Yet another thread deleted? No reasons?

[Vassago]

So you just want to be mothered then

If that's what all those girls do to him, sure!

 

[ColinEssex]

You can't handle the truth!

How about the truth as to why my thread was deleted without any notice.

Now that would be a first.

Are there any guidelines as to what is the correct procedure for deleting a thread?

Like a reason?

Col

 

[georgedwilkinson]

Did you delete it, Colin?

 

[Thales750]

How about the truth as to why my thread was deleted without any notice.

Now that would be a first.

Are there any guidelines as to what is the correct procedure for deleting a thread?

Like a reason?

Col

Are you still on about that? Let it go man.

 

[ColinEssex]

Did you delete it, Colin?

Er, no. Why would I?

It was some egotistical mod.

Col

 

[georgedwilkinson]

Well none of them are owning up to it.

 

[ColinEssex]

I have no objection to any thread being deleted.

What I do object to is being treated as a "nothing" at the hands of some mod somewhere.

It is common courtesy and good manners to say something about it if you plan to delete. We (the normal plebs here) are real people who contibute to these forums and deserve to be treated as such.
I strongly object to being treated as a second class person at the hands of some jumped-up mod.

I know I have some fun sometimes on these forums, that doesn't exclude me from being informed if a thread of mine is going to be deleted.

I think the mods here need to be sent on a course about people skills.

Col

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Colin, while there are times I could jolly well throttle you because you do have a "flip" side, in this case I understand your point about courtesy.

There is another discussion elsewhere in the forum involving moderators and retracted posts that is turning into a "see who can be discourteous most chivalrously" match. It got out of hand so fast that I am saddened by it, because the participants aren't bad people, they've just got their dander up.

Jeez Louise, what's wrong with common courtesy? Or is it that common courtesy is like jumbo shrimp and military intelligence and political honesty? Oxymorons all.

 

[Fifty2One]

hahahaha. That is the first time I have seen someone use Jeez Louise outside of Québec

Colin, while there are times I could jolly well throttle you because you do have a "flip" side, in this case I understand your point about courtesy.

There is another discussion elsewhere in the forum involving moderators and retracted posts that is turning into a "see who can be discourteous most chivalrously" match. It got out of hand so fast that I am saddened by it, because the participants aren't bad people, they've just got their dander up.

Jeez Louise, what's wrong with common courtesy? Or is it that common courtesy is like jumbo shrimp and military intelligence and political honesty? Oxymorons all.

 

[Thales750]

Colin, while there are times I could jolly well throttle you because you do have a "flip" side, in this case I understand your point about courtesy.

There is another discussion elsewhere in the forum involving moderators and retracted posts that is turning into a "see who can be discourteous most chivalrously" match. It got out of hand so fast that I am saddened by it, because the participants aren't bad people, they've just got their dander up.

Jeez Louise, what's wrong with common courtesy? Or is it that common courtesy is like jumbo shrimp and military intelligence and political honesty? Oxymorons all.

Doc Man,
I am appalled that you would include a Jumbo Shrimp in your examples.

The Jumbo Gulf Shrimp arguably the finest shrimp on the entire planet.
Giving it the right to be called, Jumbo.
In the future please try to use appropriate examples, and metaphors.

This soup is known as Gumbo.

ther eis nothing like it in the world.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Thales,

I live in New Orleans. I know a lot about shrimp in their various preparations. I could take you to a restaurant that, when Gulf Shrimp are in season, would have not less than 10 different presentations on the menu in a buffet setting. A definite pig-out setting.

My mother-in-law's gumbo recipe is one of the best I've ever eaten, and my brother-in-law makes a gumbo that is famous in the coastal counties of Mississippi, USA. (My wife's family is originally from Chac Bay, near Thibadaux, Louisiana, which is definitely Cajun country.) However, in all examples of oxymorons I have ever seen, "jumbo shrimp" is always included, so I was being a linguistic traditionalist for just a moment.

I frequent a nice little restaurant that offers boiled shrimp at 20-25 count (per pound), which is really a nice size. That is getting up there. The Popeye's Chicken chain offers "popcorn" shrimp, which would be in the 100-150 count. The middle range, 40-60 count, is what you usually put in a gumbo.

However, some purists tell me that in the 20-25 count, I am not really looking at shrimp, but at prawns, and that they are a different species than Gulf of Mexico shrimp. I'm not enough of a zoologist to know the practical difference.

All I know is when you boil 20-25 count whatever-they-are in Zatarain's Seafood Boil along with some very small-sized (i.e. new) potatoes and some short ears of corn, you have the makings of a true feast. Particularly if you boil that stuff long enough that the cayenne pepper infuses the corn and potatoes beyond just the skins. Don't rub your eyes while eating that stuff.

By the way, just FYI, that picture you posted is what we call a non-creole gumbo. You see, it violates one of the basic rules of "true" gumbo. A true creole gumbo NEVER has both sausage and shrimp in it. A seafood gumbo can have shrimp, crabs, and chunks of previously broiled or grilled fish. "Real" cajuns - like my mother-in-law - also allow for duck meat to be in a seafood gumbo since duck is a waterfowl, but the creole "experts" call that a "hunter's gumbo." A chicken gumbo can have sausage (best if it is Andouille sausage) and other types of meat in it, including venison. But it is either a land-based or a water-based gumbo if you abide by the true recipes.

For forum readers who don't know this, gumbo is Swahili (I think) for okra, and the color of the gumbo comes from two sources. First, you make a roux, which involves browning some flour and butter. That is the brown component. Water later thins it out, but it stays brown ... unless you add some cayenne extract, which would turn it more orangey or even reddish - if you like it spicy.

Thales, if you ever happen to decide to visit my fair city, please try to give me some advance notice. We can get together for a visit to various places that serve authentic creole seafood. Maybe I could even talk my wife into making some of her mother's recipe. She's been known to do that just for the chance at meeting new people.

 

[Kryst51]

For forum readers who don't know this, gumbo is Swahili (I think) for okra, and the color of the gumbo comes from two sources. First, you make a roux, which involves browning some flour and butter. That is the brown component. Water later thins it out, but it stays brown ... unless you add some cayenne extract, which would turn it more orangey or even reddish - if you like it spicy.

I thought roux was made with flour and oil, not butter? Anyway, that's how my grandmother taught me to make it. I am curious to try it with butter and to see what difference it might make in the taste...

 

[Thales750]

Not to put to fine a point on it but a good number of my relatives are named Thibadaux or kibadaux, or some other such bayou country catfisherman name.

Including my grandmother, who was raised on Lake Charles.

Now of course none of that make me an expert by any means. But she put Andouille in shrimp gumbo and so do I.

I may send you a block of it in a frozen box if you like. That particular bowl was made in Anahuac TX, over the Christmas Holidays.

By me.

I agree with Kryst51, I would normally use oil for roux, and butter or fat for gravy.

 

[Rich]

Do they still live in houses made of earth and wood down there?

 

[georgedwilkinson]

Yes, and all we wear are loin cloths.

 

[Thales750]

Do they still live in houses made of earth and wood down there?

The great majority of American homes are made of wood Rich.
And normally we bake our earth before we use it in construction.

 

[Fifty2One]

They do not make wood homes in England. They have a shortage of trees in England because they used them all up long long ago to build ships to be sunk in far far away ports while they tried to 'rule the waves'.

The great majority of American homes are made of wood Rich.
And normally we bake our earth before we use it in construction.

 

[Rich]

They do not make wood homes in England.

Do look up the term timber framed

 

[Fifty2One]

Yes - it means timber FRAMED... meaning there is a framework made of timbers, much different from making the entire home of wood.

Do look up the term timber framed

 

[Rich]

Yes - it means timber FRAMED... meaning there is a framework made of timbers, much different from making the entire home of wood.

And the floors roof trusses etc