{"id":31485,"date":"2023-10-10T09:34:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31485"},"modified":"2023-10-10T09:34:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:34:34","slug":"not-the-problem-at-nogglestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/10\/not-the-problem-at-nogglestead\/","title":{"rendered":"Not the Problem at Nogglestead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody that we used to know posted this on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/bananabread.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Ya know, that&#8217;s never been the problem here.  When we have gone through phases of banana-eating here and then the phase ends, leaving us with bananas that go to baking-ripe, I&#8217;ve often made banana bread.  <em>Chocolate<\/em> banana bread, no less.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that few of us will eat it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s because we&#8217;re all lazy, and cutting off a piece is too difficult for us.  Speaking for myself, I don&#8217;t tend to like sweet breads in the middle of the day.  I&#8217;m okay with a doughnut in the morning, but sometime after that, I&#8217;m onto non-sweet breads.  Bagels, and sweet non-breads, but not sweet breads.<\/p>\n<p>In the olden days, we could take baked goods in for the teachers at their Lutheran school, but now they&#8217;re at the big impersonal public high school, that would be weird.<\/p>\n<p>So we don&#8217;t throw the bananas away.  We add some ingredients and invest some time in baking, and then we throw the result away.<\/p>\n<p>See also Brian J.&#8217;s experiments with bread pudding circa 2008-2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody that we used to know posted this on Facebook: Ya know, that&#8217;s never been the problem here. When we have gone through phases of banana-eating here and then the phase ends, leaving us with bananas that go to baking-ripe, I&#8217;ve often made banana bread. Chocolate banana bread, no less. The problem is that few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31486,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31485\/revisions\/31486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}