The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Monday, January 20, 2025
Memes that made me laugh 245
Gathered from around the Internet over the past week. Click any image for a larger view.
One of the things that baffles me is how we got the process to make coffee. There is a traditional (likely apocryphal) story that a shepherd/goat herder say his charges eat som of the coffee cherries and be frisky so he tried them. But the steps for making coffee are 1) pick ripe coffee cherries 2) remove the cherry exterior other via abrasion or letting the fruit rot off 4) take the remaining pits/seeds and roast them until they pop kind of like popcorn 5) grind the burnt cherry pits to a fine powder 6) take the powder and make an infusion with near boiling water and filter if possible as the powder makes for a rather chewy beverage
How did anyone come up with that convoluted process?
And the early version of beer in Europe was Celtic, and called Cerwisa, and likely was an acquired taste, as it was short brewed like a fresh ale, brewed with herbs, flowers, and spices, and served with the mash still in it. The professional drinkers used metal straws. About 1,200 BC to 400 A.D. John in Indy
I've spent a large part of my life in the Australian outdoors, including a decade as an infantryman. I have wide experience of the danger of the bush.
The Gympie bush, for example, has leaves covered in microscopic hypodermics full of neurotoxin that causes indescribable agony if you touch the plant, and the pain may persist for years.
That's just one insanely dangerous plant among many that you might come across while walking in the bush over here.
Trust me, the Florida men would stand no chance against our plants, let alone the wildlife.
Now do the several variants of what's called ayahuasca. At least two different sorts of plants must be used, and prepared properly. One type contains the psychedelic DMT, which is orally inactive. Another plant or plant contains a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MOAI) that makes the DMY orally active and prents the liver from quickly breaking it down. Alone, none of the ingredients really do a damned thing, and some are toxic without proper preparation. All are foul-tasting and of no real use otherwise. But brewed together and properly? How in the world did anyone figure that out? And the plants used vary depending on region and culture.
LSWCHP, as with viruses, 1 to 3 percent of Floriduh man WILL survive, breed, mutate, and be "just another" kill-you-critter wandering the outback and heading for suburbia. I'd keep an eye out, just in case. Fortunately for Tennessee, Florida man has to migrate south for the winter, so his pestilence is seasonal.
Speaking of figuring out how to prepare various foods, who decided to try mushrooms, and who was the second guy to try them after watching the first guy die?
14 comments:
Is a cup of coffee an infusion, a broth, or a tisane?
re: last one. Coffee and chocolate are basically bean soups. Chocolate has been let to coagulate...
bunch o' really good ones to start the week
Wife: "Coffee has been cooked. It's a soup."
One of the things that baffles me is how we got the process to make coffee. There is a traditional (likely apocryphal) story that a shepherd/goat herder say his charges eat som of the coffee cherries and be frisky so he tried them. But the steps for making coffee are
1) pick ripe coffee cherries
2) remove the cherry exterior other via abrasion or letting the fruit rot off
4) take the remaining pits/seeds and roast them until they pop kind of like popcorn
5) grind the burnt cherry pits to a fine powder
6) take the powder and make an infusion with near boiling water and filter if possible as the powder makes for a rather chewy beverage
How did anyone come up with that convoluted process?
Also re the last one: the same can be said for beer. Cheers!
And the early version of beer in Europe was Celtic, and called Cerwisa, and likely was an acquired taste, as it was short brewed like a fresh ale, brewed with herbs, flowers, and spices, and served with the mash still in it.
The professional drinkers used metal straws. About 1,200 BC to 400 A.D.
John in Indy
Tregonsee, obviously the ancient aliens taught our ancestors, duh.
I'll bet that Kim whatever his name is, is crying.
Tregonsee, I imagine teenagers looking for a cheap buzz tried brewing and smoking everything in the neighborhood.
I've spent a large part of my life in the Australian outdoors, including a decade as an infantryman. I have wide experience of the danger of the bush.
The Gympie bush, for example, has leaves covered in microscopic hypodermics full of neurotoxin that causes indescribable agony if you touch the plant, and the pain may persist for years.
That's just one insanely dangerous plant among many that you might come across while walking in the bush over here.
Trust me, the Florida men would stand no chance against our plants, let alone the wildlife.
Now do the several variants of what's called ayahuasca. At least two different sorts of plants must be used, and prepared properly. One type contains the psychedelic DMT, which is orally inactive. Another plant or plant contains a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MOAI) that makes the DMY orally active and prents the liver from quickly breaking it down. Alone, none of the ingredients really do a damned thing, and some are toxic without proper preparation. All are foul-tasting and of no real use otherwise. But brewed together and properly? How in the world did anyone figure that out? And the plants used vary depending on region and culture.
LSWCHP, as with viruses, 1 to 3 percent of Floriduh man WILL survive, breed, mutate, and be "just another" kill-you-critter wandering the outback and heading for suburbia. I'd keep an eye out, just in case.
Fortunately for Tennessee, Florida man has to migrate south for the winter, so his pestilence is seasonal.
Speaking of figuring out how to prepare various foods, who decided to try mushrooms, and who was the second guy to try them after watching the first guy die?
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