New escalation ladder for levels of naval effectiveness

Sea denial
Command of the sea
Control of the sea
Social media control of the sea

So we aren’t in control….

Maersk: Transit through the Strait of Hormuz should be avoided; situation remains deeply dynamic.

It will soon be a week of almost non-stop fires after repeated attacks on the Russian refinery in Tuapse.

No, sorry. The dish is actually called flesh sauce.

🇫🇮 läski (informal), meaning fat or fatty meat, comes from
🇸🇪 fläsk

The key, I think, is to compliment natural flavors by pairing them with something contrasting or rounding them out with butter or cream.

Covering up natural flavors with sugar, spices, and condiments is a crime. You only do it when the ingredients are bad 👇🏼

Garden and wild herbs have come back.

homer simpson is standing in a kitchen with a jar of candy in front of him ALT: homer simpson is standing in a kitchen with a jar of candy in front of him

The lingonberry jam they serve on meatballs at IKEA is the kind I would serve with crepes and ice cream. Way too sweet for a savory dish.

Lingonsylt I serve with moose and reindeer is not right if it doesn't make your face go... 👇🏼

Forest berries, which represent fruit in the Finnish cuisine, should be tangy. Fresh or lightly sweetened.

Berries are often eaten with game (main), cheese (dessert), yoghurt, quark, or porridge (breakfast). At any meal, really.

Porridges and bread are wholegrain more often than not.

We eat record amounts of candy and ice cream but not a lot of sugar. There's that mystery solved.

Coffee is bitter too. Not strong. Medium roast drip coffee with milk or cream. No sugar. Sugar is for kids learning to drink coffee.

Dairy products are best cultured or fermented -

Sour.

It's true -

A common compliment about dessert is "mmm, not too sweet" and a nod of approval.

This is the land of salty liquorice and smoky tar ice cream. The latter is not as common as the former but says something about taste preferences -

Lots of earthy flavors.

Jellied eels - Wikipedia

East London gifts us various cold seafood with extra mucus. Eels are the classic, my Mum also loved a Styrofoam cup full of whelks. Serve with vinegar, eat with a wooden chip fork. 🤢

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellied...

Polish Food 101 ‒ Carp There is no exaggeration in stating that carp is a culinary symbol of Polish Christmas Eve. On this day, Poles usually eat the fish fried in batter or breadcrumbs, served cold in a jelly, or simmered ...

Fine, fine, I'll bite, since we are in aspic territory: Carp in aspic.

Traditional Christmas dish in Poland, unless you get violently sick of the thing, and you vow never to eat it again.

Extra points for keeping the fish alive in your bathtub before Christmas Eve.

culture.pl/en/work/poli...

A strong contender

Casu Marzu, Sardinia.
It's cheese and yes, it's full of little worms (I’ve never had the stomach to eat it)

one part of our family used to make “wine” 100 years ago and what has survived is essentially paint thinner but is offered to all at christmas eve dinner

If I'm completely honest, I only like mustard herring. These onion varieties aren't appetizing.

Mustard herring goes great with new potatoes. I have it once a year, at midsummer. Outdoors.

Getting the temperature right is tricky:

Fridge-cold 🤢
Warm 🤢🤢

(I know, Finnish citizenship revoked)

Fish sticks are lovely. I don't see the point in making them soggy by sticking them in a casserole. With fixin's.

Smalahove (a sheep's head) on a plate work potatoes and mashed neeps

Probably lutefisk.

Although some people have issues with smalahove, for some reason

OULULAINEN - Kova kuin elämä YouTube video by MjolkOy

"Are you hungry or not?"

Rye bread - As hard as life

Finnish cuisine - Wikipedia

"Finnish cuisine is very similar to Swedish cuisine. ... The overarching difference is the Finns' preference for unsweetened foods. For example, while traditional Swedish rye bread includes plenty of syrup and spices, Finnish rye bread is unsweetened, even bitter."

😁

It's like Vegemite except that it's sweet and less dense

Mämmi - Wikipedia

Oh, easy.

🇫🇮 mämmi
🇸🇪 memma

It doesn't taste like shit, though. It just looks like cow dung.

Lard sauce

A dish of aspic: a jellied suspension of shredded meat and vegetables, garnished with a single sad sprig of parsley.

What's the worst food from *your* cuisine? None of that "oh, one region over they eat some awful shit." Remove the beam from your own eye.

And I'm calling dibs on aspic, so you can't pick that one. My mom threatened to make it for me the other day.

Posting this while the British and Finns are still awake gave away the entire contest, that's on me

Ukraine’s Permanent Representative to the UN,Andrii Melnyk:

No army since World War I has paid such an astronomical death toll for such negligible territorial gains as Russia

According to battlefield assessments,Russia is currently losing…254 soldiers for every square km of Ukrainian territory⤵️

I can't help but notice that there seems to be a virus going around the globe that dissolves common sense.

I call it Kansas flu

^^ That's probably the appeal of learned helplessness.

Your conscience is always clean like a child's. All you need to worry about is taking care of yourself.

Society? What society?
F*ck society

The slaves may riot if things get really, really bad. Unlike political activism, rioting does not require organizing.

In Russia, organizing is the state's role.

The slaves aren't going to "rise up". Rising up would require taking some responsibility for the state of affairs. Even high-level Russian officials won't do that without a judge and a gavel present.