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fatehbaz · 1 year
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Libby’s canned pumpkin, for example, the largest canned pumpkin producer in the country, calls their product pumpkin instead of squash because the pumpkin means more to the average American consumer. But if you saw the thing, it looks just like squash -- because it is squash [...]. So this is not just a story of myth making, but also one showing the repercussions of these myths for rural economies. [...]
In the early nineteenth century when people were moving off farms and into cities, the smaller and sweeter varieties that we now call squash were available [...]. Zucchini and winter squash, for example, had some commodity status, and were a part of their daily lives. But the pumpkin -- that orange round squash -- was the crop that was left behind on the farm and it didn’t go into the market place. Small-scale farmers kept it in production because it was a substitute for livestock fodder [...]. It started to represent an old-fashioned way [...]. So in the early nineteenth century when industrial agriculture took off, there was no room for the pumpkin in the marketplace. But this was exactly the time it started to appear in Winslow Homer’s paintings and Harper’s Magazine and romantic poems. [...]
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Morton, Illinois is the location of a Libby’s processing plant. Libby’s controls about ninety percent of the market for culinary pumpkins, and they’ve been around almost a hundred years. In 1970 they tried to have one big corporate-sized pumpkin farm in California, and the plan was to ship the crop back to Morton for processing. So they tried that model but it didn’t work because the market for the pumpkin is lucrative but limited; it could be eaten throughout the year, but it’s not. Ninety percent of the market is from September through January. [...] Libby’s returned to Morton to distribute their seeds [...]. They send this seed to between fifty and seventy small family farms within a seventy-five mile radius of their plant [...]. These farms then plant these seeds on behalf of Libby’s. [...]
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But in the story of how it became an icon, it was really consumers creating the market and the farmers following to meet demand. [...] Farmers would be driving down the highway in a truck full of pumpkins for their hogs and they’d be stopped by tourists on their Sunday drives through the country asking if they could buy pumpkins. Farmers never had the idea that this was going to be a commodity. So then the seed companies started changing the seed to fit the idea that this was going to be an object of display and ornament instead of something to eat.
Today, sixty-five to seventy percent of pumpkin production is for ornamental pumpkins, and they are produced around the country. Most places across the country are conducive for small family farms to produce these -- you can throw in a few seeds and get a pretty good yield. It’s a lucrative but limited market, so there’s almost nobody that ships nationwide but almost everyone ships locally. If you’re a trucker in Nebraska, you basically stick in Nebraska for pumpkins because it just doesn’t pay, especially for the ornamentals. If they get nicked or the stem falls off they’re worthless, so that makes it a local crop too. [...]
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Words of Cindy Ott. As interviewed and transcribed by Daniel Grant. Published by Grant under the title: “From Jack-O’-Lantern to Pumpkin Pie: The Surprising History of a Favorite Fall Icon.” In: Edge Effects. 27 October 2015. Updated 12 October 2019. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]
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metalmaul · 2 years
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PLEASE SHARE!!
Making this post for Illinois residents:
I got a flyer in the mail from University of Illinois & Find Food IL for a website that has a map resource of everywhere that accepts SNAP benefits.
This includes grocery stores, food pantries, schools, meal sites, senior food resources, government offices, and the most exciting to me, farmers markets!!! I've never been to a farmers market before because I didn't think they accepted food stamps.
You can look up your city/town & any other surrounding cities/towns that might be accessible to you. Theres a button that I've circled in red that will show a list of all resources in the area you've chosen. You can also search by resource by clicking on one of these icons I've circled in blue (scroll horizontally for more.)
I'm using the mobile site, so on a computer this might look slightly different.
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I would appreciate if, even if you don't live in Illinois, you could share this information. I'm not sure if everyone is aware of it, or if everyone got a flyer for it; I certainly had NO idea and it's really an exciting & life-changing kind of thing to think about being able to get fresh, locally grown food with SNAP.
Obviously, I've yet to actually go & check out my local options, so I'm not sure what the process will be like yet or if there are any limitations. Plus, naturally, everywhere is probably different. However, just to KNOW this exists is important enough to share the information.
The website is:
https://eat-move-save.extension.illinois.edu/
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jurisffiction · 4 months
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what i personally associate with every u.s. state
alabama: that 'home' song my flatmate had on her driving playlist for years
alaska: airline
arizona: twilight
arkansas: see alabama
california: james blunt song where he sings "californ-i-ay" but not the james blunt song titled "california"
colorado: 'wide lands of the navajo' painting
connecticut: my friend jess
delaware: biden
florida: florida man
georgia: the country
hawai'i: my friend devin
idaho: potato
illinois: illinoise
indiana: west wing episode where they get confused about time zone changes
iowa: caucus
kansas: wizard of oz
kentucky: how to pronounce louisville
louisiana: murder capital
maine: second portland
maryland: cafe i went to in dc that claimed their food was fresh from maryland and served me french toast in some kind of log. may have been founding farmers? Uncertain
massachusetts: social network
michigan: lake
minnesota: canada
mississippi: matilda rhyme
missouri: supernatural character
montana: big sky country hgtv
nebraska: unicameralism
nevada: bad times at the el royale
new hampshire: first in the nation!
new jersey: amanda
new mexico: weird al song albuquerque
new york: they might be giants new york city
north carolina: that bookclub book by that murderer woman
north dakota: fanning
ohio: time i slipped on an icy patch in youngstown
oklahoma: musical
oregon: other portland
pennsylvania: rocky horror picture show. because i learnt "transylvania" before i knew "pennsylvania" existed and always got them confused as a kid
rhode island: taylor swift mansion
south carolina: south carolina on my mind. state song
south dakota: north dakota
tennessee: weird state shape
texas: they killed jfk
utah: mormons
vermont: cheers season 2 episode 18 "snow job"
virginia: jefferson
washington: twilight
washington dc: emissary cafe
west virginia: mcelroy brothers
wisconsin: 70s show
wyoming: demetri martin bit about it being suspiciously easy to draw
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Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Insurance costs are soaring and companies are canceling policies and upping rates. Don’t blame climate change. I address the real reasons for this mess.
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I had been working on this insurance idea for a few days. The tweet below by Adam drives the message, but only for fire insurance. I added hurricane and river flooding.
There are other flood zones along any major river or low areas. Hurricanes also cause flooding. People need wind and flood insurance in some zones. Judging from the map, some places in Florida are at risk for several reasons.
The link in the above Tweet is paywalled.
Buying Home and Auto Insurance Is Becoming Impossible
The Wall Street Journal reports Buying Home and Auto Insurance Is Becoming Impossible
After Allstate suffered billions of dollars in losses and failed to get the rate increases it wanted, it resorted to the nuclear option. The insurance giant threatened last fall to stop renewing auto insurance for customers in three states that hadn’t given in to its demands, which would have left those policyholders scrambling for coverage. The states blinked. In December, New Jersey approved auto rate increases for Allstate averaging 17%, and New York, a 15% hike. Regulators in California are allowing Allstate to boost auto rates by 30%, but still haven’t decided on its request for a 40% increase in home-insurance rates after the insurer refused to write new policies. Farmers Insurance Group increased home-insurance rates by more than 23% last year for tens of thousands of policyholders in both Illinois and Texas, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Nationwide Mutual said it won’t renew 10,525 home-insurance policies in hurricane-prone areas of North Carolina. State Farm racked up $13 billion in property-casualty underwriting losses in 2022, its worst ever. Last year, it stopped writing new home-insurance policies in California. The state’s regulators last month approved a 20% home-insurance rate increase. In California’s wildfire-prone San Bernardino County, insurers in 2021 refused to renew 1,355 policies in a zip code that abuts Lake Arrowhead, north of San Bernardino, up sharply from 157 refusals in 2015, according to an analysis by research firm First Street Foundation. In November, Chaucer Group, a London-based reinsurer, named several regions once considered low risk for wildfires that it said are “quickly becoming areas of concern for catastrophic wildfire insurance losses.” They include mountainous areas between Salt Lake City and Denver, and the Appalachian Mountains from Tennessee to New York. Another concern is Texas, partly because of increased development on the fringes of metropolitan areas stemming from migration from California, the report said. Despite some concessions from regulators, insurers are bracing for a tough future. Allstate’s Wilson said that everywhere in the country is at some risk from increasingly severe weather. “There is no place that’s safe,” he said, “and no place that’s not going to be impacted.”
Reinsurers to the Rescue?
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Snack a Pickle Day
Snack a Pickle Day is a day for snacking on pickles. Pickles, which usually mean pickled cucumbers when spoke of in the United States, are preserved in a brine or vinegar solution, and flavored with herbs and seasonings. The word “pickle” is derived from the Dutch word pekel, which means brine. The pickling process was invented around 1440, and many people were making pickles in their homes by the 1600’s. This was helped with the invention of the mason jar in 1858. Pickles are a low calorie food and high in vitamin K, but they may also be high in sodium. Each year Americans eat about 9 pounds of pickles.
How to Observe Snack a Pickle Day
The day should be celebrated by snacking on a pickle! Pickles can be eaten on their own or with a meal. They can be put on a hamburger,or chopped into a relish and put on a hot dog. Sometimes they are served on a stick, and sometimes they are even deep fried. There are many types of pickles to try:
Bread and butter—part of sweet family of pickles; has onions and bell peppers; sometimes have a waffle-esque shape; solution of vinegar, sugar, and spices; name comes from Omar and Cora Fanning, Illinois cucumber farmers who started selling the pickles in the early 1920’s and filed for the name in 1923; name derived from how they traded their pickles for things like bread and butter during rough years.
Cinnamon—bright red and flavored with cinnamon; sometimes a Christmas treat.
Dill—made with dill herbs or dill oil; have been served in New York City since at least 1899.
Gherkins—smaller and usually sweeter; made with Burr or West Indian cucumbers; sometimes “gherkin” is a generic term used for pickles in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Kool-aid—soaked in kool-aid and pickle brine.
Kosher dill—dill pickle with lots of garlic in the salt brine.
Polish—somewhere between kosher dill and sour.
Sour—fermented longer in brine, which makes them sourer.
Sour mixed—sour pickles cut and mixed with other veggie such as onions, cauliflower, carrots, and peppers.
Sour relish—made with finely chopped sour pickles with other vegetables; also called “piccalili.”
Sweet—usually made with vinegar, spices, and sugar; includes sliced sweet pickles, or “cross cuts”, which are cut crosswise into chips.
Sweet mixed—sweet pickles mixed with other vegetables.
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Eliza Bleu’s Own Friends Aren’t Buying Her Trafficking Story
With striking lilac hair and a pugnacious attitude, the anti-sex trafficking activist known as Eliza Bleu has broken into some of the top tiers of right-wing media in just a few years, growing her audience through interviews with popular figures like Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool, and Dr. Drew Pinsky.
But in late 2022, Bleu found an even more powerful ally: new Twitter owner Elon Musk.
Bleu, who refers to herself as “a survivor of human trafficking,” has lent the billionaire an unusual form of credibility by insisting that pre-Musk Twitter was overrun with child pornography. Only Musk, Bleu says, has been willing to stamp out the abusive material on Twitter “at scale.” In another tweet, she declared, “The war against Elon Musk is actually a war over your mind.” Musk responded with a bullseye emoji.
Bleu’s praise for Musk comes even as the billionaire has slashed much of Twitter’s staff, including huge numbers of workers responsible for content moderation. For his part, Musk has boosted Bleu’s profile on the site with replies and retweets, helping her earn more than 100,000 new followers in December alone.
“You have a direct line to me on this issue,” Musk told Bleu in a Twitter Space live chat in December.
“When I stepped away from the gang, my traffickers lost money. And they want that money back. ”
— Eliza Bleu
But now Bleu and Musk find themselves embroiled in a Twitter censorship controversy, after multiple critics of Bleu who shared embarrassing images from her past saw their accounts temporarily suspended from the site. Some users suggested that Bleu’s “direct line” to Twitter brass and Musk himself may have led to the crackdown, even as the Twitter owner insists he’s in favor of “free speech” and wide-ranging debate.
Bleu and Twitter didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Amid the controversy over the suspended accounts, questions about Bleu’s background have emerged. Her critics have seized on contradictory videos and interviews—and her frequent use of different names online—to suggest Bleu isn’t who she claims to be.
Now two former friends of Bleu tell The Daily Beast that, at best, Bleu is exaggerating her experiences for attention.
“It’s making a lot of her old friends around here really angry,” said Carly Wenzel, a one-time pal of Bleu who has known her for two decades, who added she believes Bleu is “completely lying.”
Bleu grew up in a rural area along Illinois’s border with Iowa known as the “Quad Cities.” She’s portrayed her homeschooled upbringing as an innocent one, albeit one that made her all the more naive about how the world really works.
Despite her claims to the contrary, public records prove that Bleu’s original name was Eliza Morthland. Born in 1981, her father is Richard Morthland, a farmer and former Illinois state representative who ran unsuccessfully on the GOP ticket for lieutenant governor in 2018. Morthland did not respond to a request for comment.
In 2021, Bleu appeared to deny on Twitter that she was Eliza Morthland, but Facebook photos show her standing with other members of the Morthland family. A 2010 newspaper article about Richard Morthland shows a woman who looks just like Bleu standing next to the politician and identified as his daughter, “Eliza Morthland.” Richard Morthland also gave a comment for a 2009 article about a band Bleu worked for under her married name Eliza Siep. And Bleu’s cosmetology license lists Richard Morthland’s farm as her address.
There’s no question that Bleu has advocated for trafficking victims, especially on Twitter. But she has offered murky accounts of her own background that leave even her supporters unsure about all but the vaguest details. She can also grow hostile with reporters who ask for basic facts, like the years she was trafficked or the names of perpetrators. For example, journalist Katie Herzog reached Bleu on the phone in December, only to have Bleu become defensive when Herzog raised even the prospect of asking Bleu about her own story.
“Bleu stirred up some controversy of her own with diehard supporters of the band, in online mini-scandals that featured Bleu calling Star the n-word.”
Interviewed on Tim Pool’s podcast, Bleu said she could not offer details about her alleged abusers because of unspecified legal issues. Then she asked why it would be a problem if she was making up her story.
“Let’s say, hypothetically, it is made up,” Bleu said. “What’s my biggest win so far in public? Getting Twitter to address child sexual abuse material and make it a top priority?
“I’m not asking an abuser for money, and I’m not asking people for money,” she added.
The Daily Beast pieced together a rough outline of Bleu’s account of her trafficking experiences based on interviews she’s given to sympathetic media outlets.
Bleu has said that her trafficking spanned two different periods, separated by roughly a decade. In her telling, Bleu was first groomed by a prominent photographer she met at a Warped Tour concert in Chicago when she was 16. A few years later, when she was still a teenager in the late 1990s, Bleu’s father drove her to Los Angeles because Bleu was convinced that an unnamed “high profile musician” she met through that photographer would make her a star.
Instead, she was sexually assaulted within 48 hours of arriving in the city, according to a 2020 podcast interview. Her traffickers quickly hooked her on a drug she knew as “ice”—generally recognized as slang for crystal methamphetamine, though Bleu has said she didn’t know what drug it was.
Bleu claims she was then sold for $500 to a sex-trafficking ring in the Hollywood Hills, where she found herself living with members of a ring that trafficked transgender women.
“I was sold for $500 to a very old gentleman in the Hills,” Bleu said in the 2020 interview.
Bleu claims she struggled to get enough water and food, “because I was on drugs and other substances.” But Bleu was such a handful for her traffickers, in her telling, that they ultimately gave her back to her original trafficker for free. Bleu claims she was hospitalized for a drug overdose before returning to her family farm in Illinois.
“My family didn’t even recognize me when I got off the plane,” Bleu said.
After two weeks on the farm, she returned to Los Angeles to retrieve her car, Bleu claims, but she was once again swept up into human trafficking for an undefined period.
“It’s odd what happens to the trauma brain,” Bleu said on the 2020 podcast episode to explain why she returned to her traffickers, comparing it to Stockholm syndrome.
Bleu’s second trafficking period, in her account, began in roughly 2008 or 2009, when she was living in the Chicago area. In that same 2020 podcast interview, Bleu claimed she was trafficked by a “high-profile athlete” whom she has declined to name. That man and his associates, according to Bleu, put her in a dangerous neighborhood she has said existed on what she called a “gang line”—the violent border where two Chicago gang territories meet.
“My mattress was on the floor because we had so many shootings that year in the area,” Bleu recalled in 2020. “I just didn’t want to get shot.”
Bleu attempted to leave her traffickers in 2013, and, in her account, ultimately succeeded for good in about 2014. Bleu has repeatedly suggested that her former traffickers from Chicago might still be out to get revenge on her and her family members.
“She slept on the floor but by choice, because she was into these floor pillows at the time.”
— A former roommate of Eliza Bleu
“When I stepped away from the gang, my traffickers lost money,” Bleu said in the 2020 interview. “And they want that money back”
Asked in a 2021 interview why she hadn’t pressed charges against the unnamed athlete and her other traffickers, Bleu—appearing on a podcast with more than 100,000 YouTube subscribers—said the men could still track her down and murder her.
“I am terrified that they would kill myself or my family or people that I care about,” Bleu said. “That’s how organized they are.”
Last month, Bleu tweeted that her family knows “every detail” of her story and stands behind her. She then blasted the “corporate media” for asking questions about her past, declaring, “if anyone steps on [my family’s] property or my property let it be extremely clear that we are all armed.”
Wenzel, a one-time friend of Bleu who says she has known the anti-trafficking activist for more than two decades, doesn’t think Bleu’s account is accurate.
Wenzel told The Daily Beast that she met Bleu in the Quad Cities, where both women were partying with musicians. Wenzel was 18, and said Bleu was in her early twenties. The Daily Beast verified Wenzel’s friendship with Bleu through photographs.
In Wenzel’s telling, she and Bleu were both deeply involved in the “scene” subculture of the early aughts—a time of tight jeans, swooping haircuts, and high drama on sites like MySpace and LiveJournal. Wenzel was trying to hook up with a member of one of her favorite bands on a tour bus in Iowa City when Bleu stepped on board. The two young women realized they had mutual friends and a shared interest in music—and the men who made it.
“She said that she was going to be very famous for sleeping with band members,” Wenzel recalled.
Wenzel takes issue with Bleu’s timeline of her first trafficking experience. She claims that she too was at the Warped Tour concert where Bleu met the photographer she claims groomed her. But while Bleu said that she wasn’t even 18 when she met the photographer, Wenzel insists that Bleu would have been in her early twenties—putting the date of the concert sometime in the early 2000s.
“She’s a very powerful, very smart intelligent woman.”
— Carly Wenzel
“Her timeline is just so weird,” Wenzel said, noting she believes that Bleu appears to be “lying about her age in certain articles.”
Bleu moved to Los Angeles, but Wenzel doesn’t remember hearing about her old friend being trafficked. Instead, she said Bleu unsuccessfully tried to convince Wenzel to move in with her in California. She did not recall Bleu calling home to the Quad Cities with tales of being addicted to “ice” or living with a trafficked group of transgender women in the Hollywood Hills.
Wenzel said she “keeps seeing these stories out of L.A.” and believes “that absolutely didn’t happen.”
By 2005, Bleu was back in Illinois and eventually earned a cosmetology license. Bleu began touring as a traveling stylist for musicians, where she received her first taste of internet controversy.
Bleu worked for mega-popular rock band My Chemical Romance as a stylist, going by the hair-inspired name “Eliza Cuts” online. Bleu’s job brought her into a group of My Chemical Romance entourage members dubbed the “World’s Most Hated Crew.” That clique also included future YouTube star and makeup mogul Jeffree Star, who would later be accused of paying out hush money to sexual-assault accusers.
Bleu was closely monitored by the bands’ fans on sites like LiveJournal—particularly after she entered a brief engagement with My Chemical Romance’s heartthrob lead singer, Gerard Way. But Bleu stirred up some controversy of her own with diehard supporters of the band, in online mini-scandals that featured Bleu calling Star the n-word and allegedly authoring a thinly veiled fictional account of her failed relationship with Way.
After leaving the rock circuit, Bleu lived with a friend in Chicago from roughly 2009 to 2011. That’s around the period when Bleu claims she began to be sex-trafficked again by the unnamed athlete in a violence-plagued neighborhood.
But that’s not how her former roommate, who asked The Daily Beast not to use her name out of fear of backlash from Bleu’s fans, remembers it. Instead, she said the pair lived in Wicker Park, an affluent, trendy Chicago neighborhood. The roommate said Bleu’s parents were “always supportive financially.”
“She was not in a precarious situation,” the roommate told The Daily Beast in a text message.
The roommate does remember Bleu sleeping on the floor, though not because of bullets.
“She slept on the floor but by choice, because she was into these floor pillows at the time,” the friend told The Daily Beast, though she added that Bleu “eventually bought a bed.”
Like the ex-roommate, Wenzel scoffs at the idea that Bleu lived in a dangerous neighborhood. Wenzel, who by then was married with a child, said she brought her toddler to visit Bleu and the roommate at their apartment—hardly the front line of a gang war.
“That is so not true,” Wenzel said. “She lived in a really cute apartment. They’re the whitest girls you could ever meet. There was no gang activity.”
Around this time, Bleu resurfaced online as “Eliza Siep” in 2010, unsuccessfully auditioning for American Idol using a surname she had picked up during a short-lived marriage. But she soon moved on to a new name and another position in the music industry. Now she would become “Eliza Knows,” the sultry, self-proclaimed music “video vixen.”
“Donewald defended Bleu from skeptics earlier this month, tweeting that Bleu is ‘the real deal.’ ”
Under her new online name, Bleu began to dance as a “video vixen” in mostly low-budget music videos. A YouTube playlist that appears to have been compiled by Bleu herself shows her gyrating in videos from 2012 and 2013 with song titles like “Feelin’ Myself” and “A Million Ways to Love You.”
In one 2012 video Bleu posted to YouTube, she filmed herself calling her mother to shock her with the news that she’d become a music-video dancer—only to discover that her mother was happy for her. In the video, Bleu told her mother she wanted to become a music-video dancer because of her childhood admiration for the “Fly Girls,” dancers on the comedy show In Living Color.
Bleu also gave interviews about the video-vixen lifestyle. In 2016, Bleu, speaking in a markedly different voice than the one she used in earlier media appearances and the one she uses today, claimed that she had rejected an offer to have sex with a client for $150,000.
“It’s a nice offer, but it’s not me,” Bleu said.
Still, it appears that Bleu may have engaged in some kind of sex work around this time. In one interview, Bleu advertised her account on a now-defunct camgirl website where men could pay money to talk with her.
Around 2016, Wenzel claims that Bleu asked her to join her as an escort, promising that Wenzel could make $500 in a night—an offer that stunned Wenzel and her husband.
“She was absolutely loving it,” Wenzel said. “She was bragging about it, saying she was making so much money.”
Bleu later suggested that sex workers with a pimp might qualify as trafficking victims, though Wenzel said she didn’t meet any pimp or trafficker when she socialized with Bleu, be it an unnamed “high profile athlete” or otherwise.
“She’s a very powerful, very smart intelligent woman, I will not discredit her for that,” Wenzel said. “She knows exactly what she’s doing.”
As proof that she was trafficked, Bleu often cites the organization she says “saved my life”: Eve’s Angels, a Christian nonprofit that serves sex trafficking victims and women seeking to leave the commercial sex industry.
In her telling, Bleu—living in her gangland apartment in 2013 and desperate to leave her traffickers—contacted Eve’s Angels after discovering founder Anny Donewald through a YouTube video. (In another recent tweet, Bleu claimed to have found the group via a web address in a Bible the group left at a strip club.) The group soon spirited Bleu away from her traffickers and into a safehouse “three states away.” In her account, Bleu claims she briefly returned to her traffickers after that escape, but eventually escaped the traffickers’ clutches for good around 2014.
Donewald defended Bleu from skeptics earlier this month, tweeting that Bleu is “the real deal.” But, like Bleu, Donewald’s claims about sex trafficking in her own life have come under scrutiny.
In 2018, Donewald’s parents and brother filed a defamation suit against Donewald and Eve’s Angels. While Donewald and her children were living with her family members in Michigan, Donewald’s parents “confronted her about her ‘treatment of her daughter,’” according to the lawsuit. In response, Donewald and her group accused her parents of sexually abusing and trafficking children, according to a 2022 appeals court opinion.
Donewald took the case to police, leading to a criminal investigation into her parents but no charges. Donewald’s claims fell apart after her daughter told her grandparents that Donewald had told her to fabricate the claims in an attempt to score a “pay-off” from the grandparents, the appeals court opinion found.
The activist was ordered to pay a judgment of more than $47,000, plus legal fees. As of the May 2022 appeals court ruling, the family was still stalled in settlement talks, with Donewald denying the defamation claims.
Donewald did not respond to requests to comment. Eve’s Angels did not return an email, and two phone numbers attached to the charity were either not in service or went directly to a full voicemail inbox.
Bleu emerged as a public “survivor advocate” a few weeks into the pandemic, worrying in an April 2020 article in the conservative The Daily Wire that pandemic lockdowns would worsen sex trafficking. Within two years she would amass a large profile through Twitter and right-wing podcasts, culminating in her alliance with Musk.
In December, Bleu aided Musk in his campaign against Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth—who seemingly angered the billionaire after resigning in November—linking to a 2010 tweet by Roth that read, “Can high school students ever meaningfully consent to sex with their teachers?”
“This explains a lot,” Musk replied, and many of his followers took the bait, suggesting that Roth was a depraved “sex criminal.” Amid other attacks, Roth reportedly was forced to flee his home. (In truth, the 2010 tweet merely linked to a Salon article that did not advocate allowing teachers to have sex with minors. Instead, it examined a criminal case against a teacher who had an illegal relationship with an 18-year-old student.)
But now, cracks are starting to appear in Bleu’s online reputation, especially within the right-wing circles she once courted.
The controversy ignited on Jan. 6, when she appeared on Tim Pool’s video stream. During the show, Bleu claimed to represent two anonymous “survivors” of Andrew Tate, the kickboxer turned “king of toxic masculinity” accused—with three other suspects—of sexual exploitation and other heinous crimes. (Tate has denied wrongdoing.)
Some of Tate’s most rabid fans, along with other right-wing users, began scrutinizing Bleu’s backstory. They posted clips from past media appearances to cast doubt on her trafficking claims, and trolled her with screenshots from a racy music video dating back to 2016 that she participated in for WorldStarHipHop in her “Eliza Knows” phase.
“She clung to us all from out of nowhere. She had none of the attributes of an Epstein victim yet insinuated otherwise.”
— Maria Farmer on Eliza Bleu
Bleu’s outfits in the video were provocative, but they didn’t feature nudity or appear to be nonconsensual, and had been on YouTube for seven years. Still, Twitter locked the accounts of several prominent right-wing personalities who cover internet drama after they refused to delete their tweets about the music video.
Bleu, for her part, declared that the screenshots amounted to posting a “non-consensual photo.” In a series of tweets on Jan. 20, she vowed to “escalate to the full extent of the law.”
“Twitter did an outstanding job and they will be excluded from legal action. There won’t be anyone else involved spared. I take things all the way and I have no chill,” Bleu wrote. “I’m a survivor advocate and that doesn’t stop with advocating for myself as a survivor.”
Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of trust and safety under Musk—who has also previously praised Bleu—defended the suspensions in a thread on Sunday.
“In the past 2 weeks, we’ve suspended multiple accounts and/or restricted content, causing confusion for users,” Irwin wrote. “Unfortunately, we can’t answer questions or share details about specific users and account actions.”
But Bleu’s critics have not been placated, especially after contemporaneous clips of Bleu as “Eliza Knows” celebrating the launch of the WorldStar video surfaced, suggesting that she participated in its creation consensually.
“She once told me there’s three people I would cheat on you with: Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, and then there might have been one other.”
They’ve also dug up a 2021 interview in which Bleu told right-wing pundit Michael Malice that she was “trafficked” on Twitter when a group of people used her pictures to create social media accounts. At that point, Bleu had escaped her supposed actual traffickers years earlier, and the fake accounts were being used as some sort of ill-defined catfishing scheme, she said. Bleu’s critics have seized on that interview, in which Bleu described a sort of identity-theft as “trafficking,” as proof that Bleu uses an expansive definition of the term.
The expansive definition also didn’t sit right with Maria Farmer, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. From Farmer’s perspective, Bleu’s public posts seem to conflate what it means to be a sex-trafficking victim with sex work. “This woman and her cohorts have effectively bastardized the words trafficking and survivor—we just want to use the word victim now,” Farmer told The Daily Beast.
Since emerging as an anti-trafficking activist, Bleu has crossed paths with Epstein victims. In September 2020, she announced on Twitter that she had “accepted a new position with Victims Refuse Silence,” which at the time was the trafficking nonprofit of Virginia Giuffre, a high-profile victim of Epstein and Maxwell. By November of that year, Bleu tweeted that she had stepped back into a part-time role with the organization. (Corporate records in Florida from 2021 and 2022 list Bleu as the group’s secretary and director.)
Bleu was once featured in videos on the group’s website, soliciting donations, asking people to get involved, and plugging her own Twitter handle as a resource for trafficking awareness. “I firmly believe that anybody that’s helping us in the survivor space should be very thoroughly vetted because we have a lot of nefarious players that just want to be close to victims and survivors,” she said in one video, in which she claimed her former traffickers made a Twitter profile with her name, photos, and videos without her consent.
Teresa Helm, a victim of Epstein and former director of Victims Refuse Silence, said she became friends with Bleu and asked her to join the group before it dissolved. “She’s been almost like a freelancer in the world of advocacy,” said Helm, who now works for National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which was once known as “Morality in Media.”
“She’s nonstop on Twitter which has been wonderful because it has brought to light a lot of things that were happening that people weren’t paying attention to otherwise,” Helm continued, adding that Bleu told her she’s friends with Musk. “She’s been a pioneer in waking people the hell up.”
Asked about Bleu’s doubters, Helm said, “I support her as a trafficking survivor entirely. Nothing in her past makes anything less valuable in terms of her advocacy work. It’s not her job to prove anything to anybody.”
Still, some survivors of Epstein’s sex ring said they didn’t trust Bleu. One victim, who asked not to be named, told The Daily Beast that she shared concerns about Bleu after researching her background and finding ties to right-wing figures and publications, such as Pizzagate-promoter Mike Cernovich and conservative website The Blaze.
“The ability to finally share my story and connect with others was freeing, but it’s not as straightforward as ‘simply going public,’” the Epstein victim said. “Only a strong foundation of therapeutic recovery prepared me for the publicity generated by the salacious facts of this case. However, I was not prepared for my trauma being co-opted for other’s gain.”
Farmer, who tried to report Epstein and Maxwell to the feds in the 1990s, said she had raised concerns about Bleu’s backstory on Twitter, only for Bleu to block her.
“She clung to us all from out of nowhere,” Farmer said of Epstein survivors. “She had none of the attributes of an Epstein victim yet insinuated otherwise.”
Bleu’s critics have also seized on her reality-television appearances in an attempt to poke holes in her trafficking story. Sometime around 2002, for example, she appeared on the dating show Blind Date as a contestant so hostile that the show’s editors kept a running onscreen count of her complaints. In 2012, at the height of what she would later describe as her second period being sex-trafficked deep in Chicago gang territory, Bleu appeared as an amateur model on Chicago-based The Steve Harvey Show, where Tyra Banks judged her performance.
The suspensions have fueled speculation about Bleu’s access to Twitter execs and complaints that Musk’s supposed commitment to free speech only goes so far when his friends and allies are being embarrassed.
David Karpf, an associate professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, told The Daily Beast that the Bleu controversy underscores how chaotic content moderation has become under Musk.
“You can say whatever you want on Twitter, so long as nobody notices and you don’t say mean things to anybody in Elon’s circles,” Karpf told The Daily Beast.
For her part, Bleu insisted on Twitter on Tuesday that she didn’t ask Musk to suspend the accounts that tweeted the WorldStar video.
“If I was going to ask for a favor from Elon Musk, I would ask him to make humans a multi-planetary species,” she wrote.
Farmer told The Daily Beast that Bleu’s support of Musk was a slap in the face to survivors. She points to Musk’s reported visit to Epstein’s Manhattan mansion and Maxwell’s infamous photo with Musk at a 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar party. “Elon Musk needs to pull out a little Shakespeare and study it: Thou doth protest too much,” she said, adding that she believes “it’s almost like he’s hired this woman to cover for himself.”
“Anyone who was even remotely affiliated with Jeffrey Epstein is odious at this stage,” she added. In response to some of Bleu’s pro-Musk tweets, multiple users have replied with the snapshot of Maxwell and Musk, with one writing: “thank you Elon Musk (shown here with convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell) for looking out for the children.” (For his part, Musk has claimed he was photobombed.)
Bleu has occasionally raised money online related to her anti-trafficking efforts. In 2020, she raised $1,625 for a vacation, writing that normally “I serve survivors of Human Trafficking, my standard caseload is 20 survivors at a time. During this season I took on an extra 61 survivors via online advocacy.”
She raised another $2,205 the following year to attend the libertarian Freedom Fest conference. Bleu has also indicated that she opened a safe house of her own for trafficking victims. In March 2020, she tweeted that she had opened the facility, called the Humanity House. It is unclear whether the facility is currently in operation.
Bleu’s latest posts, which once attracted praise, are now rife with trolls. One person created an account in her name whose main photo features Bleu bent over alongside the caption, “help im bein trafficked.” Another user remade the Steve Buscemi “fellow kids” meme with Bleu’s face and the words: “Hello fellow survivors of human trafficking.”
“There’s definitely a lot of misogyny and right wing trolls,” an ex-boyfriend of Bleu’s told The Daily Beast. “I don’t think she should have to be dealing with any of that."
According to the beau, who asked to remain anonymous, the two met in 2019 at an event for presidential candidate Andrew Yang. At the time, he says, Bleu was working in elder care and living on her family farm.
Bleu shared with him that she’d been trafficked in Los Angeles as a teenager; he had no reason to disbelieve her. “It wasn’t like she just randomly came up with like, a trafficking story,” he said, adding that when it comes to her personal life, “She is definitely a very private person, despite how public she is.”
Even back then, however, Bleu told him she wanted to be famous.
“She mentioned how she would love to be on the Ben Shapiro podcast,” the ex said, adding that she also envisioned starring on Joe Rogan’s show. “That was a joke that she had: ‘I’m going to get on Joe Rogan before you.’”
Bleu also joked about the famous men she dreamed of dating, with Musk among them. “She once told me there’s three people I would cheat on you with: Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, and then there might have been one other,” he recalled.
“The reason this is all funny to me now is because last month she was on Ben Shapiro’s podcast. Her and Elon Musk are in communication with each other,” the ex told The Daily Beast.
“She definitely had these aspirations of being somebody. Her aspirations are kind of going exactly how she wanted in a weird way.”
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as a biracial individual with obviously brown skin and non-western features, wolfin/armazi has experienced instances of prejudice and blatant racism both in the past and present. being a second generation immigrant on her father’s side made it even worse. their father spoke some english, but it was slow and his accent made it hard for people to understand. his darker skin and eurasian features, along with his muslim faith, stood out in a small illinois town filled with white farmers and their families. wolfin/armazi took after their father—they inherited his brown skin and his large nose and his coarse curly hair. they eagerly picked up the scraps of his language and culture that he was willing to teach her, though he insisted they focus on english. her mother also experienced some prejudice for marrying someone who wasn’t white and didn't share her irish catholic faith.
wolfin/armazi's experiences as a child were less obvious. they didn’t know enough to look for them, and their parents would deliberately try to shield them whenever they were on the receiving end in public. sometimes her father would get confused looks from store owners whenever he’d walk in or complaints that they couldn’t understand his accent. sometimes there would be whispers about his brown skin or his facial features or his lack of education (he never went to college), or because he was an immigrant.
much of this was echoed with wolfin/armazi. they were always the last team pick for games at recess. kids made fun of their nose and skin or called her “dirty”. they’d mock their dad in front of their face if he had to come to the school for any reason. sometimes even parents would give them condescending looks. they didn’t have a lot of close friends. in high school, english was one of their worst subjects. they didn’t ever fail it, but they maintained a c average. a teacher once remarked that maybe they “struggled with it because of their background.” most of these displays were subtle and belittling, typical of a small town in the midwest. never anything outright or violent.
things got worse when they went to chechnya to fight in the war. both russians and chechnians recognized their skin tone and features as georgian and called them slurs like “xach,” an armenian word meaning “cross” that’s often used to refer to georgians in a derogatory sense, or “black ass”. they were jumped multiple times by people who attacked them just for the color of their skin. they had to learn russian and chechnian by immersion and were mocked for their foreign accent (though it was american, not georgian) and many assumed they couldn’t speak either language at all even once they'd become fluent. that was when they first really realized that people were treating them this way because of what they looked like. back home, their father had always tried to cover up the hurtful remarks, or they brushed them off as having something to do with growing up on a farm or just because of their dad’s accent. they didn’t notice these issues as much because they didn't know to be aware of them.
while abroad, people often mistook them as a different ethnicity than georgian (usually jewish or arabic). they encountered more slurs such as “mutt” and “dog”. then, when they returned to new york city, it was shortly after 9/11. more people jumped them. more people openly berated them with slurs like “towel head” or “hook nose” or “sand n*gger” because it was assumed their features made them arabic. they weren't white enough or they weren't dark enough. they had no community there. it was difficult to find people they looked like, and when they did, those people would look down on them if they found out they were mixed. over the years, they became very defensive of their heritage both as a georgian and as a biracial individual.
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Midnights album - Farmers almanac- (foreshadowing/prediction/manifest)? Just coincidental, lol- funny though.
NYC Maroon skies "Air Quality Index listed New York City at a rating of over 200 this morning. The index goes from 0–500, with numbers being worse the higher they go, and categories ranging from green (“good”) to maroon (“hazardous”). This morning, New York hit purple (“very unhealthy”), and it’s now well into maroon."
popularmechanics.com/science/health/a44118831/the-sky-is-yellow-smoke-new-york-air-quality-fire/
Space weather event: solar storm (sun flares) caused communication blackout & auroras "The May 7 event has already caused radio blackouts on Earth.""That activity may include supercharged aurora displays. For example, moderate geomagnetic storms can make auroras visible as far south as New York or Idaho, and strong ones can bring them into view for folks all the way down in Illinois or Oregon.""Solar flares that hit Earth can cause communications blackouts, whereas CMEs are associated with the aurora."
space.com/solar-storm-supercharge-auroras-may-2023
Snow in Venice Beach & Hollywood area
youtube.com/watch?v=O0YStzgqAo4
"Snowflakes have been falling in Los Angeles, including around its iconic Hollywood sign, as a winter storm tightens its icy grip on southern California this weekend."On Friday people in the city marvelled at the unfamiliar sight of a snow flurry around the Hollywood sign on Mount Lee."
bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64768453
Taylor is never beating those witch accusations 😂
With how much the fans have listened to the Midnights album we probably all manifested this
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i was just playing stardew valley and got an idea for the old friends au-
basically replace the villagers of SV with egos. the village itself is kinda how i imagined the place would look like if they ran a city, not a street.
as for the most obvious villagers that are replaced are -
the farmer - y/n
wizard - dark
willy - captain magnum
harvey - dr. iplier
elliot - the host
lewis - damien
sebastian, demitrius or maru - google
sam - bing
haley - actor
mr. qi - wilford
krobus - yancy
gus - chefiplier
and a bonus: emily - benjamin. ik hes not an ego but he definetly helps chefiplier at the saloon and also still lives with actor as a live-in-butler. just like emily >:D
and illinois... could be either gunther, leo, linus, the dwarf, marlyn or professor snail. i honestly have no clue. all of the above, maybe. why does stardew have so many chars that could be him. pain.
i have no clue if anyone here even plays stardew valley but it all really does fit after giving it 2 seconds of thought. rip to damien tho for having to deal with all this bs.
or maybe once they got too many egos living on the street, they just moved to an abandoned town and planned on rebuilding it, so they can get more room for egos there. y/n just arrives on their lil farm, and like 2 months later is seen swinging an unbelievably sharp sword at unimaginable horrors that are within the mines/skull cavern.
half of them would probably have a fucking heart attack while illinois is getting heart eyes instead.
.... yancy living down in the sewers and only moving in with y/n after they're best friends is now a concept i very much enjoy aswell.
also, because tumblr being weird, did you get my request? praying tumblr hasnt eaten it </3
I've never played or watched stardew valley but this is cool 👌
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Your Ultimate Weekend Guide: Exploring Events and Activities in Clinton County
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Disclosures of Significance Briefing: National In the South West U.S.; citizen (city official) reports ongoing water restraints amplified by aquifer disruptions, ranch/farm needs, and corruption (back door deals w/ resorts/golf-courses that divert water from farmers/citizens to business ventures). In Hawaii; citizen reports of businesses moving to a cashless system has increased (means to deter crime/robberies claimed to be purpose). Nationwide; citizens report increased "red tape" requirements imposed by FEMA that delay "hazard mitigation plans" and funding unless state/local official submit "irrelevant" data on climate change impacts and disadvantaged persons. In New Mexico and Ohio; reports of veteran police officers (particularly in Sante Fe and Albuquerque) quitting in increased numbers. Nationwide; citizens report decreased reading comprehension among juveniles.  Nationwide; citizens in the ranching/farming industry report increased government regulations (particularly in veterinarian care standards that have removed the ability of ranchers to treat/care for cattle without vet approval). In Illinois; citizens report unsafe daily conditions due to increased crime; Chicago Police Chief asserted that even U.S. military deployments to the city would be unable to counter crime.  In Alaska, citizens report increased concerns over iron and sulfuric acid caused "rustings" of water sources. More than 75 rivers, streams, and tributaries have an orange tint/coloring due to the build-up. Nationwide; politicall...(CLASSIFIED, see full brief at www.graymanbriefing.com)
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Another day of frigid wind chills and brutal cold across much of the U.S. (AP) Brutally cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills stayed put across much of the U.S. Monday, promising the coldest temperatures ever for Iowa’s presidential nominating contest, holding up travelers, and testing the mettle of NFL fans in Buffalo for a playoff game that was delayed a day by wind-whipped snow. About 150 million Americans were under a wind chill warning or advisory for dangerous cold and wind, said Zack Taylor, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in College Park, Maryland, as an Arctic air mass spilled south and eastward across the U.S. Sunday morning saw temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 6.7 degree Celsius) to minus 40 F in northern and northeast Montana. Saco, Montana, dropped to minus 51 F (minus 26 C). Subzero lows reached as far south as Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and parts of Indiana, Taylor said.
Migrant deaths in Rio Grande intensify tensions between Texas, Biden administration over crossings (AP) After Texas fenced off a park along the U.S.-Mexico border and began turning away Border Patrol agents, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott explained why at a campaign stop near Houston. “We are not allowing Border Patrol on that property anymore,” Abbott said Friday, drawing applause from supporters. He relayed frustration over migrants illegally entering the U.S. through the border city of Eagle Pass and federal agents loading them onto buses. “We said, ‘We’ve had it. We’re not going to let this happen anymore,’” Abbott said. Later that night, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said three migrants, including two children, drowned near the park after Texas officials “physically barred” Border Patrol agents from entering. Mexican authorities pulled the bodies, each of them wearing jackets, from the water on the other side of the Rio Grande.
Guatemala’s New President Is Sworn In, Despite Efforts to Stop Him (NYT) Despite staunch resistance from his opponents in the government, the anticorruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo was inaugurated early Monday morning as Guatemala’s president, a turning point in a country where tensions have been simmering over widespread graft and impunity. His inauguration had been scheduled for Sunday, but members of Congress delayed it, and concerns persisted about whether it would happen at all. But after an international outcry and pressure from protesters, Mr. Arévalo was sworn in shortly after midnight, becoming Guatemala’s most progressive head of state since democracy was re-established in the 1980s. His rise to power—six months after his victory at the polls delivered a stunning rebuke to Guatemala’s conservative political establishment—amounts to a sea change in Central America’s most populous country. His landslide election reflected broad support for his proposals to curb graft and revive a teetering democracy. But as Mr. Arévalo prepares to govern, he must assert control while facing off against an alliance of conservative prosecutors, members of Congress and other political figures who have gutted Guatemala’s governing institutions in recent years.
Columns of tractors gather in Berlin for the climax of a week of protests by farmers (AP) Columns of tractors rolled into Berlin on Monday as farmers gathered for the climax of a week of demonstrations against a plan to scrap tax breaks on the diesel they use, a protest that has tapped into wider discontent with Germany’s government. Over the past week, farmers have blocked highway entrances and slowed down traffic across Germany with their protests, intent on pushing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government to abandon the planned cuts entirely. The farmers’ protests come at a time of deep general discontent with the center-left Scholz’s government, which has become notorious for frequent public squabbles and lengthy wrangling over sometimes poorly communicated decisions. Scholz acknowledged concerns that go well beyond farming subsidies, saying that crises, conflicts and worries about the future are unsettling people.
Lava from Icelandic volcano eruption engulfs homes, roads (Washington Post) A volcano that erupted in southwestern Iceland over the weekend sent lava pouring into a nearby fishing town, swallowing up roads and setting at least three houses alight, footage shared by national broadcaster RUV showed. The volcano erupted around 8 a.m. local time Sunday after a series of earthquakes, the country’s meteorological office said. Molten rock from two nearby fissures streamed into the town of Grindavik, the agency said. “Lava is flowing into Grindavik, a thriving town where people have built their lives,” Icelandic President Gudni Thorlacius Johannesson said in an address to the nation Sunday evening, describing “tremendous forces of nature” at play. It was the first time in more than 50 years that lava had flowed over Icelandic homes, he said.
United Nations seeks $4.2 billion to help people in Ukraine and refugees this year (AP) The United Nations appealed on Monday for $4.2 billion to help people in Ukraine and displaced outside the country this year, saying that people on the front lines have “exhausted their meager resources” and many refugees also are vulnerable. About three-quarters of the total, $3.1 billion, is meant to support some 8.5 million people inside Ukraine. The remaining $1.1 billion is sought for refugees and host communities outside Ukraine. A recent wave of attacks “underscores the devastating civilian cost of the war” and a bitter winter is increasing the need for humanitarian aid, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement from Geneva.
War or No War, Many Older Ukrainians Want to Stay Put (NYT) They sit in ones and twos in half-destroyed homes. They shelter in musty basements marked in chalk with “people underground”—a message to whichever troops happen to be fighting that day. They venture out to visit cemeteries and reminisce about any time other than now. Ukraine’s elderly are often the only people who remain along the country’s hundreds of miles of front line. Some waited their entire lives to enjoy their twilight years, only to have been left in a purgatory of loneliness. Homes built with their own hands are now crumbling walls and blown-out windows, with framed photographs of loved ones living far away. Some people have already buried their children, and their only wish is to stay close so they can be buried next to them. Almost two years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, with war at their doorsteps, older people who have stayed behind offer varying reasons for their decisions. Some simply prefer to be at home, whatever the dangers, rather than to struggle in an unfamiliar place among strangers. Others do not have the financial means to leave and start over.
After attempts to meddle in Taiwan’s elections fail, China takes stock (Washington Post) Taiwanese voters have made it clear—for the third time in a row—that they don’t want a leader who will kowtow to China. The democratic island on Saturday elected as president Lai Ching-te, the current vice president and former independence advocate whom Beijing views as a dangerous “separatist.” Now, Beijing must craft a response. For Beijing, Lai’s victory is a loss that deepens anxiety about its ability to bring Taiwan under its control, a long-held goal of the ruling Communist Party and a key part of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s legacy. The result gives Taiwan’s ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which Beijing refuses to engage with, an unprecedented third term. “A Lai win will mean that Xi loses face,” said Chen Fang-Yu, assistant professor of political science at Soochow University in Taipei. “It means his Taiwan policy has failed. So now he must do something to show his muscle.” China’s initial response to Lai’s victory was predictable: Officials issued the usual strongly worded statements on Sunday, and Beijing’s embassies in countries that congratulated Lai condemned them for “interfering in China’s internal affairs.”
Australia celebrates Australian-born queen of Denmark (AP) A day after an Australian became queen of Denmark. her native land on Monday celebrated the unlikely fairy tale with cocktails, picnics and a “Danish Fiesta.” Mary Donaldson’s journey from Tasmania to the world’s first Australian-born queen has captivated both Danes and Australians. People gathered to mark the occasion across Australia, including Queen Mary’s hometown of Hobart, the capital of the southern island state of Tasmania. “It’s not something that happens every day that you have an Australian becoming queen. I don’t know if it will ever happen again,” Danish Club Vice President Lykka Borup told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Mary’s husband, Crown Prince Frederik, was proclaimed king of the European nation on Sunday, two weeks after his 83-year-old mother, Queen Margrethe II, announced she would be the first Danish royal to abdicate in about 900 years.
Grief and vengeance: 100 days of war in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank (Washington Post) It’s been three months since Hamas fighters attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostage. In response, the Israeli military unleashed a level of force unprecedented in Gaza, killing more than 23,900 people. In the occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers have stepped up attacks on rural Palestinian communities, accelerating Arab displacement as the war and large-scale arrests fan a new generation of Palestinian militancy in the cities. Israel today is a nation heavy with shock, looking for answers and often also for vengeance. The streets are slowly coming back to life, but they feel anything but normal. Young reservists must take their weapons as they go about their business. The faces of the Israeli hostages are reproduced in shop windows and on government buildings alongside three words that are now a rallying cry: “Bring them home.” Newsstands and television screens show over and over the scenes of Hamas’s crimes. They show the Israeli army in Gaza. But they rarely show what is happening to civilians. Palestinians there are frantic and bone-tired. The pace of death is so fast, the possibility of famine so close, that residents say they have little time to mourn or to process their losses. Fear—how to survive the night, how to find a little food—is a more pressing constant. With more than two-thirds of homes now destroyed, much of Gaza is effectively gone.
Houthi rebels strike a U.S.-owned ship off the coast of Yemen (AP) Houthi rebels fired a missile, striking a U.S.-owned ship Monday just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden, less than a day after they launched an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea. The attack on the Gibraltar Eagle, later claimed by the Houthis, further escalates tensions gripping the Red Sea after American-led strikes on the rebels. The Houthis’ attacks have roiled global shipping, amid Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, targeting a crucial corridor linking Asian and Mideast energy and cargo shipments to the Suez Canal onward to Europe. “The ship has reported no injuries or significant damage and is continuing its journey,” the U.S. Central Command said.
Cyclone causes heavy flooding, 1 death in Mauritius after also battering French island of Reunion (AP) A tropical cyclone caused heavy flooding and at least one death in Mauritius on Monday as cars were washed away by surges of water in the Indian Ocean island’s capital city and elsewhere. A motorcyclist died in an accident caused by the flooding, the government said and imposed a curfew. The government issued an order that everyone except emergency and health workers, members of the security services and those requiring medical treatment must return home and remain there. Some people were also being evacuated as the floodwaters caused by Tropical Cyclone Belal threatened houses and other buildings. Schools were closed and hospitals were told to only keep their emergency departments open.
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LÉGENDES DU JAZZ
ERIC DOLPHY, LE PRODIGE ÉTOUFFÉ DANS SON BERCEAU
‘’Eric Dolphy was  a complete musician. He could fit anywhere. He was a fine lead alto in a big band. He could make it in a classical group. He was entirely his own man when he soloed. He had mastered jazz. And he had mastered all the instruments he played. In fact, he knew more than what’s supposed to be possible to do on them.’’
- Charles Mingus
Né à Los Angeles le 20 juin 1928, Eric Dolphy était le fils unique d’Eric et Sadie Dolphy, des immigrants originaires de Panama. Après avoir brièvement joué de l’harmonica, Dolphy avait commencé à suivre des cours de clarinette et des saxophone dès l’âge de six ans. Il avait ensuite étudié le hautbois dans l’espoir de se lancer dans une carrière de musicien classique. Il avait même obtenu une bourse pour étudier à l’Université Southern California durant deux ans.
Après avoir remporté un prix de  clarinette à l’âge de treize ans, Dolphy avait fréquenté le Dorsey High School, où il avait poursuivi ses études musicales et avait appris à jouer d’autres instruments. En 1946, Dolphy avait été nommé co-directeur de la chorale de jeunes de la Westminster Presbyterian Church dirigée par le Révérend Hampton B. Hawes, qui était le père du pianiste de jazz du même nom. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme en 1947, Dolphy était entré au Los Angeles City College, où il avait interprété des œuvres de musique classique contemporaine comme L’Histoire du Soldat d’Igor  Stravinsky avec les futures légendes du jazz Jimmy Knepper et Art Farmer. Dolphy avait aussi partie des 17 Beboppers de Roy Porter. Dolphy avait d’ailleurs fait huit enregistrements avec Porter en 1949, ses premiers en carrière. Lors de ses sessions, Dolphy avait joué du saxophone baryton, du saxophone alto, de la flûte et de la clarinette soprano.
DÉBUTS DE CARRIÈRE
Entré dans l’armée en 1950 pour faire son service militaire, Dolphy avait été stationné à Fort Lewis, dans l’État de Washington. À partir de 1952, Dolphy avait fréquenté la Navy School of Music. À sa libération en 1953, Dolphy était retourné à Los Angeles où il avait collaboré avec plusieurs musiciens, dont Buddy Collette, Eddie Beal et Gerald Wilson. C’est en l’honneur de ce dernier que Dolphy avait composé sa pièce intitulée ‘’G.W.’’ Dolphy invitait souvent des amis à venir improviser avec lui. Des enregistrements réalisés en 1954 avec le trompettiste Clifford Brown documentent cette période de la vie de Dolphy.
Eric Dolphy a obtenu sa première chance comme musicien professionnel lorsqu’il avait été invité à se joindre au quintet de Chico Hamilton en 1958. Dolphy était parti en tournée avec le groupe, ce qui lui avait permis de se faire connaître d’un plus large public. On voit d’ailleurs Dolphy jouer de la flûte avec le groupe d’Hamilton dans le documentaire ‘’Jazz on a Summer’s Day’’, enregistré au festival de jazz de Newport en 1958.
Après avoir quitté le groupe d’Hamilton en 1959, Dolphy avait décidé de s’installer à New York.
SA COLLABORATION AVEC MINGUS
En 1960, Dolphy s’était joint au Jazz Workshop de Charles Mingus. Dolphy connaissait Mingus depuis plusieurs années, puisqu’il avait grandi avec lui à Los Angeles. Dans le cadre de l’album de Mingus intitulé ‘’Pre-Bird’’, Dolphy avait particulièrement été mis en évidence dans la pièce ‘’Bemoanable Lady’’. La même année, Dolphy s’était produit en concert au Showplace avec Mingus et Ted Curson. Sa performance avait été immortalisée dans le poème ‘’Mingus at the Showplace’’ de William Matthews. Dolphy avait également participé aux albums ‘’Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus’’ et ‘’Mingus at Antibes’’, une prestation en concert mettant aussi en vedette Booker Ervin et Bud Powell. Mingus ne tarissait pas d’éloges au sujets des talents de multi-instrumentiste de Dolphy qu’il considérait comme un des musiciens les plus complets qu’il n’ait jamais rencontrés. Mingus affirmait : ‘’He could fit anywhere. He was a fine lead alto in a big band. He could make it in a classical group. And, of course, he was entirely his own man when he soloed.... He had mastered jazz. And he had mastered all the instruments he played. In fact, he knew more than was supposed to be possible to do on them."[
À cette époque, Dolphy avait également participé à d’autres sessions d’enregistrements de Mingus avec la firme Candice. Il avait aussi partie de la session des Newport Rebels. En 1961, Dolphy avait quitté le groupe de Mingus et avait séjourné en Europe durant quelques mois, enregistrant notamment en Scandinavie et à Berlin. Dolphy avait de nouveau rejoint le groupe de Mingus en 1963, pour participer à l’enregistrement de ‘’Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus’’, dont la pièce ‘’Hora Decubitus’’ le mettait particulièrement en vedette.
Au début de 1964, Dolphy avait de nouveau collaboré avec le Jazz Workshop, en compagnie du pianiste Jaki Byard, du trompettiste Johnny Coles et du saxophoniste Clifford Jordan. Après avoir joué au Five Spot de New York, le groupe s’était produit à l’Université Cornell et à Town Hall avant de partir en tournée en Europe. Charles Mingus a composé au moins deux pièces en l’honneur de Dolphy: ‘’One for Eric’’ et ‘’So Long Eric.’’
LA PÉRIODE JOHN COLTRANE
Dolphy avait rencontré John Coltrane pour la première fois lorsqu’il travaillait avec le saxophoniste alto Johnny Hodges à Los Angeles en 1954. Les deux hommes avaient eu une collaboration particulièrement féconde: ils échangeaient souvent des idées et apprenaient l’un de l’autre. Après avoir assisté à plusieurs performances du groupe, Dolphy avait été formellement invité à se joindre au groupe de Coltrane au début de l’année 1961.
Si la collaboration de Coltrane avec Miles Davis avait accru sa popularité auprès du grand public, il s’était aliéné certains critiques de jazz lorsqu’il avait commencé à s’éloigner du hard bop. Même si la collaboration de Coltrane avec Eric Dolphy est aujourd’hui saluée par la majorité des spécialistes du jazz, cela n’avait pas toujours été le cas. À l’origine, les critiques du magazine DownBeat avaient même qualifié la musique de Coltrane et de Dolphy d’’’anti-jazz.’’ Ces critiques avaient blessé Coltrane, qui avait déclaré: "They made it appear that we didn't even know the first thing about music {...} it hurt me to see [Dolphy] get hurt in this thing."
À l’origine, seulement trois pièces de la période de résidence de Coltrane au Village Vanguard avaient été publiées, dont une seule mettant en vedette Eric Dolphy. En 1997, les Disques Impulse ont publié l’intégrale des concerts du Village Vanguard sous le titre de ‘’The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings.’’ On peut y entendre de longues performances de Dolphy tant au saxophone alto qu’à la clarinette basse. Dolphy exécute également un solo sur le classique de Coltrane, ‘’Naima.’’ En 2001, les disques Pablo ont également publié un coffret des performances de Coltrane en Europe sur lequel on peut entendre des pièces qui ne faisaient pas partie du matériel du Village Vanguard, dont ‘’My Favorite Things’’, sur laquelle Dolphy effectue une prestation à la flûte.
AUTRES COLLABORATIONS
Dolphy a également brièvement collaboré avec trompettiste Booker Little. Sur l’album ‘’Out Front’’, son premier enregistrement pour Candid, on peut entendre Dolphy principalement au saxophone alto, même s’il s’est également exécuté à la clarinette basse et à la flûte dans certains passages collectifs. L’album de Dolphy ‘’Far Cry’’, enregistré pour la firme Prestige, comprend également des collaborations  de Little sur cinq pièces.
Dolphy et Little ont aussi co-dirigé un quintet au Five Spot en 1961. La section rythmique de la formation était composée du contrebassiste Richard Davis, du pianiste Mal Waldron et du batteur Ed Blackwell. Un des concerts du groupe a été enregistré. On retrouve également Dolphy et Little sur la compilation intitulée ‘’Here and There.’’ Les deux hommes accompagnent aussi la chanteuse Abbey Lincoln sur l’album ‘’Straight Ahead’’ et sur l’album du batteur Max Roach intitulé ‘’Bitter Sweet.’’ Little est mort en octobre 1961 d’une maladie des reins à l’âge de seulement vingt-trois ans.  
Au cours de cette période, Dolphya également fait des apparitions sur des albums de George Russell, Oliver Nelson et Ornette Coleman. Il a aussi travaillé et enregistré avec le compositeur et chef d’orchestre Gunther Schuller, le multi-instrumentiste Ken McIntyre et le contrebassiste Ron Carter.
SES ENREGISTREMENTS COMME LEADER
Les premiers enregistrements de Dolphy en tant que leader ont été produits par les Disques Prestige. Très prolifique, Dolphy a enregistré treize albums pour la firme d’avril 1960 à septembre 1961, même s’il n’avait pas agi comme leader sur toutes les sessions. En 1995, les Disques Fantasy ont publié un coffret de neuf CD comprenant tous les enregistrements de Dolphy pour Prestige.
Les deux premiers albums de Dolphy comme leader étaient intitulés ‘’Outward Bound’’ et ‘’Out There.’’ Les pochettes des deux albums ont été illustrées par l’artiste Richard ‘’Prophet’’ Jennings. Le premier disque, qui se rapprochait davantage du hard bop que des albums subséquents de Dolphy, avait été enregistré au studio de Rudy Van Gelder au New Jersey. Participait à l’enregistrement le trompettiste Freddie Hubbard, qui connaissait bien Dolphy pour avoir été son compagnon de chambre lorsque les deux hommes étaient arrivés à New York. L’album ‘’Outward Bound’’ contient trois compositions de Dolphy: ‘’G.W.’’, ‘’Les’’ et ‘’245.’’ Quant à l’album ‘’Out There’’, il était définitivement plus près de la troisième vague que du hard bop, et mettait en vedette Ron Carter au violoncelle. L’album comprend également une composition de Charles Mingus, intitulée ‘’Eclipse’’, qui a permis à Dolphy d’exécuter un de ses rares solos à la clarinette soprano. Dolphy a aussi enregistré à l’occasion des solos de saxophone sans accompagnement, à l’image d’un Coleman Hawkins ou d’un Sonny Rollins par exemple, mais c’était la première fois qu’un musicien de jazz réalisait cette prouesse à l’alto. Dolphy avai d’ailleurs eu l’occasion de renouveler l’expérience sur l’album ‘’Far Cry’’ et lors d’une tournée en Europe subséquente. Grand innovateur, Dolphy avait été un des premiers musiciens de jazz à établir la crédibilité de la clarinette basse comme instrument de jazz à part entière.
Dolphy avait aussi fait une incursion dans la musique classique. Familier avec la musique de compositeurs tels Anton Webern et Alan Berg, Dolphy possédait une vaste collection de disques classiques. En plus des oeuvres de Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky et Bartok, Dolphy possédait des enregistrements des compositeurs Milton Babbitt, Donald Erb, Charles Ives et Olivier Messiaen. Après avoir rendu visite à Edgar Varèse à sa résidence, Dolphy avait exécuté sa pièce ‘’Density’’ pour flûte au Ojai Music Festival en 1962. Dolphy abait également collaboré à l’album de Gunther Schuller et de John Lewis intitulé ‘’Jazz Abstractions.’’ Dolphy admirait aussi le travail du flûtiste italien Severino Gazzelloni. Dolphy a d’ailleurs écrit la composition ‘’Gazzelloni’’ en son honneur.
En 1962-63, Dolphy avait également collaboré avec le pianiste Herbie Hancock. On peut entendre les résultats de cette collaboration sur l’album ‘’The Illinois Concert’’.
En juillet 1963, le producteur Alan Douglas avait organisé des sessions d’enregistrements mettant en vedette les accompagnateurs de Dolphy. Cet exercice avait donné lieu à la publication des albums ‘’Iron Man’’ et ‘’Conversations’’. C’est lors de ces enregistrements que Dolphy s’était produit pour la première fois avec le vibraphoniste Bobby Hutcherson. Dolphy avait connu Hutcherson à Los Angeles lorsqu’il avait brièvement fréquenté sa soeur. Ces sessions d’enregistrement sont particulièrement connues pour les trois duos mettant en vedette Dolphy et le bassiste Richard Davis (sur les pièces ‘’Alone Together’’, ‘’Ode to Charlie Parker’’ et ‘’Come Sunday’’).
Après avoir signé en 1964 un contrat avec les disques Blue Note, Dolphy avait enregistré son album ‘’Out to Lunch’’ avec un quintet formé de Freddie Hubbard à la trompette, de Bobby Hutcherson au vibraphone, de Richard Davis à la contrebasse et de Tony Williams à la batterie. Plus grand succès commercial et artistique de la carrière de Dolphy, l’album constituait une des plus fécondes contributions du multi-instrumentiste au jazz d’avant-garde, tout en conservant ses liens avec la tradition.
DÉCES ET POSTÉRITÉ
Au début de l’année 1964, après la publication d’’’Out to Lunch’’ et avoir collaboré à l’album ‘’Point of Departure’’ du pianiste Andrew Hill sur Blue Note, Dolphy était parti en tournée avec le sextet de Charles Mingus. Peu avant un concert à Oslo en Norvège, Dolphy avait informé Mingus qu’il avait l’intention de demeurer en Europe après la tournée, en partie parce qu’il était déçu de l’attitude du public américain face aux musiciens d’avant-garde, et aussi parce qu’il désirait passer du temps avec sa fiancée Joyce Mordecai qui était danseuse de ballet à Paris. À l’époque, le groupe de Mingus interprétait un long blues qui n’avait pas encore de titre et qu’il avait finalement intitulé ‘’So Long Eric’’ en hommage à Dolphy.
Après avoir quittté le groupe de Mingus, Dolphy avait joué et enregistré avec différents groupes européens ainsi qu’avec des musiciens américains vivant à Paris comme le trompettiste Donald Byrd et le saxophoniste Nathan Davis. Dolphy, qui avait plusieurs projets, avait aussi l’intention de se joindre au groupe du saxophoniste Albert Ayler et de collaborer avec le pianiste Cecil Taylor. Il projetait aussi de former un groupe avec le trompettiste Woody Shaw, le bassiste Richard Davis et le batteur Billy Higgins. À l’époque, Dolphy travaillait également sur un quartet pour cordes intitulé ‘’Love Suite.’’
Le 27 juin 1964, Dolphy s’était rendu à Berlin pour jouer avec un trio dirigé par Karl Berger qui devait se produire à l’ouverture d’un club surnommé The Tangent.  Tombé gravement malade à son arrivée, Dolphy s’était même révélé pratiquement incapable de se produire sur scène. Hospitalisé durant la nuit, l’état de santé de Dolphy s’était encore aggravé. Il est mort le 19 juin, après avoir sombré dans un coma à la suite d’une crise diabète. Il était âgé de seulement treize-six ans. On peut lire sur la pochette des oeuvres complètes de Dolphy publiées par les Disques Prestige que le saxophoniste "collapsed in his hotel room in Berlin and when brought to the hospital he was diagnosed as being in a diabetic coma. After being administered a shot of insulin he lapsed into insulin shock and died". Les médecins de l’hôpital ignoraient que Dolphy était diabétique et avaient conclu qu’il avait été victime d’une consommation excessive de drogues. Or, Dolphy ne fumait pas et ne consommait aucune drogue. Ses médecins avaient été simplement influencés par le préjugé populaire selon lequel les musiciens de jazz étaient des adeptes des narcotiques.
Le trompettiste Ted Curson avait été complètement ébahi par la mort de Dolphy. Il avait déclaré:
"That really broke me up. When Eric got sick on that date [in Berlin], and him being black and a jazz musician, they thought he was a junkie. Eric didn't use any drugs. He was a diabetic—all they had to do was take a blood test and they would have found that out. So he died for nothing. They gave him some detox stuff and he died, and nobody ever went into that club in Berlin again. That was the end of that club".
Peu après la mort de son ami, Curson lui avait rendu hommage dans une élégie intitulée ‘’Tears for Dolphy.’’
Un autre collaborateur de longue date de Dolphy, le compositeur Charles Mingus, avait commenté: "Usually, when a man dies, you remember—or you say you remember—only the good things about him. With Eric, that's all you could remember. I don't remember any drags he did to anybody. The man was absolutely without a need to hurt."
Eric Dolphy a été inhumé au Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery de Los Angeles. On peut lire sur sa pierre tombale l’expression "He Lives In His Music." Peut-être Dolphy pressentait-il sa mort prochaine, car à la veille de son départ pour l’Europe, Dolphy avait laissé une boîte contenant des documents et des effets personnels à ses amis Hale et Juanita Smith. D’abord tombés entre les mains du musicien James Newton, les documens avaient été légués à la Bibliothèque nationale du Congrès en mai 2014.
En dépit de leur collaboration relativement brève, Eric Dolphy avait exercé une influence considérable sur John Coltrane. Dans une entrevue accordée en 1962 au magazine DownBeat, Coltrane avait déclaré: ‘’After he sat in... We began to play some of the things we had only talked about before. Since he's been in the band, he's had a broadening effect on us. There are a lot of things we try now that we never tried before. This helped me... We're playing things that are freer than before." Le biographe de Coltrane, Eric Nisenson, avait confirmé: "Dolphy's effect on Coltrane ran deep. Coltrane's solos became far more adventurous, using musical concepts that without the chemistry of Dolphy's advanced style he might have kept away from the ears of his public."  De tous les hommages qu’on ait jamais rendus à Dolphy, le plus sincère était sorti de la bouche de Charles Mingus. Ce dernier avait déclaré :
‘’Eric Dolphy was  a complete musician. He could fit anywhere. He was a fine lead alto in a big band. He could make it in a classical group. He was entirely his own man when he soloed. He had mastered jazz. And he had mastered all the instruments he played. In fact, he knew more than what’s supposed to be possible to do on them.’’
Dolphy a influencé de nombreux musiciens au cours de sa carrière, dont Ron Carter, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Bobby Hutcherson, Woody Shaw, Tony Williams, Anthony Braxton, Oliver Lake, Arthur Blythe, Don Byron, Evan Parker ainsi que les membres de l’Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Intronisé au sein du temple de la renommée du magazine DownBeat en 1964, Dolphy était non seulement un multi-instrumentaliste virtuose, mais aussi un grand être humain. Comme l’avait reconnu Coltrane : "Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician." Après la mort de son fils, la mère de Dolphy avait d’ailleurs légué à Coltrane sa flûte et sa clarinette basse. Coltrane, qui traînait toujours sur lui une photographie de Dolphy, a d’ailleurs utilisé les instruments de Dolphy sur certains de ses enregistrements subséquents.
En 1991, Eric Dolphy a  fait l’objet d’un documentaire intitulé ‘’Last Date’’, produit par le réalisateur Hans Hylkema.
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SOURCES :
‘’Eric Dolphy.’’ Wikipedia, 2022.
WALTON, Peter. ‘’Eric Dolphy (1928-1964).’’ BlackPast.org., 9 décembre 2007.
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Snack a Pickle Day
Snack a Pickle Day is a day for snacking on pickles. Pickles, which usually mean pickled cucumbers when spoke of in the United States, are preserved in a brine or vinegar solution, and flavored with herbs and seasonings. The word “pickle” is derived from the Dutch word pekel, which means brine. The pickling process was invented around 1440, and many people were making pickles in their homes by the 1600’s. This was helped with the invention of the mason jar in 1858. Pickles are a low calorie food and high in vitamin K, but they may also be high in sodium. Each year Americans eat about 9 pounds of pickles.
How to Observe Snack a Pickle Day
The day should be celebrated by snacking on a pickle! Pickles can be eaten on their own or with a meal. They can be put on a hamburger,or chopped into a relish and put on a hot dog. Sometimes they are served on a stick, and sometimes they are even deep fried. There are many types of pickles to try:
Bread and butter—part of sweet family of pickles; has onions and bell peppers; sometimes have a waffle-esque shape; solution of vinegar, sugar, and spices; name comes from Omar and Cora Fanning, Illinois cucumber farmers who started selling the pickles in the early 1920’s and filed for the name in 1923; name derived from how they traded their pickles for things like bread and butter during rough years.
Cinnamon—bright red and flavored with cinnamon; sometimes a Christmas treat.
Dill—made with dill herbs or dill oil; have been served in New York City since at least 1899.
Gherkins—smaller and usually sweeter; made with Burr or West Indian cucumbers; sometimes “gherkin” is a generic term used for pickles in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Kool-aid—soaked in kool-aid and pickle brine.
Kosher dill—dill pickle with lots of garlic in the salt brine.
Polish—somewhere between kosher dill and sour.
Sour—fermented longer in brine, which makes them sourer.
Sour mixed—sour pickles cut and mixed with other veggie such as onions, cauliflower, carrots, and peppers.
Sour relish—made with finely chopped sour pickles with other vegetables; also called “piccalili.”
Sweet—usually made with vinegar, spices, and sugar; includes sliced sweet pickles, or “cross cuts”, which are cut crosswise into chips.
Sweet mixed—sweet pickles mixed with other vegetables.
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