Tom Stiglich.
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Matt Margolis.
Brett Lethbridge.
Peter Broelman.
Mark Knight.
Lizzie
“We are ‘holidaying at home’. I like it.”
Obummer referred to that as a “Staycation”.
If Viktorgrad peasants tolerate this anti-gas crap, then they are dumber than I thought.
Zulu, I don’t know how you do it. I can never throw away books and the shelves are bursting to two deep at least.
My last “cull” was in the very early 80’s when I threw out a heap of Steven Kings and others of that ilk. I decided that what was once a fashionable “read” was a blight on my little library. They were particularly horrible, in retrospect.
Now I’m looking at a couple of Lee Child “Reachers” that are tip worthy. Grotesque with no redeeming features.
They’re potato cakes. And fish & chippers outside of Victoria are crap. There, I said it.
In Victoria, the minority of parasites who like their existence spoonfed to them by the government has become the majority. We apologise. But we didn’t vote for it.
Tom
Dec 28, 2023 5:40 PM
If Viktorgrad peasants tolerate this anti-gas crap, then they are dumber than I thought.
So, you Sictorians, vote with your gas cookers or take the consequences. Over to you.
Agree Calli! I got into Reachers and after six or so became disgusted that the evil he had to invent to defeat in each succeeding story was so monstrous I didn’t want any more of it.
Rather good training for Oct 7 actually.
Vicki
Dec 28, 2023 4:27 PM
Just signed Alex Antic’s protest against the Digital ID Bill, having also signed Rafe’s petition re energy legislation.
I signed the one on the Advance website. They are running a number of worthwhile petitions that will no doubt be ignored by our betters.
They want to be a counter to Getup! at the next election campaign which would be good to see.
Just when we get excited and hope the Pakis can win, Mitch Marsh rocks up and makes 96. A mongrel he is.
A callt:
“Disposal of Dad’s timber stash is going to be tricky.”
You and yours should do a “non-commital ” tour of Men’s Sheds in your area.
At the one I attend, we get regular offers / outright “anonymous” donations of timber, amd hand and power tools. The stuff is graciously accepted, because a lot of it comes out of deceased estates. What is somewhat depressing is that to so many “donors”, it is just “old crap”, hoarded by Grandad, or whoever.
It is amazing how many interesting wooden toys can be made out of random donations of old bits of wood. and finished with oddments of old paint. Soggy ply and particle-board gets “scrapped”, at present , but if anyone in the Ashgrove area wants to donate a decent “branch eater”, the scrap could be granulated and then off-loaded on the adjacent “community garden” group, with whom we share a small flood plain.
“Damaged” old furniture can be stripped and “rearranged; one example being. a four-drawer, REAL timber bedroom chest of drawers, minus a drawer, was “trimmed down” to a perfectly serviceable THREE drawer configuration; perfect in a kid’s bedroom. Waste not; want not.
Potato scallops. I remember as children we’d swim at Bronte Beach. This was way before the suburb became uber trendy*. There were only two businesses on Bronte Beach, a milk bar and a fish and chip shop. We’d buy potato scallops and chips (they were hand cut) and sit on the sand eating them, then afterwards go back into the water. I’ve always liked my potato scallops with lots of salt and vinegar.
* Now Bronte Beach is filled with trendy and expensive restaurants and cafes, and the fish and chip shop isn’t a patch on what it was fifty years ago.
Calli
“Now I’m looking at a couple of Lee Child “Reachers” that are tip worthy. Grotesque with no redeeming features.”
In the earlier books, Teacher was the most prolific mass killer in the US, leaving a trail a mile wide that no authority picked up.
The more recent ones, co-authored with Child’s younger brother, are more subtle.
On the way back from the Gold Coast on Tuesday we dropped in to Byron Bay to see if it had changed in the 30 years since we were last there. I think you’ll find that that is where all those missing tourists are; it was absolutely chokkas.
Couldn’t wait to get out of the place, and might I respectfully suggest that it needs to be added to the “shit towns of Australia “ list asap.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
– Bill Vaughan
Drat. Reacher, not Teacher.
Although some modern teachers …
I signed the one on the Advance website.
Advance do fantastic work and people should donate. It is headed by clever people who have their fingers on the pulse of middle and working Australia.
It was Advance that organised the NO campaign and enlisted Senator Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine to fight it. It was Advance that successfully targeted key states and electorates. The NO campaign won because of Advance, Jacinta and Warren, it wasn’t because of anything that the Liberals did.
One of the best fish and chip shops for me was in Randwick in 1980/1981 and it was owned by a lovely Greek Family near the old Cinema. Top nosh.
.tour of Men’s Sheds in your area
Yep. Good idea.
Interesting dynamics in Men’s Sheds. Very similar to a Zulu tribe and Yolngu. There is a chief and don’t upset him or know more.
Vicki,
in answer to your kind comment about loving horses. It’s a real coincidence, the first horse I owned was named Blaze. 14.3 Chestnut gelding with a conjoined Star, Stripe and Snip. I had had borrowed ponies for a couple of years, but Blaze I bought with my own money. Almost pointless to say I adored him! Unfortunately, due to dreadful circumstances a few years later, I had to sell him. He ended up stabled at the Showground and his new owner, a 13 year old girl rode him in Centennial Park. He certainly landed on his feet, so to speak. 😀
After Blaze, when my fortunes changed for the better, I bought another horse. At one stage I had six! As my body started to betray me, I didn’t replace my horses when the died, I just looked after them and loved them. During the horse flu that ripped through Oz some years back, all six of mine caught it. I was buying bulk jars of Vicks and shoving it up their noses a couple of times a day. It really helped with their breathing, just like it does for us.
My last pony, a Welshie, died around eight years ago. She was forty-two. I had owned her for twenty-two years. I will have another horse. As I said to JMH, if I can’t ride, I will have a small one as a pet to love and spoil. I will have cattle, but only a weaner every couple of years to grow and fatten for the table. If I can manage one, I will have a Jersey cow for milk, cheese and butter. Or just as a pet. I love Jersey’s as much as I love horses.
Advance do fantastic work and people should donate.
Yes they sure do
Funny, I have saved Dad’s portmanteau (never a ‘port’ in WA).
Dad was not noticeably posh. This was what he carried his clothes when he went away to build sheds, to get enough to hire a bulldozer for the next new paddock.
Someone swiped his Dad’s stylish manteau, from the 1940s. Of course Dad called it an overcoat.
Absolutley agree. IGA is a supermarket, but with more of a pulse and homeothemric staff (compared to Colesworths). Every time I go to Colesworths I get the feeling they are truly resentful toward me and my insane demands like “where are the batteriess?”
Harris Farm is far better for food. The meat section offers nice thick cuts twice the thickness of what is in the punnets as pre-cuts, and will give you 5cm eye fillet for the asking.
Great cheeses.
I miss the old baker but – the half-baguettes.
And absolutely yes the fish shop is good. Not usually the cheeriest people, but then fish are not an expressive creature. Perhaps they are that much in sync with their product.
If Viktorgrad peasants tolerate this anti-gas crap, then they are dumber than I thought.
If the Liberal Party, state and federal, had any cojones and of course they don’t, all they’d have to do to win back marginal electorates such as Bennelong, Chisolm, Reid, Parramatta, Aston and so on, electorates where there are lots of Indians, Chinese and other Asians living, would be to start putting up posters six months before the next state and federal elections with the following words on them…
If you want to continue to cook with gas, vote Liberal
I can guarantee you they’d win back every marginal electorate in the country.
Agnes Keith’s account of what the Japanese did to a group of Dutch missionaries, their wives and children and other civilian families would serve well for that. They went upcountry and lived in an old fort for a year, after which the Japs, insulted that these people were ‘escapees’, went upriver after them. The men who weren’t killed resisting them were killed immediately on capture. The women and children were kept alive for two months, then the children were killed in front of their mothers and the mothers were ‘tortured’ (I think Agnes elides here for her audience, and means raped and maltreated) and then killed.
This sort of brutality is soldiers at their worst. It’s terror against civilians.
As in Oct 7 in Israel. A war crime.
🙂
That is the one major flaw of the Reacher books; he clearly left enough clues (not just on CCTV) that Inspector Clouseau could have identified and tracked him down.
No argument from me. Spent a few days days there on my way back from Melbourne. Must be the most overrated place in Australia.
“ I’ve always liked my potato scallops with lots of salt and vinegar.”
Cassie, that would also have been Malt vinegar, not the boring white stuff. 😀
Opinions will vary … this was a great film. They didn’t over cook it.
Find the time to watch.
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“Cassie, that would also have been Malt vinegar, not the boring white stuff”
Yes Pogs. Scrumptious.
I forget what you call regular battered scallops in Sydney town. Potato cakes?
A potato cake isn’t a scallop!
We used to live in Neutral Bay and on some Fridays we’d head to the Kirribilli fish&chip. I wonder if it’s still there now as it was well known then.
Rotters – the goil is French and she’s Paris and therefore the song is entitled “Tentation”.
Sacré bleu! 😕
It’s different here. I mentioned the lovely checkout lady at our local Coles whisking off to buy Mum some “sympathy” flowers from the stand once she was told Dad had died.
The “bush” is another country.
eric hinton
Rocks. We call them rocks.
Because they are ‘rocks’.
The SFL (at least here in Victoria) would sooner slavishly follow Labor
down the road to energy disaster than get into government.
The term scallops for those battered slices of potato lies in the term ‘scalloped potato’. This term has a perdigree of its own – whether its was the style of potato served with a dish that included actual scallops, of referred to an otherwise obsolete word for something thin sliced (or something).
I actually always found the word ‘potato cake’ stranger.
Cake?
And I’d completely forgotten that account in Agnes Keith’s book. I haven’t seen a reference to that massacre elsewhere, but Agnes was a fairly reliable informant.
That I’d forgotten shows how readily we can push unpleasant things to the forgettery.
Hopefully when the Austrian corporal and his jackbooted lapdogues aren’t around …
err, did someone mention cake? 🙂
When I was a child in England before the war, Christmas pudding always contained at least one shiny new sixpence, and it was considered a sign of great good luck for the new year to find one in your helping of the pudding.
– Michael Korda
We were poor so we only got a threepence.
Wow, Pogria — I’ve never heard of a horse living to such a great age.
Our fastest horses, thoroughbreds, are lucky to make it until they’re 30.
Yes.
Potato cakes (as I experienced them in Vicco and Tassie) were thicker and – wildly guessing here – seemed more like smashed potato pressed into shapes that made them thicker and less ‘solid’.
It’s closer to what it looks like than a freaking scallop. I supposed it’s the bastardized version of the french, escalope
One time during a three week stay with my sister in NZ many years ago I went to a local fish and chip shop.
I ordered several potato cakes, but they didn’t know what they were.
Eventually we worked out that they were called potato scallops there.
Scallops were what the potato slices were called when fried. Yummy and cheapo too.
The word comes from the shape of the scallop shell, rounded. I recall searching for it (sending out the brain tracker for it) in Malaysia recently to describe the shape of the curtains hanging in all Malaysian buses. It is a common decorative feature in ancient paintings.
It’s nothing like it. You just made that up. 🙂
My last pony, a Welshie, died around eight years ago. She was forty-two. I had owned her for twenty-two years.
That is astonishing Pogria. I bought a Welsh Mountain pony for my daughter when she was 8 years old – as a Christmas present. We lived in one of Sydney’s outer suburbs then – & the block next door was vacant. We fenced it, with permission from the owner, & kept “Pokey” there. Sadly, daughter did not inherit my love of horses. She refused to put her finger in his mouth to get him to take the bit, or brush him – because “he was dirty”. Sigh. We sold him after a couple of months.
I am human and need to hoover some cake on those rare occasions that might just warrant it … 🙂
I think escalope might have a similar aetiology. A small somewhat rounded piece of something, a piece cut off from a larger portion, in the artistic shape garnered by time and artistic usage of the seashore scallop shell.
I often wondered why fish&chip shops never really took off in the US. It’s not as though they wouldn’t like it because it’s fast food.
And their burgers are nowhere near as good as ours.
calli
I remember one busload of Asians arrived in Barcaldine with a trailer nearly full of date rolls. They proceeded to the local IGA and started to strip the place clean. Refused at the checkout, because “You obviously had enough.”
Much screeching and abuse to be had by them, but they left empty handed.
The fuel cost even if they were from Townsville would have taken up their profit margin.
Couldn’t wait to get out of the place, and might I respectfully suggest that it needs to be added to the “shit towns of Australia “ list asap.
No argument from me. Spent a few days days there on my way back from Melbourne. Must be the most overrated place in Australia.
AKA Byron Bay. My family are off to Byron in early January. Says it all.
Rabz
Dec 28, 2023 6:15 PM
My apologies as I was being pedestrian/pedantic/problematic – Anyway, I loved New Order =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZXxmhok1AU
Liz, let’s not get etiological here. Okay, but what do you call a battered scallop in that uncivilized city?
Rabz, I forgot to put out the Christmas cake, as well as the cherries and other fruits at Christmas; also the mince tarts. I will freeze some cake for youse … for later, as Her Maj notably said. Fear not, you shall eat cake.
I have zero sympathy Australian industry heads, such as Innes Willox and Jennifer Westacott. Instead of sticking to their knitting and promoting business, they’ve, for far too long, stoked and indulged progressive talking points such as SSM and da Voice, and like zombie midgets, all dutifully turned up to attend the Sleazy government’s wankfest called The Jobs and Skills Summit in September 2022, perhaps thinking they’d earn brownie points. Yeah…..NAH..
And yet now…….
Australian Industry Group chief executive Innes Willox has accused the Albanese government of launching a “squalid attack” on employers through a proposed shake-up of laws dictating who should pick up the bill in sexual harassment and discrimination cases.
The reforms have been criticised by business and religious groups for creating a lopsided litigation environment that will invite a wave of unmeritorious lawsuits by saddling employers with the burden of paying an applicant’s costs if just a single aspect of the claim is upheld.
You reap what you sow.
Potato scallop.
Dean Cain
I am currently reading Rich Frank’s “Tower of Skulls”, the first part of a trilogy concerning the Pacific War which started with Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Banking has just been raped,. Horrifying reading, but I am looking forward to the next instalment.
Chuckle.
LawConnect, after their horror start, wins by a whisker.
As I said, we used to have potato scallops.
A battered scallop as a sea creature was not something we yobs ever saw, living far from Tasmania. Such scallops were not of our ken. They were as far away from us as calimari later became, till some Iti’s arrived, and we thought they ate weird stuff anyway. We had battered flake, potato scallops and chips. None of this other fancy stuff in Sydney’s outer west in the 50’s. You had to go to Sydney to get real seafood.
@#$&–+&$@@ autocorrect that should be Nanking not banking
Potato Scallops in Qld.
And some more New Order –
Brillo stuff – English Music at it’s BEST –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI1S0PKJR8
That is pure hatespeech!
Toilet paper shortage during covid. I have to thank Bern.
It would’ve been around mid Feb 2020 when the first strain began to hit and I recall Bern saying that if there was one thing we needed to stock up on it was dunny paper.
Trader’s instinct quickly took hold and I said to myself, FMD, he’s right. Wifey thought I was crazy to suggest it and over the next week we went out stocking up on dunny paper, canned tuna and anything canned. We had enough paper to last well over a year. This was well before the mad rush that began in March.
Stocking up was low risk big reward.
I think you all mean potato scollop.
Tom,
back in the “bad old days”, a horse’s average lifespan was around twenty. Once they became companion animals, they were looked after better and consequently, lasted longer. I had a couple who had reached thirty and were still good for light trail riding.
Apple, the welshie, also had Cushing’s, which caused her to look like a shag-pile carpet all year round. I had to regularly clip her as, with Cushing’s, the hair never sheds in the spring/summer. She was still a feisty little thing right up until a couple of weeks before she died.
With your thirty year old race horses, that would have been the good ones, right? The slow ones ended up in a can of Pal or on a boat to Japan. 😀
The seafood scallops we had on Christmas Eve were rather small and they cooked up a little bit rubbery even with just a touch of heat. Disappointing. Best scallops are on Bribie Island in Tassie, and I can never go past a fresh Scallop Pie when I am in Hobart. Absolutely stunning food.
It’s without a doubt one of the top 20 tasty morsels you could ever gulp down. There’s very little that compares.
Bless him. Immune to qwerty kryptonite.
Battered scallops of the seafood kind.
Piloted by camels, I assume.
Ahahahaaaaa.
People forget toilet paper, thermometers*, paracetamol, masks etc were being scooped up to be sold in China.
*I had to hunt around in early May 2020 for a baby one for my arriving grandchild. Finally found one in a pharmacy inside a private hospital.
Undoubtedly.
And more New Order – Great video –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1tjQqWqqAA
I remember during the insane run on toilet paper in 2020, one guy managed to get ahold of a very large number.
He tried to sell them at a greatly marked up price on eBay, but eBay put a stop to that!
Just. Don’t.
A light sear, plus a little sauce if you must.
Avoid the horror of the deep fryer.
I’ve always known them as potato scallops
You would have to be a retardo to confuse scallops with potato scallop.
Remember when I ordered some in Vic and asked for potato scallops the lady behind the counter goes Queeeeennnnnssslaaander.!!!!
Cain gave the perfect response to that idiot woke woman.
No comeback to that!
Calli
Have you ever tried one? Sure, you need a pack of Krestor for each one to get rid of the “wax” clogging the arteries, but boy they’re great. Mouthwatering great.
I have zero sympathy for any Australian public figures, Cass.
The sooner those vile quislings all start experiencing long, slow and hideously painful ends to their pointless existences, the better.
It’s not like they have any “sympathy” or “empathy”* for the likes of us.
*FFS, I hate that word.
Vicki,
very sorry to hear your daughter didn’t inherit your interest in horses. I cannot remember a time when I didn’t love them.
re, the chat about Byron, definitely a hole. It started to go downhill around the late seventies. I have always said, even then, that Ballina and Evan’s Head were a thousand times better. In the ninetie’s, Byron would close the town to outsiders at Christmas. I knew people from Sydney who had holiday homes there and they were allowed in because they were “on the list”. Not many locals left now so the dollar rules.
You can’t down a town. I suspect that’s a myth.
And now some Human League –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0&list=RDEMU8Ako8PjTMKOmVAvqlpBhA&index=6
Diogenes, I have, and have read, Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking: The forgotten Holocaust of World War II, which is fairly definitive in showing why the Chinese still hate the Japanese. Rape is metaphoric in the title, but there was plenty of real rape and hideous sexual torturing of women going on. Photographs in the book are graphic re this.
Quite a lot of heroism too from the European population trying to protect the Chinese.
sacrificing the sacred ideas upon the altar of discourse
Love hearing about all this parochialism.
I bet all those Byron Bay peeps popped down to Sydney when ever they felt like it.
It’s time the government stepped in and forced people not to go on holiday during the holidays.
JC,
it did happen. It was even on the News.
Several months ago I got something at a fish and chip shop I hadn’t had for many years – two seafood scallops.
I was extremely unimpressed when for my $7, I got two tiny scallops, not in batter, but what looked like fried flour, and which tasted worse than it looked.
Cassie of Sydney
It’s an odd feeling isn’t it Cassie?
When I was about 24, went to the local supermarket on the Saturday only to find nearly all of the groceries were gone. Apparently there was a driver strike at the food distribution centre and nothing was getting out.
So people panicked and bought just about anything they could.
That frightened the Hell out of me, 2 youngsters below 5, and no tucker.
Ever since, I’ve made sure there was at least the staples bread milk flour etc in the freezer.
About 10 years ago, the highway was cut by floods at Mackinlay and there was a line up of about 30 cars. I took in one family of 6 from Mt Isa and we existed on the contents of the cupboards and baked our own bread, etc. That’s why I want a gas stove – it’s an alternate to power if it goes off, and you can store big cylinders of the stuff.
It was good fun – like going camping, only indoors.
JC, I’ve enjoyed the artery clogging deliciousness of lobster and steamers in butter (thank you Boston for my early demise) but nothing beats a pan seared scallop.
I have had the battered ones. And they appeal to the lizard palate. The seared are another story.
And who does not like this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBW8Vnp8BzU&list=RDEMU8Ako8PjTMKOmVAvqlpBhA&index=9
And here comes Johnny Yen, again, Cats.
He’s just a modern guy, existing in a modern woild, which is rubbish.
Oh and thanks for all the staggeringly stupid inbred goat pleasuring moozleys, god – grate work.
Anyone not versed in the finer points of your alleged existence might think that you just might have a tendency to be very, very vengeful …
Except when you aren’t – leaving us to deal with the wreckage.
Rosie,
it became a real battle at the time. Especially with the surfing crowd. There were some epic fights between locals and the “outsiders”. The Council at the time was really peed off because hundreds of surfies and various “cheaper” travellers would camp anywhere they pleased, mostly on the beach, thereby not paying fees and leaving a lot of rubbish behind. It was not a happy time.
But, as I said, there were far better beach towns to go to.
Potato cakes. Scallops are a mollusc. They sell them battered at Vic fish n chip shops.
Scalloped potato is this. Potato au Gratin.
There’s nothing quite like it, Cats, err, uuurrrgggghhh (increasingly bizarre choking sounds) … 😕
And it’s a long way to the top if you want a Chiko Roll – LOL –
https://youtu.be/j9Z39Uqybcw
I must clarify something, I eat potato scallops, not scallops from the shell.
My kashrut observance over the years has been topsy-turvy. But since 7 October I’m once again very careful. I have no desire to eat treif food.
calli
Dec 28, 2023 6:16 PM
Quite so.
What is trief food ?
The main entrance to the town is a state road. Who closed that down?
If you’re suggesting a bunch of unwashed hippies stood on the road to block access, well that’s possible. However, there wouldn’t have been any official, state sanctioned closure where owners had to gain permission to access their property.
That’s just pure gold – good on him.
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Time to submit candidates for fuktard of the year; here’s a late goer: a blue eyed, poofta catholic priest asserting Jesus was a palestinian.
You’re welcome any time. Even chez calli and Beloved.
But you knew that already.
The kiosk at the Newcastle Ocean Baths in times gone by did very good fish and chips and was famous for its Pluto Pups.
Haven’t been there for a long time but I expect it’s been yuppified to cater for the yuppie and DINK apartment dwellers who have displaced the old working classes.
What is trief food ?
Pig, all shellfish, any fish without fins and scales, only meat from animals that have cloven hooves and chews the cud (so that rules out camels, rabbits and so on), and meat and milk mixed together are prohibited. The fowl that’s allowed are geese, duck, chickens and turkeys. Kosher animals are sheep, cattle, goats and deer.
Disgusting. There should be a law against that.
As a card-carrying resident of Vaucluse, Calli, allowed inside the barrier on New Year’s Eve, I wouldn’t dream of battering scallops rather than simply searing them in butter. It’s seafood standards-r-us around here. 🙂
I was referring to those available treated in this way in fish shops elsewhere in Australia in past times, and even today, although never heard of however treated in Sydney’s outer west in the 50’s.
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Nikki Haley slammed for not mentioning ‘slavery’ as cause of the Civil War in ‘word salad’ answer during town hall
That said, Doyle’s treats the tourists to battered scallops, so who am I to talk?
The face of evil: This is what arch-terrorist Mohammed Deif looks like now
What? No meatshakes?
Outrageous.
He’s not the first.
President Trump Goes There… Joe Biden ‘is a Manchurian Candidate’
Thanks Cassie.
Florida Surgeon General believes when real truth comes out on COVID vaccines, Pfizer will cease to exist…
Someone downticks a comment about kashrut. Seriously.
Oh yes, far less arterial damage. A health food compared to battered scallops from the local.
Now I’m getting scallop hungry, for seared scallops and potato scallops.
And scallop pie. Maybe Hairy should book us to Tassie.
These holidays at home aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
Don’t worry Cassie. They even downtick an offer of hospitality.
Go to Scotland and have a battered Mars Bar, Great with the Cod and chips.
And kippers on buttered toast for breakfast with a poached egg on top followed up with porridge and then haggis and neaps with mash for Lunch.
Then, a few or more whiskies to wash it all down with. LOL.
Then, an afternoon nap in front of the log fire,
After you’ve had a meat meal, you wait three or six hours before eating anything dairy. You have separate utensils for meat and milk. It is quite complicated. The laws of kashrut are at heart moral laws.
Johnny Rotten
I’ve been looking for that video for years, JR!
The choreography is really really good – those blokes must be very fit.
Really? Like, you head to a steak joint, devour a hunk of medium cooked meat and then can’t order a short mac, but have to have espresso. That’s harsh. Really harsh.
Yo Cassie.
Good thing about Christianity?
Eat whatever you like.
Pigs are the best.
calli
Dec 28, 2023 7:21 PM
Hey. I get down thumbed all the time. So what. And who cares. Water off of a duck’s back.
Cohenite,
I saw that and scared the dogs I screamed so loudly at the TV.
JC,
there was a home-made checkpoint set up and the volunteers who manned it had a list of registration numbers, names of home owners who lived out of town etc. If you weren’t on the list, you were told to drive on in no uncertain terms. The locals fought as hard as they could to keep Byron to themselves, but they couldn’t fight the Big Money.
Cass, I can cook up something that resembles “kosher” for the family. But they know I don’t have a separate lot of stuff for anything more orthodox.
So I cook up fish and have a dairy dessert. Or the opposite…meat and fruit.
My efforts are seen as righteous because of love. That’s how it must…how it can only work. And that’s how our family operates.
Why No One Trusts Scientists Anymore
A veddy pukka Pommy voice inquiring if “Australians are ever sober after lunch..”
Racist Nonsense! White Men “Fantasize About Being Genetically Equal to Black Men”?!
It only shows there are some seriously very sad people lurking here going to such efforts.
I no longer pay any attention to downticks (if I ever did).
I’m sure this comment will get a downtick !
Oh and by the way Cassie thanks for your info. over the last few weeks on Jewish customs etc – very informative for this gentile.
Lee
Dec 28, 2023 6:45 PM
I remember one bloke bought a huge amount of date rolls and after the shortages, he went back to an IGA store and demanded they refund him the money.
The store bloke told him to piss off.
And Head office backed him which was most surprising.
Oh, so a bunch of worthless arseholes decided they wanted to close down the town. So it wasn’t really official then. What’s this Big Money thing you’re talking about? Sounds really scary, Porgria. is that the opposite of Little Money, because that’s even more frightening.
Do Other Races Have Higher IQs Than Others? Thomas Sowell
Nom, nom, nom … 🙂
JC,
blah, blah, blah. yawn.
As lovingly prepared by my Trad Woife! 🙂
Just received a flyer email from out American pal who runs an online business in the US called Reboundwear.
Just a shout out. Seeing the average age of folks posting here is about 105 (with Liz not helping keeping it down) you may need some specialized hospital wear with numerous zippers in all the right places.
She refers to it as “adaptive post surgery clothing” and can be found here:
https://www.reboundwear.com/
Winston Smith
Dec 28, 2023 7:24 PM
It’s all on You Choob……………LOL
And Great Music !!!!!
I never thought living in Helensvale would be like living in a war zone. We only lost a boundary fence which got flattened. The neighbourhood though is a mess. Houses with trees crushing them and everywhere downed trees which have smashed fences, cars and caravans. The roadsides are full of debris as people clear their gardens. Roads were blocked and we only got electricity at 7 am this morning. Still multiple areas without power. Losing electricity over Xmas at a time when fridges are full is expensive! We managed to salvage most as we have a camper trailer equipped for off grid travel and have 3 camping fridges. Few people have this sort of setup. Community spirit has been incredible and the SES and Energex have really slaved to get things going. With no internet or phone service for the first 2 days it was like living in the Dark Ages. Yesterday we started to get patchy service but the best thing is having aircon and fans working! Now how to keep a Jack Russell from exploring the neighbourhood! The plastic orange safety fencing we have put up is only a temporary deterent! Going to be awhile to get a new fence and the price is going to be high!
It’s a pity they, like lobster, crab, bugs (Moreton or Balmain), yabbies, and more than 6 Maloolaba prawns don’t like me. Not allergic, but they trigger my gout, a week of agony, that I would only wish on the inventors of paper straws, bamboo cutlery and Chris Bowen.
No parmesan on spag bolognese!
JC, I collect obscure and rare cookbooks. I have two cookbooks I treasure. They were authored by an Italian Jewish woman by the name of Edda Servi. She was born in a village in Tuscany called Pitigliano. Until World War II Pitigliano had a thriving Jewish community that dated back to the Renaissance. Anyway, her books are a wonderful treasure trove of recipes, of her family recipes which are quintessentially Italian and Jewish.
Italian Jewish food was (and is) renowned for its use of vegetables, particularly artichokes and fennel. There’s a famous recipe from Pitigliano which is artichokes stuffed with minced beef, it is quite complicated, a dish for high holy days. I have talked to Tinta about one day making it with her.
In his Italian television series a few years ago (which is good viewing) Jamie Oliver visited Pitigliano and he met with the remaining elderly Jewish nona still living in the village. She cooked him “stuffed artichokes”. It was an episode to treasure. There are many other unique dishes from the Jewish of Italy.
The famous Italian cookbook writer Marcella Hazan (I have her recipe books) married into an old Italian Jewish family. She also has some interesting recipes.
Nowadays, across Europe, Jewish food is trendy. There are restaurants in cities like Krakow which serve Jewish style food and play Jewish klezmer music but you can know what’s missing, and that’s Jewish people. Wonder why? Nobody needs to answer that question.
Yup as predicted the comment got a downtick . . . LOLs !
Pogria, go to bed if you’re tired. You made it sound like it was an official edict, but then when drilling down we find it’s a typical bunch of small minded Australian turds acting selfishly. No one has a freaking right to block access and they should’ve been freaking rammed off the road and left as roadkill. As for the big money angle boo hoo.
Cassie,
I bought an old book, many years ago, on the Laws of Jewish food preparation. As a cook, baker, food tragic, it fascinates me. Also, as I have read in various books over the years, a lot of Jewish recipes are interesting and delicious precisely because of the laws. The restrictions unleashed a lot of inventiveness when it came to cooking to create delicious meals.
By the way, I went to the old Jewish cemetery at Goulburn today that Katzenjammer had mentioned. It is a very well looked after place. There are only around a dozen graves still visible there. A couple of headstones which you can still read. A cairn has been built from the stone of the caretaker’s cottage that had been there. There are brass placques on the cairn and one of them lists the name of every one who is buried there. It is a calm and reflective little place. I expected a sense of melancholia or even a little sadness as you often find with forgotten, early cemeteries. But, this graveyard has not been forgotten. That and the lovely sunny day, I believe made all the difference. I actually would like to have a picnic there one day on what is left of the foundations of the caretaker’s cottage.
I appreciate that. Decent sauce doesn’t require cheese over it. It’s used to cover bad sauce.
The best bol sauce in the world is found at Sant Ambroeus on Madison Ave . Nothing compares. Incomparable.
We brought back their panatone as hand luggage, and again nothing compares.
WolfmanOz
Dec 28, 2023 7:41 PM
LOL. I gave you an Up Thumb.
A few years ago the Israeli chief rabbinate declared artichokes were not kosher because of the miniscule bugs (that you can’t see) living in the artichoke leaves. All vegetables need to be soaked in water to rinse out any hidden microscopic bugs. You can imagine what the Italian Jews thought about that! So, the good thing is that the Italian rabbinate told the Israeli rabbinate to get stuffed!
You have no idea about the toxicity of kosher wars in Jewish communities. The wars have been known to cause fist tights and even death threats.
Speaking of panetone, my Jewish Sil loves panetone bread and butter pudding (or so he tells me, the schmooze).
But I always serve it after something like seared salmon.
It’s just Igotherefirstism.
Pretty much what aboriginal people want with ‘land rights’.
Wash the artichokes in vinegar water. That’ll kill the bugs! And add extra flavour.
Not generally. You get a few outliers. Japs are just sandal wearing goldfish tenders h/t Monty Burns. Europeans invent shit. Japs study it and make it better etc. One of the best Brain Surgeons is a Negro USA bloke.
The proper name is potato fritter.
Antonio Carluccio – for me, the most Italiano personage that ever existed – when you’re talking “la Dolce Vita” 🙂
Wash the artichokes in vinegar water. That’ll kill the bugs! And add extra flavour.”
Yes.
I recall watching that series from Jamie Oliver last year – splendid. I really enjoy his shows as his enthusiasm for what he is cooking is infectious plus the meals look marvellous.
I have a number of his cooking books now as in my retirement from the corporate world I now do most of the cooking at home which Mrs Wolfie really appreciates and enjoys what I prepare – very rewarding.
Extinction Rebellion, Just Stop Oil, Greenpeace, Animals Australia, & various other groups of dickheads have managed to block all manner of roads, freeways, bridges, ports, etc. for varying lengths of time.
In addition to ruining normal people’s day, they manage to hold up all sorts of high value work operations, transport, etc.
While cops stand & watch.
By that yardstick, a bunch of xenophobic hippies could get away with a blockade of a hick hippie town that is on a dead end road & bypassed by main highways.
Especially if nobody else noticed or cared, & cops were busy with their peak season for domestic violence, general dickheadsmanship & road death toll.
In Bromley in SE London at school his Teacher called him idle. So he used that for his stage name – Billy Idol – LOL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OFpfTd0EIs&list=RDEMU8Ako8PjTMKOmVAvqlpBhA&index=10
I bought an old book, many years ago, on the Laws of Jewish food preparation. As a cook, baker, food tragic, it fascinates me. Also, as I have read in various books over the years, a lot of Jewish recipes are interesting and delicious precisely because of the laws. The restrictions unleashed a lot of inventiveness when it came to cooking to create delicious meals.
Yes it did, Pogs.
Mum used to make them. Just delicious.
A fritter contains ingredients extra to the potato and batter.
Since you’re doing so much of it…so what?
……….LOL!
Except Pogria is talking about Australia in the 90s, which was an entirely different place, Driller. Perhaps on Mud Island, time travels at a faster pace, and the 90s would appear to someone who lives there as seconds between decades. It’s a fast paced life.
Other than triggering, what is the point of that pointless comment anyway?
So who doesn’t want to rule the World – Chairman Xi?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGCdLKXNF3w&list=RDEMU8Ako8PjTMKOmVAvqlpBhA&index=11
@ Johnny Rotten:
“We were poor so we only got a threepence”
One of my grand,others was a kitchen whizz:
Her ‘BOILED in the bag” plum puddings were always littered with old coins, wrapped in grease proof paper and tied with cotton ( to reduce dental havoc). After “dismal guernsey” arrived in 1966, the old coins were still used (allegedly “less toxic” than the”‘new” coins), until she demised from a a stroke in the early 1970s..
For when you’re not expounding on hidden microscopic bugs, this is how you play one of the greatest songs in human history, live, Cats! 🙂
Isn’t milk an ingredient in traditional spaghetti bolognaise?
Well, we’re really covering the important issues, again, Cats – how to prepare and cook fried potato treats … 😕
Good point. I’ll ask next time. 🙂
Isn’t milk an ingredient in traditional spaghetti bolognaise?
Not in my recipe.
Simple Minds – This one is for Tennis Elbow and Blackout Bowen who both have simple minds –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A&list=RDEMU8Ako8PjTMKOmVAvqlpBhA&index=12
That’s when I’m not imagining Miss Eva as my trad woife preparing some stuffed Yartichokes, I tells ya! 😕
No, but I did say traditional, as in Italian.
I once made it and it was a silky smooth sauce.
Roger
My mother never used milk, and wifey doesn’t either since she thinks it’s sinful to eat more than 20 calories a day.
Cassie, given the push from the Greenie Elites for the rest of us to eat insects instead of meat, what is or would be the Jewish position on this?
Heres a clue…
potato cake
potato scallop
escalope
Take your pick…. easy.
Speaking of sea scallops. It was not unusual for us to gather up to half a cubic metre of them while we were diving in Jervis Bay. We shared them with the locals at Wreck Bay, Hyams Beach or Huskisson and cook several dozen ourselves on the BBQ. Put them upside down on the hot plate, wait for them to open, cut the muscle, add a squirt of Worcestershire sauce and tabasco with a touch of pepper… two minutes max… to die for
Bubble & squeak…leftover mashed or baked potato?
I use milk in the various pastas I make.
And now some Joy –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=674KGKRQBPE&list=RDEMU8Ako8PjTMKOmVAvqlpBhA&index=17
You really should try it one day, JC.
I most likely have and didn’t know, because I never grew up with that. I was thinking more like a hunk of beef, or lamb with the recipe requiring milk or cream. The initial thought made it sound disgusting.
Cassie, given the push from the Greenie Elites for the rest of us to eat insects instead of meat, what is or would be the Jewish position on this?”
NO, never. Eating bugs is forbidden in the Torah, from Leviticus.
Am pretty sure Muslims wouldn’t eat bugs either.
Indolent
Dec 28, 2023 7:14 PM
OBAMA Swoops in to SAVE Claudine Gay? Harvard President REFUSING to Resign for Plagiarism: Report
That’s extraordinary: obuma is a poofta and Gay is as gay as goldfish; both are complete frauds and elitist dickheads. They could be brothers; or sisters.
And more New Order –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71ZHVmSuBJM&list=RDEMU8Ako8PjTMKOmVAvqlpBhA&index=15
Diogenes
Dec 28, 2023 7:38 PM
Same here – we should start a club.
Because I have to have Prednisone here just in case, I hit the bastard gout with 2×25 mg twice a day for two days and a further 25mg on day 3. Add a couple of lasix to get the kidneys doing their job and also add urinary alkinalyser – the ladies have always got that stuff around for obvious reasons. I make up a 4l bottle of water with 8 of those little packets per day. Alkaline urine, I am told, helps dissolve extra uric acid crystals – it seems to work.
My Bouts O’Gout only seem to last 3 days – a week of that pain is too much.
You have a specialist doc to talk with?
(This is not professional medical advice. I’m just an old bush nurse.)
The docs go crook on me, but I don’t care.
Weighing in from WA-
If there has ever been a “potato scallop”- or cake or fritter- on the chalkboard of a fish’n’chip shop over here, I’ve never seen nor heard of it.
Battered scallops were once a mainstay of the now hard-to-find Fisherman’s Basket- along with a long bit of white fish or flake and a battered prawn or two, tail on, minimum chips. Like most things in life, they were cheaper, bigger and tastier when I was a kid.
“Scallop” obviously refers to the coup cut shape, like vitello scallopini. You can even get a “scalp” off of a head, if you’re reading Jack Reacher, GoT, etc.
…or the pure and nifty round of meat which comes out of the big, flat bivalve marine molluscs we call “scallops”.
Try eating them raw, out of high longitude fjord deltas, Scotland, Norway. Oh my lord, they even pulse as you go nom nom nom….
Totally worth it, Calli.
My mother never used milk, and wifey doesn’t either since she thinks it’s sinful to eat more than 20 calories a day.
It’s not the quantity but the quality of the calories. Dairy gets a bad reputation because of the lactose intolerant limp wristers who suffer chronic flatulence. When I want to bulk up to 120kgs I always include some dairy in the diet.
You reckon the Kenyan was banging the drowned cook? There’s something that went on there. 🙂
Jamie Oliver. Are you serious? Wanker City. Every Chef reckons that..
Gordon Ramsay
Anthony Bourdain
Even massive pooves like Ainsley Harriott,
Get with the program,
OK…well, fillet that hunk of beef and add sour cream for stroganoff.
There’s a lamb equivalent too.
Exodus 23:19
It was considered an idolatrous practise to boil a lamb (kid) in its mother’s milk.
When you think of the implications, quite so. Horrible, creepy, nasty, cruel.
I understand where the restriction originates.
And, of course, the classic steak sauces are usually butter or cream based.
One of life’s simple pleasures, Wally, whatever you call it.
And with Dusty –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRPhsLO1nl4
Presumably while the latter* was preparing some fried potato treats 😕
*Before going “glug, glug glug, bluurp” …
You reckon the Kenyan was banging the drowned cook?
The only thing obuma has fuked is the US. He’s a taker and his arse is a 6 lane highway. Obuma’s hubbie did the cook in; he’s got sole rights to the chocolate factory and the cook was trespassing.