Re: Just...................whatever [4]

by Bluebottle Wed Feb 04, 2015 9:52 am

halfwise wrote:though come to think of it, burritos are not mexican at all. Mexican American, not Mexican. Why America is so proud of the lame-ass hot dog when it has something as kick-ass as the burrito mystifies me...except that most Americans think the burrito is Mexican, rather than Mexican inspired American food.

Yeah, people always seem to miss this. It's called tex-mex for a reason. Mexicans are more interested in eating insects from what I've heard. Shocked

by Pettytyrant101 Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:03 am

Can you spot the octopus?-

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by Bluebottle Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:05 am

What octopus? scratch

by halfwise Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:24 am

Bluebottle wrote:My brother got me making fish taco, or rqther fish tortillas, where you make homemade guacamole and salsa, and even the tortillas from scratch. I think I'd rather go in that direction.

Making tortillas from scratch gets you some serious street-cred. But from the earlier post, it's the Oaxacans that eat insects, which is only a fraction of mexican food. That's probably the only subset of mexican food I don't subscribe to.

But other parts of Oaxacan cuisine are pretty cool.

by Bluebottle Wed Feb 04, 2015 12:08 pm

It's the easiest thing in the world. Just a bit time consuming. You mix flour (mais or wheat) and water and fry it in a dry frying pan like you would a pancake.

halfwise wrote:But from the earlier post, it's the Oaxacans that eat insects, which is only a fraction of mexican food. That's probably the only subset of mexican food I don't subscribe to. But other parts of Oaxacan cuisine are pretty cool.

Ah, ok, that's interesting, though I guess it was more prevalent before the spanish colonization. It's having a bit of a ressurgence, isn't it?

Long a food source in Oaxaca, the bug movement is spreading. Farmers on the outskirts of Mexico City were spending large amounts of money on pesticides to kill grasshoppers, Garcia Oviedo said, until they found they could get more money for the edible bugs than for their crops.

"Now, these farmers are planting a cheap kind of corn, just to serve as a trap to catch grasshoppers," he noted. "They've seen that it's better to have a crop with pests.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8248519/ns/business-us_business/t/bugs-they-do-grow-trees/#.VNJRcy4YGuE

by Bluebottle Wed Feb 04, 2015 12:43 pm

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Can you spot the octopus?-

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by azriel Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:23 pm

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Can you spot the octopus?-

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How brilliant is that !

by azriel Wed Feb 04, 2015 2:26 pm

As for food, we have "Chipotle subways" at the mo. Dont know what they taste like as I havent eaten one yet ? Wink

by Bluebottle Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:19 pm

by Bluebottle Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:21 pm

It's all quite interesting, actually. Nod

50 species of lizard and one species of snake reproduce through parthenogenesis (that’s the fancy word for producing offspring as a female without having sex).

Except.

Whiptails are stimulation ovulators. That is to say, they can’t ovulate without having sex.

So not only do they are give birth through immaculate conception, they’re ALL LESBIANS.

There are two kinds of parthenogenesis seen in reptiles. That used by whiptails and the other all female species is true cloning - the egg contains the female’s full genetic material).

Other species including komodo dragons use another form of parthenogenesis where they actually fertilize themselves, with a haploid polar body used instead of a sperm. Because of the way reptile sex chromosomes work, this form of parthenogenesis can produce males as well as females - however, the females produced have weird sex chromosomes and can only lay other females. It’s used as a backup reproductive strategy if they can’t find a mate. This works because in reptiles, unlike mammals, its the males that have two sex chromosomes the same (ZZ) and the females different (ZW). Females produced by parthenogenesis are WW - and that’s what happened to the whiptails. They lost the Z chromosome and now are all WWs.

by halfwise Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:29 pm

Wow.

If they're fun to look at I wouldn't mind a bunch of lesbian clones wandering around. It's like a third sex. Lord knows we could use another one to point out how silly the first two behave.

by Mrs Figg Wed Feb 04, 2015 3:45 pm

wow indeed. Shocked

by Bluebottle Thu Feb 05, 2015 1:23 am

I did know the komodo dragon could reproduce through parthenogenesis, as it let one individual either populate or repopulate islands in their native Malay archipelago. But I wasn't aware of this. It's astounding the solutions to life nature and evolution can come up with. Nod

by azriel Thu Feb 05, 2015 10:51 am

my giddy aunt Shocked

by Bluebottle Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:02 pm

This is pretty interesting, as far as the komodo dragon is concerned. Nod

by halfwise Thu Feb 05, 2015 7:21 pm

Bluebottle wrote:I did know the komodo dragon could reproduce through parthenogenesis, as it let one individual either populate or repopulate islands in their native Malay archipelago. But I wasn't aware of this. It's astounding the solutions to life nature and evolution can come up with.

Cloning isn't astounding, it's actually the simplest way to reproduce. Sexual mixing of genes is astounding. And crucial.

by halfwise Sun Feb 08, 2015 11:03 pm

After watching "My Week with Marylin", I felt compelled to look up quotes by Marylin Monroe. I think this one was my favorite:

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."

by Tinuviel Sun Feb 08, 2015 11:54 pm

I've been running around like a chicken with it's head cut off and will continue to do so for the next two weeks. I'm putting on a show I wrote while simultaneously having golf practice AND sorority stuff Shocked

BUT something fun we did was have an "around the world" drinking game with our new members. They'd go from room to room and drink and get to know a couple of us at a time. Well we did fictional worlds, and naturally my room was Middle Earth! AND I actually made some rasberry buckie (kind of...) it was raspberry vodka with squirt. Tasted good though! We also had wine and ale. So now I can officially say that I make and own all RASBERRY Buckie in Forumshire queen

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:08 pm

Well, um, naturally you own all the rasberry buckie in Forumshire yer maj, wouldn't like to hear a word saying against it.
But of course when you say all that is of course excluding the emergency supplies isn't it, you know, for when special members of your cellar staff might have an emergency, like being thirsty. drunken

by Tinuviel Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:23 pm

Let's be honest, the emergency supply is basically the-amount-petty-has-drunk-outside-of-his-jurisdiction supply. And honestly, I'm ok with that.

by Pettytyrant101 Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:46 pm

I like to think of it as checking the nations supply- I mean it might be contaminated or something if its not regularly sampled Nod

by David H Mon Feb 09, 2015 8:17 pm

Tinuviel wrote:
Let's be honest, the emergency supply is basically the-amount-petty-has-drunk-outside-of-his-jurisdiction supply. And honestly, I'm ok with that.

It's a wise Queen who knows not to attempt to regulate things beyond her control. Nod

by Pettytyrant101 Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:17 pm

Unexpected things you might see or hear on a Glasgow train, no 1065-

by azriel Tue Feb 10, 2015 4:35 pm

Good for him !

by bungobaggins Sat Feb 14, 2015 2:54 pm