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- 29 Wrz 2022
Add a little bit of kombu (dried kelp) to it, sometimes fresh ginger, some dashi or even bouillon. Or we've added a bit of this at times:
"Weipa" it's a Chinese / Japanese seasoning. It's basically umami in a can.
I love that stuff. Use it to add blue coloring to stuff like cakes and cookies and we used it once along with other things for noodles to make "Unicorn noodles" for a young cousin's birthday.
I think it's more a cultural thing than anything else. It's one less thing to worry about when cooking.
The rice is just set it and forget it and it's ready when you're ready to eat.
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- 26 Lis 2016
It's a Japanese MSG brand and this one is "Chinese cuisine umami flavour". In my opinion, it's way over the top. I'm not the type to buy into any retarded "msg causes X, taurine causes Y" idiotic Britbong lies to cope with bland food but I added a bit too much of it once and felt dizzy. Maybe it was something else, or what people call MSG intolerance.
I think chicken extract msg and pork fat is usually sufficient. The kombu you listed and bonito works well too, so do mushrooms and those small dried Chinese scallops (canopy). With those, you have to soak them in water after washing because they're often quite dirty from the air drying process. Around 2-3 of them per 2 cups of rice in fried rice does wonders. It's a natural msg source.
It's certainly similar to other items or frozen food such as puff pastry. I made my own once. Fuck that, never again! It was not worth it. Rice cookers are great. Even the $10 K-Mart thing would produce perfectly cooked rice.
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- 29 Sty 2025
Our second livestream with Good Jim of the Scalfaniverse was pretty uneventful until the last 18:30 minutes. At that point it went off the goddamn rails, so that's where I'll start. Highly encourage folks to watch for themselves; I know Jack isn't one to take down a video (unless it {a} gets him sued or {b} exposes the embarrassing level of brain damage required to confuse lime the chemical for lime the fruit) but if ever a video was a candidate, it's this one. Jim put on the bronze knuckles and started swinging.
And not only answering a question no one asked, but also answering it with lies. Narcissism finds a way:
The Farms predicted this eons ago, but Jack's obsession with meat can be traced back to the relative poverty of his youth and the insecurity he feels about how "low-class" his family was. There is a lot of research on this topic. A snippet: "Eating meat is a symbol of power and status, and those who see themselves as having lower socio-economic status prefer meat, and eat more meat, due to this perception." Jack thinks about meat the way most people think about loved ones or God. But things couldn't have been all bad! Meat was there! Even at my lowest, there was meat! I looked down in the sand and saw there was but ONE trail of myoglobin, for steak had been carrying me!
Two: Jack is revolting. You can see him at 1:07:29 ever so briefly admit to himself that what he just heard was very fucked up. As he processes this new awful information, his eyes dart to the side in an instinctive "yeah, that's bad" kind of way. But he still can't help himself: He rallies with cope, saying Yeah, I never had that because he's desperate to terminate this thought. As if the fact his mom never did the same exact thing to him means anything.
Jack's Mom: You need to talk to your son! He's not listening!
Jack: Oh, I have to hit him?
Also, while many of us suspected Jack was a heavy kid, I think this is the first time it's been confirmed. So Jack has been in a toxic relationship with food his whole life. Jim goes on to specifically mention the "three servings, not two" thing one more time in the course of this stream, and on neither occasion does Jack protest at all, so I'm inclined to believe Jim was being literal; and self-soothing Child Jack thought it was the most oppressive thing ever that he couldn't stuff his face with as much food as he wanted at dinnertime.
At this point Jim is forced to throw down the gauntlet and detail the psychological abuse they suffered at the hands of their mother, because Jack continues to try to deflect.
Earlier in the stream (before where this post starts), Jim talked about how painful it was for him to leave his lifelong church when he realized he was gay. He had tried dating women -- a girl named Jenny was mentioned -- but ultimately he knew his truth, admitted it, and left, knowing the church wouldn't approve. All his good friends were in the church and they asked him to stay -- just stay single, don't act on your urges, etc. -- but he knew he couldn't live a lie, so he left. The striking thing is Jim, in recounting the story, is very clear that he doesn't blame the church for essentially forcing him out, nor does he begrudge those ex-friends for not giving up their beliefs in order to stay friends with him. He's sad about it, but he understands people have their reasons.
Same thing is happening here, when he talks to Jack about their awful bio-parents. He won't deny what happened and how it hurt him, but he tries to remember that everyone has their own story.
But "gay ha ha" is not witty, and if the "brutal" and "horrible" jokes were actually harmless, then their mother wouldn't have intervened so much and saved Jim's life by doing so:
Otis was Connie's second husband, their stepfather, who could be seen pushing her wheelchair in the supermarket in a very early Jack episode. (Every time I reference this episode, I can't find the link!) Here's a picture of him Jack posted to his IG for Father's Day a week ago. Jack thanks him for teaching him how to shoot, treat women well and never lie, which is interesting since Jack claims to keep his gun loaded in an unlocked drawer by his bed, lies constantly, and recently agreed with Charles that women suck because they keep wanting divorces and complaining to HR.
Also, dude's brain is absolutely cooked. If you're thinking about a friend, a mother, any loved one you've lost, and you mainly wonder how they would react to highly politicized "crap" if they were still here, you've lost the plot. Jack appeared on a television show after his mom died. He moved to the cultural opposite of New York City. He launched new channels. His "faith" "deepened." He "wrote" a "book" and "created" "merch" and traveled a ton and "learned" new recipes. He built his own house from the ground up. One son moved half a world away to Thailand. Another son is about to give Jack his first grandchild. Hell, he even became handicapped in the exact same way his mother did (chair-bound due to multiple strokes). And he can find nothing more to introspect about than if she would be hateful of all the same things he hates? Pathetic.
Stray Observations
This prompts Jack to suggest all three Scalfani boys should do an F As In Frank episode together: a drum he's been beating for a while, apparently.
Jim actually has several different reasons for not wanting to participate in such a stream -- the central one yet to be said. This is just his first one, and he means it but means it the least.
This is another reason Jim doesn't want to do it. He knows it means enduring the same petty grievances.
I wish I weren't hung up on this sentence, but I am. Overnight, Jack went from someone who performatively never cursed (#goodchristian) to someone who curses when it's the least needed. The word "bitch" used next to "Mom" is jarring, and Jack would be heartbroken to learn it does not make him cool.
Some seeds are starting to bloom here:
- More proof Jack and Charles insist on telling their gay brother who had to be escorted from class to class in high school to make sure he didn't get beat up how much harder they had it. (A bit of an early reveal on my part, but I couldn't resist.)
- More proof that the two of them don't have any setting other than "permanently aggrieved."
- The expectation that your family will get you braces is middle-class -- or least nowhere near as poor as the Scalfanis mostly were (as Mama Scalfani abusively made sure Jim was acutelyaware of... more on that shortly).
- Braces in 1975 -- when Charles would have been about 13 -- cost 2 grand. The median household income was 14 grand. Now add not one, not two, but three children. Now subtract one parent's earning potential, because bio-dad left. Now make the parent who stayed have no white-collar skills and probably an undiagnosed mental disorder. It is wasted energy for Charles to spend a lifetime resenting what his family literally could not afford.
- If you carry around a briefcase in high school, you are going to get made fun of. And I would argue, if it please the court, that you brought it on yourself.
In all seriousness, Jack's "I know" here seems small -- but tonally it's one of the most sincere things I've ever heard him say.
Jack is minimizing with "little depression" because he finds it extremely uncomfortable to admit his childhood sucked. For years he's coped by proclaiming the opposite, over and over.
The narcissist acknowledges more truth. Does Jim have superpowers?
Now he's running from the point by answering a question nobody asked. Yes, Jack, but did she feed you all the delicious MEAT you wanted??? You didn't ever want for MEAT as a young lad, did you?!?
And not only answering a question no one asked, but also answering it with lies. Narcissism finds a way:
No, not "right." Let's build the syllogism. If you couldn't afford meat, and chicken is meat, then you couldn't afford chicken to put in your pasta.
The Farms predicted this eons ago, but Jack's obsession with meat can be traced back to the relative poverty of his youth and the insecurity he feels about how "low-class" his family was. There is a lot of research on this topic. A snippet: "Eating meat is a symbol of power and status, and those who see themselves as having lower socio-economic status prefer meat, and eat more meat, due to this perception." Jack thinks about meat the way most people think about loved ones or God. But things couldn't have been all bad! Meat was there! Even at my lowest, there was meat! I looked down in the sand and saw there was but ONE trail of myoglobin, for steak had been carrying me!
One: Confirmed that Connie Scalfani psychologically abused her children.
Two: Jack is revolting. You can see him at 1:07:29 ever so briefly admit to himself that what he just heard was very fucked up. As he processes this new awful information, his eyes dart to the side in an instinctive "yeah, that's bad" kind of way. But he still can't help himself: He rallies with cope, saying Yeah, I never had that because he's desperate to terminate this thought. As if the fact his mom never did the same exact thing to him means anything.
Confirmed that Connie Scalfani physically abused her children. I and others have long theorized this, given people often parent how they were parented, and Jack's willingness to not only strangle his son but also admit to it openly (and even brag about it) suggests a fundamental comfort with violence in the home. A glimpse was visible years ago at Tammy's birthday celebration at Maggiano's:
Jack's Mom: You need to talk to your son! He's not listening!
Jack: Oh, I have to hit him?
It should be noted that Jack is laughing through all of this, despite the fact none of it is funny, some of it is disturbing, and Jim is taking pains to be fair and controlled.
Also, while many of us suspected Jack was a heavy kid, I think this is the first time it's been confirmed. So Jack has been in a toxic relationship with food his whole life. Jim goes on to specifically mention the "three servings, not two" thing one more time in the course of this stream, and on neither occasion does Jack protest at all, so I'm inclined to believe Jim was being literal; and self-soothing Child Jack thought it was the most oppressive thing ever that he couldn't stuff his face with as much food as he wanted at dinnertime.
Jack is "amazed" because he's confusing a menu with a syllabus. A menu gives you options. A syllabus tells you what's coming. If middle-class moms didn't give their families options, then poor moms certainly didn't.
At this point Jim is forced to throw down the gauntlet and detail the psychological abuse they suffered at the hands of their mother, because Jack continues to try to deflect.
The desperate smile falls from Jack's face. He sits in silence, nodding, as Jim lays into Connie, and somewhat lays into Jack for pretending things were "rainbows and roses." (See also: The lamely titled My Mom Is Great series that Jack produced, as well as his insistence in many livestreams [often unprovoked] that his mom was "such a cool mom, you guys.")
Bro. The fact you even have to wonder this.
#cycleofabuse
We already knew this from the last livestream, but Jim is an extremely thoughtful person. Almost to a fault.
Earlier in the stream (before where this post starts), Jim talked about how painful it was for him to leave his lifelong church when he realized he was gay. He had tried dating women -- a girl named Jenny was mentioned -- but ultimately he knew his truth, admitted it, and left, knowing the church wouldn't approve. All his good friends were in the church and they asked him to stay -- just stay single, don't act on your urges, etc. -- but he knew he couldn't live a lie, so he left. The striking thing is Jim, in recounting the story, is very clear that he doesn't blame the church for essentially forcing him out, nor does he begrudge those ex-friends for not giving up their beliefs in order to stay friends with him. He's sad about it, but he understands people have their reasons.
Same thing is happening here, when he talks to Jack about their awful bio-parents. He won't deny what happened and how it hurt him, but he tries to remember that everyone has their own story.
No snark. This just sucks to hear, man.
No fucking shit, you dumb animal. That is Jim's point. That's why he's been begging you for hours now, across two different livestreams, to shut the fuck up about how bad you had it.
Tellingly, Jack does not refute this one bit. No "of course we liked you!" No "what are you talking about? What about when we did x! Or y!" No "oh come on, you're my brother!" Jack just nods. Silently.
It takes a lot of maturity to look back on how poorly you were treated and wonder if your own behavior could have been the cause. It is tons more grace than Charles and Jack are warranted.
Again extending unearned grace, Jim wonders if this was just how the brothers communicated -- by trying to "compete" with witty remarks.
But "gay ha ha" is not witty, and if the "brutal" and "horrible" jokes were actually harmless, then their mother wouldn't have intervened so much and saved Jim's life by doing so:
This was Jim's first attempt to tell his brother that their deeply flawed mother's love probably kept him from killing himself as a child.
This was Jim's second attempt to tell his brother that he considered killing himself.
Way to miss the point. This was Jim's third attempt to tell his brother that he used to have suicidal thoughts. At this point Jim stops trying to talk about it. (Also, what a vulnerable thing for a white-collar professional like Jim to share to the world and for perpetuity on a livestream.)
You can tell Jack thinks this is really cute.
I know it was a different time, but if your children were hit with a belt so much that they can clearly visualize it and build whole conversations around it 40 years later, then no, you did not do great as a parent.
Love how Jack thinks "stepmonster" is the height of cleverness.
Otis was Connie's second husband, their stepfather, who could be seen pushing her wheelchair in the supermarket in a very early Jack episode. (Every time I reference this episode, I can't find the link!) Here's a picture of him Jack posted to his IG for Father's Day a week ago. Jack thanks him for teaching him how to shoot, treat women well and never lie, which is interesting since Jack claims to keep his gun loaded in an unlocked drawer by his bed, lies constantly, and recently agreed with Charles that women suck because they keep wanting divorces and complaining to HR.
In 10 minutes, your brother has revealed he was a child who knew he was hated; considered suicide; knew his brothers didn't care about him; needed therapy to get over it; and still doesn't trust his family to not gang up on him. And the best you can muster is, "That's fine. If it happens, it happens." Ghoulish.
Just so we're keeping track, if we include revelations from the last Jimstream:
- Jack didn't know his mother had a bad childhood that was devoid of Christmases.
- Jack didn't know his brother Jim had to be escorted from class to class to avoid getting beaten up en route.
- Jack didn't know what Jim actually does for a living (despite fakely bragging about how good Jim was at it).
- Jack didn't know why his brother Charles had the nickname Chawl (despite the fact he's been calling him that his whole life).
Weird that for something he says "all the time," we've never once heard him say it across the thousands of videos he's released since his mother died 14 years ago.
Also, dude's brain is absolutely cooked. If you're thinking about a friend, a mother, any loved one you've lost, and you mainly wonder how they would react to highly politicized "crap" if they were still here, you've lost the plot. Jack appeared on a television show after his mom died. He moved to the cultural opposite of New York City. He launched new channels. His "faith" "deepened." He "wrote" a "book" and "created" "merch" and traveled a ton and "learned" new recipes. He built his own house from the ground up. One son moved half a world away to Thailand. Another son is about to give Jack his first grandchild. Hell, he even became handicapped in the exact same way his mother did (chair-bound due to multiple strokes). And he can find nothing more to introspect about than if she would be hateful of all the same things he hates? Pathetic.
Stray Observations
- Delving a bit deeper on the Christmas bit, Jim reveals their mother "made a promise to herself as a little girl, 'When I have kids, I'm never gonna do this to them [not have Christmases].'"
- That's lovely, but Jack has already admitted in previous livestreams that their mother would put a cardboard box by the front door on Christmas Day, so that if her sons didn't like anything she got them, she wouldn't even need to hear about it. The expectation was they'd put whatever they didn't like in the box so she could donate it to more grateful children. I'm sorry but I find that bitter and hostile.
- Jack shows sincere emotion when he learns this. He expresses it, bizarrely, in the same way he expresses all his emotions -- by throwing his head back -- but a rare sight for a narcissist nonetheless.
- All that said, Jim also remembers "the fights" that habitually occurred when they "decorated the house" for the holidays... bless Jim, he wants to grant people grace, but clearly the woman was not well and had untreated trauma that made her a nightmare.
- Jack adds, "And we would laugh about the nicotine dripping down the walls while we were decorating!"
- Who the fuck knows what this means (it sounds horrible) but Jim knew exactly what Jack meant; and he rolls his eyes because Jack starts fake-giggling about it
- Jack adds, "And we would laugh about the nicotine dripping down the walls while we were decorating!"
- Someone in chat says, "Hi, bothr!" Jack does his fucking dumb nkkkkk laugh-thing and says, "I think they meant brother!" Not realizing the person was mocking Jack's own misspell on the original video title, which as others have screenshotted was MY BOTHR JIM Q&A.
- Jack has not updated how he sees himself or his brothers since they were children, and Jim can't help but notice the mind-numbing simplicity of his takes:
- Around 8:15, Jack claims "Charles has always been the logical one. Overthinking stuff. Scientific." (Yes, because logical, scientific people are well known for their belief that "in general, reading as a process sucks.") Jim is shocked to hear this but moves on.
- Jack then tells Jim about Jim: "When you were younger, you were more emotional than you are today." Jim responds, "You mean FORTY years ago?" Jack shoots back: "I don't care." Jack proceeds to tell Jim how angry Jim was as a kid. Jim says he doesn't remember feeling angry. Jack insists he was, he just hid it very well. Jim points out that if he hid it very well, that means he wasn't too emotional. Jack swerves to how he and Jim stole some stuffed animals or something from Disneyland once, which is somehow proof Jim was emotional.
- Heads-up: Jack lets us know the "correct" spelling of Charles's nickname is Chal, not Chawl.
- Most likely I'm going to keep writing it as Chawl because (a) I find it more fun that way, and (b) I don't care what they prefer. 8)
- Jack the bullied pissbaby is afraid of the thought of others owning firearms but loves the idea of himself owning them: "I don't want [other] people to have guns! But I do! I want guns!"
- He also is surprised to hear Jim admit he'd want multiple guns if he lived alone in the middle of nowhere, despite the fact Jim already explained this position to Jack, in detail, on their last stream together. Jack doesn't have long-term memory anymore.
- Fakest "laughing fit" you'll ever hear around 10 minutes in. Cringe. Friend of mine disagreed and said it's genuine, but I see a Sims NPC that won't stop glitching the same gestures. Jack is recounting some hilarious(?) car accident(?) he and Jim were in and spams the demure teehee mouth thing before throwing in like half a dozen of the new laugh he's been workshopping (where he throws his head back, shows all his molars, and pats his gut as he goes gyahuckhaha!!)
- Jack for some reason gets really invested in trying to get Jim to badmouth some random colleagues he used to work with in Indiana, calling them "crazy," "unable to have phone conversations" and "stupid." Of course the irony is Jack himself doesn't know how to converse with normal people, because he only comes alive when he can be negative, and this is why normal people like Jim have only two settings: owning Jack and being repulsed by him. Jack insults an old receptionist Jim had because she didn't say hello when Jack called. Meanwhile, Jim began the last livestream by mocking Jack for not greeting him as a first-time guest on the show.
- The church that Jim left when he realized he was gay was Jehovah's Witness.
- Pretty shocked to learn this, and not sure if that means Jack and Charles were also raised this way, if their parents were JW, etc. But it does potentially make it more understandable that, for an Italian, Jack has always seemed oddly hateful of Catholicism.
- Around 15 minutes, Jack insists they "didn't have good mentors growing up, religiously." Jim disagrees wholeheartedly, and refuses to entertain repeated follow-up attempts by Jack (who goes on to call the people in their childhood church "not strong" and "wimpy" and fake) to badmouth anyone. Jim says he loved their congregation.
- Jim reveals he is pro-choice because he doesn't like telling other people what to do with their bodies; he explicitly traces this back to how it felt to live with their mother, who restricted all their movements and friendships, inside and outside the home.
- Having said that, he admits that if he were a woman, he still would probably avoid having an abortion.
- Jack for some reason freely admits how little grass he's touched and says it's important people know "when" suicide is forgiven in the afterlife: "Do you go in the throne room and get forgiven? Do you get forgiven immediately? Do you gotta wait til Rapture?" Every day for Jack is a stolen one, yet he chooses to waste time on kitschy questions like this to perform his faith.
- Speaking of performing faith: An awesome exchange starts around 21:50. Jack wants everyone to know what a Good Christian he is and tells Jim he prays for him "literally" every day.
- Jim reveals Jack texts him stuff like, "Are you OK? I just prayed for you," and admits he finds texts like this quite creepy.
- Jack tries to rehabilitate this by saying he heard a voice in his head say, "Call him right now."
- Jim lets Jack know he "doesn't want to know what goes on" in his head.
- Also Jack disobeyed the voice. He didn't call; he texted.
- Jack asks Jim if he believes in ghosts. Jim considers it a bit and says yes, mainly because he thinks he heard their mother's voice years ago right after she died. Jack takes this as some big gotcha -- so it's OK for Jim to tell people about that voice, but not for Jack to tell people about the holy voice he hears?
- Jim points out the difference. When Jim told people he heard "their mother's" voice, the point was clear to listeners: Wow, isn't this weird? What if this is proof of the hereafter? Meanwhile, Jim as the listener does not understand why Jack wants to tell people he just prayed for them.
- Jack has a new explanation now: "I was more calling to find out why I was being told to call you!" Jim wants to know why Jack didn't just ask the voice this question.
- Jim points out the difference. When Jim told people he heard "their mother's" voice, the point was clear to listeners: Wow, isn't this weird? What if this is proof of the hereafter? Meanwhile, Jim as the listener does not understand why Jack wants to tell people he just prayed for them.
- Jim is writing two books: one about product development (his field) and another he describes tentatively as a "memoir."
- He is struggling with the memoir because he has stories to share that involve famous people being shitty (and teaching him, in their shittiness, how not to be), but he doesn't want to get sued; he's trying to balance revealing enough identifying facts to make the stories meaningful, but not so many that he gets in trouble.
- Jack the genius tells him to stop overthinking and just swap the first letter of people's first and last name (e.g., Prad Bitt) Helpful!
- He is struggling with the memoir because he has stories to share that involve famous people being shitty (and teaching him, in their shittiness, how not to be), but he doesn't want to get sued; he's trying to balance revealing enough identifying facts to make the stories meaningful, but not so many that he gets in trouble.
- And below is the face Jim made when Jack said, "I asked Chawl about God, and we talked the whole video about it."
- Remember, Jim is a believer. He went to bible college and loved it. His best friends were in the church.
- He's just firmly on record as thinking Chawl is an entitled, disrespectful asshole.
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- 14 Kwi 2018
I love how Jack's instagram profile picture is AI slop with a Twitter hat, but I thought he was against AI, interesting
Simping for Elon while also scared of his robotaxis
Good christian man making the most tasteful of jokes
Simping for Elon while also scared of his robotaxis
Good christian man making the most tasteful of jokes
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- 3 Lut 2013
Thanks for the writeup @Slavic Patronym. I would rather strangle myself than listen to fatty talk on a podcast for that long. I didn't know that Jim had it so hard growing up but it shouldn't surprise me. Being gay in that era was difficult and middle and high school kids are often dicks to regular kids, being gay would be that much harder. Him having to have an escort to/from class is really fucked up and him saying he almost ended himself is really sad, and it's fucked up that Jack just brushed it off and tried to change subjects.
I like Jim way more the more I hear about him. He's the black sheep but being the black sheep from that fucked up family means he's the normal one
I like Jim way more the more I hear about him. He's the black sheep but being the black sheep from that fucked up family means he's the normal one
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- 28 Gru 2014
I like rehydrating shiitake mushrooms in hot water for 30 minutes or so then using the water to make the rice. Natural MSG and shroom flavor too.
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- 27 Maj 2019
Of course the social media-addicted faggot had to go out of his way to have the twitter logo in his profile pic character like he's some twitter authority figure. Even someone with twenty million followers wouldn't have twitter branding on their person anywhere, not even online. Jack might as well get cattle-branded with a big twitter X on his forehead. Why not just have a link to your twitter in your IG bio instead of being a total fag about it? Why make this obvious lie of a pic and not just do what's currently popular and ghibli-fy it?
The greatest lengths people go to when flaunting social media clout is showing off their youtube subscriber play buttons in the backgrounds of their videos. They might fetch less money than an Emmy at a pawn shop but they at least kind of mean something achievement-wise.
I don't even get it. He's got < 5000 followers. There's 12 year old girls doing makeup tutorials with follower/like counts that absolutely trounce his stats. Why dickride twitter and Elon this much? Nobody ever engages him on twitter other than to fuck with him.
Also that picture screams 'Me on the Internet vs. Me IRL'
I was/am friends with some Chinese fellers and whenever we'd go out to eat at Chinese places - real Chinese places, not the local shithole buffet - they would always gawk at me when I poured soy sauce over my steamed rice. I wouldn't drown it in sauce, just drizzle. It's a habit I formed since before I was in short pants, probably saw it in some anime or something. Apparently it's the equivalent of Unit 731'ing their culture, and you're supposed to pour the sauce into a little dish on the side, then use chop sticks to gently dip the rice into it. whatsthefuckingdifference
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- 26 Maj 2013
I mean, I'd say there was something of a difference between dipping french fries in ketchup and squirting ketchup all over your plate of fries. You can control the amount and control the flavor, and soy sauce is even stronger of a taste and is a liquid so it's difficult to dose and when there's too much on there, it's too late. But you do you, it probably just looks gauche to them.
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- 27 Maj 2019
Yeah, I get that. But the soy sauce usually pours out in very controlled amounts, as opposed to ketchup bottles which just squirt a huge dump over everything. I can twirl the rice around, distributing the sauce semi-evenly.
FWIW, I find those fries with the dressings and shit pre-dumped on them (think Animal Style Fries at In-N-Out) disgusting. 80% of your fries soggy, 20% remain dippable, your fingers look like you just fingered Grimace. I would gawk at anyone that just squirted ketchup over fries like a war crime. I would definitely want a separate dish/space in that case.
Kind of an East vs. West thing, I guess.
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- 3 Lut 2021
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- 22 Paź 2024
Thank you for typing this out, its so much easier to read versus listening to Jack gurgle and interrupt others.
I am amazed how how mature and introspective Jim is. Just super, super respectable. By his own admission he's had a lot of therapy to help get to this place, but its just astounding how well spoken, articulate, and diplomatic he is about his traumatic upbringing. Even the the face of wilful ignorance that "it wasn't so bad". Leading Jack to try and think about why their mom made such a big deal about Christmas is a great example. Put yourself in moms shoes, why would she want us to have such good Christmases? Jack is completely unable to do this exercise. "But I did eat breakfast" levels of understanding.
He ultimately aired a lot of dirty Scalfani laundry in a public forum, which is a bit uncomfortable. I hope talking this out with Jack was at least a little cathartic for him. He's clearly had this on his chest for a long time, right between his giant Matterhorn nipples.
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- 29 Wrz 2022
Literally half a teaspoon of that stuff for a full thing of rice. It's overly powerful otherwise. Although I will use a touch of it when making kimchi fried rice.
Why the hell would you make your own puff pastry? Okay maybe for the experience but seriously. That takes some dedication. Hell there's bakeries in France that use pre-made croissant dough because it's a bitch to make properly and the French are as anal about their pastries and breads than the Japanese are about their rice.
Got a big container of dried wild mushrooms from Costco. Use them mostly to make wild mushroom soup but have used them to make risotto more than once.
MAJOR faux pas. Dude you are disrespecting the rice. No word of a lie.
Rice is such an integral part of Asian life that in Japan the informal word for food is literally "rice". Breakfast, lunch and dinner are "morning rice", "noon rice" and "evening rice". Years ago after we moved into our apartment Mrs. Sebben got pissed at me because I left some rice grains in the bowl. I'm like, "what's the big deal"? And she's all, "rice is LIFE!". I mean she was seriously pissed off at me and even playing the "dumb gaijin" card didn't work because it's so personal to them. So long as you had rice you could live another day. You NEVER leave a single grain of rice in a bowl.
She apologized about it later because you know cultural differences but that was a bit of an eye opener.
She apologized about it later because you know cultural differences but that was a bit of an eye opener.
So yeah pouring anything on rice is a big no no. Then there's the other way where you take your food, usually with some form of sauce, dip it onto the rice so some of the sauce gets on the rice, and then eat the rice like that later. That is perfectly okay to do.
Basically... Asians are weird that way.
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- 3 Lut 2021
Wow. Jim once again came off as completely normal, rational, likable, and well-intended. And Jack came off as aloof, rude, and childish.
Jack is very clearly exposed here, and his attempts to cope, sneed, and deflect all fall short. But this time, Jim also permitted Jack to expose Chawls as a phony prick as well.
Jack is such an asshole, and it seems that big-brain Chuck needs Jack to maintain his ego as much as Jack needs Charles’s ego. I’m so glad that Jim has found such clarity in life.
I hope Jim’s book is able to reach and help people that struggle with similar problems from their childhood.
Jack is very clearly exposed here, and his attempts to cope, sneed, and deflect all fall short. But this time, Jim also permitted Jack to expose Chawls as a phony prick as well.
Jack is such an asshole, and it seems that big-brain Chuck needs Jack to maintain his ego as much as Jack needs Charles’s ego. I’m so glad that Jim has found such clarity in life.
I hope Jim’s book is able to reach and help people that struggle with similar problems from their childhood.
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- 5 Wrz 2019
MSG absolutely can cause a number of side effects for many people. It’s not a lie and it’s not “racist” to say so, despite what the likes of Chef Roy Choi claim.
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- 2 Sty 2021
Thanks for reminding me. I still need to make Marco Pierre White's wild mushroom risotto where he uses chicken stock to reconstitute the dried mushrooms when making the mushroom stock. Little things like that to concentrate and blend flavors to elevate dishes is what I like. Something fatty will never understand.
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- 11 Maj 2022
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- 26 Maj 2013
I never accepted the idea that gluten hurts the widdle tummies of 99.9% of people claiming so and I didn't accept it either for MSG, racial overtones or no.
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- 27 Maj 2019
I remember MSG being the big bad THING(tm) about two decades ago, but saw quite a bit of pushback to return its status to normalcy over the last several years. I'm ambivalent on the matter. If I'm eating Amerislop Panda Express I'm not super invested in health to begin with.
I often bring this up with friends, what's with the semi-recent surge in interest of gluten-free foods? I never remember gluten allergies being a thing ever in my life up until the late 2000s. Then all of a sudden it was the hot new thing, being gluten sensitive. Like you're gonna fuckin' literally die if your food was prepared on the same surface as other foods containing nuts was prepared? I know some charlatans do it as a fad diet (*cough* JACK) but some people I've known were legit afraid of glutens. I dated a girl briefly in college who couldn't handle glutens, and I don't think she was faking it. I'm just saying, it was never a thing until recently.
I dunno, seems like an awful way to go about life, but maybe I'm close-minded.
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- 4 Gru 2013
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Peak delusion from Jack here. He suggests that LinkedIn should become a "hub for everything business-related", meaning you purchase business supplies, conduct meetings, hire masseuses, buy suits, etc. all on LinkedIn. He also congratulates himself for knowing that you can post videos on LinkedIn, implying that this is somehow obscure knowledge.
Peak delusion from Jack here. He suggests that LinkedIn should become a "hub for everything business-related", meaning you purchase business supplies, conduct meetings, hire masseuses, buy suits, etc. all on LinkedIn. He also congratulates himself for knowing that you can post videos on LinkedIn, implying that this is somehow obscure knowledge.