Just to clarify, there’s no potato in barley coffee

Yeah, I understand. I was just listing a non-cereal formula for interests’ sake. It seems there are quite a lot, some used in combination and some ‘standing alone.’ For example:

Some ingredients used include almond, acorn, asparagus, malted barley, beechnut, beetroot, carrot, chicory root, corn, soybeans, cottonseed, dandelion root (see dandelion coffee), fig, roasted garbanzo beans,[5] lupinus, boiled-down molasses, okra seed, pea, persimmon seed, potato peel,[6] rye, sassafras pits, sweet potato, wheat bran.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_substitute#Ingredients

Some years back I had some coffee substitute in les États-Unis and found it surprisingly tasty. I think it was wheat & molasses-based, but there are other kinds out there. Barley that you mention, and potato-based, I think. Probably more.

Next time I get to the nice supermarket I’ll look for some:
https://www.google.com/search?q=coffee+substitutes+sold+in+the+USA&udm=2

I’m worried about the heatwave in Europe, so good to know the barley-coffee helps. Personally I’m a huge iced tea fan, and have found that “gourmet” iced tea is possible using unexpected combinations, such as Earl Grey, chai, peach-ginger and Constant Comment. I’ve been meaning to post my methods over at !cooking@lemmy.world, soon…

If you’re meaning a physical control unit, Ableton pads are pretty reasonable I think, with some maybe US$60 or so? I guess a key point is whether it’s meant to operate standalone, or in conjunction with software running on a computer. I think most want to run the software.

How your friend’s mic connects would also be a factor, plus knowing what their existing equipment is. Some mics need power, some don’t (like the classic Shure SM58), and you might need a digital interface, depending. I have a “Focusrite” (model Scarlet 2i2) for such, and it’s nice because the two inputs are multipurpose, taking both 3-prong microphones as well as guitar patch cables.

Also of note is that there’s free software (both DL and online) for looping and effects, so it comes back to whether their computer will be involved or not. I think smartphones can work, too.

Right, it would need to be blended up with some water such that it quickly sunk in to the soil, like the fish guts liquid fertiliser.

Limpets are indeed molluscs. Crustaceans are like underwater insects, with every single part of their bodies typically covered in thin-ish keratin-based plating. That said, they include some oddballs like barnacles, which build shells more like bivalve molluscs do (clams and such).

You’re right about the different feeding methods of limpets and filter-feeders. Limpets are like gastropod molluscs (snails, etc) in that they eat directly from a surface or prey.

As for using them as fertiliser, maybe, but isn’t protein recommended against usually?

Oh, I’d generally thought that most animal material (and of course waste) makes for good fertiliser, but maybe it depends. In truth, I was thinking back about a garden project in which we used a kind of ‘fish guts’ solution to help grow produce. The plants loved it!

Oh, crustaceans, then. I thought “shellfish” referred to molluscs specifically (because of the valves, or “shells”), but I see now that I was mistaken.

Seafood bisque is a fairly high-end item IIRC, so there’s no shame there I should think. If the cooked limpets weren’t good for anything else, they might also be good for fertiliser in a garden. *shrug*

Molluscs? I’d be checking online (and wherever else) to see if the local ones are in clean water and/or have any issues like that. Or maybe canned would make sense.

Damn, I haven’t seen such a savage caricature for ages. oO

Ezekial bread

I’m not a big bread fan, due to it not being much better than junk food IMO, but that stuff looks great!

Shrimp kebab

A good reminder to me that a pescatarian diet includes non-fish seafood. That said, I haven’t checked on the nutritional profiles of crustaceans for a long time. Not sure how ‘healthy’ or not they’re currently considered…

Btw, for my wraps, I like to have these, which are mainly made out of resistant starches and only have about half the typical # of kcals. Altho when I get around to it, I’m going to try another round of making my own oat-flour wraps as a similar health upgrade.

Anyway, in terms of fish, I have salmon fairly often, and a bit of canned tunafish, and some omega-3 capsules every day. Diet is mostly soup and stew-based in general, with fresh veggies and some low-cal noodles. Air-fryer is also an essential food prep tool, as well as the spiral elements on my oven, great for precision grilling.

Excellent point.

And my god, I’ve never seen another movie franchise so drastically and disastrously miss someone.

Thanks!

For anyone who wants to check it out:
https://classicgamezone.com/games/tactics-ogre-gaiden-the-knight-of-lodis

EDIT : Unfortunately it has the usual load of cringeworthy text that can’t be easily skipped, but the concept at least sounds interesting. Someone was obviously paying attention to Ultima IV…

Shazam!

I’m liking the graphics in the game depicted!

So the title is, uh “…T & WINDY”?

Whew laddie, another awesome sci-fi pic. I’ve posted some here, but all the more it makes me wish there was a sci-fi art sublemmy on the Fediverse.

Only to come full-circle in the Phantom Menace, having to repeatedly tell Ewan McGregor to STFU with all the lightsabre noises he was loudly making. 😆

I see that after the Great War, General Melchett skipped across the pond and took up a new profession.

There you go. 🙂

Well, not anything like your avatar?

*hands waving in the air*