Posted: 12:15 a.m. by LordOrcus I’m so mad that there’s a new edition of The Better Joy Cookbook out. Thanks for making my old copy obsolete, you greedy hacks! For five years now, my friends have been coming over for my eggplant Parmesan, and now I’m never going to be able serve it again unless I shell out 35 bucks for the latest version.
(Actually, if you get real cooking geeks talking about cookbooks, they will offer sometimes ranty critiques, especially for how certain books change over editions. But, joke-spoiling reality aside, as someone who has read the negative hyperbole over new editions of game systems, this article really hits home.)
[h/t +Daniel Swensen]
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What about newspapers, that completely change themselves EVERY DAY?
"Two days ago this newspaper said the Dow was at 24,000. Now it shows the Dow at 23,000. How am I supposed to rely on this paper if a basic number keeps on changing?"
Rofl, spot on +Dave Hill 😆
Yes and no.
I guess it would be like if the cooking book went to all metric, or if half of the recipes were deleted and replaced with new recipes that all involved 2 cups of mayonnaise, parsnips and Brussels Sprouts.
Stan, if my favorite cookbooks went metric, I could cope. But the “2 cups of mayonnaise, parsnips and Brussels Sprouts”? I’d burn the damn thing! Parsnips I will eat; but Brussels Sprouts are an abomination – unless roasted and then covered in enough cheese sauce to hide their favor.