[FP] T-Bone from my local butcher/pepperoni shop

chuyavat · 3 months

Just did this and have a wonderful looking t-bone in front of me right now. Hold on, let me taste it.

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chuyavat · 3 months

When I posted this I had already polished off 1lb of it in a few hours. I just finished my first plate from the 2lbs I bought this evening.

POLISHed indeed.

chuyavat · 3 months

I get it at Brothers Meats, only location is in Halifax, NS. They were started by poles a while ago and still carry forward the same traditions in how they smoke their meats.

Everything they sell is insanely good. They have maple smoked back bacon, every time of steak you can imagine, at least 8 types of sausages, and I heard they have beef jerky but I haven't been able to find it yet.

But yeah, if you have a polish meat market around like jeangenie18 said go there, or a farmer's market. I'm just lucky that Brother's is so close!

chuyavat · 3 months

Thanks for the tip! I'm getting more eggs tonight, I'll try this!

EvanMathisThrowaway · 3 months

Justin Smith seems reasonably imposing, but I gotta give it to James Harrison, he's a scary dude.

noodlyjames · 3 months

It makes sense that macadamia are the lowest in carbs. They taste INCREDIBLE. Very expensive though.

There are some great recipes in Brendan Braizer's Thrive Diet book using macadamia nuts. I used to make macadamia nut hemp caeser dressing every week, soooo good.

noodlyjames · 3 months

I agree. I soak them for eight hours most nights, then I pinch the skin off and a discard it. Makes it taste entirely different, in a good way.

chuyavat · 3 months

They smoke it with chips. Both hickory and maple chips.

The area you buy the meats is super small, the smoke house is easily ten times the size at least. They smoke 2000 pound of pepperoni a day. A DAY. I can attest to this because I work across the street, I smell it when I walk to work/go home.

chuyavat · 3 months

Brothers meat in Halifax? If not, then no, sorry! :(

chuyavat · 3 months

There's about 2mm (maybe) deep of a layer of spice cooked in. The rest is aaallllll meat baby. JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT.

Sorry, I'm cooking some now, it's making me feel manly.

chuyavat · 3 months

Forgot the [FP], sorry! Will remember next time when I photograph their Porter Steak. :)

ProSkeet · 3 months

The world needs more friends like you ProSkeet.

MarshmallowGirl · 3 months

I entirely agree. That attitude tends to be common with vegans who do it for animal rights reasons. I find if people begin the diet with overall health in mind they are much more aware of what to eat and what not to. Not true across the board but generally this is case.

I wish more vegans were educated and informed people about their decision with facts not defamation. I've heard too many people make wild claims to try to support their own decision rather than being reasonable.

spandyandy · 3 months

I'd walk down to the waterfront to see you at the Busker Festival.

MarshmallowGirl · 3 months

/r/vegetarianketo

MarshmallowGirl · 3 months

The way I looked at it (as well as other vegans I knew) is that I am only able to make a vegan choice when I'm out. I have no control over what they cook it in, if they cross-contaminate the food or cooking utensils, etc. You don't always want to grill the waitress for every single detail about the meal. Just order vegan and move on.

Also, some additives to commercial food aren't clear whether they were derived from animal or plant sources. Things like Sodium stearoyl lactylate, Sugar (much of it is filtered through bone char), BCAA's (may be derived from duck feathers), etc.

At the end of the day you have to choose where you draw the line with your vigilance. Most people give up before honey, some put the line right after the BCAA's, up to you.

Honey isn't vegan though. Just sayin' OP.

MarshmallowGirl · 3 months

keto is hard by itself, vegetarian keto (not vegan) is much harder.

Vegan keto? I was a vegan for five years and I can say that it's not worth the insane amount of work this would take.

Why do you want to adopt a keto diet? It would help if we understood where your're coming from here. If you just want to lose weight then maybe look at smaller steps you can make right now. Things like eating six small meals a day, drinking 8 glasses of water, taking multivitamins, tracking your food intake, etc.

Keto is great for many things. It's used often for children who have epilepsy and for people who need to lose a lot of weight but are unable to start an exercise program for whatever reason. It has many more benefits, but it also has its limitations.

I would never try it while abstaining from all animal products as it is too difficult. The stress of organizing the whole thing would detract from the health benefits it provides.

zeebooraffe · 3 months

I know, right? I try to explain why it's the best to people but they just raise an eyebrow. I don't talk much when I'm there, I enjoy listening to him and the older customers complaining and stuff, haha.

The first time I was there some random guy came in with a case of beer and offered me one while I was in the chair. He also used to have a dog that would get the remote (I think it was the remote) for him. It was on ATV news a few years back.

Animal_King · 3 months

Checked the comments for this. It's too bad more people don't know who he is.

pulsewave · 3 months

This originates from an Arcadian tradition called Mi-Carême. It happens in march to celebrate (or forget about) mid lent. It lasts a lot longer though, and it can get pretty intricate/scary.

I was part of a group of students that met the craftswomen of Cheticamp, one of the few places in the world that preserves the traditional ways to make masks and decorations for the event.

ZeeJules67 · 3 months

I'll translate line for line.

She looked innocent and kind but she lied viciously to get her way. She was very secretive about her own interests and personal life, it was very difficult to make real connections. I tried to read up on bird watching and read some of the authors she enjoyed. Her response? To tell me that the sport I was training for (boxing) was stupid and I was wasting my time and killing myself. Almost everytime I'd call to say hi after the gym. She was also Filipino, and I was very ignorant about the culture/country. I picked it up pretty quickly and assumed I was doing good.

She refused to go to my house at all. Super against tradition, I understood but still. Her house is about an hour's drive, and I only had a bike or the bus at the time. Two hours each way to see her usually. And then I was stuck in a living room with her entire family until her mom insisted she drive me home. Everytime she drove me home she'd complain and bitch about me on the drive back, and I'd get in fights with my girlfriend a lot right after or the next morning.

The three years thing...I had to wait until our third year to have sex. She was raped by her ex boyfriend. He was her first. I was shocked and promised I'd never push her. We'd only move forward if she was ready and I felt she was.

After we started having sex she kept asking me to pull her hair or be aggressive. I didn't really think too much of it in the moment, but always regretted it afterwords. Screams trauma too loud for me.

Her family ultimately disapproved of me because I am an atheist and arabic. She fought with me at my best friend's wedding and broke up with me over the phone that night.

Took me a year to get over her enough to be a man again. Took her two weeks to find a new guy. She even brought him to the shared student studio to make out with him when I was there. And put pictures and gifts (teddy bears, etc.) all over her desk. Keep in mind she was never using it, as she was in an intensive study term.

Bumped into them together by accident (Didn't know she had a new boyfriend) and proceeded to watch them kiss ten feet in front of me in a walkway (they knew I was there).

I hid and cried for a few minutes, then that was it.

Ended up getting involved with a German exchange student and having two other girls try to get me to fuck them. Didn't happen for the two other girls, but the german girl asked me to draw her naked like in the titanic. She said it super cute and quiet, but she was serious. We just make out semi-naked in a shared studio at 2am instead.

Ah, memories.

ZeeJules67 · 3 months

Box art was nice however misleading. There was no instruction manual, which initially I didn't had a problem with, until the game wouldn't install. Apparently the game disc was the wrong region code. Tried it in a console from asia we have at the office and it worked fine. Phew.

When I booted up I started a new game. You begin in a small room with an NPC. None of the doors work and you can't talk to the NPC at all. I checked the forums out to see what was up and found out you have to wait three years to continue. As much as I really don't want to wait around to finish this review, I'd feel like an idiot giving up now.

UPDATE: Finally got around to getting past the first room. Not what I expected. Story is fucked (doesn't even make any sense) and the level up system is broken. You get points for hitting allies (wtf) and in order to progress you just need to convince everyone around you that you deserve it. That was easy to do but I found it distasteful and not fun at all.

Also at the halfway point you need to verify your age/family name/occupation to continue. Fuck that.

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