I still have my presidential physical fitness award. I’m old, mine is signed by Nixon. It’s a very official looking certificate with a patch that I put under the glass in the frame. Back when I used to hang my work awards on my office wall, I used to have that one in with them. Most people didn’t ever notice, but every once in a while someone would be looking at them and I could always see the exact moment they realized what it was.
Just FYI, this really isn’t charcuterie though. Charcuterie is specifically about prepared meats. You can have other stuff on a charcuterie board, but normally just some things to compliment the meats.
On the other hand, so many people have been misusing the word for a while now that the definition is starting to accommodate arrangements like yours.
There are quite a number of good articles on the subject if you want a thorough answer, but some of the main things are:
He’s responsible for a massive deregulation of financial institutions that were a precursor to the Wall Street issues that led to the giant government bailout.
He pushed “trickle down economics,” which is the theory that if you cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy, they’ll succeed more and create more jobs so that everyone wins. This is something conservatives always push and it’s always a horrible failure that results in a bigger and bigger income gap.
He funded his big tax cuts (mostly for the wealthy) by slashing federal assistance programs, including low income housing subsidies and mental health support, resulting in an unprecedented surge in homelessness that we’re still wrestling with today.
Nancy Reagan was the “Just say no to drugs” lady - the figurehead of the largely failed war on drugs which was like trying to prevent teen pregnancy with an abstinence only education program.
There’s a lot more, but those are some of the big ticket items.
I’m not sure I agree, the diameter of the trunk isn’t significantly different from the diameter of the branches. If it were split, the branches should be half as wide.
I think what happened is that the beginning of the turd was the top of the trunk, and it broke where the end of the lower-right branch is. You can see that it broke at an angle. Then the remaining part came out and that angled bit is where the left branch attaches to the trunk. I think it landed there in it’s soft/warm state and merged together at that point. You can see that the color of the top of the left branch is the same as the end of the right branch, then transitions to lighter.
And that’s as much turd analysis as I want to do today.
And I said it was nice looking food. Thought you might be interested about the use of the word. Was anything that I said argumentative? Feel free to ignore.
Yours has the same definition as mine, and even links to the same page, but then says:
However, according to food historian Sarah Wassberg Johnson, charcuterie also has its roots in the simple meals that had been eaten by laborers of the working class throughout Europe since the medieval period, often consisting of meats, cheeses, bread, local produce, and wine or beer.
That’s one I’ve never seen, and the citation is the opinion of a single person without reference. If you Google the definition, you’re going to mostly find that it’s prepared meats, with some places saying the definition has evolved to include other stuff.