"Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future..."

-- Yoda

This was my experiment with Morrocan food cooked in the tagine. It's mint lamb with couscous.

The bread (khobz) was a highlight.



The top 30 Morrocan hits can be found here for those who understandably would expect such sounds while enjoying their khobz.

Two interesting things:

In a free market, all current market information is reflected in the price.

In other words, the price of green beans reflects all the related forces in the market, from growing conditions to government subsidies, from the cost of labor to the cost of manufacturing the wheels on the trucks that deliver fertilizer.

If the price is set by collective leadership, their information gathering methods will be blunt compared to a market's precision.

Except that it's not uncommon for entities in a free market society to find themselves able to artificially set prices. The notion that you, the consumer, are financially benefitted by the cost saving potential of the market isn't strictly true.

The second thing I learned is that one of the reasons people hung on every word Trump wrote on Twitter was that he kept swaying the markets all over the place with his psychotic ramblings. Investors paid close attention in order to make a profit off it.

the price is set by collective leadership, their information gathering will be a blunt instrument compared to a market's precision. — frank

a free market, all current market information is reflected in the price. — frank

It's possible though that part of the current market information includes collective leadership. That is, the price of rent is determined by supply and demand, but also by rent controls.

That I think would be the reply to what you're saying: the market does set the price, but the market isn't just consumers moving about freely buying this and rejecting that, but plenty of other controls, including government set that final price.

That I think would be the reply to what you're saying: the market does set the price, but the market isn't just consumers moving about freely buying this and rejecting that, but plenty of other controls, including government set that final price. — Hanover

No, it's that producers gather behind closed doors (or maybe they just text each other) and come up with pricing that suits them. I think that's supposed to be against the law, but it happens.

Any government intervention would be information that shows up in a price that the market generates. I mentioned government subsidies.

No, it's that producers gather behind closed doors (or maybe they just text each other) and come up with pricing that suits them. — frank

They fax each other. That way there's a paper record in case someone acts like they didn't say it and the other guy will be like read it and weep and then they'll have to what the paper says because a deal's a deal.

If you eat enough goldfish crackers, you'll eventually turn into a giant goldfish.

Less heavy death metal and more Moroccan top 40.

I see the picture of the Jews Harp, but I don't know what the joke was that I missed. Please be more explicit.

Honey-sweetened cassava flour chocolate chip.

This is the slow boat to China. It's a jazz standard.

I see the picture of the Jews Harp, but I don't know what the joke was that I missed. Please be more explicit. — BC

The last letter of jews is s and it combines with harp to sound like sharp and I'm really sharp.

Jokes are so much less funny when you have to spell them out.

Honey-sweetened cassava flour chocolate chip. — praxis

Looks good. I substituted olives for the chocolate chips and lettuce for the flour, so mine tasted a little more salady, but pretty much the same

It's a jazz standard. — frank

The definition of jazz is nonstandard.

Jokes are so much less funny when you have to spell them out. — Hanover

This is true. People hate it when that happens,

If uou eat enough goldfish crackers, you'll eventually turn into a giant goldfish. — frank

No. You'll just run out of goldfish crackers. No idea where you got that turn into a goldfish bullshit.

For God's sake, the Shoutbox is for most people their only source of information, could you please try to be accurate?

You are what you eat, though. If you eat enough buffalo wings you turn into a flying buffalo. It just stands to reason.

DON'T SNEAR AT ONE-HIT WONDERS:

According to Freakonomics, 93% of recorded musicians (individuals, bands) Never have a hit. 7% do have hits. about 3.5% have only 1 hit. So, 93% never, 3.5% once, at least. Not too shabby.

What about cannibals?

What about cannibals? — Noble Dust

Isn't that part of the reason for cannibalism - to take on the characteristics of the victim?

By @frank’s Logic, if a human eats enough other humans they’ll turn into...a human. Seems like the ideal dietary choice.

By frank’s Logic, if a human eats enough other humans they’ll turn into...a human. Seems like the ideal dietary choice. — Noble Dust

You're one of our most knowledgeable members about food. Can you recommend a good cannibal restaurant in NYC?

I was going to respond in a Stefan from SNL bit style, but quickly realized it was going to be way too dark.

I ate at a human meat restaurant by the cemetery and ordered the grandma asshole sammich. It was pretty good, but for the grandchild looking on crying harder with my every dunk of it into the bloody au jus sauce.

She muttered to herself "that bunghole was meant for me!"

I was going to respond in a Stefan from SNL bit style, but quickly realized it was going to be way too dark. — Noble Dust

Just showing you what "way too dark" really means.

Just showing you what "way too dark" really means. — Hanover

Thanks buddy. I use "buddy" as an insult; I still can't tell what it means in New York parlance, but the other day when a customer at my job kept calling me buddy, I repeatedly reciprocated the moniker. He seemed confused and frazzled by the time he left, so I take it to be a back-handed insult in this neck of the woods.

I ate at a human meat restaurant by the cemetery and ordered the grandma asshole sammich. It was pretty good, but for the grandchild looking on crying harder with my every dunk of it into the bloody au jus sauce.

She muttered to herself "that bunghole was meant for me!" — Hanover

The only genuinely dark part of this post is the word "sammich."

It's a little fat, but mostly happy.

This is the slow boat to China. It's a jazz standard. — frank

Good one :up:

So I asked google if pigs are racist, and apparently, some are.

https://dribbble.com/tags/racist_pigs

Also, the latest news is that your Black pig has had a litter

https://www.virginwines.co.uk/wine/Z36659102291/16-Little-Black-Pigs-Shiraz

The wine may be virgin, but probably not the pig.