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Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by criddell »

skipants wrote: post #158
JackFr wrote: post #18

This article doesn't do it justice, but the Womelette at the short-lived Royal Canadian Pancake House in NYC lived in the dark abyss. https://www.eater.com/2015/1/26/7860903/amanda-cohen-royal-c... It wasn't just an omelette on top of a waffle (and both of them the size of a medium pizza). As you strayed from the edges toward the center it became difficult to see where the waffle ended and the omelette began. Such a…

A bit of a tangent, but I just want to say how, as a Canadian, I'm getting a lot of joy reading about this restaurant. It's a hilarious facsimile of a Canadian restaurant for a couple reasons: - There's nothing Canadian about a pancake house. We love pancakes but they aren't really ingrained with our identity. Maple syrup on the other hand, is EXTREMELY important to a lot of Canadians. Serving table syrup instead of…

If "Royal" is protected, the bar is pretty low:

https://www.canadacompanyregistry.com/catagory/Royal/

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by skipants »

criddell wrote: post #181
skipants wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit of a tangent, but I just want to say how, as a Canadian, I'm getting a lot of joy reading about this restaurant. It's a hilarious facsimile of a Canadian restaurant for a couple reasons: - There's nothing Canadian about a pancake house. We love pancakes but they aren't really ingrained with our identity. Maple syrup on the other hand, is EXTREMELY important to a lot of Canadians. Serving table syrup instead of…

If "Royal" is protected, the bar is pretty low: https://www.canadacompanyregistry.com/catagory/Royal/

HA! I guess it's not as enforced as I expected.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by sandworm101 »

batisteo wrote: post #119
moultano wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow! Great suggestion. Whether to count coconut milk as milk is a decision I had not yet had to make. My thinking at the moment is that I probably would not. It seems like further research would reveal a whole new region in the upper left, clustering with Dan Bing, of "asian milkless crepes."

What dimension would you add to make a tetrahedron?

Bacon. Or tomatoes.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by heeen2 »

noduerme wrote: post #12

Haha. I'd suggest that what's missing in the um "latent space" here, is that the triangle should be a pentagon involving some form of bacon/sausage, and some form of potato. This cracked me up, because I had a fantastic dream the other night where I had a tour through a donut factory. But the best thing I had (in the dream) was something I'd never tried before, never seen, and which I intend to make at the earliest o…

theres a japanese recipe for fried sweet potatoes with brown sugar/caramel sauce

https://www.okonomikitchen.com/daigaku-imo-japanese-candied-...

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by SpaceNoodled »

moultano wrote: post #113
haritha-j wrote: post #67

Please allow me to introuce you to the sri lankan egg hopper ( https://www.lavenderandlovage.com/2016/05/sri-lankan-egg-hop... ) which lives squarely in the aforementioned dark abyss.

Wow! Great suggestion. Whether to count coconut milk as milk is a decision I had not yet had to make. My thinking at the moment is that I probably would not. It seems like further research would reveal a whole new region in the upper left, clustering with Dan Bing, of "asian milkless crepes."

I bet they would work with milk milk, though.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by qingcharles »

impure wrote: post #107

It has been speculated that over half of the breakfast in the universe is dark breakfast.

Yes, Earth could be in a Dark Breakfast Local Minimum. Potentially there are worlds out there where all breakfasts are Dark and their scientists cannot even comprehend the idea of an Egg Singularity.

Re: The Hunt for Dark Breakfast

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Post by ccppurcell »

DonHopkins wrote: post #102
ccppurcell wrote: post #51

Someone else may have said this but strictly speaking breakfast is something like a cone in a vector space, unless you want to explain to me how to eat negative eggs.

These are a Barycentric Coordinate System, so the weights on the targets are normalized, must sum to one, and must be positive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_coordinate_system Barycentric coordinates are the local coordinate system inside a simplex. A simplicial complex is what you get when you glue multiple simplices together along shared k-faces for k = 0 … n -- vertices (0-faces), edges (1-faces), tria…

I was just referring to one of the early sentences saying breakfast is a vector space. If you allow arbitrarily many (say) eggs so that two eggs and one egg are different breakfasts, you get a cone inside R^d. If you normalise and consider the ingredients as fractions of a whole (so that 1 egg and 2 eggs are both represented by the 1.0 egg breakfast) you get this simplex structure and the coordinate system you mentioned. But that's still not a vector space as there are not inverses in general. At best it can be embedded in R^d.
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