TalenLee

Talen Lee

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I'm Talen! I make videos and articles and games and graphic designs and guides and messes and encouragement. Chances are you can find anything I do on my blog. I like it when you comment on my things, so please do!

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Pancakes vs. Waffles
Loser is eliminated entirely from diner menus worldwide, never to be crafted by human hands again.

see this suggests the idea that menus are a prescriptive list of things that can or can't be generated, suggesting a real programmer brain where the world of a game is a box in which you're not allowed to do anything, and the programmer then step-by-step describes all the exceptions to 'no.'

Anyway, waffles need specialised equipment that pancakes don't, so clearly if you eat a waffle it makes you petit bourgeoisie until such time as you have eaten it at which point you can repent

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Man this reminds me of taking tours of some of the old houses in towns that were built during the wave of German immigration into Texas in the 1850's. Small simple houses, single room, often the only two (2) pieces of furniture for the entire family was a straw bed and the steamer trunk the family used to carry all their earthly possessions over the Atlantic ocean which now served as their dresser.

These families all had waffle irons. I was baffled.

Apparently waffles were considered more practical because cooking them requires less effort. Because flipping them requires no skill and no attention, whereas with pancakes you gotta sit there with a spatula for a while. And this freed up the woman of the household to be doing other chores while breakfast was cooking.

Also the waffle irons themselves were dirt-cheap, amazingly. Cast iron, in a mold literally made from sand. Keeping in mind this isn't a self-powered dealy but just a piece of metal that sits on top of the stove and gets heated from that.

Learning that blew my mind, and now I'm passing that along to you.

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