Problem is that they're protected by the
extra-thick hilt of malpractice insurance,
so they can slash and hack at will without
much damage to themselves..

In theory, anyway...

The good thing of course is that it takes away the
fear of frivolous litigation; the bad thing is that
the accountability factor is way down.

How many amino acids does a food have to contain
in order to have it count as a protein food?

Good question... it would appear that (most of) the amino acids tracked
are present in some sort of quantity in many veggies, so there would be
a listing for grams of protein (whether or not complete)... whether or
not it counts as a protein food thereby could be another issue... ;)

As with other things presented to us as certainties,
the science is in its infancy and not nearly so
sure as people pretend. One can get a rough guide
based on the unanimity of reputable sources, of
course, of which there hasn't been any regarding
protein, plus, of course, there aren't any reputable
sources on nutritional theory.

do that later... A large baked potato with skin supposedly has 5gm of protein... but it isn't a complete protein... I think it, like the
grains, is deficient in lysine...

JimW corrected that... it does have lysine, but is deficient in two
others... and is complemented by cornmeal... I still haven't checked eggplant... ;)

Methionine is the weakest, but it's also relatively
low in cysteine, leucine, and lysine, which a handful
of nuts or scoop of beans or any small amount of meat
will remedy (looked it up).

One of the points of the article, which I read
half a century ago and whose details are not
well recalled, is that a food that adds only
one or two of the building blocks can be the
missing piece in a particular jigsaw puzzle,
even if it's not by itself anything anyone
would deem a protein food.

Right... I remember that sort of info from when I was more into it
all... ;)

And I misinterpreted the article by not reading it
literally enough. The order in which the foods were
given was eggplant, rice, wheat. Given eggplant's
seeming nonnutritivenes I imagined that it was the
weak link, but it's not.

I see why they call him Big Chris... ;) You'd probably have to hide the stuff to save it for the rest... ;)

Yes - if one were unkind, one might call him
Herbert.

As in... Hoover...?

As in. The guy is a one-man plague of locusts.

In the Delmarva area, they really like salty
foods.

Hadn't thought so much of it as salty, but I suppose it is... something else in it dominates for me, not sure what...

It's the clove and nutmeg that gets me most.

Haven't really analyzed it properly... and mostly tend to avoid it,
anyway... ;)

It's an acquired taste. Rumor has it it was
formulated to encourage happy-hour drinkers to
be happier than normal, or at least thirstier.

I'm off to Selkirk Shores SP in the morning... will be almost certainly totally offline for a week... coming home on Saturday next... might have some messages to upload when I return, maybe... :)

But what's to become of us in the meantime?

You seem to have survived ok... ;) I found about 100 messages for the
week waiting for download when I got back... and did have a reply packet
that brought me up to date for my departure date when I returned... ;)

Thanks for that. It appears to me that 20-30 is
a comfortable daily load, with up to twice that
affording everyone the chance to read (or at least
skim) everything if one wanted to. I can't any more
imagine what people did in the 100+ a day days.

As it turned out, not only did I not have telnet access, I also barely
had phone service... most of the time it showed as No Service, and when
it did say Home, I'd only have one signal strength bar... I'm sure that
when we were there 2 years ago the service was at least a little
better.... :)

But who needed it anyway, right?

Old Bay seasoning
1 ts ground nutmeg
1 ts ground cloves
1 ts ground allspice
1/2 ts ground mace
1/2 ts ground cardamom

From looking at that, I don't see anything that jumps out at me as a
taste that would have been dominant or intrusive... dunno... maybe I'll
need to revisit the taste... ;)

The amounts of these five seem way out of my
tolerance, especially the nutmeg/mace and clove.

At conductor Bill's house I encountered South Shore
Shellfish Seasoning, which is even more egregiously
clove/nutmeg forward, Its ingredients are salt,
paprika, celery, mustard, pepper, bay, nutmeg,
cloves, ginger, and cinnamon. I can only hypothesize
that it was formulated by someone who was terminally
tired of the taste of shellfish.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

Title: Deviled Crab Croquetts
Categories: Fish/sea
Yield: 4 servings

1 lb Crabmeat Dash onion powder
1/2 ts Salt 1 Sm. green pepper,
chopped
1 c Mashed potatoes 1 tb Parsley, chopped
Old Bay seasoning 1 Egg, beaten
2 Eggs, hard boiled, chopped Cracker meal

Sautee chopped green pepper and parsley and set aside. Combine crabmeat,
mashed potatoes, seasonings, chopped egg, green pepper and parsley, and
beaten egg.

Shape into croquettes, roll in cracker meal and deep fry until golden
brown. Mrs. John P. Elberti

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