MORE random pics......

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I can finally share on this thread!
Ive lurked on it for years, and I finally have my own pic that appropriate!
This is me and 2 "associates" at the Kalamazoo Santacon 12/15/12


-tom

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Just relax and don't stare!

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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Ok... I had to find out.

Really, what sounds more appetizing than juice from a Jew's ear, especially "Quality Jew's ear selected from Changbai Mountain?"

I'm actually pretty nervous to try it. From the Chinese name, 黑木耳露, I know that it's wood ear juice. Wood ear (evidently a.k.a. Jew's ear) is a fungus that's pretty common in Chinese dishes, but I would never think about drinking it.

It's a nasty-looking thick semi-transparent cloudy brown liquid. It's smell is weird, like a mix between the apple vinegar drink and turkey gravy. It's a little thick and slimy, but the flavor is actually mild. The flavor isn't anything at all like the cooked wood ear that I'm used to eating.

It's so strange that it tastes like bland, bad, old apple cider, that I decided to check the ingredients. The Jew's Ear Juice is made of: pure water, black wood ear (Jew's ear), haw (Chinese hawthorn), big Chinese date, sugar, honey, sodium of citric acid, and stabilizer.

It all makes sense now, the strange appley flavor is coming from the haw. It does taste similar to hawthorne juice now that I think of it.

Well, the can says that if you drink the Jew's ear juice cold, it's clear and refreshing, but you can heat it up to make it more "densely" fragrant. I gotta try it.

Wow this stuff heats up fast. Granted, I only heated a little bit, but I think due to the thickness or sugar or something, it started boiling after about 20 seconds in the microwave.

They were right about the smell, it is definitely denser. The strange thing is that it now smells more like food, almost like spaghetti-o's. Believe it or not, Jew's ear juice actually tastes better hot. Maybe it's the thickness, but I think it's just that wood ear is usually served cold, and when the juice is hot it reminds me less that I'm drinking fungus juice.

Auricularia auricula-judae

[kach22i]

That water they are diving into doesn't look very deep.

Interesting Engineering
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=413370555399321&set=a.139188862817493.25247.139188202817559&type=1&theater

Socket with USB ports for charging.
More at : Interesting Engineering

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Originally Posted by kach22i

That water they are diving into doesn't look very deep.

Interesting Engineering
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=413370555399321&set=a.139188862817493.25247.139188202817559&type=1&theater

Fantastic idea! You could ditch those charging adapters.

[kach22i]

The below has some remarkable and thought-provoking pictures from around the World shortly after the end of WW II.

World War II: After the War
World War II: After the War - In Focus - The Atlantic

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That is a bad idea!

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Cougar!

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