Perhaps not controversial, but I like to study / read old 19th century school texts; the Ray's Arithmetic series (which includes algebra, geomety, and more), McGuffey Readers, U.S. History texts by Eggleston and by Alexander Stevens, other geometry texts, etc. There are a couple of really neat web sites for someone such as myself who likes to indulge in this pursuit. Add to that the utopian literature of the 1890s and various utopian experimental communities throughout the 19th century.
Controversial Love, or the thing you love that everyone looks at you funny for.
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I think Gilbert Gottfried is pretty damn funny and a lot of people can't stand him.
I also have to admit to loving Gilbert. I am also a fan of Finnish death metal, so clearly I am a weirdo.
Playing the accordion.
My step father, now deceased, played Accordion. Played with Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers for a brief while.
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“Aircooled”
Liver....Love it...All varieties....Chicken. calves, GOOSE, any form of pate....etc etc.... (pretty much all entrails hearts, kidneys, marrow...all the disgusting stuff)
There....I said it!
There....I said it!
People always look at me funny when I eat a really good piece of sharp cheddar with my apple pie. I actually don't like it with ice cream.
Yodeling cowboy songs... Slim Whitman, Ranger Doug and Riders in the Sky, Don Walser...
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Twisted Sister. Yes, they looked like a joke, but more than a few of their songs just frickin rock.
Ketchup on French Toast. Most Americans I tell this to would rather start WWIII than even contemplate it.
Wearing a kilt. Nuff said.
Ketchup on French Toast. Most Americans I tell this to would rather start WWIII than even contemplate it.
Wearing a kilt. Nuff said.
do you have some links you would share?
I have been married for 18 years, but this breakfast ritual still makes my wife roll her eyes. I take three eggs over easy and hashbrowns with cheese and onions. I eat the egg whites first, as they add nothing to the meal so I want to get rid of them quick. I place the yolks on top of the hashbrowns. I do dip some toast, but most of the yolks gets into the hashbrowns. I then mix up the HBs and yolks, and add pepper and ketchup (it must be Heinz). I do this with corned beef hash, too.
You guys are all weird as hell!
George Michael songs from the late 80's and early 90s, my friends love to tease me about it.
The Nietz Full-Text Collection (http://digital.library.pitt.edu/n/nietz/) contains 141 schoolbooks from the Nietz Old Textbook Collection of 19th century schoolbooks. Click on the "browse books" tab at the top to see an alphabetical listing.
Don Potter's education pages (http://www.donpotter.net/education_pages/) contains links to numerous pages and texts related to educational history, much related to the nineteenth century.
Here's a few on special topics: The New England Primer, with an introduction by Paul Leicester Ford can be found at.http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00acj3379m;view=toc;c=nietz. Henry Vail's recollections concerning the history of the McGuffey Readers can be found at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15577. John Taylor Gatto's "Underground History of American Education" is online at johntaylorgatto.com.
Lastly, there is the on-line "One Room Schoolhouse Center" at.http://oneroomschoolhousecenter.weebly.com/.
So far, I haven't met anybody who shares this line of interest.
I loves Chicken & Waffles!
It's only controversial to those that haven't tried the combo. I draw the line at pouring gravy on the waffles though.
Hot sauce on the chicken and syrup on he waffles. SCHWING!
It's only controversial to those that haven't tried the combo. I draw the line at pouring gravy on the waffles though.
Hot sauce on the chicken and syrup on he waffles. SCHWING!
Garlic.
Can sometimes generate looks when someone catches it on your breath.
Their problem! Just had some in mashed potatoes. Lovely!
Can sometimes generate looks when someone catches it on your breath.
Their problem! Just had some in mashed potatoes. Lovely!
Everything hashbrowns from waffle house. The chili and white gravy make a delicious mix on top of the cheese and veggies.
I've never been able to have chicken and waffles together but it sounds excellent. I've got plenty of fried chicken/waffle places around me but no one does it together. There is one place that does something called the redneck special - biscuit and country fried steak covered in sausage gravy and topped with 2 fried eggs hehe.
I've never been able to have chicken and waffles together but it sounds excellent. I've got plenty of fried chicken/waffle places around me but no one does it together. There is one place that does something called the redneck special - biscuit and country fried steak covered in sausage gravy and topped with 2 fried eggs hehe.
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The key to great chicken and waffles, as I understand it, is that the chicken needs to be pan fried and not deep fried. Of course, I'm a Yankee and will defer to the expertise of the real Southerners on B&B about perfect fried chicken.
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