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A few things...
I am informed that in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons, the Pope parachutes from an airplane in advance of an antimatter explosion destined to take out Rome.
My thoughts on the matter are:
-- all the readers of this would probably think manga is too weird to read
and
-- should I read it so you don't have to? (I'm not reading the DaVinci Code, because I know too much about the actual origins of the beliefs he used to make the plot, i.e. they were mostly made up by some guy in the 1950s and I would spend the entire time shrieking WHY DIDN'T YOU DO SOME BASIC LIBRARY RESEARCH YOU NIMROD at the protagonist.)and is someone going to send it to me so I don't have to spend my own money on it?
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Also! I never got back to you on the poll I posted asking what item you thought![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rachelmanija sent me, because I moved shortly after I posted it, and the item in question got packed away.
The vast majority of you decided that she'd sent me The Playboy Sheikh's Virgin Stable Girl, and I am hereby announcing that you are all
It was a book of recipes using mayonnaise. Published in the late 1970s, this collection of recipes was produced by, naturally, the Hellman's/Best Foods Mayonnaise corporation, and was dedicated to showing us the flexibility and utility of the humble emulsion known as mayonnaise. It did this by alternating between nice, normal mayo-containing recipes that actually sound sort of good, and OH DEAR GOD YOU DID NOT JUST DO THAT TO A DEFENSELESS TOMATO BISQUE?!
In the not-normally-containing-mayo recipes, usually the mayo is substituted for part or all of the dairy component, like in the above-mentioned tomato bisque. There is also a photo of a spectacular cheese ball/log, slathered in a cream cheese/mayo mixture, and studded with pecan halves to look like a pine cone.
Photos and recipes - as the book explicitly gives me permission to reproduce up to 10 recipes! - will have to wait until the book is unearthed from whatever box it ended up in.
My thoughts on the matter are:
-- all the readers of this would probably think manga is too weird to read
and
-- should I read it so you don't have to? (I'm not reading the DaVinci Code, because I know too much about the actual origins of the beliefs he used to make the plot, i.e. they were mostly made up by some guy in the 1950s and I would spend the entire time shrieking WHY DIDN'T YOU DO SOME BASIC LIBRARY RESEARCH YOU NIMROD at the protagonist.)
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Also! I never got back to you on the poll I posted asking what item you thought
rachelmanija sent me, because I moved shortly after I posted it, and the item in question got packed away.The vast majority of you decided that she'd sent me The Playboy Sheikh's Virgin Stable Girl, and I am hereby announcing that you are all
It was a book of recipes using mayonnaise. Published in the late 1970s, this collection of recipes was produced by, naturally, the Hellman's/Best Foods Mayonnaise corporation, and was dedicated to showing us the flexibility and utility of the humble emulsion known as mayonnaise. It did this by alternating between nice, normal mayo-containing recipes that actually sound sort of good, and OH DEAR GOD YOU DID NOT JUST DO THAT TO A DEFENSELESS TOMATO BISQUE?!
In the not-normally-containing-mayo recipes, usually the mayo is substituted for part or all of the dairy component, like in the above-mentioned tomato bisque. There is also a photo of a spectacular cheese ball/log, slathered in a cream cheese/mayo mixture, and studded with pecan halves to look like a pine cone.
Photos and recipes - as the book explicitly gives me permission to reproduce up to 10 recipes! - will have to wait until the book is unearthed from whatever box it ended up in.