Em's Extremely Extraordinarily Epic Random Banter #91

[Haruki-kun]

Meatloaf is made by combining meat with a passel of other ingredients. It's sort of like fruitcake: there are guidelines, but if you want to throw it in, no one will really question it. Thus, meatloaf became a way for busy mothers to toss together leftovers and food needing disposal into a convenient loaf. Meatloaves like this are often very odd, and sometimes even pretty terrible, and, due to their convoluted makeup, unidentifiable but the partaker, thus becoming 'mystery meat,' a title synonymous with inedibility.

Meatloaf made traditionally with good ingredients is delicious, however, and does, indeed, get a bad rap because of its evil twin, the 'stuffloaf.'

Learn something new every day, huh?

Well, that actually makes a lot of sense, come to think of it.

I was never a big fan of fruitcake, I gotta say, and I've yet to meet someone who is. Is anyone here fruitcake's fan?

[Dragonrider]

I know it only by the bad reputation.

[Arameus]

I'd say anyone who likes Rich Burlew is a fruitcake fan. *zing!* Take that, O Benevolent Master!

[Dragonrider]

I bow in awe to your extraordinary creative humor.

[Dr. Bath]

Well, that actually makes a lot of sense, come to think of it.

I was never a big fan of fruitcake, I gotta say, and I've yet to meet someone who is. Is anyone here fruitcake's fan?

*Le Gasp!*

People don't like fruitcake? But it is delicious, moist, tasty and healthy. It even has fruit in it. It's gotta be good for you.

[Dragonrider]

*Le Gasp!*

People don't like fruitcake? But it is delicious, moist, tasty and healthy. It even has fruit in it. It's gotta be good for you.

Interesting....

A lot of the jokes about it talk of it as though it is bricklike. In texture, and taste.

[eidreff]

Possibly because there wasn't enough brandy or Sherry used in the mixture?

[CurlyKitGirl]

It's quite likely. Fruit cake is delicious and deme. So the cake lasts quite a while; but for optimum taste you need lots of fruit laced with brandy.
The best way is to soak the fruit in brandy overnight first, then make the cake, adding more brandy to taste.
It's gorgeous when cooked right.

[Dr. Bath]

Interesting....

A lot of the jokes about it talk of it as though it is bricklike. In texture, and taste.

Nah, that's the famous Lancastrian fighting-cake. Used originally in the war of the Roses as ammunition for the cannons. In later stages of the war it was taken up as the staple weapon of the famous 'Bolton Bakers' regiment, much feared for their skilled use of these vicious bludgeoning devices. It's what dwarven bread is based off you know.
This is probably a lie. Please don't sue me Mr Pratchett
So there you have it.

[eidreff]

Ahh, could these be related to the liquorice torpedos? I'm reliably enformed that these were used to sink shipping during the Hundred Years War? A fine invention of Pontefract.

[Dragonrider]

I have a confession: I despise licorice. Black, red, I don't care, I think it's foul stuff.

[Almighty Salmon]

I have a confession: I despise licorice. Black, red, I don't care, I think it's foul stuff.

Blergh, I agree with you. I hate the stuff.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Licorice is disgusting. I've never like it and it's just...not nice.

[Em Blackleaf]

I have a confession: I despise licorice. Black, red, I don't care, I think it's foul stuff.

I like red licorice. I don't like Twizzlers as much as Redvines. I do hate black licorice, though.

[Dr. Bath]

Licorice is nice, but only in very small amounts. And it has to be Bertie basset's licorice allsorts. I'm picky like that.

I've just noticed that the forum removes double spaces. I've been wasting time double spacing after full stops!

[Dragonrider]

my hair in front is all stiff and crackly. I think it's from when I rinsed my mouth with salt water (as I have to do after every meal...ugh). Salt water tastes really weird...almost sweet? I don't even know how to describe it.

[MrEdwardNigma]

Really? And here I was thinking salt water usually tasted salty. Silly me

[eidreff]

Saline?
Simu'd but the serious bit still stands.

Seriously though, if you've just had work done on your mouth it might have temporarily played around with your sense of taste a little.

[Dr. Bath]

Why were you dipping your hair in your salt drink in the first place? It's rarely a good idea, unless you're going for that 'sea-faring-salty-dog' look.

[Dragonrider]

It was an accident, silly Bath.

@^^: You're probably right.

[CurlyKitGirl]

How do you get salty hair if you're drinking salt water? Perhaps you munch your hair.

[Dragonrider]

@CKG, I have no idea. my hair is just the wrong length right now so either it dipped in my glass or got in the way of me spitting the saline out. Either way, fairly unpleasant

[Dr. Bath]

Yes. Salty hair is not pleasant. However, it is more pleasant than wet flour in your hair, it takes ages to get out. Freakin' ages.

[eidreff]

Chewing gum and super glue are also VERY bad.

Good things to put in hair include flowers. This is not an exhaustive list.

[jmaccabeus]

It's even more fun when you've got a beard like I do. Then, not only do you have to worry about the somewhat slim chance of getting things in your hair, but there's the much greater chance that something sticky/salty/whatever intended for your mouth will end up in your beard instead.

EDIT: Also, flowers don't stay well in beards. Not that I've tried. Certainly not.

[adanedhel9]

I've just noticed that the forum removes double spaces. I've been wasting time double spacing after full stops!

Actually, that's not the forums. The forums record the double spaces (which you can actually see if you look at the source for this page). It's an artifact of the HTMF spec, which says to collapse whitespace. 2 spaces, 6 spaces, or a dozen tabs all show up as a single space in an HTML-compliant browser.

[Dragonrider]

I ALWAYS double-space, even at the end of a line before I hit "enter". When the line's a certain length, that extra bit creates a paragraph break which drives me crazy.

Hee hee...I just looked back and noticed that I forgot to double-space between "'enter'." and "When". How's that for irony?

[Rawhide]

Double spacing after a full stop is a carry over from typewriting with a fixed width font. Now that we have computers and fonts with variable widths and that automatically sorts overflowing text onto new lines, you do not need to double space. In fact, double spacing under these conditions is considered bad form.

[Dragonrider]

So my writing teacher told me.
I, who used a typewriter once in my life!
*sigh*...
...we are what our parents make us...

[Rawhide]

See also, here: http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/spaces.html