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It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.

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Re: It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.

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Post by axod »

andrewcooke wrote: post #48
axod wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slightly off topic now, but I really don't understand how a nation like the US eats so much cheese, yet simply cannot make cheese :/ It's horrible depressing tasteless mush. I wonder if there's a specific reason you can't get real cheese in the US.

the uk seems to be particularly good at cheese (disclaimer - i am an englishman). it is something you don't appreciate til you leave (here in chile the only decent cheese i could find to have with my christmas cake was an argentinian parmesan!).

As far as I understand though, France would consider us to be absolutely piss-poor at cheese.

Re: It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.

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Post by davidw »

axod wrote: post #51
andrewcooke wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the uk seems to be particularly good at cheese (disclaimer - i am an englishman). it is something you don't appreciate til you leave (here in chile the only decent cheese i could find to have with my christmas cake was an argentinian parmesan!).

As far as I understand though, France would consider us to be absolutely piss-poor at cheese.

    s/cheese/food/

Re: It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.

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Post by elyada »

psygnisfive wrote: post #18
trebor wrote: post #11

I wish I could take the guy who came up with the headline to task! We've had a headline homicide... 1) "it is pancakes" isn't a sentence (ambiguous in the extreme). 2) The words "[it is] pancakes" are incompatible because "are" is the plural equivalent of "is". 3) "in a can" is not a sentence (lack of a subject & verb). 4) "it's made" is "it is made" not the "it has made" it should be. (It's as "it has" is not an off…

I like how you call yourself a grammar nazi, cite the old (and wrong) definition of a sentence as something with a subject and verb, but then say that "it is pancakes" is not a sentence. Why not? It's got a subject -- it -- and it's got a verb -- is. Further, English has subject-verb agreement not subject-object agreement or verb-object agreement, hence "it is pancakes" is completely fine. Sure there maybe be some se…

Noam said it best :-)

http://twitter.com/FakeChomsky

Re: It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.

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Post by ben1040 »

tptacek wrote: post #24

Something is wrong with a society that needs shortcuts to make pancake batter. It takes less than 5 minutes --- and even less time if you take just a few minutes to premix the dry ingredients ahead of time. I 100% believe this product adds value to people's lives, but I'm also pretty confident that that's because people are terrified to learn how to cook.

I would never use this at home, but it has worked great for me while going out camping.

I can toss one of these cans in a lunch cooler, and the next morning breakfast is nice and quick with a skillet. No need to have mixing bowls and whatever else. One can usually lasts me and my wife several trips.

Re: It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.

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Post by liebot »

cperciva wrote: post #30
liebot wrote: post #17

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>The unmurdered headline would be,− > It's pancakes in a can, and it has made $15 million. How does this address #2: The words "[it is] pancakes" are incompatible because "are" is the plural equivalent of "is".

The words "[it is] pancakes" are incompatible because "are" is the plural equivalent of "is". Not true. "It is pancakes in a can" is entirely grammatically correct, because "pancakes in a can" is a singular noun -- an idiomatic one, to be sure, but "pancakes in a can" is taken to mean "a can containing pancakes", which is obviously singular.

No, I agree, my intent was to point out an internal inconsistency within the critique.

Re: It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.

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Post by bjelkeman-again »

ugh wrote: post #42
bjelkeman-again wrote: post #40

Bjelkeman's (Swedish) pancakes/crepes, serves two: 3 eggs 6 dl milk 3 dl wheat flour 1 table spoon sugar 1 tea spoon salt 1/2 dl cooking oil (I use olive oil) 100 g butter If you cook electric, start warming the frying pans. I normally fry on 7 (out of 10). Mix the eggs. Add half the milk. Add the flour. Whisk together until smooth. Add the sugar, salt and remainder of the milk. Add the oil. Mix until the batter is s…

If you want to, you can add some carbonated water.

What does that do to the pancakes?

Re: It's pancakes. In a can. It's made $15 million.

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Post by Semiapies »

Tuna-Fish wrote: post #44
Semiapies wrote: post #3

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Interesting reading! I wasn't aware you'd include things like details of pathogen-contamination testing in a patent application. (Or compare the results with CO2 vs N2. That's a detail of genuine interest to anyone trying to make a related product outside the scope of the patent, or a similar product after the patent expires.) I think they've shown their work.

> That's a detail of genuine interest to anyone trying to make a related product outside the scope of the patent, or a similar product after the patent expires. This is the very purpose of patents. To speed up innovation by forcing people to share their research in exchange for a limited monopoly. I find it both hilarious and scary that you find something special in this patent application.

I find it predictable and dull that someone here would half-read what I wrote and display what would, anywhere else, be staggering social incompetence.
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