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make cars not war

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Why is June fourth a bigger event in America than July fourth?

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@Civixplorer TBF this is a Chinese lion

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Ketchup is Chinese?

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Before tomato ketchup existed, the ketchup on George Washington's table was made from mushrooms...

The word ketchup has nothing to do with tomatoes. It traces back to the Chinese ke-tsiap, a pickled fish sauce, and for most of culinary history the term referred to any number of fermented or concentrated condiments made from mushrooms, walnuts, oysters or anchovies. The tomato version did not become standard until the mid-19th century, and for a very good reason: most people in England and colonial America still believed tomatoes were poisonous well into the 1700s. The tomato is in the nightshade family and the suspicion was not entirely irrational. People simply were not eating them.

What they were eating instead was this. Mushrooms salted overnight until they give up an extraordinary dark, intensely flavoured liquid. Strained, spiced with nutmeg and warm spices, and reduced until thick and concentrated. The result is not ketchup in any sense you would recognise from a burger joint. It is a dark, almost black liquid that tastes like the most concentrated mushroom stock you have ever encountered. A teaspoon in a gravy. A splash in a braise. The same umami depth that Worcestershire sauce provides but with a cleaner, more directly mushroom-forward character. And not coincidentally, Worcestershire sauce developed in the 1830s is a direct descendant of exactly this tradition.

Today, this historical recipe comes from Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy, published in 1747 and the most important cookbook in colonial American history. George Washington owned a copy. Thomas Jefferson owned a copy. Food historians confirm that mushroom ketchup was a documented pantry staple in Founding Father households, and Martha Washington's own recipe book documents related fermented condiment preparations.

© Eats History

#archaeohistories

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@archeohistories I had no idea it was Chinese

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@ToniSpeakEasy 💦💦💦🔫

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Every accusation is a projection

[大森英三 (Omori Eizo) - Patrick @Meta_Logos_35]

Although China was the most advanced and civilized nation of the yellow race for centuries, China declined and regressed while Japan became the most advanced country of East Asia and the leader of yellow race improvement. This is why the Chinese resent Japan.

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@Terenceshen Trying to run cover for US's actual imperialism by coming up with "autocratic imperialism"?

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@Mariolianum @CheekyLady1027 Engineers are pretty smart

[Jayant Bhandari @JayantBhandari5]

I’ve never met a government that isn’t apathetic. In the West, things only work through the personal goodwill of the individual you face. Otherwise, the feedback system is broken. Years ago, a Singaporean bureaucrat gave me trouble. I reported it to the minister; the issue was fixed in two days with full admission of fault. This year, an unhelpful Chinese bureaucrat changed her tune when I took her details—her boss called and even walked me to the photocopy shop. When I reported a racist UK immigration officer, however, they did nothing. After all, a black woman cannot be racist. Like it or not, Japan, Korea, China, and similar countries have built far better feedback and accountability systems. Of course in India, there is no feedback, no goodwill. Just bribes.

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@Mariolianum @CheekyLady1027 That's pretty smart

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China does communism, America does gay race communism. Big difference

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@TheRealKitty019 They should've know since it was gay raced. China would've just pushed communism.

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@DoomerTapes If china pushed communism, it wouldn't be gay raced.

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Everything is dark souls now

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What's their moat?

[New York Post @nypost]

Escorts are charging as much as $6k per hour thanks to Silicon Valley's AI boom https://t.co/MtpHVCvX58

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@IsabellaAn67 Japan is just slyly after the whales

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@sweatystartup There's truth in that. But didn't the founding fathers intend the citizens to be well informed so they can make an educated decision at the voting booth? Not caring is a failure of democracy.

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@elonmusk Because it originated in the west

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@Landchadchud @DrewPavlou That's right, you're not lying when you say that you're a self righteous, violent and bigoted person.

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@FR_Defense Why are you bragging about having bombed civillians?

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@Landchadchud @DrewPavlou Violent, self righteous and a bigot!