jpreston2005 @ jpreston2005 @lemmy.world

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No! Stop it! Bad Ickplant!

French fries

Well,

Thomas Jefferson had "potatoes served in the French manner" at a White House dinner in 1802. The expression "french fried potatoes" first occurred in print in English in the 1856 work Cookery for Maids of All Work by Eliza Warren: "French Fried Potatoes. – Cut new potatoes in thin slices, put them in boiling fat, and a little salt; fry both sides of a light golden brown colour; drain." This account referred to thin, shallow-fried slices of potato. It is not clear where or when the now familiar deep-fried batons or fingers of potato were first prepared. In the early 20th century, the term "french fried" was being used in the sense of "deep-fried" for foods like onion rings or chicken.

One story about the name "french fries" claims that when the American Expeditionary Forces arrived in Belgium during World War I, they assumed that chips were a French dish because French was spoken in the Belgian Army. But the name existed long before that in English, and the popularity of the term did not increase for decades after 1917. The term was in use in the United States as early as 1886. An 1899 item in Good Housekeeping specifically references Kitchen Economy in France: "The perfection of French fries is due chiefly to the fact that plenty of fat is used."

Americans coined a phrase and ran with it, it seems 🤷‍♂️

Hey, some good news! huzzah!

This reminds me of when americans renamed French fries "Freedom Fries."

This level of pettiness is something I am truly proud of, and love to see. When Canada floated that idea of welcoming in California, Oregon and Washington state as territories, my first thought was "I would move there so fucking fast, I'd leave a me-sized cloud of dust in this shithole regressive country and never once look back"

Beauty and the Beast

But also I recently saw the comedy Bottoms, and thought Charlie XCX did a great job with that soundtrack

I've wondered about this, and think that maybe this reinforces an age old method of "fake it till you make it." with the added benefit that once you "make it," your gut microbiome is primed to help you stay in that lane. if that makes sense? Like, it takes 3 weeks for a habit to become a habit, and the rate of turnover within your gut microbiota suggests that after 3 weeks of a sustained new diet, or sustained exercise, would lead to a gut that expects that, or perhaps even craves it. It's the communication of that to your central nervous system that's so interesting, but if we take it at face value that the two do talk to each other, then it's like extra motivation for sticking with your good habits. Because you know that once they're established, you'll have millions of gut germs rooting for you (and even helping you) to continue.

Another idea is that if they have found a correlation between some diseases, like long COVID or Alzheimers or Parkinsons, and some specific set of microbiota, then it could make diagnosis of these much simpler (I bet dogs could be trained to smell a healthy vs. diseased gut fairly simply). And perhaps, with a fecal transplant from a healthy doner, we could even help to counteract some of the symptoms. It wouldn't be a cure, but anything that could help is something worth taking a look at.

It's amazing. I recommend sitting outside the central train station in Amsterdam and people watching, as thousands of tourists attempt to bicycle or walk somewhere, and they're just in everybody's way. It's hilarious. If you're going to cycle (which, yes, you should) stay to the right and signal where you want to go. There are bike lanes there for you to take, don't just be off in the middle of the street. Also, they want you to pay for an extra ticket to bring your bike on the train with you, I found that this can be ignored if you're not a jerk about it.

The fuckin moon, and it's not even close. Get me off this rock

lol you're a fucking loser. eat shit troll.

yeah sure, I love wasting time arguing with bad faith actors! You're clearly in the special group of the best thinkers, it's so fun to spend time talking with people like you!

Yeah this is totally warranted given the recent news. I mean, one side trying to expand medicare, the other gutting it. One side trying to close Guantanamo bay, the other opening concentration camps on it. One side trying to get money out of politics, the other side destroying democracy for want of more money.

Totally helpful, totally warranted, OP. Well done. Way to go. You're so cool and centrist.

36 CEO's, you say?

That's not even enough to clog a woodchipper 🤔

My kind of gal

remember when drumpf was impeached because he was withholding aid to Ukraine because he wanted Zelensky to find dirt on Biden?

hey, hey, hey. Listen to me. You're a fucking moron.

CBP agents at the border accused Brösche of planning to violate the terms of the visa waiver program by intending to work as a tattoo artist during her trip to LA

Oh wow, a visiting artist might come do some art, fucking arrest her!

Jesus fucking christ the sociopathic cowards running these ABC agencies are dumber than shit

"Their last command was the most important, to not believe the evidence of your own eyes and ears."

They're just playing devils advocate, giving voice to any would-be conservative readers thoughts on the matter, so that they can dispel them. Based on all available evidence, the orange rapist has been putins fleshlight for decades. There is simply no other explanation.

I am so fucking sick of this pathetic piss baby bullshit. This fucking traitor and his cock holster have no right to disparage Zelenskyy, whilst polishing putins knob and trying to blackmail extort an ally into giving away their countries natural fucking resources. The level of treacherous, inane bullshit being spouted by these stupid fascist fucking fucks comes across like it's from some poorly written trash novel trying to really spell it out for the reader how absurdly terrible these people are.

I tell ya, I'm this close to volunteering for the fight in Ukraine myself, just so I have a chance to literally fight fascism, because the idea of sitting on my hands any longer is becoming detrimental to my health.

"Never waste motivation" is a favorite saying of mine. You can always think up some excuse for not doing the thing you should be doing, so if ever you randomly feel like putting effort into that thing, freaking do it. Don't think, just DO