Last food you ate thread. - by t850terminator
Kolya on 8/3/2021 at 17:40
An apple. Now beer to balance that apple.
t850terminator on 10/3/2021 at 02:15
Some soba I boiled at work during lunch break. And a bag of chex mix.
PigLick on 10/3/2021 at 14:46
4 fried chickens and a coke
Kolya on 10/3/2021 at 15:53
the breakfast of champions!
heywood on 15/3/2021 at 15:12
We had pad gra pao for dinner last night.
My regular grocery store had Thai sweet basil, which is unusual, so I took advantage. I think I'm getting better at making this. I used boneless, skinless chicken thighs and diced them instead of buying a pre-ground mince. It makes a difference. I've been growing Thai bird's eye chilies, and I got a stone mortar & pestle for Christmas which I used to make a proper garlic and chili paste. For the kids, I used Jalapenos in the paste. My wife and I had the much hotter bird's eyes.
Yakoob on 16/3/2021 at 03:17
I made Gołąbki for my girlfriend yesterday! They're basically cabbage wraps with meat inside them, boiled in tomato sauce. I didn't take pictures so here's one stolen from gaagol:
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/CXRS82Y.jpgfun fact: In Polish, Gołąbki means "little pigeons"
ZylonBane on 16/3/2021 at 04:54
That's cabbage, not lettuce. Those two vegetables are totally not interchangeable.
Yakoob on 16/3/2021 at 07:03
errr that's what I meant >_>
demagogue on 16/3/2021 at 08:40
You can actually empirically test the substitutability of cabbage & lettuce by measuring their cross price elasticity. You take a lot of samples of the price of cabbage & lettuce, and that lets you measure their co-variance (change in supply of X / change in price of Y). So if you raise the price (lower the supply) of lettuce, if the price of cabbage also rises, then they're substitutable as people switch from more expensive lettuce to less expensive cabbage. But if the price of cabbage goes down, they're complementary goods. If people buy less lettuce, they'll also buy less cabbage because the two are typically bought together as a set. And if it's zero, then the two products are completely independent of each other. (Small technical caveat: it's usually not symmetric. I.e., raising the price of lettuce can make people buy/not buy cabbage at a different rate as raising the price of cabbage makes them behavior towards lettuce.)
So, all that set up, there's actually a (
https://downloads.hindawi.com/archive/2012/942748.pdf) paper that measures the cross price elasticity of a lot of vegetables vis-a-vis each other, including lettuce & cabbage, that gives us our empirical proof of whether lettuce & cabbage are mutually substitutable or not, and the answer is -- drum roll please .... : -0.1 lettuce to cabbage and -0.2 cabbage to lettuce.
As much as it pains me to admit -- a typical reaction to a ZB post! -- he's actually correct with his assessment, lettuce and cabbage or not only not substitutable, but complementary goods. People buy them as a set that comes together, presumably to make salads and whatnot with them together, but if you raise the price of either one of them, people will not only not move to the other one as a substitute, they'll even buy less of it (at least within a 0.1~0.2 margin, which is still pretty low) because what's even the point of one without the other...
I hope you've all learned something from this. I know I haven't really. ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄
heywood on 16/3/2021 at 13:18
Yakoob - I have some Polish in-laws so I've tried that before. The tomato sauce was made Italian style though. Where are you living these days?