The good thing of course is that it takes away the
fear of frivolous litigation; the bad thing is that
the accountability factor is way down.

There needs to be more of a balance there...

A long as you've got clever people running the
law offices and insurance companies, there will
never be a stable balance, just a perpetual
seesaw, but I guess that in itself is a kind
of balance.

As with other things presented to us as certainties,
the science is in its infancy and not nearly so
sure as people pretend. One can get a rough guide
based on the unanimity of reputable sources, of
course, of which there hasn't been any regarding
protein, plus, of course, there aren't any reputable
sources on nutritional theory.

Depends on what one counts as reputable, I suppose... ;) Nutritionists
of all stripes might argue you on that last... :) Going back to what
might make it count as a protein food, I would think that something that
only has a small amount of protein, whether complete or incomplete,
shouldn't be considered a protein food (although it would contribute to
total protein intake)...

Coming back to what constitutes a protein food or
a protein at all. What if something is plenty of
most of the amino acids but is totally deficient
in one or a few? It is my impression that the
protein assay is limited by the limiting protein,
in the current way of thinking.

Methionine is the weakest, but it's also relatively
low in cysteine, leucine, and lysine, which a handful
of nuts or scoop of beans or any small amount of meat
will remedy (looked it up).

I did finally check the eggplant, it has only 1 g protein per cup
serving... I don't know which amino acids it might or might not have...

...

And I misinterpreted the article by not reading it
literally enough. The order in which the foods were
given was eggplant, rice, wheat. Given eggplant's
seeming nonnutritivenes I imagined that it was the
weak link, but it's not.

What is its amino acid profile...?

See my post that you quoted. Those are the five that
presumably disqualify it as a protein food.

Thanks for that. It appears to me that 20-30 is
a comfortable daily load, with up to twice that
affording everyone the chance to read (or at least
skim) everything if one wanted to. I can't any more
imagine what people did in the 100+ a day days.

In the days of 500+ a day in Genealogy, I remember focusing on the ones
to me, and skimming the rest... it was way easy to fall FAR behind...
One learned not to jump in to answer easy questions, lest the traffic
get further out of hand... ;) Nowadays... well, it took me a couple of
days to actually read the week's mail... :) And then a couple more to
get things answered... ;)

Probably, in the vast numerosity of yesteryear's
mail, there was less substance per average post,
with lots of people posting because they liked
the sight of their own words, rather than any
content thing. Of course, picking and choosing
took a bunch of time, which I wouldn't have been
all that eager to invest.

As it turned out, not only did I not have telnet access, I also barely
had phone service... most of the time it showed as No Service, and when
it did say Home, I'd only have one signal strength bar... I'm sure that when we were there 2 years ago the service was at least a little better.... :)

But who needed it anyway, right?

It would have been convenient for communications between different
camping areas (two of the cabins were farther than I could easily walk,
and my cabin was the closest to the tent/RV areas)... and also for
calling home to check on Richard....

Ah, not things within my radar. For me, anything
that needs relatively instant attention, well, I
can use the e-mail or if not can find someone
who has a phone to lend within a day or two.

Tea smoked chicken
categories: Chinese, Cantonese, Singaporean, poultry, main, starter
yield: 1

1 chicken
2 ts salt
2 ts chicken powder
1/4 c uncooked rice
1/4 c Chinese tea leaves
2 Tb sugar

Marinate chicken with salt and chicken powder
in fridge for 6 hr or overnight.

Steam chicken for 30 min. Keep the chicken dripping.

Line the wok with aluminum foil and add the tea,
rice and sugar. Turn on the burner. Once smoke
appears, smoke chicken for 8 min or until it
turns to a nice bronze colour. Rest for 10 min.
Chop the chicken and serve with chicken dripping

Enjoy the oohs and ahhs all round the table!

Alvin at Eastern House of Seafood via ieatishootipost.sg
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Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 08-08-18 06:36 <=-

based on the unanimity of reputable sources, of course, of
which there hasn't been any regarding protein, plus, of course,
there aren't any reputable sources on nutritional theory.

Depends on what one counts as reputable, I suppose... ;) Nutritionists
of all stripes might argue you on that last... :) Going back to what
might make it count as a protein food, I would think that something that only has a small amount of protein, whether complete or incomplete, shouldn't be considered a protein food (although it would contribute to total protein intake)...

Coming back to what constitutes a protein food or a protein
at all. What if something is plenty of most of the amino
acids but is totally deficient in one or a few? It is my
impression that the protein assay is limited by the limiting
protein, in the current way of thinking.

Again, probably depends on who one asks.... and what their view on
proteins is... And how up on and willing to add complementary foods to
the deficient food in question....

Methionine is the weakest, but it's also relatively
low in cysteine, leucine, and lysine, which a handful
of nuts or scoop of beans or any small amount of meat
will remedy (looked it up).

I did finally check the eggplant, it has only 1 g protein per cup
serving... I don't know which amino acids it might or might not have...

...

And I misinterpreted the article by not reading it
literally enough. The order in which the foods were
given was eggplant, rice, wheat. Given eggplant's
seeming nonnutritivenes I imagined that it was the
weak link, but it's not.

What is its amino acid profile...?

See my post that you quoted. Those are the five that
presumably disqualify it as a protein food.

Oh, I guess I thought you were referring to potatoes in that listing for
some reason... :) As I usually am serving eggplant with at least some
meat and/or dairy, apparently its protein is useful.. ;)

or skim) everything if one wanted to. I can't any more
imagine what people did in the 100+ a day days.

In the days of 500+ a day in Genealogy, I remember focusing on the ones
to me, and skimming the rest... it was way easy to fall FAR behind...
One learned not to jump in to answer easy questions, lest the traffic
get further out of hand... ;) Nowadays... well, it took me a couple of
days to actually read the week's mail... :) And then a couple more to
get things answered... ;)

Probably, in the vast numerosity of yesteryear's
mail, there was less substance per average post,
with lots of people posting because they liked
the sight of their own words, rather than any
content thing. Of course, picking and choosing
took a bunch of time, which I wouldn't have been
all that eager to invest.

Actually, in genealogy there was mostly content, and sometimes quite a
lot of it packed into a message... And there were a lot of people
regularly posting... probably a couple hundred of regulars....

As it turned out, not only did I not have telnet access, I also barely had phone service... most of the time it showed as No Service, and when it did say Home, I'd only have one signal strength bar... I'm sure that when we were there 2 years ago the service was at least a little better.... :)

But who needed it anyway, right?

It would have been convenient for communications between different
camping areas (two of the cabins were farther than I could easily walk,
and my cabin was the closest to the tent/RV areas)... and also for
calling home to check on Richard....

Ah, not things within my radar. For me, anything
that needs relatively instant attention, well, I
can use the e-mail or if not can find someone
who has a phone to lend within a day or two.

Email might have been a challenge there, too... But at least some people
did have decent phone service... when I needed to get through to
Richard, I ended up using Lydia's phone, which did have a little better service... Tait's apparently also went through, but Richard didn't
recognize the number, and it wasn't in the phone's limited directory
with her name on it unlike Lydia's...

ttyl neb

... Have your service call my service; our services will do lunch.

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