OT - Rules For Thee
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I am reminded of mine each year thanks to Facebook stories as I posted about it 5 years ago today.
As some of you may know, I won a blue ribbon at the Texas State Fair in 2019 for my cookies:
You must submit your recipe as part of the contests. Well I bake by weight and use grams for everything and submitted my recipe like I write them down. By weight. In grams. Thinking nothing of it.
After I won, it was cool. Was in the paper. Got a check and some kitchen gear as a prize. Well they came back a few months later when it time to get the yearly cookbook started and asked me for the conversions. I told them there weren't any, I used it by weight. Some time had passed and they asked me to convert it to Cups/Tbsp etc and I refused and said to do it right, you gotta do it by weight and there's easy conversions online if you need them.
Well the next year they released the rules for all the contests and saw this....
It's beautiful. Gorgeous. Fantastic. I got a rule and there's actually less than 10 rules in total so I feel extra special about this!
I just checked right now and sure enough, 2025 my rule is still there in all it's glory.
As some of you may know, I won a blue ribbon at the Texas State Fair in 2019 for my cookies:
You must submit your recipe as part of the contests. Well I bake by weight and use grams for everything and submitted my recipe like I write them down. By weight. In grams. Thinking nothing of it.
After I won, it was cool. Was in the paper. Got a check and some kitchen gear as a prize. Well they came back a few months later when it time to get the yearly cookbook started and asked me for the conversions. I told them there weren't any, I used it by weight. Some time had passed and they asked me to convert it to Cups/Tbsp etc and I refused and said to do it right, you gotta do it by weight and there's easy conversions online if you need them.
Well the next year they released the rules for all the contests and saw this....
It's beautiful. Gorgeous. Fantastic. I got a rule and there's actually less than 10 rules in total so I feel extra special about this!
I just checked right now and sure enough, 2025 my rule is still there in all it's glory.
That's dumb. Don't most serious bakers weigh their ingredients in grams?
That's a really, really good example. Should have told them it was 0.000330693 tons of sugar.
Yea there was two avenues I was thinking about going down before the 2020 event was canceled and I wasn’t able to compete in 2021 and moved in 2022.
1.) What you said but worse like using pecks, bushels, barrels, jigs, and mins.
2.) They mentioned US standard measurements. Well actually we use US customary measurements. US standards units are SI (metric).
Not sure which path I would’ve gone but it would be been fun either way.
Illinois where I live now has no such rule. Only the wording “exact measurements”. We’ll see this summer if I can get another state to add it as a rule lol
Their argument was I’m an amateur and amateur chefs don’t use metric. I didn’t get it either.
I got a rule made when I was in high school and attended a Bible camp. Every day they had a Bible quiz. Some of the questions were True/False. As soon as they said it was a True/False question, I stood up, guessed, and kept getting them right. The other kids and the counselor in my cabin loved it. By the end of the week, they made a rule about having to let the entire question being asked before we could answer.
P.S. It would have made more sense not to use True/False questions.
P.S. It would have made more sense not to use True/False questions.
I was just thinking the same, use some obscure measurement like pounds to the amount to just make like 1 individual cookie.
Not that I recall, but there was a time that something I posted on a fan forum under a different username was pinned on the bulletin board in the Iowa State football locker room.
I believe it was the 2004 season after we hosted Texas A&M and got liberally slapped around by them. The final was 34-3 and that game pissed me off royally. I wrote that it looked like we just gave up and weren't really trying. A&M wasn't that good that year (they finished 7-4) and we really should have been able to put up a better fight than we did.
Well, I found out later that someone had put that post that called their heart and character into question on the bulletin board in the Iowa State locker room and some sports radio talk show hosts were wondering who I was and why there was a post of mine in the locker room.
I like to think that my post had something to do with next year's game against A&M when we beat them 42-14 at their place, the Todd Blythe 4 TD game, which provided us our only win in our long, sorry 11-game history against the Aggies. And also, I like to think it played a role in turning the 2004 season around. We started out 2-4 after losing the next game at Colorado, but narrowly (19-14) then won five of our next 6, including a bowl game against Miami of Ohio.
Your dilemma is like in Sophie’s Choice where the mother has to decide whether to let the Nazis kill her daughter or her son. Actually it is worse, your two approaches are equally good.
Also, I seriously have to ask?: Will you share the recipe?
Went to a high school with a dress code. There is now a rule against wearing shorts during the winter. To this day I don't understand why the school gave a **** I was wearing shorts instead of pants.
The school board added it to the handbook before my senior year. A board member I ******* hated politely reminded me that I would not be able to participate in athletics if I was not meeting my in school obligations and detention would take precedence over practice. Being 17 and stupid I let him know he could tell the track coach I was ineligible to run and let me know what the coach thought of that because I was the highest point scorer on the team.
The principal caught wind and said the board member didn't have the authority to enforce that rule but the he did. He also said he knew that although I was good at it I hated running so running 4 miles every meet was a way better punishment than being suspended.
The school board added it to the handbook before my senior year. A board member I ******* hated politely reminded me that I would not be able to participate in athletics if I was not meeting my in school obligations and detention would take precedence over practice. Being 17 and stupid I let him know he could tell the track coach I was ineligible to run and let me know what the coach thought of that because I was the highest point scorer on the team.
The principal caught wind and said the board member didn't have the authority to enforce that rule but the he did. He also said he knew that although I was good at it I hated running so running 4 miles every meet was a way better punishment than being suspended.
It wasn't me or my class, but every year we had a can drive. Most non perishable food items donated by a class wins a pizza party. There is an oat processing plant in our hometown and employees could get a virtually unlimited supply of single serve oatmeal packets for next to nothing. A student's parent worked there and brought in hundreds if not thousands of oatmeal packets. The next year they said the oatmeal packets would not be counted. A few years after that, they changed if again to 10 packs would count as 1.
In grade school, our class went to the local bowling alley a couple times for gym class. One time, I asked the gym teacher if I could play a video game while the rest of the class was getting their shoes and balls. He said, "Ok, but just one game."
I ended up playing Galaga for almost the entire class on that one quarter. Classmates ended up around me watching instead of bowling.
After that, the rule was "no video games". I absolutely ruined it for everyone else.
I ended up playing Galaga for almost the entire class on that one quarter. Classmates ended up around me watching instead of bowling.
After that, the rule was "no video games". I absolutely ruined it for everyone else.
