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Terrible. :D

My ex-boyfriend's mother makes wonderful tamales elotes, fresh corn tamales. It seems that there is little masa and mostly fresh corn, some of it run through a food processor or blender. Then wrapped in fresh husks and steamed. She serves them with a thin, red, hellishly hot sauce and, just for us tender tongues, sour cream. That is what summer tastes like!

anything with lemon...ew

I didnt even know the ladies liked sushi.... a lot are squeamish about it. Can I really get laid from this obsession?

Here's another interesting article on Percy Crosby and the lawsuit:

http://www.skippy.com/newsday.html

I think that the painted fence was a reference to the comic strip Skippy, with whose creator and estate the peanut butter people had a long and litigious history.

http://www.skippy.com/nytimes1933.html

Text: This ad appeared two weeks before Skippy, Inc. sued Rosefield, then a bankrupt, small company, in the U.S. Patent Office, to prevent Rosefield (Unilever's predecessor) from registering Skippy's trade name as a trademark for peanut butter. Skippy prevailed on Jan. 9, 1934, which decision cited the leading Supreme Court decision, prohibiting Rosefield from registering Skippy's entire corporate name and identity as a matter of statutory law. (Skippy, Inc. v. Rosefield Packing Co., Ltd., Opposition 13134, citing American Steel Foundries v. Robertson, 269 U.S. 372, (1926)). Rosefield did not appeal, and the decision became binding, prohibiting any future attempt to register the mark without permission from Skippy and its president, Percy Crosby. Rosefield, aided and abetted by its corrupt Chicago lawyer, and its allies in the peanut butter industry, schemed to ignore the decision and conspired to take over Skippy's licensing business, and to destroy Crosby's reputation as a famous American artist.
Despite Crosby's protests, Rosefield registered SKIPPY in the Patent Office in 1948 (U.S. Reg. 504,940) at same time as Crosby's suicide attempt. He was railroaded to a New York mental hospital by Rosefield's associates, and held hostage until his death in 1964, unable to enjoin the Skippy peanut butter racket (click here to see the forgery) Rosefield sold the stolen name to Best Foods, Inc. in 1954, which was advised to cover up its knowledge of the binding 1934 Skippy decision if the heirs later sued. The Patent Office public record of Rosefield's defeat was deliberately destroyed when Crosby died, which enabled Rosefield et al. to obstruct justice while destroying other key evidence. Despite years of litigation (1965-68, 1980-87, 1999-2005), and Bestfoods' merger with Unilever in 2000, their website version of the Skippy history shows conscious avoidance of any Skippy lawsuit, or the adverse 1934 decision.
Yet, to this day, Unilever claims its bona fide date of first use is Feb. 1, 1933, the same date of Rosefield's 1933 denied SKIPPY application. Unilever Bestfoods, very concerned about adverse publicity, tried to shut down Skippy's website, but lost on appeal, the court upholding Skippy's and Crosby heirs' First Amendment rights (214 F.3d 456, 4th Cir. 2000). Unilever blindly heeds the unspoken public relations formula: "Never admit a wrong, just do what is necessary to kill the story before it kills you." They even got a later court to sanction Skippy and its lawyer, but then backed down when Skippy again appealed.
So, this New York Times " Skippy" ad in 1933 has a strong message to Unilever about fair, honest advertising as opposed to playing fast and loose with our government of laws: "What your business needs, Mister, is a boy like Skippy!" --the true character created by Percy Crosby that Unilever Bestfoods sought to censor and dilute-- not the funky 21st century interpretation of a blond-haired boy Unilever's ad agencies created to confuse and destroy Skippy's famous identity.

It used to drive me insane to see "x" at the end of the word until I started to work at a hospital 10 years ago. Everything ends in x to abbreviate -- history = hx, diagnosis = dx, etc. I still hate seeing "u" for "you" and "ur" for "your/you're," which propagates the erroneous use of your and you're. ARGH! I've gotten better about "tho" and "thru."

Back to food.

- "special blend" -- yay for vagueness
- use of the word "sushi" for anything raw. FFS, sushi doesn't even mean raw!
- innards

"Gets" for "understands," especially with the adverb "really." For instance, "so and so really gets the New York restaurant scene," or "really gets food," or "really gets service." It's a lazy, imprecise and charmlessly colloquial locution, and I hope it heads to the blogosphere tar pit as quickly as possible. Even worse when reduced "so and so gets it."

I agree with the people who said "toothsome" - ewwwwww!

@ corinne "Why am I craving lobster at 8 AM??"

i'm pretty much craving lobster 24 x 7... that and steak... and cream puffs... and ....

In Puerto Rico, we use a PILON, which is a wooden version mortar and pestle, to make MOFONGOS. Mofongos are a fried green plantain pieces mashed in the pilon, with lots of olive oil, raw garlic and salt/pepper. you usually serve them like a little upsidedown cup, because they take the shape of the mortar... You can eat them like that as a side dish, or turn them over and fill them up with some stewed something with lots of sauce... Mmmmm!!!

Madelyn
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I love to use my to make a rub for pork....I throw in equal amounts of fennel seed, sea salt, peppercorns, garlic and maybe some rosemary if I'm in the mood...crush them all together good, and rub all over the roast. Have fun!