I Encourage You All To Boycott The Allstar Game In Protest of Duncan's Selection

[Koolaid_Man]

First off Happy Super Bowl Sunday...I got my money on Greenbay...not that I'm a fan but I expect them to win.

Now as for the allstar game this one will be a classic case of do as I say and not as I do....as I will be in attendance at the main event and partying early.:lol Nonetheless I urge you all to send a statement to the league that you won't tolerate this mess. Duncan will hurt the West chances if winning...

Now I expect the village idiot (BR) to lead the crusade in this effort. :toast

PS: I will include a fun fact section about Kool in some of my posts every so often so be on the lookout..:lol

Today's fun fact: One of Koolaid's favorite love songs of all-time:

tov22NtCMC4

[The_Worlds_finest]

I encourage ur mother to drop her handy cost from $7 dollars to $5 for optimal revenue, Plus if she quit crack she could provide more food for her hard work....just saying

[Xevious]

Duncan will hurt the West chances if winning...
I assume you meant to say of instead of if.

Not to worry. Duncan will only play cameo minutes like he does every year.

[djohn2oo8]

A butthurt faggot posting Mariah Carey videos? Life must be shit for you

[CubanMustGo]

Koolaid just takin' butthurt to a new level, nothing to see here.

[Venti Quattro]

...why

[buttsR4rebounding]

Winning has it's advantages:


..................min/game......FG%.....Reb......Asst.....Blocks....PPG
Duncan........29...............48..........9.3.... ..3.0.......1.9........13.5
Garnett........31...............53..........8.8... ...2.3.......0.8........15.0

Where are the tears about Garnett? The real travesty is that Parker got left off for Westbrook who shoots 42% from the field and has more turnovers than a pastry chef.

[Bito Corleone]

BR? Is that you? You look different in purple.

[buttsR4rebounding]

:lol

[Venti Quattro]

Apple pie


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Apple pie with lattice upper crust


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Tarte Tatin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarte_Tatin), a French variation on apple pie


An apple pie is a fruit pie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie) (or tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is apples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple). It is sometimes served with whipped cream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipped_cream) or ice cream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream) on top. Pastry is generally used top-and-bottom, making it a double-crust pie, the upper crust of which may be a disk shaped crust or a pastry lattice woven of strips; exceptions are deep-dish apple pie with a top crust only, and open-face Tarte Tatin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarte_Tatin).
Contents

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1 Ingredients (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Ingredients)

1.1 The English pudding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#The_English_pudding)

1.1.1 Absence of sugar in early English recipe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Absence_of_sugar_in_early_English_recipe )

1.2 Dutch style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Dutch_style)
1.3 Swedish style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Swedish_style)

2 Apple pie in American culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Apple_pie_in_American_culture)
3 See also (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#See_also)
4 References (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#References)
5 External links (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#External_links)

Ingredients

Cooking apples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_apple) (culinary apples, colloquially cookers), such as the Bramley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramley_%28apple%29) or Granny Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_Smith), are crisp and acidic. The fruit for the pie can be fresh, canned, or reconstituted from dried apples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_fruit). This affects the final texture, and the length of cooking time required; whether it has an effect on the flavour of the pie is a matter of opinion. Dried or preserved apples were originally substituted only at times when fresh fruit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit) was unavailable.
The English pudding

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"For to Make Tartys in Applis", 18th century print of a 14th century recipe


English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer). The 1381 recipe (see illustration at right) lists the ingredients as good apples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple), good spices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice), figs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus), raisins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisin) and pears (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear). The cofyn of the recipe is a casing of pastry. Saffron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron) is used for colouring the pie filling.
In English speaking countries, apple pie is a dessert of enduring popularity, eaten hot or cold, on its own or with ice cream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream), double cream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream), or custard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard).
Absence of sugar in early English recipe

Most modern recipes for apple pie require an ounce or two of sugar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar), but the earliest recipe does not. There are two possible reasons.
Sugarcane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarcane) imported from Egypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt) was not widely available in 14th century England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England), where it cost between one and two shillings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling) per pound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_%28mass%29) — this is roughly the equivalent of US$100 per kg (about US$50 per pound) in today's prices.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#cite_note-0)
The absence of sugar in the recipe may instead indicate that, because refined sugar was a recent introduction from the Orient, the medieval English did not have quite as sweet a tooth as their descendants. Honey, which was many times cheaper, is also absent from the recipe, and the "good spices" and saffron, all imported, were no less expensive and difficult to obtain than refined sugar. Despite the expense, refined sugar did appear much more often in published recipes of the time than honey, suggesting that it was not considered prohibitively expensive. With the exception of apples and pears, all the ingredients in the filling probably had to be imported. And perhaps, as in some modern "sugar-free" recipes, the juice of the pears was intended to sweeten the pie.
Dutch style

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A home-baked Dutch apple pie


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Dutch apple pie in Chiang Mai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai), Thailand, showing the filling


Dutch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_cuisine) apple pie (appeltaart or appelgebak) recipes are distinct in that they typically call for flavourings such as cinnamon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon) and lemon juice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_juice) to be added. Dutch apple pies are usually decorated in a lattice style. Dutch apple pies may include ingredients such as raisins and icing, in addition to ingredients such as apples and sugar, which they have in common with other recipes.[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)]
Recipes for Dutch apple pie go back centuries. There exists a painting from the Dutch Golden Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Golden_Age), dated 1626, featuring such a pie.
The basis of Dutch apple pie is a crust on the bottom and around the edges. This is then filled with pieces or slices of apple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple), usually a crisp and mildly tart variety such as Goudreinet (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goudreinet&action=edit&redlink=1) or Elstar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elstar). Cinnamon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon) and sugar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar) are generally mixed in with the apple filling. The filling can be sprinkled with liqueur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqueur) for taste although this is very uncommon. Atop the filling, strands of dough (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dough) cover the pie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie) in a lattice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_%28pastry%29), holding the filling in place but keeping it visible. Though it can be eaten cold, warmed is more common, with a dash of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. In the Netherlands it is usually eaten cold, sometimes with whipped cream on top.
Swedish style

The Swedish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_cuisine) style apple pie differs from the English and Dutch style, in that it uses no pastry and hence has no crust. Simply, the apples are sliced and placed in the baking dish, the lightly-spiced dough is mixed and then poured over the apples, and the whole lot placed in a pre-heated oven, making for quick and simple preparation and cooking. The resultant pie is akin to a hot cake, where by the apples are held in suspension and softened by the dough.
Apple pie in American culture

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An apple pie is one of a number of United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) cultural icons.


In the English colonies the apple pie had to wait for carefully planted pips, brought in barrels across the Atlantic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_ocean), to become fruit-bearing apple trees, to be selected for their cooking qualities. In the meantime, the colonists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_America) were more likely to make their pies, or "pasties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty)", of meat rather than of fruit; and the main use for apples, once they were available, was in cider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider). But there are American apple-pie recipes, both manuscript and printed, from the eighteenth century, and it has since become a very popular dessert.
A mock apple pie made from crackers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_%28food%29) was apparently invented by pioneers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier) on the move during the nineteenth century who were bereft of apples. In the 1930s, and for many years afterwards, Ritz Crackers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritz_Crackers) promoted a recipe for mock apple pie using its product, along with sugar and various spices.
Although apple pies have been eaten since long before the European colonization of the Americas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas), "as American as apple pie" is a saying in the United States, meaning "typically American".[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#cite_note-1) The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for Mom and apple pie" - supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II), whenever journalists asked why they were going to war.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#cite_note-2)
Advertisers exploited the patriotic connection in the 1970s with the commercial jingle "baseball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball), hot dogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dogs), apple pie and Chevrolet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet)". There are claims that the Apple Marketing Board of New York State used such slogans as "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" and "as American as apple pie!", and thus "was able to successfully 'rehabilitate' the apple as a popular comestible" in the early twentieth century when prohibition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition) outlawed the production of cider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider).
The unincorporated community of Pie Town, New Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_Town,_New_Mexico) is named in honor of the apple pie.

[easy7]

You have the wrong man. Duncan tried to help you by missing the jump shot. You should really go after McDyess. Let it go Louie, yesterday's gone. :hat

[BlackSwordsMan]

I boycott this shit every year by not watching.

[Venti Quattro]

I boycott this shit because Yao always gets the starting center spot

[ChuckD]

You got my vote. No way I'm going to watch that snorefest. The simple fact that Jim Duncan was gifted a spot over much more deserving players leads me to believe that Stern did this on purpose to force a lockout. If he can somehow lower the ratings of the all-star game, then it will justify his claim that the NBA is losing money. What better way to do so than adding the one player that delivers the worst ratings in the history of sports to the team. I'm on board.

Stern didn't pick Duncan, Short Bus, the coaches did. Love was the injury replacement picked by the league for Yao.

[Gutter92]

:lmao

[spurastic]

Who cares what your think. Go drink some koolaid with your buddies.

[WeNeedLength]

You got my vote. No way I'm going to watch that snorefest. The simple fact that Jim Duncan was gifted a spot over much more deserving players leads me to believe that Stern did this on purpose to force a lockout. If he can somehow lower the ratings of the all-star game, then it will justify his claim that the NBA is losing money. What better way to do so than adding the one player that delivers the worst ratings in the history of sports to the team. I'm on board.

Hey! It's timvp. What's up man?

[WeNeedLength]

Stern didn't pick Duncan, Short Bus, the coaches did. Love was the injury replacement picked by the league for Yao.

Ahaha the fuckstick gets slapped yet again.

[jjktkk]

I boycott this shit every year by not watching.

+1. All star game has been a snooze fest for a long time now.

[ElNono]

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[Pelicans78]

Who cares about the All-Star game. Its as bad as the Pro Bowl.

[Greg Oden]

well you got one of my degrees right because someone outright asked me in an earlier thread, but it's not what im doing with my career. i still had to take cal 1&2, stats, macro/micro, four semesters of a foreign language, insurance (fucking blew), etc, so dont get your panties in a wad about it being a loser degree. i take courses within the school of public affairs, architecture and the business school. i really like it anyhow. i build scaled models of cities and additions, and this semester i have to live with homeless people on the streets for a couple of weekends and document my fieldwork. to earn my degree, i still need a semester long paid internship provided by the school as well as a "major" senior project/thesis. i have no idea what im going to do yet for my project/thesis, so maybe you can help me out with some ideas.

yes, part of my degree is studying homeless drug addicts, especially heroin users, so i think i can tell when someone is a dopefiend. my brother isnt one.

im also being published this semester by doing a site analysis of the River Walk and how pedestrian traffic flows throughout it - with a particular emphasis on the newer additions. my research is being forwarded to grad schools like princeton.

i chose my degree because i already have my real estate license, and ive been offered several opportunites by UT alumni to work in commercial development - one area being in dallas around SMU. ive also been offered to work in industrial distribution in plano.

my other major is archaeological anthropology, and this summer im going on an archaeological dig with UT in portugal to exhume a roman fortification that was constructed over an iberian village. then im linking up with some friends and backpacking europe.

tbh, i dont know what im doing yet after school, but i have four or five options. once i figure out where im going for grad school (probably for my phd), ill be more than happy to let yall know.

my top option is nautical archaeology (scuba dive and discover/maintain shipwrecks, ports and cities) since i already have field experience, and i already work with GIS systems. im also about to start on my pilot's license, so i can do aerial surveillance. ill live and work in places like the caribbean, asia minor and europe.

right now im dating an architecture major who won the award for top student in her design class (meaning grade level) last semester and will probably win it again this semester. UT has one of the top architecture programs in the nation, so that's a pretty big deal. she wants to travel with me around the world, but we're still young, so im not making any big plans with that just yet.

so good luck with your CPA. i was offered to join the MPA program at UT when i was an economics major, but i figured it just wasnt for me. if you find it interesting and youll have fun going to work then more power to you. yeah tonight i had a good time on 6th street, so im having no problem explaining what im doing in school, and why im busting my ass so hard. cheers.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

So a "friend" of mine owes me money. He came over to my house the other day and soliticted my help. He said there was 10 bucks in it for me if I did 3 loads of laundry and washed all his dishes. I did it as fast as I could, about 2 hours after he asked, it was done. He was running out of tobacco, so I gave him the rest of my tobacco because he's a heavier smoker than I am. A little short on cash around this time of the month, he promised me that he'd have the money to me the next day. This was on Sunday. So, theoretically, by Monday I should have the money.

He says that he didn't get his check on Monday. Okay, I said, and I left it at that. I ask him again today, he says he has his check is here but he needs to get to the bank. Okay, I said, again. Tonight I go over to his apartment and he procedes to tell me that he spent my 10 dollars on something "we (his other friends) got some stuff and he didn't have the 10 dollars to pay me back." So he promises me the ten dollars on Wednesday. I have a busy day tomorrow so I won't find out until 4PM tomorrow if he's lying to me. He tells me to get a job because I don't make enough money. Well, if he'd pay me...

I've given a lot to this guy. He got meals at my apartment at least twice a week for six months last year. He didn't have cable so I let him watch whatever he wanted to watch, let him stay in my apartment from 6AM to 10PM every night and he was the one who left. When I went away on trips, he sometimes would have a key to let himself in. I subsequently found my VCR broken (brand-new). I even financed a tattoo about a year ago and it took him 8 months to get me 70 dollars for it. I even paid for the cream to keep it from becoming infected.

I want this "friend" out of my life. He's a user and he's found that the milk has gone sour on me so he's keeping other people a priority now that I don't have the cash to support his many habits. Because I don't get pissed and angry and curse in his face, he thinks I'm a pushoever. Some "friend."

Has this ever happened to anyone else? Do you do this to other people?

[Greg Oden]

http://www.nba-draft.com/images/Louis%20Williams.jpg

Wait, are you saying that all this shit wasn't about getting attention?

Yet you are now literally reveling in the fact that people are still talking about your tits "more than a year later"?

How could those two facts possibly be reconciled? I understand you're saying you wanted to see people's reactions, but seeing how people react is completely different from seeing how much they react. The former is a calculated plan to fuck with the people; the latter is an attempt to get attention.

Of course you couldn't post any more pics after that one because earlier in the thread you had been ridiculing other attention whore female posters for doing the same shit and it would have come off as intensely hypocritical. But it's implausible that you would have responded to ALVAREZ's comment by posting a picture of your titties in some diabolical scheme to mess with everyone's heads.

It's far more likely that all the shit people had been saying about you being an ugly middle aged fat balding man finally got to you, and you did the one thing that would throw everyone's certainty about your ugliness into doubt while still leaving available the excuse "I was just doing that to fuck with you" so you could continue to delude yourself into thinking you aren't attention whore.

Maybe you don't realize it, but your refusal to post any pics that confirm that those are your titties just fans the flames. People are still left with the mystery, they feel like they need to know. Some people have dealt with that by repeatedly asking for proof (mavs>spurs), by convincing themselves that you're an ugly old man (spicoli), or by secretly masturbating to that pic while praying to Ganesh that you'll post more (fillmoe). None of this is really a mindfuck, more of an attention-grab. But when you say "I would have been happy to let the whole thread get lost in the archives," you're obviously lying to yourself and to us, because the sure way to get this whole thing over with and forgotten is to post the confirmation, solve the mystery, and let everyone lose interest.

There's some other reason why you haven't posted confirmation, and it's not because you just want "to let the whole thread get lost in the archives."

[Greg Oden]

bout to go scro it up, tbh.

[Greg Oden]

Crofl says the Brett Keisel fan club

who?



lol steelers fan

[DMC]

Apple pie


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Apple pie with lattice upper crust


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Tarte Tatin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarte_Tatin), a French variation on apple pie


An apple pie is a fruit pie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie) (or tart) in which the principal filling ingredient is apples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple). It is sometimes served with whipped cream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whipped_cream) or ice cream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream) on top. Pastry is generally used top-and-bottom, making it a double-crust pie, the upper crust of which may be a disk shaped crust or a pastry lattice woven of strips; exceptions are deep-dish apple pie with a top crust only, and open-face Tarte Tatin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarte_Tatin).
Contents

[hide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#)]


1 Ingredients (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Ingredients)

1.1 The English pudding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#The_English_pudding)

1.1.1 Absence of sugar in early English recipe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Absence_of_sugar_in_early_English_recipe )


1.2 Dutch style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Dutch_style)
1.3 Swedish style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Swedish_style)


2 Apple pie in American culture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#Apple_pie_in_American_culture)
3 See also (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#See_also)
4 References (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#References)
5 External links (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#External_links)

Ingredients

Cooking apples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_apple) (culinary apples, colloquially cookers), such as the Bramley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramley_%28apple%29) or Granny Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_Smith), are crisp and acidic. The fruit for the pie can be fresh, canned, or reconstituted from dried apples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dried_fruit). This affects the final texture, and the length of cooking time required; whether it has an effect on the flavour of the pie is a matter of opinion. Dried or preserved apples were originally substituted only at times when fresh fruit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit) was unavailable.
The English pudding

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/33/For_to_Make_Tartys_in_Applis_%281381%29.gif/220px-For_to_Make_Tartys_in_Applis_%281381%29.gif (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:For_to_Make_Tartys_in_Applis_%281381%29.gif) http://bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:For_to_Make_Tartys_in_Applis_%281381%29.gif)
"For to Make Tartys in Applis", 18th century print of a 14th century recipe


English apple pie recipes go back to the time of Chaucer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaucer). The 1381 recipe (see illustration at right) lists the ingredients as good apples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple), good spices (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice), figs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus), raisins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raisin) and pears (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pear). The cofyn of the recipe is a casing of pastry. Saffron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saffron) is used for colouring the pie filling.
In English speaking countries, apple pie is a dessert of enduring popularity, eaten hot or cold, on its own or with ice cream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream), double cream (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream), or custard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custard).
Absence of sugar in early English recipe

Most modern recipes for apple pie require an ounce or two of sugar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar), but the earliest recipe does not. There are two possible reasons.
Sugarcane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarcane) imported from Egypt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt) was not widely available in 14th century England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England), where it cost between one and two shillings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shilling) per pound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_%28mass%29) — this is roughly the equivalent of US$100 per kg (about US$50 per pound) in today's prices.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#cite_note-0)
The absence of sugar in the recipe may instead indicate that, because refined sugar was a recent introduction from the Orient, the medieval English did not have quite as sweet a tooth as their descendants. Honey, which was many times cheaper, is also absent from the recipe, and the "good spices" and saffron, all imported, were no less expensive and difficult to obtain than refined sugar. Despite the expense, refined sugar did appear much more often in published recipes of the time than honey, suggesting that it was not considered prohibitively expensive. With the exception of apples and pears, all the ingredients in the filling probably had to be imported. And perhaps, as in some modern "sugar-free" recipes, the juice of the pears was intended to sweeten the pie.
Dutch style

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A home-baked Dutch apple pie


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Dutch apple pie in Chiang Mai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai), Thailand, showing the filling


Dutch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_cuisine) apple pie (appeltaart or appelgebak) recipes are distinct in that they typically call for flavourings such as cinnamon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon) and lemon juice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_juice) to be added. Dutch apple pies are usually decorated in a lattice style. Dutch apple pies may include ingredients such as raisins and icing, in addition to ingredients such as apples and sugar, which they have in common with other recipes.[citation needed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)]
Recipes for Dutch apple pie go back centuries. There exists a painting from the Dutch Golden Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Golden_Age), dated 1626, featuring such a pie.
The basis of Dutch apple pie is a crust on the bottom and around the edges. This is then filled with pieces or slices of apple (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple), usually a crisp and mildly tart variety such as Goudreinet (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goudreinet&action=edit&redlink=1) or Elstar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elstar). Cinnamon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon) and sugar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar) are generally mixed in with the apple filling. The filling can be sprinkled with liqueur (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liqueur) for taste although this is very uncommon. Atop the filling, strands of dough (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dough) cover the pie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie) in a lattice (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_%28pastry%29), holding the filling in place but keeping it visible. Though it can be eaten cold, warmed is more common, with a dash of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. In the Netherlands it is usually eaten cold, sometimes with whipped cream on top.
Swedish style

The Swedish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_cuisine) style apple pie differs from the English and Dutch style, in that it uses no pastry and hence has no crust. Simply, the apples are sliced and placed in the baking dish, the lightly-spiced dough is mixed and then poured over the apples, and the whole lot placed in a pre-heated oven, making for quick and simple preparation and cooking. The resultant pie is akin to a hot cake, where by the apples are held in suspension and softened by the dough.
Apple pie in American culture

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An apple pie is one of a number of United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States) cultural icons.


In the English colonies the apple pie had to wait for carefully planted pips, brought in barrels across the Atlantic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_ocean), to become fruit-bearing apple trees, to be selected for their cooking qualities. In the meantime, the colonists (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_America) were more likely to make their pies, or "pasties (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty)", of meat rather than of fruit; and the main use for apples, once they were available, was in cider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider). But there are American apple-pie recipes, both manuscript and printed, from the eighteenth century, and it has since become a very popular dessert.
A mock apple pie made from crackers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker_%28food%29) was apparently invented by pioneers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier) on the move during the nineteenth century who were bereft of apples. In the 1930s, and for many years afterwards, Ritz Crackers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritz_Crackers) promoted a recipe for mock apple pie using its product, along with sugar and various spices.
Although apple pies have been eaten since long before the European colonization of the Americas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas), "as American as apple pie" is a saying in the United States, meaning "typically American".[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#cite_note-1) The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for Mom and apple pie" - supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in World War II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II), whenever journalists asked why they were going to war.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie#cite_note-2)
Advertisers exploited the patriotic connection in the 1970s with the commercial jingle "baseball (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball), hot dogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dogs), apple pie and Chevrolet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet)". There are claims that the Apple Marketing Board of New York State used such slogans as "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" and "as American as apple pie!", and thus "was able to successfully 'rehabilitate' the apple as a popular comestible" in the early twentieth century when prohibition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition) outlawed the production of cider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider).
The unincorporated community of Pie Town, New Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_Town,_New_Mexico) is named in honor of the apple pie.

mmmm pie.

[DMC]

I boycott this shit every year by not watching.
That's generally what a boycott means.. just FYI.

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[xellos88330]

I guess you can't teach a retard new tricks after all. :depressed:

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I barely knew Christine when she turned up at my door at around eight o'clock on the night of Halloween. We'd met for the first and only time three months earlier when my two roommates and I signed the lease on our apartment: Christine's aunt owned the place we were moving into, and she happened to be up from Delaware visiting at the time. But we'd only spent about five minutes together that day and we hadn't spoken much, and I hadn't thought of her since.

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Yet here she was standing outside my door with a friend. And both of them were pretty tipsy.

She asked if she and her friend could come inside our apartment to change into their costumes. She couldn't change at her aunt's place, she said, because she was sleeping and she didn't want to wake her up. Would we mind if she used our bathroom instead?

It was a pretty strange request. Sure, weird stuff happens on Halloween, but I barely knew her, and it isn't every day that someone shows up at your front door and asks to change into their ladybug costume. But I told her it was fine and she was welcome to use our place to get ready.

It didn't take long before the two women—who'd clearly been drinking—were sitting on my couch, beers in hand, trying to convince my roommate and me to join them for a night on the town. Christine was in the holiday spirit dressed in her ladybug outfit. Her friend, who had a female pirate costume on, was much more quiet and reserved. She barely spoke all night.

It was a Wednesday evening, and my roommate and I hadn't been planning to go out. We both had to get up pretty early the next morning for work. But Christine was insistent that we join them, and she wasn't taking no for an answer. "Come on, guys! Let's go! Just throw something on!" she said.

The costume that I wore for the Halloween a year before—a boy scout's uniform that belonged to a friend—was still sitting in my closet. So that made it easy. But my roommate had no idea what to put on.

Christine immediately came up with an idea. She pointed to a cardboard box in the kitchen—the kind that 12-packs of Coca-Cola come in—and told him to cut a hole in the middle and put it on top of his head. We weren't sure what she was suggesting.

"You can go as a cokehead!" she said, bursting into laughter.

With our costume situation sorted out, we headed to South Street, where lots of bars in Philadelphia are located. Half an hour later, the four of us were seated at a table and knocking back beers.

It really didn't take very long for Christine to make her move. She'd grabbed my hand on the way from the apartment to South Street, so I can't say I was totally surprised when she leaned in to kiss me soon after we arrived at the bar.

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I could tell when we first met that Christine was older than me. I was 25, and although I never asked her age, I'd have guessed she was in her early 30s. It was only recently that I found out her real age and learned she was in her late 30s when we hooked up. There's a 14-year gap between us, but she looks good for her age. I don't think I'd heard the word "cougar" yet at that point, but that's probably what I'd call her.

Aggressive is another word I'd use to describe her. At the bar, she confessed to me that her aunt really hadn't been sleeping. She hadn't even gone to her apartment to check, she said. She had remembered me from our five-minute meeting the previous summer, and used the story about her aunt as an excuse to knock on my door. She'd set her sights on me from the beginning.

Christine was pretty intense, and she was pretty outspoken that night, but we didn't talk politics much. Her aunt had told me that Christine ran for Senate a year earlier and had lost, so I knew a bit about her background. But the most political she got that night was when she said she attended lots of events in Washington that attracted congressmen and senators. "It would be nice to have a good-looking young man to attend those with me," she added.

We'd probably knocked back five Heinekens when Christine leaned over and whispered in my ear that she wanted to go back to my place. Before we could go, though, she told me to ask her friend if she'd mind if I drove Christine home later that evening. That was odd. I guess Christine didn't want to come across as a slut in her friend's eyes for going home with me, so she wanted me to bring it up her friend first.

I did what I was told and asked her friend if she had any objection to me hanging out with Christine a little longer provided I took her home later on in the evening. She didn't, and a few minutes after that, we were all headed back to my apartment. Christine's friend got in her car and went home. My roommate went to his bedroom and went to sleep. And Christine and I got cozy on the couch and popped open another beer.

Things got physical on the couch pretty quickly. It wasn't long before we'd moved from the living room to my bed.

I won't get into the nitty gritty details of what happened between the sheets that evening. But I will say that it wasn't half as exciting as I'd been hoping it would be. Christine was a decent kisser, but as soon as soon as her clothes came off and she was naked in my bed, Christine informed me that she was a virgin.

"You've got to be kidding," I said. She didn't explain at the time that she was a "born-again virgin." She made it seem like she'd never had sex in her life, which seemed pretty improbable for a woman her age. And she made it clear that she was planning on staying a virgin that night. But there were signs that she wasn't very experienced sexually. When her underwear came off, I immediately noticed that the waxing trend had completely passed her by.

Obviously, that was a big turnoff, and I quickly lost interest. I said goodnight, rolled over, and went to sleep. It was almost four o'clock in the morning. I had to get up at 6:30 to go to work.

Christine wasn't in the best of shape when my alarm clock went off three hours later. I was hungover and exhausted and we'd both had about the same amount to drink, so I'm guessing she was feeling even worse. I got up and started to get dressed and told Christine she'd need to get up, too. But she clearly didn't want to budge, and even after I'd reminded her a few times, she was still under the covers. Did she think I was going to leave for work and let her sleep in my bed?

When she finally did get up and dressed and we got in the car, Christine couldn't remember exactly where her friend lived. We circled around for about 20 minutes before we found it, and I dropped her off in the parking lot next to her car, as she asked me to. We said goodbye and exchanged phone numbers and email addresses. But there wasn't a whole lot of back and forth. I didn't even try to give her a kiss goodbye.

I wasn't planning on contacting Christine after our night together. Things hadn't gone so great—especially the part that took place in my bedroom—and I didn't see any reason to try and see her again. But two or three days later, she emailed me to ask me if I wanted to hang out again. I made an excuse. But she didn't take a hint and emailed or called a few more times over the next couple of weeks before I was forced to make it clear to her that I wasn't interested.

Things worked out for the best, though. A few weeks later, Christine started dating my roommate. They went out for over a year, and it was a little awkward the first few times Christine came over to visit him at our apartment and we all had to make conversation in the living room. But that passed pretty quickly. And in case you're wondering, he never had sex with her either, as far as I know.

When I heard several months ago that Christine had decided to run again, I didn't take it very seriously. And I never expected in a million years that she'd end up winning the primary. But she did, and the morning after the election, I sat in disbelief as I watched the news on TV. For a second, I thought I might be hearing things and I went over to my computer and pulled up CNN.com to check if it was true. It was.

God, I hope the same thing doesn't happen next week.