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Open thread 11/4/22

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I don’t like pecans. But pecan pie? I love all million-calories-per-piece of it. And the season fast approaches:

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Open thread 11/4/22 — 23 Comments

  1. Just as hot dogs are simply condiment delivery vehicles, pecan pies are mere a means of getting corn syrup, molasses, brown sugar, and butter into the calory burning vehicles that is your body. You need the calories to live.

    Take two slices.

    Walk it off.

  3. I like pecans but hate pecan pie. The pie is just way too sickly sweet for my taste. It’s like eating a literal spoon of cornsyrup.

  6. Physicsguy, WaPo columnist Philip Bump actually argued that releasing the video would only fuel more conspiracy theories.

    You’ll notice he approaches the problem as if he were a Democratic Party PR agent. (I doubt the video will do that, but we can wager it will show old Pelosi looking ridiculous, so a memo’s gone out to regime media).

  8. THE Pelosi KERFUFFLE is either a drug deal gone bad or a Grindr hookup gone bad. The SF house is only a pied a terre for the Pelosi and also to continue the fiction she actually lives in San Francisco. Real joint is up in Napa near Newsome.

    ===

    The Pelosi estate on Zinfandel Lane, for example, is valued between $5,000,001 and $25 million, according to the records the congresswoman filed with the House clerk’s office for calendar year 2014. A description of the property posted on its architect’s website says it was inspired by Palladian villas and boasts a guesthouse and a “Z” shaped pool.
    The estate is not just for show. The couple also collects between $5,001 and $15,000 in income from the sale of grapes grown at the vineyard. A spokesman for Pelosi did not say who the grapes were sold to or for what purpose.
    ===

    “https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-richest-nancy-pelosi-vineyard-story.html”

    SF joint is obviously for some shenanigans. And as somebody mentioned, if the Pelosis are so rich you’d think they’d get a driver for Paul.

    But they don’t get a driver in SF because Paul doesn’t want a driver to know what he’s up to.

    I mean, “C’MON MAN!”

  9. I also prefer pecans over pecan pie. Pecans are very good for you, the pie is not.

    For the best pecans, find an orchard that ships the new crop. You can freeze them to make them last longer. The place I go for pecans just opened up yesterday…. Yea!

  10. My girl friend makes the best pecan pie I have ever eaten. Her recipe uses maple syrup which gives it a lovely smokey sweetness.

  12. By the way, I grew up calling them “p’cahns,” accent on the second syllable. People raised around here call them “pee-cans,” accent on the first syllable.

  13. And now the NBC report that the Daily Mail article was based on has been pulled by NBC. Obviously, the DNC was not happy with NBC going off the reservation with the report. And they wonder why we keep questioning the whole damn story.

  14. You can put almost anything in that amount of sugar and syrup and it will taste fantastic. To me the p’cahns add texture and very little, if any, flavor. My son makes a really, really great version that we have every year at Thanksgiving.

  15. P’cahn pie is okay, but if you like molasses, homemade shoofly pie from my home county is even better– particularly the wet-bottom version, which has a gooey molasses bottom layer. (The dry-bottom version has a cake-like consistency throughout).

  16. Oh, I remember shoo-fly pie, PA Cat! My mother grew up in the mountains north of Philadelphia.

  17. Chocolate pecan pie! Now that’s a treat. It is the usual pecan pie except the filling is not the sticky stuff. It is a chocolate filling that isn’t a brownie nor fudge, but a cross between the two. Yum!

  18. ‘p’cahns’ is the proper pronunciation. They are native in places around Texas, and especially river bottoms. Did you know that the pecan tree is actually a variety of hickory?

    P’cahn pie, now it’s hard to find one that’s properly confected. As many mention here, often they come out disgustingly over-sweet, and mealy to the mouth. But there are some, mostly ladies, who know how to bake the pie to a perfect balance of sweet, nutty flavors and the proper crispiness of crust and caramelized nut, with the filling that’s soft on the palate. I can’t have more than one piece at a time though. Not like a properly done apple pie.

  19. I like pecans, the pie is okay sometimes. Unfortunately where I live I am surrounded by orchards of vile hazelnuts.

  20. }}} I don’t like pecans. But pecan pie? I love all million-calories-per-piece of it.

    So, Neo: You’re saying you’re a pecanese? 😀

  21. }}} By the way, I grew up calling them “p’cahns,” accent on the second syllable. People raised around here call them “pee-cans,” accent on the first syllable.

    Down here in Florida, we call them “pee-Khans”, accent still on the second syllable. 😉

  23. Cast iron pan on a low burner. Add pecan halves. When they’re good and warm, add some butter and a little sugar. You’ll know when they’re ready.

    More pie for thee, more pecans for me. It’s a wonderful world.

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