#chorizo — Public Fediverse posts

Crispy baked tacos, Moroccan chicken and more quick meals

Baked tacos are currently a darling on social media, and I think I know why: They’re so ea…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #RecipeTopics #asiancuisine #Chorizo #Cooking #Coriander #cuisine #cuisineoftheamericas #Curry #dcc #Foodanddrinkpreparation #Foods #lee-national #moroccancuisine #northamericancuisine #Recipes #taco #westerncuisine #wire
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2340618/crispy-baked-tacos-moroccan-chicken-and-more-quick-meals/

Saturday night was date night, so we went to our favourite Portuguese/Italian restaurant 🍖🍷🕯️

#DateNight #Steak #Squid #KingPrawns #Chorizo #BlackPudding #Calamari #Espetada #Food #Scran #Scranodon

Under the #vegetables heading, #YouTube is recommending, in order, these #recipe videos from #AmericasTestKitchen:

#PulledTurkey and Eastern #NorthCarolina #fish

#GroundBeef and #cheese #enchiladas, and #TacosAlCarbon

#Kimchi* #Bokkeumpbap and #Beef #Bulgogi

#ChickenMarsala and #Lemon* #chicken

#Tamales with red chicken #chile* filling, #chorizo and potato* tacos

I mean, technically, yeah, counting sauces, etc., but c'mon 😑

*vegetable or fruit

ChorizoGate: an Accidental Hoax

My Twitter account is usually a quiet backwater of social media, and that’s the way I like it, but there was an unexpected burst of activity and interest in it over the weekend. To amuse myself on Saturday morning I decided to post this on Twitter:

(I deleted my Twitter account some time ago, so have replaced the link with a screenshot.)

I thought a few people might find it funny, but it took off beyond my expectations. By my standards over 5000 likes counts as “going viral” (as you young people say). Most people saw the joke immediately – if you don’t get it, the image is of a slice of chorizo not an astronomical object – and some even joined in with puns and other jokes. Even funnier, some respondents earnestly shared their devastating insight that it was chorizo (or some variant thereof). I honestly didn’t think anyone would think that I was seriously trying to pass it off as a JWST picture; it was just meant to be silly. But there you go. That’s Twitter. I should also report that some people looked at the rainbow flags in my profile and proceeded to indulge in some casual homophobia. That’s Twitter too. Those people all got blocked.

Anyway, the day after I posted the image it seems a prominent French physicist called Etienne Klein who has many times more Twitter followers than I do, posted this embellished version. TRIGGER WARNING – it’s in FRENCH:

https://twitter.com/EtienneKlein/status/1553765864553472003?s=20&t=amXlFgFVPSho7Qrr0EBP5A

Notice the picture is exactly the same. What a coincidence! You might consider this plagiarism; I couldn’t possibly comment. I always regard anything I put on social media as being in the public domain so I’m not really bothered if other people “borrow” it. There’s quite a lot of plagiarism of stuff I’ve written on this blog out there, but life’s too short to get upset about it. Credit would be courteous, but one one learns that it isn’t generally to be expected.

As a matter of fact it’s not a new joke anyway. I didn’t make the picture and don’t remember where I got it from, though it was probably here.

Anyway, the funny thing is that this then got picked up by various other people:

and organisations:

https://twitter.com/Brevesdepresse/status/1554903598571610115?s=20&t=amXlFgFVPSho7Qrr0EBP5A

There are others, e.g. here, here, here and here. Also here.

ChorizoGate all took off in a very surprising way. I’m not sure what the moral of this story is, other than if you make a joke no matter how obvious it is there will always be people who take it seriously…

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