What's on your mind today?

[Firebird]

A chemical is real and most food use extracts of some sort. Chemicals make food much better.

I know you're talking about extracts and not chemicals in general, but this also reminds me of people who complain that food should have "no chemicals".  As if that's even possible.

[Recusant]

. . . they used a "Freshly Cracked Egg" in each of their breakfast sandwiches.

Freshly cracked as opposed to what?

One thing that comes to mind is reconstituted from powder.

[Pasta Chick]

. . . they used a "Freshly Cracked Egg" in each of their breakfast sandwiches.

Freshly cracked as opposed to what?

One thing that comes to mind is reconstituted from powder.

Interestingly this plus the "whole foods" craze has driven up the price of fast food as well as added more chemicals. For instance, it's far easier to make a square beef patty than anything else, but that looks "fake". So now restaurants are looking for ways to manufacture mass produced burgers of irregular shape that look "real". Same with eggs, which is what made me think of it. Rather than a single powdered egg patty, they're making powdered egg patties that are white with round yellow centers. Same product, looks more like an egg.

[Crow]

A chemical is real and most food use extracts of some sort. Chemicals make food much better.

I know you're talking about extracts and not chemicals in general, but this also reminds me of people who complain that food should have "no chemicals".  As if that's even possible.

A chemical is a bit different than an extract though. When people refer to a chemical in food it usually (should) mean it is a additive that is composed of a chemical compound - in Europe we commonly refer to them as E numbers and there are many different naming conventions worldwide thus why chemicals is the go to words - that doesn't need to be extracted though some are, it is usually easier to add the different chemicals together to get the desired compound than extract it from a source. The general ignorance of chemicals is pretty astounding especially due to what you mentioned but also they are required to make many foods, they also make far superior foods if you ever eat at a michelin star restaurant chemicals have been used with aplomb. An extract is a method of taking a food and isolating a specific quality such as flavour or colour usually by using alcohol which is a variety of different chemical compounds that create the desired quality.

[Pasta Chick]

Morning in my house. BF and I groggily awake. "Oh man," I say, "I've been having weird dreams all morning."

"Me too," he says.

"Yeah?" I ask. "Whatcha dreaming?"

"You first," he says.

"I dreamt we got married in an old Victorian house, right on the beach. But we were hit by a hurricane for some reason, no one knew was there. We were separated fleeing the storm surge and spent hours searching for eachother. When we finally found eachother, a passing news photographer snapped a photo of us that ended up going viral, of us standing on the beach soaking wet in tattered wedding attire."

"Huh."

"Yeah. You?"

"I dreamt I was driving a sick vintage black 'Carlo and stopped into a strip club. They turned out to be closed for business but all the strippers made me dinner anyway."

MY SUPER ROMANTIC LIFE, EVERYONE 

[Tank]

Morning in my house. BF and I groggily awake. "Oh man," I say, "I've been having weird dreams all morning."

"Me too," he says.

"Yeah?" I ask. "Whatcha dreaming?"

"You first," he says.

"I dreamt we got married in an old Victorian house, right on the beach. But we were hit by a hurricane for some reason, no one knew was there. We were separated fleeing the storm surge and spent hours searching for eachother. When we finally found eachother, a passing news photographer snapped a photo of us that ended up going viral, of us standing on the beach soaking wet in tattered wedding attire."

"Huh."

"Yeah. You?"

"I dreamt I was driving a sick vintage black 'Carlo and stopped into a strip club. They turned out to be closed for business but all the strippers made me dinner anyway."

MY SUPER ROMANTIC LIFE, EVERYONE 

That did make me laugh! You're boyfriends dream is fairly obvious. Your's on the other hand is worth further investigation. I have a couch here if you'd just like to lay down and relax.

[Pasta Chick]

Wedding ceremonies stress me out?

One of the other dreams was about someone throwing a giant tractor tire over the fence, in to my yard. Everyone was standing around wondering how the hell someone did it, considering it had to weigh several hundred pounds and my yard is surrounded by trees. So I'm not entirely convinced any of these dreams meant anything.

[Guardian85]

"I dreamt I was driving a sick vintage black 'Carlo and stopped into a strip club. They turned out to be closed for business but all the strippers made me dinner anyway."

MY SUPER ROMANTIC LIFE, EVERYONE 

I've had a similar dream, but I was driving a classic Indian Chief.

[jumbojak]

Wedding ceremonies stress me out?

One of the other dreams was about someone throwing a giant tractor tire over the fence, in to my yard. Everyone was standing around wondering how the hell someone did it, considering it had to weigh several hundred pounds and my yard is surrounded by trees. So I'm not entirely convinced any of these dreams meant anything.

Like, on the rim? Clearly you want to marry Hercules.

[Pasta Chick]

Wedding ceremonies stress me out?

One of the other dreams was about someone throwing a giant tractor tire over the fence, in to my yard. Everyone was standing around wondering how the hell someone did it, considering it had to weigh several hundred pounds and my yard is surrounded by trees. So I'm not entirely convinced any of these dreams meant anything.

Like, on the rim? Clearly you want to marry Hercules.

It was just the tire, with the general tread of a tractor tire, but the size of a tire off a construction vehicle.

But yes, marrying a half-God superhero could be fun.

[Icarus]

I did not know there were Indian chiefs in Norway  .  Yeah I know that it is a motorcycle....... of questionable worth. Way back in the day, I owned an Indian four. It too was of questionable worth but I liked it anyway. It had not enough power to pull a sick whore out of bed but it made a soothing exhaust sound that I liked.  For the mechanically inclined, it had an F head. Tank and OG will know what an F head is...was. (For the uninitiated, F head does not imply anything sexual.)

[OldGit]

In the 1950s my old man had an Indian Chief and I used to ride in the sidecar.  Bung ... bung ... bung ... bung ... bung ... bung ... bung ...

[OldGit]

The removal men come tomorrow and we move on Wednesday, so I'm not likely to have time to post.

Big problem: getting a landline reconnected in the UK takes a very long time.  Although the new place has a perfectly good working line, we won't be able to use it until the end of the month.  Thus no regular internet, though I expect I'll go to my daughter's and connect from time to time.  Normal posting will be resumed in March, I trust.

BTW we don't even know the new number yet, so I can't send out final change-of-address letters or even get Pip a new collar-tag cut.

[Tank]

The removal men come tomorrow and we move on Wednesday, so I'm not likely to have time to post.

Big problem: getting a landline reconnected in the UK takes a very long time.  Although the new place has a perfectly good working line, we won't be able to use it until the end of the month.  Thus no regular internet, though I expect I'll go to my daughter's and connect from time to time.  Normal posting will be resumed in March, I trust.

BTW we don't even know the new number yet, so I can't send out final change-of-address letters or even get Pip a new collar-tag cut.

Why not use your mobile on Pips tag?

[Crow]

I think I'm starting to get the older men with younger women thing now.