A Cornish pasty was built so that a man a mile underground with arsenic on his hands could eat a hot dinner holding it by a handle he then threw away. The crust is the point. A proper one is shortcrust rolled thick enough to survive a shift in a tin miner's jacket, crimped along one side into a thick rope of pastry that stays cold while the middle stays hot. The miner held the crimp, ate the rest, and dropped the crimp down the shaft for the knockers, the spirits of the mine, which was the polite name for keeping the arsenic out of his mouth. Inside was skirt of beef, chopped not minced, with potato, swede and onion, all raw, sealed in and cooked together so the beef fat ran through the vegetables and the juice stayed in the case. No gravy, because gravy leaks. A good one had the initials of the man it belonged to cut into the corner so the right pasty got to the right miner. Some had meat at one end and jam at the other, and you knew which end from the mark. It fed Cornwall's miners for two centuries, and when the mines died the miners took it to Mexico, to Michigan, to South Australia, and there are pasty shops in all three to this day with Cornish names over the door. The thing about it is how much of the animal was in it. Skirt is the diaphragm, a cut the supermarket will not stock, cheap, hard-working, full of flavour and fat, and the whole dinner was built round it. The vegetables were there to stretch the beef and soak up what it gave off. Since 2011 the name has been protected by law, which means the pasty in the motorway services, made with minced beef, a glossy lid and a filling that was cooked before it went in, can only call itself Cornish if it is made in Cornwall, and some of the worst of them are. The miner's dinner was a cut of beef in a pastry handle. The modern one is a pastry handle looking for the beef.

Balti pie, curry chips and a pint of Guinness at Walsall FC, all for 💷 £7.50. Proper matchday scran at a price that doesn't need a second mortgage.

Churchill could have shortened WW2 by years if he had just “done a deal” with Hitler. George Washington could have done a deal to end the American Revolution. Zelenskyy is in good company.

It's interesting because on a long enough timescale, entropy will claim the relatively fragile techno-industrial civilization that makes the South habitable via A/C. While Northerners can grow their own heat without any high tech, you can't grow your own A/C. This inverts basic ecological realities regarding habitability. Notice the Amish don't congregate very far South; once you take technology out of the picture, the South is a miserable, difficult place -- far more miserable than Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York. Frankly it drives me nuts, because the region with the best objective prospects for overall habitability -- excellent soil, hardwood forest, limitless groundwater, surface water, and high rainfall, low wildfire risk, plenty of game -- is the place that has no vitality, it is dying, there are no children here, there is no future is most of the rural North. This is because everybody is moving down to the synthetic 'A/C World'. People are not rational. If they were, they would settle in places that have taken entropy into account, and that are well-positioned for a failure of the techno-industrial system -- and they'd live there, buying timberland and having many children. This is the most sensible thing you could do. Instead: they buy condos in the South where a single power outage can kill, hurricanes flood, there are wild boars and weird hot-weather pathogens and so on. And if you live in the sensible climate of the North and have a family, the absence of families here almost forces your hand; you find yourself drawn southward as if by magnetism, because there is life there -- smack dab in a climate that is ONLY habitable because of the supply chain that produces industrial refrigerant. It makes short-term fatherly concerns conflict with long-term fatherly concerns, and any sensible Yankee father is embittered that he's stuck choosing between the barren depopulation of the North or the tenuous techno-fragility of the South.

Anybody that tells you that the republicans are sitting out this election is full of 💩. I live in the reddest county in Texas and I just went to vote. The lines were around the building at 2:30 in the afternoon. Keep it up guys!

If Trump can find a way out of the Iran shithole he’s gotten the world into and oil prices drop a reversal of fuel inflation will surely help starting next spring.

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Hegseth suggests Ukrainians haven't abided by Starlink's "terms of service"

You are a fucking retard. We were massive allies with Russia for most of our history. It is the Uk who we have had to fight multiple wars against. Go to Kiev and help them fight if you think it’s a worthwhile.

ICE needs to be held accountable.

I think we deserve an answer as to why a private citizen gets to make these decisions. Of course, we won't get one

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Milwaukee vs. Tampa Bay in the World Series. Explain to me like I’m 5 years old why the Reds can’t be a competitive MLB team in this market.

On a scale of 1-10 ... What's your interest level in the Rays v Brewers World Series?

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