Althouse: At the Big Dessert Café...

July 11, 2010

At the Big Dessert Café...

... indulge yourself!

31 comments:

HT said...: I hope that's ice cream with caramel, and not breakfast with ketchup.

Clearly, neither of you have any food intolerances.; 7/11/10, 8:49 AM
Clyde said...: The food police aren't going to like that! All I can say is, "Indulge while you can!" Because once the government weasels are giving us "free" healthcare, it's going to be broccoli and soy milk for dessert from then on.; 7/11/10, 9:28 AM
Dust Bunny Queen said...: What kind of breakfast is that!!

You should have what I had for breakfast. Bannana cream pie. Much better for you....more food groups.; 7/11/10, 10:08 AM
Anonymous said...: I think the cherry is over the top.; 7/11/10, 10:11 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: That photograph is clearly from yesterday.

Meade.. my fee is the mail ;); 7/11/10, 10:16 AM
mesquito said...: I'd have put peanut butter on it. But that's just the way I am.; 7/11/10, 10:22 AM
Unknown said...: The Blonde and dbq have a lot in common.

PS Why does the word splooshing come to mind?; 7/11/10, 10:33 AM
Hagar said...: The MSM is all agog about the big spy swap.

Anyone else read John le Carre's "The Looking Glass War"?

wv: unwrapho Do I dare go there?; 7/11/10, 10:38 AM
Fred4Pres said...: It looks like fleur de sel.; 7/11/10, 10:56 AM
Fred4Pres said...: soy milk makes boys into girls.

It is part of the plan.; 7/11/10, 10:57 AM
Wince said...: It looks like caramel stick chart.

Marshall Islands stick charts were made and used by the Marshallese to navigate the Pacific Ocean by canoe off the coast of the Marshall Islands. The charts represented major ocean swell patterns and the ways the islands disrupted those patterns, typically determined by sensing disruptions in ocean swells by islands during sea navigation. Stick charts were typically made from the midribs of coconut fronds tied together to form an open framework. Island locations were represented by shells tied to the framework, or by the lashed junction of two or more sticks. The threads represented prevailing ocean surface wave-crests and directions they took as they approached islands and met other similar wave-crests formed by the ebb and flow of breakers. Individual charts varied so much in form and interpretation that the individual navigator who made the chart was the only person who could fully interpret and use it. Use of stick charts and navigation by swells apparently came to demise after World War II, when new electronic technologies made navigation more accessible, and travel between islands by canoe lessened.; 7/11/10, 11:00 AM
Fred4Pres said...: EDH, Marshallese stick charts are cool.

Too bad Althouse ate it.; 7/11/10, 11:18 AM
bagoh20 said...: Similar to the documentary "Supersize Me", I would like to try living solely on dessert. The problem? Definitions.; 7/11/10, 11:24 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Maybe indulging is not the right word..

I finally watched The Sorrow and the Pity (1972) in its entirety.. I've seen parts of it before.. (its long)

It will be available (Netflix) for streaming on the 28th.; 7/11/10, 11:28 AM
Fred4Pres said...: Fred4Pres said...
EDH, Marshallese stick charts are cool.

Too bad Althouse ate it.

7/11/10 11:18 AM

That hand looks like Meade's (I am guessing). Althouse just photographed it.; 7/11/10, 11:41 AM
HT said...: Wow, what a bad lip synch job Shakira is doing! AA should watch, if you can withstand the criticisms of the socialism.

Viva Espana!; 7/11/10, 11:51 AM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: HTML Entities

&_ntilde_;
(without the underscores) gives us ñ

For Viva España

My fee is in the mail.; 7/11/10, 12:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I think I'm going to the bar.. to watch the game as it was intended.. long ago in a galaxy far far away.; 7/11/10, 12:25 PM
HT said...: i'm on a Mac, and I can't figure out the enyay. Used to be alt + 164 on my pc. Mac's impossible.; 7/11/10, 12:44 PM
Anonymous said...: I clicked through the picture so that I could get the full size version and lick the screen. But I was thwarted because the picture is restricted and marked "private".; 7/11/10, 1:35 PM
Big Mike said...: I see in today's WaPo that the Obama family is taking another vaction; apparently his third since the Gulf oil spill began. What's he done in 16 months that wears him out so much, I wonder?; 7/11/10, 1:40 PM
Anonymous said...: HT -- Control+n, then n.; 7/11/10, 2:22 PM
Anonymous said...: Er, i mean alt-n, n. Been a while.; 7/11/10, 2:24 PM
Kurt said...: Now that is certainly a big dessert, but if you want an enormous dessert, the place to go is a Claim Jumper restaurant, where they are famous for serving a 6-layer chocolate cake, which is but one of their many seriously oversized portions.; 7/11/10, 4:57 PM
mtrobertsattorney said...: That's the hand of a workin' man.; 7/11/10, 5:28 PM
knox said...: If I'm going to have a dessert, which is rare (my weakness is savory, not sweet foods) I'll have it big, or none at all. Who wants to indulge, but hold back while doing so?; 7/11/10, 6:09 PM
HT said...: Steve,

If I do
alt
n

it does not work.

But you said n twice. But
alt
n
n

still does not work.; 7/11/10, 9:37 PM
HT said...: alt
n
n

Works.

Apologies and thanks.; 7/11/10, 9:40 PM
HKatz said...: It manages to look both yummy and nauseating at the same time.; 7/11/10, 10:07 PM
MamaM said...: Using yummy and nauseating in the same sentence, HKatz sets the stage for the Ohio Express version of:

Yummy, yummy, yummy,
I got love in my tummy,
And I feel like a-lovin' you.
Love, you’re such a sweet thing,
Good enough to eat thing,
And that's just a-what I'm gonna do.; 7/12/10, 11:08 AM
Hazy Dave said...: I think I could give up desserts easier than I could give up music. "Yummy Yummy" notwithstanding.

(I'm not sure I'm using the term 'notwithstanding' correctly here, but what the fock.); 7/12/10, 1:45 PM