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Re: What is your favorite deli meat? attn: Olog-hai, Spider-Pig, AlM, bingbong, Catfish, BILL(all 4)

Posted by cortelyounext on Sat Jun 6 16:43:28 2026, in response to Re: What is your favorite deli meat? attn: Olog-hai, Spider-Pig, AlM, bingbong, Catfish, BILL(all 4), posted by bingbong on Sat Jun 6 14:24:39 2026.

As a general rule, I stay away from threads involving food, baking and cooking in particular. For the "Old Guard", you may well recall the disaster and attendant public ridicule and humiliation I endured back perhaps a dozen years ago when I attempted a couple recipes. One was a pie, the other something called Heavenly Sent Brownies. In both cases, I went to the grocery store and picked up all the necessary ingredients or so I thought. I did not pick up Davis baking powder for the pie because I thought I had it but when I got home I saw it was baking powder. I decided to just substitute it because it looked the same and the rest was sordid history let's leave it at that. I can only assume it was the baking soda that led to the outcome. After a couple three months, time I needed to come to grips with that disaster, I found the recipe for the brownies. I went ahead and used all the ingredients but then my confidence nay cockiness got in the way. I changed the amount of ingredients by doubling everything because I wanted to make twice as many brownies never realizing that is not a quote linear proposition close quote. Moreover, I used to watch my little sister bake and she would sometimes add ingredients or substitute some based solely on her intuition and experience and it always came out heavenly so I decided to do it. If the pie was a disaster than the brownies turned out to be a catastrophe the likes of which I cannot even begin to understand. It was, in a word, cataclysmic.

Anyway, I remember getting absolutely crucified by many on this board. The unwarranted personal and ad hominem attacks on my person and character left me emotionally scarred and is something I am still working through. I knew I messed up so the comments ("What is wrong with you?", "Are you really that stupid?", "Do you have any common sense at all". "Like, how old are you?") were not necessary nor appreciated. There were three people, and only three people, who came to my defense. One was SMAZ, one was either JayZeeBMT or the Kew Gardens Teleport can't remember, and one was bingbong.

Ironically, after reading some from my New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of Othello and before lifting the lid on my MacBook Air (M4) a couple hours ago, I made myself an afternoon snack of crackers and smoked gouda, an apple, a piece of dark chocolate, and a dram of Balvenie Doublewood. Ring a bell? I was just getting into whisky and heard of that scotch when you mentioned it in that pie or brownie thread, at least I think it was one of those. Why I remember that I have no idea but since then I always have a bottle of Balvenie Doublewood in the cabinet. Smooth.

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