Interactive Dining Experience.
on July 27, 2020 at 12:01 amA new storyline? Why not.
After giving Sal the same weirdo job I had, I may as well go squeeze some material out of it.
A new storyline? Why not.
After giving Sal the same weirdo job I had, I may as well go squeeze some material out of it.
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Sal sounds so excited to be at work.
She’s going through the spiel with all the enthusiasm of a burned-out theme park tour boat ride captain.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uqPf6EIlWh8
I was thinking more “Skipper Dan” but that’s just as good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0cCRRFi1aA
Damn, that hits the nail on the head. She used to be an Earth-saving chaotic neutral superpowered antihero, now she runs a glorified elevator at a tacky tourist trap.
I don’t know, she lacks the horizontal eyebrows Willis’s characters usually wear when using a sarcastic tone (like the ones permanently attached to Sarah’s face), implying she’s at least trying.
I know they did the duck because they thought it was kind of weird, but I think they needed to take it further. Use food coloring to make it purple and stick a couple of pipe-cleaners in it as antennae or something.
I’d sure as hell order it. Once, because duck is oily as hell and kind of gross, but damned if I wouldn’t need to say I ate a purple space duck with antennae once in my life.
I’d hate to imagine what you were doing to duck to make it oily but whatever it was please stop!
Ducks have tons of fat because that’s how they float and keep warm. Apparently you can remove all this before cooking resulting in non-greasy meat.
But no place I’ve ever gone has ever done this, and every duck I’ve been served has been so oily I had to eat in a hurry before the US could invade my plate.
By the way, thanks for that. It gets real annoying gearing up and loading up the planes and getting them in the air, only for someone to finish up and dispose of their oil before we can get there. We barely managed to get the troops out of bed for your meals. Much more convenient.
Okay, so here’s how it’s meant to go. Take dead duck (usually brought home by the men of the family who then claimed they’d done their bit and left it to us girls to do the rest) saturate it in warm soapy water to make all the feathers wet and therefore easy to pluck. Once plucked, make a small incision and stick you hand up its butt and pull out its guts. Rinse, stuff with a good breadcrumb stuffing with sage and roast til cooked. Serve with roast veges for a delicious, non-oily feast.
Every time the story comes back around to defunct space restaurant, I really want to eat there bc I need to know if I actually like duck or just the sauce, and idk any places that serve duck other than “Peking duck”
I tried making it myself but it came out crap (granted, it was “duck bacon” or something)
There was a location of defunct space restaurant, and I really wanted to go there because it sounded like a cool one-time outing.
And now I never will. 😥
a location of defunct space restaurant IN NEW YORK CITY
“idk any places that serve duck” — I had it once @ a place called France; not oily, either.
There’s apparently a place in DC, but it’s thoughtfully closed due to the Corona, the owner put a message on the website saying they can’t in good conscience risk anyone’s health for “fine dining”
I might look them up later, if the US isn’t rendered into a savage wasteland before that
Pluto needs cash, Mars needs moms, the other celestial bodies in our solar system are so NEEDY.
Mercury needs water, Saturn needs potatoes, Uranus needs TP…
Earth needs brains.
A mighty need to be sure.
Sadly, Earth has the highest concentration of brains yet discovered in the universe. It would be nice if more of them were functional…
…and his planetary status back, too.
I still think the reasoning for the re-classification of Pluto as no longer a full planet makes no scientific sense.
eh, I was grumpy at first, but I can see it. Basically, what we thought was a unique oddball turned out to be one of a whole class of objects; Lowell just happened to get lucky and spot one on a pair of plates while looking for something more massive and trans-Neptunian. (The math has gone back and forth a couple of times on whether there’s likely to actually be something out there.)
(hit return too soon :p )
Further advances in astronomy, including the dawn of the Space Age and being able to put telescopes in orbit, have enabled us to observe many, many more such objects, some even larger than Pluto and/or Charon. The weird outlier now has company – lots of it – and we can’t call all of them full planets, any more than Ceres, Vesta et al.
+1
We certainly could. The requirement to clear the orbit is something that makes no sense dynamically in the outer regions. Past a certain distance it’s just not happening.A body the size of Saturn midway out in the K belt wouldn’t have cleared it’s orbit. It’s not very likely there’s a body that large out there, but it’s quite likely there’s a body larger than Earth. And we aren’t going to call it a planet because it hasn’t cleared it’s orbit? The requirement makes such little sense that the exoplanet people ignore it completely.
Also part of the problem (@clif) is that “planet” just isn’t a very useful word anymore. The clearing orbit requirement isn’t great, sure, but neither is orbiting a star, as we’ve found rogue planets. And if we’re looking for good descriptors, “planet” isn’t super useful even within our solar system, because the gas giants aren’t very much like the terrestrial planets, and subcategories get messy really quickly. Also we went through this already with the Asteroid Belt. Here, have a video going into this a bit more in depth.
“Cleared its orbit” is something that’s often misunderstood – it doesn’t mean “kicked out everything else in its general area” (Jupiter wouldn’t qualify if it meant that, as Jupiter has literally hundreds of Trojan asteroids which share its orbit), but rather is understood to mean “gravitationally dominant in its general area”. Pluto is not this – it gets bossed around by Neptune – and it’s not even the only object in its region to get bossed around by Neptune. And the only things that Pluto does boss around are its own moons, which…don’t really qualify for the purpose.
(Pluto’s even the namesake for a whole subcategory of celestial bodies, the plutinos, that Neptune has forced into a 2:3 orbital resonance [i.e. for every 3 orbits Neptune makes, Pluto and the other plutinos make 2) with it. Y’know, because Neptune clears its orbit of any competition, leaving just the smol TNOs behind with no significant power over their own orbits around the Sun.)
(bah, Tombaugh, not Lowell. It’s been too long since I learned/refreshed myself on this stuff.)
StClair summed it up pretty well, but here’s how I put it:
Would you rather kids memorize the 8 planets or the 100+ planets? Cause we can’t leave Pluto in and then no include the other 100ish things with the exact same properties. Particularly when several of them are bigger and more planet-like than Pluto is.
We can’t have the kids memorizing all the nations of the earth, so we’ll have to call those not bordering an ocean minor nations instead.
Most kids IME don’t memorize all the nations. Hell, I’ve tried but deliberately skip over the small island ones. And people live in nations, they’re a lot higher on the “force to learn” list than a bunch of distant snowballs we don’t know much about.
Why not, Yakko did.
I want duck now.
I want $34.95 now.
I want benevolence now.
Sal with a pony-tail really looks like Walky.
“Interactive dining experience”? What the hell is that? Wait… I think… I don’t really want to know.
I’m more worried about the idea of non-interactive dining experiences.
There’s a simulator ride.