Can confirm that I never saw any penis-waving-in-face “pranks” at SU, but I wasn’t in a frat (though I attended plenty of frat parties). And I’d say we were only a semi-elite sanctum, but there were plenty of rich entitled pricks running around.
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“Jokes” that amounted to indecent exposure and sometimes light sexual assault did occur at my undergrad school. The worst I remember hearing about was a “game” called “Fish-stick” which involved subtly poking women in the crotch until you got slapped or screamed at. This wasn’t very long ago either, late 00s.
Fellow Jews,
I have a weird inexplicable feeling that eating lamb is for Gentiles. Not that it isn’t kosher or anything, just that it’s kind of waspy. Does anyone else have this feeling or is it just me because my family didn’t eat it?
Lamb is a big part of traditional Celtic cuisine, although the celts aren’t especially WASPy.
Yeah for sure - all middle eastern food. In the US, from childhood, I guess I have an impression of like June Cleaver serving lamb. I think maybe it’s just a my family (growing up) thing.
Google tells me lamb stew is a traditional Passover meal in the Middle East.
Not Jewish, but go to a lot of parties for various Jewish holidays. Lamb is a fairly common occurrence, but not a big production, as with my Greek former landlord, who roasted whole lambs in the driveway.
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It’s probably just that my parents didn’t like lamb and one of those weird childhood things, like I have a subtle feeling that coffee is for women for no other reason than my mom drank it, but not my dad. But, can I get a Jew?
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My dad was a jew who converted to Christianity but kept the rituals he liked. We had lamb every year for Passover. From what I understand his family (reform jews ldo) did the same.
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Ric Ocasek died RIP
silver lining: his wife is single
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Will there be a third death, or just him and Eddie Money… moving in stereo.
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I talked with my mom, who is kind of a government expert on the meat industry, and she said she thinks it’s quite odd that lamb isn’t more popular in the US. It’s certainly a mainstay of the UK and many other parts of the world. She has no explanation for why lamb isn’t an everyday meal for your average American.
On a tangential note,. another thing she mentioned that I’d never heard of before was that traditional Southern soul food has a lot of similarities to Celtic food. Frying chicken: using godawful parts of the animal like feet and small intestines that no one else wants, etc. Of course the Afro-Caribbean guys hit on the idea of adding spices, which is why Southern BBQ is awesome and no one ever orders Scottish takeout. It’s a bit like how Southern bluegrass was heavily influenced by Celtic reels and jigs.
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Lamb isn’t an everyday meal for me because it’s outrageously expensive. Chops are like $18/pound.
someone should start a RIP in peace thread I nominate you
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Costco lamb roasts are enormous, delicious, and like $18
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Right, I asked my mom about that too, and whether it’s especially difficult to raise lamb vs. pigs, beef, etc. She tells me that the US has such a varied climate that there’s no reason you couldn’t mass-produce lamb chops on an industrial scale somewhere in the US if there was demand for it. As it is, there’s not much demand for lamb so it’s an expansive boutique meat that doesn’t benefit from the economy of scale like beef, pork, or chicken.
My pet theory is that immigrants from the UK associated eating beef with the upper classes and eating lamb with being a peasant, so the US lamb industry never took off. I have no data to back this up.
I’m a step away from leaving DirecTV/ATT behind. Just got my bill, they’re jacking me for another $62 a month but adding nothing so it’s gonna be almost two bills now. I called about it and it was some bullshit about a coupon that was applied to my account last year expired that was giving me $55 a month off or something. Didn’t offer anything to ease my pain other than seven bucks off hbo for a year which I was already getting. Infinity is offering cable with hbo and 150mbps internets with dvr and two boxes for $122. But infinity = comcast and comcast sucks so there’s that. Fuckers. How big a pita is it to cut the cord other than internet and still get what I have now? I watch all kinds of shit and love the on demand stuff and dvr etc.
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Hardest part of cutting the cord is the sports. There just aren’t any decent legal options if you want to college football and the occasional NFL game. My solution is to subscribe to YouTubeTV, which is hella expensive, but I get to watch rugby and cornholing and football and hockey, so it’s worth it to me.
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If you just want to watch the NFL, there used to be a semi-legal way to get games by pretending to be an out-of-market viewer and using a VPN to pretend you were a football fan Romania or wherever. I think it cost like $25 a month during football season.
Lamb shoulder chops are tastier and far cheaper, something like six or seven bucks a pound. They’re a little chewier but fattier, and lamb back fat is the most delicious animal fat except maybe duck. Lamb shoulder is better than leg for stew as well for the same reason. The leg also tends to be gamier than either chops or shoulder, which I don’t mind but some folks don’t care for.