Friday Ephemera

https://twitter.com/FluffSociety/status/917359075662409728

Say, computers are useless too, since certain people – notably those for whom The Curia is the single source of all goodness and truth – use them for dumb arguments like that one.

Now I have to clean beer from my monitor in a conservative fashion.

“The woman contended that police had no basis to make comments about her possible mental health issues.”
She should fit right in when she relocates to Saudi Arabia.

When lefties have to live by the new rules of the left.

It is time for art again as our old friend Miss Dr. Victoria Bateman uses it to explain feminism and economics as only she can.
All I can say is y’all over there in the UK need to make your bank notes bigger.

Toxic masculinity on parade.

My dad and I watched the moon landing on TV.

You left out the colour of the bread Adam.
The *white* bread is inserted …
Toast bread is rather clearly straight, white, European and, therefore, a symbol of the Patriarchy.

White Food

The most thorough article on the white-bread wars is a long 2011 academic essay by Aaron Bobrow-Strain entitled White bread bio-politics: purity, health, and the triumph of industrial baking. It starts off with an abstract that touches all the postmodern lit theory bases:
Building on Michel Foucault’s work on bio-politics, it shows how notions of food safety dependent on discourses of purity, contagion, hygiene, and vitality inevitably constitute lines of exclusion and social hierarchy, even as they are used to mobilize ‘progressive’ social change.
But Bobrow-Strain’s article includes a key statistic. In 1890,
…bread was the country’s single most important food and 90 per cent of it was baked in homes by women. By [1930], bread was still the country’s number one food, but 94 per cent of it was baked outside the home by men.
To American women looking for relief from their endless homemaking duties, the invention of sliced bread in 1928 was the greatest thing since, well…since the invention of wrapped bread in 1915, which allowed consumers to buy bread never touched by (no doubt diseased) human hands.
But if you aren’t going to make your family’s sandwiches from bread you baked yourself and from sausages you ground yourself, how do you know your baker and butcher aren’t just, say, tossing in dead cockroaches they swept up off the floor? What if the factory is adding strong flavors to cover up filler? How can you tell that your delicious store-bought dark rye bread isn’t infected with the brownish-purple ergot of rye mold, which can cause the neurological disorder St. Vitus’s Dance?
One solution favored by some immigrant groups was to rely upon a trusted neighborhood delicatessen with famously high standards. The ethnic deli method was especially popular with cultures that traditionally endorsed complicated food taboos that made it difficult to share a convivial meal with outsiders. Of course, it also tended to exacerbate immigrant ethnocentrism, making them nervous when they dined away from their home turf, as when Alvy Singer tries to eat an Easter ham with Annie Hall’s family.
In contrast, the Pure Foods Movement that WASP ladies (many of whom were also in the temperance struggle) started after the Civil War sought to find remedies for their more open and mobile culture. One was federal regulation: The coalition finally succeeded in passing the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906 after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s muckraking The Jungle.
Another tactic was favoring lighter-colored and lighter-flavored foodstuffs that were harder to pollute.
And it worked. A scientist wrote in 1926 of trends in bread, “To all appearances…the general public is continuing in its belief (justified both by the bacteriological count and the microscopic examination) that whiteness or creamy whiteness is a sign of cleanness.”

Pogonip,
Also, KFC is a disgrace to American cuisine.
It’s a disgrace to Harlan Sanders. I’m old enough to remember when he still owned the company, and would make surprise inspections at his franchisees. If things were not to his liking, he’d shut them down until they were. His accountants convinced him to sell out to Pepsico, and things started going downhill immediately. The food served at “KFC” is nothing like what Kentucky Fired Chicken used to be.
Go to Popeye’s.
The local Popeye’s is a popular hangout for teenaged riff-raff and gangsta wannabes. The last time I went there, I assume one of the riff-raff’s girlfriends was working the register that night, because the riff-raff and his “homies” were sitting at the nearest table, glaring, apparently monitoring her so that no one talked to her about anything but the order. Once I’d made my order, and moved away from the counter, they did not take their eyes off me the entire time. I haven’t been back.

Well, when you think about it, at some point back in the mists of time, all these chain restaurants had an ur-restaurant that was popular enough to begin expanding.

So, like now we’re supposed to believe black people invented fried chicken? Where did the chicken come from? Who owns the rights to what domesticated live stock? Do the Chinese get to keep all of the spices? If someone 20-30-40 years ago predicted (and I’m sure someone did) these sorts of arguments would come up in the future, they would have been dismissed as an idiot or racist.

Bosch progress report. The midpoint of season three is almost in sight.

BTW, not sure Pepsico is to blame as they didn’t acquire the business until well after Col. Sanders’ death in 1980.
Speaking of The Colonel’s death…

Govenor Squid, that my friend is Champagne Comedy.

I think I’ve posted it before, but there was a time before Col. Sanders was immediately recognizable on sight.

They did, but it was $1,000-a-pound cheese. 😄🧀