On Aug 27, 5:12 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
> "Bobo Bonobo®" > wrote in message
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> oups.com...
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> > On Aug 27, 3:51 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
> >> "Omelet" > wrote in message
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> >>news
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> >> > The recent thread on dirty leeks made me think about just how many
> >> > people have no clu' where food really comes from.
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> >> I wonder how many don't know how to spell clue, and don't realize how
> >> pointless affectation wreck the beauty of language, unless you're Mark
> >> Twain.
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> > Shouldn't either affectation or wreck be plural?
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> > The sentence you wrote wasn't a very beautiful use of language.
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> > --Bryan
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> You're absolutely correct. But, that was a mistake. Om's linguistic horror
> show is intentional, to draw attention. What a charter life underwriter has
> to do with dirty vegetables is beyond me.

You know, for all the sh!t I give people around here, it really isn't
at all personal.
I don't think it's wrong to go off on folks who SandraLeeify* this NG.

I get along pretty well with Om some of the time, and when there were
a bunch of people ganging up on Jill, who I don't particularly like,
and it was about stuff that was personal, I just didn't participate at
all. I'm not saying that I act better than most others in general,
but in the midst of all the stuff on this NG, I manage to get a few
tidbits of info that help me make better food, and I try to save my
insults for the kind of lazy shortcut, crappy ingredient
recommendations that make for bad food.
Bad ingredients in, bad food out.
Do I practice lazy cooking? You bet. Do I serve it to company?
Well, no. Do I describe serving pasta with jarred pasta sauce here?
No. What would that do to help make people better cooks?
I'm chairing my son's school's PTO "father's pancake breakfast" thing
because I want to make the quality of the food better. I might well
get stuck with that job for six years, OK. That really is OK.
I'm just glad that over the weekend I will be eating well, in an
idyllically beautiful place, with nice people. You'll get photos.

* I had never even heard of Sandra Lee until a few months ago, on this
NG

--Bryan