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There is already a name for the almost-chocolate they're trying to redefine: compound chocolate.

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Now I'm a liberal, and proud of it. Why am I a liberal? I like the whole liberty thing. But, Hillary and Joe don't seem to get that. Sure I don't want a big company selling harmful products, but lets please separate ones views of decency from harm.

In this article, they do talk about the CDC, and that is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. So, why this study? Is it to make sure the new Nintendo controller is ergonomically safe? I doubt it! It's to grab some of them "values-voters."

The government created rating system for the movies harms the creativity of the movies. To make sure the box office gets the max income, producers will curb the language, so the movie can earn a PG-13 stamp. At the same time, I'm an adult who likes adult issues and situations, but all of my R rated movies have sex scenes that are about as original as American cheese. They all look the same. Don't ruin the new media forms before they hit their potential.

Seriously, if the CDC is going to spend 90 Million plus USD to study the effects of gamming, why don't they study the effects that my monitor has on my vision. I don't care if someone else's child is going to be harmed by playing a game that their parents shouldn't have let them have in the first place. I do care about creative artwork... Artwork that isn't censored or cheese.

I think that if the Senate did a honest research of gamming and children, they would find that children who play video games are going to be faster, smarter, brighter, and will excel in every area... except maybe with the women.

Headcheese?

According to my Chinese friend, the immunity comes from eating stinky fermented tofu and thousand-year egg.

I personally plan to remain vulnerable. Alas.

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Surely pork and ham are the same thing? Is a ham not a cured piece of pork?

Congratulations, you just invented fortified wine.

What are the main differences in the types of yeast used for making bread, versus the types of yeast used for making beer? Could someone, for example, take a beer yeast culture and make a decent sourdough from it?

I don't know the specific chemical difference between the types of yeasts commonly used in brewing vs the yeasts commonly used in baking, but speaking from experience, some of the best damn sourdough I've ever made had a beer + flour rather than water + flour base.
(FYI - if you try this at home, use a light beer. Trust me.)

I also know that there are different mechanical processes used to create commercial baking yeasts, in terms of the size of the granules. Smaller granules are used to make what we know as 'fast-acting' or 'single-rise' yeasts

From my brewing days, ale yeasts are quite different from lager yeasts, mainly in the temperature that they are active and happy in. Lager yeasts need colder temperatures (cold meaning ~65 degrees F). Lager yeast is also a top fermenting yeast rather than bottom fermenting like an ale yeast and is a fairly recent innovation.

Here's an interesting food site explaining some differences in yeasts.