*clutches pearls over extensive use of quotes*

I heard castor oil is good for that too. what? some people would like their lashes to be thicker and longer!

shopping success! Behold:

Unpopular (?) opinion, Speculoos -meh

..it is? I suppose I'll go look for it in the store tomorrow. If it's more of a Dutch thing (like Speculoos) then I'm not surprised, I have witnessed the spectacular sweet tooth of the Dutch.

I'm here in communist europe where lots of education is free. So the state was paying him to yell at me.

oh, the summer before I was doing my cook's traineeship at a restaurant and the radio was on all the bloody time on an awful 'top pop hits' station. 'twas the summer of Baby by Bieber.

Man, culinary school. I wish I had said something to our dick of a training restaurant chef when he had us server students lined up and yelled at us about something or other. I can just remember thinking 'I am not getting paid for him to do this to me...'

I'm trying to override the brainwashing I received during my childhood by The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin (a.k.a Scamper the Penguin in its cut American version) that emperor penguins are assholes. But it's hard.

yep, sliquid. need to buy some more.

... this might have not been one of my brightest ideas. bleh.

Just went and bought a carton of fake eggnog over lunch brake thanks to you.

This is how you get ants!

eel! yum!

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Since we have quite different cultural/culinary backrounds he usually asked about most of things in my kitchen (at the time I wasn't feeling like going to the store a lot so I just had like meatballs in the freezer or canned soups in the pantry and if they had meat in them it was pork. and the meat free stuff happened…

good, that leaves more for us.

I hope he didn't ruin avocados for you with that?

No idea, I'm in Europe. you could maybe make your own? the strenght comes, apart from the amount and type of mustard seed flour (I imagine), from the fact that cold liquid is added, not hot, beacuse heat breaks down the mustard-y strength enzymes or whatever apparently.

Vaguely related: the Finnish put mustard (Finnsih style - pretty mild stuff) in their pea soup (I volunteered at a Finnish christian rock music festival once and was on food handing out duty). just putting it out there.