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[Aspen]

Welcome to Gestalt, EvilAspie.

[Sophist]

Thank you for your welcomes! I shall try and find the GFCF lasagna. I'm generally not good at cooking, except for cooking stuff that you just boil and put on the stove, so I prefer packaged lasagna. I haven't eaten it for ages...

I used to be a microwaver myself before I had dietary concerns. Cooking can be fun and starting out with small stuff is a good way to start. Tbh, I started out with substituting foods, like taking a Hamburger Helper meal and using my own brown rice noodles instead of the noodles provided. Slowly I added more stuff, like chopped veggies, maybe some more seasoning. Eventually graduating to making my own stuff.

--Although I still occasionally like to use the Hamburger Helper Method.

[Civet]

Hi, Nevoeiro. Serial Experiments Lain is one of my favorite animes . Have you seen Neon Genesis Evangelion? They have some similar themes.

I have, a few years ago. I enjoyed it, but not quite so much as Lain. There's something about the... silence in Lain that I love.

Incidentally, have you heard the Lain crew (ABe, Nakamura, Konaka, probably more) are making a new anime?

(Sorry for the delay - for some reason I can only access this site very sporadically from here. I keep getting could-not-connect messages. Sigh.)

No worries about the delay, I think mine was even longer!

Yes, the feel of Lain is very different from the feel of Evangelion. Lain is much quieter (and at times creepier) and Evangelion is pretty epic and action-oriented (though I enjoy the psychedelic psychoanalytic scenes a bit more, haha).

I hadn't heard about that before, so I am glad you linked it. I am definitely interested in taking a look! I haven't really watched any new anime in some time. You probably know, but Abe did work for Niea_7 and also made Haibane Renmei. Have you seen those? Niea_7 was so-so to me, but Haibane Renmei is one of my favorites.

Serial Experiments Lain is also my favorite anime, and Texhnolyze is the second favorite, and .hack//sign is my third favorite. As you might have already guessed, I like anime that has deep philosophical plots, and I do enjoy some graphic violence as long as the storyline is complex enough to be enjoyable.
Anyway, I am new here so please allow me to introduce myself.

You should watch Evangelion, then! If you have not seen it, it's a bit hard to summarize the series. The premise is that humanity is living in a post-apocalyptic world, where technology thrives only in select (military) cities, such as Tokyo-3, where the story takes place. A young boy is called in by his estranged father, the head of the organization NERV, to pilot a giant robot known as an Evangelion. The story follows the boy, Shinji, as he struggles both with piloting and fighting against the strange enemies (the "angels"), and with his daily life and relating to others. It starts out as a fairly stereotypical giant robot anime but quickly turns the convention on its head. The concept behind this series was to show what would *really* happen if you were to stick 14 year old children into giant robots, and expect them to defend humanity. It is very psychological and philosophical, and there is a lot of religious symbolism, as well. It is very much about the struggle to push through one's "walls" and connect with other people.

I have not seen Texhnolyze though it looks good. What exactly is it about? I enjoyed .hack//sign, and already mentioned Lain is in my top anime list (probably goes Neon Genesis Evangelion, Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei, Revolutionary Girl Utena).

You may also like Monster, EvilAspie. It is a pretty realistic anime about a surgeon who chooses to save the life of a young boy instead of saving the life of a well-known public figure (he was assigned the boy first, then pulled off of his team to work on the public figure instead but refused, citing that all lives should be equal). The boy grows up to become a sociopathic killer who appears to be well on his way to becoming the next Hitler. The show deals with the surgeon trying to track down the boy (now grown), while he is being chased by the law, as they think he is responsible for the murders the boy committed. It is a pretty long series and more characters come in, first with disconnected stories, that eventually begin to interweave.

[Charlie]

And going back to the lasagne (sorry but anime has never really been my thing) don't forget you can always make a large batch of it and then freeze it, thus you have a stock which you just need to reheat whenever you desire, thus not as hard to keep making it over and over...

[Sophist]

Why am I all of a sudden craving lasagna?... It's a mystery...

[Charlie]

Why am I all of a sudden craving lasagna?... It's a mystery...

By coincidence I had lasagne this evening . Delicious!!!

[Neo Noctivagus]

For what little it is worth... I dislike lasagne

[Sophist]

Just curious, is the spelling with an "e" used more often in UK? I think in US we tend to use the singular.

[Neo Noctivagus]

Just curious, is the spelling with an "e" used more often in UK? I think in US we tend to use the singular.

In the UK and also in Italy and other parts of Europe, at least, it is ALWAYS 'Lasagne'.

[Sophist]

/me wonders what plural lasagne refers to... Multiple pans of lasagna??

[Neo Noctivagus]

Well its made out of sheets (plural) of pasta, isn't it! That is plural

Lets face it... the dish certainly did not originate in America where they call something a 'hamburger' which hardly ever contains any pig meat whatsoever

[Aspen]

Well its made out of sheets (plural) of pasta, isn't it! That is plural

Lets face it... the dish certainly did not originate in America where they call something a 'hamburger' which hardly ever contains any pig meat whatsoever :lol:

From Hamburger Trivia:

How did the Hamburger get its name?

a. From the Baltic provinces of Russia in the Middle Ages where rowdy, nomadic tribes of Tartary developed a fondness for raw beef, known today as steak Tartar.
b. From the German trading partners of the Tartars who lived in Hamburg; they developed a taste for raw beef fried with onions, called Hamburg Steak
c. From German immigrants who brought "Hamburg Steak" to the US in the 1700s and 1800s.
d. All of the above.

Answer: all of the above.

Which World’s Fair did the "hamburger" create a new sensation?

Answer: Both the hamburger and ice cream cone "debuted" at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. Both are still popular today because they meet consumer’s need for tasty, portable food.

[Neo Noctivagus]

Answer: all of the above.

Which is why, if memory serves me correctly, they were'nt called Hamburgers during or for some time after one or the other of the World Wars

[Sophist]

Well its made out of sheets (plural) of pasta, isn't it! That is plural

Lets face it... the dish certainly did not originate in America where they call something a 'hamburger' which hardly ever contains any pig meat whatsoever

I've never had a single sheet of lasagna either.

Well its made out of sheets (plural) of pasta, isn't it! That is plural

Lets face it... the dish certainly did not originate in America where they call something a 'hamburger' which hardly ever contains any pig meat whatsoever :lol:

From Hamburger Trivia:

How did the Hamburger get its name?

a. From the Baltic provinces of Russia in the Middle Ages where rowdy, nomadic tribes of Tartary developed a fondness for raw beef, known today as steak Tartar.
b. From the German trading partners of the Tartars who lived in Hamburg; they developed a taste for raw beef fried with onions, called Hamburg Steak
c. From German immigrants who brought "Hamburg Steak" to the US in the 1700s and 1800s.
d. All of the above.

Answer: all of the above.

Which World’s Fair did the "hamburger" create a new sensation?

Answer: Both the hamburger and ice cream cone "debuted" at the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. Both are still popular today because they meet consumer’s need for tasty, portable food.

Ah! I had realized the ice cream cone debuted at our World's Fair but hadn't realized the Hamburger did as well. Found this little blurb on a site by the St. Louis 1904 World's Fair Charitable Foundation:

Food was used in bizarre and exotic ways at the Fair, including the carving of an 18 foot lighthouse built entirely from salt, a salt sculpture of Lot's wife, President Roosevelt sculpted in butter and a statue of a bear made entirely with prunes. Edible items popularized at the Fair include the ice-cream cone, sliced bread, candy floss, peanut butter (a 'health food'), Dr Pepper (a 'health drink') and the hot dog.

[goddessoflubbock]

Dr. Pepper was invented right here in Waco, TX

Speaking of fair foods, "corny dogs" got their start at the TX State Fair, and nachos became popular after being served at the 1964 TX State Fair. I don't see fried butter making the leap

I was watching the Food Network and "Sunny" (can't remember her last name) was making an antipasti dish, which she defined as "anti" - before and "pasti" - pasta. I had to change the channel..... "Pasti" is meal, not pasta.....

And why is it called a panini? It's a panino unless you are hungry and having two or more. I could go on all night