Described my trip to the Azores … dinner was eating breakfast on the side of the road that morning … terrible place, you should never go there.
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Oh, hey! I lived in the Azores for a couple years, Terciera island…
Air Force?
I visited Sao Miguel, Faial, and Pico … Terceira is in the middle cluster I believe or the western cluster … I forget … anyway, my grandfather is from Faial and so is my wife’s dad/grandparents.
Lovely place. I’d love to visit Terceira - it was on my short list when I was in the AF but those orders never came.
Basically it results in a loss of water and a more concentrated flavor. So like super beefy flavor to an extreme I’ve never had before.
But I have read that dry aging can vary considerably based on a wide range of factors like meat quality, dry age process, etc
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We buy a side of beef two or three times a year. Fresh from the butcher can’t be beat imo.
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My step-father was Air Force, yes sir. I myself was but a child at the time. I remember cobble stone streets,mules and carts. blood pudding, sea-food, lava rock, cliffs, the running of the bulls (on the streets and on the beach) and bull fights. I was thinking Hawaii prior to landing, so I was disappointed as a kid. I wish I had appreciated it more back then.
best I had was on Pico … it was soo damn good … never was much on bp until I went to the Azores. They live differently on the islands man … that seafood was so damn good man … octopus stew is amazing
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Haha, I could never do the blood pudding. But, yes, I’d watch them dive for those octopus off of sort of natural lave jetties in the bay. That’s cool man. I’ve never met anyone else, irl or online, who has been.
Tons of Azorean people where I live … throw a stone, chances are who it hits has been to at least Sao Miguel if not born on one of the islands
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Lucky for me, I’m dating one.
Getchew one of them anchor babies…
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Not only that, but the swindle occurred during the dying days of the Western Roman Empire. Despite long held beliefs about the “slow decline” the collapse itself was a cataclysmic event, a climax of several incredibly bloody wars against invaders from the East.
What happened? Well, one’s assets and wealth in general in Roman times were primarily stored in real estate - land. That’s why the Vandal conquest of North Africa in mid 5th century doomed the Western Roman Empire as their elite was at a stroke stripped of most of their wealth.
This scenario was set to repeat itself in other rich Roman provinces, notably Gaul. If you were a rich provincial and fled from the incoming Franks or whomever, you’d stand to lose most of your assets because you couldn’t take your land with you.
That means you had to stay and cut a deal with the invaders. And for that to work you had to show you’re not a threat to their authority and that you’re not a potential rival. So exit the Roman equestrian and enter the Catholic bishop - the same individual. And so the differentiation between the secular and religious was born - “Hey Clovis, I’m a caretaker of people souls who just happens to be a rich landowner, and I’m only interested in saving people souls, not running Nimes again. So please let me (and my estates) be and I won’t interfere with your worldy kingdom”
And the invaders mostly took those types of deals (albeit extracting massive taxes) and tolerated Christian bishops. Distinguished families of Roman elites stopped preparing their sons for civic offices and started preparing them for similar lucrative posts - bishops.
Even after the fall of the Western Roman Empire Bishops of Rome held both religious office and kept Roman titles and functions inherited from the early days of the Roman Republic. Pope Gregory VII was the last pope that was also a roman consul, an archaic title denoting his duties in the city of Rome.
That’s how you end up with Popes calling themselves “bridge building overseers” after ancient Etruscan priests who predicted the flooding of Tiber.
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There is more to celebacy among the clergy than land ownership.
Was partly a joke. The gymnastics part. But, as far as teachers go… Are we sure? I’ve read some articles about "passing the trash around,’ or something like that. The practice of moving ‘trouble’ teachers about.
Actually here, A somewhat recent story.
The idea of saints comes from the ancient Greeks. Saints are a link between the material world and the spiritual world. People pray directly to the saints because it is believed they can intercede on our behalf since they are in the after life.
Is that like the plutonic ethereal realm of forms? Always more of a Socrates fan myself.
It’s more like the hero cult.
Nietche then.
I hear that. Butcher > supermarket, and it ain’t close.
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Maybe an anchor wife? Then my beef is assured.
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