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The New Republicans: Deficits and Pork;
"Discretionary spending has jumped 27%
in the last two years...Congressional
pork is up more than 40%...much of it is
directly tied to the demands of big
business. 12/28

The New Republicans: Deficits and Pork;
"Discretionary spending has jumped 27%
in the last two years...Congressional
pork is up more than 40%...much of it is
directly tied to the demands of big
business. 12/28 12/29/2003 08:30 AM
New York Times .. *

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pork 0.99.2

pork 0.99.2 11/16/2003 10:29 AM
An ncurses-based AIM client for the UNIX console.

Hey, Lady, Want to Pork?

Hey, Lady, Want to Pork? 01/18/2004 10:26 AM
The German photographer Juergen Specht artfully persuades young women to take off their clothes and be covered in odd substances. The food series also includes fish, fruit, spaghetti, milk, and honey. (01-18)

Yule Pork

Yule Pork 12/08/2003 10:27 AM
Pigs seem to be everywhere for the holidays in Finland; pig motifs, cookies shaped like pigs, piggy marzipan cakes,...

"tribute to Pork Pies"

"tribute to Pork Pies" 06/12/2004 09:26 AM

Are Pork Chops a Euphemism?

Are Pork Chops a Euphemism? 01/02/2005 06:54 PM

« What a difference a letter makes....I see a new marketing campaign for Crowmoor in this; "Drink More. Grow More. Crowmoor!" »

When looking to the shelves to find a slimmer and lighter book than the current titles I was reading before leaving for Tunisia I found and decided to take When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, George Carlin's recent book filled with deliciously funny cynicism that I can relate to. It was only when riding the train to Tunis, in a car containing mostly Tunisians save for two very chatty German women who found endless amusement in the train timetable, did I start to think that maybe carrying a book with "Jesus" in the title and a slightly altered illustration of the last supper on the cover might not have been the wisest choice for reading material, especially when I kept laughing while reading it. :)

George, I know you're just like every other egosurfing author on the internet these days and if you read this, I loved the euphemism bashing and want more. [I nearly wet myself laughing at the HBO special where Carlin goes on at length about 'servicing the customer', but that's probably TMI.] I might also add that you forgot to take on the weather. Finland has a fabulous word, räntä, that sounds as unpleasant as the weather it describes. It's a short Finnish word, too, something to be cherished in a Finnish word. In English, we get sleet, snain [snow + rain], freezing rain, wet snow and, lest we forget, "wintry mix". What the fuck is "wintry mix" anyway? Something the weather people came up with to say 'well, we have no clue what will fall from the sky today so let's just use this vague term to cover our asses no matter what?' I miss those low-tech days where a guy would stand in front of a board with a happy sun icon over Florida and a giant snowflake over Chicago and tell it like it was; if you weren't in Florida, your weather was likely cold, crappy and grim. Nowadays they have 3-D 'fly through', 5-day forecasts, doppler radar and tons of new words to describe the same bloody thing the fat smiling guy in front of the wooden cut-out of the lower-48 states would; the weather where you are sucks and will remain that way until you move to Florida, dimwit.

The word folks will enjoy WWJBTPC as George has frequent rants on euphemisms in English that tend to have little purpose other than replacing another word or words with others that aren't as clear. George takes no prisoners and even though it's very amusing it's rather disturbing to realise that it has reached self-parodying levels of absurdity. The poem A Modern Man is an anthem for the wired jet-set who would have died at thought of a week without any information appliance nearby. And, Prepositional Phrases, made me think of most Finns who complain about English and its arbitrary use of them.

We Americans love our prepositional phrases.

Out of sight, off the charts, in the groove, on the ball; up the creek, down the tubes, in the dumper, out the yin-yang; off the wall, 'round the bend, below the belt, under the weather.

And of course...under the table

Table Talk

But rather than under the table, let us begin on the table. That's a phrase you hear a lot in the news, especially from Washington. In negotiations of any kind, certain things are said to be on the table. Implying that other things are off the table. And sometimes, regardless of what's on the table, a settlement is reached under the table.

The table seems important. If a person is highly qualified, we say he brings a lot to the table. Unfortunately, those who bring a lot to the table often have too much on their plates. Still, they're guaranteed a seat at the table, because they think outside the box, which puts them ahead of the curve.

Now, if the negotiators agree on what's on the table, then they're on the same page. Personally, I don't like people on my page. If someone says to me, "We're on the same page," I say, "Do me a favor, please, turn the page; I'd rather not be on that page. In fact, I'd rather be in a completely different book." Buat that's beside the point; I've wandered off the track.

Returning to negotiations, if the sides are getting close, we're told they're in the ballpark. This often comes from people in the know, speaking off the record. And in Washington, many in the know are also in the loop because, after all, they work inside the beltway.

Now, there are other government people, outside the beltway, who, nonetheless, remain in the know and in the loop. They function in foreign countries and we say they're on the ground,. If they're CIA, they're under the radar and paid off the books. Much of what they learn is picked up on the street. But they don't always need to be on the street, because a lot of information comes in over the transom.

Hey, we don't make the rules, we just make fun of them. :)

Bread Sales Down, Pork Rinds Up 30%

Bread Sales Down, Pork Rinds Up 30% 12/17/2003 03:47 PM
Up to 35 million Americans are on a low-carb diet. Food manufacturers have responded with more than 600 new low-carb products this year. Restaurants are altering their menus. Online communities are springing up to share information about the low-carb lifestyle. With this big target market, how hard will corporations push to expand the low-carb movement? Do the health warnings about the diet foretell an increase in medical problems, or will we see a generation of healthy, slender, pork-rind chomping families?

Built With Steel, Perhaps, but Greased
With Pork

Built With Steel, Perhaps, but Greased
With Pork 04/10/2004 10:11 AM
Thanks to some extra fat in the highway bill passed by the House last week, Alaska will build two monumental "bridges to nowhere."

Cash on the Scarecrow, Pork on the Plow

Cash on the Scarecrow, Pork on the Plow 04/17/2005 03:22 PM
C ash on the Scarecrow, Pork on the Plow
Matt Welch, using data from Environmental Working Group, examines the largesse of subsidies to Mellencamps.

Waiter, there's a microchip in my pork
butt

Waiter, there's a microchip in my pork
butt 09/18/2004 02:38 PM
Xeni Jardin: Over a thousand pounds of pig flesh processed at a Sioux Center meatpacking facility was recalled over fears that a missing microchip could be embedded in the meat.

The Sioux-Preme Packing Co. recalled 110 pork shoulder butts -- about 1,100 pounds of meat -- that could contain the metal devices used to measure scientific data in hogs.

Pass the tofurkey, please. Link

Pork bellies or the presidency: The
market will choose

Pork bellies or the presidency: The
market will choose 06/29/2004 12:37 AM
Salon Jun 29 2004 4:12AM GMT

BBC NEWS | Europe | Pork choc on the
menu in Ukraine

BBC NEWS | Europe | Pork choc on the
menu in Ukraine 06/22/2004 02:00 PM
chocolate-covered pork fat, nicknamed "Ukrainian Snickers." .. It's unusual yes, but it's completely disgusting! .. AND YOU THOUGHT MARMITE WAS GROSS .. Choc covered fat on a stick

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Penn State's pigopolist pork is not
smelling sweet

Penn State's pigopolist pork is not
smelling sweet 11/10/2003 11:09 PM
RIAA fraternity

Town, Pork Board Clash Over Meat Slogan
(AP)

Town, Pork Board Clash Over Meat Slogan
(AP) 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
AP - The National Pork Board says there's something fishy about this city's use of the slogan "The Other White Meat."

I have seen God in a cup of chocolate

I have seen God in a cup of chocolate 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: I don't hardly eat sugar, and I practically never eat dessert, but last night, Ben Hammersley took me to Hemingway's, a chocolate joint in Florence, Italy. I have never, ever tasted anything remotely as good as the things I tasted last night. I ate so much chocolate that I sweated it all night. It was completely worth it. Examine this picture of me closely: that expression on my face is chocolate ecstasy.

There were many delicious things on offer at Hemingway's, but two were so good as to be life-changing. The first was a flourless, eggless dark chocolate torte, which had the consistency of the inside of a truffle and was served slightly chilled. Every mouthful of this made me feel like something important in my mouth was bursting. There were medieval princes who spent lifetimes searching for experiences that did this sort of thing to your sensory apparatus. Whatever they found was nothing so good as this.

But the very best was their Mexican-style drinking chocolate, called the Montezuma, a viscous drink made with very bitter chocolate, seasoned with chillies, aged Cuban rum (I don't drink, either, but I had two of these), and cinnamon and nutmeg. The longer I held sips of Montezuma in my mouth, the more flavors and subtleties I discovered. The chillies suffused my sinuses and the rum made my whole abdomen glow gently, like banked coals. This was, without a doubt, the best thing I ever tasted, and possibly the best sensation I've ever experienced. I've seen people in religious ecstasy. That's what this felt like.

Afterwards, I fell asleep for half an hour on the sofa in Hemingway's, collapsed on one of my dining companions. My brain was overwhelmed with the tastes, and it had to shut my body off so that it could process the input. I have a feeling that from now on, whenever a little money finds its way into my pocket, the temptation to blow it on a plane ticket to Florence (cheap from London, as these things go) and have a cup of Hemingway's Montezuma is going to be nigh-irresistible. I no longer feel the need to blow my cash on computers or gadgets -- just hook an IV of this thing straight into my arm and leave me to die by chocolate. Link

chocolate chocolate chocolate

chocolate chocolate chocolate 03/17/2005 03:20 AM
Chocolate is so damn good I keep seeing boutique chocolate companies popping up everywhere (like this one: www.delicioustruffles.com). And now Pete of Pete's Wicked Ale has started one (www.cocoapetes.com) Which begs the question is chocolate the next beer? Is America about to be deluged with extraordinary chocolates like we've been hit with microbrews? And why has it taken so damn long?

Cake with your Chocolate

Cake with your Chocolate 03/14/2005 06:01 PM

« Best chocolate cake ever.... »

I have a puppy who doesn't often let me relax on the couch in the evening but somehow sleeps contentedly on the kitchen floor if I am baking something, so I have been baking a bit more than usual lately. I was looking for a cooking pan one evening and rediscovered the gothic cathedral Bundt pan I've had for a few years that I'd forgotten about and thought about making a Bundt cake that would appeal to the Finnish dessert palate. I figured I could make the cake for some friends we were having over but I would subject my coworkers to a test cake to see if they liked it as much as I guessed they might. It's funny how so many products in Finland claim 'Authentic American Taste' but how few of them are anywhere near the actual taste and, when given something that really does taste like it does back home, how few Finns really enjoy it. I have learned through trial and error that it is a rare American dessert that appeals to the Finnish palate. The cake is very chocolatey, not overly sweet and the whipped cream and raspberries are a near constant feature in Finnish desserts.

As a disclaimer, I'm not all that crazy about chocolate cakes, but if I had tasted the batter before I poured it all into the pan and shoved it into the oven, I could have easily decided to eat the entire bowl of batter myself instead of having only the spatula to lick the remainder from. I think a couple of people at work went back for a second piece so it's safe to say that it was well received. I made the first cake with kermaviili because I didn't think that Finland really had a true sour cream and kermaviili was reasonably close to the mark. The second cake I made with smetana, which I was told was more like sour cream than kermaviili. Kermaviili is about 10% fat, smetana is about 47% fat and American sour cream is somewhere around 21% fat. Of the two cakes, the kermaviili cake was far better because it was more moist and less rich than the smetana cake. I think this is one of the few occasions where less fat is better than more.

Don't overdo the mixing as it will introduce too much air into the batter and cause the cake to rise more than it should. I used my standing mixer for the first cake and noticed that I really didn't need it save for the creaming of the butter and sugar. The cake release should be used on any pan you use, even if it is the most stick-free teflon on the market. Wrap cake in foil or plastic wrap after cooling for an hour or two if you don't plan to eat it right away to help keep the cake moist.

The Best Chocolate Bundt Cake

Serves: 12 to 14
Special equipment: Bundt or tube pan
Time: about 90 minutes
Source: Cook's Illustrated

Cake Release

• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon cocoa

Cake

• 3/4 cup (2.25 oz) or 1,75dl cocoa, natural (not Dutch-processed)
• 6 oz or 170g bittersweet chocolate (2 100g bars of Fazer baking chocolate which leaves a few bits for eating.)
• 1 teaspoon instant espresso powder (optional)
• 3/4 or 1.75dl cup water (boiling)
• 1 cup (8.75 oz) or 2,5dl sour cream (kermaviili not smetana if in Finland), room temperature
• 1.75 cups or 4,25dl unbleached all-purpose flour 
• 1 teaspoon table salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda 
• 12 tablespoons(1.5 sticks) or 170g unsalted butter, room temperature
• 2 cups (14 oz) or 4,75dl light brown sugar 
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract 
• 5 large eggs, room temperature
• confectioners' sugar for dusting

FOR THE PAN:

1. Stir together butter and cocoa in small bowl until paste forms; using a pastry brush, coat all interior surfaces of standard 12-cup Bundt pan. (If mixture becomes too thick to brush on, microwave it for 10 to 20 seconds, or until warm and softened.)
2. Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position; heat oven to 350F/175C degrees.

FOR THE CAKE:

1. Combine cocoa, chocolate, and espresso powder (if using) in medium heatproof bowl; pour boiling water over and whisk until smooth. Cool to room temperature; then whisk in sour cream.
2. Whisk flour, salt, and baking soda in second bowl to combine.
3. In standing mixer fitted with flat beater, beat butter, sugar, and vanilla on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
4. Reduce speed to medium and add eggs one at a time, mixing about 30 seconds after each addition and scraping down bowl with rubber spatula after first 2 additions.
5. Reduce to medium-low speed (batter may appear separated); add about one third of flour mixture and half of chocolate/sour cream mixture and mix until just incorporated, about 20 seconds.
6. Scrape bowl and repeat using half of remaining flour mixture and all of remaining chocolate mixture; add remaining flour mixture and beat until just incorporated, about 10 seconds.
7. Scrape bowl and mix on medium-low until batter is thoroughly combined, about 30 seconds.
8. Pour batter into prepared Bundt pan, being careful not to pour batter on sides of pan.
9. Bake until wooden skewer inserted into center comes out with few crumbs attached, 45 to 50 minutes.
10. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then invert cake onto parchment-lined wire rack; cool to room temperature, about 3 hours.
11. Dust with confectioners' sugar, transfer to serving platter, and cut into wedges; serve with Tangy Whipped Cream and raspberries, if desired.

Tangy Whipped Cream

• 1 cup or 2,50dl heavy cream (cold)
• 1/4 cup or ~.60dl sour cream 
• 1/4 cup or ~.60dl packed light brown sugar 
• 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract 

With electric mixer, beat all ingredients, gradually increasing speed from low to high, until cream forms soft peaks, 1.5 to 2 minutes.

Lightly Sweetened Raspberries

• 3 cups or 7dl fresh raspberries gently rinsed and dried
• 1 - 2 tablespoons granulated sugar 

Gently toss raspberries with sugar, then let stand until berries have released some juice and sugar has dissolved, about 15 minutes.

Why does my dog smell like chocolate?

Why does my dog smell like chocolate? 05/06/2004 11:21 PM
letting the online community explain the eternal questions.

Death by Chocolate

Death by Chocolate 06/23/2004 12:21 PM
Welcome to tropical Ivory Coast, the small African nation that is home of almost half of the world's cocoa exports! Visit the sandy beaches! Get kidnapped and disappeared by government officials!

Roulette Chocolate

Roulette Chocolate 08/14/2004 04:55 AM
Firebox™ Chocolate-Chili Russian Roulette .. fudgy yumyums

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Chocolate sneakers

Chocolate sneakers 06/24/2005 06:24 PM
Xeni Jardin:
An anonymous reader sent this image, identifying it as the creation of some dude named Al Cabino. It is said to be a sneaker constructed from pure Swiss chocolate. This blog posts the same info. It's either a silly hoax, or a brilliant exercise in choco-licious but impractical footwear.

The best chocolate in Paris

The best chocolate in Paris 12/19/2004 03:21 PM
From the Sunday New York Times comes this delicious article, In Paris, Boutiques and Cafes Where Chocolatiers Raise the Bar. Herewith, then, a guide to Paris for the chocolate aficionado. It is by no means exhaustive; the Paris phone book has several pages of listings for chocolatiers, but I think this represents a selection of those most worthy of your time. It contains a good listing of the top spots in the city. Closer to home, if your home happens to be New York City, is the Chocolate Bar. Oddly enough, I've never visited this place, even though it's so close to my house. When I first moved to NYC, I assumed I'd go here regularly, and yet it's never happened. Perhaps this afternoon I'll pay them a visit. All this reading and thinking about chocolate has made me hungry!

Chocolate for XDoclet 0.2.0

Chocolate for XDoclet 0.2.0 11/02/2003 05:24 AM
An EJB designer tool with XDoclet support for Borland JBuilder.

Your Password For A Chocolate Bar, A
Pen, Or Nothing At All

Your Password For A Chocolate Bar, A
Pen, Or Nothing At All 04/19/2004 07:01 PM
Last year we pointed to a study saying that people would give you their password in exchange for a cheap ballpoint pen, and this year the prize has changed, but the result is the same. A new study shows that all it takes is a chocolate bar and plenty of people will cough up their passwords. Of course, what they don't realize is that whoever was giving out the chocolate bars was the real sucker. A study last month showed that people will cough up all sorts of info if you just ask for it, without giving anything in return.

Nokia's chocolate box

Nokia's chocolate box 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
Maybe Nokia knows something we don't about what the ladies really want for Valentine's Day, but in Japan they're selling a special box of...

Chocolate Mousse in RDF

Chocolate Mousse in RDF 12/02/2003 01:55 AM
Mark Pilgrim: All hierarchies, directories, and schemas are necessarily biased by the worldview of the person creating them, and mine is no exception.

Mars bar chocolate war (Reuters)

Mars bar chocolate war (Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:24 PM
Reuters - Mars has got a break in its decades-old rivalry with Nestle, when an adviser to the European Union's highest court suggested the phrase "Have a Break" was not distinctive enough for a trademark.

Will trade passwords for chocolate

Will trade passwords for chocolate 04/19/2004 05:46 PM
According to this Security Pipeline article, nearly three quarters of office workers in an impromptu man-on-the-street survey were willing to give up their passwords when offered the bribe of a chocolate bar. Heh. Heaven only knows what they'd fork over for venti latte with extra foam. Link (Thanks, Mitch!)

Martha's Bread And Chocolate

Martha's Bread And Chocolate 07/19/2004 03:18 PM

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“In opposing Martha Stewart’s bid for leniency, federal prosecutors scoffed at the multimillionaire’s claim that her record of community service and charity was so extraordinary that she deserved to be rewarded with less prison time. While Stewart’s own presentencing memo was submitted under seal, details from that document are contained in a memo filed by Manhattan federal prosecutors who—gleefully, it seems—pointed to some of the, um, charitable acts claimed by Stewart.”…

Man Revives Chocolate Labrador With CPR
(AP)

Man Revives Chocolate Labrador With CPR
(AP) 07/26/2004 10:44 AM
AP - When a 3-year-old chocolate Labrador retriever named Maddy got tangled in a 10-foot rope securing a trampoline floating on a lake, owner Matt Tollefson didn't think twice. Tollefson dove in after her.

Beyond Delicious: Could Chocolate Also
Be Good for You?

Beyond Delicious: Could Chocolate Also
Be Good for You? 02/16/2004 07:53 PM
Raw cocoa contains flavonoids, plant-based compounds with protective antioxidants like those in green tea.

Chocolate cake and butter

Chocolate cake and butter 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
Yesterday for a brief moment I was in that bitter jaded place where I felt people just suck. It lasted...

Dark Lord of the Chocolate

Dark Lord of the Chocolate 04/08/2005 08:17 PM
Darth Yellow proves that he is just as tough as any immaculately-spawned slave-become-Jedi from a desert planet. Check out the newest ad for M&M Dark Chocolate as it appears in the newest issue of Premiere Magazine.

Chocolate May Contain Health Benefits
(AP)

Chocolate May Contain Health Benefits
(AP) 02/10/2004 04:06 PM
AP - Those chocolates that make your Valentine's heart go pitty-pat may also help keep that heart running longer and stronger.

The Chocolate-Coffee Conundrum

The Chocolate-Coffee Conundrum 12/19/2004 03:27 PM
If coffee chains used better chocolate, Lawrence Meyers argues, they'd sell more coffee.

Eat Chocolate, Live Longer

Eat Chocolate, Live Longer 08/30/2004 02:08 PM
A new study finds that chocolate may help promote cardiovascular health.

Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate

Giving Up Passwords For Chocolate 04/20/2004 08:35 AM

New hacking tool: chocolate

New hacking tool: chocolate 04/20/2004 07:29 PM

I'll Have 10,000 Chocolate Bars to Go,
Please (Reuters)

I'll Have 10,000 Chocolate Bars to Go,
Please (Reuters) 05/05/2004 08:15 AM
Reuters - A woman with an apparently insatiable sweet tooth stunned staff at a British shop when she bought more than 10,000 chocolate bars and had them loaded into her chauffeur-driven limousine.
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