@KimberlyHirsh I see it in my Micro.blog timeline.
@KimberlyHirsh I see it in my Micro.blog timeline.
@dwalbert Yeah, it makes good sense. It’s just not an expression I’d run into before.
@dwalbert I’d never heard the term “chicken frames” before! I gather it’s mainly the necks and backs, but sold together rather than separately, which is how it seems to be done around here.
@JohnBrady That’s right. I can’t remember the last time we threw away any bones. If we don’t have a whole carcass, we keep the bones (skin, shells, etc.) in the freezer, and then throw them into the pot the next time we have enough to make broth.
@philbowell That was a link to the book itself. Here’s a link to the podcast: player.fm/series/th…
@philbowell @ReaderJohn I just heard a podcast interview with the author of Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives, which made it sound fascinating. History going back to ancient Greece, together with modern science.
@ReaderJohn Yep. Being stronger makes almost everything better.
@ReaderJohn @philbowell I had just gotten back to hitting the gym at the start of the pandemic, when our fitness room got closed—and I resolved not to let that stop me. For six years now I’ve been working out seriously. It has been helping a lot, in terms of making me feel better and move better.
@jack In a Noel Coward song, “The Stately Homes of England”:
We’ve a cousin who won the Golden Fleece
And a very peculiar fowling-piece
Which was sent to Cromwell’s niece…
Which was my first experience with the term “fowling-piece” (a shotgun appropriate for shooting fowl).
@jack I thought fowling was hunting grouse or quail.
@Eliot_L Okay, this makes me really want an episode of some police series where they “enhance” an image of an obvious black guy, and then it shows the face of a white guy—and then they go out and arrest some similar-looking white guy and detain him for several days.
@marissalingen.bsky.social But the really wonderful thing is to have friends and relations who know you so well as to be able to buy just the right advent calendar.
@ericmwalk @KevinHoltsberry Same.
@ReaderJohn Debit cards are much cheaper for the merchant, so they can choose to pass that along. Or not. (Some of the low-margin places where I shop offer a small discount for using a debit card, or waive the usual fee they charge for credit cards. Most other businesses seem to find it better to just charge everyone the same price and eat the fees. Especially the high-margin businesses: They don’t want customers to be thinking that hard about prices.)
@JohnBrady Canada did a rather drastic version of this, during the protests by truck drivers during the pandemic.
@mroutley Oh, I hope you do! And I hope you share your thoughts when me, when you have some!
@minillajovovich.bsky.social Me too, @minillajovovich.bsky.social! Me too!
@JohnBrady The cash economy is a nice backup to the credit and debit payments system economy, but I’ve always had a sneaking admiration for the non-money economies: www.wisebread.com/opting-ou…