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  1. Nice! I just discovered there are a several IBM-PC floppy disk images within the A2R flux collections from "Sketch the Cow". I really like the "AppleSauce" format and its Mac OS software client.

    Here's the original DOOM v1.1 on 4 x 1.440K HD diskettes :computerfairies: 😎

    Link: archive.org/details/ianoid_flu

    #Retro #RetroGaming #AppleSauce #FloppyDisk #Diskette #MSDOS #MacOS #90er #90s #Preservation #Gaming

  2. Nice! I just discovered there are a several IBM-PC floppy disk images within the A2R flux collections from "Sketch the Cow". I really like the "AppleSauce" format and its Mac OS software client.

    Here's the original DOOM v1.1 on 4 x 1.440K HD diskettes :computerfairies: 😎

    Link: archive.org/details/ianoid_flu

    #Retro #RetroGaming #AppleSauce #FloppyDisk #Diskette #MSDOS #MacOS #90er #90s #Preservation #Gaming

  3. Homemade Applesauce Recipe: Easy, Healthy & Delicious!

    Homemade Applesauce Recipe: A Simple and Delicious Guide Making your own applesauce at home is not only incredibly easy but also rewarding in terms of taste and quality. Whether you want a quick snack or a versatile ingredient for baking, applesauce is a go-to recipe that should be in every home co... Homemade Applesauce Recipe: Easy, Healthy & Delicious! #Food#AppleRecipes #Applesauce #Baking #DessertRecipes

    esperecamino.wordpress.com/202

  4. It's a little cold outside today, so perfect weather for adventures in the kitchen preserving fruit and vegetables. I finally dealt with the remaining apples harvested from the tree in our yard, resulting in nine more jars of chunky applesauce!

    I then moved on to a couple of ferments. First up is new to me: turnip and beet. Very curious to see how it turns out. Second up is a favourite: dilly beans!

    The apples came from our yard, but the vegetables came from Herrle’s Country Farm Market, a favourite local source of fresh produce, before they closed for the season a week ago.

    #LactoFermentation #AppleSauce #GardenVegetables

  5. With the help of a friend and his #Applesauce #Floppy extraction tool I was able to reconstruct 4 more damaged version of the #C64 #BASIC #game "Schanze" I am going to examine for its step-by-step creation. I am able now to compare 13 version (incl. 2 fragments from damaged files)!

    #RetroComputing #ComputerArchaeology #Commodore64

  6. With the help of a friend and his #Applesauce #Floppy extraction tool I was able to reconstruct 4 more damaged version of the #C64 #BASIC #game "Schanze" I am going to examine for its step-by-step creation. I am able now to compare 13 version (incl. 2 fragments from damaged files)!

    #RetroComputing #ComputerArchaeology #Commodore64

  7. Great weekend for healthy food prep at our house. We made another batch of applesauce using St. Lawrence apples from our backyard tree. We made another batch of salsa using tomatoes, chilies, and sweet peppers from our garden. And we started another batch of sauerkraut fermenting that, this time, includes sliced habeñeros from our garden.

    #AppleSauce #Salsa #LactoFermentation #Peppers

  8. Here’s our first kitchen/garden project for today. Home-made apple sauce using St. Lawrence apples from the tree in our back yard! The mechanical peeler/corer/slicer is an amazing device, and makes prep super easy. We still have a *lot* of apples to get through but this is a start. Happily, the whole family likes this stuff! 😀🍎🍎🍎

    #GardenFruit #Apples #AppleSauce

  9. On today’s episode of #JustHowAshkenazi I bought 10lbs of potatoes, 6lbs of applesauce, and 5lbs of sweet onions.

    I didn’t need to get oil because I already have a gallon of it that I’ll spike with shmaltz.

    Hence the #applesauce.

  10. On today’s episode of #JustHowAshkenazi I bought 10lbs of potatoes, 6lbs of applesauce, and 5lbs of sweet onions.

    I didn’t need to get oil because I already have a gallon of it that I’ll spike with shmaltz.

    Hence the #applesauce.

  11. 14 pounds of apples in the produce share program! Yuvie helped peel and both she and Ahmed were amazed how easy and tasty homemade applesauce is. I always add a bit of cinnamon and allspice, lemon juice, apple cider and sugar. #Food #Applesauce

  12. 14 pounds of apples in the produce share program! Yuvie helped peel and both she and Ahmed were amazed how easy and tasty homemade applesauce is. I always add a bit of cinnamon and allspice, lemon juice, apple cider and sugar. #Food #Applesauce

  13. So, when presented with the option to buy an Apple II clone, with a floppy drive and 182 floppy disks, is this just a hobbyist purchase or a philanthropic journey? Someone send me some AppleSauce. Boost if you agree. #apple #appleII #retrocomputing #floppy #archive #applesauce

  14. #Lead-tainted #applesauce pouches sailed through gaps in #US #FoodSafety system

    Hundreds of American children were poisoned last year. Records show how, time and again, the contamination went unnoticed across borders.

    by Will FitzgibbonandChristina Jewett
    February 27, 2024

    "Cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches sold in grocery and dollar stores last year poisoned hundreds of American children with extremely high doses of lead, leaving anxious parents to watch for signs of brain damage, developmental delays and seizures.

    "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, citing Ecuadorian investigators, said a spice grinder was likely responsible for the contamination and said the quick recall of three million applesauce pouches protected the food supply.

    "But hundreds of pages of documents obtained by The Examination, in collaborations with The New York Times and El Universo, along with interviews with government and company officials in multiple countries, show that in the weeks and months before the recall, the tainted applesauce sailed through a series of checkpoints in a food safety system meant to protect American consumers.

    "The documents and interviews offer the clearest accounting to date of the most widespread toxic exposure in food marketed to young children in decades. Children in 44 states ate the tainted applesauce, some of which contained lead at extraordinarily high levels.

    "Time and again, the tainted #cinnamon went untested and undiscovered, the result of an overstretched FDA and a food safety law that gives companies, at home and abroad, wide latitude on what toxins to look for and whether to test.

    "'It’s amazing in a bad sense what a catastrophic failure this was,' said Neal Fortin, director of the Institute for Food Laws and Regulations at Michigan State University. 'Largely, the food supply regulatory system is based on an honor system.'

    "The cinnamon originated in #SriLanka and was shipped to #Ecuador, where it was ground into a powder. It was probably there, the FDA has said, that the cinnamon was likely contaminated with #LeadChromate, a powder that is sometimes illegally used to tint or bulk up spices.

    "The ground cinnamon was then sold, bagged and sold again to a company called #Austrofood, which blended it into applesauce and shipped pouches to the United States. It was sold under the brand name #WanaBana and various generic store labels.

    "Austrofood never tested the cinnamon or its tainted applesauce before shipping it to the United States. The company said it relied on a certificate from a supplier saying the cinnamon was virtually lead free, records show. In a statement, the supplier, Negasmart, did not discuss that certification but said it had complied with all regulations and quality standards.

    "The FDA can inspect overseas food companies that ship to the United States, but even as food imports soared to record levels in 2022, international inspections fell far short of targets set by law.

    "American inspectors had not visited Austrofood in five years, records show.

    "'Companies have the responsibility to take steps to assure that the products they manufacture are not contaminated with unsafe levels of heavy metals,' Jim Jones, the top FDA food official, said in a statement. 'The agency’s job is to help the industry comply and hold those who evade these requirements accountable, as appropriate.'

    "The FDA says it has no authority to investigate far down the international supply chain. Records show that the Ecuadorian government had the authority but not the capacity. Ecuadorian regulators had never before tested cinnamon for toxins and, when the FDA called looking for help, nearly half of the government’s lab equipment was out of service, said Daniel Sánchez, the head of Ecuador’s food safety agency.

    "Private safety audits commissioned by American importers are supposed to provide another layer of protection. But audits typically look only for the hazards that the importers themselves have identified.

    "None of the importers would say whether they considered lead a risk or tested for it and it is unclear what, if any, steps they took. But none blocked the applesauce. Records show one auditor gave the applesauce maker an A+ safety rating in December, as American children were being poisoned.

    "The FDA has the power to test food arriving at the border. There is no indication that anyone tested the applesauce when it arrived at ports in Miami and Baltimore. Inspectors conduct about half as many such tests as they did a decade ago.

    "The FDA said it planned to analyze the incident and whether it needs to seek new powers from Congress to prevent future outbreaks."

    theexamination.org/articles/le

    #BigFood #FDA #FDFail #LeadPoisoning #CorporateFailure #SelfReporting

  15. #Lead-tainted #applesauce pouches sailed through gaps in #US #FoodSafety system

    Hundreds of American children were poisoned last year. Records show how, time and again, the contamination went unnoticed across borders.

    by Will FitzgibbonandChristina Jewett
    February 27, 2024

    "Cinnamon-flavored applesauce pouches sold in grocery and dollar stores last year poisoned hundreds of American children with extremely high doses of lead, leaving anxious parents to watch for signs of brain damage, developmental delays and seizures.

    "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, citing Ecuadorian investigators, said a spice grinder was likely responsible for the contamination and said the quick recall of three million applesauce pouches protected the food supply.

    "But hundreds of pages of documents obtained by The Examination, in collaborations with The New York Times and El Universo, along with interviews with government and company officials in multiple countries, show that in the weeks and months before the recall, the tainted applesauce sailed through a series of checkpoints in a food safety system meant to protect American consumers.

    "The documents and interviews offer the clearest accounting to date of the most widespread toxic exposure in food marketed to young children in decades. Children in 44 states ate the tainted applesauce, some of which contained lead at extraordinarily high levels.

    "Time and again, the tainted #cinnamon went untested and undiscovered, the result of an overstretched FDA and a food safety law that gives companies, at home and abroad, wide latitude on what toxins to look for and whether to test.

    "'It’s amazing in a bad sense what a catastrophic failure this was,' said Neal Fortin, director of the Institute for Food Laws and Regulations at Michigan State University. 'Largely, the food supply regulatory system is based on an honor system.'

    "The cinnamon originated in #SriLanka and was shipped to #Ecuador, where it was ground into a powder. It was probably there, the FDA has said, that the cinnamon was likely contaminated with #LeadChromate, a powder that is sometimes illegally used to tint or bulk up spices.

    "The ground cinnamon was then sold, bagged and sold again to a company called #Austrofood, which blended it into applesauce and shipped pouches to the United States. It was sold under the brand name #WanaBana and various generic store labels.

    "Austrofood never tested the cinnamon or its tainted applesauce before shipping it to the United States. The company said it relied on a certificate from a supplier saying the cinnamon was virtually lead free, records show. In a statement, the supplier, Negasmart, did not discuss that certification but said it had complied with all regulations and quality standards.

    "The FDA can inspect overseas food companies that ship to the United States, but even as food imports soared to record levels in 2022, international inspections fell far short of targets set by law.

    "American inspectors had not visited Austrofood in five years, records show.

    "'Companies have the responsibility to take steps to assure that the products they manufacture are not contaminated with unsafe levels of heavy metals,' Jim Jones, the top FDA food official, said in a statement. 'The agency’s job is to help the industry comply and hold those who evade these requirements accountable, as appropriate.'

    "The FDA says it has no authority to investigate far down the international supply chain. Records show that the Ecuadorian government had the authority but not the capacity. Ecuadorian regulators had never before tested cinnamon for toxins and, when the FDA called looking for help, nearly half of the government’s lab equipment was out of service, said Daniel Sánchez, the head of Ecuador’s food safety agency.

    "Private safety audits commissioned by American importers are supposed to provide another layer of protection. But audits typically look only for the hazards that the importers themselves have identified.

    "None of the importers would say whether they considered lead a risk or tested for it and it is unclear what, if any, steps they took. But none blocked the applesauce. Records show one auditor gave the applesauce maker an A+ safety rating in December, as American children were being poisoned.

    "The FDA has the power to test food arriving at the border. There is no indication that anyone tested the applesauce when it arrived at ports in Miami and Baltimore. Inspectors conduct about half as many such tests as they did a decade ago.

    "The FDA said it planned to analyze the incident and whether it needs to seek new powers from Congress to prevent future outbreaks."

    theexamination.org/articles/le

    #BigFood #FDA #FDFail #LeadPoisoning #CorporateFailure #SelfReporting

  16. We may now know who’s behind the lead-tainted cinnamon in toddler fruit pouches - Enlarge / The three recalled pouches linked to lead poisonings. (credit... - arstechnica.com/?p=2001859 #applecinnamonfruitpouches #applesauce #poisoning #chromium #cinnamon #wanabana #science #ecuador #spices #lead #fda

  17. We may now know who’s behind the lead-tainted cinnamon in toddler fruit pouches - Enlarge / The three recalled pouches linked to lead poisonings. (credit... - arstechnica.com/?p=2001859 #applecinnamonfruitpouches #applesauce #poisoning #chromium #cinnamon #wanabana #science #ecuador #spices #lead #fda

  18. #applesauce #leadpoisoning It looks like the source of the lead in applesauce packages is lead chromate, probably added to the cinnamon for weight and coloring to conceal someone shorting the amount of cinnamon being used. Probably nobody will be prosecuted because there's too many layers of suppliers and too many different suppliers at each layer to definitively pin the blame on any one of them

    washingtonpost.com/wellness/20

  19. #applesauce #leadpoisoning It looks like the source of the lead in applesauce packages is lead chromate, probably added to the cinnamon for weight and coloring to conceal someone shorting the amount of cinnamon being used. Probably nobody will be prosecuted because there's too many layers of suppliers and too many different suppliers at each layer to definitively pin the blame on any one of them

    washingtonpost.com/wellness/20

  20. Maybe I should buy premium brand #cinnamon next shopping trip 😬

    "Cinnamon from a manufacturer in Ecuador is the 'likely source' of high levels of lead found in recalled pouches of #applesauce puree linked to illnesses in at least 34 #children in 22 states, the #FDA said Friday.

    "But the agency noted there have *not* been other reports of illness or elevated blood #lead levels tied to the spice that’s popular in holiday #baking."
    apnews.com/article/wanabana-le

    #food #recall

  21. Maybe I should buy premium brand #cinnamon next shopping trip 😬

    "Cinnamon from a manufacturer in Ecuador is the 'likely source' of high levels of lead found in recalled pouches of #applesauce puree linked to illnesses in at least 34 #children in 22 states, the #FDA said Friday.

    "But the agency noted there have *not* been other reports of illness or elevated blood #lead levels tied to the spice that’s popular in holiday #baking."
    apnews.com/article/wanabana-le

    #food #recall

  22. Thanks to the generosity of @scott, I am borrowing an Applesauce with an Apple 3.5" SuperDrive.

    I hadn't seen one of these since school days ... and I had forgotten how soothing its drive read sound is compared with other floppy drives! 💾 👂

    #retrocomputing #applesauce #apple #vintagecomputing #digipres

  23. Thanks to the generosity of @scott, I am borrowing an Applesauce with an Apple 3.5" SuperDrive.

    I hadn't seen one of these since school days ... and I had forgotten how soothing its drive read sound is compared with other floppy drives! 💾 👂

    #retrocomputing #applesauce #apple #vintagecomputing #digipres

  24. That peeler/slicer/corer make short work of today's batch of apples being prepped for apple sauce.

    #Apples #AppleSauce

  25. That peeler/slicer/corer make short work of today's batch of apples being prepped for apple sauce.

    #Apples #AppleSauce

  26. In my quest to provide novel, apple-related posts, I've upgraded my approach with a video! Behold the powerful, yet simple, mechanical device that peels, cores, and slices apples quickly and reliably! Which will lead to apple sauce.

    #Apples #AppleSauce

  27. In my quest to provide novel, apple-related posts, I've upgraded my approach with a video! Behold the powerful, yet simple, mechanical device that peels, cores, and slices apples quickly and reliably! Which will lead to apple sauce.

    #Apples #AppleSauce

  28. After owning these things for around 10 years, I just discovered that my most-used steel mixing bowl fits perfectly in the bottom of my salad spinner for rapid chilling, and this makes me very happy. #cooking #equipment #newdiscoveries #fitsperfectly #applesauce
    unsellingconvenience.com/post/

  29. After owning these things for around 10 years, I just discovered that my most-used steel mixing bowl fits perfectly in the bottom of my salad spinner for rapid chilling, and this makes me very happy. #cooking #equipment #newdiscoveries #fitsperfectly #applesauce
    unsellingconvenience.com/post/

  30. CW: food

    Our home came with two apple trees which have become increasingly productive over the years. Usually I just try to prevent Bertie from eating himself sick, but this year I’m trying to get some applesauce made and put up for winter.

    Most of the apples have dropped off the tree and are bruised. Over the past week I’ve picked up the least damaged and stashed them in the fridge. I managed to reach a few from the trees, which I’ve reserved for eating raw.

    I’ve processed just over half our windfall apples and have them in the big slow cooker. My original thought that I’ll be small-batch canning has been revised to planning to put my big canner into service. Perhaps both the small and big-batch going at once!

    Our house smells amazing.

    #harvest #PutItUp #PreservingFood #canning #applesauce #grateful #WinterIsComing #QueerAgenda

  31. CW: food

    Our home came with two apple trees which have become increasingly productive over the years. Usually I just try to prevent Bertie from eating himself sick, but this year I’m trying to get some applesauce made and put up for winter.

    Most of the apples have dropped off the tree and are bruised. Over the past week I’ve picked up the least damaged and stashed them in the fridge. I managed to reach a few from the trees, which I’ve reserved for eating raw.

    I’ve processed just over half our windfall apples and have them in the big slow cooker. My original thought that I’ll be small-batch canning has been revised to planning to put my big canner into service. Perhaps both the small and big-batch going at once!

    Our house smells amazing.

    #harvest #PutItUp #PreservingFood #canning #applesauce #grateful #WinterIsComing #QueerAgenda

  32. Started another small batch of apple sauce today using apples from the tree in our yard. The hand-cranked apple peeler also slices and cores each apple, and does it quickly. This particular variety of apple starts to brown before I even have it off the peeler.

    #Apples #AppleSauce

  33. Picked 28 lbs / 12.7 kg of Gravenstein apples this afternoon, quartered most of them for apple sauce, and peeled and sliced the rest for an apple crisp. Quartered apples are softened and cooling, sliced apples are bathed in some orange vitamin C juice and in the fridge. Took less than 3 hours with interruptions.

    Cook the crisp, strain the softened apples, cook the sauce a little, and then can it in the morning when I can have the windows open.

    #apples #applesauce #applecrisp #gardening

  34. Picked 28 lbs / 12.7 kg of Gravenstein apples this afternoon, quartered most of them for apple sauce, and peeled and sliced the rest for an apple crisp. Quartered apples are softened and cooling, sliced apples are bathed in some orange vitamin C juice and in the fridge. Took less than 3 hours with interruptions.

    Cook the crisp, strain the softened apples, cook the sauce a little, and then can it in the morning when I can have the windows open.

    #apples #applesauce #applecrisp #gardening

  35. Made an apple pie with a gf crust. GF crusts don't always hold together well and I was experimenting with mixing some flours together, so the lattice fell apart. Used the peels and leftover apple around the cores to make some applesauce.

    #baking #ApplePie #cooking #applesauce #GlutenFree