Is Ree Drummond trying to poison people with lack of clarification?
Sooz
4 years ago
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Today, I caught the tail end of "Girls Night In" (2019) from The Pioneer Woman. Ree makes Butterfly Martinis, and floats a flower in each glass. One guest asks what kind of flower is that and Ree responds with something like -- it's a sweet pea, they're edible. WAIT A MINUTE!!!!! She does not say if the sweet pea blossom is from the vegetable pea, or the flower. That's kind of a big miss! The instructions on the Food Network website only says to float an edible flower. Sweet peas (genus Lathyrus odoratus) are toxic--blossoms, flowers, pods, seeds, vine, leaves etc. Picture below of garden sweet peas... very pretty, smell nice, but are toxic.
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Sooz
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Comments (20)The problem with this thinking... which to me used to be fine, till I noticed, that all is fine and dandy till something goes wrong....then people scream... For example, you may want to take any drug you want, then your cousin dies of an ephedra problem.... then all of a sudden your thinking is changed. Personally, I generally agree. I think that the stupids who mess with something they don't understand.... just weeds out their genes from the gene pool. But apparently, others don't see it this way. I see this in almost all aspects of American life... ANOTHER example... You all want a freemarket system... till you pay $3 a gallon for gas... then you scream. People seem to want what they want with no concern for the consequences... I just do it... and unlike Cacye, I LISTEN when someone says there is a danger... some don't... that's why they try to beat trains in train crossings.... ANOTHER way to weed certain genes from the gene pool....See MoreBeen bitten by a coral snake? Journalist in NY would like to talk
Comments (15)As suggested by another poster, I think the lack of sightings is more due to the shy nature of the coral snake then the scarcity of them. I have seen three of them on my property since I moved here in 1988. All of the snakes were under something I was moving. The most recent encounter was in April of this year when I was leveling an area in a shrub bed that I was preparing to pour some concrete to serve as a slab base foundation for the battery bank for my solar power system. I was hitting some of the old plastic weed barrier which was covered with river rock. My rake hooked the plastic and peeled up a bit of it and a small coral popped out of there. He really was small an beautiful. In my moment of ponder about what to do with this deadly little creature, it was all the time the little fellow needed to slither into a very thick arborvitae. I just hope my dogs never run into it. The chocolate lab in particular is a perpetual puppy even though she's three and a half!...See MoreDo you correct people about food--or vocabulary??
Comments (82)Spoken language is just the way you talk. It's not merely fully formed sentences, and certainly not an agglomeration of statements, as the philosophers would have it. There are partial sentences, independent phrases, exclamations, interjections, figures of speech, and all the messy, yummy goodness that a full basket of language can give. Written language is something invented by teachers, editors and other pedants and is meant to conform to a certain set of standards--and those standards vary by culture, language, and culture groups within a language. There's usually a purpose to written language, such as conveying facts, telling a story, or proving an argument. In spoken language, only about 10% of meaning comes from the actual words. The rest comes from intonation, gesture and body language, facial expressions, etc. Written language is designed to be intelligible from the words alone. In USA English we value complete sentences, and organized paragraphs. We also value linear organization from beginning to end. I don't have personal knowledge of this, but I was taught that in Arabic, linear organization is considered gauche and unsophisticated, and that they kind of circle around the point, unwrapping it like peeling the layers off an onion, whereas we state the point at the top and work our way down to the details to back it up with. In fiction, memoir, letters, etc., we allow a lot more leeway for using some of the characteristics of spoken language in writing. This is especially true following the literary innovations that started in the early 20th C. Online language tends to be more like spoken language than traditional written language. We use punctuation, abbreviations and emoticons/emojis to fill in for the intonation and facial expression we lack. I'm not sure that this is "easy", but I hope it at least is clear. :)...See MoreDo what you love ...
Comments (50)I glanced at the thread. While I don't understand the desire for a brick shower I am also not quite so sure what is so unsuitable about it--given that its probably much less easy to clean than say plastic. I lived on a block of brick buildings that were built in the 1830s and 1840s that were completely neglected for decades, and they got rained on all the time. But of course I read in there that concrete block and cement were completely inappropriate materials for a shower. Tell that to Louis Kahn's Trenton Bath House, the shower associated with every municipal pool or park where I grew up, and the many people who had a basement shower that was little more than a curtain and a drain in the floor for the farmers or factory workers in the family to use when they got home from work. So, I think some people just like to kick others when they are down. (Much in the vein of "you need to tear that all out and start over" and you know they are giggling when they type that.) I almost feel like there should be an orientation thread about what sorts of questions you don't want to ask unless you want people to pick on you....See More
Lars
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