
meatrace |

Waffles are the perfect gamer food. They're already marked off in 5' squares.
*blink*
What kind of MONSTER FREAKING WAFFLES are you eating where the little squares are 5' wide?!On a side note, while I'm not technically OP, I'd like to tactlessly claim credit for its current content.
I'm so gleefully happy! I tried flapjacking* for years on the WoW boards and it never caught on.
*Unceremoniously changing the topic of a thread you're dissatisfied with to flapjacks, and copy/pasting the wikipedia entry on flapjacks.

Orthos |

Treppa wrote:Waffles are the perfect gamer food. They're already marked off in 5' squares.*blink*
What kind of MONSTER FREAKING WAFFLES are you eating where the little squares are 5' wide?!
Well they're not to scale of course. But neither are the grids on gamer maps.
Though admittedly, most waffles would still be too small for the average mini.

meatrace |

meatrace wrote:Treppa wrote:Waffles are the perfect gamer food. They're already marked off in 5' squares.*blink*
What kind of MONSTER FREAKING WAFFLES are you eating where the little squares are 5' wide?!Well they're not to scale of course. But neither are the grids on gamer maps.
Though admittedly, most waffles would still be too small for the average mini.
I'm not sure what you mean by not being to scale. If each inch represents 5' then it is 1/60 scale, no?

Orthos |

Orthos wrote:I'm not sure what you mean by not being to scale. If each inch represents 5' then it is 1/60 scale, no?meatrace wrote:Treppa wrote:Waffles are the perfect gamer food. They're already marked off in 5' squares.*blink*
What kind of MONSTER FREAKING WAFFLES are you eating where the little squares are 5' wide?!Well they're not to scale of course. But neither are the grids on gamer maps.
Though admittedly, most waffles would still be too small for the average mini.
Touche

Limeylongears |

I always thought flapjacks were a combination of oats, some sort of sticky substance (golden syrup, treacle, superglue, napalm and so on) and whatever else you wanted to put in 'em - not the same thing as pancakes at all. Still, the more you live the more you learn, and I do have a beard made of oats, golden syrup, treacle superglue and napalm, which means I'm on topic twice (at least)

meatrace |
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Is anyone else familiar with okonomiyaki?
If you're not, you are now, and you're welcome.

Mark Hoover |

Waffles + bacon = heresy, but waffles + fried chicken = franchise on the west coast? I don't understand. Hopefully this will help. The SWANKY MOES!

meatrace |

Get used to eating naked griddle cakes.
I've known this for some time. Did a story about it a few years back for the student paper.
Basically, maple harvesting requires temperatures where it rises to cool in the day and drops at night, around a certain temperature (can't remember what) which generally happens in autumn. The reason for this is that they "catch" the sap when it falls back down and they need that oscillating temperature to get the sap moving up and falling back down again.
However, when it is 80 degrees in october and immediately drops to -50 with windchill in november, there's no opportunity.

meatrace |

Ummm... all it means is the industry will have to move its production further north, right? Seems to be a pretty small problem, all things considered. And we can still has maple syrups.
I don't think you're quite getting it. Further north is even worse.
The way the industry is organized doesn't really allow for uprooting and moving. It's like saying hey, why don't you just move the mine up north? By "move production further north" do you mean uproot hundreds of thousands of fully grown maple trees and replant them somewhere hundreds of miles away, where the unpredictable weather will still be a factor?
meatrace |

Two years ago we had a very warm autumn in the northern US. So warm that our maple harvest was devastated.
Canada, on the other hand, had a slightly warmer than usual fall which INCREASED their yield.
Thing is, there aren't a lot of giant commercial maple farms. It's mostly small, family farms, and if they're not able to make their expected yield 2 or 3 years in a row they shut right on down, because they're living right on margin and it's truly a seasonal business.
Similarly, while Canadian yields were bigger, it's not an easy turn around to reinvest in the business when growing the business means purchasing new land and cultivating adult maple trees which, as BNW points out, takes a good long while.
More to the point though, it's not as simple as "things move north" because it's more about the UNPREDICTABILITY of weather than a predictable shift to the north. If you have an industry that is a smattering of family farms who need a predictable return on investment to even break even, having autumn weather which is randomly too warm or too cold throws a wrench in the whole shebang.
It's entirely possible that we're looking at long-term maple shortages and commensurate rise in prices.