Month: June 2018

The Robots Are Coming…Nope: They’re Here!

 

Job security on the ropes from robots? Eat more chocolate…made by robots.

More than one podcast has opined that the robots are, in fact, coming and are here for some jobs.  In a recent episode of The Tom Woods Show, his guest discussed robots and how, in spite of the apparent obviousness of the outcome, robots are a good thing.

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Well, not to be outdone, Nestlé,the makers of KitKat have created a robot to help with the distribution of that candy in the UK so it can hit the shelves faster.  Hard to complain about more candy, right.  Break me off a piece….

Of course, a fellow like me is going to want to find a way to make his own.  But, that aside, innovation continues to arrive in the industries which supply us our creature comforts as well as necessities.

I wonder how the Marxists will find a way to complain the robots are not tended to properly and creating excess profit of which they are excluded.  I won’t hold my breath, but I do feel confident someone will make a stab.  Well, not in London, because, you see, they banned knives.

Here is the link to the article about the robots.

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Nevermind The Opiates: The Poppy Seeds Are Here

Poppy Cake, Poppy Pie, Poppy seeds for You and I

Poppy seeds falling out of the podYeah, I know it’s not grammatical, but it rimes.

Oh, the cautions about poppy seeds.  I’ll cover that in a moment.

Lots of cultures use poppy seeds, but in my Polish background, Eastern Europe seems to be the best place to find the most use.

Memories are often misplaced or details forgotten and the remaining bits mashed into one memory of a thing that never was. Eh, whaddayagonnado? My memories are almost certainly mash-ups, but the emotions and good tidings are real, even if the details are confused.

Poppy seed cakeGerman sweets are well populated with poppy seeds. My Polish ancestors, being rather committed Catholics, would have made use of them for the Vigil Supper dishes.

I’ve been served egg noodles tossed with butter and poppy seeds, poppy seed cakes and treats, and spiced poppy seed paste filling. So well has poppy seed come to mean special that the onion poppy seed rolls at my first-ever professional cooking job in Southfield, MI still, to this very day, hold a high bar for excellence. I’ve tried many times over as many years, and while I’ve not ever twinned them, I’ve come very close.

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