Grrl Power #364 – They like us! They mostly really like us!
By saying “attitudes trend positive” Arianna is obviously glazing over the more extreme fear mongers and other individuals or organizations that garner the majority of their ratings through emotional appeal without regard to any long term consequences of doing so. While some of those people may well have valid points, they also tend to move on to the next scandal or policy hypochondria quickly. Eventually the more relentlessly belligerent voices will need to be addressed, but not today.
The concerns about Dabbler’s origins are the usual conspiracy theories and theistic lamentations. They just happen to be right in as much as Dabbler is not a super human, but is actually a demon, but they’re also wrong that she’s here to swallow our souls. Humans are enormously tribalistic, a word I use to mean that we can find an excuse to hate murder anyone who isn’t in our group, be it race, religion, gender, sexuality, hair color probably. “Methodists? They make Episcopalians look like Presbyterians.” The joke being that few people not actually in one of those groups can identify any meaningful differences, (often many who are in those groups can’t either) yet in years past, Protestants and Catholics over in England, who were almost entirely racially homogeneous and agreed on 99% of everything murdered the shit out of each other for decades. I think one group was more in to Mary maybe? It’s a way less funny prequel to “There’s Something About Mary”
Anyway, that’s why they’re being cautious about outing Dabbler. Probably going to try and wait till she’s saved the world at least once. Besides the whole demon thing, it’s proof of advanced life and civilizations beyond humanity which is actually way bigger news than an official federal super team.
No one there has anything in particular against Kelly Rippa. It’s just fun to watch people unaccustomed to spicy food try and eat something genuinely hot. I like this video, it’s not full of spice noobs, but one guy does eventually bury his face in a gallon of ice cream. Not surprising since they all load up Ghost Peppers (900K Scovilles) with “Satan’s Shit” (1.3M) and “The Source” (7.1M). It’s a little bro-y, but they suffer for your entertainment so it’s ok.
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Which, of course, is why we want the recipe. A flavorful, Halo-level spicy spaghetti sauce? Sign me up! And I agree on the problem with super-spicy peppers: I have a shaker of dried Jolokia flakes, and love the heat, but don’t like the flavor of the pepper itself.
I can think of another use for what Arianna just asked. Imagine some of their recipes – spaghetti sauce, barbecue sauce, etc. – marketed to the public. Even for Halo, there is a market for ‘gourmet’ super-spicy food. In other words, any original recipes would definitely sell if brought to market.
This is why I never liked jalapenos either. Tastes like grass or something. Habanero might be my favorite balance of flavor and heat so far, not that I can even find anything hotter around here without internet intervention to begin with. The habaneros are hard enough as it is. If you want a mixed thing that’s like salt, habanero powder and stuff? Local store. Actual habaneros themselves? Maybe. Nice and easy habanero powder or a hot sauce with them? Internet.
I thought I was weird for liking spice but finding peppers distasteful? Cool to learn otherwise!
What is this “The Source?” According to my looking’ things up, the hottest around is the Carolina Reaper at only 2.2million scovilles. Although supposedly, there is someone banking seeds of a 4million whopper to ensure he keeps the record…
https://www.amazon.com/The-Source-Sauce-Million-Scoville/dp/B001BIXJG2
The first thing that shows up when you google “The source hot sauce”
It comes with more legal warnings than I can count, instructions for tasting it say to take a toothpick, dip it barely into the sauce, and just barely touch your tongue with the toothpick…and then cry (I added that part). I believe the ratio it recommends is 3 drops to a gallon of chili, any more and you’ve ruined the chili beyond repair. I could be wrong on the numbers there but not the idea and the implications. It legitimately warns that death is a possible side effect of excessive consumption. Excessive consumption being defined as putting 4 drops on a hot dog I guess.
Also, apparently Blair’s makes one that’s 16 million scoville units.
They will not sell it to you if you’re under 21, and it’s black as sin. Order at your own risk.
So, you’re saying that stuff is hot…
I’m saying it would make Sydney hesitate.
16 million scoville, for the record, is about triple the spiciness of tear gas.
The definition of toxic waste used to include (paraphrasing) ‘Aqueous wastes with a pH value of less than x or more than y’
Then the definition got changed, on account of soda matching it. The fun to be had when you use chemical processes to make your food-stuffs.
Some of these foods sound sufficiently ‘chemically caustic’ as to merit a Scoville entry in the definition of toxic waste.
Sez DaveB:
Humans are enormously tribalistic, a word I use to mean that we can find an excuse to hate murder anyone who isn’t in our group, be it race, religion, gender, sexuality, hair color probably.
This is a cartoon about the same idea. It comes from MGM, was released in 1939, and was called “Peace On Earth.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-zuf_tO9U
Hi do you, or anyone else on this thread know what are the names of habanero or ghost peppers in latin america. I have exhausted my local sources for spicy peppers and sauces, and wanted to try to find these. However, noone knows them by these names.
thanks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
Enough said, you couldn’t think to look up Scoville Scale? Really?
It’s literaly the name of the hero of our favorite webcomic.
That doesn’t really answer his question.
The proper name of the ghost pepper is Bhut Jolokia, although I don’t know if that one will help you in latin america.
The fact that nobody knows the habanero in Latin america is weird though.
I know a couple of people in Mexico who call Habaneros “Scotch Bonnets” – But only when they’re speaking English. I don’t know what they call them in Spanish.
North of the border, “Scotch Bonnet” refers to a different (but very closely related) pepper.
*raises hand* YES YES! ME ME ME! XD
P.s: LOVE this comic. Keep it up!
“They’re super! Thanks for asking!” wins, hands down.
Apparently, in this reality Kelly Rippa has two P’s in her last name. And Syndey’s sauce is going to burn the P out of her.
Can I have a “P” please Bob?
R.I.P. Bob.
Ugh. Obviously I missed it, but when did Dabbler reveal her true appearance? I thought it was quite recently that there were very few who knew what she ready looked like (?)
She introduced the idea of a “battle form” during the press conference and changed publicly during the fight.
While it wasn’t a good reason to kill each other, there’s is quite a big difference between the catholic and protestant beliefs.
Catholics beleive all sorts of stuff about Mary being the mother’s of God, and some sort of big deal. Also, that you need a priest to confess sins, and the existence of purgatory, the transformation of the bread and wine into actual flesh and blood, etc.
Protestants believe none of this. Mary was just a regular woman, you need no priest for forgiveness, no purgatory, and we get that the flesh and blood thing was symbolic.
Important differences everyone should know.
“Goddess of Ash” … Damn girl, though that might be a better one for a fire based super, just saying.
Watchmen reference. Nice!
Now we need to see that happen in this comic!
We ever going to get access to that report? Or at least some of the internet names that people are getting?
If I have the impression of casting lead ingot in the johns, the thing I ate the previous day was perfect. If I have the impression that there’s also an Icicle trying to violate my butt I must balance out the acidity for next time.
I think you mean Kelly Ripa?
I just realized that Sydney and Maxima can’t be “ispired” by Varia because their powers can switch around.
I think their ability has to be active… in order to activate Varia’s ability.
Hmmm…
Is there a way to activate/deactivate thread notices other than directly posting?
I bet the Code of Federal Regulations has some obscure prohibition against employing/enlisting/commissioning extraterrestrials and/or sentient insect hive-minds. But as I was told many times in the Army, “EVERYTHING is waiverable.” If the brass thinks it’s a good idea, they’ll draft and sign explicit orders to do it.
Dear Goddess, I only just grasped that Sydney’s name is Scoville….
In hindsight, the battle-form excuse and Dabblers existent clearly indicated the larger involvement of aliens down the road, but I never saw the council coming.
Why does Varia look like the Chad face? Lmao