The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
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The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
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Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
#2I honestly don’t know what to make of this article. Interesting story of something completely unimportant. There is a recipe for said sandwiches at the end which I will try out.
Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
#3I honestly don’t know what to make of this article. Interesting story of something completely unimportant. There is a recipe for said sandwiches at the end which I will try out.
I think the lesson for HN readers is that if you're going to fire your best talent, make sure they document everything well ahead of time.
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#4side-note .. one of the largest USA non-profit frauds in American history was largely arranged over a week or so at a Playboy-sponsored Golf Tournament. As I recall, a new US Federal appointee under a Bush administration was put in charge of Federal Housing subsidy funds (you know, to keep people in homes while making modest money on the money) and instead, they siphoned off large amounts of it, and were caught. (details on request)
Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
#5I honestly don’t know what to make of this article. Interesting story of something completely unimportant. There is a recipe for said sandwiches at the end which I will try out.
If it wasn't for knowing the website I'd call it standard recipe blog spam - but it's an interesting read.
I suspect that the secret isn't the ingredients but instead how it's made - and the way the cheese is handled may be it.
Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
#6I honestly don’t know what to make of this article. Interesting story of something completely unimportant. There is a recipe for said sandwiches at the end which I will try out.
I think the lesson for HN readers is that if you're going to fire your best talent, make sure they document everything well ahead of time.
True! At least they kept some sandwiches in the freezer to reverse engineer later
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#7I was lucky enough to go to the Masters in 1999, and 2014 and the change was remarkable. The 1999 course was very quaint and secluded, with the facilities mostly temporary structures. You parked in peoples front yards for $25 a day, and yes the food was great, yet cheap. Fast forward to 2014 and it's like the place had become a major sports park. Suddenly the houses are gone and you're parking in a huge field, going through metal detectors, large cafeterias, even a hotel has sprung up. What I liked about the 1999 course was how much it wasn't commercialized. In 2014 it felt overly commercialized, but I guess that's how they make money.
Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
#8I honestly don’t know what to make of this article. Interesting story of something completely unimportant. There is a recipe for said sandwiches at the end which I will try out.
I think the lesson for HN readers is that if you're going to fire your best talent, make sure they document everything well ahead of time.
It's more like source code, but anyway the vendor was presumably under contract which did not include divulging the recipe.
I wonder if they could have sued to recover the recipe as a "work for hire", where typically the employer is the owner of the work product. The law covers "instructional text" which sounds like a recipe to me.
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf
It depends on the nature of the original agreement, whether the recipe was created especially and exclusively for the event, or the vendor developed it on their own time.
Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
#9I honestly don’t know what to make of this article. Interesting story of something completely unimportant. There is a recipe for said sandwiches at the end which I will try out.
If it wasn't for knowing the website I'd call it standard recipe blog spam - but it's an interesting read. I suspect that the secret isn't the ingredients but instead how it's made - and the way the cheese is handled may be it.
It could even be specific sources of the ingredients that lend to the secret. It's all well and good to get the exact recipe and even detailed instructions, but if the ingredients are sourced from a different place, it won't quite be the same.
Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
#10I was lucky enough to go to the Masters in 1999, and 2014 and the change was remarkable. The 1999 course was very quaint and secluded, with the facilities mostly temporary structures. You parked in peoples front yards for $25 a day, and yes the food was great, yet cheap. Fast forward to 2014 and it's like the place had become a major sports park. Suddenly the houses are gone and you're parking in a huge field, going…
This is interesting to hear! They have multiple streams of the tournament on their website, including the TV broadcast, and the fact that they didn't charge for it always felt awesome to me. A few years ago, I was struck by how few commercials there were on the stream, but this year they were much more noticeable.
I wonder where they'll settle as far as commercialization.