2013 Theme - Cargo Cult - thoughts?

[unjonharley]

Hoping some mother in law plant comes through my cargo port. I know some people I would gladly share with..

[edbrez]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wbF9nLhOqLU

On a lighter note

[unjonharley]

The potato was a cargo cult item to the Irish.. The potato came from South America

The Great Irish Famine
Cargo cult failure...

Potato was introduced as cattle feed before they were eating them The the disease "potato blight set in and spread to other garden plants. A million died in that time.. .

[Simon of the Playa]

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[edbrez]

The potato was a cargo cult item to the Irish.. The potato came from South America

The Great Irish Famine
Cargo cult failure...

Potato was the only thing there was to eat.

Potatoes were introduced as a supplementary food source to the Gentry of the Establishment, more than likely from Spain, who brought back from Peru.
Irish became dependent as ever increasing land rents forced the Irish to grow only potatoes because they required far less land to cultivate.
All money earned working (if paid) went to Landlord to pay for land rents to maintain right to grow crop.
The Irish prior to this survived on milk butter grain etc as all other European countries did at the time, but due to pressures created by The ruling establishment The Crown, the Irish were forced to become less diverse in their cultivation to ensure a father could support his family. Land rents paid to the ruling classes who were granted all the lands created the circumstances that resulted in the Great Irish Famine. Then the blight occurred and the rest is history.

The population fell by 25% from 8million
In the subsequent years emigration was the main reason for population decline, thus why the Irish have such a large diaspora

[Simon of the Playa]

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[edbrez]

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[theCryptofishist]

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Because we're so sick of Fairytale of New York.

[Ugly Dougly]

Never liked vodka anyway. I'd love some sago whiskey, though.

Let's get back to feeling sorry for people who live on tropical islands.

[theCryptofishist]

I bet those chafe when she walks.

[theCryptofishist]

Burningman 2013: Cargo Cults--It's All About the Chafing

[AbundantChoice]

If you don't like the 2013 theme, go ahead and anagram it into a different one! Pretend the theme is OCCULT RAG.

[Rice]

If you don't like the 2013 theme, go ahead and anagram it into a different one! Pretend the theme is OCCULT RAG.

There is no rule that states one needs to pay attention to the theme!! Radical Self Expression includes the right to do whatever the heck you want....

[theCryptofishist]

I love the theme. And I'm not all that thrilled about Crowley's newspaper...

[trilobyte]

There is no rule that states one needs to pay attention to the theme!! Radical Self Expression includes the right to do whatever the heck you want....

Exactly!

[theCryptofishist]

There is no rule that states one needs to pay attention to the theme!! Radical Self Expression includes the right to do whatever the heck you want....

Exactly!

I'm going to get a bullhorn and ride around the playa at 6 am telling people that this is a great theme and they should express their joy right now.

[trilobyte]

Or dress up like 1970's era Cheap Trick with some friends and proclaim yourself to be the Theme Police..

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[theCryptofishist]

How about if I dress up like the love child of 70s Cheap Trick and 40s Red Army Choir and call myself the Theme Checkists?

[Eric]

I just wish I understood what it is about wheat-sourced vodka that makes it "vodka" as opposed to say, whiskey. No malt?
And grapes? Why isn't that brandy?

Vodka is distilled past the "mash" stage, then filtered. I believe it's also not aged, but not positive on that.
Whiskey (Scotch, Bourbon etc) keep some mash in & are aged. The barrels they age in affect their flavor.
Gin is basically vodka with juniper added after distillation ("basically" being the key word).
Etc...

As for what they are distilled from... that only matters if there are regulations on what you can call something. "Rye" must contain a certain amount of that grain to legally use that name, in Britain a "Single Malt Whiskey" must be made from Barley, etc. US Vodka is: "neutral spirits, so distilled, or so treated after distillation with charcoal or other materials, as to be without distinctive character, aroma, taste or color." Pretty much anything can be used to become a neutral spirit - fruit, grain, potato...

As for brandy or vodka from grapes - again, depends on the distillation. If you leave some grape mash in, brandy. If you distill the mash out & filter it, vodka.

And now I really need to get dressed for NYE! I have to be at work in a little over an hour...


my name is Eric, and I read too much...

[theCryptofishist]

So, theoretically, you could make something whiskey-ish with from potatoes, by using mash and aging.


Which means, that somewhere out there someone is doing it.

[Aurelia]

at juvie they called it pruno and proudly showed me the ingredients
which were anything and stashed anywhere
because I was only an ombudsman I listened and shuddered and said that care would be needed to avoid blindness

[theCryptofishist]

They called it pruno because it was pruno. I'm discussing the possibility of some serious foodie variant of booze. A different ethos. Wanting to get drunk, sure, but not in that absolutely desperate way.

Shit, I should be trying the persimmon.

[Simon of the Playa]

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[Ugly Dougly]

How many tiki bars will there be this year? Any guesses?
In all likelihood we will see a new record set.

[Simon of the Playa]

been there, done that, 7 years ago...

[unjonharley]

How many tiki bars will there be this year? Any guesses?
In all likelihood we will see a new record set.

I could bare to see one more.. If it were mounted on an octocycle..Or would all the riders get a DUI??

[Rice]

How many tiki bars will there be this year? Any guesses?
In all likelihood we will see a new record set.

If anyone is going to do a "tiki bar", I hope they do not try to use a thatched roof... Anything that will dry up and flake/fall apart is not going to be let past the gate. (LNT) The roof in the original post is better, since it will not decay - fall apart or MOOP the playa....

So, none of this:

[unjonharley]

Tempting, I have large bamboo patch to thin this spring.. Some of it is over 20 feet.

[Ugly Dougly]

Unjon, bamboo is a fantastic material! Do bring some to doll up your camp!

I may be shopping for a new drink vessel for this year...