Salami FTW!

[CmdrSlack]

Apparently 23,000 tons of salami = the perfect wartime food.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/04/iraq.salami.ap/index.html

[Paelos]

That's actually a really cool idea. Soldiers would love to eat stuff that isn't MREs, and I know they all love getting mail. Win win.

[kaid]

Its a good choice it keeps pretty well so it wont spoil easily and its tasty. Pretty good combo for people in the field.

kaid

[HaemishM]

Hell, good deli salami on a cracker = yum yum. After months of eating dried beef, I bet they start trading salamis like cigarettes in prison.

[CmdrSlack]

Just sorta amazed me that 1,000 salamis = one ton.

But yeah, I'd agree that it would be great after eating MREs.  I used to eat them on camping trips when I was a Boy Scout.  They were neat because of the various stuff included in the package (matches) but yeah, the food was not that great.  IIRC, beans and franks was a standard thing.  Who knows if that's what they're like now, that was in the 80s.  And hell, I have no idea if it was a MRE or some other kind of military food product.  It was a tough, opaque, brown plastic bag with other bags and maybe a tin inside.

[WayAbvPar]

I salami. Good idea too- that stuff will keep well in the desert I bet.

[Furiously]

Now I'm gonna have to bust open my Cougar Gold Cheese (The only good thing to come out of that school. Well maybe my wife too.), a summer sausage and a nice bottle of lightly/non-oaked red.

[voodoolily]

Dang but I am a fan of the cured meats. They're lightweight, spoil-resistant and damn good eats.

I had a salad the other day that had nice little chunks of Italian salami and cheese. Mmmm..

Edit: I just realized I made rhyme! Hooray for WEdnesday!

[Paelos]

Now I'm gonna have to bust open my Cougar Gold Cheese (The only good thing to come out of that school. Well maybe my wife too.), a summer sausage and a nice bottle of lightly/non-oaked red.

Now I want that cheese. Damn you and your vicious food links!

[voodoolily]

Is it made of real cougar's milk?

[Furiously]

I think it is made from Ambrosia. It's just THAT GOOD.

[WayAbvPar]

Now I'm gonna have to bust open my Cougar Gold Cheese (The only good thing to come out of that school. Well maybe my wife too.), a summer sausage and a nice bottle of lightly/non-oaked red.

Now I want that cheese. Damn you and your vicious food links!

It is very good. Nice and sharp- great with cured meats.

Now I am starving. Bugger.

[voodoolily]

Tillamook Creamery makes a damn fine extra sharp white cheddar that is all crumbly and foodgasm-inducing. I made some prawn fajitas with it the other night. I'll hafta check out the cougar cheese, since I live close.

[Furiously]

Tillamook definately raised the cheese bar. But the Coug gold jumps over it. Way - I have a tin in the fridge - more then welcome to stop by after work and grab a bite.

[voodoolily]

If you wanna branch out a little (if you haven't) you should try Morbier with forelle pears. Morbier smells like the inside of your belly button. I love stinky cheese. Oh, god and Boschetto Al Tartufo Bianchetto. The crack cocaine of cheeses.

[Furiously]

Local restaurant has the following: The purple dish! As well as the house favorite. Penne pasta tossed in our own Port wine & Gorgonzola cream sauce, topped with grilled chicken breast, Port soaked grapes & Gorgonzola cheese.

Now that is the crack.

[WayAbvPar]

Local restaurant has the following: The purple dish! As well as the house favorite. Penne pasta tossed in our own Port wine & Gorgonzola cream sauce, topped with grilled chicken breast, Port soaked grapes & Gorgonzola cheese.

Now that is the crack.

Pogacha! I fucking LOVE Dobar chicken. Damn it, Furiously! You are making me hungry!

[Pococurante]

Now that is the crack.

Holy moly - I felt an artery snap just reading that.  Time to stop by the store on the way home tonight.

[Furiously]

Their bread is so good too. Most bread on the West Coast stinks. I always love going east and eating the bread there. Course then you go to Europe and think the East Coast bread stinks too.

[Strazos]

This is what amazed me the most from the article...

All have been purchased with donations of $10 per salami, including a 13-year-old girl who donated $1,000 from her bat mitzvah money.

All I can say is....

WTF, who is giving that much money to a damn 13-year-old? Granted, she did a nice, honorable thing with it, but still...

[voodoolily]

This is what amazed me the most from the article...

All have been purchased with donations of $10 per salami, including a 13-year-old girl who donated $1,000 from her bat mitzvah money.

All I can say is....

WTF, who is giving that much money to a damn 13-year-old? Granted, she did a nice, honorable thing with it, but still...

Obviously, she got the money from rich Jews who control the media.

[schild]

Most jew kids get more money than that.

Or at least the ones I know did.

[Strazos]

Unfortunately, the few Jewish kids i've gone to school with have been complete dicks who I'd club in the face with a hockey stick, given the chance.

I like to think they are not representative of the culture.

[schild]

Where the hell did you go to school?! Seriously. Did people dress up as SS officers or something? It takes a lot of effort to piss off a jewish kid that badly.

[Paelos]

Where the hell did you go to school?! Seriously. Did people dress up as SS officers or something? It takes a lot of effort to piss off a jewish kid that badly.

Not all Jewish kids are nice. Just like not all kids are nice. Anywhere. Race be damned. Could it be that a few asshole Jewish kids localized? I'm betting yes.

[voodoolily]

I've always been a fan of the jooz. I also have a Jewish boy fetish that stems back to the Wonder Years (Paul was hawt!). Or maybe it's just a dark-haired nerdy boy fetish. Dunno. Anyway, the jooz I know/have known were always smart and funny, with a creative streak.

[Strazos]

Where the hell did you go to school?! Seriously. Did people dress up as SS officers or something? It takes a lot of effort to piss off a jewish kid that badly.

Um...NJ...

I don't know....the few I went to HS with were just complete douchbags.

Again, odds are I am part Jewish, somehow...and they're prolly not the norm.

[voodoolily]

It's kinda funny that the girl would put up so much cash for food she is religiously forbidden from consuming. I doubt they were kosher beef salamis.

[Shockeye]

I Can't Stand It When Jews Talk During Movies

Do you have a pet peeve—some little thing that drives you completely bonkers? For certain people, it's the sound of a Jewish person dragging her fingernails across a chalkboard. For others, it's when Jews don't signal before making a turn. Me? I can't stand it when Jews talk during movies!

Last Friday, I knocked off early from work and headed to the multiplex to catch The Pacifier. Sure enough, as soon as the lights go out, a pack of Jews waltzes in and plunks down right in front of me! All through the first preview, they had to have a Jewish debate about where to put their coats and who should hold the Twizzlers. What's wrong with these idiots? If you want to chat, go to a coffee shop, or that Jewish community center down on Cavendish Avenue.

Where did these people learn to whisper? An Israeli helicopter?

I sure didn't pay $10 to listen to a group of twits talk back to the screen like those obnoxious Jewish robots from Mystery Science Theater 3000! And apparently, "God's chosen people" weren't selected based on their ability to follow plotlines. No wonder they wandered the desert for so many years—they can't even watch a Vin Diesel movie without getting lost.

It would help if management took stronger action against this total lack of regard. A sign saying, "Jews: Kindly refrain from talking during the film" couldn't hurt. I don't think I'm being unreasonable here. That theater was as loud as an Elders of Zion meeting. Is it asking too much to expect a little courtesy from your fellow moviegoers? I guess some people just weren't raised gentile.

Look, I enjoy eating popcorn while taking in a flick, but at least I have the presence of mind to keep my munching to a conscientious level. Sometimes it feels like I'm the only one who wasn't raised in a barn where special precautions are taken to slaughter livestock in accordance with Jewish laws and traditions.

If you can keep kosher, why can't you keep quiet?

And how many times can these descendants of Abraham possibly need to use the washroom? If you have to go that often, sit near an aisle and leave the middle seats for those of us who aren't circumcised. You guys may not believe in the doctrine of original sin, but everyone agrees that failing to turn off your cell phone before the movie starts is just plain rude! I swear, the next time a phone goes off, someone's getting a yarmulke shoved down his throat.

If there were some other way to see movies, I'd do it. I've tried renting movies, only to have the film interrupted midway through by a Jewish telemarketer or the sounds of the Jews upstairs blasting their rap music. I can only imagine what that guy with the fiddler on his roof went through. It's the Jewish year 5766, for cripes sake! It's time to learn some courtesy.

[Murgos]

It's kinda funny that the girl would put up so much cash for food she is religiously forbidden from consuming. I doubt they were kosher beef salamis.

10 bucks for a 2lb salami?  There is a good chance it's kosher beef.

I know prices are higher in other places but you can get a 3 lb beef (don't know if it's kosher though) summer sausage here for 6 bucks.

[Pococurante]

Do you have a pet peeve—some little thing that drives you completely bonkers? For certain people, it's the sound of a Jewish person dragging her fingernails across a chalkboard. For others, it's when Jews don't signal before making a turn. Me? I can't stand it when Jews talk during movies!

Shrek was right - trolls are like The Onion... ;-)