What are you eating right now?

[Shrubfest]

Well. After years of considering the food in the land of spray cheese to surely be horrifying, I just made American pancakes. I now understand a whole aspect of US culture which was previously a mystery to me.

They were lovely.
Fuck British pancakes.

[Fathom Zero]

I can only imagine that British Pancakes are thin, anaemic slabs of sadness.

[Tadao]

I hope you don't want to be skinny.

[Shrubfest]

British pancakes are more like crepes, but without the sugar syrup.
We have scotch pancakes which are more like American ones, but they tend to be either plain or raisin, and usually eaten cold or toasted.

I am regretting them a bit now, I feel a bit of indigestion.

[Fathom Zero]

live long and poop well

I just finished two corned beef, sauerkraut, and provolone sandwiches on toasted potato bread. Now I'm off to Judo.

[Tadao]

As long as it isn't Bisquick then you might live.

[Fathom Zero]

Hungry Jack mix is where it's at.

[Tadao]

Trader Joes Salmonella free formula 5!

[Fathom Zero]

Grrrrrrrrrrl, if there were a Trader Joes around me, I'd forsake pancakes and load up on Gorilla Munch.

[Tadao]

Hah, go figure that I love the Panda peanut butter Enviro kids gluten free cereal.

[Shrubfest]

Oh. Maybe I was wrong about the understanding American pancakes thing.

I made mine from ingredients.

[Tadao]

So do we, but our ingredients are put together for us and we add water and heat. Also other thing.

[Tadao]

There is a restaurant called Norms in Cali. L.A. and they makle the best shortstacks. I don't know how far across America they spread but their shit is yummy. Since gluten fucks me up I can't eat them and I recently learned that dinners add pancake batter to scrambled eggs for flavor and filler. Now I have to get my eggs over easy without toast. Fucking dinners and their wheat in everything ideas.

[Babs]

I hear at Costco they have $5 vasectomies and they ARE gluten free.

[Dimnos]

Shrub, do you guys have IHOP over there?

[Tadao]

WELL IT IS INTERNATIONAL :rolleyes

[Dimnos]

She was supposed to respond before you jumped in with that.

[Tadao]

HOW DO YOU KNOW I'M NOT A HOT ENGLISH PIXIE CUT TEASE?

[Shrubfest]

We know because IHOP isn't in the UK. I went to 'The Pancake House' on holiday once. I expect that was a knock-off version. It was mostly weird.

[Tadao]

Yeah but you loved my pork sauce. :wink

[Zomboid]

Ritz Bits mini sandwiches. Fawk yeah, bros.

[Kitsa]

Wrong, you're all wrong.

This (http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/instant-pancake-mix-recipe/index.html) is God's Own pancake recipe.

[Mike Tobacco]

I'm eating KFC Dip'ems. Now, I don't typically eat fast food, but if push comes to shove I will grab some fried chicken or order a pizza. The chicken strips themselves are standard KFC-fare, but these new sauces are pretty shitty.

There's this Creamy Buffalo sauce, which is poorly named and has this radioactive orange color that isn't found in nature. And there's an Orange Ginger flavor which was so bad after the first try I seriously thought I tasted it wrong. A second try only proved that my tastebuds were indeed working correctly. Finally there's the Bacon Ranch sauce, that looks and tastes how you'd expect, but had the psychological side-effect of reminding me how unhealthy this whole affair has been.

[dextire]

Chicken noodle soup made from scratch. It turned out way better than I thought it would.
http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv150/dextire/Imock%20misc/chicken-soup.jpg

And I'm drinking from this way too normal looking can.
Dragonfruit Pepsi!
http://i678.photobucket.com/albums/vv150/dextire/Imock%20misc/dragonfruit-pepsi.jpg
After assuming "PepsiX" was just a slightly redesigned can for the X factor show, a closer inspection reveled that it was actually Dragonfruit flavored Pepsi!
And while it's tasty stuff, it really doesn't taste like Pepsi at all. It's very fruity, and somewhat floral.

[Aaarg]

Oh. Maybe I was wrong about the understanding American pancakes thing.

I made mine from ingredients.

hm which ingredients?

this one?
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41cfe4D3veL._SL500_AA300_PIbundle-8,TopRight,0,0_AA300_SH20_.jpg
oh, maybe this one
http://www.bookofjoe.com/images/2008/03/12/batter_blaster.jpg

also thin pancakes are where it's at. put all your ingredients together and add too much milk. all right.

[Guitar Woman]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41cfe4D3veL._SL500_AA300_PIbundle-8,TopRight,0,0_AA300_SH20_.jpg
NEW! Pancake-scented laundry detergent!

[Kitsa]

I am going to do a cartoon-themed croquembouche for my kid's birthday party, God help me.

[replicant]

I am going to do a cartoon-themed croquembouche for my kid's birthday party, God help me.

Croquembouche just sounds scary in it's self.

[Kitsa]

Last time I made one I got second-degree burns when a blob of molten sugar landed on my hand. Peeled it off skin and all. Sounds like a good time to me!

[dextire]

Last time I made one I got second-degree burns when a blob of molten sugar landed on my hand. Peeled it off skin and all. :faint

Anyway, are you going to try a specific cartoon?

[Kitsa]

My kid likes Pingu, so Pingu it is. I lucked out, claymation is crazy-easy to do in fondant.

The bad thing about being burned with sugar is that it's sticky. You can't get it peeled off before it starts cooking you, and it's cooking you all the time you're trying frantically to get it off you.

The prettiest croquembouches are dunked in the sugar- sort of a caramel-y, toffee-y kind of thing, stuck together with it, and then sort of wrapped in a cocoon of spun sugar. I'm not going that route. I'm using chocolate this time.

[Kitsa]

Recipe for the best fucking chocolate glaze ever....

Melt one entire stick of unsalted butter in a saucepan. Don't boil it or get it to the point where it's turning brown...you want to be there right as that last tiny sliver liquefies.

Add in 2 heaping tablespoons of cocoa powder and 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract, and stir that shit till it's ultra-smooth.

Start adding in powdered sugar, a little at a time, stirring well after each addition. You might use as much as half pound, depending on the purity of the butter and how much it soaks up. Keep adding and stirring. It will start to look like a complete mess...thick, oily paste. When it's so thick it's starting to pull away from the sides of the pan and most of the oily stuff is absorbed, start adding milk a tiny bit at a time. At first the milk will just slosh around the paste, but after a couple of teaspoons it will start to smooth out. Keep adding and stirring until you have the consistency you're going for. I go until it's falling off the spoon in a ribbon back into the pan. Then you have to work fast- if you're covering a round cake, pour it on as you're turning the cake plate. If you're dunking pastries, keep it on low heat and keep stirring to prevent it from setting up. It will dry smooth and glossy and it tastes incredible. Good on eclairs, too.

[Kitsa]

How can McVities taste like someone pressed them together from wet sand and yet have NO DIETARY FIBER IN THEM WHATSOEVER?

They have a grainy grass thing stamped into the top and everything. They're not digestives, they're LIES. >:(

[WhiteRat]

I'm eating a delicious sirloin steak that I cooked rare in worchestire sauce with a KC Masterpiece meat rub. It is god damn fantastic.

seriously, like, no part of this is fat

and no bones


this is awesome

[Esuohlim]

PUSSY :lol :lol :lol :lol

still funny you guys

[WhiteRat]

I'm eating a delicious sirloin steak that I cooked rare in worchestire sauce with a KC Masterpiece meat rub. It is god damn fantastic.

seriously, like, all parts of this is fat

and all bones


this is awesome

[Colonel Flagg]

Mint M&M's

[WhiteRat]

I'm eating a delicious sirloin steak that I cooked rare in worchestire sauce with a KC Masterpiece meat rub. It is god damn fantastic.

seriously, like, no part of this is fat

and no bones


this is awesome