It's all true!

I need a vacation with a Bahama pig.

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

If you look at the large number of humans in the environment, this indicates that cannibalism is much more prevalent than most people realize. :grimace:

I need a vacation with a Bahama pig. — Shawn

For the same reasons you don't allow babies in the pool without swim diapers, you don't allow pigs in there.

Feces requires the entire pool be shut down and that it be chemically shocked. Vomit, on the other hand, can be removed by vacuum, being careful to remove each piece the best you can. I know this, having once been active in my neighborhood and responsible for the community pool, among other things.

I no longer have a community pool, but have my own, and the goats have yet to go for a swim, although sometimes I must yell at Tater not to drink from the pool because it's saltwater, and that's not good for goats.

That's a reference to a Pink Floyd song!! Two of them actually. :cheer:

You might be interested in the pigs that show up in Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space novels. They have been bred for intelligence, walk on their hind legs, talk, wear uniforms, but are otherwise pigs. Some are noted for their natural viciousness. They work side by side with humans. On Yellowstone, a planet with a huge enclosed and orbiting infrastructure (the sulfurous planet itself is very inhospitable) the pigs pretty much ran the underworld crime scene. Later, when the Inhibitors attacked, many were evacuated and joined up in more legit work elsewhere.

Maybe you don't like sci-fi. Fine if you don't. But this is the only incidence in contemporary sci-fi where intelligent pigs appear, as far as I know. However, I haven't been conjoined with elaborate brain implants, so my access to all sci-fi titles, plots, and characters is extremely limited.

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

If you eat a human brain infected with the kuru prions (a neurological disease sort of like bovine spongiform encephalopathy--mad cow disease) you will take on the same characteristics -- insanity.

If you eat a human brain infected with the kuru prions (a neurological disease sort of like bovine spongiform encephalopathy--mad cow disease) you will take on the same characteristics -- insanity. — BC

That happened to me a couple of times, but I had the anti-venom, which was to do a keg stand while having sex with a virgin. The second time, I did the head stand, but the virgin was some computer geek guy who wasn't my type, so I went with the insanity.

That's a reference to a Pink Floyd song!! Two of them actually. — Manuel

This is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. When I was suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy from eating bad cow, just before standing on my head and trying to suck down beer (Miller Lite), just as the computer guy was preparing himself for the onslaught that I ultimately resisted, I listened to this.

It brings back those memories of my youth, when I lived life as Hemmingway couldn't even have imagined.

That is a great, great song, not known to many casual fans. A hidden gem of sort, beautiful lyrics. :up:

Another great one off the same album:

My favorite obscure Floyd record is probably More.

Jerk chicken thighs and cajun seasoned okra and broccoli.

Homemade jerk rub?

Haha. :nerd:

Homemade jerk rub? — Noble Dust

It came in a jar.

Honestly wasn't trying to be a food snob. There's a Caribbean restaurant around the corner from my place that makes the worst jerk chicken I've ever had, so I trust that jarred jerk seasoning is better.

Honestly wasn't trying to be a food snob. — Noble Dust

You don't have to try ND :wink:

I've never had jerk chicken and I don't know what it is. Hanover's looks like he's dropped it in his muddy paddock.

You don't have to try ND — Jamal

True....

I've never had jerk chicken and I don't know what it is. — Jamal

:gasp: A truly unique flavor from Jamaica involving Scotch Bonnet peppers and allspice. A must try dish, to me.

Jerking is a way of slow cooking for the purpose of preserving, like smoking. The commercial form is jerky, a prepackaged snack available in every retail outlet in North America. Hardware store, gas station, clothing store, grocery store, whatever, grab a snack. One never knows exactly what's in the package though, so some restrictions have been placed on the industry to prevent the spread of CJD prions, ever since mad-cow became a problem. The business of "rendering" has a long, sordid history. All those jokes about roadkill start from somewhere.

I've never had jerk chicken and I don't know what it is. Hanover's looks like he's dropped it in his muddy paddock. — Jamal

In Scotland it's referred to as melancholy bog chicken, where a young hen is submerged and suffocated in the bog and left to ferment a fortnight and then it is eaten immediately as one pensively overlooks the foggy hills and thinks to oneself "where did I go wrong?"

Jerking is a way of slow cooking for the purpose of preserving, like smoking. The commercial form is jerky, a prepackaged snack available in every retail outlet in North America. Hardware store, gas station, clothing store, grocery store, whatever, grab a snack. One never knows exactly what's in the package though, so some restrictions have been placed on the industry to prevent the spread of CJD prions, ever since mad-cow became a problem. The business of "rendering" has a long, sordid history. All those jokes about roadkill start from somewhere. — Metaphysician Undercover

There's a difference between Jamaican jerk chicken and chicken (or beef or any type of meat) jerky. Jamaican jerk is a particular blend of spices where the meat is either slow cooked or grilled. Jerky is a process where the meat is slowly dried out and salted or has nitrates added and it creates a dehydrated and chewy preserved piece of meat that you can buy at convenience stores, although some people actually make homemade jerky.

Jerky can be spiced as well, so you could have jerk flavored jerky, but the two are different things.

These days they’re humanely slaughtered prior to submersion.

Honestly wasn't trying to be a food snob. There's a Caribbean restaurant around the corner from my place that makes the worst jerk chicken I've ever had, so I trust that jarred jerk seasoning is better. — Noble Dust

I've never made a homemade rub, as I've seen some that require so many types of spices that you'd have to buy them all and then just use a small portion from each.

In grocery stores near me, they sell the seasonings in jars and there's a large variety, but maybe it's more popular where I live, being a bit closer to Jamaica than others.

Ya'all probably don't remember (or never knew) Julia Childe, aka, PBS French cooking show. She thought that heavy, intense spicing led to "a kind of palate death". Sort of like, after taking meth, why would you bother with coffee?

Ya'all probably don't remember (or never knew) Julia Childe, aka, — BC

I remember Julia Child. She's the source of one of my favorite non-stadard plural rules joke. If Mr. and Mrs. Child were coming over for dinner, I wouldn't say "the Childs are coming over." I'd say "the Children are coming over."

Not many chances for that joke, so I thought I'd better use it.

"Hello, old friend." they write:

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suck down beer (Miller Lite) — Hanover

What's with all the "Lite" beer in the US anyways?
Do they also have "Miller Strong"?

We like to pretend we won't gain weight from drinking the beer.

What's with all the "Lite" beer in the US anyways?
Do they also have "Miller Strong"? — jorndoe

Light beer allows you to lose weight with every sip. Most people become emaciated after 5 or six beers
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