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andyt
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:14 am
Relatively, people spend less on food than they ever have. Ie food has become cheaper relative to incomes. (Of course that's an average, and those well below average won't be celebrating.) But I if we look at California and other areas affected by climate change, I think we're about to get hit hard by high food costs. Meanwhile in Vancouver we're busy building houses on our prime farmland, that, especially with climate change could feed probably most of BC. Just have to preserve the food for the non-growing season, that's all. And that frost free season is extending.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:17 am
Wait a second, this was a flight from Toronto to Ottawa? The fat, privileged bitch can't make her own breakfast before heading off to work? I mean it's not like she was already in Ottawa. It basically sounds like she left for work and decided to let the taxpayers pay for her meal once she arrived in Ottawa because broken crackers and cold cheese on the plane don't cut it, when she could have just as easily eaten at home before leaving for work. This is the kind of bullshit "entitlement" that pisses people off.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:33 am
andyt andyt: Relatively, people spend less on food than they ever have. Ie food has become cheaper relative to incomes. (Of course that's an average, and those well below average won't be celebrating.) But I if we look at California and other areas affected by climate change, I think we're about to get hit hard by high food costs. Meanwhile in Vancouver we're busy building houses on our prime farmland, that, especially with climate change could feed probably most of BC. Just have to preserve the food for the non-growing season, that's all. And that frost free season is extending. I've been seeing people making fun of that water situation in Cali all week. Our time is coming, we won't be laughing for very long.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:39 am
The flight is an hour. I used to fly between Kinmen and Taipei about once every two weeks. It was about an hour and twenty minutes. I got up early and fixed breakfast at home. Had a congee/sagwo on the flight and was able to wait for lunch because we always had muffins, doughnuts or something with coffee and or tea at morning meetings. $1: Meanwhile in Vancouver we're busy building houses on our prime farmland, that, especially with climate change could feed probably most of BC. They've been doing that in southern Ontario for over a century.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:55 am
Had a congee/sagwo on the flight
Is that, like, cold Camembert and broken crackers?
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andyt
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 9:58 am
Rice gruel. Never had it, doubt I'd want to.
Rice has been shown to contain large amounts of arsenic. They recommend not eating it too frequently, washing well before cooking, and other measures I can't recall. Does that mean most Asians have arsenic poisoning?
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:04 am
$1: Is that, like, cold Camembert and broken crackers?
Congee had noodles, chicken, mushrooms, rice and onions.....like really hearty chicken and rice soup with a thicker broth. The sagwo was a barley porridge with pork, onions and mushrooms. The consistency was similar to a really thick beef and barley soup with lots more meat and barley.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:42 am
andyt andyt: Rice gruel. Never had it, doubt I'd want to.
Rice has been shown to contain large amounts of arsenic. They recommend not eating it too frequently, washing well before cooking, and other measures I can't recall. Does that mean most Asians have arsenic poisoning? Who knows? At least 20% of China's farmland has been made toxic by heavy and other toxic metals like arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel salts, cadmium etc.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:43 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog: $1: Is that, like, cold Camembert and broken crackers?
Congee had noodles, chicken, mushrooms, rice and onions.....like really hearty chicken and rice soup with a thicker broth. The sagwo was a barley porridge with pork, onions and mushrooms. The consistency was similar to a really thick beef and barley soup with lots more meat and barley. Scrap the onions and they both sound delicious.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:53 am
It's the garlic, leeks and onion that pushes it into really delicious. The sagwo was served all day long. it was great on cool winter mornings and evenings. It's seriously stick to your ribs food, tsai bao(vegetable filled steamed bun) or a baozi (meat filled steamed bun) or a mantou was a good side. The ground pork and corn congee was tasty too, but it was REALLY hard to find and was often sold out.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 10:59 am
Oh, you're such an asshole....
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:12 am
The length of the flight is irrelevant.
Going back to my experience with my employer, if your flight leaves home before 12 noon or returns home after 5pm then you are considered to have been traveling the full day and are entitled for a full $45 meal allowance for that day. However, if you fly out from home after 12pm or land back home before 5pm then it's considered a half day of travel and you only get a portion of the full day's meal allowance.
As I understand this auditor's issue, it's not that she should've eaten at home. It's that the auditor thought she got a meal already included with her flight and so was double dipping when she claimed the expense.
But this is all penny-ante crap anyway. How much money are we talking about? Tens of dollars? And if we had a per-diem instead of this stupid receipt shit it wouldn't have even come up as an issue: "We know you're traveling, eat or don't eat, buy a million dollar steak, we don't care, here's your $45 for the day (or whatever amount) it's all the reimbursement you get." Works perfectly.
Keep going after the Duffys and the Wallins and the big fish cheating on thousands of dollars and stop trying to take people down over piddly little nothings.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:17 am
I agree Beaver, and now I'm leaving this thread before my stomach consumes itself.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:33 am
Foods I just mentioned are incredibly cheap to make and are very filling. Breakfast usually cost about $1 - $2 Canadian, and it included hot milky coffee and hot milk tea or that vile soy milk. Jian Jao/Jaozi were my favorite, or Dan bing with Luo Bo Gao. Going to head to the Chinese market in PA or Saskatoon on Wednesday.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 11:39 am
I keep rereading it and it's just making me angry. I have rice, pasta, mushrooms potatoes, and onions out of that ingredients list at this moment... Which actually is fine, can build an okay meal out of that.... But what you wrote is causing me to salivate.
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