That is some journey your family has been on! Thank you so much for sharing this story with all of us! I am soooo happy to hear that the little guy is doing well. What a fighter! I hope his valve continues to heal as time goes on, and that things only get better for him from here on out! My very best wishes to you, your partner, and your wonderful son!
It would be awesome if someone here sold white chocolate rocky road. I know there are recipes to make it (which I might do)
Here is a nice history on English Easter Chocolates: https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2023/04/1960s-to-2000-history-and-archive-of.html?m=1
Yeah, I hate it too. Luckily it's optional where I go so I've been able to avoid it the last few years.
Nobody ever has liked that.. I hate it when I have it done too at my eye doctor because then I have to wait for them to settle down or have to be driven home instead of taking a bus or taxi on my own.
It's really a question of lines. I wouldn't eat monkeys, dolphins, or whales. Definitely not elephants, probably not horses. But animals like fish you just don't see anything beyond instinct, no 'Me-hood'. And if there's no 'Me-hood', no approximation of what we think of as a soul, I can't see it as the same thing. Although if you put cats and dogs above the line you might want to rethink pigs. Cats and dogs just get special consideration because they're the ones who've adapted and/or chosen to be our companions.
I'm not a vegetarian but there are animals I wouldn't eat, I wouldn't eat rabbit because we have pet rabbits. I know it makes no sense but it does to me. What I couldn't do is what a friend of ours did, she used to keep sheep from which she had baby lambs every year which eventually went for slaughter and ended up her freezer for food. One year one lamb she had to hand rear ( I don't know why ), and she gave it a name and it was seriously friendly and loved human contact and yes it was treated no different to any others when the time came, I mean how could you? I know it makes sense but I just couldn't and all I could think after is the episode of the simpsons when homer had a pet lobster but ended up eating it.
Yeah, that's the one that really gets me, I just don't understand how people can raise their own meat animals and kill them themselves and eat there. There is just no way I could ever raise and without getting too attached to kill it. At least if you sell off at auction or something like that, you can kind of just put it out of your mind, but you can't do it all yourself. For a long time, I never really thought about cows and chickens and animals like that having emotions and personalities, but seeing videos like this really made me reconsider. I had actually already been starting to feel a little guilty about eating meat, but these kind of videos really pushed me farther in that direction.
I learned something new today. I never knew about oronyms or that they had a name, anyway. Oronyms happen when the sounds of words run into each other and we don't know where one word ends and the other begins. For example: if you say " stuffy nose" and your friend hears "stuff he knows" or you say "ice cream" but "I scream" is heard. I suppose oronyms hang out in puns a lot.
got a link for that? the greek words ὄρος (oros) mean hill or mountain and ὄνομα (onoma) mean name respectively so in my book an oronyms are names for mountains. normally that kind of 'greek' words are not used for differnt stuff and i certainly would like to know the etymology for yours nix fia unguat (that's bavarian for no offence intented) eta: it's only wiki but for a start it might help - emphasis mine