Ah, that’s probably what it was, he was expecting stew and got sauce. The spices in the recipes I read reminded me more of moussaka than anything else.

OH. Is it really? I always figured it was a combination of homesickness and “the people out here are weird” that he just needed time to get over. (That said, I’ve seen recipies for Cincinnati chili that really just...confuse me. I mean some of the ingredients...why?)

Speaking of, where are all the professional food people? I’d like to know where they stand on the issue, since they trained in this stuff.

And I would say that Hot Dish is simply a Midwestern term for an American dish. Unlike poutine which is easily traceable to one specific group of Canadians (yes, I know that’s going to piss them off) saying that chili is uniquely Texan is like saying beans and rice is uniquely Spanish because Moros y Cristianos is…

It’s a joke. One of my brothers moved to Cincinnati a while ago and for the entire first fall he was there, he’d ask anyone who was going to visit him to bring “real chili” with them.

This kind of insanity is why I love the Sims community so much.

LOL! Yeah, I should probably have mentioned the same in my initial remark! :)

Is chili a Texas-specific food, though? People eat chili pretty much everywhere, and there is a similar dish in Cincinnati that some people sometimes like to refer to as chili too. Unless it’s something relatively unknown (anyone outside of Iowa know what steak de burgo is?) then I’m not all that sure it can be…

Too bad those kids aren’t still in the fetal stage. Then the Republicans would at least pretend to care.

That’s Iowa, at least the Iowa I know. We (most of us, anyway) don’t care who you screw or how; just spend your money. Oh, and if you could pick up about that place you bought, and advertise a bit, we don’t mind that either.

Sorry, I should have specified the digital version. I am (trying) getting rid of physical things because...well, my apartment kind of looks like I’m turning into one of the snail people from Labyrinth. Books, particularly as so many are going digital now, are one of the easiest.

Unless/until they actually manage to declare independence and secede, this gets a big shrug from me. You’re still a part of Canada? Then poutine is still a Canadian dish. I’d say something along the lines of “sorry if that makes you salty” but a healthy amount of salt is essential to any good dish of poutine.

I really, really hate sitting at the bar. Something about the stools just puts my balance right off, and I spend the entire time trying to compensate. Plus, as a fat person, there’s never enough room (or at least it feels that way.) I find it far more anxiety inducing to feel as if I’m crowding some other…

I got my (set of five in their own carrying bag) off amazon about six or seven years ago. Recycled poly/nylon, large when unfolded, can carry a bit over 40lbs each, washable and not even starting to fray yet. As with all things on Amazon, you have to look into the product/company itself to see if the buy is a…

Have you taken a look at Kimball’s current magazine, Milk Street? It took them a good while to start the digital edition, I have to admit that I kind of gave up on it and stopped checking. If you’ve seen it, what’s it like? I understand the first cookbook is out already too.

So all the History Channel programming that isn’t Vikings or Nazis?

Can we crawl back through and break the damned thing, then?

That and it being a new route, the driver’s unfamiliarity undoubtedly played as much of a role as his speeding. It’s a clusterfuck, not a conspiracy. But some people would rather believe in boogeymen than in dumbfuckery.

Damnit, how am I so dense that this literally would never have occurred to me?

Any idea if they’re working/planning on an Android version?