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A boy can dream, can't he?

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Got reminded again of my old coworker who was a massive misogynist but also trans inclusive. Told me he believed trans women are indeed women because "only women would be stupid enough to want to be women"

I wonder what he's doing now

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that crying “babe I’m so horny!” meme but the response references the queen’s funeral holiday

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STRAWBERRY HAND PIES

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Is this how you roll?

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tiktok: christinajulian_91

audio credit: anthony vincent

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obsessed w/him actually

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I found this youtube channel run by a pet groomer and all she posts is just. Fluffy lil sweetie pies getting groomed.

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Imagine being tortured by one fascist regime, finding a new life in a different country, living quietly there for 38 years, and then being tortured and deported by another fascist regime to a third country because you happen to speak the language of that country.

And then imagine if your family was told you had been killed by the secret police of that second country, when really you'd just been disappeared to a black site and then shoved out the door there when they got bored with you.

Below the cut you'll find more nauseating details about something that's more and more common in America: forced disappearance.

(Written by Matt Mikalatos)

An 82 year old man was taken by ICE at a green card replacement appointment. His family was never informed where he was or how to get ahold of him until he was in a foreign hospital... despite the fact that he was a permanent legal resident of the US.

Luis Leon came to the US 38 years ago.

He had been tortured in his native Chile by the administration of the dictator Augusto Pinochet. The US gave him political asylum and he came legally to the United States in 1987.

Luis built a life here in the US. He worked at a leather manufacturing plant, raised four kids, and eventually retired.

He’s well-loved in his neighborhood in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He likes to garden and fish and do small repairs for the neighbors.

In June he lost his wallet, which had his green card in it.

No problem. Luis and his wife made an appointment to get it replaced.

But when they arrived for the appointment, Luis was handcuffed and taken away, and his wife was held for ten hours until her granddaughter showed up to get her.

His family couldn’t find him for a full month. The immigration detention tracker never showed him as in ICE custody. Immigration officials had no answers they were willing to give, despite multiple calls. The family called local prisons and hospitals and even morgues but couldn’t find anyone who knew where Luis was.

A relative in Chile called the family yesterday to let them know that 82-year-old Luis was now in a hospital in Guatemala… apparently deported to this country by the US government, though ICE still won’t even confirm that Luis showed up for his green card replacement appointment, let alone that they had him in custody and deported him.

Now that the family has found Luis, ICE says they are “investigating” what happened.

Sometimes when I share these stories, people push back and say something like, “If he was here for all these years, why didn’t he become a citizen.” It’s a really weird and ignorant question for a variety of reasons, but more importantly it’s off topic to this post. So before we change subjects to why someone might not get their US citizenship, let me pose a few counter questions: Do you think legal permanent resident of the US should be taken into custody at what should be a normal administrative appointment? Do you think people should be held with no access to lawyers or family? Should permanent legal residents be deported to a country other than their home country and put in a hospital without ever informing family or legal representation? Because that’s what we’re talking about.

Meanwhile, we have no idea if ICE deported a legal, permanent resident of the United States on purpose or somehow “by accident.”

Certainly since ICE’s tripled quota for arrests they’ve had a lot more “mistakes.” And I’m not just talking about the more famous moments, like “administrative errors” that involve illegally deporting someone to El Salvador.

We also have things like:

* A US marshal being mistakenly detained by ICE.

* ICE apologized for detaining US citizens because it caught them… speaking Spanish.

* ICE claims assaults against agents had increased between 500-700% but then released statistics that showed — despite the huge increase in ICE arresting people — ICE’s own self-reported stats of assaults barely increased at all. Probably because they’ve been arresting people on bogus assault claims and then never charged any of them because it was just an excuse to put bystanders in handcuffs.

* ICE accidentally sent a 15 year old to the Everglades Concentration Camp because they didn’t verify his age or identity.

Meanwhile, Luis — a permanent resident of the US who came here legally, had legal status and doesn’t have so much as a parking ticket — has been taken from his family, kept from legal counsel, deported to a country he has never been from, and put in the hospital.

Why?

Because he lost his wallet.

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This absurd yarn is 45% cashmere, 55% silk. I have never worked with anything even remotely like it - no cashmere, no silk, and definitely nothing so thin as 92 wraps per inch. Ninety fucking two.

New, it originally cost £200/kg. A very, very kind weaver in Scotland was de-stashing and sent me 5 kilos for £50 total (plus shipping).

I have many dreams for it but right now I mostly have screams. I have no real idea how it will behave in weaving, so I've wound a small warp for some sampling and a scarf. This is 3.5km of yarn (a bit over 2 miles) and it weighs 119 grams (a bit over 4 ounces?). For those of you playing along at home, each 1kg cone is thus 30 kilometres of yarn (nearly 20 miles). It does not feel like any other yarn I have ever touched.

Because it's so thin (difficult to handle or even see) and so valuable, I am using it with a "dummy warp" - I have left the remains of the baby blanket warp on the loom and then I tie the new warp to it, thread by thread by single fucking thread. This means I don't have to set up the loom all over again and almost none of the fancy yarn will become "loom waste", the unweaveable section of warp at the end of a project. But it also means tying every knot, perfectly in order for each end of both the old and new warps, without the cat getting too interested.

24 knots down, a mere 1000 to go...

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Heritage News of the Week

Discoveries!

Archaeologists recently revealed that they uncovered a 3,500-year old city in Peru that was probably a market hub, and that once connected Pacific coast communities with those in the Andes and Amazon.

Ancient Egyptian rock art discovered near Aswan may be from the dawn of the first dynasty

An ancient Egyptian rock engraving may have been carved at the dawn of the first dynasty, up to 5,100 years ago, a new study suggests.

5,500-year-old ‘Polish pyramids’ discovered by archaeologists in western Poland

Archaeologists in western Poland have uncovered two massive prehistoric structures dubbed the “Poland pyramids,” offering a remarkable glimpse into one of Europe’s earliest agricultural societies.

(they're megalithic tombs)

Extraordinary 'sacrificial ass' found with severed head from Bronze Age Israel

The nearly 5,000-year-old remains of a "sacrificial ass" and three other donkeys from a faraway land have been discovered under a Bronze Age house in Israel.

Czech discovery reveals one of the largest Celtic settlements in Central Europe

Over 13,000 artifacts, including gold coins and Baltic amber, discovered in one of Central Europe’s largest Celtic settlements.

1,600-year-old tomb of Maya city's first ruler unearthed in Belize

Archaeologists in Belize have unearthed the tomb of the first ruler of the ancient Maya city of Caracol, which was a major center in the Maya Lowlands during the sixth and seventh centuries.

Hidden gods of Kurul Castle: Dionysus and Pan figurines capture spotlight as dig resumes

Excavations are set to resume next week at the ancient Kurul Castle in Ordu, the first scientifically excavated archaeological site in Türkiye’s Eastern Black Sea region.

Rare form of leprosy infected people in Americas before European arrival, 4,000-year-old bones suggest

Roughly 4,000-year-old bones from Chile contain genetic evidence of leprosy, suggesting that a rare form of the bacteria that causes the disease may have been circulating in the Americas and long before the Europeans arrived.

27,000-tear-old Gravettian female figurine head discovered at Amiens-Renancourt, northern France

Recent archaeological excavations at the Amiens-Renancourt 1 site in northern France have unveiled an extraordinary Gravettian-era female figurine head, dating back approximately 27,000 years.

Severed bow of US warship blown off by Japanese torpedo finally found in South Pacific

The bow section of the U.S. warship USS New Orleans, which was blown off by a Japanese torpedo in 1942, has been located near the island of Guadalcanal in the South Pacific Ocean.

Prehistoric masterpiece discovered in northern Sweden: white quartzite arrowhead

A bifacially crafted arrowhead made of white quartzite has become the most remarkable discovery at an archaeological excavation in northern Sweden.

That is a nice projectile point

Crime scene forensics help recreate hillfort siege

A team of archaeologists has created the most precise reconstruction yet of a Roman siege on a British hillfort by using crime scene forensics. As well as archaeological mapping from four excavations and several geophysics surveys, the reconstruction experts also used forensic ballistics to determine the sequence of events.

Archaeologists found a 5th-century church inscribed with a message to early Christians

Archaeologists found numerous ornate mosaics among fifth-century ruins in a historic Turkish city.

Scotland’s giant Neolithic timber hall discovered—built 1,000 years before Stonehenge

Archaeologists uncover one of the largest Neolithic timber halls in Scotland, revealing a long-lost site of prehistoric gatherings, rituals, and Bronze Age wealth.

Unique weights shaped like Greek letters unearthed

Archaeologists from Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Mersin University discovered a complete balance scale and five iron weights that appear to be shaped like the Greek letters, beta, gamma, sigma, psi, and omega.

Museums

The Bayeux Tapestry is returning to the UK more than 900 years after its creation, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport has confirmed. The 70m-long masterpiece, which tells the story of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, will be loaned in a historic agreement to be signed between the French and British governments.

‘Momentous occasion’: how Bayeux Museum finally said yes to tapestry loan

Said to be too fragile to move in 2018, tests including a dress rehearsal, and a renovation have led to a change of heart

Is it time to reconsider the artistic value of ice age artifacts?

A radical new exhibition makes the case for recasting prehistoric archaeological treasures as artworks in their own right.

Paris museum faces lawsuit over attempt to ‘erase the existence of Tibet’

The Musée Guimet, a Paris museum known for its rich collection of Asian art, is facing a lawsuit from several groups who accused the institution of trying to “erase the existence of Tibet.”

Confederate heritage group sues over Stone Mountain exhibition

A Confederate heritage group has filed a lawsuit against Georgia’s Stone Mountain Park, arguing that a new exhibition examining the site’s connections to slavery, segregation, and white supremacy violates state law.

Penn Museum workers vote to authorize strike

On the heels of a historic municipal work stoppage that left Philadelphia’s streets drowning in mounting garbage piles, unionized staff at the Penn Museum are inching toward a strike to obtain higher wages from the University of Pennsylvania.

Spain’s Museum of Censored Art shutters “indefinitely” after labor protests

Barcelona’s Museu de l’Art Prohibit, which houses a collection of more than 200 artworks that have been censored or otherwise targeted for their content, has shuttered to the public for the foreseeable future following months-long labor protests.

'Private palace of art' marks 100 years as museum

An artist's home - that also starred in the video for Spandau Ballet's 1983 hit Gold - is celebrating 100 years as a public museum.

Food Museum awarded £1.4m for redevelopment

A proposal to invest almost £1.4m in redeveloping and improving a museum has been approved by a council.

What were federal agents doing at a Puerto Rican museum in Chicago?

The museum described the surprise visit as a “targeted” attempt to intimidate staff and patrons ahead of a lineup of Latine cultural celebrations.

Why ‘devastating’ climate control rules for museum collections need a rethink

Researchers and conservators have found one-size-fits-all standards to be both ineffective and inefficient—and now they're looking for better ways to preserve works

UAE to open massive museum in December that ‘reflects historical trajectory of the country’

A new mega museum is slated to open in the United Arab Emirates on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island in December this year.

Repatriation

A trove of historic documents that were stolen from the Netherlands’ National Archives in The Hague has been recovered by an art detective. The 25 items, which include documents listed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, were discovered in an attic then sent to Arthur Brand, who worked closely with Dutch police to verify and return them. The archives did not know they had been taken.

Liz Truss and hard-right group accused of scaremongering over Parthenon marbles

The former prime minister Liz Truss and a hard-right lobby group have been accused of stoking culture wars after reportedly writing a letter claiming they would take legal action over alleged “covert” plans to return the Parthenon marbles to Greece.

Heritage at risk

New Mexico lawmakers and tribal leaders are calling for the protection of Chaco Canyon, an Indigenous archaeological and historical site in the state, as Republicans attempt to repeal federal land protections surrounding the area.

Smithsonian Institution exhibition under review by the White House

Fox News reported that the White House has raised concerns about “Entertainment Nation,” a permanent display on view since 2022 that sheds light on the entertainment industry’s impact on American pop culture through a selection of theater, music, sports, movie, and television memorabilia from the last 150 years.

They are objecting to *reads article* discussions on the cultural meaning of Mickey Mouse and Selena

Eight countries back Australia’s push to add WA rock art to World Heritage list hours before crunch meeting

The Australian government has secured the backing of at least eight members of the 21-country World Heritage committee as it lobbies to quell concerns about the impacts of industrial emissions on Indigenous rock art at Murujuga and have the Western Australia site inscribed on the World Heritage list.

Is this the end for Easter Island's moai statues?

Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.

Syria, Ukraine and Gaza among countries to receive heritage funds from Aliph

ALIPH, the Geneva-based cultural heritage protection agency, has announced more than $16m in its latest funding round, with support going to Syria, Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, as well as a dedicated focus on the effects of climate change on cultural heritage, primarily in Africa.

Odds and ends

“Angli et Franci” – these Latin words embroidered on the Bayeux tapestry may be the first time those cartoon rivals, the English and the French, were named together. But in one of the shifts from triumph to horror that make this epic work of art still gripping almost a millennium after it was made, the full sentence reads: “Here at the same time the English and French [or Angles and Franks] fell in battle”. Below the black lettering, horses and chainmailed riders are thrown about and upside down in a bloody tangle. In the lower margin lie corpses and a severed head.

AI challenge to find lost Amazonian civilizations draws critics

“Now, for the first time in history, anyone can conduct archaeological research.” So reads the pitch for a community science project sponsored by artificial intelligence giant OpenAI encouraging the public to use AI tools to scrutinize existing data from the Amazon rainforest for traces of lost ancient cities. The OpenAI to Z Challenge has mobilized tech-savvy researchers worldwide, but has also faced criticism from archaeologists, Indigenous communities, and tech ethicists who argue it ignores important research norms, including consultation with the more than 300 Indigenous groups who live in the rainforest. Last week, the Brazilian government demanded OpenAI address the concerns.

How the Roman Empire saw the world through art

Global Baroque surveys the triumphant internationalism of a new age of vast and rapid interchanges of art and culture, with Rome at its center.

What if every artwork you’ve ever seen is a fake?

I was shocked to learn just how many pieces of art sold around the world are forgeries. But should finding out something is a cheap dupe really make us enjoy it less?

The diplomacy of art: Bayeux tapestry loan shows cultural gifts still matter

History is full of examples of artworks being used to express things diplomats would be forbidden to say

Inside Italy's secret mosaic school

Hidden in a quiet Italian town is one of the world's most unique art schools – and a rewarding destination for curious travellers.

The Guardian view on metal detecting: hobbyists as well as experts can play a part in unearthing the past

Detectorists and archaeologists sometimes clash, but the recent find of two Roman swords was the thrilling result of collaboration

Bethany Mandel discovers science In science museums, history In history museums, is outraged

This week, Mandel published an editorial on Fox asking “Why are major museums pushing climate change instead of celebrating the spirit of America?” and describing her horror when she went to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History only to discover that instead of celebrating America, they kept going on about science.

I do not know who this woman is, but she sounds exhausting and deserves to be mocked.

A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like ‘a hole in one from the moon.’

A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, under its own parking lot.

Pterosaur died with belly full of plants—a fossil first

New discovery confirms the long-debated hypothesis that the ancient winged reptiles ate plants

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Today I understood why Mr Bingley is important for 'Pride and Prejudice.' Of course I've heard that he's Mr Darcy's foil and he helps us see that Mr Darcy lacks manners. And probably we need him to see a man whose character trait is quickly deciding to leave a place and who might never come back, and who also - I don't know - can easily get under the influence of his friends.

And I have always seen him as a very insignificant side character, and I never understood why there was even a need for him; like why Jane Austen of all people would write such a lacking(?) side character. He is not really a commentary on something. He's just fickle.

And was there even a need for Mr Bingley & Jane's love story? They're basically 'love at first sight, destined for each other' and they look quite out of place among the other three couples -- Elizabeth and Mr Darcy, Lydia and Mr Wickham, Charlotte and Mr Collins -- that are all a commentary on love and society.

Today I understood that had there been no Mr Bingley Jane would've married Mr Collins out of obligation as the eldest sister and that would have been a very different book that didn't feel like such a happy story by the end of it (my Mom calls it a fairy tale), had only one of the sisters (Elizabeth) landed herself a love match.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe there is an undercurrent to Jane's story that is about her being an angel and that their love with Mr Bingley is a dream that rarely comes true, I don't know. But still, apparently Mr Bingley is not as inconsequential a character as he has always seemed to be.

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21 Homemade Chinese Takeout Dishes That Beat the Restaurant Version Chinese takeout dishes are always a treat, aren’t they? But waiting is the hardest part. Or if you don’t live in an area with a great Chinese restaurant, even takeout is out of the question. Instead of waiting for your order to be delivered or going to pick it up, why not learn how to make your favorite Chinese takeout dishes yourself?

Recipes => https://omnivorescookbook.com/chinese-takeout-for-christmas/

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[ID: A sandwich of battered potato and a few mashed peas, cut in half. End ID]

Smack barm pea wet (Wiganese sandwich)

When trying to replicate convenience-store food, takeout, or street food from regions other than my own, I'm often faced with something of a contradiction. Using readymade, readily available, or cheap ingredients usually means not adhering to the typical composition of a dish. Yet the closer I come to accuracy in terms of ingredients and method, the further I stray from the ethos of the dish: it becomes increasingly fussy, labour-intensive, time-consuming, and expensive.

This trade-off is inevitable, and it's a welcome reminder about the nature of the "authenticity" often touted on recipe blogs, in guide books, and in travel writing. It is an event horizon that one aims at, rather than something that can be reached—and the decision to aim for it in the first place is not inevitable, but in fact has a history and an ideology of its own. These are the kinds of things I was thinking of while shelling and drying a bunch of English peas, only to then immediately rehydrate them. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

The dish

Smack barm pea wet is a common order at chippies in Wigan (a town in Greater Manchester, England). The syntax of this order may need some explaining. A "smack" (in other regions called a "scallop" or a "potato cake") is a battered and deep-fried potato slice. "Barm cakes" are soft, enriched rolls which were traditionally leavened with "barm," or the froth from the top of a fermenting vat of beer—though bakeries today use active dry yeast. Thus "smack barm" is a noun-noun compound, where "smack" gives the specific type of "barm," or "sandwich on a barm cake," that's being described.

"Pea wet," or "pey wet," is another noun-noun compound. It describes a condiment that, as far as anybody can tell, is completely specific to Wigan: the liquid, or "wet," off the top of a batch of mushy peas (though a few solid peas may make their way into the ladle as well).

This sandwich was arguably brought to the attention of the internet at large five years ago, when JOE on YouTube posted a video called "We ate a Wigan kebab - the weirdest meal in the north?" JOE is a variety channel of the "we had very old people try extremely sour candies" sort. But despite the estranging, clickbait-style title, the video's Liverpudlian host is fairly even-handed. The pea wet may look "fucking minging," but it tastes "quite nice."

The history

The explanation for the carb-and-starch-heavy style of food in Wigan chippies (another common order, the "Wigan kebab," consists of a meat and potato pie on a buttered roll) is hinted at in the video itself. The host's attention was initially drawn to the "smack" because it was the cheapest thing on the menu, at 40 pence; the owner of the chippy, in explaining to him the concept of "pea wet," was sure to note that "it's free." People in the north of England have been impacted disproportionately by the privitization and austerity measures instituted throughout the 20th century, and are, on average, significantly poorer than their southern counterparts. This is the Wigan version of the Italian cucina povera.

Some commenters on Wigan chippy meals speculate that they emerge from World War 2-era rationing. But several of the ingredients used in modern smack barms and Wigan kebabs were rationed (namely, butter, lard, meat, and milk), while several ingredients that are notably absent (namely, fresh vegetables) were not. The explanation may instead lie in subsidies: meat, potatoes, milk, and bread were the commodities that were the most heavily subsidized by the British government in 1942 and '43, allowing their prices to be controlled at levels that were affordable to "all classes." The government also set goals for the usage of agricultural acreage that vastly increased potato production. The Wigan kebab and smack barm pea wet are made almost entirely of these subsidized foods (especially if we consider pea wet as only a by-product of mushy peas).

Smack barm pea wet is thus a symbol to some Wiganers of a sort of rugged self-sufficiency. An image of the dish posted on r/badfoodporn is, of course, met with the raillery that the subreddit calls for ("Hey what the fuck"; "Roughly the nutritional value of wet cardboard and dry leaf"; "I really don't think there's any hope of rehabilitation here")—but the meal also has its share of defenders. One commenter in particular writes that "so much [of WW2-era food culture] has remained [...] because its a symbol of our resilience and resourcefulness in the face of insurmountable odds." Or, as Wiganer Stuart Maconie writes in Pies and Prejudice, "[e]very economic and political cudgel had been used to bring these people to their knees and they simply would not submit."

Yet the availabiilty of dairy, meat, and bread in wartime England was increased by the ability of the wartime British Empire to extract food and resources from their colonies in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Much of the meat that was sold in Britain, for example, came from Argentina; much of its dairy came from New Zealand. This came at immense human cost for many of the colonies, which were faced with inflation, shortages, and famine as a result of the decreased availability of locally produced food. But this is not usually part of the picture when people think of WW2-era Britain, or the impacts of this era upon the food culture, economy, and regional mythology of northern England.

Part of the problem may be the common opinion in England that the British Empire has a positive legacy, having left its former colonies better off than it found them; the reality of the extraction of wealth and labor, to the Empire's benefit and the colonies' (and other occupied nations') expense, is thus elided. Writers may also have difficulty expressing a narrative that is neither one of absolute prosperity, nor of absolute victimization.

The recipe

Back to the peas. For mushy peas, you'll need marrowfat peas, which are mature peas that are allowed to dry in the field. Fresh or frozen garden peas won't give you the right texture. Dried split green peas will do in a pinch. This recipe also includes homemade barm cakes; but any soft roll you have will work just fine.

The sandwich as a whole is delicious. The smack is creamy and tender on the inside, and crispy on the outside (even with the pea wet, and even after I had finished photographing). The curry powder and mustard in the batter make it a bit earthy and aromatic, while the malt vinegar topping uplifts and sharpens the starchy potato.

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Recipe under the cut!

For the barm cakes (makes 5):

Ingredients:

250g bread flour

15g (1 Tbsp) softened non-dairy margarine

1 tsp active dry yeast

80g (6 Tbsp) non-dairy milk

80mL (1/3 cup) hot water

1/2 tsp (4g) table salt

Instructions:

Mix flour and lard.

Add other ingredients and knead for 10 minutes, or use a stand mixer for 5 minutes.

Form into a ball and coat in a little bit of oil. Allow to rise in a warm area for 60-90 minutes, until doubled in size.

Gently deflate the dough and divide it into 5 pieces of equal size. Allow to rest for 10 minutes.

Shape each piece of dough into a ball and flatten it slightly (to about 3.5" in width). Coat it generously with flour on both sides. Allow to rise for about 30-60 minutes until puffy.

Bake at 180 ºC (350 ºF) for about 20 minutes, or until just colouring on top.

For the mushy peas:

Ingredients:

4oz dried marrowfat peas, soaked overnight

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp table salt

Water to cover

Dab of margarine (optional)

Marrowfat peas are larger and have a higher starch content than garden peas. They can be purchased at a South Asian grocery store from a brand such as Rani or Jalpur; or you may buy them online.

In a pinch, you can substitute dried green split peas.

Instructions:

Combine peas, baking soda, and water in a large pot and raise heat to bring to a boil.

Lower heat to a simmer and cook until peas are soft and beginning to get mushy, 30 - 60 minutes. Add more water as necessary.

Mash peas with a potato or bean masher and cook to desired consistency. Add salt and margarine and stir to combine. Taste and adjust.

For the smack:

Ingredients:

5 slices from the center of 2 large russett potatoes

100g all-purpose flour

100g white rice flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp ground yellow mustard seed

1/4 tsp curry powder

1/4 tsp black pepper

Water or sparkling water

You can use the rest of the potato for another purpose. At home, though, it's probably fine to use the whole potato and just put two of the smaller slices on some sandwiches. Nobody can stop you.

Instructions:

Mix all dry ingredients for the batter, then add just enough water to form a batter of medium consistency (a little thicker than pancake batter).

Heat a pot of oil to 150 °C (300 °F). Dust the potato slices with some extra flour, then dip them into the batter and coat on both sides.

Carefully lower potato slices into the hot oil. Fry for 4-5 minutes on each side, or until fork tender. Remove from oil.

Increase heat to 180 °C (350 °F) and fry again until golden brown. Remove from the oil and place onto a tray.

To construct:

Cut open and the barm and spread margarine over both sides.

Add smack, salt, pepper, and malt vinegar to taste. Add some of the liquid from the top of your mushy peas.

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Latest reblog reminds me of how much it pisses me the fuck off how every queer person alive has to adapt to the usamerican style of queerness lest we get shunned by the community for being too different. I bring this up a lot but bro that time I got death threats for having ele/dele in my bio bc "by using neopronouns I was making a mockery of REAL trans people" when those are literally just my pronouns in my native language, and when I said that I got hit w the "well you're on the internet so speak english" I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS