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We are 🙂 . No carrots. No cranberries. No parsnips.

Whole family loves both brussels sprouts and spinach – the kids used to fight over how many sprouts they got. Their kids are the same. 🙂

*grumble* I’d rather have the Daily Mail in the house than a diet Coke 😛

You are right – don’t think anyone wants diet, but it won’t hurt to get a couple cans in.

The sprouts thing – most people say it’s weird. But we do all like them, indeed crave them at times, despite having a normal range of likes and dislikes otherwise.

@Mish

One way I cook sprouts is using them instead of the cauliflower in aloo gobi. It is somewhat phenomenal. 🙂

My grandfather was Italian, so we always had to have lasagna for Christmas.

Shadowplay:

No parsnips

Normally I try to be tolerant when other people are wrong about food, but I can’t let this pass. What the fuck is wrong with you? Parsnips are heavenly!

Carter Page, Dunning-Kruger exemplar: Ex-Trump adviser Carter Page accused academics who twice failed his PhD of bias:

Carter Page, Donald Trump’s former foreign policy adviser, accused his British examiners of “anti-Russian bias” after they took the highly unusual step of failing his “verbose” and “vague” PhD thesis, not once but twice.

Page was a little-known oil consultant who lived and worked in Moscow when he joined Trump’s campaign in March 2016. The then-candidate named Page as one of five foreign policy advisers, calling him “Carter Page PhD” in a meeting with the Washington Post’s editorial board.

In fact, Page took three attempts to gain his doctorate from the University of London, finally succeeding in 2011.

In emails seen by the Guardian, Page compares his decade-long struggle to get a postgraduate qualification to the ordeal suffered by Mikhail Khodorkovsy – the Russian oligarch sent to a Siberian prison by Vladimir Putin.

In one unhappy note to his examiners, he writes: “Your actions to date have been far more destructive than anything I have personally experienced in my 39 years on this planet.” The fate of Khodorkovsky, he adds, represents “the closest analogy in recent history to my trials”.

His examiners said that he knew next to nothing about the subject matter, and expected to hide this behind blather. He was “dumbfounded” to hear that his work wasn’t as good as he had thought. He reacted with a hilariously overwrought persecution complex. Yep, you can see why he would be at home in Trump’s inner circle.

I don’t like lima beans for early childhood reasons. But I love broccoli and carrots and other veggies.

Going shopping today for Christmas feast ingredients, hopefully avoiding the crowds.

Re: Diet Coke

For me, it’s not the calories, it’s the fact that, as a semi-recently diagnosed Type 2 Diabetic it allows me to still drink soda without worrying about my blood sugar.

Are there any Trump appointees who aren’t either ridiculous or evil?

US ambassador to Netherlands describes own words as ‘fake news’:

The US ambassador to the Netherlands faced an excruciating moment on television when he denied ever saying that there were no-go zones in the Netherlands, calling the suggestion “fake news”.

Trump’s new choice for ambassador, Pete Hoekstra, who was only sworn in by the vice president, Mike Pence, on 11 December, was being interviewed for current affairs programme Nieuwsuur by reporter Wouter Zwart.

Zwart says: “You mentioned in a debate that there are no-go zones in the Netherlands, and that cars and politicians are being set on fire in the Netherlands.”

Hoekstra replies: “I didn’t say that. This is actually an incorrect statement. We would call it fake news.”

Hoekstra is then shown clips of him saying: “The Islamic movement has now gotten to a point where they have put Europe into chaos. Chaos in the Netherlands, there are cars being burnt, there are politicians that are being burnt … and yes there are no-go zones in the Netherlands.”

Challenged about having called this “fake news”, Hoekstra then went on to deny to Zwart that he had in fact used the phrase “fake news”.

“I didn’t call that fake news. I didn’t use the words today. I don’t think I did.”

So, to summarise: he described the true fact that he described his own fake news as “fake news” as “fake news”. Doucheception.

@Robert Walker-Smith:

Your sibling reminds me of my sister, who attempted to go for years without ingesting anything green. Her attitude changed when she became a teenager. One day at dinner, she said “I think I’ll have a salad”. Our father almost fell out of his chair in shock!

@Mish of the Catlady Ascendancy:

I love Brussels sprouts, myself. As long as they’re not past their prime, and have turned bitter.

Another dish I love is creamed onions. Haven’t cooked them in years, because so many people dislike them.

Beast 1 (Desmond) had no fever yesterday morning. He still has a stuffy nose, but he’s eating normally again and trying to play which is hard when he can’t breathe normally thru his nose.

Beast 2 (Stoffy) is missing his buddy. He started calling for Des last night. He bonked my face and climbed all over me again last night (all night, but I slept through it better, I think.) He’s a sweeetie!

I’m back on my own computer now after Husbeast had to wipe my hard drive yesterday. Everything is much, much faster now!

Kidbeast will be arriving today to stay for a couple of weeks for the holidays. We’re planning to see TLJ together. I will have to purge my kitchen of cannabis before they get here; I got myself a Magical Butter Machine and have been experimenting with recipes the last couple of weeks.

JoeB – thanks for the link. Wow. It’s an interesting experience seeing someone getting flame roasted that badly and not feel any sympathy.