I've never heard of this- is it a dessert? Appetizer?
And that times article is so full of holes and logical inconsistencies I stopped counting at 10 stupid things he said.
I've never heard of this- is it a dessert? Appetizer?
And that times article is so full of holes and logical inconsistencies I stopped counting at 10 stupid things he said.
Let's put everything that makes me queasy in one thread, I guess.
I think it's a snack? It was sold at a fundraiser stand.
I had a picture book on "Eating the Alphabet" when my kids were little, but this is the first time I've ever seen jicama mentioned anywhere else. We had no idea how to pronounce it: jik-KAH-ma? JYE-ka-ma? (It would have been so much easier if the authors had just used jackfruit instead.) And what on earth does it taste like?
HICK-ama. Crunchy, mostly tasteless and a little bitter. Just like my women.
5: HIH-ka-ma. It tastes kind of like a less-pungent radish. Crisp and refreshing.
Anyway, this is the first I've heard of pepinos locos. It sounds really good.
None of the examples I'm seeing online involve pickles or candy. And one person described it as a "recent craze" but the sign (with a photo) on the food stand did not look particularly recent.
10: You're my less-pungent radish. The LEAST.
6,7: Thanks! So in fact both the vegetables starting with J in Eating the Alphabet are actually said with an H sound (the other example was jalapenos). I'm kind of glad I didn't know how to say it properly then, so the boys didn't grow up thinking "juice" is pronounced "hoose."
It's not a trick. It's just Spanish.
Spanish is the easiest language to pronounce ever. Unless making the clicking noises is really easy and I've just never known anybody who tried.
Anyway, the picture reminds me of what I tell visitors when I welcome them to America. You can drink the water but don't eat the food.
Addictions should be covered but not mental health?!! No mayernity. argh ugh.
EMTALA would not pay for congenital heart surgery. And the kid would be uninsurable for maintenance care as an adult. Fuming!
If anyone here is planning to get their minor heart attack treated at the hospital by my house, I can recommend the low-sodium chicken stir fry unreservedly.
See, another problem with Obamacare- if you make the low-sodium chicken stir fry too tasty, people are going to have elective heart attacks just to get to try it.
5-7: My old Aikido sensei used to wear a skirt made from that stuff. It was a jicama hakama.
Sounds like a good look for Michelle Obama.
Honestly, I've never tried it. Not even without gummy bears.
I read the title at first glance as "A meal and a shit." And it worked very well.
I can't decide which is more disgusting, the description or the picture (which should be put below the fold!).
So, how can we monetize this shit and get some serious SV VC $$$?
jicamr
jicamero
jycamer
jicamerican pie
First, we design a very aesthetically pleasing container and sell it for, say, $100. Then, for $49.95/month, we agree not to put pepinos locos in it.
I do not know how I'm going to make it through the week without a new Juicero or Fyre Festival story to carry me through.But I have faith that late capitalism will provide.
20: I assume that if you're reading Unfogged, you're reasonably OK, but yikes! Hope you recover and get out soon with no damage.
I somehow missed what 20 meant. Yes, best wishes. And you're the second person my age who had a heart attack today. Or that I heard about today.
35 Same here. Best wishes on a full and speedy recovery.
Thanks, folx. I am still in hospital, but apparently it was a very minor attack. Angiogram tomorrow, crossing my fingers that they don't have to stent and I can go home tomorrow evening. Sucks, but, you know, it certainly could have been worse.
Oh wow. Glad the chicken stir fry is good, at least.
Heck of a way to get to sample the menu! I hope all goes well for you, Natilo.
It's Trump's America, but try the chicken stir fry.
Best wishes Natilo! That's a bit of a bugger.
(I was going to ask, can you substitute daikon, which you can buy here as mooli, but then I re-read the recipe and thought, fuck it.)
Which vegetable pairs best with gummy bears does seem to be a pointless debate.
I did wonder momentarily if the woman who'd prepared it was punking me somehow. It just seemed much more likely that she was completely indifferent to me.
Doctors reckon I am doing pretty well. One artery with a 60% blockage, so no stent. Back home today or tomorrow.
That's great t hear, Natilo! Enjoy the other low sodium offerings in the meantime.
Glad to hear that you're doing better Natilo; that sounded like not the way one hopes to spend a weekend.
bloody hell Nat. British Rail ate my earlier note of sympathy. But I'm surprised they didn't give you a precautionary stent. Which artery was blocked? I have a personal interest in these matters, having had the most insiginifacnt artery imaginable blocked, and stented, some years ago.
I think the science on stenting has been shifting back a bit, but I don't follow that very closely.
Though I think that was stenting after for angina, not an actual heart attack.
51 Didn't we have a post on stenting just a few weeks ago?