conuly: Picture taken on the SI Ferry - "the soul of a journey is liberty" (boat)
conuly ([personal profile] conuly) wrote2010-11-12 12:37 pm
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Let me just say I'm tired of hearing about that cruise ship

I got to watch the news last night. They were talking about... the cruise ship! "Oh, the food was so bad and disgusting!" the kids say. Do tell. "A sandwich with just jelly and butter. A sandwich with just cheese!" That's disgusting? I brought that sort of thing to school with me for lunch as a kid! "Oh, the bathroom smelled!"

Look, I'm sure it wasn't very pleasant, and I feel for them, but nobody died, nobody seems to have been in any medical danger (if anybody was, we haven't heard about it), nobody starved or went particularly hungry (excepting those who were on a diet, of course), and it only lasted three days.

Why are we even still talking about it? WHY IS IT STILL ON THE NEWS?

I hate to use this line, but isn't there anything more important we can discuss?

Re: LOL

[identity profile] elenbarathi.livejournal.com 2010-11-17 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, I used to make this very stuff to bake cookie-cutter Xmas-tree ornaments with my preschoolers and after-schoolers! Indeed, it bakes harder than a dog biscuit; I can't picture even the toughest of piratical old weevils getting much good from it.

The recipe would be better with a bit of butter and sugar, and some cinnamon to go on top. Probably engender a better class of weevils, too. Oh well; Tradition.

Re: LOL

[identity profile] marveen.livejournal.com 2010-11-18 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Might-could spoil faster, too. Remember, one of its virtues is that those from the batch I baked in January 2009--lying around on the shelf--are still perfectly edible: not moldy, not stale (well, not so's you'd notice), no weevils have shown up.... butter might upset the balance of things. It could certainly go rancid, for instance.