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Good to know. I've already mastered the art of making American pancakes :) So I wanna try them with maple syrup.
It's ridiculously expensive here though. Dunno why.
Lack of sugar maples
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Yeah I've heard that most of your bread contains sugar.
That also is regrettably true. And it's very hard to find bread with any real texture other than "soft mush."
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I did, however, drink a bottle of bud lite. How do people get drunk on that?
Anyway, both peanut butter and maple syrup can be bought here, I'm gonna do that once and tell my experiences here :)
No idea. I assume they just drink lots and lots of it.
Ignore Kullen, they are clearly either insane or allergic and bitter. Peanut butter is wonderful. As for maple syrup, imagine a much thinner cross between honey and vanilla and that's... close. You want actual maple syrup, not 'pancake' or whatever.
If you want to be a gourmand about it, you probably want Grade B maple syrup. Which is counterintuitive, since Grade A is usually the good stuff.
I'd also add that I prefer peanut butter that's just ground up peanuts rather than the more commercial mostly sugar/corn syrup versions.
Actually, the regulatory body in charge of this has changed the grading system to include the high-quality-dark-syrup-that-used-to-be-in-grade-b in grade a.
Edit: ninja'd by 4 hours! :( gurble gurble page bottom gurble gurble ...
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I like peanut butter... And I like jelly... But peanut butter + jelly tastes weird as f&+!! I first tried it when I first came to the US... And I have no idea how that combination is as popular as it is!
I'm not sure where you are from, but you think that's crazy...you should give marmalade and peanut butter a try some time.
That's a weird experience...
Or even weirder...Marmalade and Honey!
and now, we are totally off topic.
Understandably I think I just realized why Anakin was so angry...he couldn't find any Marmalade.
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Anakin was angry because he had Space *insert your deity of choice* as his father and a mother that worked 168 hours+ a given week (tough being a slave, and all).
And to top that off, Anakin built this (in his mind) awesome protocol droid that Mom could use to do her job and her response? Apparently "Meh, you don't understand how hard my job is, kid. Why don't you go do something useful like, win a (pod) race or something?"
Not to mention that the Skywalker bloodline is one *horrible* family to be born into.
As a Skywalker, you:
Kill at least one parent (either through neglect of family ties or actively).
Get at least one limb chopped off if you actively use a lightsaber.
Are an ace pilot intuitively, but the GM only lets you use that skill in a mythic battle scene.
Whine and groan about your fate to the annoyance of others.
End up looking worse than Sir Alec Guinness (R.I.P.) by the time you're done.
I don't think marmalade's going to help that lethal concoction, honestly?
Anakin was angry because he had Space *insert your deity of choice* as his father and a mother that worked 168 hours+ a given week (tough being a slave, and all).
And to top that off, Anakin built this (in his mind) awesome protocol droid that Mom could use to do her job and her response? Apparently "Meh, you don't understand how hard my job is, kid. Why don't you go do something useful like, win a (pod) race or something?"
Not to mention that the Skywalker bloodline is one *horrible* family to be born into.
As a Skywalker, you:
Kill at least one parent (either through neglect of family ties or actively).
Get at least one limb chopped off if you actively use a lightsaber.
Are an ace pilot intuitively, but the GM only lets you use that skill in a mythic battle scene.
Whine and groan about your fate to the annoyance of others.
End up looking worse than Sir Alec Guinness (R.I.P.) by the time you're done.I don't think marmalade's going to help that lethal concoction, honestly?
Don't forget the male gene linked tendency to whining.
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Don't forget the male gene linked tendency to whining.
So if you're a woman in the Skywalker line, that's what was being aimed for, but the folks manipulating their destiny are too chauvinist to realize that women can kick butt?
Mind blown.
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At least it's Skywalkers have an easy time dealing with grief...
"Those people who raised me all my life are dead? Well... Guess I'll go on an space adventure with that old man I barely know..."
"My whole home planet was destroyed? Nooo!!! Eh... I'm all better now. Time to kiss the handsome scoundrel... And my brother!"
XD
Of course... That's still better than how Anakin dealt with grief... So... Progress?
Wait, she was on a diplomatic mission TO alderann. Wasn't naboo her home planet?
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Don't forget the male gene linked tendency to whining.
So if you're a woman in the Skywalker line, that's what was being aimed for, but the folks manipulating their destiny are too chauvinist to realize that women can kick butt?
Mind blown.
Meh... Leia had her issues too. If not for C3PO and Jar Jar, I'd rank her as 'most obnoxious in the galaxy'.
Palpatine wanted Luke to kill Anakin and take his place.
The same way he set up Dooku to be taken out by Anakin. Presumably in both cases to replace one tool with a more pliable one.
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Interesting. Our bread must taste sour to you guys...
I think it does to lots of people, but I love European style breads. *shrug*
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I have done my unclely duty and have taken my nephew to see Star Wars. We wore our Star Wars shirts and I answered Star Wars questions and got him Star Wars candy and we went in search of Star Wars toys afterwards. He plans to design the pop-up/drop-down guns that I want on my car, he fell in love with the scene where the gun dropped down and started picking off enemies.
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Do you really think that being shirtless will help?
Half Asian, tan and hairless below the neck here and I play soccer and (still try to) surf. It does not hurt.
edit I am posting from a boarding line in the airport I thought we were on the FawTL thread for a minute because I was looking at Freehold's page rather than the movie page.
Ooops. Sorry for the original derail.
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I think they were just teasing.
Hama, speaking of peanut butter, I used to eat the worst possible concoction in the world. When I was young I ate like this Asian peanut butter with this Belgian mayo (don't think anything in America comes close to quality and taste) with fried bananas, the bread was normally fried as well and my God it was amazing combo I did not know any better.
(I think street crack you pick out of a dead rat's back carcass is healthier for you than that food combo.)
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Wait, she was on a diplomatic mission TO alderann. Wasn't naboo her home planet?She was adopted and raised on Alderann. Naboo wasn't invented until the prequels.
I think the diplomatic mission (which was probably just a cover story anyway) was from the Senate to Alderann.
They were attacked over Tatooine, so if they were going from Coruscant to Alderaan, they went the wrong way...
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They were attacked over Tatooine, so if they were going from Coruscant to Alderaan, they went the wrong way...
I think the diplomatic mission (which was probably just a cover story anyway) was from the Senate to Alderann.
It's not the wrong way if you're on your way to pick up a dignitary like Obi-wan Kenobi for a state visit to Alderaan.
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Right. I know the real reason she's going to Tatooine. But, seeing as how Obi Wan is a wanted criminal, I don't think that would pass muster as a "diplomatic mission to Alderaan".
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Fair points, all.
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I finally saw it. I was... Disappointed.
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Before the Disney PURGE of canonicity, there was once a rather nifty radio-play that did a brilliantly wonderful job of 'covering the gaps' as to why the Tantive IV was all the way out by Tatooine.
Unfortunately, such things were lost with the rise of the new First Order of the Mouse, so alas, such things are only Legendary now.
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ZOMG, I think I listened to that on WGBH in the previous millennium, back when I was prepubescent. :)
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ZOMG, I think I listened to that on WGBH in the previous millennium, back when I was prepubescent. :)
I rode down to Origins one year with a buddy who was huge into Star Wars and had the whole thing of New Hope on audiotape. It made for a very fast ride, I don't think I slept once despite normally passing out when I'm on a long trip.
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Do you really think that being shirtless will help?Half Asian, tan and hairless below the neck here and I play soccer and (still try to) surf. It does not hurt.
edit I am posting from a boarding line in the airport I thought we were on the FawTL thread for a minute because I was looking at Freehold's page rather than the movie page.
Ooops. Sorry for the original derail.
looooooool