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Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by MrsPeaches »

akiselev wrote: post #31

This is a great article but the best part is an off hand link to a book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression [1] which includes choice quotes like > The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types: Swiss cheese, ham, sardine, liverwurst, egg, corned beef, roast beef, and tongue (yes). But by 1926, he “claimed that he had counted…

> foie gras, salmi of duck, and the $5 esp32-wroom dev kits

Never been a fan of chips in my sandwich, but each to their own I suppose.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by timmahoney »

nicbou wrote: post #96
taneq wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds nice to either have no real outside demands upon your time, or to sufficiently lack emotional attachment to anything you do such that it can’t exert pressure on you. That said, I don’t know if I’d actually want to live that dispassionately.

That's a very uncharitable take. What part of my comment makes you think that I live dispassionately? The whole point is that my work is almost single-handedly defined by passion. When that runs dry, I take a break and do other things. It's easier to do good work with a well-rested mind full of ideas.

Not to mention, the work you perform while in that rested, ready state is of better quality than it would be otherwise.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by themaninthedark »

yodsanklai wrote: post #28
glandium wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BTW, as a 44 year old French that has never seen frogs on a restaurant menu, and never had any, I wonder how common eating frogs is nowadays. Escargots seem much more common, to cite something else we're known for.

I think it's quite rare. I tried once because a friend was visiting from the US and wanted to try. With a bit of research, I found a restaurant specialised in frog, but yes, they aren't common.

Frog's legs are eaten in Appalachia in the South East of the US.

Not so much in restaurants but I was invited to a friends house and that was part of the meal. Tasted kinda like chewy chicken wings, not bad.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by iamthepieman »

glandium wrote: post #22
mlok wrote: post #4

As a Frenchman, it took me a while to realize it was supposed to mean "a painful thing to do"

BTW, as a 44 year old French that has never seen frogs on a restaurant menu, and never had any, I wonder how common eating frogs is nowadays. Escargots seem much more common, to cite something else we're known for.

The only time I've eaten frog was fried in a Cajun restaurant.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by Dig1t »

Counterpoint: sometimes eating frogs is an opportunity, and if you don’t eat them, someone else will and they will be better off because of it.

Eating more frogs now can mean that you have to eat fewer frogs in the future, or in total, ALSO that your children and family will have to eat fewer frogs.

I still believe that working hard is a virtue and the people who do will usually end up becoming the people who (and who’s children also) are privileged.

I agree though that the culture around it is a bit much, and it’s not for everyone. Those type of people should not be forced to participate in that kind of culture if they don’t want to.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by latexr »

vanderZwan wrote: post #38

> For legal reasons, I’m not saying the people who write this stuff are literally Lucifer in human skin. It’s just that, if I wanted to maximize human misery, I would 100% try to convince people to spend more time doing things they hate When Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett wrote Good Omens thirty years ago they already hit upon this idea when Crowley, a demon and one of the main characters, tries to explain to his fe…

> my money is on that joke being written by Pratchett, it fits his kind of satire so perfectly

Pretty sure it was written by Gaiman. I’m not finding the interview where he said this, but (if memory serves) Gaiman wrote that part of the story and had shelved it when Pratchett contacted him:

— Do you have plans for that thing you sent me?

— Not really, why?

— Because I know what happens next. So either sell me the rights to it or write it with me.

And then continued the interview with something like “and because I’m not an idiot, I didn’t pass up the opportunity to write something with him”.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by b112 »

eesmith wrote: post #90
akiselev wrote: post #31

This is a great article but the best part is an off hand link to a book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression [1] which includes choice quotes like > The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types: Swiss cheese, ham, sardine, liverwurst, egg, corned beef, roast beef, and tongue (yes). But by 1926, he “claimed that he had counted…

> The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types This is 2022 - you can get old cookbooks from archive.org and check if Nathan was right. He wasn't. For example, "The up-to-date sandwich book : 400 ways to make a sandwich", by Eva Greene Fuller. Published in Chicago in 1909. https://archive.org/details/uptodatesandwich00full/page/n7/m... Or, a generation ear…

I think it is a joke on the "there are only 5 story types" blather you hear, every so often.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by pwython »

eesmith wrote: post #90
akiselev wrote: post #31

This is a great article but the best part is an off hand link to a book review of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression [1] which includes choice quotes like > The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types: Swiss cheese, ham, sardine, liverwurst, egg, corned beef, roast beef, and tongue (yes). But by 1926, he “claimed that he had counted…

> The writer George Jean Nathan claimed that before the 1920s, there existed only eight basic sandwich types This is 2022 - you can get old cookbooks from archive.org and check if Nathan was right. He wasn't. For example, "The up-to-date sandwich book : 400 ways to make a sandwich", by Eva Greene Fuller. Published in Chicago in 1909. https://archive.org/details/uptodatesandwich00full/page/n7/m... Or, a generation ear…

A caviare sandwich sounds like a really expensive "sloppy joe."

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by b112 »

Dig1t wrote: post #125

Counterpoint: sometimes eating frogs is an opportunity, and if you don’t eat them, someone else will and they will be better off because of it. Eating more frogs now can mean that you have to eat fewer frogs in the future, or in total, ALSO that your children and family will have to eat fewer frogs. I still believe that working hard is a virtue and the people who do will usually end up becoming the people who (and wh…

Eating frogs means more earwigs. We need maximum viable frogs.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by benhurmarcel »

hirundo wrote: post #118
glandium wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BTW, as a 44 year old French that has never seen frogs on a restaurant menu, and never had any, I wonder how common eating frogs is nowadays. Escargots seem much more common, to cite something else we're known for.

Our local supermarket in an Arizona small town sells frogs right next to the seafood in the meat department. Somebody must be buying them. Though I've never seen them on a local menu. Are they typical in a French grocery?

I've never seen them in French supermarkets.
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