SAMA HOOLE: A Melton Mowbray pork pie is pork, wrapped in pork fat, sealed with pork jelly. It was built to survive a day in the coat pocket of a man on a galloping horse.

A Melton Mowbray pork pie is pork, wrapped in pork fat, sealed with pork jelly. It was built to survive a day in the coat pocket of a man on a galloping horse. The pastry is like no other. You boil water with a block of lard until it melts, pour it hot into the flour, and work it while it is still warm. The result can be raised by hand into a tall case that will stand up on its own. It bakes as hard as a tin. The filling is fresh pork, chopped with a knife, with nothing added but salt and pepper. It cooks grey, the colour of a roast, and a real one is never pink. Then comes the clever part. As the meat cooks it shrinks away from the crust and leaves a gap. So when the pie comes out of the oven, hot stock made from boiled trotters is poured in through a hole in the lid. It sets into a jelly that fills every space and shuts out the air. That is what makes the pie keep. It was the food of the hunting field. The grooms and riders of Leicestershire needed something that would not fall apart at a fence, and from the 1830s Melton was sending them to London by stagecoach. And the pork was there for a reason. The same countryside makes Stilton. Cheesemaking leaves gallons of whey, and whey fattens pigs. The cheese fed the pig, and the pig became the pie. The recipe has been protected by law since 2009. Every part of it breaks a modern rule. It is also a complete meal you can eat with one hand, that needs no fridge and no packaging, and they solved it 200 years ago with a pig.

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) October 19, 2026

A Melton Mowbray pork pie is pork, wrapped in pork fat, sealed with pork jelly. It was built to survive a day in the coat pocket of a man on a galloping horse.

The pastry is like no other. You boil water with a block of lard until it melts, pour it hot into the flour, and work it while it is still warm. The result can be raised by hand into a tall case that will stand up on its own. It bakes as hard as a tin.

The filling is fresh pork, chopped with a knife, with nothing added but salt and pepper. It cooks grey, the colour of a roast, and a real one is never pink.

Then comes the clever part. As the meat cooks it shrinks away from the crust and leaves a gap. So when the pie comes out of the oven, hot stock made from boiled trotters is poured in through a hole in the lid. It sets into a jelly that fills every space and shuts out the air. That is what makes the pie keep.

It was the food of the hunting field. The grooms and riders of Leicestershire needed something that would not fall apart at a fence, and from the 1830s Melton was sending them to London by stagecoach.

And the pork was there for a reason. The same countryside makes Stilton. Cheesemaking leaves gallons of whey, and whey fattens pigs. The cheese fed the pig, and the pig became the pie.

The recipe has been protected by law since 2009.

Every part of it breaks a modern rule. It is also a complete meal you can eat with one hand, that needs no fridge and no packaging, and they solved it 200 years ago with a pig.

Filed 19 Days Before an Election. Dead by January. Two Democrats filed a bill Thursday that pays $500,000 to any citizen ICE detains. Both of them know it dies on January 3, 2027. Leger Fernández sits on the Rules Committee. She knows exactly how a bills move, and she knows this one has no path through a Republican Judiciary Committee. Bonnie Watson Coleman leaves Congress in January. Neither of them will be around so why draft it? Because a bill costs nothing and a campaigning needs a villain and the hot button issue is ICE. They picked the officers I spent 24 years working beside. It pays when someone is arrested or detained "without a warrant or without probable cause." That "or" sweeps in warrantless arrests federal law allows. The officer gets sued and there’s no immunity. If they cared about wrongly held citizens, they'd write something that could pass. They wrote something that could get quoted and excite their base 19 days before elections. https://t.co/RM3IdWewp4 https://t.co/HArUboy4er

— Scott Mechkowski (@ScottMechkowski) October 19, 2026

from Scott Mechkowski,

Filed 19 Days Before an Election. Dead by January.

Two Democrats filed a bill Thursday that pays $500,000 to any citizen ICE detains. Both of them know it dies on January 3, 2027.

Leger Fernández sits on the Rules Committee. She knows exactly how a bills move, and she knows this one has no path through a Republican Judiciary Committee. Bonnie Watson Coleman leaves Congress in January. Neither of them will be around so why draft it? 

Because a bill costs nothing and a campaigning needs a villain and the hot button issue is ICE.

They picked the officers I spent 24 years working beside. It pays when someone is arrested or detained "without a warrant or without probable cause." That "or" sweeps in warrantless arrests federal law allows. 

The officer gets sued and there’s no immunity. 

If they cared about wrongly held citizens, they'd write something that could pass. They wrote something that could get quoted and excite their base 19 days before elections.

H.R. 10826 (IH)--Justice for Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Act, Leger Fernández and Bonnie Watson Coleman. 

"US Citizens Wrongfully Detained by ICE Could Get $500K Under New Bill," Billal Rahman, Newsweek, October 18, 2026.s:

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LINUXHIPPIE: Marxism et al sits atop the Identity hierarchy. All "other" categories -religion, race, sex, etc are null from a threat analysis POV.

Marxism et al sits atop the Identity hierarchy. All "other" categories -religion, race, sex, etc are null from a threat analysis POV. Adopt any "aspect" of Marxism--you're a Marxist. There is no middle. Thanks for coming to my TED talk on Threat Identification.

— Linuxhippie (@linuxhippie) October 19, 2026

THE BUCK YOU WILL: Ingredients today. Ingredients 30, 40, or 100 years ago

WE ARE BEING POISONED. Make smart choices. DON'T EAT GARBAGE FOOD. (There is no playing with your health.)

— The Buck You Will (@TheBuckYouWill) October 18, 2026

Did you know The Alamo is a special lamb curry?

— @realDianaWest (@realDianaWest) October 19, 2026

from Paul H. Yarbrough's "Remember the Alamo," March 6, 2024.

With the availability limited of men and supplies, a handful of Texans (approximately 200) commanded by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and the oldest man at the Alamo, Davy Crockett hunkered down in an old Spanish mission, The Alamo, and swore that they would hold on to the death, if necessary, while Texas Commander, Sam Houston built an army. 

They did and they died. They were men. They were courageous men. 

So, for the weak-kneed sissy journalists, T.V. announcers there was no spontaneous get-rich-quick grab for independence by free land seekers. They were men fighting for independence from a government that had corrupted itself via its violation of its own constitutional agreement– and did not realize that there were in fact men who would “load their gun and assert their rights.” 

The flag that the Texans flew over the Alamo was the flag of “1824”; a signal that they were willing to fight and die for the agreement that they had made. 

William Barrett Travis: “Victory or Death.” 

Remember the Alamo.