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Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

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Post by humanrebar »

crazygringo wrote: post #28

So was the secret ingredient... the tiny amount of finely minced fresh onion? Looking at the final recipe they came up with, that's the only one that seems like you might not guess. Garlic powder is the only other non-standard ingredient, but I feel like whenever you're looking for the "missing secret ingredient" in a savory dish, garlic powder, onion powder and mustard powder are the first things you'd think of, alo…

Nutritional yeast can also sneak in a lot of hard-to-place flavor, but given the dates, it doesn't seem to be a good candidate here.

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

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Post by kyleblarson »

gnu8 wrote: post #39
paxys wrote: post #21

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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.

Assuming you are American, you are a 'member' of a club that has some history of 'excluding women and minorities' (as is the case with pretty much every country on the planet). Do you plan to renounce your membership? Things change over time, generally for the better.

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

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wil421 wrote: post #24
javert wrote: post #22

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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.

OP used his own version of a stone’s throw away. It’s farther away than a Hop, Skip, and, a Jump but not as close as spitting distance. Still not sure if a Hop, Skip, and a Jump is closer or father away than something you wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole.

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Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

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Post by brudgers »

antiterra wrote: post #46
brudgers wrote: post #41

Ever 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...

I didn't miss anything.

Usually it shines light.

Here it obscures.

Here it waxes about the magic of southern traditions.

It speaks bullshit to non-power.

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

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Post by 40four »

I love golf, and I love the Masters! To me, it has always been the unofficial ‘start of spring’. Congrats to Mr. Matsuyama on his victory this year!

What a great story! Notice the prices of the concessions. They are only trying to break even at best, probably lose money. I still haven’t been in person, but these stories are legendary.

This is one of the reasons it is considered the best pro sports event you can attend. Doesn’t matter if your a golf fan or not.

You will enjoy the day walking around one of the most beautiful and pristinely manicured properties in the world. I dare you to find a blade of grass, or needle of pine straw, that is out of place!

You will be treated like you’re worth something. You’re a ‘patron’ gosh darn it! Not just some shlub who scalped a ticket.

Concessions and souvenirs are cheap. Augusta National is not there to gouge you for $12 beers and burgers like every other pro sports event in the world.

They are there to host the greatest golf tournament in the world, and e sure every patron has a fantastic experience. It’s an ethos really. And the their way of doing things has become legendary. Long live The Masters!

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

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Post by javert »

samatman wrote: post #49
DoreenMichele wrote: post #27

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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.

I'm not a bastard.

I don't see an easy way to report your calling me that, and I don't want to bug the mods with an email, so I'll instead just tell you: Go to hell.

OK, hope we're even now.

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

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Post by javert »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #51
samatman wrote: post #49

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Illegitimi non carborundum , Doreen.

Nah. I have had one whole class in Hydrology. I read books about water (rights and development history, for example) for fun . [1] I just tuckered out before getting to the part of trying to look up average river width for my home state of Georgia. I'm just tired today, as is often the case, or I would be all over that. [1] Citation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19782650

FYI, my point about river width was not a put down in any way. I'm not sure if you took it that way. It seems like other people did.

Average river width is not representative because there are often big population centers near wider parts of rivers. For example, when the east cost of the US was settled, people built cities on the wide, navigable (for big ships) parts of rivers that were close to the ocean.

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

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Post by redis_mlc »

tzs wrote: post #25
tantalor wrote: post #8

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It's more like source code, but anyway the vendor was presumably under contract which did not include divulging the recipe. I wonder if they could have sued to recover the recipe as a "work for hire", where typically the employer is the owner of the work product. The law covers "instructional text" which sounds like a recipe to me. https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ09.pdf It depends on the nature of the original ag…

In the case of the original sandwich maker, Rangos, clearly not. He was making his pimento cheese and selling it in his store before the Masters ever hired him. In the case of the second sandwich maker, Godfrey, who replaced Rangos and developed his pimento cheese recipe for the Masters, probably not. First of all, work for hire concerns who owns the copyright to something and recipes are not subject to copyright. It…

> recipes are not subject to copyright.

The ingredient list and directions (process) are not copyrightable on their own, but if you add narrative text, like the history of this recipe as used at the tournament, that would work. :)

Re: The Masters pimento cheese sandwich scandal

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Post by samatman »

javert wrote: post #66
samatman wrote: post #49

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Illegitimi non carborundum , Doreen.

I'm not a bastard. I don't see an easy way to report your calling me that, and I don't want to bug the mods with an email, so I'll instead just tell you: Go to hell. OK, hope we're even now.

Taking offense at a bit of Latin doggerel which wasn't even addressed directly at you is lame, javert.

Responding with direct insults and threats is completely over the top. This is the Internet. Calm down.

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