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Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« on: April 11, 2019, 09:14:45 AM »
https://www.southernthing.com/mississippi-residents-reports-bowls-of-mashed-potatoes-are-being-left-on-their-property-2634234222.html
Mississippi residents report mysterious bowls of mashed potatoes are being left on their property

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WJTV reports te Belhaven, Miss., community have been finding mashed potatoes in odd places, including door steps, tops of cars and other places that generally aren't exactly common spots for mashed potatoes to be located. The residents who found mashed potatoes on their property live on different streets in different parts of the area.

https://www.wjtv.com/news/local-news/several-belhaven-neighbors-find-bowls-of-mystery-mashed-potatoes-in-their-front-yard/1912731437
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"Some people were thinking maybe the mashed potatoes were poisoned to kill animals. I didn't taste it, I have a 3 second rule, so I didn't touch it but some people were worried," Bjernegard said.
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2019, 09:36:06 AM »
Someone twisting this into some sort of Trump racist attack in 10,9,8,7.............
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2019, 10:18:08 AM »
Someone twisting this into some sort of Trump racist attack in 10,9,8,7.............

No, for them (anyone) to easily turn this into a Trumpian attack against god-fearing people they would be have to be leaving slices of white bread laying around, maybe up to a whole loaf if they really wanted to frighten the populace. ;)

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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2019, 10:33:23 AM »
I became prejudiced recently.  Anything that's wacko-kooko in the news lately, I automatically think "damn Democrats" first.

I know it's wrong, wrong, wrong, but I can't help it.

I'm not signing this one so nobody will know who posted it.

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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2019, 01:57:08 PM »
I became prejudiced recently.  Anything that's wacko-kooko in the news lately, I automatically think "damn Democrats" first.

I know it's wrong, wrong, wrong, but I can't help it.

I'm not signing this one so nobody will know who posted it.
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2019, 02:18:27 PM »
No, for them (anyone) to easily turn this into a Trumpian attack against god-fearing people they would be have to be leaving slices of white bread laying around, maybe up to a whole loaf if they really wanted to frighten the populace. ;)

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If they can find a way to find Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches racist then they can find a way to find mash potatoes racist
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2019, 04:55:36 PM »
If they can find a way to find Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches racist...

Oh good grief. What did I miss?
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2019, 06:45:24 PM »
Oh good grief. What did I miss?

From 2012
Peanut Butter And Jelly Racist? Portland School Principal Ties Sandwich To White Privilege
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/is-peanut-butter-and-jelly-racist_n_1874905

Apparently if you don't actually used the word racist you can dance around it all you want......if you're lib  :facepalm:

Now note this Snopes article on the matter.
They say it is false but then go on to confirm what was said was actually said.  
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/peanut-butter-jelly-racist/

It could all be BS from all sides, hard to tell anymore.


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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2019, 08:18:59 PM »
From 2012
Peanut Butter And Jelly Racist? Portland School Principal Ties Sandwich To White Privilege
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/is-peanut-butter-and-jelly-racist_n_1874905


Moron.

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“What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?” Gutierrez said, according to the Tribune. “Another way would be to say: ‘Americans eat peanut butter and jelly, do you have anything like that?’ Let them tell you. Maybe they eat torta. Or pita.”

A torta or pita [bread] is not "like" peanut butter or jelly. They would be the analogues for the bread in a PB&J sandwich. With a last name like Gutierrez, this payasa should know that.
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #9 on: April 11, 2019, 09:07:17 PM »
This video is oddly relevant to this thread. Kinda. Pita, PB&J, and culinarily clueless furriners.

https://youtu.be/tFlPRAqUhlI
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2019, 09:13:14 PM »
This video is oddly relevant to this thread. Kinda. Pita, PB&J, and culinarily clueless furriners.

https://youtu.be/tFlPRAqUhlI

What's with this no crunchy PB bull ???  I can't stand smooth PB, there's just something weird about it.
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2019, 09:29:53 PM »
I like both?  I guess I just like peanut butter.  Crunchy is better for sandwiches.  However, aside from maybe some honey, I don't add anything else. 

Creamy PB is better for saltine crackers, but fistful doesn't like that. 
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2019, 09:30:50 PM »
So if those people found mysterious peanut butter laying around, would they accuse someone of trying to kill people with peanut allergies?
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2019, 10:56:40 PM »
This video is oddly relevant to this thread. Kinda. Pita, PB&J, and culinarily clueless furriners.

https://youtu.be/tFlPRAqUhlI

OMG! She used white bread, and then doubled down and used white milk!

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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2019, 11:13:42 PM »
OMG! She used white bread, and then doubled down and used white milk!

RACIST!

It's okay, at least for the bread, it's bleached white bread. Think Michel Jackson.
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #15 on: April 11, 2019, 11:17:49 PM »
What's with this no crunchy PB bull ???  I can't stand smooth PB, there's just something weird about it.

He did a video a few days ago, first time he'd tried PBJ, and he used sourdough, and crunchy peanut butter. He didn't like the sammitch, and a lot of people were telling him that sourdough and crunchy PB were not the best way to make it.
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2019, 06:22:16 AM »
I guess I missed the peanut butter thing, too:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/is-peanut-butter-and-jelly-racist_n_1874905

(Cited above by WLJ, article from 09/12/2012 06:53 pm ET   | Updated Sep 21, 2012)

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As part of a training program known as “Courageous Conversations” that has been phased into Portland schools in recent years, the Tribune reports that staff members at Gutierrez’s school have been going through trainings, classroom observations and exercises, such as reading a news article and then talking about it from the perspective of “white privilege.”


Now that sounds racist to me.

It's training in how to twist things around to fit your agenda.

 :mad:

Why don't they just fund a Chair in "Joseph Goebbels Institute for Propaganda Generation?"

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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2019, 07:17:35 AM »
I like peany bucker (I used to call it that just to PO my mother --even well into my High School days) packed into the trough of celery stalks.

Also, I like to put potato chips on a lot of sammiches and some other things.  That is, if there's no nice crunchy bacon around.

No scientific testing, but I think crunchy peany bucker is better in mouse traps.

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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2019, 10:03:27 AM »
Creamy PB is better for saltine crackers, but fistful doesn't like that. 

I don't? Well, come to think of it, I guess you're right.

Unless you put the PB crackers in a bowl of ice cream. Game changer.
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2019, 10:07:24 AM »
All you need for peanut butter is some honey and a spoon. Mix and eat, pretty basic.  :)

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« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2019, 11:11:09 AM »
I might try that.  Can I leave bowls of it around on random peoples' doorsteps?

I'm surprised nobody's caught the mashed potatoes guy on security cameras.

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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2019, 12:56:29 PM »
All you need for peanut butter is some honey and a spoon. Mix and eat, pretty basic.  :)

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I don't even need the honey. Why must you tempt me with such a diabolic combination? Get the behind me, BobR!
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2019, 02:32:48 PM »
All you need for peanut butter is some honey and a spoon. Mix and eat, pretty basic.  :)

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Yuck! 

Honey, good.  Peanut butter good as long as it's not sweet.  I usually make my own PB just to avoid any sugar.  (now if you add so much sugar you end up with Butterfingers, that's different)
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #23 on: April 12, 2019, 02:46:13 PM »
I might try that.  Can I leave bowls of it around on random peoples' doorsteps?

I'm surprised nobody's caught the mashed potatoes guy on security cameras.
I guess that would weed out all those people with peanut allergies. 
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Re: Mysterious Mashed Potatoes
« Reply #24 on: April 12, 2019, 03:49:30 PM »
Yuck! 

Honey, good.  Peanut butter good as long as it's not sweet.  I usually make my own PB just to avoid any sugar.  (now if you add so much sugar you end up with Butterfingers, that's different)

Peanut butter is also good if you add creole seasoning!