It’s nuts that Antarctica is just down there. On this planet. With me. I want to know what’s going on in there
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#I have been reading through the archives of brr.fyi and yeah #it’s nonfiction but it doesn’t *feel* like nonfiction‚ you know? #I am intellectually aware that Antarctica is real but it’s hard to *believe* it‚ deep down #I feel the same way about‚ like‚ Jupiter #Antarctica #recs #this probably deserves some warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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They are baked at the home of Lara MacLean, who has been a “puppet wrangler” for the Jim Henson Company for almost three decades. MacLean started as an intern for Sesame Workshop in 1992 and has been working for the team ever since.
The recipe, roughly: Pancake mix, puffed rice, Grape-Nuts and instant coffee, with water in the mixture. The chocolate chips are made using hot glue sticks — essentially colored gobs of glue.
The cookies do not have oils, fats or sugars. Those would stain Cookie Monster. They’re edible, but barely. “Kind of like a dog treat,” MacLean says.
Before she reinvented the recipe in the 2000s, the creative team behind “Sesame Street” used versions of rice crackers and foams to make the cookies. The challenge was that the rice crackers would make more of a mess and get stuck in Cookie’s fur. And the foams didn’t look like cookies once they broke apart.
Cookie has been portrayed since 2001 by David Rudman, who took over the role from Frank Oz. Rudman’s right hand moves the mouth, which is eating, and his left hand holds the cookies. Both work in concert to break the cookies, which means they have to be soft enough to fall apart.
Rudman said soft cookies are best, adding, “The more crumbs, the funnier it is. If he eats the cookie, and it only breaks into two pieces if it’s too hard, it’s just not funny,” he said. “It looks almost painful. But if he eats a cookie and it explodes into a hundred crumbs, that’s where the comedy comes from.”
MacLean has perfected a recipe that is “thin enough that it’ll explode into a hundred crumbs,” Rudman said. “But it’s not too thin that it’ll break in my hand when I’m holding it.”
Not every (human) guest realizes that the cookies aren’t meant to be eaten. Adam Sandler appeared on an episode and decided to share in the muppet’s delight by spontaneously eating a cookie with him on set.
“As soon as the cameras cut, he was like, ‘Blech!’ ” MacLean said.
#(note that the above is an excerpt and not the full article) #Sesame Street #food #the more you know #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
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I think we need some new traditions for New Years’, now that we’re all online and watching midnight slowly roll across our friends from one side of the world to the other in a big wave. The countdown is all well and good, of course. I’ll never turn down an excuse for a kiss! But something new and supplemental, to help bind together far-flung families and friends.
Daylight savings gives us that saturnalia-type party where you can do whatever you want in the hour that’s about to be overwritten. Is there something useful we could borrow from that? Some ritual that only makes sense while the world is mid-stride between one year and the next, some kind of magic that can leak in through the gap between them.
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every time i ask people if they do any new years resolutions its all ooooo i dont like making them bc i fail or ohhhhh no i couldnt keep up wiht that and then when they ask me and i tell them about Pasta Quest (i am eating as many different pasta shapes as possible in the space of a year) or when i did Fruit Adventures (every time i saw a fruit i had never eaten before id get one and eat it and read the wikipedia article about it) theyre like hang on i forgot you can make Fun Ones i want a fun one
while i actually made this post back in May, since New Year’s is approaching here’s some of my fave suggestions from the tags if you’re looking for inspiration!
other favorites from the notes I didn’t get screenshots of at the time:
learn the names/species of local plants, bugs, and birds where you live (iNaturalist or Merlin the bird app help with this)
learn the rules to 10 new card games
steal the colored paint cards from hardware store paint aisles and use them to make art
try out every different apple variety you can find and rank them
similarly LOTS of people in the notes doing soup quests, and a few cheese quests also
similarly lots of people reading/watching certain amounts of media over the year, and tracking/rating it
track the number of cats/dogs/etc you see over the year
there’s plenty more in there too :)
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Brinens and Things 