Choosing a Welcome Snack at PF: Triffles or No?

[Math Is Hard]

When you joined PF, which did you choose for your welcome snack?

I wonder if we should add another option. Should we start handing out those leftover triffles that Wolly is trying to unload?

 

[Math Is Hard]

rats! my poll didn't work. I was trying to make options for fish, cereal or neither, but when I went back to change the # of options I messed it up :(

 

[JamesU]

I wasn't offered any fish or cereal

 

[wolram]

I think we should add jars of cockles in brine or tins of spam.

 

[selfAdjoint]

I joined back in the stone age and we sat around sharing a mammoth haunch. 'Twas good, too.

 

[hypatia]

I passed on the snacks, of course those were the early days of PF, no one had a fridge yet.

 

[BobG]

The fish. The fridge was on the blink that day and the fish was smelling fowl. Tasted like chicken.

 

[Math Is Hard]

I wasn't offered any fish or cereal

That avatar is REALLY confusing me. I almost said, "Of course you were, Pengwuino!"

I think we should add jars of cockles in brine or tins of spam.

Sounds good to me. I like those little smoked oysters in cottonseed oil.

I joined back in the stone age and we sat around sharing a mammoth haunch. 'Twas good, too.

I guess in those days, a mammoth would last the PF multitude for quite a few days. There are so many members now, a mammoth would be devoured in an afternoon, I bet!

I passed on the snacks, of course those were the early days of PF, no one had a fridge yet.

That was probably a wise choice!

 

[Math Is Hard]

The fish. The fridge was on the blink that day and the fish was smelling fowl. Tasted like chicken.

ar ar ar ar

 

[DeadWolfe]

I had the lasagna

 

[Math Is Hard]

Lasagna? Evo, when did we have Lasagna? Was that a special promotion or something?

 

[Schrodinger's Dog]

I wasn't offered anything when I joined?

Can I have pilchards on wheatabix? Mmmm tastey then or does it have to be a or b?

 

[Danger]

Nobody official offered me anything. Luckily, though, it was Brewnog who coaxed me along so I got some beer.

 

[Evo]

We offered freeze dried jellyfish and lobster, but no lasagna.

MIH, let me know what changes you want made to the poll.

 

[chroot]

We offered freeze dried jellyfish

Is this how astronauts eat their jellyfish?

- Warren

 

[Evo]

Is this how astronauts eat their jellyfish?

- Warren

Yep, they can squeeze some seaweed paste on them.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Thanks for the poll, Evo! Now we'll know how much of each to order for the new members.

 

[Moonbear]

rats! my poll didn't work. I was trying to make options for fish, cereal or neither, but when I went back to change the # of options I messed it up :(

Fixed!

I wasn't even offered a welcome snack when I got here. (And I'm not sure I want the fish that should be waiting for me now either. )

 

[Moonbear]

I wonder if we should add another option. Should we start handing out those leftover triffles that Wolly is trying to unload?

Ooh, triffles sound good (or trifles, whichever it's supposed to be...I think I like calling them triffles though ). Start cramming them into the hard drive, Wollie. We're only a couple weeks away from the Fall term starting here, so we should have a bunch of new students arriving for homework help very soon. Triffles really might be just the thing to keep them around. Old triffles sure seem better than old fish!

 

[Math Is Hard]

Did we fix the espresso machine? I have a final Friday.

 

[Moonbear]

I think LYN is in charge of the espresso machine.

 

[Evo]

The heat got to the fish, so I decided to do what the Romans did...

Garum (Roman sun rotted fish sauce)

Use fatty fish, for example, sardines, and a well-sealed (pitched) container with a 26-35 quart capacity. Add dried, aromatic herbs possessing a strong flavor, such as dill, coriander, fennel, celery, mint, oregano, and others, making a layer on the bottom of the container; then put down a layer of fish (if small, leave them whole, if large, use pieces) and over this, add a layer of salt two fingers high. Repeat these layers until the container is filled. Let it rest for seven days in the sun. Then mix the sauce daily for 20 days. After that, it becomes a liquid.

- Gargilius Martialis, De medicina et de virtute herbarum, reprinted from A Taste of Ancient Rome

 

[Math Is Hard]

The heat got to the fish, so I decided to do what the Romans did...

Garum (Roman sun rotted fish sauce)

Use fatty fish, for example, sardines, and a well-sealed (pitched) container with a 26-35 quart capacity. Add dried, aromatic herbs possessing a strong flavor, such as dill, coriander, fennel, celery, mint, oregano, and others, making a layer on the bottom of the container; then put down a layer of fish (if small, leave them whole, if large, use pieces) and over this, add a layer of salt two fingers high. Repeat these layers until the container is filled. Let it rest for seven days in the sun. Then mix the sauce daily for 20 days. After that, it becomes a liquid.

- Gargilius Martialis, De medicina et de virtute herbarum, reprinted from A Taste of Ancient Rome

Wow! People actually ate that? Sounds horrible. And dangerous. I ate some spoiled salmon once and barely survived.

 

[Moonbear]

The heat got to the fish, so I decided to do what the Romans did...

Garum (Roman sun rotted fish sauce)

Use fatty fish, for example, sardines, and a well-sealed (pitched) container with a 26-35 quart capacity. Add dried, aromatic herbs possessing a strong flavor, such as dill, coriander, fennel, celery, mint, oregano, and others, making a layer on the bottom of the container; then put down a layer of fish (if small, leave them whole, if large, use pieces) and over this, add a layer of salt two fingers high. Repeat these layers until the container is filled. Let it rest for seven days in the sun. Then mix the sauce daily for 20 days. After that, it becomes a liquid.

- Gargilius Martialis, De medicina et de virtute herbarum, reprinted from A Taste of Ancient Rome

Fish so rancid it liquified?!

 

[Evo]

Wow! People actually ate that? Sounds horrible. And dangerous. I ate some spoiled salmon once and barely survived.

They poured it on everything.

 

[Math Is Hard]

well, OK, then. I'll put the Garum out in the welcome tent. We'll see who's brave enough to take a taste.

 

[Evo]

well, OK, then. I'll put the Garum out in the welcome tent. We'll see who's brave enough to take a taste.

Just don't tell them what it is.

 

[Evo]

Do you think we ought to expand our offerings?

I offered low carb cereal once, but no takers.

 

[Evo]

Hey, does anyone know how many new members we threw fish at that never returned after their first post?

I remember that for awhile our kill rate was pretty high.

 

[Moonbear]

Hey, does anyone know how many new members we threw fish at that never returned after their first post?

I remember that for awhile our kill rate was pretty high.

I think it's still pretty high. Maybe we should throw the fish at crackpots, and save Wollie's triffles for new members we want to keep around.

Low carb cereal, huh? I hope you at least served it in a pretty, souvenier bowl.