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What other topping can you say that about? Not pepperoni, nor olives, certainly not mushrooms or sausage. No other pizza topping as perfectly rounds out the flavor profile of pizza as pineapple, especially fresh pineapple, and that is why it's the superior topping.
If I just want a savory pizza, I'll probably lean more towards a pepperoni slice. But a Hawaiian option from a place that serves actually good pizza will tempt me on a regular basis. The ham is where they get you, it's typically a bigger issue than the pineapple at most places.
My go-to pizza is pineapple and jalapeno
This is nonsense. Your tongue is far more sensitive than that.
How would you characterize the flavor of butter?
Caramelized onions (sweet), sun-dried tomatoes (sour), roquette salad or kale (bitter), olives (salty), and mushrooms or tempeh (umami)
I’m hungry now
I also take issue with the idea that there are just five cardinal flavors. There are many, many more, which cannot be expressed in terms of these five, especially in the savory category.
Think of the flavor of meat, spices, and pepper. They are all fundamentally different, and yet would be bundled under savory in the 5-flavor scheme. The word "spicy" itself has two distinct meanings.
The five flavors model is an outdated model of what taste buds detect, a sixth has been established (oleogustus, associated with fatty acids and particularly with rancidity.) Furthermore, while not technically “tastes” in the detected-by-tastebuds sende, unctuousness (the mouthfeel of fats) and spiciness (detected by pain receptors instead of tastebuds) are part of what most people mean when they talk about “taste”.
Some such substances occur across a broad range of foods, or in varieties that differ from each other in ways that don't really matter to your digestive system, and you can pick them up and consider them to be a flavor common to those foods.
Some are unique. You can pick those up too.
In either case, your perception of the same taste will vary according to the current state of your nutrition. Steven Callahan noted that, when he was lost at sea and food was scarce, fish eyes tasted significantly better than the rest of the fish. That is because they contain important nutrients, which your tongue can detect, but which you don't ordinarily care about. You start to care as you develop deficiencies.
A model of a small number of "basic flavors" doesn't even allow for this phenomenon to exist. It is fundamentally misguided.
It has a very unique bite because of this *proteolytic* enzyme it contains (when fresh),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromelain
It's literally trying, and mostly failing, to digest your tongue.
One other very unique one is the Sichuan pepper, which is not a "spicy pepper" in the conventional, capsaicin sense, rather an idiosyncratic chemical that's... Wikipedia calls it "tingling, numbing":
We regret to inform you that you are henceforth and forever denied entry into the Italian Republic
Cordially,
Ministro della Giustizia
We improved burritos, and sushi too. We even put sushi in a burrito and Indian food on a pizza.
You can’t stop us. We will continue to disrespect your narrow ideas of what it means to make your national dish by making it far more delicious.
You want to deny anyone entry into your food republic? Give us back the tomato. You don’t deserve it.
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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
Sure, there are arguments against that. But when you see the manner in which American cuisine takes the opposite of that principle - especially when it comes to the creation of Italian-American cuisine - it's hardly like the laying of multiple beautiful, well-chosen instruments in an orchestra. Instead, it's a one-trick pony of: add cheese, cream and garlic. And lots of everything
Fettuccine Alfredo: Loads of butter, cream and cheese
Deep dish pizza: Tons of cheese. It's a meat/cheese pie
Carbonora: "Fixed" it by adding cream and garlic.
It's like believing you're improving an orchestra by always adding huge, loud crashing cymbals.
Trying to eat at Italian restaurants in the US as a lactose intolerant person was an exercise in frustration.
> the one thing that unequivocally makes me proud to be American is that we have improved pizza
Gosh...
I eat it with hot peppers and blue cheese. The sweet/spicy combo is fantastic and the blue cheese brings a fantastic complexity to the mix.
So, in short, he's mad at the court for ordering him to do something, and (while the lawsuit is still running!) is basically mocking the court order, and trolling the judge and plaintiff.
This guy has an attorney somewhere, and that attorney has this guy for a client. That poor attorney.
He won't be a poor attorney after milking Matt Mullenweg. The financial rewards of having to defend one of the most vindictive clients ever[1] are probably not small, especially when your client is so mentally stuck that they will see their delusional case to the last appeal.
remove means gone, not altered or replaced. i think clarification comes next, offering a chance to demonstrate lack of contempt before being jailed.
this would be indirect contempt, of court order to the prejudice of the courts authority to mandate injunctive relief
The lawyer he retained for this case, Neal Katyal, is not a sympathetic figure to a lot of people: https://newrepublic.com/article/160481/neal-katyal-depravity...
That or he’s trying the reliable old, cancelled-by-the-courts censorship grifting treadmill, to try and use it to spin into into politics (for which I suspect the boat has sailed already).
Everything else...eh. I prefer pulled pork in KC tbh. The Carolinas can get out of here with that vinegar they call BBQ sauce.
Source: >30 years living in Texas and traveling most of the South several times.
>This boilermaker chili is the one the gang eats at Purdue Boilermaker football games. I always prep and cook the chili the night before and then reheat it the next day. This is a combination of many different tomato-based chili recipes.
In 2007, a guy from Texas makes it, then complains it's not Texas chile:
>Very disappointed. I hope he didn't make this down here in El Paso last year when Purdue played in the sunbowl and try to pass it off as authentic. Most of the ingredients are from a can and taste like it. If you want it truly hot, better add more "hot sauce" as he puts it. Not trying to be critical, but this isn't authentic chile. Pass on this and try another chile recipe that has the word "Texas" in it.
Two years later in 2009, another guy reviews it, complaining about the Texan:
>Don't listen to the condescending reviewer from Texas. This is a great chili. All Texans think they're stringy meat and watery sauce chili is the best and they have to make fun of other chilis...
Fifteen years later (and even after the Texas guy's review has been removed), people are still upset at him:
>Listen, I am from Texas, and I have won a ton of competitions with this spice mix. Whoever the tool from Texas was that gave this a 1 star couldn't tell his chili pot from his own rear end, just sayin. In Texas, they don't allow beans or veggies, so I cook them all down and blend them, then add the meat at the end so as not to over cook the meat. I also use a blend of smoked pulled pork, brisket and ground venison for the meat. It's a winner, I use my crawfish pot to cook enough to stock the freezer, and I add a lot more chilis for heat, however, the original spice mix was so interesting that I could not resist making a pot and experimenting. It has made all the difference.
Truly, the Internet forgets nothing.
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1 - https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/78299/boilermaker-tailgate...
based on the polarizing nature pretty much implies that some people will nonsensical beliefs supporting which ever side they are on when viewed by a neutral but especially when viewed from opposing side.
> Would be comedy for the EU to go after WP for only having one App Store. I mean plugin store.
For good management, no real system is even necessary. For bad management, no system is immune to their incompetence.
Well run foundations (like Debian) can keep chugging along even with stakeholders who bitterly hate each other.
Great time to be learning other CMSes. I tried Payload 3 this week. It was refreshingly easy to configure! Needs a little more polish (the textarea expansion logic seems broken in Safari) but I know a good team is behind it and they'll figure it out.
I hope a BDFL isn't going through a rough time while not having to listen to anyone else.
Also, the value of the checkbox is "yes-it-is", which would break the API anyway if that were the reason.
Since this post doesn't have a paywall and it's good/newsworthy, I vouched for it.
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented/blob/m...
Vouching is intended as a corrective check on things that shouldn't be automatically killed.
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co&next=3932...
I'm not sure what you are getting at.
> Although I may not have the exact reason the domain was banned, I've been around long enough to observe that everytime a 404media.co article is posted and gets traction, the comments unanimously complain about the paywall and it gets flagkilled.
So I thought this is what you meant by shadowbanned.
Still, this apparently completely undocumented standard behaviour seems a little bit troubling? It’s not like 404media is a spam content mill (and I doubt it is the ability to bypass the paywall - those methods don’t work on 404?)
There's not really much news here, I think. It's just gossiping at Matt's public meltdown, which, eh.
Is an account on Wordpress.org the only way for someone to use WP?
They don't want to pay for all that. They want to make money. That might save Mullenweg in the end, despite himself. He might be ordered to help them set up an alternative plugin directory, but the court probably can't or won't force him to continue doing business with them. Keeping up their mirror of the WP infra might cut into profits too badly. All of the huffing and puffing on their side doesn't change the fact that they're basically parasitic. They do nothing for Mullenweg, and he was doing everything for them.
There could be an outcome where he's about to be forced to pay damages for all of the harassment and help with some complex remedy that still requires them to fork, and instead they come to a settlement beforehand where they (quietly and confidentially) pay him something slightly less than 8% of their revenue and he pays their legal costs and publicly apologizes.
A persistent annoying thing I've had to maintain for years has been WordPress sites. As a Systems Engineer, their design is particularly annoying to support, and the way they are changed and deployed leads to tons of predictable failures. It's possible to turn WordPress into a real, CI/CD driven, ephemeral deploys, with diffed, staged, tested database changes. But for some reason nobody has built that as a canned solution (I did long ago for a previous employer).
Fun fact: the reason you get a billion blog results when you try to Google for a recipe, is 1) a WordPress plugin that auto-generates recipe blogs, and 2) a Google Metadata thing in the page for encoding recipes. Google prioritizes all those blogs with the recipe metadata. End result: millions of garbage blogs churned out via WP, and nothing but garbage results. Not really sure why Google continues to prioritize garbage.