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Photo reblogged from Madge-World: welcome to it. with 3 notes
One of my favorite cafes in this city. They are effective in further proving the butter = delicious hypothesis. (Sorry, vegans.)
Breakfast in south Minneapolis. And when they say “butter” they’re not kidding.
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100 grams of soba yields 344 kcal of energy. In terms of essential amino acids, soba scores higher than pasta or bread. Soba includes a lot of lysine, and therefore a good balance of amino acids.
Eating lunch and reading up on soba noodles. Yum.
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B.T. McElrath - Salty Dog Chocolate Bar
ericaaaaa: “THIS. IS. MY. NEW. FAVORITE. THING.”
YES! I’m not usually one to be emphatic about chocolate, but it’s seriously that good. And, made in MPLS!
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“Please forgive us.”
Here it is — the video I made with Ariel for MNKINO #6: “FOOD.” The quote above is what Ariel had to say before we screened it last Tuesday.
Making this video prompted a lot of questions and uncertainties for me — enough that I was practically ready to bail at one point (glad I didn’t). Perhaps it’s worth noting that Ariel is a vegatarian and I’m not. One of the first mistakes I made was assuming that if a vegetarian seems OK with going through with this, then I must be too.
So under what circumstances is it acceptable to boil a lobster alive? Can one prove that, although symbolically more difficult than most other ways of killing animals for food, boiling a living creature is actually any worse? Are the ethical considerations of this act changed when one is filming it? What if it never gets eaten (it’s still in my freezer)?
I won’t bother you with any more of my moral hand-wringing, especially since much of it is covered in the David Foster Wallace essay we mention at the beginning of the video.
But I do have one question for you: know any decent recipes for frozen lobster?
Update: Upon re-reading this post, it strikes me as a little melodramatic. Despite my moral quandrifying, I’m happy with how it turned out and glad we did it!
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Aw, come on guys — obviously you’d have to create the universe before you preheat the oven.
(via essbee:The Daily What)
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I, for one, would love to attend a tumblr meetup Matt’s — mainly because I almost never make it to the home of the “original” Jucy Lucy, and would love to have an excuse. Then to Dusty’s?
Dusty’s Bar, Minneapolis by Tim Kiser
The fallout continues from my Jucy Lucy post. You must understand that the southside was a strange and mysterious place to me with their “two burgers with cheese in the middle”. I mean, my uncle was a bartender here and I ate the Dago sandwiches until they came out of my ears. I haven’t gone to Matt’s yet to correct my lack of Jucy Lucy appreciation, although Andy emailed me not that long ago about getting together there.
Maybe some good can come out of this and we can set up a Minneapolis tumblr Jucy Lucy meetup at Matt’s in the near future. Event planning is not my strong point *cough* Colin *cough*, but if people want to reblog or email me (stuffaboutminneapolis@gmail) maybe we can work something out. The first question would be do we have it before or after the holidays? And so it begins….
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Research has shown that if you eat super broccoli or any other cruciferous super vegetable everyday, you can control insects with your mind.
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Insurers will quickly figure out that every case of Type 2 diabetes they can prevent adds $400,000 to their bottom line. Suddenly, every can of soda or Happy Meal or chicken nugget on a school lunch menu will look like a threat to future profits.
Michael Pollan, Big Food vs. Big Insurance
(dang … I had this one all queued up and then ericaaaaa scooped me)
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