Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 05-02-19 18:53 <=-

Yeah, you can see my ambivalence - horrified
fascination I guess it might be. Or a hope against
hope that the cut labeled "steak" is not what I think
it is, because I prefer that the store be telling
some kind of functional truth.

I'd be curious to be around for your actual reaction to it... ;) Maybe
when (eventually) you get here for another visit, we can search it
out... ;)

Chances are it would be an instantaneous "how
misleading, no way is that a steak."

I took another look at it last shopping trip... now the package says
"Center Cut Shank", no steak reference... Looks to me a lot like a beef "chop", bone-in, actually....

For sure. It's more a feel thing than
anything else.

Yup, that's what I learned... :)

Or you can let it rise an extra time or two.

If convenient... done that a time or two, also...

If time is of the essence, you'd better have your
stuff together.

Part of why I'm not baking any more... ;)

And I'm just starting to get back to that
kind of thing.

Maybe I will, eventually....

And you're a real cook... (G) Even though it does take more time, I'm usually using the fresh garlic and onions nowadays, besides.... :)

The dried have some uses; it's just that most
lazy people use dried where fresh are called for.

Or uninformed people.... ;)

The uninformed will make that mistake once.
The lazy will do it a hundred times.

I'd modify that to "the uninformed will make the mistake only until they
become informed"... Until they realize that it really is a mistake,
there's no reason to change....

... A leading authority is someone who has guessed right more than once.

An ordinary authority is someone who has guessed right once.

Probably. :)

Try a thousand times, win the lottery once, you're
alwys a winner. In others' eyes anywy.

Probably because they've tried two thousand times and still haven't won once.... ;)

... Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience. - Ben Franklin

Also attributed to Buffon. In either case, as with
Edison's "one percent inspiration and 99 percent
perspiration," it's a statement that can be made only
by those whose altitude of thinking gainsay it.

Good point. :)

I don't have that much of it any more either but would rather go with the diet to help keep my sugar intake in line.

Maybe if you don't get it much it wouldn't be a problem, but I've read
(and observed with MJ) that often the artifical sweeteners that are put
in diet sodas mess with the blood sugar as badly as real sugar... at
least, after a while....

Has anyone studied whether more "natural" artificial
sweeteners cause the same problem?

Not sure about studies... empirically speaking, with MJ we didn't have
the problem once I switched her to Truvia instead... but not sure that
it might not have given grief down the line, as I wasn't able to observe
long enough for that determination...

If all sweeteners do, that's a pretty strong
indication that it's the brain's reaction to sweetness
more than the body's reaction to carbohydrates.

It may have something to do with how the body does use each different compound.... The alcohol sugars don't seem to have the same problem, but
they have their own set of issues... And I'd not volunteer to be the
guinea pig here, as I taste the bitterness of the stevia and of the
monkfruit sweeteners, get migraines from the saccherine, and get the gut
issues from the ols... and stay away from the rest of them on general principles, therefore... ;)

ttyl neb

... Just when I make ends meet, someone moves one !­

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