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in the various parts of former yugoslavia you'll find pretty common agreement about yugoslavia being good, as well as a plethora of different opinions about who's fault its collapse was you will also witness muslims eating pork and drinking alcohol because it's the balkans 
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I could hit the Canary Islands for a couple of weeks and then fly over to the Balkans to see my cousins and go bowling (and yes Yugo was good, it was a simpler time. A better time.) I'm still really avoidant of Bosnia for childhood reasons because, reasons, but everywhere else is good. I only brought up Johannesburg because I've never really traveled SA alone and I want to talk to people who aren't Americans for a while. And like, Peru and Chile are still on the list. It's just the annual "Hamjobs is overwhelmed by real life and wants to run away again" time. So this time I wanna do it right and actually come back.
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Mar 12, 2019 23:59
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hamjobs posted:I could hit the Canary Islands for a couple of weeks and then fly over to the Balkans to see my cousins and go bowling (and yes Yugo was good, it was a simpler time. A better time.) I'm still really avoidant of Bosnia for childhood reasons because, reasons, but everywhere else is good. will you go and play some of that late-socialist not-quite bowling where the balls are small enough for you to hold in your hand and the pins are sort of connected to the roof with strings? b/c i kind of remember doing that, but they were serving us so much there and i was there with a czech guy |
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Mar 13, 2019 00:07
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Nosfereefer posted:will you go and play some of that late-socialist not-quite bowling where the balls are small enough for you to hold in your hand and the pins are sort of connected to the roof with strings? b/c i kind of remember doing that, but they were serving us so much there and i was there with a czech guy if you're talking about kegeln it's been big in germany for at least decades and it owns
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Mar 13, 2019 00:11
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Nosfereefer posted:will you go and play some of that late-socialist not-quite bowling where the balls are small enough for you to hold in your hand and the pins are sort of connected to the roof with strings? b/c i kind of remember doing that, but they were serving us so much there and i was there with a czech guy YUP. There's a lane open at this bar in a little town populated only because the union built a bus stop there and then like...a town... Like 400 miles from everything else. The bar, the Disco and the other bar are the only businesses, and the bars also act as banks and post offices.
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Mar 13, 2019 00:12
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hamjobs posted:YUP. There's a lane open at this bar in a little town populated only because the union built a bus stop there and then like...a town... Like 400 miles from everything else. The bar, the Disco and the other bar are the only businesses, and the bars also act as banks and post offices. such as it should be! |
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Mar 13, 2019 00:13
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Nosfereefer posted:such as it should be!  
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Mar 13, 2019 00:17
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alnilam posted:if you're talking about kegeln it's been big in germany for at least decades and it owns it might be? we kind of ended up in that place because it was some kind of mix between an bowling place and a hostel, and the hostel we originally planned to stay at turned out to be miles away after walking for god knows how long, we figured just "gently caress it" and go back there as they had beds. then we played soviet bowling and drank local liquor until we woke up and felt bad 5/5 would recommend |
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Mar 13, 2019 00:17
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alnilam posted:if you're talking about kegeln it's been big in germany for at least decades and it owns Yesssss and it's fun af. Also everyone gets progressively more drunk on ditchwater vodka and is amazing.
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Mar 13, 2019 00:18
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i loving love kegeln esp bc every round has new rules and most involve betting on stuff and whoever loses has to buy the next reound 
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Mar 13, 2019 00:19
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hamjobs posted:Yesssss and it's fun af. Also everyone gets progressively more drunk on ditchwater vodka and is amazing. okay it was def kegeln |
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Mar 13, 2019 00:21
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My aunt always asks me if I'm eating enough and if she needs to send me food No auntie we have rotten potato water here too, but I'll come visit for pelmeni and bitching about my mom for sure
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Mar 13, 2019 00:22
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just loOok at the view from this random town, villa manihuales, that we stopped in bc it was getting late, and we found a tiny diner / chocolate shop where one of the two owners/operators had built by hand some stud-and-plywood cabins in the back yard, and we stopped in and said "hey u got cabins" and they werel ike yeah $10bux, here's some wood for the stove, come over for breakfast in the morning! and in the morning i walked across the street and the view was like patagonia de chile owns
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Mar 13, 2019 00:23
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hamjobs if yoju're looking for somewhere new have you considered visiting your aunt.... your aunt arctica 
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Mar 13, 2019 00:24
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Mar 13, 2019 00:26
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in their defence, they had some rather good farmed brewed pálinka, rather than cheap vodka. although on later reflection we were already too drunk to know pálinka from dishwater |
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Mar 13, 2019 00:26
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Pálinka is dangerous like that and it owns.alnilam posted:hamjobs if yoju're looking for somewhere new have you considered visiting your aunt.... your aunt arctica I BEEN THERE but for real put me there, I won't stab my roommate over book spoilers. Also Patagonia de Chile does own hard and I'm considering it but can't really roll up the mountains anymore. My laigs, sometimes she don't work good
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Mar 13, 2019 00:41
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Also if y'all ever get the chance, McMurdo owns and you should go, there's penguins and they will kwaaaak at you.
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Mar 13, 2019 00:42
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pálinka is just the best. when i was living in a dorm in budapest, the people from farmer families would often bring a bunch and sell it to the other students everybody would brag about it being like 80+ percent or something ridiculous, but that poo poo was strong and tasty even the dormitory pub would often have házi pálinka on sale with a rather vague alcohol percentage and often it was pretty drinkable! |
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Mar 13, 2019 00:49
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also the serbian students would bring so much vastly underpriced (compared to hungarian prices!) tobacco and weed |
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Mar 13, 2019 00:51
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Are you guys into hot sauce and if so, how hot do you like it hot? Is it chill(I) to eat hot? |
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Mar 13, 2019 01:28
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Hot sauce is good. I like to grow habañeros and make my own that is kind of a rip off of marie sharps. As far as the "find them everywhere"sauces go I'll always go for some Frank's. but weird local small batch sauces made in someone's garage with bad jokes on the label are the best.
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Mar 13, 2019 01:39
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i like hot sauce but not too hot because my tummy complains. just about anything will do except tabasco
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Mar 13, 2019 01:49
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hot sauces can be extremely good, and don't let a bunch of whitebread americans using it as some hosed up kind of manliness test let it ruin it for you |
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Mar 13, 2019 01:50
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i've never been outside the us, lol
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Mar 13, 2019 02:13
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hamjobs posted:What about the writing I found on the wall of the public toilet today: Downright Iambic.
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Mar 13, 2019 02:17
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City of Glompton posted:i like hot sauce but not too hot because my tummy complains. just about anything will do except tabasco I can't eat chili peppers for this reason (and also can't taste the food) but wasabi and really hot ginger are good. |
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Mar 13, 2019 03:58
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Recently was in a hot discussion about hot sauce and the purpose of eating something that hurts you, I was very skeptical, but a friend of mine showed me Sriracha Hot Sauce and now I'm a believer in this concept, even though usually my belly does not enjoy this, my tongue certainly does!
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Mar 13, 2019 12:37
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City of Glompton posted:i like hot sauce but not too hot because my tummy complains. just about anything will do except tabasco I didn't have stomach problems with hot stuff then one day I had a burger I've gotten a few times called "The Barn Burner" it's a very good burger but it was a touch hotters than normal. 1/2lb of burger Ghost Pepper cheese Habanero relish Sriracha mayonnaise I think they put extra relish on because it was extra sweet. Anyway woke up several times during the night with a feeling of what I can only describe as mice attempting to eat their way out of my small intestine for 2-3 minutes with the pain so high it was crippling and I couldn't think then 2 minutes of relief followed by a sudden need for liquid to gush from my bottom with a burning (like spicy food kind) so intense it brought tears to my eyes. Then I could get maybe 10-15 minutes of sleep before it happened again. This went on for god knows how many cycles I don't know when it started but I do know it felt like forever when I saw the sun starting to come up and it didn't end until after 2PM. Never eating that again, it's so good, but it's not worth that. Super hot things scare me now. I still eat some pretty drat hot things just not at the extreme end anymore. You know I should order some Ghost Pepper Jerky from that goon that makes jerky again.
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Mar 13, 2019 14:39
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Carnival of Shrews posted:
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Mar 13, 2019 14:41
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Goons Are Great posted:Recently was in a hot discussion about hot sauce and the purpose of eating something that hurts you, I was very skeptical, but a friend of mine showed me Sriracha Hot Sauce and now I'm a believer in this concept, even though usually my belly does not enjoy this, my tongue certainly does! it sounds more like you're talking about spicy food in general, which is a broader issue, it has a lot to do with what you're used to - most people who like spicy food have eaten it since youth (often cultural) and do not find it "painful" at all. You can get used to it as an adult but it takes a little suffering! But spiciness carries certain flavors that are really good if you do not suffer when you eat it
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Mar 13, 2019 14:44
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The secret about hot sauce is that there are some really great hot sauces out there that aren't barn burner hot. Also there's no room for snobbery with hot sauces. Crystal hot sauce is great and not so hot. Even a Texas Pete or the like. Though I do love a great barn burner of hot stuff myself. Hot sauces I have had recently and enjoyed: Susie's hot sauce. Bright and fruity. Definitely hot but not mind blowingly so.  El Yucateco Green. Pretty common but still one of my favorites. On the hotter end but has an assertive habanero sauce flavor that I love.  I am going to Kalustyan's today and might grab another hot sauce or two. |
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Mar 13, 2019 14:51
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This is my go to keep on hand for every day use. Something come out bland but not really intended to be spicy? BAM! It has a nice flavor in general not too much heat, but enough heat that you are still only putting a few drops on and not putting a layer on like the really weak stuff. As for why people like hot foods, the book "This is Your Brain on Parasites" goes into it a bit. Most spicy peppers have good anti-microbe and anti-fungals. Actually most spices in general are important medicine and were likely originally used only to treat certain symptoms. People grew to like the taste and put it on everything, using it in small amounts day to day actually improved health. It's actually a really interesting book and barely talks about Toxo (the thing that cats can give you). It basically only mentions it because most people would be familiar with it.
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Mar 13, 2019 15:05
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We can all agree that capsaicin extracts that are essentially heat with no flavor are dumb as poo poo yes? |
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Mar 13, 2019 15:11
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Bo-Pepper posted:We can all agree that capsaicin extracts that are essentially heat with no flavor are dumb as poo poo yes? yeah gimme that Real Pepper Flavor |
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Mar 13, 2019 15:17
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Bo Pepper Flavor
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Bo-Pepper posted:We can all agree that capsaicin extracts that are essentially heat with no flavor are dumb as poo poo yes? Unless you are specifically looking for an agent to stimulate endorphin release.
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Mar 13, 2019 15:18
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alnilam posted:Bo Pepper Flavor One of these days I'm going to make a bunch of hot sauce and bottle it with a Bo-Pepper Sauce label and send them out. glowing-fish posted:Unless you are specifically looking for an agent to stimulate endorphin release. But there are so many ways to do this with actual real hot peppers with flavor. It's a short cut and a cheat. The only conceivable reason I would concede to use something like this would be if you were making industrial levels of hot sauce and needed something like this to tweak heat after the fact. But every other usage of it is dumb eat-this-I-dare-you nonsense. |
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Mar 13, 2019 15:30
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RIDE THE WILD DONKEY PEPPER WINGS HERE AT JANKY MCGILLICUDDY'S AND DON'T FORGET TO SIGN THE WAIVER |
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alnilam posted:it sounds more like you're talking about spicy food in general, which is a broader issue, it has a lot to do with what you're used to - most people who like spicy food have eaten it since youth (often cultural) and do not find it "painful" at all. You can get used to it as an adult but it takes a little suffering! But spiciness carries certain flavors that are really good if you do not suffer when you eat it That's true, even though I feel like topping something non-spicy specifically with hot sauce to make it spicy is the pinnacle of eating spicy mainly for eating spicy, which is why the discussion ignited there. Anyways I changed my mind on this and now I like it! Also I read that  tifically, the hot sensation of pain on your tongue drastically increases blood circulation, which leads to the ability to taste more things. Also, the general sensation of tricking your brain into thinking there's something painfully and dangerous going on in your mouth apparently opens up your ability to sweat and let's you cool down faster, which might be a reason for why spicy food is especially popular in hot countries.God, I learned so much about food today, I should post in the fine dining effort post!!
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