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 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
It looks like an upside down warthog... or maybe an anteater...

The title of the video wasn't enough of a clue?

I meant the pictures at the start...
Not sure why they're blue though.

 purplefood wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
It looks like an upside down warthog... or maybe an anteater...

The title of the video wasn't enough of a clue?

I meant the pictures at the start...
Not sure why they're blue though.

Oops, sorry.

Isn't blue associated with the Republicans?

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 purplefood wrote:
It looks like an upside down warthog... or maybe an anteater...

The title of the video wasn't enough of a clue?

I meant the pictures at the start...
Not sure why they're blue though.

Oops, sorry.

Isn't blue associated with the Republicans?

I know it's the colour of Tories... not sure if it's the same in the US though.

For extra interesting correlation, overlay that with the map of people who refer to soda generically as "coke", and then overlay that with the map of average IQ by state.

I think the rising cost of soul food is driving down the standard of living. Poor people who are forced to add fat to fat in order to eat.

To be fair, southern food (specifically cajun fish) is amazing.

I'm not saying it isn't good, just that the amount of fat and sugar and salt that is used amazes me. If I watch a soul food cooking show I know 10 minutes in I'm already going to be horrified by the ingredients.
Like the British seem to have an amazing compulsion to take good fresh fish and cover it in cream. Thank god I live here where there is a distinct asiatic influence . That's multiculturalism working!

<oops>

Bullockist wrote:
I'm not saying it isn't good, just that the amount of fat and sugar and salt that is used amazes me. If I watch a soul food cooking show I know 10 minutes in I'm already going to be horrified by the ingredients.
Like the British seem to have an amazing compulsion to take good fresh fish and cover it in cream. Thank god I live here where there is a distinct asiatic influence . That's multiculturalism working!

So you really never had "Soul Food"?

Nope I just find the term hilarious, and the food interesting. Where would I find soul food over here? :/

South best bet

Bullockist wrote:
Nope I just find the term hilarious, and the food interesting. Where would I find soul food over here? :/

Sounds like an opportunity for an entrepeneur in Australia.

Interestingly, alot of Southern cooking actually derives its origins from Native Americans. And from slaves and poor people making the best with what they had, which I believe is the source of many styles of cooking worldwide.

 curran12 wrote:
That poverty is an issue in the US, and we shouldn't be making a political issue out of it?

There is nothing more political than poverty. The distribution of wealth is pretty much what politics is about.


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 Frazzled wrote:
Its also important to have an open border to keep wages down.

I've explained before, and now I'm going to explain again, that immigration doesn't drive wages down.

The important thing to understand is that more people aren't just more labour, they're also more demand. They consume just as much as they spend. If you want to plot this out on your demand and supply diagram, then as well as tracking an increase in supply of labour, you have to track an equal increase in demand for labour (to provide for the goods the immigrants are now consuming). This will produce an overall increase in labour consumed, while the price of labour remains constant.

 sebster wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
Its also important to have an open border to keep wages down.

I've explained before, and now I'm going to explain again, that immigration doesn't drive wages down.

The important thing to understand is that more people aren't just more labour, they're also more demand. They consume just as much as they spend. If you want to plot this out on your demand and supply diagram, then as well as tracking an increase in supply of labour, you have to track an equal increase in demand for labour (to provide for the goods the immigrants are now consuming). This will produce an overall increase in labour consumed, while the price of labour remains constant.

Yeah, I think the H1-B program does far more damage than someone sneaking for that migrant farmer job.

 jasper76 wrote:
Sounds like an opportunity for an entrepeneur in Australia.

No good can come of people trying to sell the food of a region they weren't brought up in.

Over here we get pretty good Indian, Thai and Vietnamese food, because we've had a lot of Indian, Thai and Vietnamese migrants. And South African food come to think of it, but that just might be a Perth thing.

But when it comes to stuff like Mexican... my god it's terrible, because there are very few Mexican migrants to Australia, and so there's no local culture for people to grow up in experiencing that food. I mean, I knew our Mexican food wasn't good, but I had no idea how bad it was until I ate Mexican in the US - I always thought Mexican was heavy, meat in a doughy bread with spicy sauce and stupid amounts of cheese, first bit in to Mexican in America and I realised how fresh the food is supposed to taste.

Same goes for fried chicken. I always thought it was just an oily, seasoned batter on top of dark chicken, then I had actual fried chicken in a proper place in the US. That made me realise that it's actually just that KFC sucks.


So uh, yeah, having people here just start making soul food would just mean Australia would get a really poor impression of soul food.

Now I just want to show up with a backpack full of spices and fish to save you from yourselves.

Bullockist wrote:
I'm not saying it isn't good, just that the amount of fat and sugar and salt that is used amazes me. If I watch a soul food cooking show I know 10 minutes in I'm already going to be horrified by the ingredients.
Like the British seem to have an amazing compulsion to take good fresh fish and cover it in cream. Thank god I live here where there is a distinct asiatic influence . That's multiculturalism working!

We do? What's that called?

 daedalus wrote:
Yeah, I think the H1-B program does far more damage than someone sneaking for that migrant farmer job.

Well, actually I think the opposite of that

Illegal labour, given the much reduced bargaining power does actually get paid a lot less, and that in turn weakens the position of other low skilled labour.

Whereas legal immigrant labour, well they're competing the same as any local labour (I would think the impact of visa limitations would be pretty marginal).


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 daedalus wrote:
Now I just want to show up with a backpack full of spices and fish to save you from yourselves.

I have a kitchen you can use.

 daedalus wrote:
Now I just want to show up with a backpack full of spices and wine, to make spiced wine Bacchus style, to save you from yourselves.

Fixed

Yeah, I think the H1-B program does far more damage than someone sneaking for that migrant farmer job.

If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker must either apply for and be granted a change of status to another non-immigrant status, find another employer (subject to application for adjustment of status and/or change of visa), or leave the U.S.

Not on ICE priority to deport

 sebster wrote:

 daedalus wrote:
Yeah, I think the H1-B program does far more damage than someone sneaking for that migrant farmer job.

Well, actually I think the opposite of that

Illegal labour, given the much reduced bargaining power does actually get paid a lot less, and that in turn weakens the position of other low skilled labour.

Whereas legal immigrant labour, well they're competing the same as any local labour (I would think the impact of visa limitations would be pretty marginal).


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 daedalus wrote:
Now I just want to show up with a backpack full of spices and fish to save you from yourselves.

I have a kitchen you can use.

Having an affinity for Australian women and having cooked southern food in a diner all through High School and after that recreationally for my whole life till now, I personally volunteer to be taken in as the personal cook of an Australian entrepreneur in his home and any southern themed restaurant they may want to start.

Remember Rule Number One

Keep the Crisco that one fries chicken in from Crisco that was used to fry fish in

 purplefood wrote:

Bullockist wrote:
I'm not saying it isn't good, just that the amount of fat and sugar and salt that is used amazes me. If I watch a soul food cooking show I know 10 minutes in I'm already going to be horrified by the ingredients.
Like the British seem to have an amazing compulsion to take good fresh fish and cover it in cream. Thank god I live here where there is a distinct asiatic influence . That's multiculturalism working!

We do? What's that called?

Idiocy? I dunno, it's just that combine the british love of dairy with the abundance of fish and the two get combined. For me it's a terrible choice as the fish gets a bit lost, I do however make a exception for seafood chowda. - say it frenchy!

I watch a fair amount of cooking shows and always seem to see brits add dairy to fish.

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Mr.Church13 wrote:


Having an affinity for Australian women and having cooked southern food in a diner all through High School and after that recreationally for my whole life till now, I personally volunteer to be taken in as the personal cook of an Australian entrepreneur in his home and any southern themed restaurant they may want to start.

I like how you think Mr.Church , get to Australia and the pick of waitresses in the restaurant.

You'll have to learn to deal with the rampant communism over here though


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 Jihadin wrote:
Remember Rule Number One

Keep the Crisco that one fries chicken in from Crisco that was used to fry fish in

that's making me cringe just thinking about it.

Bullockist wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

Bullockist wrote:
I'm not saying it isn't good, just that the amount of fat and sugar and salt that is used amazes me. If I watch a soul food cooking show I know 10 minutes in I'm already going to be horrified by the ingredients.
Like the British seem to have an amazing compulsion to take good fresh fish and cover it in cream. Thank god I live here where there is a distinct asiatic influence . That's multiculturalism working!

We do? What's that called?

Idiocy? I dunno, it's just that combine the british love of dairy with the abundance of fish and the two get combined. For me it's a terrible choice as the fish gets a bit lost, I do however make a exception for seafood chowda. - say it frenchy!

I watch a fair amount of cooking shows and always seem to see brits add dairy to fish.

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Mr.Church13 wrote:


Having an affinity for Australian women and having cooked southern food in a diner all through High School and after that recreationally for my whole life till now, I personally volunteer to be taken in as the personal cook of an Australian entrepreneur in his home and any southern themed restaurant they may want to start.

I like how you think Mr.Church , get to Australia and the pick of waitresses in the restaurant.

You'll have to learn to deal with the rampant communism over here though


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 Jihadin wrote:
Remember Rule Number One

Keep the Crisco that one fries chicken in from Crisco that was used to fry fish in

that's making me cringe just thinking about it.

You do it once a year. Trust me. Takes twelve months for your arteries to clear out. SSooooo ggoooodddd home cook fried chicken, greens, and beans

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:


Yes.

Spoiler:

Poor cat!

Did he died?

We encounter a few of these

 sebster wrote:

 jasper76 wrote:
Sounds like an opportunity for an entrepeneur in Australia.

No good can come of people trying to sell the food of a region they weren't brought up in.

Over here we get pretty good Indian, Thai and Vietnamese food, because we've had a lot of Indian, Thai and Vietnamese migrants. And South African food come to think of it, but that just might be a Perth thing.

But when it comes to stuff like Mexican... my god it's terrible, because there are very few Mexican migrants to Australia, and so there's no local culture for people to grow up in experiencing that food. I mean, I knew our Mexican food wasn't good, but I had no idea how bad it was until I ate Mexican in the US - I always thought Mexican was heavy, meat in a doughy bread with spicy sauce and stupid amounts of cheese, first bit in to Mexican in America and I realised how fresh the food is supposed to taste.

Same goes for fried chicken. I always thought it was just an oily, seasoned batter on top of dark chicken, then I had actual fried chicken in a proper place in the US. That made me realise that it's actually just that KFC sucks.


So uh, yeah, having people here just start making soul food would just mean Australia would get a really poor impression of soul food.

What I meant was for an American enterpeneur to go over there and open up a good soul food restaurant.

Bullockist wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

Bullockist wrote:
I'm not saying it isn't good, just that the amount of fat and sugar and salt that is used amazes me. If I watch a soul food cooking show I know 10 minutes in I'm already going to be horrified by the ingredients.
Like the British seem to have an amazing compulsion to take good fresh fish and cover it in cream. Thank god I live here where there is a distinct asiatic influence . That's multiculturalism working!

We do? What's that called?

Idiocy? I dunno, it's just that combine the british love of dairy with the abundance of fish and the two get combined. For me it's a terrible choice as the fish gets a bit lost, I do however make a exception for seafood chowda. - say it frenchy!

I watch a fair amount of cooking shows and always seem to see brits add dairy to fish.

I'm honestly not sure what that would be... Do you mean butter or milk or what? Butter doesn't really count because that goes into everything, I've seen milk used in a few recipes for sauces and frankly yogurt does not strike me as particularly fish friendly...

 purplefood wrote:

I'm honestly not sure what that would be... Do you mean butter or milk or what? Butter doesn't really count because that goes into everything, I've seen milk used in a few recipes for sauces and frankly yogurt does not strike me as particularly fish friendly...

A lot of cream, milk for poaching (understandable for salted fish) and the ever ubiquitous butter.

See butter goes in everything you said it yourself. British obsession with dairy un-refuted!



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 jasper76 wrote:


What I meant was for an American enterpeneur to go over there and open up a good soul food restaurant.

If the advertisement song was "let your soul glo" from coming to america I can definitely see this working.

Bullockist wrote:

 purplefood wrote:

I'm honestly not sure what that would be... Do you mean butter or milk or what? Butter doesn't really count because that goes into everything, I've seen milk used in a few recipes for sauces and frankly yogurt does not strike me as particularly fish friendly...

A lot of cream, milk for poaching (understandable for salted fish) and the ever ubiquitous butter.

See butter goes in everything you said it yourself. British obsession with dairy un-refuted!

Hey man don't fix what isn't broken.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Yup. The wealth distribution became much more lopsided in the past few decades. I blame corporate America for it.

All the people complaining about poverty, are not poor, they just don't know how to live within their means.