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June 13[edit]

was Pincipals of Propaganda a real book[edit]

i have found reference here and elsewhere to a book by Joeseph Goebbels titled Principals of Propaganda, did or does it exist in any form or language? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.151.127.191 (talk) 02:05, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Apparently not. See [1]. Also note the spelling: Principles, not Principals. -- Jack of Oz ^[Talk] 02:13, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

If it helps, here is a link to that 1950 article, "Goebbels' Principles of Propaganda" by Leonard W. Doob, noted above by JackofOz. -- Deborahjay (talk) 11:59, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What did I eat[edit]

I ate something in a cafeteria. It tasted like a bean. It was white, flat and quite large, about the size of a coin. It kinda resembled a communion wafer but not as round. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.251.120.250 (talk) 17:21, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hominy? --Jayron32 17:23, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That was not it, it was very smooth and a little bit bigger. No groove like that on the skin. 84.251.120.250 (talk) 17:25, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Phaseolus lunatus ? Dbfirs 17:54, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Where did you eat this, geographically speaking? Can you be more specific as to size and shape? (Coins come in a lot of different sizes). Was it a single piece or were there a lot of them? By 'communion wafer' are you describing size, colour, texture? — The Potato Hose 18:10, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Butter bean? --TammyMoet (talk) 18:31, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an echo in here? (see Dbfirs link above). --Jayron32 18:36, 13 June 2013 (UTC) [reply]

Yes but how often do you see tins labelled with Phaseolus lunatus in the supermarket? --TammyMoet (talk) 19:01, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Point. --Jayron32 19:23, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I am almost certain it was butter bean/lima bean, they were pretty tasty! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.251.120.250 (talk) 19:34, 13 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I opened a can of them the other day, thinking they were normal beans. I like butter beans, but butter beans on toast is not a very good option, in my opinion. KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 02:00, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What are "normal beans"? Dominus Vobisdu (talk) 02:04, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Normal beans. Bus stop (talk) 02:11, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Normal beans, to me. Every "variety" tastes the same, as far as I can tell after thirty years. InedibleHulk (talk) 03:04, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect it was a dollop of congealed fat. No human enjoys lima beans. μηδείς (talk) 02:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The dollop of fat is what passes for pork in my "normal beans". You can only tell it's not a bean by the texture. And there's only one per can. Still, yes, much better than lima. InedibleHulk (talk) 03:14, 14 June 2013 (UTC) [reply]

This human does. What you do is take some rashers of good streaky bacon, and chop 'em up. Throw 'em in a cold pan, turn the heat to medium low, and add a few tablespoons of water. Leave it alone for a while. Cook the beans in plenty of simmering water (unsalted; toughens proteins in many products, vegetables are different) until just tender. Take out the now-crispy-with-all-water-evaporated bits of bacon, drain off most of the bacon fat. Quickly sautee some garlic and onion in the fat, throw in the beans, toss with some torn mint leaves and a good crack of black pepper. optionally add some halved cherry tomatoes with the onions and garlic.

Now that's some good eatin. (Also works very nicely with brussels sprouts, broccoli, rapini oh god so good.) — The Potato Hose 03:05, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I can't help but think that adding large amounts of bacon, onion and garlic to just about anything would make it taste good... The bacon is the tasty part, not the beans! MChesterMC (talk) 10:54, 14 June 2013 (UTC) [reply]

I suspect that KägeTorä's "normal beans" are baked beans, traditionally eaten on toast, which we Britons consume in prodigious quantities accompanying just about any non-sweet food that you can think of. Some British folk will have never eaten another variety of bean. "The average British person eats more than 15 pounds of (baked) beans each year".[2]

Hmm... That works out as two-and-a-bit tins a week, which seems a bit on the low side to me. The _typical_ (as opposed to average) Briton will eat at least twice that amount (WP:OR, I know). Tevildo (talk) 23:22, 15 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Speaking as a Brit, living in sunny Texas, I feel the need to explain the above comments about the British obsession with baked beans. I must therefore attest to the value of *british* baked beans versus their US counterparts of the same name. They are very different products. If you live in the USA and attempt to buy a can of baked beans, nuke them in the microwave and dump the entire can onto two slices of hot buttered toast, you'll still have no idea of the joys of this british delicacy. If you're lucky, you may find cans of "Heinz Baked Beans" (with a blue label on the can) on sale for an entirely unreasonable sum of money in the "international aisle" of your local supermarket (larger HEB stores in Texas generally have them) - but baked beans (US-style) are hopeless for this. It appears to be to do with the sauce, not the beans themselves or how the are cooked. US style "pork and beans" (that is to say ~0.2 cubic centimeters of pork fat in an entire can of beans - no kidding!) taste totally different - not as sweet, without the tomato flavor and with some kind of smokey barbeque taste. My (wisconsin-born) g/f doesn't usually enjoy beans - but when introduced to UK-style "beans on toast", became an instant convert to this exotic foreign food. (Don't even me get started over her reaction to tasting her first chocolate HobNob - we're talking "feeding frenzy" here!) SteveBaker (talk) 14:59, 16 June 2013 (UTC) [reply]

I have at least one can of Baked Beans a day, just as a snack, or as part of a meal. As a snack, I put them in a bowl with some Thai FatBoy sweet chilli sauce to add a little more flavour, or put them in a toasted sandwich maker, maybe with some ham and cheese (and maybe a little crushed garlic), or occasionally do it the traditional way, with beans on toast (for breakfast when I don't have time to make a full English). In Japan, they were very difficult to find, and I missed them immensely. So was cider - my favourite beverage, and HobNobs, I will agree with that. As well as Ginger biscuits. But, then, I found a website for ex-pats, which was selling EVERYTHING from the UK. Normal UK prices, but you had to pay the shipping charge, making them a little expensive. Traditional Xmas dinner in Japan is KFC - because that is exotic to them (!) - but one year I tried to make a proper turkey roast with stuffing. Finding sage to make sage & onion stuffing was impossible, so we had to improvise. Came out OK. Living abroad is fun. KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 18:16, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"You can’t have stew for breakfast, / You can’t have porridge for tea, / But we have Heinz Beans any time, / My brother John and me. / We haven’t had them yet today, / “There’s something wrong” we said, / Until we found the reason was / We’d just got out of bed! (We knew because of our pyjamas)" (1970s Heinz TV advert). Alansplodge (talk) 20:29, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wasn't their slogan "Beans means Heinz"? KägeTorä - (影虎) (TALK) 23:31, 16 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah - although I think they spelled it "Beanz". SteveBaker (talk) 13:47, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yeah? Well Heinz is so dominant here in the US they don't even have to advertise. They even almost took the White House from the grave in 2004. μηδείς (talk) 17:26, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]