#a square meal

[living400lbs]

Women believed that meats, starches, sweets, and fats were the foods that best stoked the human furnace, the culinary antidote to drafty farmhouses in the winter cold. Preserved foods from the cellar helped round out the diet, but the cellar’s largess stretched only so far, and by late winter supplies were running alarmingly low. The result was “spring fever,” an annual affliction that came on just as the sap began to rise in the trees and that inspired a sprawling body of medical folklore. The ailment, it was thought, resided in the blood, which in spring grew thick with poisons, causing the pulse to slow. Its most telling symptoms were lethargy, muscular weakness, and a bad temper. ... They understood, however, that the best cure was the first crop of dandelions and spring onions, which were known to thin the blood and revitalize the body. Unknown to them, spring fever was in fact a vitamin deficiency, mostly likely scurvy, brought on by the winter diet.

From A Square Meal by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe

[cracklewink]

*blows dust off neglected pony oc

[zorangezest]

today i come with TWO arts. first is Soundwave that i accidentally saved in grayscale and had to repaint entirely

and second is an unshaded Deepfreeze cuz they're cool (get it?)

alr now im gonna go back to the pits where i came from byeee

WHAT THE HECKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[z34l0t]

[heph]

Both of them should not be taking care of growing kids I think

[spicyraeman]

something something twink death

[arthursfuckinghat]

I love how some players struggle to remember to feed Arthur and some players straight up don't feed him but man I have the opposite problem I keep accidentally overfeeding him lol

[greenleaf777]

Azriel and Elain’s sex scenes are going to EAT so hard omfg

[emblemxeno]

sorry to bring the dreaded disk horse to your blog again, but like it kills me that edelstans aren't able to read into the weird ass antisemitic undertones of "German princess from double headed eagle country wants to wipe out all the lizard people who she thinks control everything and are just so greedy " like I played three houses when I was nine and I picked up on it cmon lol

I very much agree with what you're saying because the allegories are there (be they intentional or not, art and media is not separated from the political sphere and context we live in), but then you said you played Three Houses when you were nine (9) and the universe cosmically socked me in the gut, lmaoooo

Got me feelin like this

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

Making my mom's famous, can't-be-assed-to-cook zucchini soup for dinner!

Except I can't get a hold of zucchini, so I'm using frozen butternut squash, which... Is in the same vegetable family. It'll be fine! Just pour a kilo into a pot with a large chopped onion and--

Frozen butternut squash from the store comes in 750g bags. Uhhh...

Carrots can be substituted for pumpkin-y and sweet potato things in savory, cooked foods! I've got frozen carrots!

I've got... 110 g of frozen carrots.

In the freezer are peas, which are the wrong color, mushrooms, which are the wrong flavor and... Cauliflower???

You can make my mom's zucchini soup with broccoli instead of zucchini, and cauliflower is basically ghost broccoli so into the soup you go! Look at me, using up the last bits in the freezer!

Now we just cover with water, add at least 3 stock cubes, boil until tender and blend with a tub of flavored cream cheese.

...I may have asked for two tubs of cream cheese on the grocery list.

But we have a second cooking pot.

Do peas count as zucchini?

[living400lbs]

Ever hear about the WWI veterans that marched to DC for their promised bonus pay?

In 1924, Congress had voted (over Coolidge’s veto) for the World War Adjusted Compensation Act, which was meant to make up the difference between a soldier’s pay during wartime and what he would have made in civilian life. The maximum a veteran could hope to receive was $625. The catch, however, was that this bonus was not scheduled to be paid until 1945. For men hunkered down in the trenches of the Great Depression, that seemed a long time to wait; $600 could make a huge difference to the life of a hungry and jobless veteran. Some Democratic politicians agreed.

Since 1929, Congressman Wright Patman of Texas had campaigned for a bill to amend the Compensation Act to pay out the bonuses immediately. By early 1932, it looked like the bill might finally come up for a vote, against the strenuous opposition of the president, almost all Republicans, and even many Democrats (including Governor Roosevelt). Portland’s veterans’ association asked all its members to sign petitions and write to politicians to help secure the vote. Walter Waters was a little more canny about the ways of Washington: “Our only hope was in following the successful tactics of Big Business; when its representatives wanted something from Congress, they went to it personally and said so.” He stood up in veterans’ meetings and suggested that Portland veterans send a delegation to Washington to directly lobby senators and congressmen. Initially, the men were unconvinced and trusted their government to do the right thing. But in Washington, politicians from both parties saw the bonus bill as a license to print money without the backing of gold or bond issues. On May 6, 1932, the House Ways and Means Committee voted to permanently shelve the bonus bill. Four days later, Portland’s veterans agreed to send a delegation of 250 men under strict military discipline to the nation’s capital. That same day, they headed down to the rail yards to embark on their journey across the United States. ...

Meanwhile, in Texas, Florida, Maine, Michigan, California, and dozens of other states, thousands of veterans suffering through hard times had read about the Oregon marchers, and they, too, hit the road for the nation’s capital. By May 29, when Walter Waters and his men finally made it to Washington, more contingents were on their way, some as large as 1,500 men, with a few wives and children in tow as well.

From A Square Meal by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe

[pealingpetals]

Local villain keeps corpse piece attached to his face and can't remember the last time he took a shower, more at 11

[cutiepieautistic]

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[ltwilliammowett]

An 18th C. sailors plate had a rim around called a fiddle. If you had dishonestly got more than your fair share the food would lap over the fiddle, hence the phrase ‘On the fiddle’ if you had enough, you’d had a ‘Square meal’ due to the shape used to stop your meal rolling around.

[apparltl0n]

Went to a food distribution center, and they gave us. A whole chicken. So i cooked it up, and i picked that shit as clean as i could (my favorite activity) and made chicken broth, but uh. We dont have a container for liquids, so uhmmm.

The chicken broth goes in the square container!

[bakutenshi]

My wittle bebies