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It's interesting how many people cook (insert name of any food here) and don't even want to taste (insert name of same food here) so they add all sorts of seasonings or toppings to taste completely different than (insert name of same food here). My Granny had a blue glass salt shaker that sat on the back of her stove. On the counter beside the stove was a tin with bacon grease. In the cabinet was a thing of cinnamon. When I asked why she didn't have one of those racks with all the bottles of spices she said "Well darlin', those are for the people who can't cook and need them to hide behind.". She cooked the best meals anyone ever ate with just the three things she had on hand and it tasted like the real (insert name of same food here).
 
It's interesting how many people cook (insert name of any food here) and don't even want to taste (insert name of same food here) so they add all sorts of seasonings or toppings to taste completely different than (insert name of same food here). My Granny had a blue glass salt shaker that sat on the back of her stove. On the counter beside the stove was a tin with bacon grease. In the cabinet was a thing of cinnamon. When I asked why she didn't have one of those racks with all the bottles of spices she said "Well darlin', those are for the people who can't cook and need them to hide behind.". She cooked the best meals anyone ever ate with just the three things she had on hand and it tasted like the real (insert name of same food here).
It's not a binary thing.

First of all granny probably made some really good food. Apple pie and cinnamon! Nice. Not going argue with that, I was not there. But how many types of curry did she make? How did her bechamel taste? Her pizza maybe a little bland? I would think her adobo was missing something.

People don't want to taste the food? Your granny was funny, but that's just something she said. Again granny can cook, but everyone else is worse than her? Because they don't use just bacon fat, salt and cinnamon?

I know you are trying to backhand 53 stude, and sure he's no chef, but I am laying out a better perspective. Spices and flavors should enhance and some folks should take a wider look at the world and wider long term taste pallet - I mean fried chicken in bacon fat, year after year, day after day - people get bored.
 
I presume the swastica had a different meaning before WWII? Can that tank really be from 1916?
I remember seeing some red bricks that had swastikas, piled up in the back of a Buddhist temple in Sacramento (??) way back in the 1960's. The swastika was reversed from the more common Nazi swastika. I think it was more of a religious symbol before the 1930's.
 
I remember seeing some red bricks that had swastikas, piled up in the back of a Buddhist temple in Sacramento (??) way back in the 1960's. The swastika was reversed from the more common Nazi swastika. I think it was more of a religious symbol before the 1930's.
Used by several disparate cultures then appropriated. There was an older building in my home town with the symbol on the chimney until the early 70's. My brother and I would comment on it. It was just put up in the early 1900's as a decorative thing.
 
I remember seeing some red bricks that had swastikas, piled up in the back of a Buddhist temple in Sacramento (??) way back in the 1960's. The swastika was reversed from the more common Nazi swastika. I think it was more of a religious symbol before the 1930's.
Imagine me in Grade 2, as a precocious history-nerd 7-year-old ... Mrs Shuttleworth asked us to draw a picture of a native settlement with teepees and so on.

Somewhere I had heard or read that the swastika had long been a symbol in Indian culture, and had only been adopted by the Nazis a few decades before.

At that time it was still common to refer to our indigenous peoples as Indians, so it did not occur to me that it was people from India, rather than our indigenous people, who had used the swastika.

And thus it seemed entirely appropriate to draw a swastika on a teepee.

The kindly Mrs Shuttleworth either didn't notice or decided to let it go ... or, although it's unlikely, laboured under the same misunderstanding.
 
We're just starting to cool off now not bad but wind is sharp. 7 year old battery might be telling me otherwise might be in the market for new one.
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Hard to see it whitetail Buck piled into me last night. That's number 5 for this vehicle. 2 new front clips it's busted now again from past hit I get sick of fixing them. Driver passenger door is wrinkled from another one this car looks like I just raced it at Martinsville speed way.
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