OT: The Menu 20 Captain Dave Poulin/ Cody Webster Steak edition

[Lord Defect]

As a fan of sandwiches, you’ve annoyed me previously.

As someone who birdwatches (sometimes competitively [look up the World Series of Birding, I dare you]), you’ve crossed some f***ing lines. Take it back!

I’m sorry but if someone doesn’t laugh at the phrase “I watch birds competitively”, I don’t think I can be friends with them.

 

[Starat327]

We made (I saw we, it was mainly a few friends, I helped very little) a big batch of beer once at University...

in a wheelie bin that we cleaned out. (literally a garbage can)

And then bottled it.

Like 10% of it was sediment and it was made waaaaay stronger than it should have been.

Ended up like ~10% or so we reckoned given how many it took to start getting sloshed.

But it was surprisingly tasty and we all drank probably 30 bottles each or so and yeh, no one got ill. So yeh... and that was beer made in a literal bin. (though there was a plastic bag liner too tbf)

That house was amazing.

Old converted church with crazy high ceilings. I did not live there but was basically sleeping on the sofa probably 2-3 nights a week as why go home at 4am?

They also got 2 trampolines they found online for free and put them in the living room and kitchen as there was a partition wall with a ~4ft gap at the top, like ~10-12ft high wall and then the gap. So you could trampoline onto the wall and then drop into the kitchen instead of walking through the corridor. (no-one ever actually did it more than once really as it was stupid.)

You mean you didn't throw irish moss in your trash bin to clear the brew?!? Im appalled!

Kidding aside, you always get sediment during the brew process. It's a natural chemical reaction to the yeast chewing through the proteins and sugars. There's always a decent portion of 'sludge' at the bottom of any brew. What you're brewing, how you're brewing it, and what style you're making have a huge effect on how much of the wort is going to 'yeast poop' as I call it. The more stuff you give the yeast to eat, the more poop it makes.

 

[Lord Defect]

So favorite bird has got to be something in the quetzal family, maybe resplendent quetzal. I’ve seen elegant trogon in Arizona which are gorgeous.

I can’t nail down a single bird that I’ve seen but probably the single coolest experience was doing a trip up to Amherst Island on Lake Ontario in the middle of January. The unique geography of the island made it a safe haven for small rodents to breed—no mammalian predators. But it made it a critical roosting and feeding area for owls. They even called the one area “owl woods” for a reason. I believe in the course of a day there I saw seven of the eleven regularly occurring owls in the east (great grey, great horned, long eared, short eared, snowy, saw whet and boreal). And not singly either—more than ten snowy owls on the island as we moved around, thirty or forty long eareds, a handful of the others.

Not one barn owl? Rookie.

 

[prototypical4thliner]

I’m sorry but if someone doesn’t laugh at the phrase “I watch birds competitively”, I don’t think I can be friends with them.

Oh it’s without a doubt either a “get it” or “don’t get it” thing and I’m cool with that. Don’t have the link but the Daily Show ran a clip way back when Steve Carrell was doing work for them.

Not one barn owl? Rookie.

Incidentally they are a bit more sparse up north. South Jersey is actually a really good spot for them. We had actually found a breeding pair on some farm in Salem County (because if you’re in the World Series, you have to scout the week before to find the uncommon birds). Really was almost spectral, seeing one of them come out of (spoiler alert) a barn to hunt.

 

[Lord Defect]

Oh it’s without a doubt either a “get it” or “don’t get it” thing and I’m cool with that. Don’t have the link but the Daily Show ran a clip way back when Steve Carrell was doing work for them.

Incidentally they are a bit more sparse up north. South Jersey is actually a really good spot for them. We had actually found a breeding pair on some farm in Salem County (because if you’re in the World Series, you have to scout the week before to find the uncommon birds). Really was almost spectral, seeing one of them come out of (spoiler alert) a barn to hunt.

Stop looking for strange birds you creep

 

[Striiker]

So favorite bird has got to be something in the quetzal family, maybe resplendent quetzal. I’ve seen elegant trogon in Arizona which are gorgeous.

I can’t nail down a single bird that I’ve seen but probably the single coolest experience was doing a trip up to Amherst Island on Lake Ontario in the middle of January. The unique geography of the island made it a safe haven for small rodents to breed—no mammalian predators. But it made it a critical roosting and feeding area for owls. They even called the one area “owl woods” for a reason. I believe in the course of a day there I saw seven of the eleven regularly occurring owls in the east (great grey, great horned, long eared, short eared, snowy, saw whet and boreal). And not singly either—more than ten snowy owls on the island as we moved around, thirty or forty long eareds, a handful of the others.

My favorite bird is the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper.

 

[dragonoffrost]

what they charging for a steak these days

2 cost me 28...

 

[blackjackmulligan]

2 cost me 28...

crazy. Only matter of time before thy are over 15 for a fn steak sandwich.

More times than not buy my own meat and easily feed the family for less or the same. One of the best things i purchased was a nice nice electric flay top grill. Only use it for steaks, burgers, quesadilla and the like.

 

[dragonoffrost]

crazy. Only matter of time before thy are over 15 for a fn steak sandwich.

More times than not buy my own meat and easily feed the family for less or the same. One of the best things i purchased was a nice nice electric flay top grill. Only use it for steaks, burgers, quesadilla and the like.

I will say the portion is large enough to justify the cost.

I got them last summer from their food truck for 10 each though.

 

[Lord Defect]

 

[JojoTheWhale]

We're so old things from 2013 are being rediscovered.

Here's an article from a few years ago where they found the woman on the 10 year anniversary: JaNee: Where Is She Now? | PUNCH

It was a gig for a search engine if you can believe it. There are many more videos.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

You weren’t lying. @Young Sandwich

 

[Young Sandwich]

You weren’t lying. @Young Sandwich

Angelo's is absolutely worth the trip. Make sure you get a grandma pie when you go too. It's incredible and will feed you for a few days.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Angelo's is absolutely worth the trip. Make sure you get a grandma pie when you go too. It's incredible and will feed you for a few days.

Yeah I want to try it one day but I’ve heard business has skyrocketed since Portnoy did a review there & gave them high scores.

 

[Cody Webster]

You weren’t lying. @Young Sandwich

I thought this was being posted for the lack of meat in that thing...

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

I thought this was being posted for the lack of meat in that thing...

That’s a fine ratio to me. I like to taste the other stuff too so I don’t like a meat packed sandwich.

 

[Cody Webster]

 

[dragonoffrost]

So name is the only similarity from the packaging... hard to say the 2020 version has a claim against the 2022 unless the recipe is identical. How many beers named Vibrant were there? That's just one instance off the top of my head.

 

[Cody Webster]

So name is the only similarity from the packaging... hard to say the 2020 version has a claim against the 2022 unless the recipe is identical. How many beers named Vibrant were there? That's just one instance off the top of my head.

Not sure if you read into it or not, but the guy says he pitched the idea of this beer to Cape May back in 2020 and they said no thanks. He got a patent filed for the name and then Cape May went and brewed this beer in a collab with Wawa. Some are saying what this guy is saying is pretty fishy...who knows

 

[landsbergfan]

Not sure if you read into it or not, but the guy says he pitched the idea of this beer to Cape May back in 2020 and they said no thanks. He got a patent filed for the name and then Cape May went and brewed this beer in a collab with Wawa. Some are saying what this guy is saying is pretty fishy...who knows

trademark, but yes. he also says he's a lawyer so I am not sure why he's asking for help on the comments of an instagram post lol.

 

[Cody Webster]

More info

 

[Tripod]

Steak night

 

[Lord Defect]

@ellja3
I planted a bunch of different types of peppers this spring in what I thought would be adequate pots, and labeled them.
The pots last year had herbs growing like crazy in them. Turns out the peppers need more room to grow. When I replanted them I realized the labeled stakes faded and I cannot read them.
I planted peppers from normal green/red/yellow/orange, to jalapeños, to reaper, to ghost peppers.
Could you help ID some of these peppers to avoid possibly major accidents please?

They are all about 3” long, but I’m not sure if they are naturally that length or if they are stunted from the pots.

 

[Starat327]

@ellja3
I planted a bunch of different types of peppers this spring in what I thought would be adequate pots, and labeled them.
The pots last year had herbs growing like crazy in them. Turns out the peppers need more room to grow. When I replanted them I realized the labeled stakes faded and I cannot read them.
I planted peppers from normal green/red/yellow/orange, to jalapeños, to reaper, to ghost peppers.
Could you help ID some of these peppers to avoid possibly major accidents please?
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They are all about 3” long, but I’m not sure if they are naturally that length or if they are stunted from the pots.

Be a real man and bite into it and find out.

 

[prototypical4thliner]

@ellja3
I planted a bunch of different types of peppers this spring in what I thought would be adequate pots, and labeled them.
The pots last year had herbs growing like crazy in them. Turns out the peppers need more room to grow. When I replanted them I realized the labeled stakes faded and I cannot read them.
I planted peppers from normal green/red/yellow/orange, to jalapeños, to reaper, to ghost peppers.
Could you help ID some of these peppers to avoid possibly major accidents please?
View attachment 574532View attachment 574533View attachment 574534View attachment 574535
They are all about 3” long, but I’m not sure if they are naturally that length or if they are stunted from the pots.

Can confirm first one is ghost pepper or reaper.

But yeah, go ahead and maybe lick them.