Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView Cincom Product Manager jrobertson@cincom.com Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:02:45 EST http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/images/cst_small.jpg Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView 50 81 en-us James A. Robertson Copyright 2007 Cincom Systems, Inc. 2008-02-02T15:02:45-05:00 39.214103 -76.878807 Signs of the Impending Apocalypse http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Signs_of_the_Impending_Apocalypse&entry=3379182224 food Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:43:44 EST

I bring you... The Cheesburger in a Can

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]]> 3379182224 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3379182224 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3379182224 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Signs_of_the_Impending_Apocalypse&entry=3379182224 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Signs_of_the_Impending_Apocalypse&entry=3379182224 petrilli 2008-01-30T22:10:50-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I bring you <a href="http://www.canned-bacon.com/">Bacon in a Can</a>.</p> </div> Not to be outdone blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Signs_of_the_Impending_Apocalypse&entry=3379182224 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Signs_of_the_Impending_Apocalypse&entry=3379182224 2008-01-30T22:23:09-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I actually collect &quot;odd food&quot; in a can.&nbsp; </p><p>But for your further cheeseburger weirdness, at the NC state fair last year (or maybe the year before), they had fried cheeseburgers on a stick.&nbsp; Battered, fried, on a stick. </p><p>&nbsp;</p> </div> blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Signs_of_the_Impending_Apocalypse&entry=3379182224 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Signs_of_the_Impending_Apocalypse&entry=3379182224 <a href="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/troy/blogView">Troy Brumley</a> 2008-01-31T07:59:45-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Comment by <a href="http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/troy/blogView">Troy Brumley</a></p> <p> <p>I saw at some store around here premade PB&amp;J sandwiches. </p> </p> </div> how about lazy? http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3379182224 Chew Carefully http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Chew_Carefully&entry=3351394255 food Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:50:55 EST

You don't want to create any crumbs when you eat the $1000 pizza.

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Now this may be the perfect food - the caffeinated donut. With this, you can give up juggling the mocha and the chocolate creme in your rental car :)

]]> 3347343417 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3347343417 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3347343417 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3347343417 Vegemite Banned??? http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 food Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:48:23 EDT

The US government has banned Vegemite?

The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite has been deemed illegal under US food laws.

The great Aussie icon - faithfully carried around the world by travellers from downunder - contains folate, which under a technicality, America allows to be added only to breads and cereals.

Say what? What moron decided to do this?

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]]> 3339002903 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3339002903 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3339002903 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 Michael Lucas-Smith 2006-10-22T22:33:32-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Comment by Michael Lucas-Smith</p> <p> <p>Of course, you realise, this means war!</p> </p> </div> Re: Vegemite Banned??? blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 Kaylen 2006-10-23T01:12:59-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>I have started a save vegemite petition it can be accessed at my www.savevegemite.com site. This in outrage help us get this changed!!!!! </p></div> Save Vegemite Petition blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 Bob Congdon 2006-10-25T00:43:37-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>See <a href="http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20641682-663,00.html">http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,20641682-663,00.html</a></p> </div> Bogus blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 Tim 2006-10-25T02:42:41-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Just to add a little friendly inter-country rivalry, Vegemite is just a weak Marmite - so maybe they are doing you a favour?</p><p>Marmite &quot;you either love it or hate it&quot;, which is actually how they advertise it in the UK. There&#39;s a great commercial with a girl eating marmite in the background, who then walks up to her boyfriend and gives him a big kiss - presumably with tongues - which leads to him looking at the camera as if he&#39;s going to be sick, and then they show &quot;Marmite - you either love it or hate it&quot;.</p><p>I tried Vegemite (having worked with many Australians) but I prefer the punch of Marmite. Although - those Ram-Tam slams are pretty good!</p> </div> Real men eat Marmite... blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Vegemite_Banned&entry=3339002903 JAZS 2006-10-25T13:31:30-04:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>Vegemite has not&nbsp;been banned but restricted.&nbsp; You might find it in a specialty shop or a tourist bringing it in, but because the US doesn&#39;t allow folate to be added to anything more than bread/cereal products, Vegemite can&#39;t be imported for sale.&nbsp; There&#39;s also a size restriction of about 4 oz.&nbsp; </p></div> Not Banned http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3339002903 You wanted hot? http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=You_wanted_hot&entry=3328731329 food Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:35:29 EDT

"Food" might be the wrong category here, but if you want hot sauce, have a look here - and take note of the special item they have at the top:

What you will find inside the Famous Reserve bottle is amazing, a 1ml pharmaceutical grade vial filled with this Pure Capsaicin Crystal.--No more than 999 Bottles will be offered

Now that's hot :)

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Looks like we just found the perfect beverage for developers - possibly bigger than Mountain Dew. I bring you.... Coffee Beer.

A drink somewhere between coffee and beer could soon be on the menu. Nestec, part of the Nestlé empire in Switzerland, has filed patents in every major market round the world on a "fermented coffee beverage" that pours and foams like beer, but smells of strong coffee and packs a concentrated caffeine kick.

Could make for some fun coding adventures :)

]]> 3308474375 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3308474375 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3308474375 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Jet_Fuel_for_Developers&entry=3308474375 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Jet_Fuel_for_Developers&entry=3308474375 smalltalker2 2005-11-05T04:14:51-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>But it doesn't have the most important information, the number of mgs in a serving. <a href="http://db.uwaterloo.ca/~alopez-o/Coffee/caffaq.html#HowMuchCaff">The Caffeine FAQ</a> </p> </div> blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Jet_Fuel_for_Developers&entry=3308474375 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Jet_Fuel_for_Developers&entry=3308474375 Jim Thompson 2005-11-06T08:28:07-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p> Red Hook had a stout with Starbucks in it. </p> </div> Already done by Red Hook http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3308474375 Why is "extra sauce" so hard? http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Why_is_extra_sauce_so_hard&entry=3285776766 food Sun, 13 Feb 2005 19:46:06 EST

Tonight we wanted pizza, so I shuffled off to Bertuccis for it - I had to swing by Staples for some school supplies anyway - my daughter needed more critical notebook attachments. Somehow, I got through school with a looseleaf binder (1), paper, and a few pens. My daughter and her classmates show up looking like they are preparing to invade Russia with Napolean's army. It might be progress, but it sure looks like something else. So anyway... back to the pizza.

My wife likes Feta cheese and pepperoni, my daughter and I like plain (or, if they offer it, hot peppers). We all like extra tomato sauce. So I ordered 2 pies - one small, one regular - both extra sauce. This is where I (again) ran into the conundrum that Lileks explained so well a year or so ago:

I'm not looking for the perfect pizza, a circular Beatrice I can love unconditionally - just a good hot bubbly pizza with lots of sauce. That's all. A pizza that does not dole out the sauce as though it is a precious substance gathered by the dram at great expense by men in boats, far from home, following the herds of ocean-going tomatoes as they ply the world of wave and spume.

And further down:

It's not as if I'm asking them to arrange the pepperoni just so, and I send the pizza back if the pepperoni pieces overlap. All I want is extra sauce. Not extra wignlesput, or extra blompgretna, or any other extra noun that does not exist in the narrowly defined world of the pizza prep table. Extra sauce. See that sauce, there? In the pot? Put some on the crust. Now, concentrating hard on the word "extra," add some more.

HOW HARD CAN THIS BE?

My sentiments exactly. I swear, you say "extra sauce", and all they hear is "extra" - which translates to "extra cheese" in pizza parlor parlance, apparently. It seems that other than Lileks, my wife and I are the only two people in the western hemisphere who want extra sauce - how else to explain the stubborn lack of attention on the part of every place I order pizza from? I don't think "sauce" sounds a lot like "cheese", but hey, what do I know - I don't work in the pizza business. I'm going to start ordering the sauce on the side in a container - I wonder whether they'll just hand me bags of shredded mozzarella...

]]> 3285776766 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIPBServlet?guid=3285776766 http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?guid=3285776766 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Why_is_extra_sauce_so_hard&entry=3285776766 blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Why_is_extra_sauce_so_hard&entry=3285776766 Chas 2005-02-14T01:40:39-05:00 <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <p>How did the Italians ever make a pizza without tomatoes anyway? Maybe it's an American thing, but pizza's should come with tomatoe paste. You can add tomatoes and spagetti sauce while you're at it. But a dry pizza in a cardboard box is redundant.</p> </div> I'm with you, James http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/servlet/CommentAPIServlet?guid=3285776766 Drinkable Donuts - Apparently not there http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Drinkable_Donuts_-_Apparently_not_there&entry=3268417752 food Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:49:12 EDT

Apparently, Drinkable Donuts aren't working out for Krispy Kreme. Scroll down and look at the pictures of the reviewer as he takes his first sip :)

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