Light reading......

http://www.progress.org/archive/fold144.htm

It still takes a bit of thinking about, if economics are your world, but I found it very interesting.......

Well done Fred E. Foldvary.

Whoop de fucking do !

Wow ! The Olympic Torch relay runner has just gone down the main road, at the end of the garden.

Big, fucking, deal !

Do the Olympic organisers and the government think we're all fucking stupid ?

I mean ? How fucking much has all this crap cost us ?

I know the powers that be, couldn't have forecast the economic downturn, but you can guarantee that does stop them plugging the fuck out of anything that takes the collective national mind off the negatives that come out in the news day after day......

Plus it feels like a conspiracy, that between the government, the Olympic organisers and the media, are telling us that we must be happy and cheerful because of the events surrounding and directly from the games.

Well, I'm already fed up with it all. I've got very little interest in it all (most of the events I like get zero coverage), so wny force it down our throats ?

Bloody stupid ideas.......

This is, of course, opinion !

With foods, etc, some locations are known for either the quality and standards or the food/cuisine, yet other places "think" their food ideas are good, yet everyone else seems to .find their tastes/flavours, mediocre (here included).

There could be many reasons why that could be, yet some things just don't go together.

One of the few things North American agriculture has given us, is the humble peanut. Now I like peanuts. Peanuts can be found used in a number of different ways, but one thing that's hard, is to extract the taste and use just that with something else. Of course, I know they're not a true nut, but legumes, and  you can process them and use other flavours to compliment (a good example being a stay i.e. ground peanut, chilli and sugar or honey).

Now, while I might be missing out, there are somethings, where its pretty obvious, so why some of the US based mead makers can't get their heads round the concept is beyond me. Or is it that the people who do understand that somethings just don't mix, and don't want to try mad combinations, or just don't bother to say anything ? (forum rules etc, perhaps just being polite ?)

Well, you'd be aware that I like to make meads, but the point of this is to question some stupidity I've come across, and that stupid idea is "peanut butter mead".

Now if you're making a gloopy spread for bread, then peanut would be fine, but with nut flavours, its proved hard to concentrate the flavour enough to use it with alcoholic drinks. Not impossible of course, but certainly not easy.

I suspect peanut oil would be broken down by the alcohol, and some material would either emulsify, or settle out as rancid slime.

For many reasons, nut is hard to incorporate into many recipes (in whole lumps, with decorative justification seems to work) its not the easiest of materials to use.

Plus, its just a bloody silly idea in a mead.

A bit like "pumpkin pie". It's a finished thing, not an ingredient (plus pumpkin is bland as fuck, so why they "bang on" about it, is a mystery. "Spiced pumpkin" ? Perhaps. Maybe I just haven't tasted pumpkin that's been prepared nicely ? Equally possible. Or it might be that for historically cultural reasons, it just didn't.catch on elsewhere).....

So go on you lot ! I've nothing against innovation or invention, but take time to consider why something isn't used in a certain way. It's probably been tried somewhere and hasn't worked. Or perhaps, for chemical type reasons, its just a fucking stupid idea.........