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FishBulb posted:So 99 cents PER tiny tortilla. A good deal! AND idiots have rabidly queued up to buy the drat thing. >_<
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If you can't afford that then maybe you should just have your servants make them for you the old fashioned way.
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May 31, 2014 13:57
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My servants are only 5 and 1. I'm gonna have to wait 
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May 31, 2014 14:08
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Until we see real immigration and wage reform, you can hire a nice abuela to make a couple hundred tortillas for you for about $20.
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May 31, 2014 14:21
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SubG posted:I batter blasted your Mom. Hey Now, she is more of a waffle kind of gal. Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Until we see real immigration and wage reform, you can hire a nice abuela to make a couple hundred tortillas for you for about $20. When I got out of grad school, for two years I lived in an apartment with a rotating cast of late 20's dudes. We had a Brazilian lady come by and clean the common areas once every other week, for $40 a pop. And this was a classic Boston triple decker, with endless woodwork to dust. She worked way too hard for that money, and it made me feel guilty about how little we paid her. When it was my turn to pay, I always gave gave her at least $60. Cleaning up after 4 guys sharing one bathroom is gross, I always feel bad for moms who have lots of little boys.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Cleaning up after 4 guys sharing one bathroom is gross, I always feel bad for moms who have lots of little boys. Also, Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Until we see real immigration and wage reform, you can hire a nice abuela to make a couple hundred tortillas for you for about $20. Croatoan fucked around with this message at 14:45 on May 31, 2014 |
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May 31, 2014 14:43
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dino. posted:AND idiots have rabidly queued up to buy the drat thing. >_< A tortilla press costs like $5 and a decent cast iron griddle can probably be had for a pittance at a yard sale if you're lucky. At most you're looking at spending $15 or so brand new. gently caress 'em that can't make tortillas without a fancy machine.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:A tortilla press costs like $5 and a decent cast iron griddle can probably be had for a pittance at a yard sale if you're lucky. At most you're looking at spending $15 or so brand new. Maybe tortillas are some people's Achilles' heel. I'm a fairly competent home cook but drat if I can make rice well. It's never quite right. My rice cooker is my saviour. That said, it's not a rip-off like the tortilla machine.
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May 31, 2014 15:18
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Croatoan posted:Man, chicks are gross when they live together.
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May 31, 2014 16:28
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Those tortilla pods only last two weeks before they expire, so I can't stock up on them like beans and rice. If I'm going to have to plan when I'm having tortillas, I'll just buy the premade ones from the grocery store. This is one of those appliances people buy, it gets used for a few weeks, then it just sits there taking up kitchen space forever.
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May 31, 2014 20:23
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contrapants posted:Those tortilla pods only last two weeks before they expire, so I can't stock up on them like beans and rice. If I'm going to have to plan when I'm having tortillas, I'll just buy the premade ones from the grocery store. then ends up in thrift stores 20 years from now
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May 31, 2014 21:18
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The kitsch faux wood front just has me puzzled. Well that, and every other aspect of it.
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May 31, 2014 21:19
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Croatoan posted:At one point in my life I lived in a house with 4 girls. Sounds awesome, right? Man, chicks are gross when they live together. That bathroom was nasty. Miss the trash can with your feminine product? No biggie. Just leave it to dry out and stick to the tile and someone else will get it. EWWW. I thought I was gross being a dude. Yeah, I think you just lived with gross women. You shouldn't tar them all with the same brush. I've lived with girls and guys, and one things is definitely true: Gross people are gross, regardless of gender. Look at it this way: cum-vase wasn't a girl, was he?
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Scientastic posted:Yeah, I think you just lived with gross women. You shouldn't tar them all with the same brush. I've lived with girls and guys, and one things is definitely true: Gross people are gross, regardless of gender. Look at it this way: cum-vase wasn't a girl, was he? That would have been way more impressive, though.
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May 31, 2014 22:24
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"How do I tell the difference between the cinnamon raisin bagels and the egg bagels?" WELL ONE'S GOT loving RAISINS AND CINNAMON IN IT, DON'T IT?
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Bertrand Hustle posted:"How do I tell the difference between the cinnamon raisin bagels and the egg bagels?" also one is eerily yellow. it's like a jaundice bagel
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May 31, 2014 23:35
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Is it really so hard to buy a bag of tortillas? I buy the ones from the tortilla factory across town or the ones a grandma makes in the Mexican grocery store around the corner and keep them in my fridge. They last for months. I throw it on a griddle with a little spritz of oil and boom! Delicious tortillas.
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May 31, 2014 23:37
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My wife just bought me a pair of PBR glasses to drink from. AND I LOVE THEM. Does that mean PBR is now sufficiently uncool that hipsters will stop drinking it?
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Scientastic posted:My wife just bought me a pair of PBR glasses to drink from. AND I LOVE THEM. That's not how it works. PBR has to be 'in' before hipsters will stop drinking it. If Kanye West starts drinking PBR (Not just endorsing, but actively enjoying it) then maybe hipsters will drop it.
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dino. posted:You know what also irritates the ever-loving piss out of me? The need to have flavoured EVERYTHING. I will be happy to escort you over to the dad thread, dino. Have you considered adopting? You're ready. Welcome to the club. Your complimentary Judas Priest CD and beer are on the table to your left.
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Tortillas: I make my own sometimes and they are awesome. They're not hard to make. I use Steingarten's recipe: ½ cup minus 1 tablespoon lard 3 cups flour 1 scant tablespoon salt 1¼ cup very warm water But that's like a half-hour's work to make 16 tortillas. That's not a staple, I ain't got time to do it that often. It's something I just slip in when I can.
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pr0k posted:It's something I just slip in when I can. Your mom.
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To contrast, Prok's Recipe: Lard:$3.50-$4/quart from bodega. 1/2 cup=1/16 quart=(@$4/lb)$0.25 + 3 cups flour:Let's be hyper-conservative & say yr buying a bag of ultra-premium Sir Galahad The Pure holy bread flour that was lovingly breathed on by virgins before bagging & costs $6/5-lb-bag. 5 lb=~18 cups. 3 cups=18/6 cups= $6.00/6=$1.00 + scant tsp salt: 3 lb kosher salt=$2.00 at fiesta; 2oz kosher salt=1/4 cup=12tsp. 3lb salt=288 tsp. 1 tsp= $0.007. But you know what? gently caress it. Let's say that yr crazy & throw salt over yr shoulder for good luck. Let's say you use,like, a whole 3¢ worth. Just tossin' more than a tablespoon of salt around like its a wedding or something. + water(p much free) = approximately $1.28 for 16 flour tortillas vs. Rockin' Rad Flatbread Bot: 16 tortilla Keurigs=$16.00 plus sales tax. Using the Tortilla Box Of Mystery for 16 flour tortillas is literally 12.5x as expensive as making them by hand; at "less than a minute!" per tortilla(call it 50 seconds) it saves (vs prok's estimate) approx. 16.7 minutes per batch, for a final cost of about 88 cents per minute saved. Best case scenario, you're essentially spending "under $300" for the privilege of paying yr wood-paneled pod-fueled Abuelitron $52.80/hr to make you tortillas. CARL MARK FORCE IV fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Jun 1, 2014 |
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pr0k posted:I will be happy to escort you over to the dad thread, dino. Have you considered adopting? You're ready. Welcome to the club. Your complimentary Judas Priest CD and beer are on the table to your left. Are you implying that I've become old and crotchety?
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Yeah, since when does being a dad have anything to do with being Old and Crotchety? Bitch, I was born Old and Crotchety.
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Squashy Nipples posted:Yeah, since when does being a dad have anything to do with being Old and Crotchety? Hutchinson-Gilford progeria? Or are you more of the Benjamin Button type?
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dino. posted:Are you implying that I've become old and crotchety? I implied nothing. I straight up called it with a pretty sick burn to boot.  Squashy is I think just old and crotchy.
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pr0k posted:I will be happy to escort you over to the dad thread, dino. Have you considered adopting? You're ready. Welcome to the club. Your complimentary Judas Priest CD and beer are on the table to your left. I like Judas Priest, and beer, and hate flavored things. But I'm 23. Must I be an old dude before my time?
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I was old before my time; now I'm just old.
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contrapants posted:Hutchinson-Gilford progeria? Or are you more of the Benjamin Button type? When I was five years old, my FAVORITE TV show was 'The Muppet Show'. And my favorite part of the entire show? These two geezers bitching about having to watch it:  pr0k posted:Squashy is I think just old and crotchy. Yeah, um... well... Your mom!!! *SICK BURN*
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Squashy Nipples posted:When I was five years old, my FAVORITE TV show was 'The Muppet Show'. And my favorite part of the entire show? Me too.  I guess now I need to get a lawn to be overly protective of.
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contrapants posted:I guess now I need to get a lawn to be overly protective of. Just wait until you get cross about people ending sentences with prepositions. And crosser still when people point out that that's a bullshit grammar myth that you shouldn't get cross about.
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Scientastic posted:Just wait until you get cross about people ending sentences with prepositions. http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/11/grammar-myths-prepositions/
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dino. posted:That thing is a myth based on some rear end in a top hat who wanted English to look like Latin. Which it doesn't. I know. Hence the second sentence in my post: Scientastic posted:And crosser still when people point out that that's a bullshit grammar myth that you shouldn't get cross about. The fact that I know it doesn't matter makes me even crosser that I get cross about it, and makes me feel VERY old.
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Scientastic posted:I know. Hence the second sentence in my post: HAhahahaahhaahahahaa. Basically, we're all old and grumpy, and we must accept it for what it is. My niece sends me her papers to look over (before she hands them in for a grade). I totally understand WHY teachers ask their students to avoid beginning a sentence with a conjunction. If you read her papers, the drat thing is littered with fragments all over the place, because at that age, she writes exactly like she talks. To have to read fragment sentence after fragment sentence can be the mental equivalent of nails on a chalkboard. I'm guessing the preposition at the end thing is similar. Teachers have seen it used poorly so many times that until the child learns to write properly later on, they're like "Just avoid it, please."
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Hanging out in some park in Dallas, eating banh mi, chillin. A good afternoon.
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A Rambling Vagrant posted:Abuelitron If I ever decide to get a name change, I think I have to go with this.
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Just got to Amarillo. Whole town smells like manure. The limo from the Big Texan has appeared behind me at stoplights in several sections of town like some unholy apparition.
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Huh. I never noticed Amarillo smelling like cow poo poo. I guess I never noticed it in comparison to Hereford (please for the love of god never ever go to Hereford  )
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