quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

it outrageous!

i mean srsly folks vinegar is 'modern'

We use lactic acid fermentation to make our Real Pickles products. It is the original pickling method and has been an essential part of healthy human diets throughout the world for thousands of years. In Asia, consumption of fermented vegetables dates back at least to the 3rd Century B.C.E., when the Great Wall of China was being constructed. In Europe, sauerkraut is known to have been an important food among the ancient Romans.

Today, Real Pickles is one of a small handful of businesses in the United States producing raw, lactic acid fermented pickles (also known as lacto-fermented or naturally fermented). This traditional pickling process went out of favor with the advent of industrial food production. Modern pickling methods, including use of vinegar (usually in place of fermentation) and pasteurization, produce a uniform, shelf stable product suitable to the needs of the large food corporations. Unfortunately, modern pickles do not offer the authentic flavor or health-promoting qualities of traditional pickles.

ya but tbh this stuff is not that complicated and how many selling points do you have

obvs they just dont want to call their wares 'fermented vegetables'

real is just overcompensating tho

http://realpickles.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-and-organic-pickles.html

you know I never realized the connection before now

Occupying the streets. Making organic pickles. Any connection here? I would say so.

dude for real you GOTTA try their dope pickles. yum!

cabbage corporate food system cucumbers decentralization diversity equitable farmers fermented pickles food as a right Good Food Awards local mud Occupy Wall Street organic people-centered pickle posse pickles Real Pickles recipes regional resiliency sauerkraut small business social change social responsibility stocking up sustainable

yah i would totally eat them, i mean like for instance this company has prob the most annoying name in the history of food but really does taste good

http://i.imgur.com/kro0t.jpg

http://realpickles.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-and-organic-pickles.html

you know I never realized the connection before now

― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:32 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Occupying the streets. Making organic pickles. Any connection here? I would say so.

― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:33 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao @ this

yeah I mean the problem is these people are marketing to a really annoying demographic, and because of that their marketing techniques have to be pretty nonsense, they can't just say 'so we make pickles, they're pretty good, you should try em', they have to create a narrative for you to invest yourself in. I'm sure these are nice people and if you got them drunk they'd be like 'lol yeah pickles are pickles pretty much...'

a pickle is a pickle

I'm sure these are nice people and if you got them drunk they'd be like 'lol yeah pickles are pickles pretty much...'

― iatee, Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:42 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and then weep deeply into the salty brine

*angrily throws a jar of pickled eggs at the ground*

do you guys go to bars w/ eggs or w/e?

i have certainly have seen pickled eggs at bar never eaten one tho, there was a place in boston i used to goto that was always handing out free hard boiled eggs which was p wonderful

I have actually never seen that irl, only on the simpsons

its a real thing 4 sure

pickles are pickles so why should it be
you and lactic acid fermentation should get along so awfully

dude i know opened a cafe down the street and he has pickled goat eggs. goat cheese filled eggs. yum again.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-eHxa-sItkP0/TbT1hnjMbUI/AAAAAAAADyM/BJHAhJTOPHw/s1600/eggs+%25283%2529.JPG

these look simultaneously kinda amazing and horrific

needs green, just a bit

are we getting hardcore? how about hundred year old eggs?

http://mediaserver01.stockfood.com/wmpreviews/MTEwNjA0MDA=/00850800.jpg

ive had century eggs before, theyre p dank

no vinegar only fermentation = pickle rockism

scott I totally saw Real Pickles™ on sale at the noho winter farmer's market last week when I was buying my locally-raised forest-finished pork butt roast for making carnitas

^ 100% true story

"Occupy Wall Street and Real Pickles represent different approaches to the same effort. Many approaches are needed, as there is much work to be done and no one simple path to an equitable and sustainable society."

I'm loving this.

Adam Davidson is such an idiot.

Picking on dining reviews is sorta unfair, but yeah, I miss sifton.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/dining/reviews/shake-shack-struggles-with-inconsistency.html

otm about the fries

had no idea that shake shack used crinkle cuts. I Will Never Eat There

the custards are good

hmm I could go get 1 right now hmmmm

The line is democratic: everybody waits, including Mr. Meyer’s children. It is a signal of freshness: everybody waits, because the food is cooked to order. It is the people’s endorsement: everybody waits, so it must be worth it.

philly cheesesteak joints have been doing this forever!! >:|

It also pours wine into stemless tulip-shaped glasses. You don’t realize they’re plastic until you touch them.

very good

that review isn't really quiddities worthy sorry sterling you know i love yooooo

not enough class warfare. one line about profanities at a mcdonalds in brooklyn isn't enough.

i don't think the new guy is bad. i liked sam sifton enough but i doubt many people miss him. unlike bruni who was missed.

now sam sifton HIS reviews could sometimes skirt the territory on this thread. cuz he was way into class and snobbery and hipsters.

no excuse for bad fries. so many places making good fries these days. sometimes they are the best thing about a restaurant these days.

yeah I mean there's a lot to be said about a shake shack being put in a predominantly black outdoor mall, the changes in downtown brooklyn, etc.

stfu

crinkle cut fries pshhhh

they are okay as cheese fries

really boring as regular fries

the worst are cheap burger joints with those horrible fries that are coated with something awful. blah. i blame sysco. they must be cheap as hell which is why bad restaurants buy them.

there is bad bacon going around too. in cheap diners. horrible horrible bacon that tastes like death and deadly chemicals. must cost ten cents a pound. again i blame sysco or whatever bulk crap company makes that stuff. bacon is already deadly, no reason for it to taste deadly too.

crinkle cut have no purpose. regular fries or waffle fries or gtfo