dry malt extract. Homebrew stores are ideal but malted milk powder can work if you remember to hold back a little bit of flour. I go for about three tablespoons. shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 21:49 on May 23, 2017 |
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May 23, 2017 21:46
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Blind Rasputin posted:That's all actually quite interesting. I've kind of wondered that myself a few times. I mean, why couldn't they just change the last name by a few letters to something totally benign, like maybe Himler? I dunno just a thought. lol
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https://twitter.com/politico/status/867121312858353664
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May 23, 2017 22:07
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Of this, too, shall come naught.
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I wonder how Hannity is taking Fox retracting the Seth Rich story https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/867122831800324096 Not well, it would seem
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quote:Prime Minister Theresa May announced Tuesday night that the UK has raised its threat level to "critical" -- the highest level -- for the first time in a decade. The level suggests intelligence services believe an attack is "imminent."
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May 23, 2017 22:23
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I hope the family sues him for defamation. O'Reilly is a piece of poo poo but he never lashed himself to Trump like Sean "Promised to get waterboarded 8 years ago" Hannity.
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May 23, 2017 22:24
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I love how the worst people at fox are an australian and a brit. the gently caress did we even have a revolutionary war for
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Pesticide20 posted:I wonder how Hannity is taking Fox retracting the Seth Rich story Yeah he definitely nailed it on Obama's radicalism  And lol at the "Russian narrative hanging by a thread"
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:
This seems ... late?
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In other news Hassan Rouhani gets to keep being President of Iran. In a sense the Persians did better than us in rejecting insanity.
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Sounds like a lot of moderates/reformers in the lower elections in Iran too. Hopefully it works out for them.
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Casimir Radon posted:I hope the family sues him for defamation. O'Reilly is a piece of poo poo but he never lashed himself to Trump like Sean "Promised to get waterboarded 8 years ago" Hannity. As a rule in the United States you can't sue over defaming the dead. Granted I haven't been following this, so I don't know if Hannity went off about living people too.
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Blind Rasputin posted:That's all actually quite interesting. I've kind of wondered that myself a few times. I mean, why couldn't they just change the last name by a few letters to something totally benign, like maybe Himler? I dunno just a thought. How about Hilter? MazelTovCocktail posted:As a rule in the United States you can't sue over defaming the dead. Granted I haven't been following this, so I don't know if Hannity went off about living people too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_infliction_of_emotional_distress (not saying it would be successful, just what it could be filed as) joat mon fucked around with this message at 23:09 on May 23, 2017 |
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The poo poo I don't get is why in the gently caress is the US allies with the House of Saud instead of Iran? Like, why in the gently caress would you become buddies with arguably the worst bunch of fuckheads in the gulf and burn your bridges with Iran? There's a lot of poo poo the US can do and could have done to normalize relations with Iran but lmao no we're gonna stick with the Sauds even though their ogliarchs have kicked off most of the islamic terrorist groups in existence.
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In response, the home office is enacting emergency plan "Barn Door".
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As long as there's pretzel chat the world is probably not blowing up faster than usual. Carry on.
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orange juche posted:The poo poo I don't get is why in the gently caress is the US allies with the House of Saud instead of Iran? Like, why in the gently caress would you become buddies with arguably the worst bunch of fuckheads in the gulf and burn your bridges with Iran? There's a lot of poo poo the US can do and could have done to normalize relations with Iran but lmao no we're gonna stick with the Sauds even though their ogliarchs have kicked off most of the islamic terrorist groups in existence. We were. But the guy in charge we were buddies with was an rear end in a top hat.
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Normalizing relations with Iran would admit that we once again backed a pretty colossal rear end in a top hat and got what was coming to us wrt the Iranian Revolution and as we all know its un-American as gently caress to admit you are wrong. Also, the Axis of Evil speech re-burned our bridges with Iran, who until that time had kinda been helping us on the down low
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orange juche posted:The poo poo I don't get is why in the gently caress is the US allies with the House of Saud instead of Iran? Like, why in the gently caress would you become buddies with arguably the worst bunch of fuckheads in the gulf and burn your bridges with Iran? There's a lot of poo poo the US can do and could have done to normalize relations with Iran but lmao no we're gonna stick with the Sauds even though their ogliarchs have kicked off most of the islamic terrorist groups in existence.
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The Saudis will never want change because they have such strong cultural control.
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Reverand maynard posted:The Saudis will never want change because they have such strong cultural control.
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Casimir Radon posted:Iranians can remember before things got super hosed up, the Saudis don't have that benefit. Just for fun here's an example of the kind of pop music that was popular in pre-revolution Iran. It's a Dolly Parton cover. Where would you rate Persian women on the scale of hotness? They're definitely way up there imo.
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