Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-04-18 04:49 <=-

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.

There needs to be more of a balance there...

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.

Depends on what one counts as reputable, I suppose... ;) Nutritionists
of all stripes might argue you on that last... :) Going back to what
might make it count as a protein food, I would think that something that
only has a small amount of protein, whether complete or incomplete,
shouldn't be considered a protein food (although it would contribute to
total protein intake)...

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).

I did finally check the eggplant, it has only 1 g protein per cup
serving... I don't know which amino acids it might or might not have...

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.

What is its amino acid profile...?

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.

In the days of 500+ a day in Genealogy, I remember focusing on the ones
to me, and skimming the rest... it was way easy to fall FAR behind...
One learned not to jump in to answer easy questions, lest the traffic
get further out of hand... ;) Nowadays... well, it took me a couple of
days to actually read the week's mail... :) And then a couple more to
get things answered... ;)

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?

It would have been convenient for communications between different
camping areas (two of the cabins were farther than I could easily walk,
and my cabin was the closest to the tent/RV areas)... and also for
calling home to check on Richard....

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.

Possible. :) Quite possible.

ttyl neb

... Never try to out-stubborn a cat's person.

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