Not a question, just a comment - I used to work in an izakaya that had one of the best Japanese whiskey collections in North America (unfortunately, the owner was also shady AF and we shut down unexpectedly), and we also had a few exquisite gins. My forever favorite Japanese gin is Ki No Bi, and I wish ti gods I could afford a bottle right now.
That sesame-washed Tito's sounds amazing. As it happens, my produce market is right next door to my Asian market which is, coincidentally, right up the street from my liquor store ("right up the street" in Baton Rouge terms = approximately a mile, while "right next door" = over in the next parking lot). Easy peasy onion squeezy!
Very nice, have you tried any of the different shochus instead of sake, shochu being the drink of choice of Japanese businessmen. Might even be able to use the traditional hot water plus shochu as the base for a winter drink.
Also, I am so bepuzzled when I post pictures on Substack, and before I can get here to link to them, they’re already liked. I don’t understand. How do people find them? How do people understand the context if they’re not hanging out on Wonkette? Which, by the way, should probably change its name to Manykettes.
They live there. They know these things periodically come out of the sky with the express intent to whack them around. Are there not safe places to go? Have they not seen the Wizard of Oz?
It was always about shutting down the investigations into Feculent Skum's shady business practices which if convicted would send him to the stone lonely for a very long time. That is why he jump onto the Trump Train. He knew Joe and Harris would not stop them but Orange Turd would.
ICE is completely out of control. This is an interview with a German, who is a legal permanent resident of the U.S., who lives in New Hampshire, who made the mistake of visiting family in Europe and returning to his home in the U.S.:
About to head out to do my service as HOA board member at large and great the non-existent people who should be coming in to help with neighborhood clean up day. My other board member from Guatemala made breakfast burritos in case anyone does show up.
I have 35 layers of sunscreen to apply to myself before putting on the long sleeves and hat, so I best get going!
(Please come by and have a breakfast burrito and coffee and pick up a little trash, and then I'll feel like a success!)
Been sitting here wondering what I was gonna feed myself later, and you just solved it for me. I even have all the stuff! One of my favorite ways to enjoy grits is to make them with extra sharp cheddar, diced tomato, and scallions, then put 'em in a dish so that they're about an inch or so thick, then refrigerate. When firm, cut 'em into pieces (I like triangles) and fry in butter. Crispy on outside, and creamy on inside. Now I may have to eat sooner rather than later.
Wow. That is especially vile. Axios framed Biden having difficulty talking about the death of his son Beau which affected Biden greatly as him having “cognitive decline”. He paused for emotion you fucking ghouls!
"Screenshots here of an amazing exchange on X. Axios reporter Alex Thompson's new book on Biden claims (with no sources) that Biden shook DNC chair Jaime Harrison's hand without recognizing him. Harrison posts "it never happened". Then Axios editor Jake Wilkins - wow - tells Harrison he's wrong! 1/"
One can only guess that Thompson was trying to shill his and Tapper's book. Maybe this is an indication that it's not going to be the best-seller all the media thinks it is.
The spousal unit tells me they had t-storms up in the mountains where she is this morning. We're under a severe thunderstorm watch until noon, but so far I'm not seeing anything out there. It's probably waiting for me to walk out to the mailbox and then the office to pick up my package from yesterday.
I am just thinking about Jen(?) saying how it looked fine one moment, then the next it turned black, the trees bent double, and rain was coming down sideways.
When I was in college, there was a place that delivered breakfast (which blew my mind--where I grew up there was no delivery service at all!) and one option was cheesy spicy mashed potatoes! I never knew I needed those for breakfast!
Spoiled brat who’s still mad he had to leave a private high school to go to a more diverse but still rich kid filled public school that was more diverse is now mad that you can be born here and get citizenship just like he did
His example is fucked up. Someone comes here, gives birth, then flies home with the baby (I assume). They aren’t in the country anymore. Does he think they are going to vote for Democrats from wherever when they become of age, or come to the US to live later? What a broken mess this man is.
"...if a foreign tourist comes to a baby mill motel delivers a child, and then flies home, Democrats say that child is as American as the boys at Normandy."
Actually, it's the fuckin' Constitution of the United States that says that. Swizzle Stick dildo in a skinny suit fails 𝘩𝘪𝘴 citizenship test. Loves the US, he does, a real patriot in that 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 kinda way...
Imagine being in a racist bubble your whole life. West and rural Texas, for example, never crossing the lines. That’s a goodly chunk of America so segregated that their assumptions are never once challenged.
Happy Caturday and Laundry Day! I still have two more loads to do today and then I get to continue shredding all of the old documents. Then it's putting the knick-knacks I don't want into a box to take with the rest of the stuff to the Salvation Army next week. But then the den will be done and I can finish cleaning out the front room. Yay!
Questions about the cocktail go here, please.
A cloud in my glass
Cherry time in spring
Where did I put that damn phone?
Korean Gochgaru pepper flakes give both kimchi and gochugang their color and flavor, but gochugang is not in any kimchi recipe ive ever made.
I used gochugang in my kimchi when I couldn't get gochugaru, and it was good. It added a savory flavor I liked.
In my latest batch I'm using Chimayo Chile flakes.
Arigato. Kampai
I made your Filthy Martini this evening...it's genius! Thank you for sharing the recipe! Will be trying this one next!!!
Very nice, Hoop...thank you.
Not a question, just a comment - I used to work in an izakaya that had one of the best Japanese whiskey collections in North America (unfortunately, the owner was also shady AF and we shut down unexpectedly), and we also had a few exquisite gins. My forever favorite Japanese gin is Ki No Bi, and I wish ti gods I could afford a bottle right now.
Nihon?
Ronin
How many can you decant down my fat neck before the diet kicks in again on Monday morning? :P
"1 ½ oz Roku gin"
How do I grind up my TV set and transubstantiate it into booze in order to make this drink?
Roku gin is one of the few things Matt has used in his cocktails that I can lay hands on here in NC. It's my wife's favorite gin.
I'd start with a BlendTec blender.
Is the sesame oil you used more similar to toasted sesame oil? Strikes me the toasted kind would be interesting.
Yes - I’ll adjust the recipe when I get off work.
Toasted changes the flavour balance. Try both. Report back with your findings. :P
I'm not much of a drinker, but I love the look of the furikake on the rim of the glass!
At the bar it's rude
To whip out one's katana.
Wakizashi, then.
Are you using regular sesame oil or toasted sesame oil for the washing Hooper?
Toasted. I’ll adjust the recipe.
Thought so from your descriptions. Thanks.
That sesame-washed Tito's sounds amazing. As it happens, my produce market is right next door to my Asian market which is, coincidentally, right up the street from my liquor store ("right up the street" in Baton Rouge terms = approximately a mile, while "right next door" = over in the next parking lot). Easy peasy onion squeezy!
Can I float a dollop of wasabi on it?
Aye, if you want be a feckin' ruiner.
Tsk!
That's "May I float a dollop of wasabi on it", comrade.
I will sit down and STFU now.
You can. But you shouldn’t.
Very nice, have you tried any of the different shochus instead of sake, shochu being the drink of choice of Japanese businessmen. Might even be able to use the traditional hot water plus shochu as the base for a winter drink.
I’ll look but it’s unlikely to find in Ohio.
Three types available from Total Wine.
Total Wine doesn’t sell in Ohio, at least not retail. It’s all state-owned stores.
I mean, it aint far right potato-based, so...
"Is rats' ass a good delicacy for Japanese business man?"
- Jimmy, NEW WAVE HOOKERS
My 80s girlfriend and I watched that movie.
Woodland animals likely took shelter in the aftermath.
Oddly enough, it's the dialogue that sets it apart as a classic. Go figure.
There are also South Korean sochu's. They're distilled, no? Around 25% or so alcohol.
My (Korean) Granpappy loved his moonshine!
Which helped the family downfall... sad to say.
South Korean soju is a very different drink, with its own unique story (and the flavored ones are sort of in style these days)
I saw soju/etc. in Japan and South Korea on that trip, focused on sake in Japan, guess I didn't buy enough alcohol.
yes, and there's shochu made from every plant and in every region, I'm partial to Kurokame from Kumamoto, made from sweet potatoes. Cool bottle as well https://www.sendgifts.com/shop/kurokame-honkaku-shochu/
I suppose I could look it up myself, but does the sake actually have green tea or just green tea notes?
The gin uses green tea in distillation. The sake is pure.
Gotcha. Tea has an immediate...effect on me, so I thank you for the alternative suggestions in the post!
Talking about drinking is boring. However,...
More cats in the morning.
https://substack.com/@ontheotherhand124816/note/c-117943112?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di
Also, I am so bepuzzled when I post pictures on Substack, and before I can get here to link to them, they’re already liked. I don’t understand. How do people find them? How do people understand the context if they’re not hanging out on Wonkette? Which, by the way, should probably change its name to Manykettes.
Here's a solo based on Norwegian folk dance and break dancing. He's gonna kick the moon! Watch for it!
https://youtu.be/T-_MMSEZSs8?si=kPfF90Yg45u5ppz5
Here you go--much value humor from--Hey, it's awful quiet. Did the new thread drop?
Yes. XD
Oof. HuffPost reported so far 21 dead from the midwestern storms.
oh my word! How???
Looks like mostly tornados
Right, but.
But.
They live there. They know these things periodically come out of the sky with the express intent to whack them around. Are there not safe places to go? Have they not seen the Wizard of Oz?
Trump says the $45 million for his parade is peanuts compared to the value. Value, where's the fuckin' value?
The value lies in the way it's gonna make his dick hard without his little blue pills.
Saves on martial law redeployment
It was *never* about "waste and fraud" in government - it's *always* been about government helping *those* people.
It was always about shutting down the investigations into Feculent Skum's shady business practices which if convicted would send him to the stone lonely for a very long time. That is why he jump onto the Trump Train. He knew Joe and Harris would not stop them but Orange Turd would.
Something floating around in the brain soup.
A giant turd.
ICE is completely out of control. This is an interview with a German, who is a legal permanent resident of the U.S., who lives in New Hampshire, who made the mistake of visiting family in Europe and returning to his home in the U.S.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OatfsT6FxxQ
My Wonks, pray for me.
About to head out to do my service as HOA board member at large and great the non-existent people who should be coming in to help with neighborhood clean up day. My other board member from Guatemala made breakfast burritos in case anyone does show up.
I have 35 layers of sunscreen to apply to myself before putting on the long sleeves and hat, so I best get going!
(Please come by and have a breakfast burrito and coffee and pick up a little trash, and then I'll feel like a success!)
Dang it! And I *just* cooked sausage, grits, egg and toast for myself. I could've saved myself $4 or $5 in exchange for picking up some trash!
Been sitting here wondering what I was gonna feed myself later, and you just solved it for me. I even have all the stuff! One of my favorite ways to enjoy grits is to make them with extra sharp cheddar, diced tomato, and scallions, then put 'em in a dish so that they're about an inch or so thick, then refrigerate. When firm, cut 'em into pieces (I like triangles) and fry in butter. Crispy on outside, and creamy on inside. Now I may have to eat sooner rather than later.
*whispers*
You don't even need to pick up trash--just take a burrito and act like you're going to, and we'll call it good!
*whispers back* Sounds good, but I don't think I'm in driving distance of you. Sorry. Would've loved to try a burrito, though.
I would do that but I already had lemon pie for breakfast.
Yay! Breakfast burritos!
That is a beautiful cocktail, I would be staggering, listing sideways after just one. I'd be slurring worse than rturmp.
Wow. That is especially vile. Axios framed Biden having difficulty talking about the death of his son Beau which affected Biden greatly as him having “cognitive decline”. He paused for emotion you fucking ghouls!
https://bsky.app/profile/darthbluesky.bsky.social/post/3lpdmzel3lk2q
A little further into the thread, it branches off to another discussion that's equally infuriating.
https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3lparftdghc2k
"Screenshots here of an amazing exchange on X. Axios reporter Alex Thompson's new book on Biden claims (with no sources) that Biden shook DNC chair Jaime Harrison's hand without recognizing him. Harrison posts "it never happened". Then Axios editor Jake Wilkins - wow - tells Harrison he's wrong! 1/"
One can only guess that Thompson was trying to shill his and Tapper's book. Maybe this is an indication that it's not going to be the best-seller all the media thinks it is.
Fuck that and FUCK THEM! Also, HE IS NOT PRESIDENT! You people made sure of that.
Biden isn't really relevant now, Axios.
It's easier than risking the ire of the orange menace.
Lazy and cowardly comes to mind.
Lazy and Cowardly Lyin'
Actually, he kind of is. By them bringing him up now he is a flashing neon sign pointing out the media’s bias.
"Look, this is all Biden's fault, which shows how ineffective tfg is."
Oh shit thunderstorms rolling in hot
The spousal unit tells me they had t-storms up in the mountains where she is this morning. We're under a severe thunderstorm watch until noon, but so far I'm not seeing anything out there. It's probably waiting for me to walk out to the mailbox and then the office to pick up my package from yesterday.
That’s when they git ya
I am just thinking about Jen(?) saying how it looked fine one moment, then the next it turned black, the trees bent double, and rain was coming down sideways.
Yes I put my hangng plants on the ground.
Stay safe!
Dorothy! Dorothy!
Even looking that way down here in NY, now that you mention it.
Today is Syttende Mai, Norwegian Constitution Day. Big celebrations for the Norsepersons. Glad Syttende Mai til alle som observerer!
I am still employed.
AND the ruler of all she surveys at the SF meetups
Congratulations!
Or condolences, whichever you prefer.
Mashed potatoes, bacon and scallion pizza for breakfast.
NOM
"The Carb Lover's"
Always be carbohydrating!
When I was in college, there was a place that delivered breakfast (which blew my mind--where I grew up there was no delivery service at all!) and one option was cheesy spicy mashed potatoes! I never knew I needed those for breakfast!
Potato pancakes are great hangover food.
Hold on, are these three separate items for breakfast, or three toppings on a pizza?
Pizza. Otto's of Portland's signature pie.
Otto's!! A must stop when we visit SIL in Maine!
looking it up
It's awesome.
Why not both?
Talking about Pee Wee German.
https://bsky.app/profile/espiers.bsky.social/post/3lpd3yqa5jc2d
Spoiled brat who’s still mad he had to leave a private high school to go to a more diverse but still rich kid filled public school that was more diverse is now mad that you can be born here and get citizenship just like he did
"Baby mill motel"
No lie is too stupid to freak out the rubes.
Maybe he should tell Daddy to stop letting the oil rich do that at merde-lago and leave the rest of us THE FUCK ALONE
Miller has a fucked-up definition of "citizenship" and "nationhood".
"the boys at Normandy"? Those words should be slapped out of that traitor's mouth.
Many of whom were immigrants or children of immigrants.
And who did more for freedom than that monster could ever imagine. He's a disgrace.
His example is fucked up. Someone comes here, gives birth, then flies home with the baby (I assume). They aren’t in the country anymore. Does he think they are going to vote for Democrats from wherever when they become of age, or come to the US to live later? What a broken mess this man is.
I have read that petroroyalty do that.
Russian oligarchs, also too.
I don't think "born" is the proper term. More like "spontaneously congealed from sewer slime."
"...if a foreign tourist comes to a baby mill motel delivers a child, and then flies home, Democrats say that child is as American as the boys at Normandy."
Actually, it's the fuckin' Constitution of the United States that says that. Swizzle Stick dildo in a skinny suit fails 𝘩𝘪𝘴 citizenship test. Loves the US, he does, a real patriot in that 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘵 kinda way...
"baby mill motel"
Does he think Holiday Inn Express is a "baby mill"?
What a horrendously fucked-up asshole Stephen Miller is
He should be horsewhipped forever.
Which circle of hell is that, or do we need to have it included in the new trump wing?
Has no one thought of the horsewhips??
Service guarantees* citizenship. Would you like you know more?
*YMMV
The boys in Normandy? The ones the President has called "suckers and losers"?
Imagine being in a racist bubble your whole life. West and rural Texas, for example, never crossing the lines. That’s a goodly chunk of America so segregated that their assumptions are never once challenged.
Imagine being born in the People's Republic of Santa Monica and wishing it was a racist bubble.
Happy Caturday and Laundry Day! I still have two more loads to do today and then I get to continue shredding all of the old documents. Then it's putting the knick-knacks I don't want into a box to take with the rest of the stuff to the Salvation Army next week. But then the den will be done and I can finish cleaning out the front room. Yay!