Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

atlasobscura.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 98 posts

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

#51

Post by DoreenMichele »

samatman wrote: post #49
DoreenMichele wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201... https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/34400/how-... -- Potentially 60 miles, if you consider The Florida Everglades to be a slow moving river. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-water-depth-m-an... This site lists 30m as "average" for river width. No clue what rivers they were measuring. https://opb.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/buac…

Illegitimi non carborundum , Doreen.

Nah. I have had one whole class in Hydrology. I read books about water (rights and development history, for example) for fun. [1]

I just tuckered out before getting to the part of trying to look up average river width for my home state of Georgia. I'm just tired today, as is often the case, or I would be all over that.

[1] Citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

#52

Post by grimjack00 »

wil421 wrote: post #24
javert wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> tossing a rock across the river Rivers can be miles wide. That's actually the norm in a lot of people's experiences. Where I am from, "tossing a rock across the river" would be taken to mean something that's impossible.

OP used his own version of a stone’s throw away. It’s farther away than a Hop, Skip, and, a Jump but not as close as spitting distance. Still not sure if a Hop, Skip, and a Jump is closer or father away than something you wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole.

The world record for the triple jump [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump] is just over 18 meters, so quite a bit further than a 10 foot pole.

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

#53

Post by francisofascii »

gnu8 wrote: post #39
paxys wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you actually get invited to join being the key part. Augusta has 300 members. Rest assured you won't be one of them even if you manage to scrape together the initiation fee.

It is not a club I would care to be a member of in any case, given their history of excluding women and minorities.

There is no doubt the club has a checkered history, but are there any organizations of historical significance that don't have cases of wrongful exclusion?

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

#54

Post by [deleted] »

antiterra wrote: post #46
brudgers wrote: post #41

Ever masters of the media, we are led to believe pimento cheese is the most important policy scandal of Grand National’s history.

You maybe missed the ‘obscura’ part of Atlas Obscura? I do think they could have spent a sentence or two on the racism of the place, considering they openly had policies against black membership far more recently than similar institutions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/08/masters-t...

[deleted]

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

#55

Post by dsr_ »

jessaustin wrote: post #33
tptacek wrote: post #15

The ingredient list on the sandwich label doesn't leave a lot of room for secret ingredients; it's just cheese (american and swiss), cream, emulsifiers, lactic acid and pimento, plus the white bread and mayonnaise.

The American preference for white bread continues to astound me. Pimentos, cheese, and mayonnaise would be better on literally any other bread.

Matters of taste are not debatable: they just exist.

There are many gradations of white sandwich bread, though. There is little beneath Wonder Bread, but that space does exist. Above it: some store brands, Pepperidge Farm, and then some ways up, Arnold's Country White (which is itself at the bottom of Arnold's pale offerings: the Italian is a nice step up, and then their Sourdough, while not holding a candle to a fresh-baked loaf from any reasonable establishment, exceeds that by far).

Other parts of the US may have their own challengers at any step of the ladder.

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

#56

Post by pumaontheprowl »

ksdale wrote: post #10
Simulacra wrote: post #7

I 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.

Augusta National was purpose-built to host a major golf championship. However, when the USGA rejected the course as a candidate for the US Open due to the summer heat in Georgia, they decided to make their own major instead. They were successful in this because they invited a small field of only the world's most elite golfers, put together one of the largest prize pools in golf, and made the event extremely welcoming to fans. The inexpensive food sold on the grounds is one of the most well-known examples of this last point, but the limited advertising during television/radio broadcasts is another key component of the fan experience that vaulted the Masters to worldwide prestige.

Given that Augusta National is one of the most tradition-oriented places in the world, I doubt they will ever allow their broadcasting partners to significantly increase the volume of commercials. The leadership of Augusta National are firm believers in the adage "don't fix what isn't broken."

And to be frank, if you watched this week's broadcast and thought they showed a lot of commercials, then you haven't watched golf on television this year. I'd estimate the volume of commercials was probably a quarter of that shown for a regular PGA tour event.

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

#58

Post by [deleted] »

grimjack00 wrote: post #52
wil421 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP used his own version of a stone’s throw away. It’s farther away than a Hop, Skip, and, a Jump but not as close as spitting distance. Still not sure if a Hop, Skip, and a Jump is closer or father away than something you wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole.

The world record for the triple jump [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_jump ] is just over 18 meters, so quite a bit further than a 10 foot pole.

[deleted]

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

#59

Post by stock_toaster »

crazygringo wrote: post #28

So was the secret ingredient... the tiny amount of finely minced fresh onion? Looking at the final recipe they came up with, that's the only one that seems like you might not guess. Garlic powder is the only other non-standard ingredient, but I feel like whenever you're looking for the "missing secret ingredient" in a savory dish, garlic powder, onion powder and mustard powder are the first things you'd think of, alo…

Maybe it was Silphium? ;)

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

#60

Post by partiallypro »

hammock wrote: post #57

If you are in the South, pick up a container of Palmetto cheese from the grocery store. That's my favorite pimento cheese. I eat it with Triscuit Thin Crisps. I have yet to have a "pimento cheese" at a restaurant that was actually any good.

Palmetto is an amazing brand, the jalapeño version is incredible. I add it to burgers, sandwiches, etc.
Post reply on HN