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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"
mircea_popescu: how do you do them ? vinegar ? proper salt pickles ?
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: i fucking managed to find salt pickles.
mircea_popescu: the former's basically fast food. salt pickles are fermented.
decimation: aren't pickles already salt?
mircea_popescu: salt pickles!
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
los_pantalones: pickles are such an art form
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
assbot: 47 results for 'pickles' : http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=pickles
BingoBoingo: !s pickles
mircea_popescu: pickles are the most important thing in the world.
BingoBoingo: Romanians and their pickles
mircea_popescu: they're shitty vinegar pickles, but still.
mircea_popescu: omfg i found pickles in argentina!
danielpbarron: pickles*; I was previously in ten-leaf-clovers
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's from all the pickles.
the20year: Pickles and hunger
mircea_popescu: it worked in the ukraine and bulgaria, which mostly made pickles all through the 90s.
ThickAsThieves: our cleaning lady pickles
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: proper hand made pickles...
mircea_popescu: can't even get decent pickles.
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"
BTC-Mining: pickles*