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1. 2 days ago on Heart of the City

   Lawrence, since I live in Europe and never been to Central America I’d like to ask you something.

   My question to you: I sometimes use some dark chocolate as spice, and actually I and my family do like that – is that something traditional or completely made up by (european) cooking ?

   also I never use shredded cheese – Is that something normally done ? chili has so much taste – I think the cheese would actually drown that. Sounds more like for kids, who add cheese and/or ketchup to anything and then eat it.

   f ppl like it less spicy I give greek yoghurt or sour cream instead. I think that fits better to the peppers and I like it myself this way.

   II also do put in some more effort when cooking. I found the onion powder most odd – but thats different story. And I am with u: sugar should actually not be needed, expecially when using tomatos or even tomato paste.

   still i would not be as strict as you: better cook it this way yourself instead of using canned food every day … simple cooking helps a lot to come through the week, and I use a lot of quick recipies myself (ok, without replacing onions by powder :) )

2. 2 days ago on Heart of the City

   I had to check on onion powder, I did not know this exists. Cooking chili (or curries or … any other stew) without ‘normal’ onions (or garlic) seems odd to me – but probably still better than always having canned food or eating out.

   Imho It is a sad story that asking ppl to cut onions is already overwhelming – but I saw that egg powder is sold too, …

3. 2 days ago on Aunty Acid

   I thought that was meant by calling out. It there a different meaning in the US ?

4. 7 days ago on Wizard of Id

   I also thought about Neptun. Sad that this does not really happen …

5. 7 days ago on Pearls Before Swine

   actually, it smells sweet :D

6. 12 days ago on Dog Eat Doug

   thanks for the memories :)

7. 13 days ago on Liberty Meadows

   I went during a night of museums when admission was free – into a museum with very modern art. And believe it or not, many pieces reminded me of the presentation of kids arts in our kindergarden. I did not believe the money tags for a wall full of hand prints or simple lines forming checkers.

   The piece I really found absolutely unbelievable was when the artist literally pi**ed against a copper wall and called the trace that left ‘Art’. And then the museum put a sign beside that: we are very proud to present … bla bla.

   Sometimes I wonder whether artists lough about this kind of art, and what a museum director thinks when acquiring such stuff.

8. 16 days ago on Aunty Acid

   Just nice. Must be from Discworld – long time ago

9. 20 days ago on Pickles

   you said: Dog owners, on the other hand, are very difficult to train: in the training for hunting dogs with my dog it was much more a training of the owner (me) to understand the dog and be quick to read the signals. Pay attention to your dog was the most important lesson! Everything else then comes naturally … at least for me and my dog.

10. 20 days ago on Pickles

    my dog does not protect anyone – and she is quite big. Shes sometimes hides behind me and I am small :D Also I think that hunting dogs – and I mean all dogs that like to hunt, not only hunters dogs – sometimes will follow the hare, no matter how much trained. squirrels are hard too.

    funny that everybody here talks about attacking dogs – dogs without leash just going for a run is a much more common problem for the owner. but probably ppl without dogs won’t take notice.