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I first heard of "Bread and dripping" from the character Sergeant Jackrum in Terry Pratchett's "Monstrous Regiment". Bread and dripping is just bread, possibly toasted, slathered with pork or beef fat and seasoned with salt and pepper. The character loved it and thought of it as the best comfort food imaginable. Edit : Hell yeah Pratchett snipe Punkinhead fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Thumposaurus posted:Before covid at work there would be breakfast buffets we'd have to prepare.  I've seen that toast at buffets (eastern PA & New Jersey). Never, ever occurred to me to fish it out & eat it. I love bacon grease, properly applied. The idea of biting into toast and...ugh. (edit) one of my roomates in college talked about how his grandfather, who hailed from West Virginia and was a combat veteran of WWI, considered lard sandwiches his favorite meal. PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Jan 5, 2021 03:43
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Judging by how lovingly he described beef dripping sandwiches in Guards! Guards!, I'm assuming Sir Terry was intimately familiar with the form.
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Jan 5, 2021 03:44
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Washington DC!
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Jan 5, 2021 03:59
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PinheadSlim posted:I first heard of "Bread and dripping" from the character Sergeant Jackrum in Terry Pratchett's "Monstrous Regiment". Bread and dripping is just bread, possibly toasted, slathered with pork or beef fat and seasoned with salt and pepper. The character loved it and thought of it as the best comfort food imaginable. I remember a married guy complaining to Nobby and Carrot (Both bachelors at the time) that he'd been given beef dripping sandwiches by his wife because she was too busy with celebrations for the new Dragon King, only to be met with these replies: "Cor!" "Real Beef Dripping!?" They then spent half the page gushing over it, occasionally being prodded by Colon not to mention things with King in them (Meal fit for a King, a King's ransom, etc). I miss Sir Terry. e: loving damnit Memento 
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Jan 5, 2021 04:07
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Thomamelas posted:That press with the red and black balls. It looks like it belongs in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. I can picture it slapping Daffy in the head. It's called a fly press and there's at least one goon in DIY who's built their own
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Jan 5, 2021 04:19
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shame on an IGA posted:It's called a fly press and there's at least one goon in DIY who's built their own Did the guy operating it have a fake thumb or was that PPE?
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Jan 5, 2021 04:33
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WarpedNaba posted:I miss Sir Terry.  
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Jan 5, 2021 04:39
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PainterofCrap posted:
^^^^ That guy was a real man, if he wants a goddam lard sandwich he can have one. I've seen the fat absorbent toast at a buffet too. I was a kid, and ate a piece of it one time. I think I liked it, and when I went up for another helping of greasy rear end bacon and absorbent toast, my dad was there and he was all like "don't eat that poo poo". I asked why, and he told me why. I was kinda horrified with myself after that.
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Jan 5, 2021 04:43
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Sir Terry’s last act was pretty OSHA, he requested that the hard disk with his unfinished work be smashed by a steam roller
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Jan 5, 2021 04:44
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  "Lord Jericho" is a hell of a name.
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Jan 5, 2021 04:51
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Who would have thought that the sort of thing that degenerate society (rednecks) love seeing today, is no different than a hundred years ago? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_at_Crush Highlights: a staged train wreck as a public spectacle. the deliberate head-on collision of two unmanned locomotives at high speed; unexpectedly, the impact caused both engine boilers to explode, resulting in a shower of flying debris that killed two people and caused numerous injuries among the spectators. The crash was delayed for an hour because the crowd resisted being pressed back by the police to what was supposedly a safe distance. Debris was blown hundreds of feet into the air. Panic quickly broke out as the crowd turned and ran. Some of the debris came down among the spectators, killing two and seriously injuring at least six others. A photographer, Jarvis "Joe" Deane of Waco, lost one eye to a flying bolt.
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Jan 5, 2021 05:08
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PinheadSlim posted:I first heard of "Bread and dripping" from the character Sergeant Jackrum in Terry Pratchett's "Monstrous Regiment". Bread and dripping is just bread, possibly toasted, slathered with pork or beef fat and seasoned with salt and pepper. The character loved it and thought of it as the best comfort food imaginable. That sounds like a local dish as well, it's common to fry pork belly slices and the drippings are used to dip bread in, usually rye bread. Very traditional old timey food. So drat good.
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Jan 5, 2021 05:22
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wesleywillis posted:Who would have thought that the sort of thing that degenerate society (rednecks) love seeing today, is no different than a hundred years ago? I guess we're all degenerate rednecks then
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Jan 5, 2021 05:28
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KozmoNaut posted:I've been watching a lot of British Pathé videos lately and most of the ones showing industrial or manual work have the most amazing mid-1900s complete lack of regard for safety or ergonomics. I love the margarine one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWwhX-8-MsE Aside from dudes rolling around giant tubs of margarine in a factory setting without any food safety, the sources of the oil certainly are interesting. (I found this one while wondering why there's no margarine any more, just "table spread". Interestingly, to legally be margarine, a spread requires a minimum 80% fat (at least, in Australia) and most have much less these days.)
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Jan 5, 2021 05:34
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BMan posted:I guess we're all degenerate rednecks then i was gonna say, who doesn't like seeing a thousand tons of metal smash into a thousand tons of metal at 100km/h?
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Jan 5, 2021 05:50
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Fur20 posted:i was gonna say, who doesn't like seeing a thousand tons of metal smash into a thousand tons of metal at 100km/h? The guy who took this picture lost an eye to a flying bolt seconds later. I'm not sure if it was this one or another where both boilers exploded and killed 3 people.  Atomic Accidents opens with a great chapter about these crashes. e: it was that crash:  
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Jan 5, 2021 06:05
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The toaster oven chat from earlier made me remember when we had a toaster oven when I was a kid, and the most distinct memory of it that I have is that it absolutely sucked at toasting bread. The cheap-rear end toaster we had at the time was much better. And, I just realized, I still have that ancient loving toaster and it STILL works fine. Thing must around 40 years old at this point and still going strong.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:08
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Holy poo poo he was really close.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:08
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Toasters are generally better at getting crispy outsides and fluffy insides, but with a toaster oven you can butter your bagel before you toast it. The butter browns as the bagel toasts and it tastes loving killer.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:09
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:The guy who took this picture lost an eye to a flying bolt seconds later. I'm not sure if it was this one or another where both boilers exploded and killed 3 people. why did they do all these train crashes, like why waste engines and cars, it's strange they were willing to do this poo poo for spectacle.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:12
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LifeSunDeath posted:why did they do all these train crashes, like why waste engines and cars, it's strange they were willing to do this poo poo for spectacle. People did a lot of strange stuff before the internet.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:17
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LifeSunDeath posted:why did they do all these train crashes, like why waste engines and cars, it's strange they were willing to do this poo poo for spectacle. The sentence that says more crashes happened has a [citation needed] so who knows if there really were more.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:18
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LifeSunDeath posted:why did they do all these train crashes, like why waste engines and cars, it's strange they were willing to do this poo poo for spectacle. According to the wikipedia article they were extremely effective ad campaigns. And most people would need to take a train just to go see the event, and they'd make a lot of money on those ticket sales even at their reduced rates for the event. It's also implied that it was difficult to find buyers for the old surplus steam engines that the railroad company was replacing. Basically it was a quick way to kill two birds with one stone, those two birds being offloading unwanted old trains and advertising.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:20
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quote:Crush was promptly fired, only to be rehired when managers at the Katy realized how successful the stunt had been in terms of publicity. 
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Jan 5, 2021 06:26
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The Lone Badger posted:People did a lot of strange stuff before the internet. Thank christ everything is so normal and boring now.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:27
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PinheadSlim posted:According to the wikipedia article they were extremely effective ad campaigns. And most people would need to take a train just to go see the event, and they'd make a lot of money on those ticket sales even at their reduced rates for the event. It's also implied that it was difficult to find buyers for the old surplus steam engines that the railroad company was replacing. Yeah, it said explicitly that they were upgrading to 60-ton locomotives so the old 30-ton locomotives were just sitting around doing nothing anyway.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:30
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PainterofCrap posted:Thank christ everything is so normal and boring now. Well it's just that the trainwrecks are all online now instead of in real life
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Jan 5, 2021 06:35
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Cojawfee posted:Holy poo poo he was really close. It’s a good composition, but I think that the lenses available at the time basically forced him into it. The telephoto lens was invented only five years before, and photographic emulsions were slow as balls.
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Jan 5, 2021 06:42
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Uncle Enzo posted:I am not, however, the casually sexually harassing camerawork and narration There is some real-rear end casual misogyny going on in a lot of those videos, like the tent that's "so easy, even a woman could do it" and the general "women in the kitchen" attitude. Not to mention the "those inscrutable youths and their long hair and wild behavior and no discipline" thing. The diet video that's sponsored by the national milk board is wild too, plenty of talk about "normal weight" and "fat unattractive girls" and how to attract men. Cut down on the meat, but remember to eat plenty of butter and cheese! Elissimpark posted:Aside from dudes rolling around giant tubs of margarine in a factory setting without any food safety, the sources of the oil certainly are interesting. It's even mentioned in an episode on whaling that the oil was considered for other purposes, but people found the smell offensive, so they used it for margarine 
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Jan 5, 2021 07:27
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British Pathe videos are fantastic sources of OSHA, misogyny, and a fascinating window into old British culture. Here's a couple that are less offensive and more hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRsFFB0VN-o (False beard making, which was apparently popular enough for the manufacturer to have a 4 month waiting list) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBVY1oP5NmM (A cafe where the guy making food is a former professional wrestler who does magic tricks and breathes fire to impress teens) But for a more OSHA flavor check out the one on swordmaking. Lol when they sharpen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtpMAUf65UQ Punkinhead fucked around with this message at 08:06 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Jan 5, 2021 07:42
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:The guy who took this picture lost an eye to a flying bolt seconds later. I'm not sure if it was this one or another where both boilers exploded and killed 3 people. ... caught the Katy. 
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Jan 5, 2021 07:49
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“dipped several times into whale oil”
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Jan 5, 2021 08:04
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Platystemon posted:“dipped several times into whale oil” then molten lead, which is wiped off bare-handed
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Jan 5, 2021 09:15
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Oh hey my pep-pep got a souvenir from a train crash demonstration  he said the kid wasn't using it any more.
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Jan 5, 2021 09:38
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"Theres perfection at every stage" *dumps molten brass all over the place*
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Jan 5, 2021 09:41
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They also just grind an edge onto a square bar, which gives you terrible blade geometry.
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Jan 5, 2021 09:42
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Oh hey my pep-pep got a souvenir from a train crash demonstration Is that new bone growth over a spike through a skull?
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Jan 5, 2021 10:00
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Boiled Water posted:Is that new bone growth over a spike through a skull? looking at this colour version I think its just a circle of flaked / spalled bone around the impact point? https://www.reddit.com/user/Diss6783/comments/9tdpyv/a_roman_era_skull_found_impaled_with_a_large/
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PinheadSlim posted:
This reminded me of something I got to see a few months ago, “Big Lizzie”    The wicked looking wheels are pre-caterpillar track wheels the owner invented and are called dreadnaught wheels, which is pretty fitting for the vehicle as it was claimed it was the largest tractor in the world at the time. On the front platform you can see the anvil, they could have a blacksmith at work up there with anvil and forge, doing repairs while working. For work they mostly used her for land clearing, a gang of men attached cables to trees would clear up to 50 acres a day or carry 900 bags of wheat. Specifications Prime Mover – 10.36 metres long, 3.35m wide, 5.49m high. Weight – 45 tonnes payload 10 tonnes. Turning Circle – 61 metres. Trailers(2) – 9m long, 3m wide, 2.13m high. Payload – 35 tonnes each. Mechanical Details Power Unit 44.74 kw (60 hp) Blackstone water cooled single cylinder crude oil engine. Bore, 228 mm, Stroke, 450 mm, 215 RPM. Single flywheel, 2.13 m diameter, Weight 3 tonnes. Gear Box 3.15m long, 1.37m deep, 0.91m wide. Oil Capacity 430 Litres. 4 forward speeds 3.2, 2.4, 1.6, 0.8 km/h. 2 reverse speeds 0.8, and 0.4 km/h. Crude Oil 19,800 litres. General purpose water 3,400 litres. Drinking water 1,000 litres.
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