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Questions about Horizon Organic

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The Accidental Hedonist writes that there are some serious questions being raised about whether Horizon’s farming practices are truly organic or not. Horizon is the supplier for individual milks at the Mermaid (as Fortune likes to call them) and they sell giant boxes of their milks at Costco—they clearly need gigantic supplies of milk. They may be letting their standards slip in response. The AH also explains what constitutes organic and not when it comes to milk, so go read her whole entry.

I don’t buy Horizon, actually, because I don’t like the taste of their individual milks, and I don’t think the kids do either—whenever I’ve taken them by the Mermaid, they always want to get a couple of boxes of chocolate milk, and I remind them they didn’t drink them the last time.

Commonly confused words

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Via Julia, I went to the Commonly Confused Words Test. I scored ‘You scored 93% Beginner, 93% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 83% Expert!” Apparently 100% of people in my age category scored lower than I did. (Just like Julia, in fact!)

Otto sez…

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…that I oughta post that I am still alive, even if I’m not posting. For whatever reason, I’m in no mood to post right now, and I don’t even know what I’d post about if I were going to post. (I considered last night posting some of my reactions to Sam Harris’s The End Of Faith (precis: religion really, really bad, and if you’re a religious moderate, you’re just aiding and abetting the problem), except I’m only a chapter into it and it’s pretty heavy-going.

Other books on the nightstand: Hex and the City by Simon Green, the latest installment of a supernatural noir PI series. I like this series, but when the locale, the Nightside, is billed as the supernatural side of London, I expect a few more details that evoke London in the story. The Nightside has nothing to do with London, except for funny spellings.

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Also, made bread yesterday from a recipe that called for 2 teaspoons of compressed fresh yeast. Note to self: always consult yeast equivalencies chart before adapting recipe to type of yeast you have. Instant yeast and active dry yeast you can use in roughly the same quantities; compressed fresh, not so much. In fact, according to The Bread Baker’s Apprentice by Peter Reinhart

100 percent fresh yeast = 40 to 50 percent active dry yeast = 33 percent instant yeast

So let’s just say the bread I made was yeasty. Finally got that “BREAD!” smell I’d always wanted, though.

I’m making new bread today.

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And for the last, I leave you, via Darby, John Cleese’s Revocation of Independence:
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