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mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-14#1896552 : smoked sprats served with penne al'olio, with vinegar
pickles on the side and a sprinkling of capers is easily the most representatively venetian dish i ever had -- notwithstanding as far as i know i just invented it in my own kitchen
☝︎ mircea_popescu: in a bowl you flake smoked trout, with chunked : onion (red, raw), pickled gherkins (salt
pickles, not vinegar "
pickles"), artichoke ; add capers, fresh (or salt-pickled) tarragon leaf. the base cheese is something sweet (schweizer works fine in this instant example), the signatuer cheese is something sharp (here, a very fine camambert, but ideally, casu marzu, well ripe).
mircea_popescu: and in other presentation suggestions, homemade pate on homemade bread with chilera de jalapenos and/or
pickles. followed by a nice cigar with a rum.
mircea_popescu: you know i have a cousin, he's a great fellow, has two daugthers long married and with chitlin of their own, and you know, keeps bees, which he harvests from forest by himself,
pickles mushrooms, makes excellent moonshine...
mircea_popescu: backed by the history of skillful women collected in a room, many impossible tasks are trivial. salt
pickles a fine example of this.
mircea_popescu: this selects a mold of the place. then you can start making all sorts of other things without a care in the world. like proper
pickles.
mod6: also, i feel like i've got some interesting things to try from the idea of non vinegar
pickles.
mod6: I love
pickles btw. I'd probably enjoy having them every meal.
phf: you do proper квас-ing by pacing yourself, but also eating appetizers and small meals (traditional shit like
pickles or black bread or salted herring). also there are some rules, like "always go from lower abv to higher"
mod6: gonna try doing some refridgerator
pickles first. will "can" a few probably when i get a few more... excited to try this out
mircea_popescu: mod6 salt
pickles are really fermented, not vinegared. they preserve because the lactobacillum keeps other bugs out
mod6: "salt
pickles like your great grandmother used to make..." yeah, i'd bet i've never even had one.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah proper
pickles are a must. but the salt kind
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, it's insane. im gonna end up making jewish
pickles with wasabi
PeterL: aren't
pickles just cucumbers soaked in vinegar?
mircea_popescu: at any rate : most actual foodstuffs, such as
pickles, cheeses, cured and aged meats etc aren't even flora-enumerated, in the sense that we don't even really know what all grows on them
mircea_popescu: the former's basically fast food. salt
pickles are fermented.
hanbot: nah, gotta have souring agents to make good
pickles mircea_popescu: can't make deviled eggs without salt
pickles fro crying out loud
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform similarly there's no substitute for salt
pickles mircea_popescu: los_pantalones yes but they don't do salt
pickles. which... romanians end up importing the gherkins and pickling locally.
BingoBoingo: 04-02-2014 16:08:51 <mircea_popescu> there's at least a dozen different sorts of
pickles i can't do without
BingoBoingo: May short term goal now that I remembered it is a thing is to get spectral
pickles to be my favorite food again now that the price has come down 10 fold from the last time I saw them.
BingoBoingo: Imma just spend it on spectral
pickles anyways
BingoBoingo: Or I'll comprehend XCP if you quote spectral
pickles as the underlying
mircea_popescu: it worked in the ukraine and bulgaria, which mostly made
pickles all through the 90s.
mircea_popescu: but god forbid the sits on the floor or messes up the
pickles.
mircea_popescu: there's at least a dozen different sorts of
pickles i can't do without
☟︎ mircea_popescu: good
pickles are salt
pickles. the poles make vinegar
pickles. meh.
mircea_popescu: basically the internet is a glimpse into the future of india. girls are about as common as good
pickles.
MJR_: point is, i want the person at mcdonalds to know the difference between "only lettuce, tomato and ketchup" and "no mustard, onions or
pickles"