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Default What are you trying to make?

Sheldon wrote:

> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >
> >Googling for "croquettes hominy cheese" turned up some hits. If I were
> >Julie and hadn't received a satisfactory reply after the thread had
> >reached 696 posts in 11 days, I think I would just abandon the effort
> >on rec.food.cooking and try a search engine.

>
> Odds of anyone here or anywhere on the planet making cheese and hominy
> croquettes are mighty thin... however if Julie knew how to cook even a
> litle bit she could have come up with a method without asking anyone.
> Has anyone ever seen anything Julie has cooked... of course not, I
> didn't think so... and I never want to see anything she concocts, that
> would be scarey. How can someone who is incapable of peeling a
> carrot cook anything.



Julie's continuing food drama is a perfect exemplar of this:


https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/folderol

folderol

noun: nonsensical talk or writing

Synonyms:
applesauce, codswallop, rubbish, trash, tripe, trumpery, wish-wash

Type of:
drivel, garbage
a worthless message

Examples:

'Super Bowl Sunday is Americas great secular feast day, loosely organized around a professional championship football game but centered on food, parties, music, advertising and consumer hoopla and folderol in all shapes and size.'

'Covering non-Trump campaigns is extremely boring, and outside of the privileged few assigned to Trump, the gig involves hearing the same stump speeches on repeat, watching handshakes, getting stonewalled and being fed press release folderol'