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Yay, Saslia and co have opened a new paysite! You can get a sub for only 8 EUROS a month! But wait, you can get a year for 60 euros! Bargain huh? Better than Torque's ole paysite.  :P You are also promised one new new set per week.  :o

http://habitat43.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 Brand spankin' New.  ;)

Stupid bitches.  Hope nobody pays them for their shit.

Does this mean they have left TSR or are they double dipping?

I think they are all three (Birgit, Steffor, and Sasilia) still at TSR. Not surprising though. Their twatage has reached new levels.

Birgit's triple dipping, Steffor's double dipping, and most of sasi's tsr stuff is free. I find it laughable that they think that people are dumb enough to want to sub to this little site of theirs.  >:(

Oh lord, does their twatitude knowno bounds? Gah, how GREEDY of them.

1 new set a week so you can be guaranteed crap quality  ::)

The stuff they have is not bad, but not worth 8 euro's (if a paysite could actually be "worth" something).

Was TSR not giving them enough love?

Gah! Another one... no doubt all the TSR obsessed idiots will be subscribing... :'( ???  --sadly they already seem to have a fair few members [groans]  definitely destroy worthy! Get that shit of the internet!!!

Love for them = earning Money in ILLEGAL ways.

Do they really think they're stuff is so spectacular that they believe it is worth SHIT?

People sign up for 8 dollars a month? That's idiotic.

I am definitely subscribing. I mean their furniture is just oozing with such craptastic detail you just can't help but dish out your cash! They already have the very classy Flash rotation so you can browse their shit... I mean products. Now all they need to do is vomit out some Photoshop bloom all over their photos and it's a done deal.  :p

It's not 8 dollars a month, it's $12.50  in US currency. :o

Am I naive, or is that the most money anyone has charged for a monthly sub?

Gah! Brigit the greedy bitch has posted about her wonderful new subscriber page at N99.  >:(  There's been some disgusting gushing.

$12.50 USD a month??? That is a new high/low I think. It makes me sick that Steffor left the awesome free site Avalon to team up with Brigit. Blech. Brigit's stuff sucks, the animations are wrong, the work is sloppy and Steffor is not as good as she used to be.

60 euros?!! HOLY CRAP!!!

Pardon me, while I go and drown myself in the toilet.

Yeah, that's as high as they go, I think.... Jojoba, who minds our subscriptions, can confirm. That's pretty shitty of them....I'm especially pissed off at Steffor who started off free and got sucked in by Thomas's siren song to the Teutonic Twats last spring.

I like Steffor's stuff.  >:(
Not all of it, but the odd item or two. Someone ought to brain her with a bag of coins.

Oh wow, and the "Expose" section is advertisement for their TSR crap!

The sense of entitlement is mind-boggling. 

 ;D "expose" I do not think it means what you think it means...

I'm usually very tolerant of non-native English speakers, but it's great fun to poke the twats. Expose indeed, expose your appalling greediness and mediocre talent.  ::)

I cannot WAIT until their stuff starts showing up in the booty. ;D

I think its funny they called the site "habitat43 The Soulmate Company". Be our soulmate just 8 euro's a month.

What's the matter, Birgit, doesn't Thomass pay you enough?

Didn't she claim that she went over to TSR because she could not get enough donations? She'd get one or two donations, and no more, since by then the set would be in the booty.

What makes her think it would be different this time?

Anyways, the twattage on that site is overwhelming.  ::)

That what I was thinking...They are the perfect picture of atitudes on crack! The nerve of some of these people amuses me.

Simply looks like a TSR add campaign to me. The other option would be that they don't feel they get enough individual attention and appreciation. Over there they share with other FA's.

The policy part that is written in English is very badly worded.  "You may not clone our items, except you have our permission."  Seems like such a kick in the teeth to have that spot at the bottom where they credit and thank MTS2, and SimPe, etc. for giving them the tools to make pay items.   :-[

Me either, not because I want any of it, but they so deserve it.

Because this time she gets Tom Ass's money AND money from her site.  There is no limit to how low she'll stoop for money - just watch as I throw this 5c coin on the ground - watch her ..... yep, she danced sexy for it.  :o

*snort*
Cala, you crack me up.
Danced sexy for it. What do you think she'd do for a fiver? *waggles brows* Bwhahahaha

Can't say I much care for that name, Habitat43. Sounds like cheap subsidized housing. More to the point -

SimTwats - Good

3 Twats No Conscience - Better

Twatàge : Where The Twats Screw You - Best

I have an evil plan: We're working on getting their pay stuff in the booty as we speak. I suggest we all download it, and post VERY PUBLIC PICTURES of their pay items in our games. They'll see their shit everywhere and wonder why they don't have that many subs to match the sheer numbers. THIS is a great place for using LJ, blogs, your own sites.

Maybe I'm taking this a bit personally...but these twats have been a thorn in my side for a year now, and I want them to KNOW we're calling them on their greed.

And LULZ at "Twatàge" - it's elegant!

I just feel for the person who coughs up the money for the crap.

well, ok Hecubus.  Only if I can delete it as soon as the pictures are taken.   :-\

Holy crap, 60 euros??? For that??? *sticks head in toilet and flushes. Looks back at PC screen. Sacrilegious info is still there.*
Not to mention that naming your website Habitat43 makes it sound like there were 42 Habitat sites and they just had to cope. Kind of like getting a new YouTube account.
I honestly hope they're not getting any subs. Apart from the fact that the furniture is ugly - taking a stab at being minimalistic-modern and missing the target - and that they're pilfering for extra euros in the vilest way possible, they run a paysite and stuff. And pay sites must die.

I'll do it, I get a decent readership on my sims LJ.  Unless the stuff is ugly.  I can't do it if it's ugly.

 ;D Good plan. Very good plan ;D ;D

The bedroom is not ugly :) I want to have it. :'(

Leonhard, you are deluded, my son.  And not just because you posted twice in a row instead of modifying your original post. ;D  Birgit's stuff LOOKS good in photos but is incredibly shitty in game.

Me, I can't wait to toy intimately  with Birgit's geometric framework. :D

one of the few things I downloaded from the booty when I first found it was a nursery set by Brigit. I deleted it the first time I saw it in the game because it was so fugly. The pictures were  cute though. Little brown set with alligators on it. In game, looked put together by rabid monkeys with advanced syphilis.     
 And then my hard drive died and I had to reinstall, so now my download folder is 95% free (I downloaded some lots that had pay stuff, sadly, and haven't cleaned it out yet).

I had part of a nursery set that was in a house i downloaded.  the baby sunk in and you could only see a tiny piece of the top of the head.  i was displeased.  I would have been really displeased if I'd purchased it. 

Well, that's a good idea. And it's affordable. To get their stuff in the booty must be important goal, to make them ridicilous must be another important mission.

Well yeah...you're right, Amazone, two missions this time.

Normally, it's just enough to have stuff people want in the booty so fewer dollars are being spent for pixels. But these guys...this band of greedy bitches (their term, not mine)...well, I want to rub it in their faces.

Oh, and yes, you can delete after taking the screenshot. ;)

Thank goodness!  I have this thing where anyone that makes things stemming from that much greed may taint mygame, kill my sims, or you know, cause brain hemorrhage  on my end, from having to take in the improperly animated ug, that people pay for. 

Are we going for truthful unflattering shots of it, or the look at this thing get it here for free approach? 

I don't know that it matters.... from my perspective, the point is to get as many different people as possible advertising that they have these first sets in their game, just to make them crazy, yanno? Yes, I am evil. EEEEEVIIIIILLLLLL! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! Dance, puppet, dance!

*Hecubus goes to take her Xanax

To quote the song, I think it was Leo Sayer, "you know I can't dance, you know I can't dance..." *goes off to get another soda.* I've got about two weeks of catching up to do and it's thirsty work...

They have put the required footnote on their site: "This site is not endorsed by or affiliated with Electronic Arts, or its licensors. Trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Game content and materials copyright Electronic Arts Inc. and its licensors. All Rights Reserved."

But apparently they can read the only certain parts of the EULA, the parts about noncommercial website they must have difficulty understanding. ::)

Is it just me, or do the real furniture pictures in their banner look like Ikea furniture photographs? As in, if they are, they should be reported to the furnitures' manufacturer.

They're so silly they stick their fingers in their ears and scream lalalala! as they read it.   :D

You're right. I swear I've seen some of those items on http://www.modernfurnitureclassics.com/

*writing from Brisbane airport*

Just wanted to chime in... that it makes me laugh the arrogance
Not paying for the tools, credit to free owners AND getting their resource material from professional furniture/industrial designers.
They deserve my money? Fuck no!

BTW Calalily... I ate a rodini! and it was gooooood. I couldn't clean out the bakery though.. although we all tried :P

I know - I could inhale the damn things.  :D

Can't find even a pic of rodini,  my google-fu phailed.   :P    I'd really like to find a recipe after all the talk of how good they are.

Well deelink is in Oz, but apparently they're only in Queensland.  They're a round bread with an unusual robust texture (not like soft and squishy white bread) usually topped with black pepper, garlic and parmesan cheese.  They're made in a free form with 8 scores for slices.  It's hard to explain - they're not squishy like soft white bread, but they're not hard like crusty bread - they're kind of in the middle - it's unusual bread.  My google fu fails for pictures, or recipes. Sorry. Just don't come to Queensland and compete with me.  :D 

I found a picture of a filled rodini. 

http://www.cobsbread.com/breadrange/recipe/22.htm

Looks good to me.   I am hungry.

that rodini sandwich picture made me all drooley. 

That's it!  I have it with just butter for the unadulterated taste. Still don't come to Queensland.  :D

It looks like focaccia (http://www.mediatinker.com/blog/upload/2007/01/focaccia.jpg). I want!
I love baking bread but I have yet to try my hand at focaccia. I may have to do that soon. Then I will come here and I will talk of its deliciousness and make you all jealous.
BWAH HA HA HA!

Nope - not focaccia.  Rodini is denser than focaccia.  Maybe deelink can tell us if it is similar to something down south, and we can then translate it into something else everyone else knows.

what do you mean  "don't come to Queensland"?  I may just fly down there this minute and eat all the rodini   :P

I'm very confused because you can find almost any recipe for bread online. But I can't find any recipes for rodini. Blarg.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! I must hoard rodini this instant. I'll have a chat with the bakeries about demanding foreign pirates and their rodini terrorism threats.


I'm kind of curious about it too - unless it called rodini here because of some stupid reason - they might call it something else elsewhere.  ???

It sounds like classic pizza dough made with high gluten flour and formed instead of flattened out. 

I'm thinking that it is only called rodini where you live Calalily.  I have checked Williams and Sonoma, Gourmet, and Bon Appetit, in addition to Food Network, none of them have Rodini in the database. 

Yeah, I'm striking out as well on rodini. Perhaps our resident Queenslanders could provide a recipe?

I've checked bread specific sites like The Fresh Loaf and King Arthur Flour's Baking Circle and no one has ever mentioned rodini there, either.

Calalily, maybe you can ask the bakery you get it from what it might be called elsewhere.

From what I'm finding out about the rodini they're telling us about, it's pretty much a baguette sliced and filled with the ingredients of your personal choice. I've done the google-fu on rodini bread and came up with this page, which may have been posted a page or two back, http://www.cobsbread.com/breadrange/recipe/22.htm , and this: http://www.bakersdelight.com.au/cms/document.php?objectID=211 , and this: http://www.calorieking.com.au/foods/calories-in-fast-foods-take-aways_c-Y2lkPTIwJmJpZD00OSZzaWQ9LTEmcGFyPQ.html

Please let me know if I'm even on the right track, I'd like to know because this has me curious and hungry at the same time. If it is as simple as a baguette, I could make this here at home because I  love to try out new baking projects... If not, I'll just have to get passports for the family and then wish my way to the Land of Oz and bug all of you down there to death in the future...

I wanna go too!! I have to follow Hecubus of course it is a stalker's duty to follow where her quarry leads.

Ok, I'll get half of the liquid refreshments if Hec will get the other half, you provide snacks, and everyone else coming along can bring other stuff we're going to need or supplement what we're already bringing! ROAD TRIP! I got dibs on a window seat! And don't forget to pack the pea shooters and paper wads for a most excellent mid-air pea shooter fight halfway through the trip! Just no pinging them in the ass with those things, they hurt!!!

Road trip?  Not from where I'm standing   :P  I'll bring the row boat.

What? No one's built the Los Angeles-Brisbane Highway yet? Damn.

Ah, Cobs bread is based out of my part of the world (as a matter of fact there is one right down the street from me). I might have to head over and look into this magnificent, borderline magical bread. ;D

Mwahahaha yes, come my pretties. Come to Brisbane. We totally pwn the rest of Australia! :D I'll get cracking on that highway, Hec!

Nope - not pizza dough.  That would have been easy.   ;D


If I had a recipe, I would be cooking and eating rodini and needing a forklift to move, not posting on a forum.  :D


NO WAI! Rodini is all mine.

Paden got it right - all those links are right - and maybe shed some light on something - here at this http://www.calorieking.com.au/foods/calories-in-bread-loaf-rodini-garlic-parmesan-black-pepper_f-Y2lkPTM4OTY1JmJpZD00OSZmaWQ9NzMwNDAmcGFyPQ.html (http://www.calorieking.com.au/foods/calories-in-bread-loaf-rodini-garlic-parmesan-black-pepper_f-Y2lkPTM4OTY1JmJpZD00OSZmaWQ9NzMwNDAmcGFyPQ.html) - they seem to indicate it is a "Bakers Delight" bread - so maybe that's the only place in the world that makes it.  Normally, Australia is the last to get something, but that would make it a first.  Hopefully deelink will be able to translate it into another bread by a different name, and we can all eat some bread of different names simultaneously.  :D Next time I'm at a Bakers Delight, I will ask them where the fuck it comes from, and we can solve the "Great Rodini Mystery of '08". :D

...But if it turns out to be a Queensland based phenomenon, rather than be swamped by rodini competition, I will report you all to immigration as an influx of dread pirates, and you can sit at the airport and wait for your flight back, and I will sit behind the glass munching on glorious rodini in front of your little deported faces.  :D

:D you are cruel, Calalily! C'mon, we could totally do with the tourism...

Problem is you already have to buy them before 12 at places *grumble grumble grumble* I'm not having every pirate in the world horn in on the limited hoarding supply - tourism be damned. Behind the glass taunting fills my needs.  :D

But how will you collect our delicious tears in your teacup if we are behind glass? Maybe you can ask one of the airport personnel to gather it for you. :p

/me roffles

Well, maybe you should buy in bulk?

They will be mixed with drool from looking at the rodini you cannot have. Yuck. I will catch you all at the ticket counter when you have to pay for your ticket back :P

As a hungry person getting into making bread, that rodini looks absolutely divine!! I'm in for the road trip. I'll check my bread books and see if I can't find something where I can at least PRETEND I've got rodini. I'll bake bread in 100 degree weather, I will...

As a side note: I was at home depot this past weekend and saw some really nice cala lilies. Cala, you sure are a pretty flower! *how said is my life that upon seeing the flower, Calalily was the first thing to come to mind?*

EDIT: my google-fux can has suxxors, too. A search gave me people with the last name Rodini. Somehow, I don't think that's quite as delicious :'( :'(

As pirates,  we could collectively purchase said Queensland based bread store of awesomeness and expand into all the world where everyone could enjoy rodini 24 hours a day because we would never let a little thing like "store hours"  come between us and the fair bread that Calalalily tried to keep from us.   :P

That's fine, Calalily. But the next time you want a REAL slice of pizza, don't come knocking on New York's door...we won't be home. :P

They used to be funeral flowers, but have recently become wedding flowers.  I liked them as funeral flowers.  And your life is not sad - this merely reflects that I do not shut up.  :P


My google-fu rocks on most occasions, but I canna find anything this time. deelink may provide the key.


Next time I eat it, I'll smear my fingers on my screen, so you can turn green with envy.  :D


NO WAI! I got the shock of my life in LA - you cook your onions before putting them on your pizzas! ???  Plus, I think you'll have to quibble with the Italians.  :D I will however, take a Hecubus in exchange for one rodini for all New York.  ;) And I will put you in a box, and show you off to others, and love you, and keep you.   8)

Ha!  LadyPirate, I did that too - saw Cala at the Depot!

I bought you, Cala baby, got you in a pot on the windowsill.  Waiting for you to sprout.   :D

@Cala.  That's LA, not new york.  new york style pizza is the pizza.  and you're missing it.  (Technically I'm missing it too since I don't live in NY, but it is delicious.) 

Exactly. You have not had pizza until you have had pizza from a little hole in the wall place on, say, Varick Street in SoHo that sells pizza by the slice and has no place to sit down so you're balancing your bottle of coke, your slice, and all the shit you're already carrying, all the while attempting to avoid being pushed aside from some jerk who's late for court as well as the guys selling pirated videos and the sightseer who stops every three feet to ooo and aaah over some piece of crap architecture.

Just so long as there is no errant cooking of the onions, we have a deal.  However, country boy husband would go batshit in a country where you're that stressed all the time.  He finds a big hall full of 500 people stressful, so you know, low threshold.  :D


Feed me Seymour :D

Oh, the pizza's just the start. We could spend a week in the city doing nothing but eating at some of the most unique and unusual places in the world. And we can stay away from Midtown, where the real crushing crowds are. And yes, the onions are safe.

i agree with that i'd actually love to see it lol. what really gets on my damn nerves is they will put free files in the free section and yet you have to be a subscriber to get the damn friggin mesh. i mean for crying out loud if the meshes are for subscribers only then TSR needs to put the friggin files in the damn friggin subscription. >:(

You also have to quibble with our Texan BBQ.  And our steak. (You have not had steak until you've had a huge medium-rare Porterhouse, dammit.)  Texans really love meat.  :P

i likes me some rare, almost raw Porterhouse and other kinds of steak. But I'll only eat beef like that, not pork or chicken because those will make you sicker than hell...

To be honest, I can't eat a whole Porterhouse   ;D.  But I love me a medium-rare T-bone steak.

My whole body is sore. We rode all the rides in Movieworld and I could barely move yesterday.

For those living in Oz (but not Brisbane), and can get to a Bakers Delight, I am 100% sure that rodini's are also called pullaparts. In Sydney they come in a 8 part dice shaped squishy log, with different toppings/fillings. And they are called pull aparts because you pull them and stuff the tasty softness in your gob.
Rodini's were a bit smaller tho, but my friend called them pullaparts and the lady knew what she meant. So yeah.
phew. I found some pictures of similar ones you can get here http://anhsfoodblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/freshness-goodness.html
I've just been to QLD! So you guys enjoy the road trip. Don't forget to try the Eggs Benedict, best tasting eggs ever...excuse me.. must pull fat self.. to...kitchen..

I really want to go to America and Canada, I mean, c'mon! It's AMERICA! :P I wanna see if it's all it's cracked up to be.

Best pizza evah = Pizza Hut. I lurves me some BBQ Meatlovers.

RE: Rides
Go to Dreamworld for the best rides, and you MUST go on the Giant Drop. If feels so cool when they drop you!

See, now I'm all drooley.  If I could have some real New York Pizza, and then Bogart some New York Cheesecake.  I would then be content.  I'll even try to not be Touristy. 

I'm gonna guess it's not all it's cracked up to be... it would depend where you visited, i suppose. Come to the midwest and prepare to be disappointed! :D

Hey, the Big Muddy in flood stage is always impressive... Scary, but impressive.

I hope to go to New York, Texas, Colorado and possibly California.

Texas - I want to brag about how you can fit Texas into Queensland like three times :D

I don't know the exact number, but I know you can fit Texas in Queensland.

New York is pretty cool, but a little dirty and congested for my tastes. I love Boston. If you're ever on the East coast, the mansions in Newport, Rhode Island are really gorgeous.
California is nice. Los Angeles has killer traffic, but the weather is lovely, even though the dry heat during the summer has been brutal.

I would LOVE to take a year off and go see every state in America and Canada.

Proof that I need to go back to school soon: Does Canada have states?

I think it's provinces.

The midwest isn't all that dissapointing, we're just very normal compared to the rest of the country. Normal meaning we don't have guys building robot sex-slaves in their basments and women locked in bathrooms.  ;D

Canada has provinces, and also a few territories. We also have a clothing store called Roots (http://canada.roots.com/), which every Australian I've ever known has found insanely funny. Right up there with Mr. Rooter (http://www.mrrooter.com/) and Fanny's Fabrics. (Couldn't find a website for that last one, but they exist. I promise.)

We have both rodini and pullaparts - are you sure you ate the fabled rodini?


I really enjoyed La Brea Tar Pits (highlight of the visit) and saw Jon Voight at Universal Studios.  There are eucalypts everywhere in LA - it's a lot like Brisbane except huger.  I personally would like to go to Europe, and Coolington would appreciate anywhere cold.  :D

When I was a kid we (the family) went to Disneyland and mainly staying in Florida. My sister almost went missing and some nice Texan man brought her back :D

I think there is an unwritten law that says at least one child must be missing for a short time during any family visit to an amusement park. :)

I think there is. In fact, I think every time I went out as a small child me or Sarah always got lost. I was left at the Dublin Zoo when I was 10. That was the start of the "You Must Always Carry a Mobile Phone On You!" era :D

Why does no one want to come to Chicago :'( Why DON'T I live in Australia?! :'( They have rodini, and I'm hungry...

But yeah, Chicago's a decent city. It's really nice downtown, and you can come see this fabled "bean" which is just a bean shaped piece of glass that makes you hot if you go within 50 feet of it on a sunny day. It's cool underneath it, but if you look up, it starts messin with your perception. As someone who needs to get her eyes checked, that's NOT the best feeling in the world. Made me dizzy and want to vomit. So I got ice cream...

Blah I'll try and get loads of money so I can go to ALL of America and Canada! That sounds like a plan to me.

I love Chicago.  The downtown buildings are incredible.  And you guys have Lollapalooza (we've got NOTHING like that here). :'(

I REALLY miss a good ol' fashioned Texas BBQ...can I come??  I can show you around the southeast part of Texas where I was born and raised (hint, hint, begging, pleading, whining if neccessary).

If you want to come with me then sure! The more the merrier! AND I'll steal all of Cala's rodini to bring with ;)

yup.  towns and provinces.

Ah cheers. We never covered Canada during Social Science...

I think that San Antonio, El Paso, and Austin would have crappy barbecue  :D. (I honestly don't know if they would or not.)   College Station has awesome barbecue and steak (it's all these effin' cows around here), and Houston and Dallas do too.  Also, you should try some fried chicken too.  And steak (any Texas Roadhouse is good, but besides that, no chains, except maybe Saltgrass when you're kinda broke).  Almost every fancy place offers steak, and you should have Sweet Georgia Brown, and some Tex-Mex, and.....here: http://bestof.dallasobserver.com/bestof/section.php?section=oid:18851

Dallas has too much damn food.

I love Chicago.  I live in Michigan and Chicago is one of those great weekend get-aways.  It was funny the first time I went there with my fiance.  The American Girl doll company (http://www.americangirl.com/ (http://www.americangirl.com/)) is there.  So there are all these little girls walking around with identical dolls, wearing identical outfits.  It kinda creeped him out, but I wanted to go to their big store (I grew up with American Girl) which creeped him out more.  It was full of identical outfits for girls and their dolls and there was even a salon where you could get your doll's hair done.  He now calls it the The American Girl cult.

I've been lucky enough to travel a bit, and ironically, my favorite place to go was Australia!  I spent a summer there as I teenager and have been dying to go back ever since.

I like your accents, so it crosses my mind.  ;D If Hecubus will free me from the trappings of carrying her shopping bags and eating pizza, while having DVDs hawked at me, I will pop over.


You are a young'un - you'd have to get parents permission to go, and you'd have to get them to drive you to a bakery (not at all a weird request for a teenager) whereas, I will drag my kids along, and have them assail you (they are easily bribed with "want a croissant with ham and cheese and mum will show you lolcats if you kick that chick's arse"). I will have my rodini first.  :D

You must live near Monto or Thargominda Johnsenesque if you're in Queensland.  :D I will post you a rodini.  ;D

Nope, my older sister will drive me there or I will (I'll have my learners in 2 months) and I'll bring my own troop of small children to beat up yours. I don't beat up kids.

Permission from the parentals? No way. They'll be happy I'm off the computer :D

Mine are tough - they are not allowed to sit around all day - they're fit little machines - who will kill for a croissant.  I see myself selling tickets to such a fight (they are not distracted by other children) and paying for my rodini habit that way.


Even when you say - I'll be off the computer for the next couple of weeks - going to a bakery and then to Chicago to meet someone off the internet to eat some bread?  You'll be in a mental institution in a heartbeat.  :D I meanwhile, just have to say "Surprise! We're going to Chicago.  Get your things packed."  :D

Fine then, I'll train my little troopers and make them mean, lean beating-up machines! They'd be so mean and ruthless they'd make Pescado proud!


I'll lie. I'll say I'm going to Chicago with my Economics class to learn about the economic system in America. I'll forge some papers, rack up some money and fly over there with some friends and take some happy snaps to PROVE it was for school.

So nyah :P

Oh, I suppose we could do a veritble food tour of North America! We'll have to do the barbecue comparison tour (North Carolina v. Memphis v. Texas v. Kansas City), we'll go up to Montreal for crepes and poutine, Maine for lobster, Baltimore for crabs, Vancouver for salmon, then down to Mexico for REAL enchilladas. We can then do a pizza comparison, bouncing between Chicago and NY, oh, and then we have to go to the Bayou for gumbo and andouille. Meanwhile, we'll hit diners along the highways for probably some amazing pancakes, burgers, and club sandwiches.

And then I'll roll your American-fattened body back on the plane. :)

Don't forget to hit the San Francisco Bay Area!  It's not only beautiful, the food is wonderful, and the people are funky (in a good way). 

Also, the American mid-west isn't so boring.  The middle of the country has some of the most amazing scenery.  If you've never been to see the Grand Tetons, you're really missing something.  It was the first time I saw something that seemed the very definition of the word "awesome."

That rodini, obtained through lies and deceit, will be like ashes in your mouth.  :D


Coolington and spawn are going to pack their bags when they hear of the gourmet delights you have planned - they will probably be asking "When can we go see Hecubus, and have this feast you promised us?" Evil! Evil!  :D All mentions of possibilities and options, thoughts and dreams to the spawn invariably become "promises" within the passage of a week.  :P


I'd be there for the Arts and Crafts Movement houses, and for the trams.  :D I am sure that if I offered to take Hecubus over to see some Arts and Crafts Movement houses, she'd come, regardless of the foodstuffs available.  ;D

I would.

BTW: I never think of the Grand Tetons and anything in the broad region of the Rockies as 'midwest'. For me, that's the great expanse of wasteland plains from the Dakotas through Nebraska, Kansas, and down into the northern parts of Texas. I spent a week there one afternoon. In contrast, I saw 'awesome' on I-70, from Denver to the middle of Nevada. Absolutely stunning!

The bay area has good food, but I have never found them to have a 'specialty', the way other regions do. Of course, I'm happy to be proven wrong. In person, of course.

BTW: Cala, regarding the promise of a North American food tour, I'm game if you are. Just let me get through this next back surgery, m'kay?  ;D

OMG you traitor! Resist the tourist brigade! Resist, I tell you!

Blues Fest '00, I had some pad thai, two beers, a stuffed apple cinnamon pretzel, some tempura, and an elephant ear with moose tracks. I puked all over Grant Park. Anyways, I'm very anti tourist activities. I've seen the bean, but only because my parents wanted to when they were visiting. I basically deny its existence at all other times despite the fact that I work less than a mile away. My only exception is summer festivals. Periodically, I take a summer and try to go to a festival every weekend. I was planning on doing it this summer, but my one best friend is getting married and too many weekends are taken up by wedding stuff.

And i was eating youghurt when i read kariminger had to puke   :(

Sourdough bread? It's a specialty. And damn tasty, too.

I have specialties all of my own: cinnamon rolls so good that you won't need sex for a month or two, lasagna so good that you won't want sex for about three to four months and a roast ham that would make you go off sex for a year. Perfect for those who are doing the chaste lifestyle and a hazard for those who likes their bedtime entertainment! The triple-threat chocolate chip cookies can be dangerous, too... And you people wonder why I'm chubby...

That comes from SanFran? My recipes are all Shaker.

because you need more sex?   :P

 :D Nah, I get plenty of that, but I do like to cook and eat. Sadly, it's been some time since I could do any baking due to illness, but I'll get back into it as I continue to improve. Meh.

Well, no. It didn't originate in SanFran, but it's something that they do very well. Ever heard of Boudin sourdough? It's very yummy.

I haven't heard of it - send me some?  Just kidding - but you know what I think of when I think Food and San Francisco? Rice-A-Roni. Sorry, but that's your legacy. Thanks, Madion Avenue!  ;D

Maybe I didn't eat the fabled rodini's because they tasted like garlic cheesy pull aparts to me :/
I blame my group, they kept pushing me to buy something because we had to go... curses on them! Maybe I pointed at the pullaparts instead of the rodini's
But they looked SO SIMILAR.
*sits and frowns* You didn't go and replace them all did you Cal? You feverish crazy rodini nutbag? :P

Hey! We have cities, too! As a matter of fact I live in one ;). I know that Canada has a (an undeserved, I must say!) reputation for being provincial, but it's not so provincial that we don't have enough people to make major cities ;D.

I admit my response is very late. Come on, I was at work!

I thought your cities were called provinces. 

I hope you're just being a naughty kid, you! >:( ;)

If not, forgive me for being a brat (or for assuming that you were trying to be one, heh). No, provinces & territories=states, cities=cities, and towns=towns, if that helps.

Don't worry, Karminger. I don't do the touristy thing often, if at all. My mom was all "ooohhhHHHHH! Let's go to Millennium Park and see the beeeeaaaaan!" And yes, she kinda said it like that ::). Twas really kinda sad. I don't get most of the "modern art" at that park anyway. But I do love the Taste of Chicago! It's made of yum and awesome!

I love your cities, Mando. My favorite is Montreal - it's like having a bit of Europe just 3-1/2 hours away.

Habitat 43... Is that what section of the zoo they keep the shit-making twats in these days?? Just askin...

no, I wasn't being naughty on purpose!  It was explained to me like that.  You live in the province of blah, in the town of blah. 

not like you are too small to be a city, but that you just called them that instead of cities... or something to that effect.    ;D

Someone was yanking your chain then, you poor thing. There are definitely cities in Canada; the mistake may have come from the fact that every time an American newscast or program talks about a city in Canada, it's always "Vancouver, Canada" or "Halifax, Canada", instead "Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada" or "Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada". It sounds like those who informed you of that were getting close to the correct answer, but just missed it :D.


I love Montreal, too. Beautiful and loads of fun. I thought about moving there at one point, but decided against it.

Montreal is nice, if not very busy. I admit that I haven't seen much of it, just the highways with the crazy drivers and some of the bigger sights. Now, Quebec City is a lovely place. Walking around the crowded buildings, the cobbled lanes and basking in the atmosphere is an experience of its own. Quebec itself is very beautiful, everyone seems to have a swimming pool!

I live in Manitoba (a province ;) ) and in the city of Winnipeg. Being in the prairies there is not much to see, I much prefer the rocky terrain of Ontario or the hills in Nova Scotia. Plains and grains gets tiring after a while.

Oh noes! My mommy lied to me!   :D

I'd like to live in the country or small rural town one day. I think it would be a lot less stressful than being in the city, but I'm a city girl, and I find small towns rather...creepy. I don't want everyone to know my business. Maybe one day when I'm a rich novelist ( ::)) I'll have a home in the city, and a nice quiet place in the country where I can do my writing in a nice, quiet, relaxed environment.

I like Toronto, Mando.  Especially the Eaton Center which was a wonderful shopping experience.  ;D  I swear, my husband says all the time if it's got a mall, I've probably been there.  :P  However, Montreal is also very beautiful as is Niagara Falls, which I know is so touristy, but it is really breathtaking.

Went on a trip to Montreal four years ago while on a cross Canada volunteer program. Beautiful city. I would love to go visit Ottawa again someday too. We lived twenty minutes away and got to go there quite often.

Being from rural Alberta, getting a chance to see other parts of Canada was a great experience.  :)

My travels: let me tell you them.
(Warning: Very Long)
I've been almost everywere in the US, there are a couple places I have yet to go to that REALLY facinate me. Me and my dad wanted to go to New Orleanes in a couple of years, and me and my mom want to visit the Carolina's.
The west is absolutly beautiful. Take my word on that. I've been to the Badlands, over the Rockies, and to San Francisco, and all I can say is that pictures can't sum up what it's truely like. I have a folder full of pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge that turned out dissapointing. The Bay is absolutly one of the most beautiful places I've been in my life. (I loved the sourdough too!)
The south is nothing like I could have imagined. Being a yankee I expected (shame shame shame on me) typical southern yokels, but everyone was really sweet to us. In Kentucky, the waitress at the restaurant we ate at for a couple days remembered our names. I did get sweet tea pushed on me like crack though.  ::)
And, because I'm so white, I have to say that I loved the East. I'm such a history buff that I was going nuts the whole trip. My sister could have cared less. Me and my grandparents had to drag her to every presidents house, authors home, and battle ground. Plus, the scallopes were delicious.  ;D 

I'm pretty well travelled myself:

Ireland about 10 times (always to see family), England, Malaysia, Singapore, America, France, Germany and almost all the States in Australia.

Damn, all that in almost 16 12 years!

Nothing similar about them.  Pullaparts are loaf shaped - rodinis are round freeform loaves.  You do not hold the key.  :'( And if I did hide them, it was for my own protection. :P


You have a year - and probably more before I'm rich enough to afford the holiday without selling one of my children (although I do have two..........nah - they'd complain).  :D


I'm very anti tourist activity.  I'm not one for sightseeing, which bores me senseless.  ;D


Which one haven't you seen?  I haven't been to WA, NT, or Tas - and will be going to Tas this winter.  :D

I haven't been to WA and SA.

No one wants to go to WA - except to mine stuff. :D

Haha really? A friend of mine moved there, I'm not sure if it's that great. And Perth is in the middle of bloody nowhere!

The city is sprawling and huge, and then there's the whole mining town thing going on all over WA.  It's just so far from everywhere.  My Dad called it the "arsehole of the universe". :D

/me lols

I would love to go, just so I can say "I went to the arsehole of the universe!" :D

dammit. I missed out on the rodini's. Oh well.
I am going to be going to Perth in June for another convention. So I will be at the arsehole of the Universe. Amongst nerds. Awesome.

/me sniggers

Now now, I doubt it'll be bad.

More fool you.  Our beaches are the best!  :D

What a crock.  It's beautiful here!  I went to LA about eight years ago, and when I finally came home after a couple of months, dear God!  Sweet clean air, beautiful green parks, lovely river winding through the middle of the city, and if you drive for fifteen minutes - beautiful white sandy beaches!   It's no bustling metropolis and the shopping is crap compared to the bigger cities, but there's plenty of things to compensate for that here. 

It's small, but it's pretty and it's my home.  I love it.

Sad but oh so true.  I think the Bay Area can claim hippy food as a specialty -- I wonder if there is any other place with so many vegan, sustainable/organic or slow food restaurants.  And some of them are so good!

I'm such an east coast girl, I think of Ithaca, Northampton, and Chapel Hill/Carrboro as crunchy granola food centers of the universe.  (Ithaca is home to the Moosewood Restaurant, famous for their great vegetarian cookbooks.)

Ah, Moosewood -- never made or tasted a Moosewood dish I didn't love.

Oh, me neither...I absolutely ADORE their rattatouille recipe, and the spinach ricotta pie is to DIE FOR. I have eaten at their restaurant a couple of times...they do not disappoint.

Hey...I just went to their website (http://www.moosewoodrestaurant.com/), and it appears they're now doing packaged meals! WOOT!

Where IS WA? What is WA a shortening for? Washington? My friend was there, she didn't like Washington, and told me i had nothing to do there, i guess i have to judge for myself, right?  I am planning a tour over, but i still don't know where, i have been thinking of Alaska, in SuMMERtime. Rafting the rivers. It's a beutiful nature there. Seen pics. I also have a friend there, he must be the nicest man in the world. I really like him, he is old. Btw. I have many relatives in USA, i didn't know for some years ago i had so many. That is kinda cool. I know they would preciate if i contacted them.
Ehem, *clears throat* -  i hope they vote for the favorite i have as the next american president.  ::)

Since i have visited most countries in Europe, and also been in North-African countries,  and even in the mideast, i want to see more of this world. I have learned that one get more tolerant to people, to different cultures, religions and the way they live, by travelling. My dad was many times over
in USA,  both to perform, he was a musican and to visit his old relatives.

Favorite food must be pasta, since i am a vegetarian it's easy to make and many good recepies. I also like Indian food, but it can be too spicy.

 

I think the WA they were talking about was Western Australia. Right?

Oh, ok. I am absolute not familiar with the letters. English-speaking people make many shortenings. I have learnt a lot of shortenings for the states of US, but still i forget some. But thanks! :)

WA is definitely the abbreviation for Washington, but the posters who were talking were Australians referring to Australian regions. So you were fine, just out of context.

I love the Moosewood!  Since I am a vegetarian I also enjoy the cookbooks of Deborah Madison too.  Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone is so good and informative it should be a staple in every home, whether you are vegetarian or not.  It's a few hour drive for us so obviously we don't get to hit it up often but whenever we go camping it's a must to stop there! 

I live in Washington (the US state, not DC) and we have fab veggie food here, amazone. A veg Indian restaurant we go to pretty often has the best dosa. We also have rafting and gorgeous scenery here, though on a smaller scale than Alaska. We have a rainforest too, naturally, since we are talking about WA here. ;) The sun is shining bright outside my window today though. I'm not a WA native, but I am from the northwest US and have lived in WA for about 8 years. I like it here as far as weather (hate the cold) and things to do, but we are considering trying somewhere new for the heck of it (just NOT the midwest-my bf is from there and I have visited; we both hate it intensely).

OMG,  ... 8 euros ??  :-X I guess they really, really need it bad. 
Is it just me, or are paysites trying to milk the subscribers, lately?
Until sims3 is released, and they can't do paystuff any longer, I guess.

I'm never giving TSR anything ever again. Let them rot.

On other news... I was doing my monthly big grocery shop, when I walked past Baker's Delight, here in good ol Sydney.
I looked down and SAW A RODINI!!!
It's like a big round bread covered with cheese garlic and herbs. I wanted to take a picture to show Calalily, but uh.. it would have been really embarrassing. The lady behind the counter had looked at me funny when I took out my phone to take a picture. Leaving me to absent-mindedly point at the bread and mumble something about not being THAT hungry, can I justify using my credit card for bread? So yeah they sell them here in Sydney too :P I just didn't know. I will go back soon and buy one, I just had bus money left to get home ... heh. Life is tough when you have no money left for rodini :(

You will taste it, and then always keep some spare money for your rodini fix.  :D And the bonus is I know I'm not crazy - someone else has spotted the elusive rodini!  ;D

Mmmm, Bakers Delights has sinfully good things! I adore their Tiger Topped loaves, with all the extra-crunchy flaky bits on the top... It's a battle to get one aorund here, they always sell out so quickly  ;D

Being a poor deprived American who does not have a Baker's Delight in her country, I'm forced to settle for a four cheese calzone; the four cheeses being provolone, ricotta, romano and mozzarella. I'm happy! I lurves mah cheez! ;D

I wonder if us Americans can make due with a garlic and cheese focaccia.  Can you guys tell us more about the bread portion of this delicious sounding delight?

Oh yeah - they're great.   :D Try to snag a rodini though - omg yum.


Bread portion is like no other bread portion I've tasted - it's denser than focaccia though.

*sobs* I miss cheese. Cheese makes everything better! Ok, except maybe icecream...  :P

I vaguely remember some nutcase chef on tv making cheese icecream. It was right up there with his "Bacon and Egg" icecream in the URGH! factor.

All this talk about Rodini is making me hungry. *grumble grumble*

Apparently there's something called garlic ice cream, and it's supposed to be good. O_O

...good? Garlic ice cream?

Not possible.  :-\

I know, on the weirdness scale that is a 10.

I have had rose-flavored candies, though, and they're actually really good. Exactly what you would expect roses to taste like.

The candied violets that I got in Madrid were very tasty, too. What kills me are the people that like chocolate covered bugs! Ugh!

Mmmmmmmmm Chocolate (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v451/Witchboy/Smileys%20Ect/Everyday/ostern0015.gif) covered crickets!

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Chocolate covered crickets are actually ok. I'm absolutely terrified of bugs and it took me some time to work up the courage to eat them. o.o Crunchy, I don't like chocolate much so I'll probably never have them again.

I've had green tea ice cream and bean ice cream. Both were actually very good.

And I'd love to taste chocolate covered crickets. I don't know if I could eat them, but I'd love to try.  ;D

I bought some of those Harry Potter Jelly Bellys once. They're bloody repulsive, some of the flavours include dirt, vomit, and booger. For some reason I kind of liked the ground pepper ones though.

Jelly Belly things give me really bad migraines, it must be some special chemical they use in them that affects me.

Deep fried grasshoppers are kinda tasty though, just gotta remember to pick off the legs. Seeing Balut however reminds me of my time in the Anatomy museum when I was doing Forensics, ghastly sights in there  :-\ Yuck.

I hate bugs. HATE them. Ever since Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom. I could never eat them, just couldn't. I think even a loaded gun will fail to persuade me.
What's wrong with normal chocolate? Why does it have to have an exoskeleton?
You people = amaze me. I have drunk snake juice though. That's my claim to fame ;P God this Sudafed tablet I took is making everything stop start and my sentences are reflecting this..
Did you guys ever see that candy site that featured scorpions covered in hard candy with a stick? So you'd suck the hard candy and finish off eating the crunchy scorpion?

How repulsive!

I think I have, it was on one of those "World's strangest foods" shows. I remember reading some article about a zoo in Peggyland that was selling Tiger Fetus Wine, I cringed and died a little inside.