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lifewithchronicpain · 2 years

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In photographs, she looks like a scout leader about to ask if you’ve had anything to eat today. It takes a moment to see that often, just out of focus, her fingers are holding a joint and her vest is covered in risque pins, including an embroidered cannabis leaf.

Mary Jane Rathbun, jailed thrice and the reason for California’s groundbreaking action on medical cannabis, was better known as Brownie Mary, the patron saint of AIDS patients. More than twenty years after her death, it’s not hard to understand why this grandmotherly figure remains one of San Francisco’s most beloved activists.

She’s been called the Florence Nightingale of HIV/AIDS. She was famous for bringing her magic brownies to gay men and others suffering from wasting syndrome, a name for the deleterious effects on appetite caused by the stigmatized retrovirus.

Much like Nightingale’s work on hygiene and compassionate care, Brownie Mary’s legacy lives on in the recipes and procedures still used today in medicinal edible production.

Rathbun’s illicit distribution began in the early 1970s, when she was in her early 50s, while she worked at an IHOP in the Castro, 37 years before government-approved research finally proved that her hypothesis about distributing ingestible cannabis to AIDS patients was worth investigating. (Read more at link)

#aids crisis #aids/hiv #brownie mary #disability rights #activism #article

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aiiaiiiyo · 1 year

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#Brownie Mary #Mary Jane Rathbun - popularly known as was an American medical cannabis rights activist. As a hospital volunteer at San Franc #she became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDS patients. 1980s #GoldenChinchilla #oldschool

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dduane · 8 months

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I have baked a pan of brownies in a water bath yesterday, and can confirm it is a beautiful success! Their texture is sublime, and I have eaten far too many pieces already! Used a 9x13 baking pan double wrapped in tinfoil, in an oven-sized baking pan filled a bit more than half an inch deep with water. No noticeable difference between edge and center, and incredibly tender. 10000000/10 will definitely switch to this method from now on.

Thank you and have a good week!

Absolutely! ...And thanks for letting me/us know about this. Definitely somethng to try!

#brownies #water bath #bain-marie

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jamespotterbbg · 10 days

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mary would bake brookies for her friends and hand them out, wrapped in a pink ribbon calling them "coquette"

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nightfall-1409 · 8 months

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once again swinging at the hornets nest but if you can in fact swap out the phrase "Filoni's OC" with the phrase "Mary Sue" when you're talking about Ahsoka Tano.

then question why the fuck you feel that way about her.

genuinely what did she do other than be the main character in some star wars properties.

#people pointing out anakin skywalker and luke skywalker are the mary sue's of all time should get brownies #the rise of misogyny in fan spaces. has become intolerable. What the fuck.#ahsoka series #ahsoka show

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the-ultimate-squish · 6 months

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#sot2023 #sot2023r1 #Mary the Octopus #Brownie the Bear #tournament poll #poll

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anothermansjeans · 1 year

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it’s almost 11pm and i just but sugar cookies in the oven, someone stop me

#tw food mention #my stress baking the past 2 days 📈#it’s getting so bad i have left over brownies from two days ago and left over 10pm pizza #anne marie shut up pls :)

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l0k1l1k3smcr · 2 years

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I miss him

Just not enough to watch whatever tf this is

#supernatural #im sorry but #this is trash #they went from 😡🤺🔥#to 🥰🌈✨#its giving tvd and that 70s show baby #listen #spn was a BIG part of my life #and it still is tbh #but i honestly can NOT watch #the winchesters #shit post #ziggy speaks #deadn winchester #john and mary ate one 🍃 brownie #and this is the result of that

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itisi-asimplegay · 2 years

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pls gd let there be enough banana in my freezer to replace 4 eggs

#PLEASE #i already have *exactly* the right amount of gluten free flour #i just need the banana to make it vegan PLEASE #baking adventures with mari #im trying to make gluten free vegan brownies #and i am Not sure i have enough bananas lmao

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soflying369 · 2 years

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i love mari brownies

#brownies #mari #me #high

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aiiaiiiyo · 1 year

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#Mary Jane Rathbun - popularly known as “Brownie Mary” was an American medical cannabis rights activist. As a hospital volunteer at San Franc #she became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to AIDS patients. [1980]#Tchoupitoulas_Street #oldschool

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octaviasdread · 6 months

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okay, Frankenstein on stage in a 1930s/wartime setting is actually such a good idea

i was so worried about the script adaptation and how they’d choose to stage it - but i went in knowing nothing

and had the BEST time

#plus the best chocolate brownie in the intermission #spooky week activities include theatre shows #and indulging my mary shelley obsession #CO Posts #co speaks #mary shelley #frankenstein #frankenstein play #the romantics

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angstravaganza · 7 months

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Brownie Pie a la Mary Pat

#Brownie #Pie #Mary #Pat

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rad-batson · 3 months

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I’m like 99% sure the Gotham Elite’s social customs are fucked up because Autism-in-Human-Form Bruce Wayne was just so fucking tired of high society’s weird and incomprehensible (and frankly ableist) social etiquette that he went full Virgin Mary About-to-Invent-a-Major-World-Religion, said “oh haven’t you heard?” and just started making his own random social rules. Like who’s going to stop him? The other elites? The dinosaur CEO’s? He’s richer. He hosts the better parties. He could tank your business in a weekend. So when he says “Weird passive aggressive fork language is out. Having a different utensil for every different food texture is in,” you use a different utensil for every food texture. Now when foreign elites visit Gotham, they have to learn a completely new set of social customs to fit in. It’s like a cult, but the cult is run by the most influential man in the world and Gotham’s personal Jesus. The followers are more likely than not mafia bosses named after a bird. You will be judged. There’s a test. Yes, you do get brownie points for being nice to the servers. For the love of god, stop making so much eye contact. The cloth napkins are folded into little ducks. Welcome to Gotham.

#autistic bruce wayne #bruce wayne #dc universe #dc #batman #batfam #batfamily #gotham #only in gotham #gotham city

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bigbitchmarii · 9 months

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Brownie Pie a la Mary Pat

#Brownie #Pie #Mary #Pat

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papermoonloveslucy · 1 year

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THE DESILU BAKE SHOP

Freshly Baked Comedy!

Baked goods were popular on Lucycoms - whether it be competitve cake-baking or cream pies for throwing! And there was also some experiments in bread baking that failed in a big way!

“The Wonder Show” (1938) ~ A radio show sponsored by Wonder Bread that marked the first collaboration between Gale Gordon and Lucille Ball.

“The Audition” (1951) ~ The episode ends with Ricky mistakenly thinking Lucy might be pregnant - but the only thing in her ‘oven’ is his favorite pie!. When Lucy said the same lines in the un-aired pilot, she actually was!

“Pioneer Women” (1952) ~ Forced to do their own baking, Lucy mistakes the number of cakes of yeast in the recipe for homemade bread and produces a mammoth loaf. In reality, the bread was baked by L.A.’s Union Baking Company. The final product was rye bread, as rye lasts longer without spoiling. The bread was cut up and served to the studio audience after filming.

“Job Switching” (1952) ~ When the girls go to work, the boys stay home to do the cooking and cleaning. Preparing dinner, Fred is in charge of baking a cake for dessert. It is a flop - literally. Ricky suggests he wait till breakfast and serve it as a pancake.

“Lucy’s Last Birthday” (1953) ~ Lucy thinks that Ricky has forgotten her birthday, but he plans to surprise her with a huge cake and party at the Tropicana.

“The Diner” (1954) ~ A bakery delivery boy (Don Garner) brings cream pies to Little Bit of Cuba / Big Hunk of America. Naturally they end up on the cast’s faces, not in their bellies.

“Ricky Minds the Baby” (1954) ~ When Ethel is still hungry after dinner, Lucy offers her some stale brownies which, when dumped on the table, actually break a plate. Too stale even for Ethel!

“Million Dollar Idea” (1954) ~ For dessert, Lucy brings out a plate of bite sized pastries. When Ricky wants to talk about her being overdrawn at the bank, Lucy doesn’t want to discuss it while she’s eating. Rather than have to ‘splain her finances, Lucy eats a dozen of the treats while Ricky waits patiently! What the props department used for the sweets is unknown, but they make an audible crispy crunch when Lucy bites into them.

“Home Movies” (1954) ~ The pastry chef at the Tropicana bakes a cake with the title of Ricky’s TV pilot film “Tropical Rhythms”.

“Ricky’s Hawaiian Vacation” (1954) ~ On a radio quiz show, Lucy is pelted with food and drink when Ricky sings key lyrics - from a safe distance. Like any good meal, the episode ends with coffee and pie!

“Lucy Learns to Drive” (1954) ~ To wake Fred from his catontonic state after losing money on an antique Cadillac, Lucy tempts him with homemade apple pie.

“Lucy Visits Grauman’s” (1955) ~ To celebrate Ricky’s success in Hollywood, Lucy throws him a party with a cake that compares him to 1954 Oscar-winner Maron Brando.

“Lucy Misplaces $2,000″ (1962) ~ The episode starts with Harry bringing over fresh donuts from Friehoffer’s Bakery. Unfortunately, Lucy and Viv are on a 253 calorie diet.

“Lucy’s Sister Pays a Visit” (1963) ~ For her sister’s wedding, Lucy and Viv bake her wedding cake - sipping from a heavily spiked punch bowl while they ice it.

“Lucy and the Military Academy” (1963) ~ When her son is at a military academy, Lucy bakes him a birthday cake, although it is against the rules. When she arrives, she learns she isn’t the only mother to bake a cake for her son.

“Lucy Goes To Art Class” (1964) ~ To impress a handsome bachelor, Viv bakes him a pie. Jealous Lucy sneaks into his apartment and replaces Viv’s pie with her ‘poison pie’ containing three jars of hot peppers, two cans of anchovies, and one bottle of Tabasco sauce.

When Lucy is caught spying, she must eat a slice of her own creation to hide her sabotage.

In the second kitchen scene, there is a pink bakery box on the counter. These same boxes will turn up later in the year in “Lucy’s Contact Lenses” (S3;E10) and “Lucy Gets Her Maid” (S3;E11). Pink bakery boxes were a California anomoly, instantly recognizable as fresh baked goods - usually (but not exclusively) - donuts.

“Lucy Enters a Baking Contest” (1964) ~ Lucy’s baking skills are always being compared unfavorably to Viv’s, so she decides to give her a run for her money in the Danfield Tribune’s annual pie-baking contest.

Baking for her bridge group, Lucy’s cake falls before it can be iced, so she calls Mr. Mooney and asks him to go by Trumbull’s Bakery and pick up a large sunshine cake with white icing thinking no one will be the wiser. During the bridge game, Viv reminds Audrey and Kathleen about the failure of Lucy’s brownies for the PTA bazaar.

Mr. Mooney ends the episode with a pie in the face, which will be (somewhat appropriately) the final image of season two of the series.

“Lucy’s Contact Lenses” (1964) ~ Lucy and Viv are baking a chocolate fudge cake to donate to Mrs. Mooney’s charity bake sale at the bank. Lucy drops one of her contact lenses into the icing.

After searching through 15 similar cakes, Lucy and Viv discover that Mr. Mooney has bought Lucy’s cake for his wife’s birthday. Lucy and Viv must now break into the Mooney home to steal the cake to retrieve the lost lens.

“Lucy Puts Main Street on the Map” (1966) ~ The town of Bancroft has a bakery on Main Street: Grandma Thompson’s. It is named in honor of Maury Thompson, who directed the episode.

“Lucy’s Birthday” (1968) ~ Kim and Craig take Lucy out to a Chinese restaurant to celebrate her birthday. The waiters present her with a birthday cake and sing “Happy Birthday” to her - in Chinese!

“Lucy’s Wedding Party” (1970) ~ While Harry is away, Lucy uses his home to host a big fat Greek wedding - complete with a two-tiered wedding cake.

When Harry comes home unexpectedly - he is greeted with cake - in his face!

“Lucy and the Great Airport Chase” (1969) ~ Trying to escape an international espionage ring, Lucy and Harry blend in at the airport kitchen, filling cream pies.

On the tarmac, bakers Kim and Craig get into the act.

At the end, the spy is caught - and pelted with pies!

“Goodbye Mrs. Hips” (1973) ~ Lucy, Mary Jane, and Vanda all go on a crash diet. At the same time, Harry has been invited to join a prestigious food and wine society when his refrigerator breaks down. He stores his Chantilly cream cake with toasted hazelnuts at Lucy’s - in the same home with three ravenous women!

“Lucy and Chuck Connors Have a Surprise Slumber Party” (1973) ~ When Lucy rents out her home for Chuck Connors to shoot a movie, the studio commissary sends over slices of apple pie to feed the crew.

“Lucy the Sheriff” (1974) ~ A little old lady (Florence Halop) brings a homemade cake to a couple of prisoners. Sheriff Lucy immeditaly thinks it has a file in it. Turns out the little old lady is smarter than that and has a saw hidden under her shawl!

“Lucy Calls the President” (1974) ~ Lucy and Viv prepare for a visit by Jimmy Carter (peanut farmer turned president) by baking a cake with his face on it.

VIV: “Come see my cake. I'm so proud of it, Lucy.”

LUCY: “Oh, it's a work of art. It was so clever of you to make President Carter's teeth out of peanuts.”

“CBS on the Air: A Celebration of 50 Years″ (1978) ~ Lucille Ball and Bea Arthur, representing Monday Nights on CBS, end their tribute to comedy with pies in the face.

“Mother of the Bride” (1986) ~ In the last-aired episode of “Life With Lucy”, Lucy, Curtis and Lucy’s sister (Audrey Meadows) all end up wearing the wedding cake prepared for the vow renewal of Ted and Margo - a fitting way to mark the end of Lucille Ball’s 35 years on television.

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