APRIL 2021 :: Getting To Know You Thread

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

7 hours ago, TGP said:

Question April Second — Desserts! What is the most interesting thing ever offered to you for dessert??

 

I come from a large family of bakers, so desserts were plentiful and varied.  There's nothing that I would consider odd, but there's a lot that others might not have had. The marshmallow/ peanut butter slices are always delicious, but today we'll talk about something that's a bit of a Polish tradition: Croustiki. Some might call them rosettes or pinwheels, but what they are is pastry  deep-fried and powdered with icing sugar. They're simple but delicious, though it's interesting how you make them.

 

[Sylverthorne]

8 hours ago, TGP said:

Question April Second — Desserts! What is the most interesting thing ever offered to you for dessert??

 

I have never been offered anything I'd classify as 'weird', to be honest. I will say this; I have learned some really interesting things are good dipped in chocolate, and some of them are not great with 'white' chocolate, but absolutely delicious with dark chocolate (which I normally hate). 

Salt is an abomination that should not, in my opinion, be mixed with chocolate, especially if it is salt chunks.

*sigh* It was, otherwise, a lovely chocolate fondue.

[Morihalda]

I'll try pretty much anything once! Hmm. I didn't expect to like creme de mamão (Brazilian papaya and ice cream). I can't stand the scent and texture of papaya. But it wasn't bad!

 

I guess my favorite dessert, che ba mau, is probably pretty interesting if I think about the ingredients instead of the whole. Coconut milk! Jello! Beans?!

Edited April 3, 2021 by Morihalda

[TGP]

On 4/1/2021 at 12:16 AM, TGP said:

April First — Without looking it up have you ever heard of the mighty Sidd Finch, a pitcher who did not play for the Reds?

Sidd Finch was never a player for the Reds, the Red Sox, any other hue of Sox, or the Mets. He and his legendary 168mph (  ) fastball were fictional, an April Fool's Hoax created by a New York magazine — he supposedly tried out for the Mets and briefly considered signing with them (instead of devoting himself to a musical career playing the French horn). It is a fun story to look up.

 

Go Reds.

 

(My local team forgot they were playing baseball and managed to lose by scoring a touchdown and a field goal while the other team scored two touchdowns. Train wreck indeed.)

 

 

[ratsmitglied]

hmm

I am digging to find out how to change the size of the font through tags...

 

Edited April 3, 2021 by ratsmitglied

[ratsmitglied]

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[TGP]

On 4/2/2021 at 7:15 AM, TGP said:

Question April Second — Desserts! What is the most interesting thing ever offered to you for dessert??

It was Red Velvet Cakes on a platter. In a fancy restaurant, where I was dining with an unusual grouping of people, in a dream.

 

The dream happened the morning of good Friday. And it was what influenced me to use @Sylverthorne's desserts question. Which then segways into the weekend question. 

 

 

 

 

Question April 3rd — Do you remember dreams very well? 

 

Bonus weekend activity: recount some, if they were non-nightmares and family friendly, happy sorts of things.

Edited April 3, 2021 by Chaoswolf
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[aku-chan]

18 minutes ago, TGP said:

Question April 3rd — Do you remember dreams very well? 

 

Bonus weekend activity: recount some, if they were non-nightmares and family friendly, happy sorts of things.

 

I tend to recall the details in dreams very clearly, if I remember them, which I only do very rarely.

It is a shame as they tend to be weirdly movie-like (I actually had one last year that had interviews with the cast and crew in it).

[Evilhalfling]

Question April 3rd — Do you remember dreams very well? 

hmm

 

Yes, and I sometimes  enter some stage of lucid dreaming,  either being able to control some of the narrative, wake myself up or in one case restore to a previously saved postion,  when I didn't like the way the dream was going.  

actually realizing it is a dream, and getting full control is much rarer but does happen. 

 

A recent favorite was being the captain of a small indepenant trading spaceship with my wife as a copilot.  I was  smuggling 5 (living, human sized) GW space marines in my ship, but since they had thier own life-support in armor. I put them in the cargo hold. (and forgot about them.  then spent much of the rest of the dream arguing with my wife about dinner, and then *ahem* making up. 

 

- the crew quarters of the ship looked exactly like the first apartment we shared. 

 

 

Edited April 3, 2021 by Evilhalfling

[Rob Dean]

3 hours ago, TGP said:

Question April 3rd — Do you remember dreams very well? 

 

Bonus weekend activity: recount some, if they were non-nightmares and family friendly, happy sorts of things.

 

Years back, I tried some techniques for remembering dreams better, and they did hlep.  Most of the time, no.  Maybe once a week or so something will stick long enough for me to recount it to my wife over breakfast...

 

Lately, I seem to be dreaming about going to gaming conventions pretty regularly.  There’s clearly some COVID-era wish fulfillment going on with that.

[Inarah]

On 4/2/2021 at 11:59 AM, WhiteWulfe said:

I'm going to go with "honey cake", since I don't remember the actual name for it.  It's from the middle east.  *looks up local bakery*  It's apparently called Harissa.  I like the variety with sliced almond on top. 

 

I bet you mean Halva, because Harissa is a very spicy chili paste and not a dessert item. 

 

21 hours ago, Sylverthorne said:

 

Salt is an abomination that should not, in my opinion, be mixed with chocolate, especially if it is salt chunks.

 

 

You can hand me any you don't want. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited April 3, 2021 by Chaoswolf
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[Glitterwolf]

6 hours ago, TGP said:

 

Question April 3rd — Do you remember dreams very well? 

 

Bonus weekend activity: recount some, if they were non-nightmares and family friendly, happy sorts of things.

 

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't

Most of the time they're either Nightmares or very happy not family friendly stuff.

I tend to not remember average dull dreams...

 

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

7 hours ago, TGP said:

 

Question April 3rd — Do you remember dreams very well? 

 

Bonus weekend activity: recount some, if they were non-nightmares and family friendly, happy sorts of things.

 

I'm a lucid dreamer, so I usually remember dreams very well.

 

 

 

Edited April 3, 2021 by Chaoswolf
removed reference to font that led to squabbling

[Chaoswolf]

28 minutes ago, Inarah said:

Can this issue be moved to its own thread? 

 

Done.

[Chaoswolf]

Ok, I'm unlocking the thread now. I just pruned the heck out if it. All references to fonts/colors/posting issues have been hidden, and a troubleshooting thread has been opened for discussion/testing. Keep it civil in there, please.

 https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/95257-gtky-troubleshooting/

Apologies to anyone/everyone who may be upset with me for tinkering with your posts. It seemed like the best course of action, so that's what I did. I have called it to the attention of the other mods, so they can review what I did.

 

Carry on, and have a good weekend.