Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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 946 different sandwich varieties stuffed with fillings such as watermelon and pimento, peanut butter, fried oyster, Bermuda onion and parsley, fruit salad, aspic of foie gras, spaghetti, red snapper roe, salmi of duck, bacon and fried egg, lettuce and tomato, spiced beef, chow-chow, pickled herring, asparagus tips, deep sea scallops, and so on ad infinitum.”

I ordered it off Amazon right away only to immediately realize, to my horror, that the hardcover version I had chosen would not arrive until Saturday, a full fortnite after my aspic of foie gras, salmi of duck, and the $5 esp32-wroom dev kits that were part of the same order.

What is this, the 1930s? Civilization is seriously going down the drain.

[1] https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/04/04/book-review-a-squar...

> your previous love was just a make-believe love, a childish imitation that you mistook for the real thing––an honest mistake, because you had never felt the real thing before?

I'll share a personal story: I was burned by a "stuck in your head" "love". It was unrequited and I suffered a lot.

I have since then read about infatuation, and am averse towards it.

I'd much rather have a stable partner I can have fun with but also communicate, rather than the intense stomach-churning variant.

The most important criterion I've found is that both partners in a relationship see the other as greater or equal to themselves.

Satisfy that, and you get a long-lasting relationship, and you can stop chasing for the impossible ideal.

Frog legs are eaten in many parts of Europe (except Germany apparently) So much that some indigenous frog species have become endangered, and frog legs are more often imported from South-East Asia these days.

BTW. I had also expected the article to be about actual frogs: about how endangered some species are, or how the flesh may contain pollutants or diseases.

I strongly disagree with the author.

What brings me pleasure is playing strategic computer games. I was addicted to playing dota. I was playing 12-16 hours a day, which left no place for socializing, career, family, even basic self-maintenance suffered. Anything meaningful, art, self-improvement was cut. It's a disgraceful, shameful life.

The meaning of life is not the blind pursuit of pleasure. We are humans precisely because we follow higher purposes.

Pain is French for bread.

I hate this joke. There's a bakery I used to drive past called the "House of Pain".