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[SkidAce]

My dad used to crumble cornbread muffins into a tall glass, pour milk onto it, and eat it with a spoon.

Johnathan

Mine did it with loaf bread, wonder where it originated?

 

[dragoner]

Mine did it with loaf bread, wonder where it originated?

It is an old breakfast. Here it is called "Amish Breakfast".

 

[trappedslider]

 

[CleverNickName]

Mine did it with loaf bread, wonder where it originated?

I remember watching a video essay about food history that mentioned this meal. I'm not sure which one, there are oodles out there and I watch a lot of them, but apparently this meal is as old as bread itself....it's believed that this was (and still is) a common way to use up stale bread. Some recipes use milk, others use broth, ale, wine, or whatever beverage you had on hand.

The author of the video I watched made the claim that this was one of the first breakfast cereals. I'm not sure about that, but I learned that crumbled-bits-of-bread-with-milk shows up all over the world, all across history.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You can tell Hal Jordon is an American
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Sadly, one of the least problematic things Hal has done.

 

[overgeeked]

Sadly, one of the least problematic things Hal has done.

It's one of the subtler versions of "guns" the GLs have made over the years. John Stewart was a marine and loves to make all kinds of fancy guns and artillery.

 

[Mannahnin]

"If some day you're not feeling well, you should remember some little thing I have said or done and if it brings a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart then my purpose as a clown has been fulfilled." —Red Skelton

“If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or perhaps to strike a loved one it will all have been worth the while.”​

― Tom Lehrer

 

[Gradine]

You can tell Hal Jordon is an American
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[overgeeked]

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The other version of that is better, I think.

Violence doesn't solve anything *opens history book

 

[Mannahnin]

Violence doesn't solve anything *opens history book

I thought about it during the last session of our class in History and Moral Philosophy. H. & M. P. was different from other courses in that everybody had to take it but nobody had to pass it — and Mr. Dubois never seemed to care whether he got through to us or not. He would just point at you with the stump of his left arm (he never bothered with names) and snap a question. Then the argument would start.

But on the last day he seemed to be trying to find out what we had learned. One girl told him bluntly: "My mother says that violence never settles anything."

"So?" Mr. Dubois looked at her bleakly. "I’m sure the city fathers of Carthage would be glad to know that. Why doesn’t your mother tell them so? Or why don’t you?"

They had tangled before — since you couldn’t flunk the course, it wasn’t necessary to keep Mr. Dubois buttered up. She said shrilly, "You’re making fun of me! Everybody knows that Carthage was destroyed!"

"You seemed to be unaware of it," he said grimly. "Since you do know it, wouldn’t you say that violence had settled their destinies rather thoroughly? However, I was not making fun of you personally; I was heaping scorn on an inexcusably silly idea — a practice I shall always follow. Anyone who clings to the historically untrue — and thoroughly immoral — doctrine that ‘violence never settles anything’ I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and of the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst."