Coq au Vin and Potatoes Dauphinoise. What, every hit man you know isn't also a gourmet cook on the side?
Maybe back when, but today they wouldn't they get prosecuted for polluting. We were on a ship that could not avoid a hurricane and were pounded all night with 40 foot waves on the side of the ship like a giant hand slapping it repeatedly. I doubt that any oil slicks could have worked even if they dared try that.
releasing engine oil to calm the seas was a common practice in ww2, mostly where escorts were taking off crews from sinking ships
TBH no one cares about them anyway its very common for ships to wash their tanks out at sea leading to mini slicks of oil or other chemicals
Coq au Vin is actually peasant food (wink wink). One of the cheapest food cost items on any menu that includes it. ETA: cheap because it incorporates all the leftover scraps from the other dishes that have already been budgeted for. All those funky unpresentable pieces of chicken and pork scraps (lardons). We throw em in a pot with the equally funky looking veggies that didn't survive the knife cut scrutiny, braise it all in red wine, and charge $24. Boom! Coq au Vin.
I don't know any full-time hit men, just a few gourmet chefs who do a bit of wetwork on the side now and then
Escargot is French for snails in herb butter sauce. What is fancier than eating something that eats flowers?
I present to you: the Eastern Earsnake (Auriserpens orientalis LINNAEUS) Well, I once researched muskets and found out, that they had air guns in the 18th century. "The advantages of a high rate of fire, no smoke from propellants, and low muzzle report granted it initial acceptance" It was fast and very quiet in comparison to a musket. But it was expensive and sensitive to damage, that's why it never became widespread in this time. Now, imagine a public person and all their bodyguards were shot in 1780 and nobody heard anything. Cue an early detective story to find out how, who and why dunnit. I haven't written anything about it yet, but I found that inspirational.
'Coq au Vin' & 'Dauphinoise potatoes' sends a different message to different audiences. To Englanders this is the taste of 1975, the worn menu of a High Street bistro, Abigail's Party (food), Delia Smith, Pedigree Chum, Chicken in a basket, a ploughman's lunch, your mother.
Research in Progress, 'A Baseball Game, 2017,' d1 Babe Ruth swung the racket in his big mittens. For two hours Baby stood this wicket. His mittens had became increasingly sweaty and also cumbersome, and his nose was very itchy. Whilst across the astroturf he faced the most dangerous bowler in these New York leagues - Arthur Windsor - raised in the tough projects of Rhode Island. Baby knew if he could only smash the puck out of the stadium, the match would be won, yet he feared dreadfully the 'one hand, once bounce' regulations. He chewed his tabacca, spat, and smeared green juice across his plimsoles.
That's so wrong—it's 'just right'. Need to get my socks now; they earned me two sixes when I laughed them off.
I'm currently learning more than I ever wanted to know about wagon trains heading west in 1855. Good times?
Makes me think of the line in Stand by Me where Wil Wheaton says something like, "Did you ever notice how Wagon Train has been on for years but they ever actually get anywhere?"
Bowler? Do you mean pitcher? I feel like bowler is British terminology for cricket. I've only ever heard "pitcher" here in America for American baseball. Edit: also, I think you mean "bat" and not "racket." In america, racket conjure a tennis racket And it's a batter's glove, baseball glove, or a mitt depending—not mitten. Mittens are soft wooly gloves we wear in winter
The logline for star trek was wagon train in space. So in some sense wagon train has gone everywhere.
Haha, okay, I wasn't sure if it was legitimate mistakes or a joke I erred on the side of confusion Sorry to be a buzzkill (＞人＜)
Yes. There are nine others in that paragraph as well, I think. My favorite is the "tough projects of Rhode Island." Bravo @matwoolf!
I too grew up in the tough Rhode Island projects: I'm lucky to be alive, truth be told. Though to be fair Providence does has a stratospheric murder rate, mainly due to it's smallish population.
I am currently writing a story that is based on the idea that if lets say The lord of the rings is comparable to our medieval time then what does a fantasy realm look like in say the wild west. I am not a fantasy guy so i had to research all the races that inhabit such. In doing so I was able to get a good feel for how each race would evolve of the years ie. Dwarves become the pioneers of industry.
Sounds like fun! You might want to check out the Hexslinger books by Gemma Files for a similar (although, I'm sure, different) take on things.
Its been a lot of work but i think it is fleshing out well. Thank you I will have to check those out. Just from the title it sounds like I am going down a similar road so I might have to rethink some things but that is part of the fun
