(04-26-2023, 03:31 AM)Freija Wrote:(04-26-2023, 02:15 AM)Ninurta Wrote: ETA: Some day, I want you to explain to me what is wrong with putting tomatoes in a fruit salad. After all, they ARE fruits, and I eat them just like I eat apples. You'll probably have to talk slow, and maybe spell some things, but I bet I can eventually get the gist of it!.
Well, Bubba, I suppose a redneck hillbilly wouldn't understand why most would find putting a tomato in a fruit salad might be unpalatable so it would be pointless to explain it.
You made me go look at fruit salad recipes. Tomato just wouldn't work.
Maybe I should change my quote to Hanlon's razor:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
What I have found though is some people just are malicious and they don't like being called stupid. See..I try to not be antagonistic and thought the tomato thing was less triggering.
Watch that Bubba shit - I'm still working on my Bubba-gut, and it's just not happening for me. Maybe I need to increase my beer intake. A case a night seems not to be quite sufficient! So, since my Bubba-gut is insufficient, it might be triggering to me, a cruel reminder of my inadequacies!
Now, I watch those cooking shows, because Grace keeps the TV on them and I feel a little bombarded... BUT, they seem to think acidic goes really well with sweet as a counterpoint, so I'm gonna call bullshit on your so-called fruit salad recipes. It could be, however, that those folks making those recipes just don't know anything about cookin'! Gordon Ramsey says differently, and he collects all them Michelin stars!
Since pineapples suck, I think replacing them with tomatoes would be just the ticket. I know what I'm talking about, because I watch all them cookin' shows.
I'm the exception to your rule - I am malicious, and I LOVE being called stupid! It means that the speaker has gained a false sense of security, and they won't see what's about to hit them....
ETA: on them cookin' shows, those folks are always, ALWAYS, making something they call "rue" It took me a while, but I think I finally figured out that what they are calling "rue" is what us hillbillies call "gravy", as in "biscuits and gravy". So that fancy cookin' shit was actually invented by us hillbillies. Don't mess with us in matters of cookin'!
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