They can't use on us on one another if we don't forget we're precious

[sovay]

For our first official federal Juneteenth, I ate a surprisingly nineteenth-century pie and Hestia mauled one of my best accessories. I think it went all right.

(spatch: "Hestia says, 'Happy Father's Day, Mama Cat. I caught you a tie.'")

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[spatch]

And Hestia said to me "Happy Father's Day, Mama Cat, here is my victorious song of the Conquest of Fabric. MRAAO, MRAAAO, MRAOOOO MRAOO mew? MRAO."

[asakiyume]

Anycat can bring home the bacon. Get yourself a cat who can bring home a tie, and you're golden.

important queries

[radiantfracture]

I would like to hear more about the pie.

(And I love the quotation in your title, but do not recognize it.)

Re: important queries

[sovay]

I would like to hear more about the pie.

It was a hand-raised pie filled with spiced lamb, potatoes, and chickpeas. My father called it a samosa pie. selkie estimates that he just barely did not reinvent a staple of the Hindoostane Coffee House in 1810.

(And I love the quotation in your title, but do not recognize it.)

It's from Alabaster DePlume's "Don't Forget You're Precious," from his most recent album GOLD (2022), which I discovered last week and have been listening to.

"Sounds funny, but I forget sometimes. I remember to drink, I remember to laugh, I remember to check my Instagram, but I forget that I'm precious. Don't do it. Don't forget you're precious."

[sovay]

And Hestia said to me "Happy Father's Day, Mama Cat, here is my victorious song of the Conquest of Fabric. MRAAO, MRAAAO, MRAOOOO MRAOO mew? MRAO."

Mightily did she sing to her mama cats!

[sovay]

Get yourself a cat who can bring home a tie, and you're golden.

We have the finest tie-hunting kittens.

Re: important queries

[selkie]

So hard to get mutton in the suburbs.

[pameladean]

I guess your tie is part of the Living with a Mighty Hunter Tax.

I make a thing I call samosa pie too, but it's the vegetarian version, the filling doubled except for the potatoes and peas, which retain their original measurements but are accompanied by equivalent amounts of carrots and cauliflower. It cannot really compete with spiced lamb, but it's very tasty.

P.

Re: important queries

[spatch]

There's plenty of American gammon, but they've got no taste.

[sovay]

I guess your tie is part of the Living with a Mighty Hunter Tax.

It is. And such mighty hunters are worth it.

(I caught her eyeing another of my ties this evening. I put it in my desk drawer.)

It cannot really compete with spiced lamb, but it's very tasty.

It sounds very satisfying! This afternoon I had a sort of multi-root-vegetable borscht (beets, cabbage, carrots, celery, something else I didn't expect to see but which made sense when I thought about winter foods), which made me remember this comment.