The General Musings of Falkie2013 (George Senda, The Guy From Pittsburgh)

[3OctaveFart]

Buying food isn't complicated. To use the term organic when buying vegetables, sadly isn't just redundant it is a mild form of obfuscation. Buying produce is cheaper than buying meat; and certainly cheaper than the empty calories within the snack aisle.


Tomatoes are usually around 1.40 a pound. Potatoes are less than a dollar a pound.  Onions and lettuce are also under a dollar per pound.

Fuck, I'm posting about shopping for vegetables. I now hate Falkie and Drone.

Go post about Art returning.
That will make it all better.
Like Rainman reciting the phone book in the diner.

[PB the Deplorable]

Read the WebMD article.  No one suggested eating beans all the time.  Since they're high in fiber and anti-oxidants, they should be PART of a healthy diet.  Not the entire diet. Not the majority of the diet. 

And when it come to poor people, beans are a natural because they're CHEAP.  Dried beans, which come in many varieties, cost next to nothing.  And they're not fattening.

Healthy, low in calories, cheap.  Any financially-embarrassed person who does not include them in their diet is very foolish and irresponsible.

We used to have a place nearby that made fantastic tandoori chicken sandwiches, etc, to go.  I'd usually bring home a couple side orders as well, one of which was an amazingly good curried garbanzo beans dish. 

(It sadly closed.  The locals in town were too dense to give it a chance - 'Indian food, whut's that, yuh mean like acorns an' shit?'  They'd rather go to Appleby's or Panda Express, which is why I have to drive to Berkeley or Oakland to find a good place to eat)

Anyway, one of the kids was probably about 5 or 6, and someone asked him what his favor food was.  'Garbanzo beans', he cheerfully replied.  The look on that person's face was priceless.

[aldousburbank]

I raised my kids with gardens. My youngest son's "candies" were always barely washed radishes and carrots, and the stains of heirloom tomatoes were consistently on his clothes. Food is best when you grow your own. Hard work which keeps you active and can be done on the cheap.

[PB the Deplorable]

I raised my kids with gardens. My youngest son's "candies" were always barely washed radishes and carrots, and the stains of heirloom tomatoes were consistently on his clothes. Food is best when you grow your own. Hard work which keeps you active and can be done on the cheap.

That is awesome dude.  That's how it was at my grandparents house.  I'm lucky to have a few places like the Berkeley Bowl to shop at, but I really should be growing at least some of my own

I've met adults who seriously did not know where food came from, other than 'the store' (usually the frozen food aisle)

[aldousburbank]

I raised my kids with gardens. My youngest son's "candies" were always barely washed radishes and carrots, and the stains of heirloom tomatoes were consistently on his clothes. Food is best when you grow your own. Hard work which keeps you active and can be done on the cheap.

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[Yorkshire pud]

That is awesome dude.  That's how it was at my grandparents house.  I'm lucky to have a few places like the Berkeley Bowl to shop at, but I really should be growing at least some of my own

I've met adults who seriously did not know where food came from, other than 'the store' (usually the frozen food aisle)

I thought that was only a phenomenon this side of the pond. But if they didn't learn as children, why would we expect them to know because of the calender when they just don't know but can name all the Kar... ( you know what I was going to say)

[Who]

No one said he needed to be fat, but calorie for calorie it does cost more for "healthier" foods.   How many calories consumed is a whole different story.   I say "healthier" in quotes because I don't particularly believe that "eating healthy" is really something one can or should do in terms of type of foods eaten.   If you can balance both the type of calories you take in and how many you take in, it won't matter if you're eating McDonald's or a salad topped with salmon.

Your knowledge of nutrition is sadly nonexistent, Mr. Drone.  I'm truly sorry you're not capable of grasping simple concepts.  School must have been very difficult for you.

And yes, bitchface kinch (I love calling people like you names), Falkie's time is valuable to him.   You and I can't put a number on that - he can.   If he'd rather eat something fast, that's his business.

If calling me names helps relieve the frustration of living with a severely limited IQ, then more power to you.  Now run along and eat a box of Twinkies.

[area51drone]

I raised my kids with gardens. My youngest son's "candies" were always barely washed radishes and carrots, and the stains of heirloom tomatoes were consistently on his clothes. Food is best when you grow your own. Hard work which keeps you active and can be done on the cheap.

Agreed, home grown food tastes the best simply because you did it yourself.   Unfortunately Falkie doesn't have access to a garden at his small, cramped apartment.    Even if he cleared out all the dummies books and other trinkets in his place, he would still not be able to grow enough food hydroponically.  I guess he's just stuck with his frozen dinners.

[Yorkshire pud]

Agreed, home grown food tastes the best simply because you did it yourself.   Unfortunately Falkie doesn't have access to a garden at his small, cramped apartment.    Even if he cleared out all the dummies books and other trinkets in his place, he would still not be able to grow enough food hydroponically.  I guess he's just stuck with his frozen dinners.

ONLY through choice. He doesn't have to home grow anything to eat healthy food.

[area51drone]

If calling me names helps relieve the frustration of living with a severely limited IQ, then more power to you.  Now run along and eat a box of Twinkies.

For the record, I was calling Kinch a bitchface, not you.

[Who]

Did any of you ever see Hormel Compleats?  They sell for about $2.50 and don't even require freezing or refrigeration.  They have a sell-by date about two years into the future - at room temperature.  Just pop it into the microwave and enjoy.  Better living through chemistry!

[area51drone]

Did any of you ever see Hormel Compleats?  They sell for about $2.50 and don't even require freezing or refrigeration.  They have a sell-by date about two years into the future - at room temperature.  Just pop it into the microwave and enjoy.  Better living through chemistry!

Yumm!

By the way people, Falkie can't post because he can't figure out how to log back into bellgab since the transfer. 

[ONeill]

Yumm!

By the way people, Falkie can't post because he can't figure out how to log back into bellgab since the transfer.

Amazing! It's all MV's fault for sure!

[Who]

Amazing! It's all MV's fault for sure!

Falkie's mother must also share some of the blame, posthumously.

[PB the Deplorable]

Ha I'm back, once again to take my honouable place in the Falkie army...

THAT WOULD BE THE SCORPION ARMY, JR.

MY PORTLAND SOURCE TELLS ME FALKIE WILL BE BACK HERE POSTING IN NO TIME

[SixWeekTenure(tm)]

Looks like we're going to have to make a General Musings of Falkie2015 thread.

[Chocolate coated jackboot]

in the mean time, enjoy the much anticipated interview with Noory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3THyEP4c1E

[paladin1991]

Ha I'm back, once again to take my honouable place in the Falkie army of verbaly Blue Cross specialing haters. But now I got to go tend to my gardens. Take no prisoners Falkie, and show no mercy. There are no Geneva Convention Laws on Bellgab hahahahaha.

casio!  Human filth!  You are back.  And here I thought you had been arrested again.  Funny, we were discussing food and gardens and then, you suddenly have to go tend your gardens.   
If we were talking about oil changes on our cars would you have to go change the oil on your Testarossa?

Gasbag.

Assbag. 

Casio.

[paladin1991]

Yumm!

By the way people, Falkie can't post because he can't figure out how to log back into bellgab since the transfer.

really?    Why dont you help him?

[paladin1991]

It's the Admin who has the dns issue with the bellgab site. Falkie has to keep on logging in until the system accepts his handle and password. It finally accepted mine today.

Whew!  And here we thou ghirardelli ht we had lost you casio.

Gasbag.
Assbag.

[Daggit]

I have seen the light and I have now been converted from a Falkie hater to a Falkie enabler. There will be no more hating posts from me. Ever since I found out that Falkie would be using his Noory interview to plug Art Bell's new show I have a new found respect for the guy.

Could someone please quote my post as I'm sure Falkie has me on ignore. I would like Falkie to take me off ignore as I will only be enabling him from now on.

I'm sure Drone will agree with me that the only way for Falkie to make any decent money on YouTube will be by degrading himself. I propose that Falkie and Kathy address their haters in a similar fashion to these guys. Kathy is way prettier than this skank.

http://youtu.be/L1M4WZR9vGc

Could someone repost this video too just so that Falkie will see it and emulate it.

#TEAMFALKIE #HATERNOMORE #DRONEWINS #DESIGNEDTOMAKEHIMMONEY

[PathoJen]

http://youtu.be/JGJt0JXX05M

A viral video that features one man, talking about racism, sitting in his truck and it's over 30 seconds. I really hope Falkie hits the mother load someday with one of his vids.

[Roswells, Art]

The ball cancer is strong in this thread.

[PB the Deplorable]

... the much anticipated interview with Noory...

Falkie, please interview Tommy this weekend.  Ask George, and he will make it so.

It's not fair George gets all the airtime, all the interviews, all the groupies - we want to hear from Tommy too!

Potential question topics:  Aspirations to host a show of his own.  What he really thinks of George.  How closely he listens to the show while taking calls.  Some stories about George that haven't been told.  Stories about the two of them out on the town.  Any personal stories he cares to share.  What HE thinks of BellGab and the shout outs he gets from posters

We know he's busy, so even 5 or 10 minutes is better than nothing

To make him comfortable and at home you could start him off by asking him how he is, how he got innerested in radio production.

[PB the Deplorable]

It's the Admin who has the dns issue with the bellgab site. Falkie has to keep on logging in until the system accepts his handle and password. It finally accepted mine today.

Isn't the issue with the DNS server the ISP is using - how quickly it updates?

So continually logging in is a waste of time, the site either loads or it doesn't.  If it's not loading, it will within a day or two

[area51drone]

I'm sure Drone will agree with me that the only way for Falkie to make any decent money on YouTube will be by degrading himself. I propose that Falkie and Kathy address their haters in a similar fashion to these guys. Kathy is way prettier than this skank.

#TEAMFALKIE #HATERNOMORE #DRONEWINS #DESIGNEDTOMAKEHIMMONEY

I think the more he degrades himself the more he'll get quick attention, and that could lead to big bucks.  But he has no interest in doing so.  He'd rather schlep it out like everyone else who has worked hard to get to the position they're in in life.   If this new deal works for him, maybe he made it without degrading himself.   If so, good for him. 

[PB the Deplorable]

Buying food isn't complicated. To use the term organic when buying vegetables, sadly isn't just redundant it is a mild form of obfuscation. Buying produce is cheaper than buying meat; and certainly cheaper than the empty calories within the snack aisle.


Tomatoes are usually around 1.40 a pound. Potatoes are less than a dollar a pound.  Onions and lettuce are also under a dollar per pound.

Fuck, I'm posting about shopping for vegetables. I now hate Falkie and Drone.

As far as inexpensive healthy food, Falkie or anyone living around here could shop at the Berkeley Bowl every week or 10 days or so.

By shopping carefully and mostly buying what's in season, I can get 2 full shopping bags for $20-25.  I get apples (crisp and crunchy only, not the mushy ones), plums, avocados, tomatoes, Persian cucumbers (those common regular ones are terrible), bell peppers (not the green ones, those suck too), onions, garlic, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, yellow squash, leeks, beets, cabbage, green beans, mushrooms, asparagus, and potatoes all year around.  Cherries and a few other things in season only. 

Certain things always suck at the store and must be grown at home or do without - peaches, apricots, most apples.  I'd put tomatoes in this category, from the store the cherry tomatoes are better.

Produce is picked green so it will be ripe by the time it gets to the store.  This is a lousy way to get our food, but that's the system.  Some of it continues to ripen after it's picked, but some - notably tomatoes - don't.  They continue to go from green to red, but we're basically eating green tomatoes that had turned red after they've been picked.  But most of it is ripe, although not as good as it would have been had it peen picked ripe and eaten right away


Back to the BB.  They have a big bulk foods section - beans, pasta, fig bars, all kinds of spices, nuts, candy, raisins and dry fruit, all kinds of flour, tea, granola, you name it.  And many different kinds of each, for example they have probably 8 or 10 kinds of almonds alone (dry roasted, honey roasted, unsalted dry roasted, raw, halves, broken pieces, in shell, etc, etc).

They have a deli, fresh cooked food, deserts, bread, cheese, a meat counter, bulk medicinal herbs, an impressive beer selection, all top of the line but that stuff costs more.

To save a bit, get ground turkey, cheese, milk, eggs, and beer at Trader Joe's, and ground chicken and Asian spices at 99 Ranch Market - they're right on the way. 

The money saved by not going to Safeway would easily more than make up for the gas to drive there.  Did I mention I can get 2 full grocery bags for $25? 

And that's without even mentioning farmer's markets.  There is an endless supply of recipes online, and it doesn't take all that long to cook simple healthy tasty meals.  I'm tired of people claiming they eat crappy food because they're poor.  When did it become fashionable to cast oneself as a perpetual victim?

[paladin1991]

As far as inexpensive healthy food, Falkie or anyone living around here could shop at the Berkeley Bowl every week or 10 days or so.

By shopping carefully and mostly buying what's in season, I can get 2 full shopping bags for $20-25.  I get apples (crisp and crunchy only, not the mushy ones), plums, avocados, tomatoes, Persian cucumbers (those common regular ones are terrible), bell peppers (not the green ones, those suck too), onions, garlic, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini, yellow squash, leeks, beets, cabbage, green beans, mushrooms, asparagus, and potatoes all year around.  Cherries and a few other things in season only. 

Certain things always suck at the store and must be grown at home or do without - peaches, apricots, most apples.  I'd put tomatoes in this category, from the store the cherry tomatoes are better.

Produce is picked green so it will be ripe by the time it gets to the store.  This is a lousy way to get our food, but that's the system.  Some of it continues to ripen after it's picked, but some - notably tomatoes - don't.  They continue to go from green to red, but we're basically eating green tomatoes that had turned red after they've been picked.  But most of it is ripe, although not as good as it would have been had it peen picked ripe and eaten right away


Back to the BB.  They have a big bulk foods section - beans, pasta, fig bars, all kinds of spices, nuts, candy, raisins and dry fruit, all kinds of flour, tea, granola, you name it.  And many different kinds of each, for example they have probably 8 or 10 kinds of almonds alone (dry roasted, honey roasted, unsalted dry roasted, raw, halves, broken pieces, in shell, etc, etc).

They have a deli, fresh cooked food, deserts, bread, cheese, a meat counter, bulk medicinal herbs, an impressive beer selection, all top of the line but that stuff costs more.

To save a bit, get ground turkey, cheese, milk, eggs, and beer at Trader Joe's, and ground chicken and Asian spices at 99 Ranch Market - they're right on the way. 

The money saved by not going to Safeway would easily more than make up for the gas to drive there.  Did I mention I can get 2 full grocery bags for $25? 

And that's without even mentioning farmer's markets.  There is an endless supply of recipes online, and it doesn't take all that long to cook simple healthy tasty meals.  I'm tired of people claiming they eat crappy food because they're poor.  When did it become fashionable to cast oneself as a perpetual victim?

Fucking A Skippy.

[Roswells, Art]

y'all must like to hear yourselves type if you think any of your fresh vegetable buying tips will change Falkie in any way. He is going to go down making his videos and eating his frozen food like he has for the last 20+ years.

[PB the Deplorable]

... frozen food...

That stuff doesn't even taste good