Milk, chili peppers, and cocaine.

It’s also broadly understood that Fadlan may not be 100% accurate on that front, and may be more responding to differences between the Rus’s hygiene practices and Islamic ritual cleanliness. In part to mark them as pagan and less sophisticated.

One thing I’ve seen repeated is that Fadlan is likely describing the use…

The thing I dislike about this is that you are browning the mayonnaise. Not the bread.

It’s a bit like battering or breading the grilled cheese. It ain’t grilled, you are putting a crispy coating on it.

It just doesn’t work. 

Getting the job done and getting the job done well are two different things. I had a very small fryer at one time. Held a few cups of oil and a single piece of chicken. And I still managed to make meals for 6+ people out of it.

I dunno that a counter top deep fryer is the pathway to leaping that hurdle. They have small oil capacities that lead to big temperature swings or just not being hot enough in general. And tend not to hold a lot of food.

If anything food grade lye is easier to find these days due to internet. While lye as a cleaning product used to be on more store shelves, bakers lye hasn’t been common outside of commercial baking since before cars were a thing.

Wait is it 2004?

The company in question is one of several in the NY Metro area that does outdoor movies, mostly free events in public parks and at libraries and what have.

They’ve got all the exhibition rights and permits. 

I know Kal and his family. They briefly owned one of the few places near me that was open late, during one particularly over worked tourist season. Basically lived there post shift. Really great people. And Kal is a hell of a cook, and probably one of the smartest people I’ve ever met in the restaurant business.

The…

I like carbon steel a lot. One note is that they’re mostly shipped bare, no pre-seasoning. And they do not hold a season like cast iron. So they can be considerably trickery to get a season on in the first place. And will need regular re-seasoning.

It’s still not difficult. But a lot of people freak out when their care…

Just get the pan very hot, smoking hot. It’ll burn off. Then just wash the pan. If it’s too thick to cook on, otherwise it’ll just resolve itself with use.

As Kent helpfully reminds us, in order to take on seasoning, your skillet has to absorb it first—which won’t happen if all the oil goes up in smoke:

Honestly just wipe it with oil if it looks dry or after washing it to prevent rust. It’ll take care of itself if you cook with it. If you have to season the pan after every use, you haven’t seasoned it at all.

If you really want it to be the most Instagram ready of all time you need a setting that indicates wealth via ample time for fitness and/or travel, an impractical bathing suit, and heavily photoshopped butts.

They spread across the country a long time ago.

How were the police not called? I realize shit gets real at Waffle House, but the cops turning up as a result is 100% part of that trope.

Think about it this way. If we were going on a road trip. And you said to me (a New Yorker) “I’ll bring sandwiches”.

And you turned up with a bunch of bagels with lox and cream cheese on them. I would react with “Why did you bring bagels, you said you were bringing sandwiches”.

Yes served that way it is technically a…

There’s several on the list that are a specific sandwich from a specific place. Including that one (which we only know about because boomer Elvis obsession).

Seems like whoever cooked up the list basically went with whatever they’d heard of. 

“Most iconic sandwich” with no discussion of how they arrived at what.

So it’s whatever whoever wrote the list could think of off the top of their head in 15 minutes. Probably some one who has never been to any state but the one they happen to live in. 

Honestly cheese steak is a lazy answer when it comes to Philly. The roast pork is both where it’s at, and more unique to Philly.

But that makes the cheese steak a better answer for the state. Cheese steaks are much more broadly available across the state, and throughout the region than roast pork sandwiches, and…