Frank Benson

@histories_arch The Waldorf’s version is good but it doesn’t compare to my mom’s. In fact, there’s no place like home for the hollandaise.

In 1894, a hungover Wall Street stockbroker walked into the Waldorf Hotel in Manhattan and ordered something that was not on the menu. The maître d' liked it so much he put it on the menu immediately. One hundred and thirty years later, it is on every brunch menu in the Western world. Lemuel Benedict was, by every account, a man who knew how to have a good time and was occasionally required to deal with the consequences the following morning. A retired stockbroker, heavy partier and generous tipper, he walked into the Waldorf Hotel one morning in 1894 in urgent need of a hangover cure and ordered something that did not exist yet: buttered toast, crisp bacon, two poached eggs and what he called a hooker of hollandaise sauce. A hooker in 1894 American slang meant a generous pour or a slug, not whatever you are thinking. The maître d' Oscar Tschirky, the same man credited with inventing the Waldorf salad and popularising Thousand Islands dressing, was so taken with the combination that he immediately put it on the breakfast and luncheon menus, substituting ham for the bacon and a toasted English muffin for the plain toast. He named it after the hungover banker who had improvised it at the table. We know this because Lemuel Benedict told a reporter from The New Yorker in 1942, less than a year before he died, and the Talk of the Town piece that resulted is the primary documented source for the story. There are competing claims. There always are with origin stories this good. A Mr and Mrs LeGrand Benedict, completely unrelated to Lemuel, reportedly requested something similar at Delmonico's restaurant sometime in the 1860s and chef Charles Ranhofer published a recipe called Eggs à la Benedick in his 1894 cookbook The Epicurean. A Commodore E.C. Benedict claimed his mother had the recipe before anyone else. The American Egg Board, which apparently has opinions on this, backs the Lemuel version. © Eats History

@irishgalartist1 Nah. Lots of sub 10 year olds have trouble with it.

Am I the only American who cannot separate Memorial Day from Veterans Day? I know the meaning of both, but it is hard to not think about both at once! Am I alone in this?

@Kshi_nippon I’ve seen it in remote areas of Canada. In the US, on some of the more obscure military bases (which have their own security) you sometimes still see the honor system.

One thing many foreigners find unbelievable about Japan 🇯🇵 In some rural areas, people sell vegetables through unmanned stands. No staff. No security guard. You simply take what you want and leave the money behind. And somehow… it often works. Could this exist in your country?

@United_Africana More effective at what goal? Building mass? Building strength? (And which way are you measuring strength?) Building endurance?

Gym bro. Why’s going 10 reps with lighter weight more effective than going 3 reps with heavy weight?

@davepl1968 To clarify: the people in Ag do not necessarily (or even usually) hold that opinion, but they are aware of all the people out there that do.

@davepl1968 Umm. You can ask most anyone who works in Ag, there are a lot of people who unironically hold that opinion.

US Data Centers use about 150B gallons of water. U.S. golf courses use about 500B gallons of water. US Almond Farms use about 1500B gallons of water. Now you know the scale of the problem. We cannot go on like this. We MUST control our almond consumption.

@mikenelson586 The future tense of “got volunteered”?

What does "mandatorialy requesting" mean?

@theoliverxp Because July 4th 1991 was one of the worst days of my life.

@mfbenson1 why!

I wish there were a way we could know for certain exactly which day in the 90s was the absolute peak of human civilization.

@jaynitx Speaking of being stupid, I don’t understand what he means by taking the check back? He didn’t keep the sales commission? Why not?

Mark Cuban reveals the two times he got fired that confirmed he could never work for anyone else "My first job out of college I worked for Mellon Bank. I started a rookies club where I reached out to executives, and my boss calls me in and just starts screaming at me, how could you do this, you work for me. I knew I wasn't destined there" "Then I got a job selling software. A customer wanted me to come close a $15,000 deal, $1,500 commission to me. My boss said no, you need to be there to open the store. I made the executive decision to go get the check" "I figured all would be forgiven. Sales cures all. He fired me" "Those experiences confirmed what I already knew, that I was a shitty employee and I better start my own thing" "I took the check back. I might not be a good employee but I'm not stupid"

@michaelquotes1 @united @FLYPIA How would they have known it was yours unless it had a tag, and how would it have gotten that tag without being checked in?

I checked in at 7:15am, agent checked my ID, bag was tagged, I went through TSA, went to my gate, got on the plane, was at my seat, then told to get off the plane because “I left my bag behind” - got off the plane, for some reason my bag is sitting at a… @united @FLYPIA

@DerekPederson3 SETI would have heard something by now if physical travel is the only filter.

Science fiction nerds are gonna hate me for saying this but the Great Filter is that interstellar travel is probably more or less impossible and there is no reason to come up with any other explanation for that.

@glencoe2004 @DerekPederson3 Comets don’t have a way of coming to a stop when they get to a new system. Best we could hope for is a quick flyby.

@DerekPederson3 Quite literally impossible for interstellar travel to be impossible; we have tons of comets floating around that are from outside the solar system, and if a random ball of rock can make it between stars a continent sized torchship sure as hell can too

@ThinkAppraiser There was a massive surplus before all this. We’ve still got 4 weeks of runway left, then regional shortages start, like the West Coast of US. By mid summer there’s going to be a problem of gas pumps not having enough digits to display prices over 9.999

Strait has been closed for 3 months. I’m surprised oil isn’t $300/barrel

@pmtiegs Road debris. In this case the remnants of needle nose pliers.

My wife’s friend posted this to instagram, any ideas? I have no further details. Ground wire? parking brake cable? How it it launch itself through the bottom?

@tombos21 I think mathematical illiteracy is the culprit. Perhaps knocking 3 zeros off would help? Would you pay 1 dollar for a one in a thousand chance of making 1 million? Yup. I’d keep buying until I had a winner. 1000 bucks in I’d have a 63% of winning. Not bad.

The amount of people voting no on this is wild! The asymmetry of this bet is so obscene that "no" is philosophically unserious unless a $1,000 loss genuinely destroys you.

@ellesep I drink coffee and my wife does not. It never occurred to me to talk about it because it is 100% a non-issue.

No one talks about the drinks coffee/doesn’t drink coffee gap in the relationship

@washghost1 Wasps are predators of bugs that eat fruit and bite people. Their stingers are straight instead of hooked like a bee’s, so they have a lower threshold of “don’t fuck with me” before stinging, but even wasps will give warning signs if you’re watching.

Your official guide for bees this summer

@GambelerQuail Email was the most important part of my work as a financial analyst. All the spreadsheets in the world wouldn’t mean a hill of beans without a way to distribute and summarize them.

“E-mail jobs” don’t exist. There is no job where you only send emails. Every office worker uses email a lot because emails facilitate the entire work process.

@jonbrooks That’s not the new normal. It’s the old normal. Being able to buy for anywhere near the cost of renting was the anomaly.

Why would you buy a home for $1,500+ more per month than renting. The same house, same neighborhood, leveraged at the peak of the market. Explain it to me.