Post Race!

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

That experimental recipe sounds like Cincinnati chili. They're big into the cinnamon chili.

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Been there, done that. I found it a little on the sweet side for my taste. This chili I had today wasn't so sweet but the cocoa really seemed to mellow out the spice. The flavor was novel, but not so much that I wouldn't accept it any day. Some "fun" recipes for things work once or twice but not regularly.

I wish I'd shown up earlier. They were out of baked potatoes, and chili works great as a topping on those.

They said the plan might be to extend their season a little this year with a chili, soup, and potato operation. Ice cream sales alone drop off too fast after Labor Day. Chili sales have been so good they might stay open a whole extra month.

I wasn't impressed by the Cincinnati chili, and too sweet does sound right. It wasn't my preferred flavor for chili.

Chili pepper and chocolate go well together, so it wouldn't surprise me for cocoa and chili to work well together. At one point, I made fuego fudge, which was some simple chocolate fudge with a couple drops of an artificial hot sauce. Artificial hot sauces are those that have more capsaicin than any pepper has naturally. It's essentially capsaicin in some kind of medium. In that case, it was fruit, but there was so much capsaicin that nothing else could be tasted much.

I didn't think the fudge worked all that well. It tasted great, and did what I wanted, but was essentially a dirty trick to play on people. It would start off as a rich, though heavy, fudge, and then the burn would set in.

I used to be a lot more interested in spice like that. Some bars would bring you a basket of chips and a carrier full of various bottled pepper sauces.

While I still use dried red pepper flakes and even some of the Asian chili pastes and such I don't go to Thai restaurants and fry my tongue any more.

I've dialed it back a bit, as well. I still enjoy spicy food, but if it gets too spicy, it just isn't worth it anymore.

Why so many "guest" visitors here? I see well over 3,000 right now. Can most of them be bots?

I understand people ending up here through searches, but it still seems out of proportion.

Probably bots. I assume that they'd show up as guests.

Uninvited guests!!!

I'll be off sailing for a week, or so. Didn't want the Post Race to vanish while I was gone.

Sailing. Takes me away to where I've always heard it could be.

I'm seeing a sharp decline in junk mail. Is this mainly technology, the increased cost of printing, a tight economy where ads don't stimulate sales, or what?

Mailmen must be getting nervous.

Now that you mention it, I seem to be getting less, as well. It's only fourth class mail, but I would guess that the rate of return on your dollar for junk mail versus spam is modest.

The volume of mail has been in decline for quite some time.

Back when I owned my Allstate agency, I did direct mail campaigns. By far my biggest expense was paying someone to print the copywrite, handwrite the address, and assemble the envelope.

My contact rate hovered between 2-3% but when you consider how cheap direct mail actually is (and how expensive auto insurance is in Louisiana), I would only need to write 1 out of every 10 people who contacted us from a direct mail campaign to make money.

If I hadn't sold the agency, direct mail would probably still be my number 1 marketing tool.

This is a lot of bull!!

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ebraska-watusi

What in the world...

Maybe his horn was broken and he decided for a makeshift replacement.

I liked the fact that the car was outfitted specially for the bull, but that seems like a lot of BS, to me.

On the other hand, maybe the guy was just REALLY into leather seats. He just wanted them to be super fresh.

Well the best leather is pliable and compliant, right? Maybe he had psychological profiles at hand to make his selection among types of cattle and this one is near the top?

Bull...

Still, that leather does have an advantage: You'd have a heated seat.