I’m impressed at your willingness to try; almost no one does. I hope you like it!

That’s where we always lose people. It’s actually good! It works!

Raw flour is not recommended for direct consumption because it can actually carry foodborne illnesses. I suppose you could “cook” it in the oven with no other ingredients to have a similar experience but killing any potential pathogens.

I’ve never tried it but you won’t have to convince me!

This is very much a regional food around here, but if you’re not from here, with previous generations from here, it will seem like a strange food: the banana sandwich. This is peanut butter, banana, and mayonnaise (Duke’s Mayonnaise for any proper Southerner). People are generally on board until you mention the mayonnaise. I get that it sounds weird but is actually really good.

I hear it called a Southern thing but don’t know if it’s just a North Carolina thing or extends farther across the South. It is definitely a thing, though. I remember years ago one of the larger news outlets posted a question on their Facebook page, asking if people sliced their banana into planks or circles for their sandwiches and it got hundreds of comments in response with people arguing for one option or the other. I’ve always been a circle person myself. I can see a theoretical appeal for planks in having less open space but am so used to circles that I’ve never quite figured out the logistics of cutting straight planks out of a curved banana.

I’m guessing this is nothing to do with the plant that can grow on amusing terra cotta sculptures?

I never used to eat it but actually like adding it to oatmeal with maple syrup and blueberries

This is more to replace the digital signs that currently use LCD/LED displays. It’s more readable in the daytime because it doesn’t need a ridiculously bright backlight to compete against the sun. Compared to those signs this uses dramatically less electricity because it only uses electricity when the image changes (reading the article some of the options run off a small battery pack like you could use to recharge your phone a few times). Iirc you also don’t really have burn-in issues with e-ink. It looks like their color reproduction has gotten a lot better with the latest generation, so this could be a really good fit for a lot of outdoor digital signs.

Adding on, the context of the parable is important. The parable was given in response to a lawyer who asked what was needed to gain eternal life. Jesus flipped it back on him and asked what the law recorded by Moses said. The lawyer replied with, ‘you must love THE LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind, and to love your neighbor as yourself.’ Jesus replied that was correct, do that and he’d live. But then the lawyer asked who his neighbor was.

The parable was Jesus’s response to the lawyer’s question of who was his neighbor. At the end Jesus asked who the neighbor was in the parable but the lawyer couldn’t bring himself to say the Samaritan. He said the one that showed mercy, which was correct, and Jesus told him to go and do the same. But we could also say from the parable that your neighbor is the person who hates you, your neighbor is the person everyone around you says you should hate, your neighbor is the one with different beliefs from you, your neighbor is every other human. And you should be willing to help your neighbor, take care of your neighbor, give your own money to help your neighbor with no expectation of getting that money back. At the end of the parable the Samaritan gave the innkeeper money to cover the expenses of caring for the robbery victim and said he would pay for any excess when he returned, and with the victim having been robbed there was little chance he would be able to repay the Samaritan.

I’ve long thought this passage is one of the most crucial of Jesus’s teaching, and the majority of people who claim to follow him (or at least the ones who are loudest about it) seem to miss the point entirely and fail to follow the lesson. One can’t embrace being selfish or greedy and be a Christian, it just doesn’t work.

I have not used them myself, but M-DISC sounds like what you’re looking for. There are a few other alternatives listed on that Wikipedia article, too.