Made fried chicken today!

[conuly]

What I learned: The recipe says that color is more important than time, but I'm no good at that. Stick to a timer - raw fried chicken is not fun :(

Also: Nobody seems to know how many times to dredge the stuff.

Still, the later pieces of fried chicken were quite nummy!

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Comments

[alatefeline]

thanks for good links

[gatheringrivers]

Fried chicken color isn't the same if you're using a nut flour. I learned that fried chicken, at 325f, in lard, take about 30 minutes on one side, and 15 on the next. Coconut flour doesn't darken as well as bog standard AP flour does. :)

Excellent article re 504 Activism in SF in 1974

[jesse_the_k]

If that article intrigues you, I strongly recommend "Fading Scars: My Queer Disability History by Corbett O'Toole.

an interview with her, and many many oral histories from disability rights advocates:
https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2017/08/17/wisdom-from-disability-communities-interview-with-corbett-joan-otoole/

Re: Excellent article re 504 Activism in SF in 1974

[conuly]

Thanks.

[kengr]

I think part of the problem with the tax plan is that Trump and many members of Congress have no idea what income levels constitute the "middle class".

[conuly]

Yes, if they had to reduce their salary to a paltry 400k, why, they wouldn't be able to pay their maids omg i wish i was making this up.

[manoah]

Fried chicken is delicious and a pain to make. Good on you for making it!

[conuly]

Next time, though, instead of drumsticks I'll do "nuggets" of chicken breasts. More even cooking, I hope.

[zesty_pinto]

The corn study vaguely brings a callback to me on the whole Tasmanian devil disease epidemic that's still going on. Ugh, and bananas.

The ugly 'what' of WWI?

[nodrog]

>  their “new-caught sullen peoples”, as Kipling called colonised
>  Asians and Africans in his 1899 poem The White Man’s Burden.

Which as the year suggests, was referring to the American presence in the Philippines, but what of that, eh?  (“New-caught”?  The Brits had caught all theirs decades before.  This clod is simply ignorant, prating what he's heard from someone else who didn't bother either.)

[“‘Today on the Western Front,’ the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917” - wrote where?  “Fear and hatred of armed ‘niggers’ (as Weber called them)” - does this clod think the author of „Deutschlands äußere und Preußens innere Politik” usw, wrote in English?

Swallow whole, as directed.]


The screwy thing is, absent his agenda the guy does have something of a point.  Speaking of Kipling, he could have mentioned “A Sahibs' War,” where proud, fierce Sikhs who did not Correctly regard themselves as victims of “racist imperialism” were puzzled and saddened by their exclusion from the Boer War - which was indeed a conflict between white men, as was World War I, at first…  (And that was stupid, because they were tough as shoe leather and would have kicked ass.  The Ghurkas also.)

But the British themselves were puzzled and saddened (and infuriated!) by the 1857 Indian Mutiny, which directly caused many of the fatheaded, repressive attitudes this ulloo speaks of.  Prior to that, the two nations were moving towards a fascinating cultural fusion, and indeed a hefty percentage of Indians fought for Britain during that Mutiny!  (Did you know shampoo (champu) comes from India?  Brought back to England and made popular right after the War of 1812…)