Hell’s Canteen

Anyway, they got that cow. Or so they said.
The cow survived, escaped to America, and got a job at Harry Caray’s restaurant in Chicago.

In: Pennsylvania Primate Pox
Send in Bruce Willis!

It’s totally reinvented the “can’t be arsed to cook” lifestyle scenario.
Yes!! I’ve seen them in grocery stores over here, and they serve the exact same purpose. I’ve noticed a few new, more “upmarket” versions of ramen and cup/pot noodle popping up in stores.

#ClassyLifestyleTips
In university there was an irregular column in the student newspaper on recipes for poor students; my favorite was an asian tuna noodle salad that used the various components of a 25 cent pack of Mr. Noodles (you make the dressing with the flavour packet and use leftover soy sauce packets from the Chinese takeaway). Per serving, less than a dollar.

“explain Limburger and Onion sandwiches”
They are being issued with Trigger Warnings, effective Feb 1, or 1 Feb.
My understanding of this combo is that the taste of the Limburger covers up the taste of the onion, and the smell of onion hides the Limburger pong.
Anyway, they are not meant for eating but for serving to others.

ramen: when we dropped our daughter at college 15 yrs ago, we saw a student pulling a luggage cart (flat bed, 4×6 ft, wheels) stacked with crates of ramen. I can understand the motivation, but that is how you get nutrient deficiencies. No protein or vitamins at all.

I’ve seen them in grocery stores over here,
Wife just got back from grocery store, I had an MRI so I didn’t go this week…and BTW, how some of you people have gone since March 2020 without touching your face…well y’all are heroes in my book…but I digress…and she tells me there has been a rather dramatic drop in items available since we were last in there three weeks ago. And of course a significant increase in prices. And thus no idea if those noodles are generally available here.

we saw a student pulling a luggage cart (flat bed, 4×6 ft, wheels) stacked with crates of ramen. I can understand the motivation, but that is how you get nutrient deficiencies. No protein or vitamins at all.
Female? Soy boy? Most likely just attention seeking. But then again…
Wife adds “not one stalk of celery in the whole store”. This is somewhat significant here in Duda world where the local high school football team was once known as the Celery Stalkers.

Neil Young, MD, PhD in Virology and Immunology, weighs in on Joe Rogan:
Neil Young is more like “the Man” than “the Man” ever was.

but that is how you get nutrient deficiencies. No protein or vitamins at all
The dorm mate of one of my friends got scurvy from eating nothing but Kraft Dinner for months.
As an aside, it amuses me that you lot call it “macaroni and cheese” while we try to pass it off as “dinner”.

As an aside, it amuses me that you lot call it “macaroni and cheese” while we try to pass it off as “dinner”.
Hey, with those “Dinners”, a little imagination, and whatever leftover and on the edge of expiration ingredients I could find in my fridge back in the day, I could kick going to the grocery store down the road for three or four days. Ah, but I was much craftier back then. And had my intestinal tract trained for indestructibility by a diet heavy on one-with-everything pizza and Chernobyl Chicken Wings. Good times, good times.

Who is Neil Young?
The sixties rock musician. Very…progressive.

‘Mock chicken’ used to be made with veal.
My grade school cafeteria served mock chicken legs on occasion–chopped veal breaded and deep fried or baked. The upper class kids affected to loathe them but I remember them as being tasty enough. Similarly, the giant pans of pizza made with ground beef and government surplus cheese (blended cheddar and colby, I think) were definitely not proper Italian pizza but were nonetheless tasty.

mac and cheese: I prefer it the way pst314 suggests. I find the store cheese sauce (as in packaged Mac-n-cheese) to be odd tasting, so I just sprinkle shredded cheese on top and put the lid back on to melt. More cheesy.
“In the 1970s chicken was still a luxury meat” In the 70s I was in college in the US South and chicken was NOT a luxury meat. It was cheaper than beef and much less than fish. Perhaps because industrial chicken houses had been built all over at that time.
Food snobbery is so funny. When Trump was pres and invited some football team that won something to the white house (I wasn’t really paying attention, ok?), he piled the fast food burgers high for them. I thought it was perfect and the team loved it but the media snobs lost their minds. hahahaha

I just sprinkle shredded cheese on top
Philistines! Proper macaroni and cheese is made with a white cheddar sauce, topped with bread crumbs and baked.
[ tosses head, flounces out of kitchen ]

I’m pretty sure it’s inverted pork rectums
Well, who’s to say with authority where pork rectums actually end and pork intestines begin, anyway?

Feminists say the quiet part out loud.
The real meaning of all this ideological jargon is “kill all the normal people”.

Also, DC is “their” territory, apparently.
It is though.
Well, who’s to say with authority where pork rectums actually end and pork intestines begin, anyway?
Life is a flat circle.

Feminists say the quiet part out loud.
From that link: “You inspire me to abolish gender”
What are these feminists on about? The only thing being abolished is biological sex. Hell – gender is the only thing today, and all those gender stereotypes that feminists used to hate on back in the day – e.g. long hair, makeup, skirts, playing with dollies, etc – they’re back and rigidly enforced. If a man has/does any of those things it automagically makes him a woman! And tomboys who like sports and trucks and non-girlie stuff – well, that automagically makes them men! I always thought the modern feminists were rather silly for banging on about The Patriarchy – but when a Patriarchy actually showed up, in the form of hardcore trans activists, they bent over so fast in acquiescence it made your head spin. Granted, the few who haven’t are now TERFS and canceled.
If there’s no such thing as women anymore, what’s the point of feminism?

There are a couple steps missing from the ham sandwich recipe. First, fry the ham in butter. Put the ham on a slice of bread. With the other slice, wipe off any butter left in the pan.

Every Sunday, roast chicken dinner to feed 6.
That was my childhood too. Chickens were also mostly sold whole and there was a significant difference between a roaster and a fryer. There weren’t a lot of chicken parts available. You could buy a half chicken or a quarter chicken but most of the parts that were available were offal like giblets and livers and you could also buy necks and wings some times. But you didn’t often buy a package of thighs or a package of breasts and when you did they were way more expensive per pound than the whole chicken.

Perfect, except you misspelled ‘Fontina’.
That. Yum!
Fontina melts beautifully, gruyere is another good one. Cheddar not so much.

That was my childhood too.
[ Fetches pipe, rocking chair. ]

pst314,
Must be some other cow. Dad and his brother were using 50 cal; some of those holes look like 20 mm damage.
I always thought cows looked suspiciously like some alien lifeform. I think it’s the way they stare at you if they think you are in their way. Like they have infinite patience.

Cheddar not so much.
Cheddar and Colby for the best-tasting mac and cheese. Cardinal Fang is here to remind you all that dissent is not allowed.

I think in the US in the 70’s, Roast Beef with yorkshire pudding on Sunday dinner was the ‘high-end’ of the dining scale (for my family, anyway) and roast chicken was more of a regular, not-too-special, but still delicious weeknight meal.

Your Dragon Name
Drolkoop the Sanguine, Hoarder of Sesame Chicken And Clickers.

Why would chicken be a luxury food?
I think (?) because they were still being raised mostly in sort of the old barnyard ways. The “industrial” methods had not yet been developed or were in their infancy. If my extremely vague memories are correct, then prices back then would be a clue as to what totally free-range organic chickens ought to cost today.

I’ll raise Norman Rockwell from the dead to paint the portrait
I’ll chip in for the candles.

Also striking that white fish is actually more expensive in real terms- collapse of the cod fisheries, I presume.
Similar with regard to other types of fish, I suspect. In the sixties the prices of various Great Lakes fish were lower than today, or so I recall.

You are confusing that with the look of a beast dumber than a creosote post without the creosote.
Your eloquence does not leave much room to describe sheep.

You know, all around the world people make mock of Southern cooking
The freshest brook trout I ever had was at a small restaurant in North Carolina. The best baked ham I ever had was at Boone Tavern in Berea KY. Also where I discovered spoon bread, yum. Unfortunately, their menu seems to become less Southern and more “cosmopolitan” in recent years, and spoon bread is not even on the menu.

one thing we can say
That’s What I like about the South

Boone Tavern is not the only restaurant that has compromised its original ethnic focus, but it’s a particularly unfortunate case because the parent Berea College exists in part to study and preserve Southern culture.

Still hoping someone can explain the precise meaning and derivation of “he’s a real cheese and pickle sandwich”.

Laurie Penny has deep thoughts about pronouns.

San Francisco crap artists need subsidies!
From the link:
“According to a 2017 Arts & Economic Prosperity report by the San Francisco Arts Commission, the nonprofit arts and culture sector generates $1.45 billion in total economic activity, supports 39,699 full-time jobs, and generates $1 billion in household income to local residents.”
I wonder what dishonest techniques were used to concoct those economic numbers. After all, if those “artists” are generating so much economic activity then why do virtually none of the dollars end up in their pockets?
Also: Remember all those “studies” that “prove” that cities will profit enormously by building sports stadiums that highly profitable privately owned teams claim to be unable to afford to build themselves?

Speaking as a diabetic some proper hard cheese, cut to order from a block in a decent deli, together with Branson on freshly baked crusty bread (generously buttered) is a real culinary treat. Less is more.

Beating the “who is Neil Young” dead horse…
The sixties was a long time ago so my memory may be inaccurate, but as I recall Neil Young was always a hippie fool whose sympathies were with commies.
Akshullly….back around 1983 or so Neil said some rather positive things about Ronald Reagan. He had recently put out a song that got some traction “Proud to Be a Union Man” that mocked the mentality of workers unions of the day. I distinctly remember an interview, most likely in Musician magazine where the leftist interviewer, like all good leftist cultural tools, pressed him on it and he backtracked so quickly it was embarrassing. I do think Neil tried to think for himself but he was too naive to realize the consequences for that in pop culture. It was one of my earliest indications that there was some sort of cultural ideology that even the supposedly “independent” rich and famous were afraid to cross.

Akshullly….back around 1983 or so Neil said some rather positive things about Ronald Reagan…
Thank you for that. It’s good to get these things right, and I would hate to make an error and have it just sit there unchallenged.

@pst314: about that A10 Warthog ‘cow hit’. I believe in WW2 a British submarine off the coast of North Africa launched a torpedo at a ship landing German tanks. The torpedo missed the ship, slid up the beach and hit a tank. As these things were recorded, the sub’s ‘Jolly Roger’ with outlines of sunk ships on it was joined by the silhouette of a tank.
One takes one’s successes where one can find them.

As these things were recorded, the sub’s ‘Jolly Roger’ with outlines of sunk ships on it was joined by the silhouette of a tank.
One takes one’s successes where one can find them.
A mere tank would only entitle them to return to port with a whisk broom tied to the periscope. 😀

I am surprised no one has mentioned beef dripping, either sandwiched or on a simple slice of bread, and especially the gourmet version with the jellified crunchy bits from the bottom. A healthy sprinkling of salt rounds off the food fit for gods.
Sgt Jackrum, normally a soldier of taste and refinement, prefers the slightly inferior pork dripping.

No, because the Yorkshire Pudding soaked them all up
Not so, the prudent British housewife would not squander all that valuable fat from the roast by turning it into gravy. Rather, she would take a little of the fat as a base and then bulk it out with water in which the cabbage (or other veg) had been boiled and then use the magic of Bisto to add flavour and colouring to the gravy. The rest of the fat (and the pan scrapings which add the gourmet bottom layer of a good dripping) is saved for another day.
Incidentally, beef dripping is the best for making chips (fries as they are known to the heathen).
I loathe thick gravy.

Expect a visit from the Flying Sin Squad later this morning
I am on Quick Reaction Alert with my defensive weapons loaded with High Octane Gravy Salt. The gravy boats are already afloat.

…just how poor they and many other Brits were in the immediate post-war years.
Have you read 84, Charing Cross Road? (A good book, in my opinion.) The same kind of thing is described there, where the writer (living in New York City) often sends food packages to her penpal in London, which he – living through that postwar austerity – greatly appreciates.

Fang’s submarine sandwiches
HA! No chance. They will be cut into small pieces by the carving knife and turned into croutons.