How The Horse got kicked off of MyLot
By The Horse
@TheHorse (220068)
Walnut Creek, California
January 9, 2017 5:39pm CST
Well, maybe not. I'm not sure. What I'm wondering is: What makes a recipe post a recipe post? For some reason, I was in the mood for one of my salads without lettuce yesterday, so I threw together the ingredients shown, slathered it all in Marie's Blue Cheese dressing, and called it a meal.
It was really good! Maybe it was because yesterday was a surprisingly warm day--I'm not sure. Usually I make my salads without lettuce in the Summer. Do you have any unusual meals that you sometimes throw together? Will this post be gone when I get home from my afternoon kid client? Do you like hearts of palm as much as I do?
Inquiring minds...
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@marguicha (223720)
• Chile
9 Jan 17
THe old mylot accepted recipes, but not ones as in copy-paste from the web. I think your recipe will not have that problem either.
I´ll go and check if I have any hearts of palm. You made me hungry
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@TheHorse (220068)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Jan 17
@marguicha I like 'em even better than artichoke hearts!
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@TheHorse (220068)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Jan 17
I would love to sit around with you, your husband, and your bass-playing son with my guitar in hand. I would enjoy the conversation/music, but I would not want to eat your heart. Hearts of palm are delicate, fibrous, and delicious.
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@allknowing (137553)
• India
10 Jan 17
Heart of palms is not a nice way for humans to survive on. Tender palm trees are cut down. Feel very sad.
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@allknowing (137553)
• India
10 Jan 17
@TheHorse When the deed is done you may as well
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@allknowing (137553)
• India
10 Jan 17
@TheHorse We are in need of noncomformists and I am one of them in my ,own right. Long live nonconformists (lol)
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
10 Jan 17
I think this is a food post, not just a rehashed recipe from the Internet. I don't think I have any unusual meals really, if I am hungry and don't have a meal plan I make frozen waffles or a bowl of cereal or pretzels and a glass of milk, I am easy to please and a cheap date lol
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@BelleStarr (61102)
• United States
10 Jan 17
@TheHorse I do love them with real maple syrup!! I guess you could toast them up in a frying pan!! lol
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@FourWalls (68884)
• United States
10 Jan 17
Eating beans will get you kicked off of anything. Or White Castles.
I have two favorite salads that don't involve lettuce that I usually wil make in the summer when the tomatoes are fresh. One is cucumbers, onions, and tomatoes with Italian dressing; the other is cauliflower salad (again, with tomatoes!!!! And cheese and ranch dressing.)
I hope this post doesn't wash away with all the rain you're having in California.....
I have two favorite salads that don't involve lettuce that I usually wil make in the summer when the tomatoes are fresh. One is cucumbers, onions, and tomatoes with Italian dressing; the other is cauliflower salad (again, with tomatoes!!!! And cheese and ranch dressing.)
I hope this post doesn't wash away with all the rain you're having in California.....3 people like this
@FourWalls (68884)
• United States
10 Jan 17
@TheHorse -- for all the jokes, they do actually have a good taste. I suppose it's an acquired taste, though. The real "flavor," to me anyway, is the pickle and onion combination.
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@sallypup (61561)
• Centralia, Washington
10 Jan 17
@FourWalls I grew up with White Castle hamburgers. Now I find them rather blah and pasty textured.
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@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
10 Jan 17
Sounds good, other than the garbanzo beans. I'd eat it that way.
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@DWDavis (25805)
• United States
10 Jan 17
I don't think this counts as a recipe post because it isn't done as an outline or set of instructions on how to prepare a dish. That said, my wife loves to make salads of the lettuce based variety. I did not grow up eating salads as the only three vegetables my mother knew of were canned peas, canned string beans, and frozen corn.
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@LadyDuck (471984)
• Switzerland
10 Jan 17
I am thinking what I can call "unusual meal", I suppose that sliced oranges and sliced red onions with black olives can be considered unusual, this is something I prepare in summer, now it's too cold. With the garbanzo bean I make a soup. With olive oil and fresh rosemary. I do not particularly like heart of palms, my hubby loves them.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
10 Jan 17
I would 'assume' a recipe post would be someone copying a recipe word for word from a cookbook - where a link to that recipe would be acceptable, the other is plagiarism.
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@TheHorse (220068)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Jan 17
That's what I think too. I'd assume a recipe would be OK so long as it's properly cited and included in the context of a longer post: " I remember when my Grandma used to make this Lentil Soup on Sundays. There's be snow on the ground and football on the TV..."
@JamesHxstatic (29413)
• Eugene, Oregon
10 Jan 17
I have never eaten those at all, but they sound good. Unless it is potato salad, or slaw our salads always have lettuce I think. Anne does make some one of a kind slaws with unusual ingredients.
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@Happy2BeMe (99380)
• Canada
10 Jan 17
I have never had hearts of palm before. Am I missing something good??
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@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
10 Jan 17
I have never tasted hearts of palms. The thought of eating anything from a palm tree is very unappetizing to me! What do they taste like?
Mandarin oranges are really good in anything but I especially like them with chicken.
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@SIMPLYD (90721)
• Philippines
10 Jan 17
Heart of palms is i think what we call here the very young inside trunk of the coconut we call here "ubod" . We usually slice them small and cook it in some coconut milk , with chilis , some meat and shrimp paste . So delicious .
Or we would saute it in ground pork and wrap it in egg spring roll and eat it fresh or we fry it and have a dip for it . So delicious too .
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@TheHorse (220068)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Jan 17
@Plethos It's been over 35 years since I ate the food of the other clown. Jack in the Bile has caused me either incredible projectile vomiting or explosive anal volcanoes of the worst kind every time I've eaten there (which amounts to maybe three times in a long life).
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@Mike197602 (15512)
• United Kingdom
10 Jan 17
A recipe post is just a recipe with no additional discussion points.
A recipe as part of a discussion is fine but a recipe on its own isn't...this'll be fine
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@TheHorse (220068)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Jan 17
@Mike197602 It doesn't bother me here because I know the intent of those who run the site is good. At the "site that will not be named," the ambiguous guidelines felt like they were intentionally ambiguous so they could randomly not pay and then blame the victim.
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@Mike197602 (15512)
• United Kingdom
10 Jan 17
@TheHorse The problem with mylot is the guidelines are nowhere near good enough.
They're open to a lot of interpretation.
With a few years experience I pretty much am certain of how not to get things deleted.
When I do get stuff removed I know it is going to happen
New members, and some older members, don't entirely get the grey areas of the guidelines and so they should be re-written to be very specific.
New members, and some older members, don't entirely get the grey areas of the guidelines and so they should be re-written to be very specific.1 person likes this
@Brittnyrose (1444)
• Aberdeen, North Carolina
10 Jan 17
I like pineapples in my salade and I always mix like 3 different dressings on mine lol
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