#the history of food

[sports45]

Things Elon Musk Could Do with His Right Hand Instead of the Nazi Salute

Grab something off a high shelf for a short person.

Pitch for an adult-amateur community baseball league. This is a great hobby for someone who needs to improve their coordination and can’t make friends based on their personality.

Pick up a classic work of literature — one that’s heavy and powerful, like a gun you can read. (Not Mein Kampf.)

Conduct a symphony (not Wagner).

Rock one of his twelve abandoned children while singing a lullaby — something besides ‘Horst-Wessel-Lied,’ the anthem of the Nazi Party from 1930–1945.

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[proletariat-of-sex]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[thoughtportal]

Gentrified food snacks

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Corn dogs are named for their traditional meat, the unicorn. As unicorns are now extinct, they can only be referred to properly as ‘Corn Dogs and not “Unicorn Dogs” as they were prior to 2009.

[prokopetz]

About twenty years back, there was this weird transitional period after companies had figured out that harvesting their users' demographic information was a potential gold mine but before we lived in a hellish panopticon where any website operator could look up your IP address and know what you had for breakfast where some sites would try to get you to fill out, like, detailed demographic surveys before they'd let you access their stuff. Not just age, gender and geographic location, either – some of them would fish for employment status, marital status, brand preferences, even religious affiliation. A lot of folks I knew would just pick the first option in every dropdown, but my move was always to fill in the demographic information of the current Pope, at least as far as I was able to determine it (brand preference was always a tricky one). I like to think that, thanks to my efforts, their data sets are haunted to this day by a phantom pontiff.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Topics List: Sweets

Word lists may be helpful for some people to overcome writer's block.

CAKES

CANDY

CHOCOLATE

CONFECTIONS

COOKIES

Source ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ Topics Lists ⚜ Part 2 ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[thingsorganizedneatly]

Did you know that there is a Toaster Museum????

[staff]

Tumblr Tuesday: Ten Years Too Good

It is with heavy heart that we regret to inform you that the initial report on beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world, too pure did, in fact, occur on this day ten years ago. One decade, comin' right up. Of course, it wasn't until a year later that the practice of categorizing our blorbos as cinnamon rolls began.

Tumblr, wherever you are on this Tuesday, please enjoy the swirly breads.

[uh-mxtx]

The presence of Potatoes in MDZS implies that some ballsy cultivator took a flying sword over the pacific to South America and brought them back and I would like to pose the idea that that particular potato loving dumbass was Wei Wuxian’s ancestor

(Edit: AND CHILIES!)

(EDIT 2: also watermelon except thats from africa. For reference, irl it’s Song dynasty for watermelon and Qing dynasty for potatoes and chilies)

[gothgleek]

The traditional and iconic keffiyeh is worn to represent Palestine everywhere we go and to stand in solidarity with our righteous cause and It's people. It consists of three main patterns: a fishnet to represent abundance, grace, and freedom. Sea Waves to represent strength and resilience after 73 years under military occupation. The Bold Lines represent the trade roles which have played a vital role in Palestine’s history and culture. - Handmade in Palestine

[imanisays]

MOOD

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

MF DOOM released his fifth album MM.. FOOD November 16, 2004

[assiraphales]

I do think it’s unfortunate that people (europeans) automatically assume that “american” style versions of foods are immediately the most bastardized version done purposefully out of lack of culture, when the reality a lot of times it’s rooted in a response of millions of poor immigrants stepping foot in a foreign land attempting to recreate beloved recipes with what few ingredients were available and affordable

[mioritic]

Lebzelten (gingerbread) mold, Austria, 19th century

Volkskundemuseum Wien (ÖMV/75.456)

[beggars-opera]

It's been a hot second since I've seen a picture of a Victorian mustache cup on here so look at this one in all its glory

This is a sippy cup. You just invented a sippy cup for manly men who want to go to tea parties and not feel emasculated by drinking too fast and getting their perfectly coifed mustaches droopy I can't

[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of linguistic trivia is that in Ancient Greek, the word ἰχώρ (cognate to the modern English "ichor") is attested in extant literature to mean both "the bodily fluid which gods possess instead of blood", and also "gravy", which implies several things about Ancient Greek culinary culture's attitude toward gravy.