On 2020-07-17 10:19 a.m., Gary wrote:
> Mike Duffy wrote:
>>
>> And most importantly, do they consider it cooked when you throw the pasta
>> against the wall to see if it sticks? My Aunt does that.
>
> Is that myth even true. Sound so dumb. I've always just fished
> out a couple pieces of pasta and chewed to test for doneness.
>
> Throwing it against the wall... lol. Get outta here.
>


It will tell you if the pasta is cooked enough to test it by tooth.

On 2020-07-17 11:16 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> All pasta really is is boiled, then dried bread in the shape of a wire. Big deal.
>
> Beer is liquid bread.

A few decades ago there was an ad campaign for a brand of beer that was
described as a barely sandwich.

On Friday, July 17, 2020 at 1:19:44 PM UTC-4, Taxed and Spent wrote:
> On 7/17/2020 10:11 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2020-07-17 9:37 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
> >> On 7/17/2020 9:05 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>> On 2020-07-17 8:47 a.m., jmcquown wrote:
> >>>> On 7/16/2020 8:20 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The kid is supposedly working on his masters. We didn't have
> >>>>> personal computers and the internet when I was at university. A
> >>>>> significant amount of my course load involved research and
> >>>>> critiquing research methods, and I was TA for my thesis advisor in
> >>>>> his course on experimental psychology.Â* I just can't see there being
> >>>>> any validity to polls distributed through Usenet groups.Â* I am not
> >>>>> going to click on that link to figure out why they are trying to
> >>>>> bait people into clicking on it.
> >>>>
> >>>> Too bad they didn't have personal computers in your school days,
> >>>> Dave. I can't imagine how else someone in Milan would be able to
> >>>> ascertain the pasta buying habits of people in the US during the
> >>>> Covid-19 pandemic. Bocconi University offers Masters programs in
> >>>> economics and management, among other things.Â* (I looked it up before
> >>>> I took the very straightforward survey.)
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> You are so trusting Jill. Anyone can go online and check out the names
> >>> of universities and the programs offered and then make up a plausible
> >>> story about the research they are doing. This one was pretty Mickey
> >>> Mouse.
> >>
> >> I'm actually very much a cynic, Dave, but I get your point.Â* Having said
> >> that, it's exactly what the OP said it would be.Â* The survey asks, among
> >> other things: are you buying pasta online vs. buying in physical stores
> >> due to the pandemic?Â* Do you prefer to buy certain brands and if so have
> >> there been any brand shortages/interruptions in the supply chain as a
> >> result of the pandemic?Â* Any economic impact [presumeably regarding the
> >> price of pasta] as a result of Covid-19?Â* If you're stuck at home, which
> >> is more important, the price, availability, having recipies on the the
> >> box to give you ideas of what to cook?Â* Recipes your kids could make?Â* I
> >> found it interesting. <shrug>
> >>
> >
> > It's just not the way legitimate research is done. They need a reliable
> > sample of the population. The whole thing stinks of click bait.
> >
>
>
> it is a university class project. They know about proper sampling, but
> that takes time and money. So, the simulate, and learn something.
>
> I wish they had a comments section. There was one piece where I was
> forced to rank 5 things from 1 to 5. None of them meant a darn to me (I
> snuck my comment on that in a space for "other" in another question.

Good thinking. I just left the items in their original order.

Cindy Hamilton

On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 3:01:07 PM UTC-5, Giulia wrote:
>
> Its an academic research project: all the data will be treated
> anonymously and will not be disclosed, according to the current privacy
> legislation.
>
You'd better keep it anonymous. MY GOD, if people knew that I sometimes put marinara on linguine I would be humiliated.
>
> --
> Giulia

--Bryan

On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:40:59 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
> wrote:

>On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 3:01:07 PM UTC-5, Giulia wrote:
>>
>> It’s an academic research project: all the data will be treated
>> anonymously and will not be disclosed, according to the current privacy
>> legislation.
>>
>You'd better keep it anonymous. MY GOD, if people knew that I sometimes put marinara on linguine I would be humiliated.
>>
>> Giulia
>--Bryan

I occasionally like pasta but it's not typically a go-to meal for me.
I enjoy some real guinea pasta dishes like ****ghetti with scungilli
and mussels marinara with linguinni and dago red. In my Brooklyn
today's ethnic slurs were considered a show of welcoming acceptence...
no one cared if you were a polach or a mick so long as you could play
stickball. And the big bosomed black girls were wonderful if they
could jump rope or rollerskate. My rollerskating dance partner,
Sydelle was a best friend and had bosoms and ass that never quit... at
twelve years old I didn't know Sydelle had a magnificent bubble butt
and would be blessed with her mom's gigantic bosoms. Sydelle matured
early, I didn't realize that at twelve years old when the shoved her
tongue down my throat and shoved her hands in my crotch that she was
going to rape me.
Anyway today she's married and has two kids but is still a friend.

On 2020 Jul 17, , jmcquown wrote
(in article >):

> On 7/17/2020 11:16 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
> > Beer is liquid bread.
> It certainly could be considered that way.

Im eating quite a lot of bread tonight. I like the metaphor. I did mow the
lawn, take a shower and am doing the laundry. It was 91F when I mowed the
lawn, so I need to carb up and am doing my best.

leo

On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 11:23:11 PM UTC-5, Leo wrote:
>
> Im eating quite a lot of bread tonight. I like the metaphor. I did mow the
> lawn, take a shower and am doing the laundry. It was 91F when I mowed the
> lawn, so I need to carb up and am doing my best.
>
> Leo
>
It was 99° here today and I made sure to NOT go outside except to the
mailbox.

On 2020 Jul 18, , wrote
(in >):

> It was 99° here today and I made sure to NOT go outside except to the
> mailbox.

Our humidity is almost always very low. I run a swamp cooler that won't work
with wet heat, and swamp coolers save a bundle in electricity costs if they
can be used. With wet heat, Id have ended up dead on the lawn.
We have been in the mid-nineties for three solid weeks but havent hit a
hundred yet, I dont think.

On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 8:52:17 PM UTC-10, Leo wrote:
> On 2020 Jul 18, , wrote
> (in >):
>
> > It was 99° here today and I made sure to NOT go outside except to the
> > mailbox.
>
> Our humidity is almost always very low. I run a swamp cooler that won't work
> with wet heat, and swamp coolers save a bundle in electricity costs if they
> can be used. With wet heat, Id have ended up dead on the lawn.
> We have been in the mid-nineties for three solid weeks but havent hit a
> hundred yet, I dont think.

Those swamp coolers are pretty cool. They work great where my sister-in-law live in Oroville, CA. The time I went there, the place was dry as a bone and like a tinderbox ready to explode. I like fire the same as the next guy but that was ridiculous.

Those coolers won't work in my little town with 80% humidity. I got my AC window unit on at the moment and boy, the racket is kinda nuts.

On Sat, 18 Jul 2020 22:33:48 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:

>On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 11:23:11 PM UTC-5, Leo wrote:
>>
>> I’m eating quite a lot of bread tonight. I like the metaphor. I did mow the
>> lawn, take a shower and am doing the laundry. It was 91F when I mowed the
>> lawn, so I need to carb up and am doing my best.
>>
>> Leo

I'll be heading out to mow the back field once the dew burns off, some
4 acres of mowing from an air conditioned cab with the radio set on an
Oldies station. It's hot but I won't notice.

>It was 99° here today and I made sure to NOT go outside except to the
>mailbox.

On 7/19/2020 1:33 AM, wrote:
> On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 11:23:11 PM UTC-5, Leo wrote:
>>
>> Im eating quite a lot of bread tonight. I like the metaphor. I did mow the
>> lawn, take a shower and am doing the laundry. It was 91F when I mowed the
>> lawn, so I need to carb up and am doing my best.
>>
>> Leo
>>
> It was 99° here today and I made sure to NOT go outside except to the
> mailbox.
>
The temp was somewhere in the 90's yesterday. The only thing I did
outside was walk to the mailbox and back. You can tell it's going to be
a miserably humid day when the windows are covered in dew in the morning.

Jill

On 7/17/2020 6:24 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:40:59 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
> > wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 3:01:07 PM UTC-5, Giulia wrote:
>>>
>>> Its an academic research project: all the data will be treated
>>> anonymously and will not be disclosed, according to the current privacy
>>> legislation.
>>>
>> You'd better keep it anonymous. MY GOD, if people knew that I sometimes put marinara on linguine I would be humiliated.
>>>
>>> Giulia
>> --Bryan
>
> I occasionally like pasta but it's not typically a go-to meal for me.
> I enjoy some real guinea pasta dishes like ****ghetti with scungilli
> and mussels marinara with linguinni and dago red. In my Brooklyn
(snipped a bunch of sexual dreaming)

When, was that, Sheldon? About the same time you were cooking a bunch
of bacon on a Navy ship?

Jill

On 2020-07-19 1:33 a.m., wrote:
> On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 11:23:11 PM UTC-5, Leo wrote:
>>
>> Im eating quite a lot of bread tonight. I like the metaphor. I did mow the
>> lawn, take a shower and am doing the laundry. It was 91F when I mowed the
>> lawn, so I need to carb up and am doing my best.
>>
>> Leo
>>
> It was 99° here today and I made sure to NOT go outside except to the
> mailbox.
>
It is only 10 am and the temperature is 81 with a "feels like " 100.
It's stinking hot. It is going to be 90 this afternoon. AC is on and I
am planning on staying inside.

On Sunday, July 19, 2020 at 10:14:03 AM UTC-4, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2020-07-19 1:33 a.m., wrote:
> > On Saturday, July 18, 2020 at 11:23:11 PM UTC-5, Leo wrote:
> >>
> >> Im eating quite a lot of bread tonight. I like the metaphor. I did mow the
> >> lawn, take a shower and am doing the laundry. It was 91F when I mowed the
> >> lawn, so I need to carb up and am doing my best.
> >>
> >> Leo
> >>
> > It was 99° here today and I made sure to NOT go outside except to the
> > mailbox.
> >
> It is only 10 am and the temperature is 81 with a "feels like " 100.
> It's stinking hot. It is going to be 90 this afternoon. AC is on and I
> am planning on staying inside.

I have never regretted saying "Yes" when my husband asked to air-condition
his workshop. I was out there this morning putting a final coat of
polyurethane onto my bookshelves.

Cindy Hamilton

jmcquown wrote:
> On 7/17/2020 6:24 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:40:59 -0700 (PDT), Bryan Simmons
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 3:01:07 PM UTC-5, Giulia wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It€„¢s an academic research project: all the data will be treated
>>>> anonymously and will not be disclosed, according to the current
>>>> privacy
>>>> legislation.
>>>>
>>> You'd better keep it anonymous.Â* MY GOD, if people knew that I
>>> sometimes put marinara on linguine I would be humiliated.
>>>>
>>>> Giulia
>>> --Bryan
>>
>> I occasionally like pasta but it's not typically a go-to meal for
>> me.
>> I enjoy some real guinea pasta dishes like ****ghetti with scungilli
>> and mussels marinara with linguinni and dago red.Â* In my Brooklyn
> (snipped a bunch of sexual dreaming)
>
> When, was that, Sheldon?Â* About the same time you were cooking a
> bunch of bacon on a Navy ship?
>
> Jill
>

No, I believe he is referring to the time frame when he was humping
that nun in the vatican.