Okay Seinfeld fans. We’ll talk about an episode of Seinfeld, since society keeps finding ways to make those four sociopaths relevant.
This is my review of Schneiderweisse Hopfenweisse:
So why is Jerry relevant again? First there was this moron on Twitter that described how capitalism handles excess food. TL/DR: its just a video of a female worker in her 20’s throwing away a bunch of donuts at Dunkin Donuts. Which I suppose is par for the course for Dunkin given they make most of their money selling coffee while their donuts pass as donuts from a theoretical level. They are fried, sugary, and have holes.
Of course the reason she is throwing them away has little to do with capitalism, but the regulations involved with donating food. Oddly enough poor people are, legally speaking, people and food safety regulations apply to them as well. Here are a few resources to peruse through in case you ever want to donate food to hungry people and/or hate yourself enough to peruse food regulations.
Had we lived in a communist system the way this worker presumably is advocating, there would be precious few donuts. Likely a donut ration limited to one donut per month would be implemented, it would take several hours of waiting in line for the donut, and the donut would probably suck. Let alone a discussion on a variety of donuts from which to choose or “fancy donuts” with sprinkles.
Even if there weren’t regulations on donated food, the episode of Seinfeld with the muffin top store is the most likely scenario to play out. Here Elaine gets the bright idea of selling muffin tops since that’s the only part of the muffin she eats, and tells somebody at a party. After walking around the neighborhood she finds somebody eating a muffin top and discovers the man she told the idea to opened the store. She then convinces him that instead of making muffin tops by themselves, make the entire muffin. What to do with the excess stumps?
”I dunno donate them to a soup kitchen.”
They later find out local charities will not accept muffin stumps because, “are the poor not good enough for the entire muffin?” The rest of the episode is them trying to get rid of the stumps and the typical Seinfeld mayhem ensues. The poor are people after all, and if you are being charitable perhaps they are deserving of a something other than a stale donut.
Okay so I will admit the Germans finally tried something out of the box. This is not just an ordinary unfiltered Hefeweizen. They hopped the schnitzel out this beer and at 8.2% abv they essentially made some sort of IPA – Hefeweizen hybrid. Which on paper is off putting for somebody like myself that hates bananas snd overhopped beer.
Turns out its not terrible, because the hops overwhelm the banana-scented floaters. Schneiderweisse Hopfenweisse: 2.8/5
30 Roc for the win.
https://youtu.be/fb6vhYaG5FQ
Yes indeed – Rural Juror
Fun Fact – Jane Krakowski was not in the pilot. The role of Jenna was originally performed by Rachel Dratch.
Are there no workhouses?
the hops overwhelm the banana-scented floaters.
Ewwwww.
Sounds like my morning constitutional
Sounds like the perfect beer to go with a pineapple pizza.
Either it also happened on Seinfeld or it was just my brain taking this episode and creating better things. Chicken skins, just the greasy crunchy fried chicken skins. Sell that shit. I’m in. (not low carb)
There was an episode of South Park where the other kids were pissed at Cartman because he ate the skins off their KFC.
You might be remembering pudding-skin singles.
My wife is always frying chicken skins. They’re damn delicious.
Funny, right now, we’re eating Popeyes. Who doesn’t love dried chicken. Who doesn’t love fried chicken skins? Racists, that’s who.
I think they make them in Japanese beer bars as snacks. At least that was what it tasted like.
I remember having fried chicken skins as a menu items in yakitori restaurants. I’d eat them again.
Also, I don’t bake or eat sweets often enough to warrant it being a thing, but that all edging (NSFW) brownie pan is the only good part of the brownie.
Muffin stumps, butter plus honey. Tops are mostly cosmetic anyway
Or you make the muffin stumps into bread pudding.
LOL sometimes Wikipedia does not disappoint.
Don’t out Chafed like that!
Are you saying he was edged out?
If I could masturbate that long I would brag about it.
Seinfeld was the greatest TV show of all time.
And Let’s Get Ready To Rumble!
Seinfeld was the greatest (Comedy) TV show of
all timethe years it was on.Thundar!!!! was better than He-man.
Costanza was better than either.
Were you presuming I would disagree?
Right? He-Man sucked.
I was lucky enough to rarely have seen a single show and then only a few minutes at a time. It wasn’t only Seinfeld, my kids had moved on and I could watch something else or pick up a book or go fishing.
Seinfeld was the greatest
TV show of all time. achievement in human historyI watched every episode of Seinfeld when it aired. But haven’t been able to sit through any episodes since.
I didn’t watch every episode, but I recently made the same comment here about not being to watch it anymore. Same with Friends.
I could do a Community or IT Crowd binge.
Friends was always unwatchable unless you were there for eye candy.
My wife is obsessed with Friends. I never thought it was all that interesting, and aside from watching it to appease the wife, I’d be fine never watching it again.
I’m not sure how much of it is unwatchable because half the episodes became tropes used in a dozen retread sitcoms, and how much is because half the episodes were retreads of existing sitcom tropes.
This is old, but in response to the Hayek comment above, I was reminded of “Friends without Laugh Track”. It turns something annoyingly unfunny, into downright unsettling.
I think it’s still funny (though Ross is annoying) but I hear the actors were snobbish and reclusive.
In that vein, my youngest daughter watched a few seasons with her older sister and enjoyed. Older sister left for college. Youngest daughter watched on her own and tells me it’s not funny. I was so proud of her.
Same here – thought it was the greatest thing ever in 1989. Now I can walk maybe 5 minutes for old times’ sake.
Seinfeld was the greatest TV show of all time. achievement in human history
Lisa Sparxxx says hi. Search probably NSFW.
Community would like a word, as would the Good Place (and if it wasn’t cancelled before its time, Better Off Ted). If we’re leaving comedies behind, there’s Twilight Zone and Outer Limits
While Community and The Good Place are both… good. They do not reach the heights of nihilism that Seinfeld does.
If you want cynical, try Yes, Minister.
Ever since Arrested Development broke the mold, I cannot watch older TV comedies anymore due to the canned laughter. It’s distractingly annoying.
If they ever remaster some old comedies with the laughter removed, then maybe… but of course the cadence of the actors’ delivery would be weird because they usually paused slightly for the canned laughs to subside.
I, too, despise laugh tracks.
Some of the older-older shows (up to early Seventies) were either presented live or at least filmed in front of a live audience. (The Carol Burnette Show comes to mind.) I don’t mind those so much, probably because the laughter is genuine.
Please to enjoy This Is Jinsy
OK, now that I have RTFA, we can discuss. First, “fried, sugary, and have holes” describes most hippy chicks. Second, there was a Martin Sheen TV-of-the-week about this very issue, feeding homeless people back in the early eighties. Right when leftism was facing the major setbacks of Carter being used to wipe the tushes of te greedies, AKA Reaganites. Sad how this issue still goes repeated.
describes most hippy chicks.
Patchouli, you forgot patchouli.
Tried to.
35 years or so ago, in Madison, WI, a small church preacher made the rounds of grocery stores and maybe restaurants and picked up the outdated stuff, to give out at his garage church. He was always making the news, which of course, only made for more publicity. He was a little eccentric and a really sincere person, AFAIK. He got in trouble with the local authorities for refusing to mow his lawn.
They are fried,
Not to my knowledge. Dunkin bakes their doughnuts like most fast food places. A deep fried well made doughnut is a thing of beauty. Not on my menu these days but good lord they are good.
*cracks one of these.
The best donuts come out of a deep fryer at a cider mill. It is known.
Would.
No cider mill, but these are mighty fine. Had one for breakfast this morning, and won’t do that again for a month or more.
Even the glazed ones? If true it just reinforces my low opinion of Dunkin.
For shame MS. I know there are better doughnuts but DD is my guilty pleasure.
*lights Q signal*
Ha! That is not one of my guilty pleasures.
I thought this was going to be about the inevitable result of Women of a Certain Age being unable to find jeans or other pants with a sufficiently high waistband. ?
+1 Obama mom jeans. He was the coolest (Hat voice)
For that you need to find the Tres trifecta, tramp stamp, whale tail, and muffin top.
Aren’t TS and WT synonymous?
Tramp stamps are the tribal tattoos on the small of the back. Whale tail is the back of thong underwear rising above the waistband that has the appearance of the tail of a large aquatic mammal.
Things I learn, thanks, Neph.
I’m glad I now have a name to put to that phenomenon
I got a tramp stamp before it was any kind of thing at all. It was a trophy for an accomplishment, but I never see it, so I am reminded once in a while that I have a tattoo.
Pinnacle fashion 2022: overalls.
What’s the basil for? Mmm, basil.
Your Rathbone?
Nah, it’s fawlty.
Pasta. Roasted garlic, cherry tomatoes, chopped basil, salt, pepper, olive oil, and 1/2 cup pasta water.
We have a muffin top baking pan. The depression for the muffin “stump” was only about 3/8” deep. Worked great. I’ve since found a recipe that makes a great complete muffin.
Sorry to go OT but I need some wiring help if anyone has an idea.
I’m trying to replace one switch in a 3 switch box with a timer to operate a bathroom light, nightlight, and exhaust fan. Each switch/timer should independently operate one of the three outputs. The catch is that the wiring consists of three wires (one Romex strand) going into to the switch box and three wires (one Romex strand) out from the switch box to the light/fan combo fixture. Traditionally, there would be a wire going to each fixture from each light plus the white wire (for 4 outgoing wires), but I’m only working with 3 outgoing wires.
This worked perfectly before with each light switch operating one output. After placing switch #3 with a timer (for the fan), it no longer works. Switch #1 powers the main light and switch #2 is operating both the night light and the fan. The timer (replacing #3) does not function independently but will light up when Switch #2 is on. I did not do the original wiring and the person doing it doesn’t remember the original configuration.
So the original configuration:
Sw#1 main light
Sw#2 nightlight and fan
Sw#3 fan only?
Do you have access to wiring of the light/fan equipment such as from the attic? I’d start with checking the leads for voltage, buzz your cable back to the equipment & circuit breaker box to figure out what the scheme is and what’s appearing where. What are the requirements for the timer? Does it need a neutral to function properly?
Just got it working! Thanks for working through this though. I’ve spent about an hour thinking it through and of course figured it out right after I posted.
The original configuration was:
Sw#1 main light
Sw#2 nightlight
Sw#3 fan only
We had to put a new box in for the timer so the wiring had to be completely disconnected. I don’t know the technical terms so bear with me on the description. Turns out they ran the power in pigtailed black line from switch 2 to switch 3 on the bottom connection so switch 3 was only getting power if switch 2 was on. It also explains why they switch 2 operated both the nightlight and the fan. There is an outgoing black on switch 2 apparently going to the fan and outgoing white on switch 3 (the timer) going to the nightlight. These had been reserved so we put them back.
Working perfect now. Unfortunately I didn’t have attic access to the wires and it was difficult to see where they went into fixture because of how it was mounted.
Your original was ‘xactly how I wired my bathrooms, Easy-peasey
I don’t quite understand what is going on but if GL’s explanation in correct it would seem like switch 2 and 3 should be 3 way switches. If the problem is insufficient wires, pigtail a jumper onto the hot, have a third wire. A problem may be the box is going to be too small, use a deep box.
Correct. A 3 way switch requires a second 3 way switch.
There are kits at the big box stores that allow both light and fan controls to go through a single wire. I don’t know if you can find one with an inbuilt timer, though.
I’m not sure what they did, I need to see it to trouble shoot it, basically, power down the entire curcuit and start checking the wires and switches to identify them all.
Result of lawsuits against Oregon’s explicitly racist giveaways:
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2021/10/oregon-settles-second-lawsuit-over-pandemic-aid-earmarked-for-black-oregonians.html
Crumbs thrown to those suing, no admission of wrongdoing, and no prohibition on doing it again. Congratulation Shitstain, you and your employees have successfully proven the existence of systemic racism in the state government. That you put there.
In like news, it seems that universities across the country are paying big bucks out in lost lawsuits for trying to be Wolk. Harvard has paid out 25million in legal, and the average for men losing due process is something like a 3/4million per. They will never admit what they are doing is wrong, but eventually, they will either go under, or the current assholes will get canned for fiscal irresponsibility.
Given the size of their endorsement, it will have to be the latter.
I guess I need high temp parchment paper. Damn near started a fire here. Only burnt one of my fingers though so all good.
Damn dude, that’s scary stuff. What were you cooking with it?
I always put my loaves of homemade bread on parchment for their final rise, slide them into a 500 degree oven for about 10 minutes, then remove the paper and let them bake the rest of the way directly on the stone (the bottom crust is better that way). I have a pan of water in the bottom though for that period though, so maybe the steam prevents it from burning. When I’m baking other things without steam, I’ve noticed the edges burnt before, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it totally combust.
According to The Hype it is a shitty pizza oven. I am doing away with the last two pizza doughs I made this week by turning them into bread. Burnt one and threw it away so that worked. The second is ok and a slice or two will be lunch and then thrown away.
Oh yea, pizza ovens get crazy hot, much hotter than a home oven, so I could definitely see that happening.
I’ve thought about building a brick one for bread and pizza, but that’s a huge commitment.
Doesn’t have to be. I built one for less than 50 bucks in about an hour. It’s not the nicest looking but gets to at least 700-800 degrees. I bought regular bricks from a local plant for around 20 cents/brick instead of the more expensive fire bricks. Eventually the bricks will give out, but I’ll have years of use and it’ll be cheap to rebuild.
Here’s the link. I didn’t use the bottom stone and instead replaced it with a metal grate. Then I set a pizza stone on top of the grate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHMQ_QQJtbY&ab_channel=ChefSteps
Holy shit, might have to look into that design.
If I replace the bottom stone with a grate like you did, do you think it could double as a BBQ?
If you took the top stone off when you want to grill, that should work great. Otherwise you’ll pretty much be grilling in a oven. You might also need to put a stone or something on the bottom to bring the charcoal closer the grate.
I got a very cheap metal grate at Lowes with the intention of using a pizza stone for food contact. If you’re going to dual use the grate for high heat pizza oven and food-contact grilling, you may need to look into that diamond grate they use on pit smokers.
Nice!
Wouldn’t a grate instead of the solid stone defeat the chimney in the back that creates the airflow? Or does your stone cover all of the grate.
Trimmy, trim, trim the parchment paper to as close to the edge of the pie as you can.
Marx thought religions was “the opiate of the masses.”
He only thought that because he never saw television.
Then I would say social media is “the crack of the masses.”
Speedball.
Speedball of the masses.
Asshole of the masses. It’s the New Jersey version of opiates.
Both are true.
Wait, muffin tops are in now? Is it because there’s now a law against muffin top shaming?
“Schneiderweisse Hopfenweisse”
Wait… wut? That’s not hipster juice. What has happened with you, Messican?
A perfectly good Hefe destroyed with a high ABV and hops. Sure sounds like hipster juice to me.
You could be right. I was just going by my own experience with Schneiderweisse, which in my experience has been pretty good beer. Not as good as Ayinger, but good. I guess I ignored the obvious hipster juice ingredients.
Never had Schneiderweisse, I’m sure their straight Hefe is good. Ayinger is OK, but my favorite is probably Weihenstephaner. Delicious.
+1 on the Weihenstephaner
Having one right now. It was in my Birthday Gift Bucket of Beers & Snacks from around the world.
If you haven’t yet try Maisel’s Weisse, very good Hefe.
Good choice
You are correct sir!
I review beer. Just because I don’t review the beer you drink, doesn’t make it anything else.
I appreciate your willingness to continually take one for the team.
Just got back from a “Taste of….” local food fest. It was a bit sad. There are so many local events going on now that restrictions have lifted, there were a significantly reduced number of vendors. A couple of the tents were empty with signs saying due to lack of staff, they could not participate. What I find annoying is the presence of national chain restaurants. Chic-Fil-A, Carrabba’s, and… Waffle House? WTF.
Did find a new place that we did not know about though. Reservations at 7.
Well I mean, if it were your goal to fuck over small- and mid-size businesses and forcibly transfer their market share to big corporations, you could hardly do better than what the COVID regime has come up with.
^^
This^^^
Just got home from the cider/doughnut fest I drove the girlfriend to. They only had a handful of different ciders (all from one cidery), each person only got two doughnuts (they had five flavors available). The girlfriend and her friends where underwhelmed overall, but there were quite a large number of 20/30 year olds that were in attendance, with only a handful of masks seen.
They were handing out the second strangest piece of swag I’ve seen… Downeast branded RAW rolling papers.
Thought this was going to be a glibfit piece.
I read muffin top and got an immediate soft-on.
Then I RTFA and was deflated…
I watched tOSU game scanning the crowd for some asshole in a top-hat, monocle, and ridiculous beard. No sign of Sloopy.
https://thepostmillennial.com/pole-dancing-instructor-who-teaches-children-married-to-a-child-sex-offender
Some coincidence, eh?
One of my friends in Japan sent me an email with a link to a YouTube channel of a new band. A friend’s daughter is the female singer.
Did not expect this choice of covers.
New York State Of Mind/Billy Joel(cover)
Their actual sound is more typical J-Pop
Penthouse – …恋に落ちたら [Official Music Video]
The kindest thing I can say about Dunkin Donuts is that they are suboptimal. In reality, they are loathesome.
They are. And the portions are so small.
Dunkin Donuts is one of those places that we didn’t have out here on the west coast, and I would always hear east-coasters go on and on about how awesome they were and how much better they were than anything out here, so then when I traveled to the east coast I made a point of going there and trying it, and found it to be seriously underwhelming.
Then they started opening them out here and I tried it again just to be sure, and yeah, I was right, it was all just hyped-up nostalgia from east coast transplants.
See also: Five Guys.
Their coffee is seriously overrated. I enjoy their doughnuts.
So it’s the In-N-Out of doughnuts then.
In-N-Out rules California! never talk shit about them, Five Guys? Carry on,
Five Guys sucks. I felt like I was back in school eating cafeteria food.
In-N-Out fries are hot garbage. The burgers are okay. Nothing to write home about.
That’s funny because in the north-east all we hear is people raving about Krispy Kreme. DD has always been kind of lowest common denominator donuts – I suspect the folks raving about it never had other options in their area.
I’m one of those people. The first time I tried Krispy Kreme I thought they were awful.
KK is good. Our local mom’n’pop is MUCH better.
I don’t think there is anything not a chain local near my house, but I’m not much of a sweets eater so I don’t care. I occasionally like dark chocolate or gummi bears for treats. Near where I work there is a decent mom and pop place. Someone always brings a couple dozen to work every week. There used to be an even better one closer to work, but it mysteriously burned down at the end of the before times.
We’ve got an actual Krispy Kreme storefront right around the corner from us. They’re solid when the hot sign is lit up (if you want to go into diabetic shock), especially when they used to give you a free donut if you stopped in when the sign was lit (no purchase necessary). The girlfriend made us stop there on many a ride home from bars.
Here the loyalty is to individual stores and brands, most having one location (a couple having two). The place I grew up with did custard filled crullers (and if you were lucky, they had the chocolate custard ones).
Yeah, KK’s glazed donuts eaten hot and fresh are good, but the quality declines pretty sharply as they age, and all their other donuts are just kinda meh.
I find KK to be too sugary sweet.
Really? She seems to hold her own around here imo.
I rarely eat donuts. In my mind, the only ones worth the cards and pre-diabetes are good apple cider donuts.
Apple fritters are where it’s at.
I call those a brick of diabeetus. It takes me a whole day to eat one, but when offered I don’t want to be rude.
Microwave for 30s with 2 T of butter on top. Sweet baby jesus……….
This is the correct answer.
Crullers. That is all.
*hugs*
The place the guys at work buy from is called Best Country Donuts. I tell them, they can’t be the best because they don’t have tractor tires.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/10/newsom-admits-12-year-old-daughter-not-yet-vaccinated-despite-k-12-vaccine-mandate-rest-state/
And a good rant on it.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/cBxHnQRryr2P/
StOP aTtaCKiNg hiS ChiLdREn!!!!!
Fuck Newsom.
OT- Sugar Free is an international treasure. Good fuck that guy is talented! Reading the stories here must be like the kids reading pulp-fiction from the 20’s and 30’s. So many gems. Books? Who needs them? This goes out to all the Glib-scribes, wherever you are. Merrilee really touched my heart, Animal.
I tried to find the doggie Subaru Horror Theater, but no luck.
I want my wife (Ms. Five-Books-A-Week) to read it.
Look in the directory at the top.
I tried to show it to Judi some months ago and the video was disabled so you might need two searches. Worth it. It is his masterpiece.
https://www.glibertarians2019.link/2019/10/31/subaru-horror-theater-old-friends/
I did a search for Subaru Horror Theatre. *$#@&!
Thanks.
He released the story upon us on Halloween.
I spelled Theater wrong in my search! It’s not my fault. I have Mad Cow Disease.
It’s archived so you have to go to the archived year link at the top of the page and then search each one. It was exhausting but I did it for you because I’m one hell of nice guy, ask anyone.
Thank you for your service. 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6t0HiHZu8Y
Here’s the original commercial, for context. The one linked at the glibs article is no longer working.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-increasingly-wild-world-of-school-board-meetings
These things are just getting started. I hope this all turns into more people getting involved in local politics that aren’t commies.
Judi got first invasive procedure today and is off to shoot a wedding. A barn wedding. Hope she brings home a bedraggled cat.
You gonna let it watch?
And a gay dood. Don’t forget the gay dood. Good luck to Judi.
Colonel Sanders tie-guy gets left on the muddy road. The cat is welcome.
it would take several hours of waiting in line for the donut, and the donut would probably suck.
Sounds like Dunkin Doughnuts.
This was a wasted day. I had way too much to drink on the Zoom last night. Though I can justify it: I took a new job yesterday and gave my notice. New job starts Oct. 25th.
Congrats!
w00 h00!!!!
Alriiiiiiight! !
I hope you get off to a rip-roaring start at the new job.
Excellent! Congratulations!
Thanks folks!
I want to donate to one of the legal funds that is suing over the Biden vaccine decree that employers over 100 people must force their employees to get vaccinated for COVID.
Is the Center for American Liberty the way to go, or is there a better / more likely-to-be-effective one? I didn’t see an ongoing vaxx coercion one at Institute for Justice.
https://libertycenter.org/cases/
Yay! I’ve decided not to try for that job at the mill. I’m too damned old to pull boards on the green chain. I need to stay in my lane and wait for the inevitable. I’m good at what I do and people seem to like me. That’s enough. Never thought that I’d become Stuart Smalley but here we are.
Was supposed to be in response to DEG’s happy news. Brooksed it.