Custard is weird. It's utterly disgusting cold, it absolutely has to be hot, and its purpose is as a sauce, not a filling or a main flavour.
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Custard is weird. It's utterly disgusting cold, it absolutely has to be hot, and its purpose is as a sauce, not a filling or a main flavour.
In any case, when it comes to the English language, the English are always right. It's USA who are wrong. They're the ones misusing the word "pudding".
You are simply wrong. Objectively. Scientifically.
Go get your taste buds fixed or smth.
SMH
:p
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Ted Drewes Frozen Custard is a St Louis favorite. Don't make me kidnap you and bring you to the soup bowl that is St Louis mid-summer and force delicious frozen custard down your Bri'ish throat.
Frozen custard? I'll be polite. No, thank you. You can keep it.
They have regular fruit ice cream, right? Strawberry, raspberry, either or.
Not at Ted Drewes, no... but there's plenty of ice cream parlors around.
Frozen custard sounds like a sumptuous name for ice cream.
Honestly, I find it kind of astonishing that you even have places like this. I assumed Ted Drewes would be serving a variety of fast food or desserts, but nah, just frozen custard. Like, who goes to eat just custard? It's a dessert, not a meal!
I'm probably being a bit kneejerky with regards frozen custard though. It's basically ice cream with eggs, best I can tell. Just looking at the menu, would probably try the Strawberry Shortcake one.
My idea of custard is a runny, vanilla hot sauce. But it seems like even the cream in an eclair counts as custard. I definitely like eclairs.
We also have savoury custard in things like quiche, that shit is disgusting. It's cold, not sweet, horrible texture, it's just nasty.
But What Ted Drewes is selling, probably not as bad as I think it'll be. If it's sweet and fruity, chances are it's good.
Ice cream doesn't have eggs by definition, but they can be added and it's still ice cream. I had to look it up.
Wikipedia says this about frozen custard...
So that's why I thought ice cream doesn't have eggs. I've never made the stuff though.Quote:
Frozen custard is a cold dessert similar to ice cream, but made with eggs in addition to cream and sugar.
I mean... an ice cream parlor doesn't sell actual food, either, or it'd be a restaurant, not an ice-cream parlor.
(I think. I'm not an expert on what food sellers call themselves, actually.)
There are a few fancy French or Italian pastry shops that specialize in fancy desserts, but which also have a limited menu of soups and sandwiches. Expensive, but gourmet desserts. Like $7 for a Tiramisu, but that Tiramisu will melt your legs and make you sad that it will not last forever while you consume the pure bliss.
Ted Drewes is exclusively a walk-up shop without any customer seating and frankly, minimal shade spots even. There are only 2 locations in the city and both are the same in this regard.
For all it sounds like it's the worst, it's actually great. There's usually a crowd and a party vibe 'cause eating frozen custard on a hot, humid day is great for all ages.
Excellent choice. Is a good one.
It's basically ice cream that is slightly richer in flavor and heavier in texture, but only slightly, IMO.
custard eclairs >> cream eclairs
One of my other euro friends convinced me to try a savory french toast and I did. It was not good, but I take the blame on making mistakes in my first attempt that I could correct if I try it again.
I mean... eggs, onions, garlic, peppers, toast... that's a tried and true combo. Putting it all together into a savory french toast does seem like it has merit.
The notion of savory custard feel foreign to me. Unless Hollandaise Sauce qualifies, then I guess I have a reference point for how it could work.
Ted Drewes is a local thing mostly. IDK if frozen custard is popular outside of St Louis. It's not really something I look for on vacations.
In general, I don't see egg on the ingredients list for ice creams that are sold in the supermarket.
IDK if the local parlors are putting egg in theirs.
When we make ice cream with liquid Nitrogen at physics meetings, we don't use eggs. Just 1 qt half-and-half (that's half milk half cream) and 1/2 cup sugar with 2 Tbsp of vanilla extract. Then stir while a friend pours in LN2 until it sets up in about 30 seconds.
Is delicious, though flat in a way (I think 'cause we need to add like a tsp of salt to it), but you can put whatever toppings on it you like which rounds it out.
Creme brulee is a custard, flan is a custard-- hot custard sauces are actually relatively uncommon in the US. Not that they don't exist, but you're much more likely to find some sort of fruit, chocolate, or caramel sauces on a desert. The french actually call what Ong is describing Anglaise, so I guess it'd make sense that it's a British thing.
Hollandaise is not a custard, there is no milk/cream, it's essentially a mayonnaise made at a temperature that has the yolk partially congeal. Hollandaise is egg yolk, clarified butter, salt, pepper, lemon juice, and sometimes a bit of cayenne.
On Nutella: poop, you're woefully wrong, sorry. Nutella is a chocolate flavored nutbutter. It has added fat in the form of palm oil which makes it smoother, but it has the consistency of a slightly smoother peanut butter. It has a stickiness and a pastiness that makes it a really bad analog for describing custard.
This is surprising, even coming from China: Taking a tennis star away for...re-education?... basically minutes after she levels charges of sexual abuse against a top official.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-59325399
Speaking of surprises, I have to admit I didn't think the world could get any more fucked up than in Tiger King. But now there's a season 2 and it's even crazier.
Huh, TIL. Pretty much every ice cream recipe has eggs, the ones that don't are specifically vegan or some quicker shortcut version. I guess in commercial ice cream they use other cheaper stuff as emulsifiers.
As an aside, if you like ice cream, get an ice cream maker. Homemade is so much better after you manage to nail the base recipe. Fresh strawberries with some vanilla liquor, espresso-cognac-stroopwafel and marzipan-maraschino are my masterpieces.
As much as I like ice cream, I don't eat much of it largely because we don't have long summers here. It's not something I like to eat in November.
Pretty much mid June to the end of July. That's our ice cream season.
I mean that time of year in St Louis, the temp. is upwards of 100 F (over 37 C), and the humidity is YES.
The city is at the confluence of 2 major rivers and at midday, the air turns into soup for a while.
It's slightly better after the sun goes down.
I can see why liking a rich, cold treat is more popular here than there.
Yeah, I was surprised to realize this too-- my guess is that it wasn't a defined term until after alternative stabilizers/emulsifiers/food sciencey stuff was being employed in large scale production, or it was defined as a frozen custard and the big ice cream makers had enough push to inclusively define ice cream.
(if you didnt know, it might help to know: many food stuffs have legal definitions and foods that do not fall into the defined term cannot be labeled or sold as that term.)
Making your own ice cream:
If money is no issue, this is how you flex on home chef plebes
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Spinning at 2000 rpm, the Paco Jet only cost about $3.25/rpm
Looks totally necessary and practical and I want one.
My dog is a big, strong, healthy labrador. As most people know, labs were specifically bred to work in cold water, retrieving nets for fishermen.
Still, once every so often someone in the local park will see my labrador swimming in a pond and act like someone threw a baby into the water. I mean he's swimming around enjoying himself chasing a stick or ball or whatever and someone comes on the scene and concludes that he must be drowning and they'll run over to "help" him out of the water. I have to explain to them that he's actually enjoying being in water and that he's not in the slightest danger. And they just look at me puzzled and say something like "Oh, I thought he was in trouble!" It's like they have no idea dogs know how to swim, never mind a dog that was actually bred to swim.
This happened again today.
Why are there so many fucking idiots in the world, and why do I have to keep running into them?
/rant
Just let them "save" him, so they get soaked. Wait until after to tell them he's a perfectly capable swimmer and was having fun.
Let them "save" him, then throw another stick/ball into the lake and send the dog back in.
:lol:
Yeah, fk those idiots trying to help...
The problem is when stupid people try to help. Sometimes stupid people are better off knowing they're stupid and letting the world pass them by.
Sounds like you're one of the people I give a bollocking to in the park.
You're the guy who posts regular updates on the local facebook group, taking photos of people who don't pick up their dog shit and shaming them. You make sure everyone in the neighbourhood knows there's a guy in a high viz jacket looking at houses. You complain about fireworks frightening the horses, even though you don't have horses. That's you, isn't it?
If it were just me and the idiot in the park it would be one thing, but they tend to make a scene and draw the attention of a couple more people who come over to see what all the fuss is about. Once or twice it's snowballed into there being two or three people trying to rescue my dog because one idiot has convinced some other idiots that he's on the verge of going under, when all he's trying to do is chase a ball ffs.
Ha, no. Not least because I've not got any social media accounts. That sounds more like the weird PRSE teacher at my school who lived opposite the park and seemed obsessed with teenagers drinking, fighting, shagging and smoking weed. There's a lot of moronic dog owners out there though who frequent my local park.
Been getting into scambaiting videos on youtube, mostly Scambaiter and Jim Browning. I mostly watch it for the Indian trash talking, they're fucking hilarious.
Common Hindi insults...
sisterfucker
son of a whore
sister's dick
brother in law
fuck your cousin
motherfucker
They really like family-based insults. Not sure why "brother in law" is an insult, apparently you have to say it right, in Hindi.
If ever I go to Japan, I'm gonna have to get me some nicestick.
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It's a baguette.
I clicked on a couple of these in my recommendations recently and enjoyed them. The youtube algorithm knows me better than I know myself.
India has a very interesting culture still, with the caste system and utmost respect for hierarchy. It's weird being referred to as "sir" when I speak to people in Delhi for work sometimes.
I suppose it is, albeit without real names. I just don't associate special interest forums as social media. This, some other poker sites and a football fan forum are my limit, but I'm going to have to give in to LinkedIn sooner or later. I'm amazed I've managed to go this long without ridiculing people in the youtube comments section.
Yeah India looks amazing. It's a shame the scammers give India a bad international reputation, but it's also interesting when these scambaiters talk to scammers. You start to understand that the scammers have a human side too. That's not to excuse their career choices, but you have to acknowledge that life is not easy in Kolkata. To a certain degree, many of the scammers are victims themselves. But at the same time, you've got to be a sociopath to be able to do that job. But that's easier if you live in a place where you don't have a welfare safety net. If you can convince yourself it's a matter of survival, it's easier to sleep at night.Quote:
Originally Posted by bean
btw I might be a waster but I have great ideas. Here's one that will never happen...
Jim Browning the Musical - a Bollywood comedy about scammers in India.
I want a song called "Sisterfucker" which is obviously Indian trash talk in song. Jim Browning will be the main scambaiter, he's feared like Keyser Soze, but we'll also have Vladimir, #1 Russian Hacker. The regular phone scammers will have a human side, singing about their ambitions and shame, the men will insult and fear the scambaiters but the girls will have a crush on them (I've heard girl scammers giggling flirtatiously with scambaiters), there's gotta be a love story in there somewhere, the people who run the call centres will be cast as evil criminals, and we can't forget the corrupt and incompetent police. There's definitely a film to be made here.
Shame I can't write, act, direct, or do anything related to film making other than smoke weed and think of ideas.
This is one cool-looking ring.
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The goons who choose names for virus variants seem to have inadvertently chosen an anagram of "No Crimbo".
Crimbo is a British slang word for Christmas.
Good work.
Its official name is Omicron (B.1.1.529)
There's your B
For a worldwide organisation, the goons who name variants are surprisingly focussed on trolling the speakers of some obscure British dialect via anagram.
More interesting is that they skipped 'Xi', since that's the Chinese president-guy's name.
Skipping 'nu' was a no brainer imo.
I did day "inadvertently" in an effort to make clear I'm not going down batshit conspiracy theory rabbit holes of the illuminati trolling us. It's pretty obviously a coincidence.
I'm more interested in what corner of the UK version of the hills from Deliverance you use the word "Crimbo" in. I've lived in the UK a long time and I've never heard anyone use it.
ugh, this is clearly lose lose.
The fact they also skipped nu shows that either they are simply safeguarding the naming convention's feature of distinguishing variants without conveying any other values, or they had the foresight to skip this one first as cover for covering for Xi.
btw it's a myth that people use Cockney Rhyming slang, at least the famous ones. I've never hear the stairs referred to as "apples and pears".
People do use rhyming slang to swear though. For example... Jeremy Hunt has the distinction of being an even bigger James Blunt than James Blunt himself.
How do you know when you never leave your region? ;)
You got me there. I spend all my free time with Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Yes, and I know almost all the other slang terms you use as well. That's what makes me think Crimbo is regional.
Best theory I've heard so far as to why they chose Omicron: It's named after a transformer (kids' toy) that is a "decepticon."
https://tfumux.fandom.com/wiki/Omicron
I got called out for jokingly calling someone a scrub today, and I was like, WTF? Scrub's not even an insult.
Then they explained that scrub is a legit insult in the UK. Like calling someone a prostitute or smth.
TIL.
Scrub? Crimbo? Huh?
I obviously gotta get out more.
Oh yeah, covid. Well, maybe next Crimbo.
Not sure why you would get called out for a UK insult, but is scrub in the US like the scrub in that TLC tune? Scrub isn't used in the UK anymore as far as I know. Even then, it was scrubber and not shortened to scrub.
Probably best to avoid any jokes and nicknames in the workplace these days.
Oh, it was in a discord channel, not at work. International community.
Also, perhaps just a mod getting uppity with me for being a general shit-poster and calling someone a scrub for calling COVID a virus. Which, fair play to 'em. (Turns out they are a virologist, anyway, and were like... "don't fuckin' school me on this, I'm trying to use common language to talk about a sensitive topic with idiots I dearly want to educate." in a DM. Lol.)
I meant "scrub" like as if to call them a poopyhead or smth. On the face of it, that's an insult, but it's so corny and childish as to be totally non-offensive.
Yeah, like in the TLC song. I forgot about that one.
Anyway. Interesting to know that it's an archaic term and that it's not even scrub, but scrubber.
Only time I've ever heard the word "scrubber" as an insult is in Monty Python's Life of Brian, which was made in 1979 I think. It's a pretty outdated word.
sounds like something a scrubber would say
So outdated a word is it, I don't know what it means, so unfortunately I cannot confirm if I am or am not a scrubber.
Here's a hint for you, scrubber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnDql_QSh4Y
So you're accusing me of being employed? Outrageous.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Well that was unexpected.
https://twitter.com/MailOnline/statu...96225193922563
How funny would it be if the guy is telling the truth and he legitimately fell over and landed arse down on an anti-tank artillery shell? Poor bastard has everyone thinking he's a pervert.
Apologies if anyone hasn't seen the film yet and intended to...
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This bird knows his rights.
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Speaking of rights, I've been getting into this youtube channel where a lawyer goes over various cop-human interactions.
It's kind of funny watching cops do all this sketchy shit. It's also funny how some people would rather have a long argument and get into a peen-waving contest with cops until they get themselves arrested rather than just go along with the bullshit just to get the thing over with, when there's nothing really at stake.
That said, sometimes the cops are 100% wrong and the person is 100% right, so it's kinda understandable they're not happy to have their rights abused.
I also wonder how many of these laws work the same in the UK. I know for example we have no right to remain silent here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL_vdOtdzCc
We certainly do have the right to remain silent here in the UK, at least in interrogation and in court. I believe if you're asked for your details by police you do have to provide them or could face arrest, but at the same time you don't have to tell them, you could simply show them ID.Quote:
I know for example we have no right to remain silent here.
A "Select Committee" can compel people to appear before them and give evidence, and if they don't they could be charged with contempt, but this would be very unusual for a normal criminal case, rather it's something that concerns the House of Lords. At least that's the impression I get by briefly researching this.