The Frying Pan

Cerberus

8:00 PM

@ElendilTheTall Haha, fair enough.

@Jolenealaska Great!

You're the Alaskan Nigella!

Jolenealaska

I'm doing it right now!

Cerberus

Great! Continue being the Alaskan Nigella forever, I say.

Jolenealaska

No answer at the NASH office...School must be out for the day. I'll try again tomorrow. That really was a phenomenal performance. About a gazillion comments all saying, "Wait, wait, this is High School?

CYA guys...

Cerberus

Whoever answers the phone will probably not have the authority to give you the file, by the way...

Bye!

ElendilTheTall

that was a flying visit

Cerberus

8:08 PM

woosh

ElendilTheTall

like an Alaskan Elk, she disappears into the Aurora Borealis

Cerberus

And what is she going to do there?

Powder her nose?

ElendilTheTall

maybe

with 'snow'

Cerberus

"Schnee" is slang for coke in German...

Jinx.

ElendilTheTall

I owe you a coke

har har

Cerberus

8:14 PM

I wasn't sure about the English.

Tsk, tsk.

Keep your powders.

ElendilTheTall

It's what you do when jinxed, owe the jinxing party a coca cola

Cerberus

People do it in the English room too.

Although I never understood why.

SAJ14SAJ

@Cerberus Its a language game dating bck at least to the 1950s in us inner cities.

Cerberus

Why coke?

SAJ14SAJ

The cannonical form as I was taught it is two people say the same thing at the same time. Then they try to say "Jinx, you owe me a coke" as quickly as possible.

No body knows.

---S

Cerberus

8:19 PM

Hmm.

ElendilTheTall

It was actually a marketing ploy invented in 1987 by Coca Cola

tripled sales overnight*

SAJ14SAJ

@ElendilTheTall Erm, no.

ElendilTheTall

*may not be true

Cerberus

I see.

Oh.

ElendilTheTall

@SAJ14SAJ yanking yer chain

SAJ14SAJ

8:20 PM

Now in the form I learned, the repeated phrase must be exactly identical.

ElendilTheTall

before you start Googling wildly

SAJ14SAJ

I wasn't going to.

ElendilTheTall

uh huh ;)

SAJ14SAJ

@derobert cookingissues.com/2013/11/29/the-searzall-now-on-kickstarter

Cerberus

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SAJ14SAJ

8:37 PM

@jefromi Regarding

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Q: What is the difference between Orbit Gum and Orbit for Kids

If this is not the right forum for this question, please let me know where to post it.

sugar-free

Jefromi

He's not trying to make gum, is he?

SAJ14SAJ

I think it is a terrible question and doesn't belong, but I am really wondering why you closed it. It doesn't seem much duifferent than "What is the difference between orange and red carrots"

and we would certainly answer that one.

Well, purple ones, I guess there are no red ones.

Jefromi

It's not an ingredient, it's a ready-made food, there's guaranteed to be no cooking/preparation involved.

SAJ14SAJ

I have just mainlined about 600 episodes of Chopped, so I am not so sure about that :-)

Jefromi

If he were trying to make gum, imitating those things, sure, we could talk about some of that stuff - but there's no way he is, and that's why instinctively sounds like such a terrible question.

It's not really any more cooking-related than "what's the difference between mcdonald's and burger king"

SAJ14SAJ

8:40 PM

We might answer what is the difference between bourbon and scotch, and you cannot (legally) make those in the US. You jsut drink them, although they might be ingredients.

I was just surprised since you are generally very inclusionist.

Jefromi

Yeah, the fact that those are potential ingredients makes it worth answering.

I am, but there is a line eventually, and things that clearly cross the line seem worth just closing before things get out of hand.

I couldn't point you to anything, but I know earlier on in the history of the site we definitely dealt with this cooking food vs buying food thing.

SAJ14SAJ

I am buying food--my dinner should be here soon. Pizza with pepperoni, ham, and meatballs.

It wsas a three topping deal :-)

Jefromi

With bourbon vs scotch, it does also help that they're generic things, not specific products. That's not the only reason, but it does make the question a lot more valuable.

Whole meatballs?

derobert

@SAJ14SAJ Hah, Searzall Kickstarter? You're late to the party... Backed that entire days ago!

SAJ14SAJ

@derobert I should have known... just thought you would be interested.

@Jefromi Sliced, in the case of this restaurant.

If I was making it myself, I would have onions and red peppers roasted, but stores never cook them right.

Going tdownstairs to wait for it. Talk to you all soon.

derobert

8:44 PM

@SAJ14SAJ yep. I heard about it when they tweeted about it, and yet I was already too late for the early bird special.

@SAJ14SAJ will be interesting when it actually ships.

Maybe by next December.

Cerberus

@SAJ14SAJ Make, or sell?

SAJ14SAJ

9:02 PM

@Cerberus Either believe it or not.

There are no exceptions for distilling for personal use, and it is essentially impossible to get the license and bond as a home user.

Jefromi

I don't know how trustworthy wiki.homedistiller.org is, but it says "Distillation is only legal in New Zealand. Some European countries turn a blind eye to it, but elsewhere it is illegal, with punishment ranging from fines to imprisonment or floggings. So if you are going to distill, just be aware of the potential legal ramifications."

Normal wiki says it's legal in Denmark and NZ.

SAJ14SAJ

Yeah, they probably wouldn't hunt you down here, but.... don't get caught.

Cerberus

@SAJ14SAJ Why do you say that? I just asked to make sure that was actually what you meant.

And it appears it was. So fine.

SAJ14SAJ

@Cerberus Because we have home use exceptions for making wine and beer.

And it seems logical we would for this, too, but we don't.

Cerberus

It appears we had the same law.

@Jefromi But European law superseded national laws, and now it's legal, provided that it is for private use, and not for sale.

> Dick Kappert van de afdeling accijnzen van het douanedistrict Venlo kan het niet ontkennen. 'Het stoken van alcohol is sinds 1993 volledig vrijgesteld', zegt hij. 'Volgens de wijzigingen in de Europese accijnswetgeving is het vervaardigen van accijnsgoederen toegestaan, mits bestemd voor eigen gebruik. Je kunt nu de hele buurt trakteren op jouw likeur. Alleen de drank verkopen mag niet.

At least, so says Dick Kappert, from the department of excises of the customs district of Venlo, near the German and Belgian borders.

@SAJ14SAJ I was surprised to hear that, and even more surprised that our law was exactly the same (until 1993).

SAJ14SAJ

9:15 PM

I am sure that was the key issue to get people to want to join the EU :-)

Jefromi

One thing the US is pretty good at (I'm sure we're not the only ones) is retaining stupid old laws if they're not too annoying.

So I think a lot of this is just prohibition holdover.

I mean, there are still dry counties all over!

SAJ14SAJ

@Jefromi Mostly in Texas and Utah :-)

Jefromi

At least, that's how it felt to me, coming from Texas.

Dry county

A dry county is a county in the United States whose government forbids the sale of alcoholic beverages. Some prohibit off-premises sale, some prohibit on-premises sale, and some prohibit both. Hundreds of dry counties exist across the United States, a majority of them in the South. A number of smaller jurisdictions also exist, such as cities, towns, and townships, which prohibit the sale of alcoholic beverages. These are known as dry cities, dry towns, or dry townships. Background History Although the Twenty-First Amendment repeals nationwide prohibition in the United States, it all...

The map actually says Utah's all wet.

SAJ14SAJ

@Jefromi Odd... I haven't been there in a long time, but it has very strange practrices regarding alcahol. Like it can only be served in private clubs.

Jefromi

I wasn't aware that Austin was in a mixed county - it sure seemed all wet to me.

There must be a corner or something, outside the Austin city limits.

SAJ14SAJ

9:19 PM

I like my ribs dry.

Cerberus

@Jefromi I think England still has a law allowing you to shoot a Welshman with a bow within one mile of the border? Something like that. We also still have some Napoleonic laws that are never used.

Jefromi

Yeah, there are websites full of arcane state and local laws like that for the US, if you're curious.

Well, maybe not "you can kill a Mexican" but you know.

Cerberus

I have seen various such pages about various jurisdictons...

Dutch law also prohibits "hurting the feelings of Switzerland by mocking its coat of arms".

Only Switzerland.

And there was a dry-cleaning company that actually had to remove the coat of arms from their vans after a complaint by the Swiss ambassador, I think in the seventies.

SAJ14SAJ

They are sensitive?

Cerberus

I think it was somehow inserted in Dutch law during some convention.

Possibly the Convention of Geneva.

It was related to the Red Cross.

You weren't allowed to pretend to be from the Red Cross (which makes sense in war).

But the law was formulated in a weird way.

Jefromi

10:21 PM

I am offering a figurative bounty for anyone who will post a question on meta.SO about how the RHS chat box decides whether to appear or not, because it often doesn't show up for me and with the new top bar, it's also not a top-level link, so I think it might be a bit too hard to find.

SAJ14SAJ

@Jefromi I have wondered that too, and eventually assumed it was random.

Assuming we are thinking of the same thing.

Jefromi

Yup, that's how it feels to me too.

Cerberus

RHS?

Royal Highness SAJ?

Jefromi

But I have no idea how it appears to new users.

right-hand side

SAJ14SAJ