Ever masters of the media, we are led to believe pimento cheese is the most important policy scandal of Grand National’s history.
The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
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#42Now if I could only figure out the recipe for the pimento taco -- "a Pimentaco" -- in the glovebox
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#43The 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.
All bread is gross.
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#44I 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…
America in a nutshell. Sorry if that offends anyone, but that is the epitome of American culture and what it does to EVERYTHING - it overly commercializes absolutely anything worth commercializing.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're just looking for a good pimento cheese spread, go to Costco and get the Palmetto original flavor. https://www.pimentocheese.com/palmetto-cheese-12-oz/
Palmetto is no longer available at Costco. Some have attributed it to the founder (and mayor of Pawley's Island) making some less-than-tasteful comments about BLM protests in a neighboring city. I don't know that Costco ever officially confirmed that, though. Source: https://news.yahoo.com/costco-pulls-palmetto-cheese-120-1534... Our local Costco has started carrying "Taste of the South" brand pimento cheese: https:/…
How does it compare?
Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal
#46Ever 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...
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's sad, because it doesn't have to be commercialized. That same event from 1999 is still entirely doable, but someone decided that profits must be made, as opposed to hosting a challenging competition of the sport's top players.
"That same event from 1999 is still entirely doable" For better or worse, no it's not. If you tried to have the same event today, it would be flooded with far more people than were there in 1999. Demand has gone up. Some of the mentioned changes are just to accommodate that; for instance, as more people show up, you're going to need more security because the odds of someone needing to be removed go steadily up.
Tickets are probably easier to come by these days (COVID notwithstanding), but it's probably still not "easy" to get them.
Augusta National probably still has a policy [0] that if a spectator misbehaves in some fashion, they will trace the ticket back to the person who first acquired it, and ban them from future ticket sales. This is why you don't hear people yelling "git it!" at the tee or wearing brightly colored wigs [1] during the event - they get dis-invited and escorted off the property.
[0] Mom & Dad used to go back in the 1970's, using borrowed tickets. After he retired he lost his connection for getting them. They always ate the pimento-cheese sandwiches, and loved them.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollen_Stewart -- who is still serving three life sentences in prison.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're just looking for a good pimento cheese spread, go to Costco and get the Palmetto original flavor. https://www.pimentocheese.com/palmetto-cheese-12-oz/
Palmetto is no longer available at Costco. Some have attributed it to the founder (and mayor of Pawley's Island) making some less-than-tasteful comments about BLM protests in a neighboring city. I don't know that Costco ever officially confirmed that, though. Source: https://news.yahoo.com/costco-pulls-palmetto-cheese-120-1534... Our local Costco has started carrying "Taste of the South" brand pimento cheese: https:/…
That's sad to hear - it is pretty tasty. I think I have seen it at Sam's Club.
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> 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.
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.
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> 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.
This is purely rhetorical, as I have no doubt you will never be invited to join. However, my question is whether you believe there is ever a level of change and progress and reconciliation that would allow an organization with a far-from-perfect past, to move forward and embrace current social values? Or does every organization that ever had a history of racism or sexism permanently on your "banned" list? If there is no chance of ever getting on your (and people who think like you) right side, why should organizations make an effort to change?