Suitable for home or office, the corpse flower.

choad wrote:

Suitable for home or office, the corpse flower.

There are smaller relatives of this plant that would be much easier for an office worker to grow and transport.  A few of them can even survive outdoors in fairly cold climates.

I should think a few carefully placed ripe Ginko berries would do the trick nicely.

I guess I have been absent from working in an office environment for a heck of a long time... 18 years?  I love throwing the curry into the microwave, and smelling it chug away.  Curry is in my blood, after all.

Au Contraire, Is Delish!

Auto-edited on 2020-08-02 to update URLs

MSG Tripps wrote:

Dmtdust wrote:

Is Delish!

There you go.  Something may be wrong with your blood.

No, you win the prize

Curry means sauce or gravy..  Everything from the regurgitative (British) to the sublime (Thai).

Since it is Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant, (St. David's Day) she is cooking up some Leak & Potato Soup.  One of the finer items for this time of year in northerly realms.

opsec wrote:

Curry means sauce or gravy..  Everything from the regurgitative (British) to the sublime (Thai).

I think the word has mainly come to be associated with the dung-hued "food" the English started eating after so many South Asians immigrated to their island.  There's something called "curry powder" available in the spice aisle, but I've never had the nerve to buy any.
Stay well clear of white-people "curries."  The "International" aisle at our local supermarket has a section of British "delicacies" including curry mixes and "curry-flavoured" sauces, e.g. a curry ketchup.  Bleeeeargh.

I love some Thai but don't really care for the curries.  I loathe fish sauce.  I'll have a red curry every once in a while.  I'm crazy for anything satay--I love Thai peanut sauce.  And the things they can do with coconut...But you know, Thai definitely falls into that category of "Stuff You Don't Want To Smell Unless You're Eating It."

George Orr wrote:

There's something called "curry powder" available in the spice aisle, but I've never had the nerve to buy any. Stay well clear of white-people "curries."  The "International" aisle at our local supermarket has a section of British "delicacies" including curry mixes and "curry-flavoured" sauces, e.g. a curry ketchup.  Bleeeeargh.

Amen.  I grew up thinking that curry powder = curry.  We're being a bit hard on the Brits, who do an excellent carb laden breakfast.

George Orr wrote:

I love some Thai but don't really care for the curries.  I loathe fish sauce.  I'll have a red curry every once in a while. ... ...  And the things they can do with coconut...But you know, Thai definitely falls into that category of "Stuff You Don't Want To Smell Unless You're Eating It."

Everyone except the Thai and Koreans loathe fish sauce.  It's rotten fish.  In sauce. 

There are dry curries in Thai cooking, but red, yellow or green curry if advertised as such are usually coconut based in most Thai restaurants.

George Orr wrote:

I'm crazy for anything satay--I love Thai peanut sauce.

I considered 5 responses.  Three were pornographic and two were just disgusting.

kim wrote:

For some reason over the course of the past few recent months, the large indian families have moved away from me? The neighbors next door have been replaced by some incredibly hot recently divorced man, replacing the daily fucking worse smell of a one pot stewed asshole that would creep through the front door cracks. There was another indian family (who lived above me before I switched apartments)  and they are now gone, too! I can walk to and from my car without smelling whatever the hell THAT was ...

They are still everywhere in the complex and I think the people across from me are persian but their food mostly smells like cheap hamburger helper.

When I was working in an office we never had an issue until they had a whole bunch of Indian people that came in to work on creating a new program. We also had this great "meet 5" policy that forced you to meet five new people a week, "interview" them, and e-mail it to the owner. You literally had to do this and people had been denied bonuses for not doing this shit (I was one of them). Anyway, interviewing an Indian person who could barely speak english was a joke ... but thats a different story all together.  I am NOT stoned, btw.

Isn't Diversity wonderful!  Remember boys and girls, Diversity is our strength!

Last edited by fnord (2010-03-02 16:08:12)

George Orr wrote:

Be mindful that satay is served on sharpened wooden skewers.  Heh.

You like words--do you remember "mindful" being used very often before the Bush presidency? It seems like he kept saying that in an effort to suggest that thought was occurring, and that it caught on thereafter.

Come to think of it, I believe "efforting" came out of the FEMA/Katrina episode. Am I remembering that right?

Fuck Gilligans Island Lost.

George Orr wrote:

That is not a word.  It is not.  No.  People who noun verbs should be banished.  People who verb nouns should be fatalitized.
.

I know it's not a word. I also know that it is incorrect when I hear computer programmers use the "architect" as a verb.

Ironically, that show you're going to watch is a thing about people inhabiting a place, but is known by an adjective (every letter of which is capitalized).