First time crying in 2020 heyyyy

I don’t even know where to begin on this bullshit

I’m so tired

Sis saw the opportunity and NAILED it. I am Proud.

GIRL I-

God bless nurses forever

Quarantine gothic, or the utterly disconcerting image of a closed Waffle House

fuck.

This fills me with absolute primal fear

This got me dying

who paid for this study bruh

it’‘s literally seasoning.  that’s it. that’s what make food taste good.

Bro it’s more complex than just ‘ey they used seasoning’ 

It’s HOW they used seasoning, compared to other areas of the world. 

Indian seasoning does this neat color wheel of flavor, fitting a bunch of spices that are very DIFFERENT from each other, to create a huge range of complex flavor. 

Meanwhile in Italy for instance, they tend to use flavors that are SIMILAR. For instance, Basil and Oregano, or Sweet fish with Sweet wine. It makes foods less likely to contrast weirdly in your mouth, and it’s the basis of why fancy european people pair red wines with steak and white wines with chicken. Savory with Savory, Light with Light.   

But the Indian food steps it up a notch. The research is definitely worth a read. 

well yes, spices need to not just complement the food but contrast against each other. to get maximum flavour when cooking indian food:

1. use whole spices, dry roast small quantities of individual spices together and then grind them to a powder. balance is what you’re looking for, not just chucking in handfuls of seasonings willy nilly because quantity does not equal flavour when it comes to spicing indian food. 

2. whole spices go in the oil first. always. also everything gets fried on its own before it’s chucked into the sauce/curry. even the curry base is started off by frying onions/ginger/garlic/tomatoes or any combination thereof. basically…FRY THAT SHIT. i don’t know of any regional cuisine in india that uses stock for simmering. frying everything individually is how we add flavour instead.  

3. indian food needs to be cooked long and slow for the flavours to really merge. don’t skimp on the cooking time if you can because that makes a huge difference. 

This was so enlightening

I feel a need to mention that the researchers for this study are NOT white, as stated above. They’re Indian. It’s Indian people saying “why does our cuisine work and taste so vastly different than anywhere else in the world?” To quote from the article:

“Researchers Anupam Jaina, Rakhi N Kb, and Ganesh Bagler from the Indian Institute for Technology in Jodhpur ran a fine-tooth comb through TarlaDalal.com—a recipe database of more than 17,000 dishes that self-identifies as “India’s #1 food site”—in attempts to decode the magic of your chicken tikka masala or aloo gobi.”

The purpose of the scientific method, in fact, the reason the scientific method exists and part of its rules, are to question everything. Even the obvious. Especially the obvious. Especially if it’s already been questioned before. Especially if everyone already knows the answer. Question it again. And test it. Replicate it. Then question the findings. Always.

We’d still be living in caves if we accepted food tastes good because “it’s food and made to taste good.” We have to question why the sky is blue, what is taste, what is what, what are we, how and why. That’s the entire point.

Seasoning is great. Indian food tastes good.

Then we science that shit and try to get to the bottom of it because that’s what humans do.

Me_irl

YO PEOPLE WE NEED TO BOOST THIS

@panpotterhead3000 you have a lot of followers

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BOOST!!! @official-lucifers-child

This is the only April fools prank I want to take part in because it is so harmless and stupid. It achieves nothing but childish malice and I live for it

REBLOG THIS GODDAMMIT

From Kasia Babis.

whenever someone is like ‘why do burger-flippers deserve to make the same amount as x?’ and i just ask ‘have you considered that maybe x deserves to be paid more?’ because it never occurs to people that if these people are being underpaid, then there is a chance that so are they.

I see this all the time with people bringing up paramedics. “You want 15$ an hour as a burger flipper! I made less than that as an EMT!”

Yeah and it was wrong to pay YOU that little too. You got overworked and underpaid and the amount of money the McDonalds employee in the drive through gets has no bearing what so ever on what an EMT makes. Pay the EMT more too.

it distresses me that anyone whose job it is to save my fucking life is making less now than i was in an office job in 2007.

How tf does she stay this calm

Because of the whole Angry Black Woman™ stereotype, the only way to be taken seriously is to be calm, collected, and concise while still speaking passionately about such topics. If she raised her voice, or let her hand move above chest level, she would’ve immediately been dismissed as an “angry black woman” who needs to “control herself” while her accurate rebuttal would’ve been thrown out the window.

Notice how her neutral pose is her hands in her lap. When she speaks about oppression, she taps her hand on the table laying out her points then back to neutral. She knew exactly what had to be done to be taken seriously.

This made my day 💖

imma reblog this again just because 36 followers was gone after this post, ain’t nobody gonna judge them but god so get your racist ass outta here

This is so precious oh my god. There’s more under the cut. Also click HERE for full-sized pics and also a vid of a chicken screaming at the wind XD 

Keep reading

https://twitter.com/Amandycat/status/1232363229264961540

This was better than I imagined

reblog to bless someones feed

Baby Appa, soup for the soul

He is BABY.

[ID: Five drawings of Appa as a baby sky bison. As a calf, he is a much smaller version of his adult self, being only about a bison’s head taller than young Aang. His horns haven’t grown in yet, so they’re just little round stubs on his head. He looks young, fluffy, and has baby chub.

Image 1: Baby Appa stands on all six paws and looks off to his right.

Image 2: Appa appears to be sprawled out belly-down on the ground, sleeping. A young Aang sleeps on top of him on his back.

Image 3: Appa lies on his back with his paws in the air. Aang does a handstand while balancing both his hands on Appa’s front paws.

Image 4: Appa and Aang hug. Aang has his arms thrown around Appa’s neck while Appa’s front left paw hugs Aang’s body in return.

Image 5: Low-angle view of Appa as he hovers in the air. His paws are tucked in close to his belly and he looks inquisitively off to one side.

End ID.]

Reblogging for ID tags. Thanks @elimentals, you rock! <3

A baby!

Hi I’m Aciirt/ Eeprt

Alno at your service

Aachir

Aadimn

Fine I’ll use my other name

Dee

Bceoort

Hi I’m

Aemm

Iimms

I… have no words…

Hi I’m

Eil

Illly= I love love love you

Greetings, I am aefnorz

Hiya, I’m abcce

I wonder what this fantasy novel will be about?

Hi I’m…Aceijss

Aceiilt

(of course I have ace in my name 😂)

Aaijty

Adeiln

Your cyberpunk name is your name but with the letters in the order they appear in the qwerty keyboard.

My fantasy name is Ilsu, my cyberpunk name is Uisl

Aaemt and Etaam

Aahils and Aashil

we really dont fuck around and wake ancient gods enough 

Zues ghostwrote this