FAO Kurogane

[dimwit]

懐かしい, with the exception of the Prairie Dogs that could be just about any town in Canada, in fact it reminds me just how little things have changed in the 35+ years since I was a teen.

[Samurai_Jerk]

This should boil your hipster-hating blood, kuro.

At this diner: 11 types of bacon, 30 craft beers and cocktails in red Solo cups

The food is served on ceramic plates that look like paper plates with ruffled edges, and the only utensil at the table is a silver spork.

[Coligny]

I like sporks...

[matsuki]

I'm soooo going there next time I'm in LA...

[kurogane]

This should boil your hipster-hating blood, kuro.

Actually, the blithe stupidity sort of impressed me. It's official: if you call a turd a rose it doesn't stink

"The culinarian who makes your dish brings it to your table right after he's done making it.
but we want to provide it in an unpretentious atmosphere, said Gregory......

Presumably one where there are active culinarians enabling your gustatory maximisation.........all in an unpretentious atmosphere. So, the moral is it's hip to be a pleb, and if you can learn to speak fluent Stupid there might be some money in it. And it actually sounds like it might be quite yummy if you can suspend the necessary disbelief.

PS Love the spork. It's the only utensil I travel with.

[matsuki]

It's got that uppity hipster vibe but as you say, the food actually sounds good...that's what counts.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Apple pie bacon, craft beer, and real plates made to look like paper plates? Sounds like a little piece of Hell.

FTR I've got no problem with sporks. I do have a problem with sporks for fashion's sake.

[Coligny]

FTR I've got no problem with sporks. I do have a problem with sporks for fashion's sake.

Often bed ridden with random spasms in the left side. Spork is the difference between eating with minimum of dignity, starving or licking directly the plate...

[matsuki]

[kurogane]

Either you know way too much about Japanese junk food or I dont know enough. I dialled in the web address to order one of those suckers only to end up at the home page of that shitty food mall ramen chain.

But I think I found a line on them:
https://www.momastore.jp/momastore/prod ... y_id/1452/

PS And, as F'in usual I prefer the older model that you posted. The new one looks gay. Maybe I really do prefer rock bands that don't exist yet

[kurogane]

Apple pie bacon, craft beer, and real plates made to look like paper plates? Sounds like a little piece of Hell.

Sadly, yes. The fag beer aside the menu and system actually sound interesting enough, though it's funny how even our hospitality sector is Turning Japanese and organising things so it's easier for them and then BS-ing the customer into thinking it's proper customer oriented service. Who the fuck wants their food 10 minutes before the rest of your table?

But sporks rock. The handle on mine is too short, so I am looking for a tube to make an extension. Once I find that I need never mess with other people's cutlery ever again. There's germs out there, you know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Samurai_Jerk]

it's funny how even our hospitality sector is Turning Japanese and organising things so it's easier for them and then BS-ing the customer into thinking it's proper customer oriented service. Who the fuck wants their food 10 minutes before the rest of your table?

That was my favorite part of the article.

The bring it out when it's ready thing is cool when you're eating family style like you do at an izakaya or Chinese restaurant, but not when everyone has their own plate. Lunchtime with more than three or four coworkers is always fun. The last person served usually gets their teishoku when the first person is finishing up.

[kurogane]

That was my favorite part of the article.

I'm convinced there's a book in this trend. It would probably sell more in Japanese, but the adoption of what I always considered to be Japanese Things is remarkable. Especially industry centred service protocols like that.

The bring it out when it's ready thing is cool when you're eating family style like you do at an izakaya or Chinese restaurant, but not when everyone has their own plate. Lunchtime with more than three or four coworkers is always fun. The last person served usually gets their teishoku when the first person is finishing up.

Ya, that's true, eh!? Izakaya style is fine............at an Izakaya......where you share stuff. I suppose this place might be like that, but I know lots of Canadians that hate that style and won't do it (a la Tapas); probably not much different in the states. I hate being up last at Teishoku places, esp. if it's Japanese men that wolf theirs, because then it's time to go, even if they're juniors.

[Coligny]

i like this one more forky. plus mine is in titanium and i don't like lightweight cutlery...

[kurogane]

Yeah, mine too and me too. It'S Snow Peak or MSR or some such. Nice little piece for hiking, but I would like a nice big heavy one for home. Are they patented maybe? I have been looking for years and never seen anything similar except in lightweight camping use styles...........or plastic...

BTW, proof that some people really do have too mch time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork

Yes, an encyclopaedia entry on Spork.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Maybe this should be in FAO Coligny. He might want to version up.

'The Ultra Rich Asian Girls of Vancouver'

Ever since China started growing rich, it has had rich-people problems.

True, every nation has issues with income inequality. But rich-people problems in a communist country are different.

In this week's issue of The New Yorker, writer Jaiyang Fan gives us an in-depth look at one source of the trouble.

Fan profiles a number of the children of China's superrich who've been sent to study and live abroad.

They're called fuerdai.

In this case, the kids are living in Vancouver (though the scene is also repeated in cities like Singapore and London).

They come with all the accessories of the global jet set — incredible cars, massive houses, and their own reality YouTube show. (It's called "The Ultra Rich Asian Girls of Vancouver.")

The problem, though, is that they don't necessarily feel Chinese, and their parents don't want them to come home. The parents want social and political stability for their children (and the assets their children take with them).

As one protagonist in the story, a 26-year-old named Pam, put it:

“The thing is, I’m not sure I’d fully fit in there now,” she said slowly. “I lack my parents’ Chinese business know-how. Westerners are all about being straightforward and direct. But, when you negotiate a deal in China, it’s all about what’s unsaid, simultaneously hiding and hinting at what you really want. In China, I’m treated like a naïve child, and sometimes I feel like an alien.”

Another woman said that her father said it would be better that she stay in Canada, rather than come home and ruin the family business.

[yanpa]

There is a vision of what a progressive Britain could be. It’s called Canada

[matsuki]

[Coligny]

You HAD to use the N-word in public again did ya ?

[matsuki]

LOL, I'm sure that turned him from his racist ways....what happened to shaming?

[Samurai_Jerk]

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Budweiser rebrands itself as ‘America’ for the summer

Here’s some bad news for anyone looking to kick back with a cold Budweiser and forget about the presidential election this summer. Starting May 23, the King of Beers will relabel its cans and bottles with the word “America” to remind beer drinkers nationwide that “America is in Your Hands.”

According to a press release from Budweiser’s St. Louis-based brewer, Anheuser-Busch (which has been owned by the Belgian company InBev since 2008), the patriotic packaging — which also will include lines from “America the Beautiful” and the Pledge of Allegiance — is aimed at inspiring drinkers “to celebrate America and Budweiser’s shared values of freedom and authenticity.”

Here's to America the beautiful. Hold her high this summer. #ThisBudsForYou pic.twitter.com/6uUd92MTJB
— Budweiser (@Budweiser) May 10, 2016

I wonder if it'll be sold in Canadia.

[kurogane]

If it is it'll still just be Canadian Beer, so I'll keep an eye out. Beer that comes without a written biography is always preferable.

BTW, Velly Intallesting that a well known liberal powerhouse like Anhitler-Busch would jump on the Great Again!! bandwagon at this time. Even Sgt Schulz' interest might be piqued by this

[wagyl]

You will love this one.

heroine

Apparently, the preferred term is now Shero.

[matsuki]

merka.jpg

Budweiser rebrands itself as ‘America’ for the summer

Here’s some bad news for anyone looking to kick back with a cold Budweiser and forget about the presidential election this summer. Starting May 23, the King of Beers will relabel its cans and bottles with the word “America” to remind beer drinkers nationwide that “America is in Your Hands.”

According to a press release from Budweiser’s St. Louis-based brewer, Anheuser-Busch (which has been owned by the Belgian company InBev since 2008), the patriotic packaging — which also will include lines from “America the Beautiful” and the Pledge of Allegiance — is aimed at inspiring drinkers “to celebrate America and Budweiser’s shared values of freedom and authenticity.”

Here's to America the beautiful. Hold her high this summer. #ThisBudsForYou pic.twitter.com/6uUd92MTJB
— Budweiser (@Budweiser) May 10, 2016

I wonder if it'll be sold in Canadia.

Budweiser is a fucking toilet water beer, and if you feel the need to defend it passionately you’re doing alcoholism wrong. Budweiser is not a beer we want associated with America, and it’s about time people called them out for taking the patriotic-July-fourth marketing stance away from an actually American beer that either deserves it or at least doesn’t taste like you just saw someone roofie the jungle juice at a party.

https://affotd.com/2016/05/11/do-not-ca ... tells-you/

[yanpa]

I just worked out the reason why Yanpa. Jr keeps pointing excitedly at the computer when I'm looking at FG is your avatar, from that we have deduced a fondness for pandas though he still seems to like yours the best.

[Russell]

I just worked out the reason why Yanpa. Jr keeps pointing excitedly at the computer when I'm looking at FG is your avatar, from that we have deduced a fondness for pandas though he still seems to like yours the best.

OK, then one more for Yanpa Jr.

[yanpa]

That will come in handy when explaining where junior pandas come from.

[Russell]

That will come in handy when explaining where junior pandas come from.

Well, for one thing it'll teach him how an upstanding citizen from the UK is supposed to behave in public...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Maine Governor Uses Homophobic Slur While Challenging Lawmaker To Prove He’s A Racist

“Mr. Gattine, this is Governor Paul Richard LePage. I would like to talk to you about your comments about my being a racist, you cocksucker,” LePage said. “I want to talk to you. I want you to prove that I’m a racist. I’ve spent my life helping black people and you little son-of-a-bitch, socialist cocksucker. You, I need you to, just freakin’, I want you to record this and make it public because I am after you. Thank you.”

[matsuki]