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Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by dotancohen »

ao98 wrote: post #169

If your first thought was “what is The Sad Bastard Cookbook”, here’s an except (and yes, totally worth fighting for :) “Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole—can feel like an insurmountable challenge. We wrote this cookbook to share our coping strategies. It has recipes to make when you’ve…

Interesting correlation, by the time I got to "when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why" I thought to myself the cookbook had better be vegetarian. Is there a known correlation between emotional distress and vegetarianism or veganism?

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by dotancohen »

digitalsin wrote: post #142
fsckboy wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

put boiling water in a jar and then shake it up? Ouch! when you agitate hot water, it evaporates a lot faster, bringing the pressure in the jar to great heights. If your seal is not good, or if you open the jar scalding water can come shooting out onto your hands. a similar thing happens when you put boiling water in a blender and turn the blender on (your blender seal is not good) explosive results.

Please note the name of the recipe.

A playfully dangerous sounding name is no excuse for a recipe that could literally scald your face for life.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by Aloha »

zillanovikov wrote: post #110

Zilla here (one of the Sad Bastard Cookbook authors). Thanks so much for your support ... I'm lowkey dropping "front page of Hacker News" when I talk to Amazon Service reps now, in the vague hope they have any power to actually help me. I think I've reached at least one real person, but in the days of AI voice chat, who can tell? Many of you asked why we use Amazon as the exclusive printer/distributor of the print ed…

Had I known bout this book before it got removed, I would have bought a copy.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by ao98 »

dotancohen wrote: post #171
ao98 wrote: post #169

If your first thought was “what is The Sad Bastard Cookbook”, here’s an except (and yes, totally worth fighting for :) “Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole—can feel like an insurmountable challenge. We wrote this cookbook to share our coping strategies. It has recipes to make when you’ve…

Interesting correlation, by the time I got to "when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why" I thought to myself the cookbook had better be vegetarian. Is there a known correlation between emotional distress and vegetarianism or veganism?

That’s a good question (and I don’t know the answer). As a practical matter, if you’re strapped for time, having fresh meats on the ready isn’t practical. And canned/frozen aren’t great options.

The opposite holds true for many veggies because they are seasonal - for big portions of the year, canned or frozen are the best you can get. Beans/lentils, dried or canned, etc.

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

vcg3rd wrote: post #104
andy99 wrote: post #59

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I don't use amazon (although I cheat a bit because my wife sometimes does). But for books we use indigo.ca (in Canada) which has the same selection and is importantly not Amazon. Is there another national US online bookseller? For other stuff, I just go to the hardware store. The only real amazon thing I depend on is a kind of micro-fibre wipes I use for my glasses. It's actually mostly happened organically since ama…

>Is there another national US online bookseller? Barnes and Noble. Their Nook isn't as good, but it's an alternative. I also will buy books [1] direct from publishers, and there are still more narrowly focused sites like History Book Club and Christian Book Distributers. [1] I dislike using qualifiers (physical books, postal mail) which turn centuries-old words into phrases. If I mean e, I say/write e, otherwise I me…

I buy my ebooks (lots of them) from the Apple iTunes book store.

However, Apple is almost as controversial (with this crowd), as Amazon.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by dotancohen »

ao98 wrote: post #174
dotancohen wrote: post #171

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Interesting correlation, by the time I got to "when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why" I thought to myself the cookbook had better be vegetarian. Is there a known correlation between emotional distress and vegetarianism or veganism?

That’s a good question (and I don’t know the answer). As a practical matter, if you’re strapped for time, having fresh meats on the ready isn’t practical. And canned/frozen aren’t great options. The opposite holds true for many veggies because they are seasonal - for big portions of the year, canned or frozen are the best you can get. Beans/lentils, dried or canned, etc.

  > As a practical matter, if you’re strapped for time, having fresh meats on the ready isn’t practical
I usually have some form of pastrami in a well sealed container in the refrigerator, this is one of my ingredients for a need-a-quick-to-prepare-meal. They last for weeks if properly sealed.

But my point wasn't really about the fitness of the specific ingredients, rather, why would I associate those with emotional distress with vegetarians? My wife and daughter are vegetarians and I have no negative associations with that lifestyle. But looking back, many emotionally distressed people that I've met have been vegetarians I think, thought I do not imply that the association also goes the other way.

I wonder if there have been studies on correlations - I should not have been able to predict that.

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

ao98 wrote: post #174
dotancohen wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting correlation, by the time I got to "when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why" I thought to myself the cookbook had better be vegetarian. Is there a known correlation between emotional distress and vegetarianism or veganism?

That’s a good question (and I don’t know the answer). As a practical matter, if you’re strapped for time, having fresh meats on the ready isn’t practical. And canned/frozen aren’t great options. The opposite holds true for many veggies because they are seasonal - for big portions of the year, canned or frozen are the best you can get. Beans/lentils, dried or canned, etc.

> As a practical matter, if you’re strapped for time, having fresh meats on the ready isn’t practical. And canned/frozen aren’t great options.

At least where I live, you can get excellent quality canned soup with meat, like goulash or chicken noodle soup.

Also, cured meats like salami or prosciutto have long shelf life in the fridge and are excellent for throwing together quick pasta recipes. Cook pasta, slice a little salami, fry salami in the pan with some oil, maybe add some chili flakes or garlic or fennel seeds, put the al dente pasta and a splash of pasta water in the frying pan, cook for two minutes more, done.

Also raw eggs last more than a month in the fridge. Hard cheese lasts indefinitely if packaged well. Dry cured slab bacon is good for at least a month. And so on.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

fsckboy wrote: post #135
borlanco wrote: post #118

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I would say yes. They try hard to make cooks laugh. This is one of their recipes: APOCALYPSE RAMEN This is basically like regular ramen soup but with three critical differences: - It is intensely chaotic, which is to say that you can pretty much toss anything into it and say you did it on purpose. - It's slightly healthier, if your depression has lifted enough that you want to eat something other than delicious, deli…

put boiling water in a jar and then shake it up? Ouch! when you agitate hot water, it evaporates a lot faster, bringing the pressure in the jar to great heights. If your seal is not good, or if you open the jar scalding water can come shooting out onto your hands. a similar thing happens when you put boiling water in a blender and turn the blender on (your blender seal is not good) explosive results.

It’s a mason jar. If it’s cool enough for you to hold, it’s not going to permanently disfigure you. Plenty of camping recipes involve putting boiling water in pouches and then squeezing and shaking them.

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

dotancohen wrote: post #171
ao98 wrote: post #169

If your first thought was “what is The Sad Bastard Cookbook”, here’s an except (and yes, totally worth fighting for :) “Life is hard. Some days are at the absolute limit of what we can manage. Some days are worse than that. Eating—picking a meal, making it, putting it into your facehole—can feel like an insurmountable challenge. We wrote this cookbook to share our coping strategies. It has recipes to make when you’ve…

Interesting correlation, by the time I got to "when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why" I thought to myself the cookbook had better be vegetarian. Is there a known correlation between emotional distress and vegetarianism or veganism?

> Is there a known correlation between emotional distress and vegetarianism or veganism?

Apparently yes [1][2].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36045075/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63910-y

Re: Amazon has taken down the Sad Bastard Cookbook

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Post by dotancohen »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #179
dotancohen wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting correlation, by the time I got to "when you can’t stop crying and you don’t know why" I thought to myself the cookbook had better be vegetarian. Is there a known correlation between emotional distress and vegetarianism or veganism?

> Is there a known correlation between emotional distress and vegetarianism or veganism? Apparently yes [1][2]. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36045075/ [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63910-y

That is amazing, I thought that I should not be able to predict that. Thank you.
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