Inquiring Minds Want To Know…

by | Jan 12, 2024 | Food & Drink | 208 comments

EDITOR NOTE: The Stoic is going to miss this week – as mentioned in the Morning Links comments, ron has a brother to help. But we know you want to ponder something, so here you go, courtesy of Webdom:

 

Do you wash your raw chicken when you take it out of the package?

What about other raw meats?

Discuss.

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208 Comments

  1. pistoffnick

    Is this a euphemism?

    • Bobarian LMD

      More important, how clean are your hands?

  2. The Late P Brooks

    Why would you? You’re going to cook it, right?

    • Lackadaisical

      What about tartare or sushi?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Chicken sushi?

        Would not.

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘What about other raw meats?’

        Obviously I was not meaning chicken…

      • Not Adahn
      • mindyourbusiness

        You should always wash your hands afterward…

  3. Rebel Scum

    Do you wash your raw chicken

    Euphemism?

    What about other raw meats?

    Well, the steaks get dry brined.

    • R C Dean

      No and no. Who does that?

  4. The Late P Brooks

    Ponder this

    Toledo, Ohio is the best city in the U.S. to buy a house in 2024, according to Realtor.com.

    I was laughing too hard to read any farther.

    • Urthona

      Holy Toledo!

    • Lackadaisical

      I mean, it may be the cheapest? Usually there is a reason why that is the case.

      • Urthona

        Oh la dee da. Look who knows fancy economics shit like supply and demand.

      • Pat

        I was looking in Toledo, along with Akron, Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton when I was shopping for this place. Unless something has changed pretty dramatically in the last 6 months or so, the crime rate any place I could afford to make a purchase was about 4 times what it is where I ended up moving. And it wasn’t like petty property crime or victimless non-libertarian crimes either, we’re talking the hard stuff: murder, rape, armed robbery, battery, etc. Also it’s cold as balls.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’ve been to Toledo before (levee inspection) and yeah, when people say that Ohio lost that war, they aren’t wrong.

        I never bothered to actually check the housing prices, because well, Toledo.

      • Nephilium

        Pretty sure the only good think in Toledo is Tony Packo’s… I can’t even think of any breweries that distribute this way from Toledo any more (several went under in the past 5-10 years).

      • Not Adahn

        I thought Toledo was full of churches. Isn’t that where the phrase “Holy Toledo” comes from?

      • Nephilium

        Well, once the steel industry left, what else where they going to do?

      • Tres Cool

        And Tony’s is WAY over rated.
        I used to drive through Toledo twice a week or so when I was working up in Detroit.
        Seeing Toledo made me said. Going through Detroit made me scared.

      • Nephilium

        One time the girlfriend and I were going through Toledo they had an algae bloom. Couldn’t drink or use the tap water for anything, nearly all the restaurants were closed, the one we found to get a bite at was using plastic to-go cutlery, since they couldn’t wash regular silverware. The locals said that would happen for a “week or two” every couple of years.

      • Grummun

        But Toledo is Your Gateway To World Markets! *

        *joke for anyone who has driven I-75N through Too-lee-doo

      • Urthona

        Coincidence

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘The report, “Best and Worst Places to Rent in America,” compared 182 U.S. cities across two categories: Rental market & affordability, such as share of renters, rental vacancy rate, rental affordability, rent-to-price ratio and more; and quality of life, such as weather, safety, job market, recreation-friendliness, and more”

        The first one any place where you can actually afford to buy will place poorly on, while the last two are just tanking the Midwest for lulz.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, one-size-fits-all listicles are bullshit clickbait.

      • Lackadaisical

        I see on the news that this the THIRD big storm of the week. I guess everyone in Michigan is going to die. Again.

        At least they’ll be put out of their misery.

    • Sean

      Top 10 commie destinations.

  5. Urthona

    I have never washed a raw meat and didn’t even know this was a thing.

    I occasionally have choked a chicken.

    • R C Dean

      “Occasionally”

  6. Lackadaisical

    ‘Do you wash your raw chicken when you take it out of the package?’

    No, that is something the FBI convinced black people to do to spread disease.

    • Urthona

      Libertarian responses are the best responses.

  7. CPRM

    I saw mention of Pluto Nash earlier. The director of Pluto Nash was a guest lecturer at my college shortly after the movie came out. He was pretty honest about how bad it was, and discussed how it became so bad.

    • R.J.

      He could make a lot of money on that lecture tour describing what to never do again. Too bad Disney isn’t listening.

  8. Pine_Tree

    Had to think about this one. My answer is usually no, but if it’s something where I want the meat’s surface to be dry for the next step, then yes. Rinse it really good to get rid of whatever moisture/liquid/slime was present from contact with the package, and then dry it off.

    • Lackadaisical

      Hm, why not just pat it dry to start with?

      I don’t cook that style often, but I do occasionally. What do you use to pat dry?

      • Nephilium

        I use paper towels for patting meat dry, then throw them out.

      • Pine_Tree

        Paper towels. And I don’t just start that way because sometimes it has that slimy feel. Prefer to wash/flush it so I’m only drying with the paper towels, not trying to scrub it off.

      • Lackadaisical

        Like that goofball Brooks, I am a bit suspicious of getting paper bits on my food. I don’t have any better answer than paper towels either though.

  9. Timeloose

    I use the chicken water to wash my fresh vegetables to clean off the e-coli.

  10. Urthona

    I’ll be honest. I usually just eat the chicken raw.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Feathers and all.

  11. Nephilium

    I remember learning that you never rinse/wash poultry, because any splashes that may land somewhere would be potential cross contamination vectors.

    • Pat

      Same. IIRC, the USDA updated their recommendations a while back and advised not to wash raw poultry because you’re more likely to contaminate your surrounding countertops and whatnot. I always bleach down my counters after I have raw poultry out anyway, so it probably doesn’t matter that much, but if the poultry’s out of the freezer it means I’m cooking it to a safe internal temperature that day anyway.

    • Lackadaisical

      I mean… I think it is okay if we go off-topic from washing your cock.

    • Lackadaisical

      Eh, he could have done a lot better, or maybe there is a better clip of him, because that didn’t show his reasoning for voting against (which I have heard from him, and agree 100%)

    • juris imprudent

      Not really, the dumb bint should be off of “news” and doing something useful.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        He voted no and mocked a corporate news anchor. No one else in congress did anything that useful today.

      • juris imprudent

        A good reason for him to stay where he is.

  12. Not Adahn

    What is wrong with you people?

    Of course I wash the raw chicken. But to prevent it from overcooking, I only use the “air dry” setting on the dishwasher.

    • SDF-7

      You jest — but Dishwasher Salmon is somehow a thing.

      • pistoffnick

        Dishwasher Salmon – I’ve made it.

        Also valve cover hotdogs and diced potatoes.

  13. Rebel Scum

    To you cuntes I hope.

    Former Attorney General Eric Holder, one of Obama’s closest confidants, told USA Today that if Trump were to win the Republican nomination and beat President Biden this November, there could be “incalculable damage” brought upon the country.

    • B.P.

      But enough about Antifa already.

  14. juris imprudent

    Any meat – beef, chicken, fish – that comes out of a package wet, gets dryed with paper towels, then gets seasoned.

  15. CPRM

    Did I drop the chicken on the floor in this scenario?

    • R.J.

      I remember that! Wasn’t that in the reboot Muppet movie as well?

    • rhywun

      The cassette tape is a nice touch.

    • Lackadaisical

      It bothers me that all the automation we have in homes now doesn’t count to this guy.

      Dishwashers (and clothes washers/dryers), roombas all are pretty amazing. Just because it isn’t humanoid….

      ‘nobody wants pepsi’

      Hard to argue there.

      I was hoping this was going to make mixed drinks. Much disappoint.

      • R C Dean

        “It’s not automatic! I have to push a button!”

  16. Q Continuum

    You always wash it when you’re going ass to vagi… oh wait that’s not what you meant.

    • PieInTheSky

      Randal Graves : The best part of this job is all the barely legal pussy that comes in here. And they all look up to me ’cause I’ve got a driver’s license. It’s awesome.

      Dante Hicks : You’re thirty-three.

      Randal Graves : You show me one thirty-three year old chick who’s buck wild in bed as your seventeen year old counterpie. Seventeen year olds nowadays are crazy. They even like it when you go ass-to-mouth.

      Dante Hicks : Oh… My… God.

      Randal Graves : What?

      Dante Hicks : Are you serious?

      Randal Graves : I don’t fuck around when it comes to ass-to-mouth.

      Dante Hicks : You never go ass-to-mouth.

      Randal Graves : It’s never my idea. These young girls, they get all horned up and they tell you to go ass-to-mouth.

      Dante Hicks : You never go ass-to-mouth, Randal.

      Randal Graves : You sound like my Mom.

      [Becky enters]

      Randal Graves : Becks, do you ever go ass-to-mouth?

      Becky : You never go ass-to-mouth.

      Randal Graves : You’ve never gone ass-to-mouth.

      Dante Hicks : You never go ass-to-mouth.

      Becky : I’ve never gone ass to mouth.

      Randal Graves : Not even once?

      Becky : Not even ever.

      Randal Graves : You’re both so repressive

  17. The Late P Brooks

    Paper towel lint in my food- ewww.

    • kinnath

      fiber is fiber

    • juris imprudent

      Stop buying Russian quality paper towels.

      • pistoffnick

        Russian quality paper towels

        A high school era friend brought back a roll of toilet paper from his exchange trip to Russia. It had actual wood chips in it.

      • Sean

        Needed for those borscht heavy diets.

  18. Q Continuum

    Anyone know anything about the 6.5 Grendel round?

    I really want a Molot Vepr in .30-06, but since they’re harder to find than a Tri Delt without herpes I’m thinking of 6.5 Grendel instead.

    Thoughts?

    • juris imprudent

      Ah, you’ll be looking for a dealer in rare bullets.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Popular for about 6-7 weeks? About the same time that Creedmore started being a thing. Isn’t so popular now so rounds are hard to find and will only get harder.

      • Fourscore

        I have a 6.5 X 223 Contender. No one ever borrows ammo from me.

    • SDF-7

      I hear you can build a Beowulf cluster with them, but little else.

    • Drake

      I see .224 Valkyrie on the shelves. Never 6.5 Grendel.

      I bought a 5.56 AR because I knew the ammo would be available.

      • kinnath

        9 mm

        .223/5.56

        .308/7.62

        All common, all available.

      • UnCivilServant

        My 8.25mm rounds are hand-carved by anchorite monks of a secretive militant order and blessed with ninety-nine prayers of absolution.

        The rifle packs an awful wallop to the shoulder. there’s nothing better for taking out demons… But the price is hellish, and the availability scant

      • kinnath

        Got to pick the right tool for the job.

      • Drake

        I was messing with the idea of a fancy long-range caliber. Between the cost of ammo and the limited places I can shoot (or even see) that far, it was not worth it.

      • R C Dean

        Get a .308. Capable of ridiculous accuracy out to 800 yards. Ammo is available in a pretty wide variety of loads.

      • Bobarian LMD

        6.5 Creedmore is all the sexy nowadays, but inactuality ins almost completely identical to .270.

        There is some small advantage at extreme ranges, but the difference is something 99.9% of all shooters would never be able to take advantage of.

  19. R.J.

    I usually let the cats lick the chicken clean before seasoning.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Do you put peanut butter on it first?

      • R.J.

        They really aren’t into peanut butter.
        The cats like their prey to flee, so I wear the chicken like a puppet on my hand and run through the house making distressed chicken sounds. That gets them going.

    • Bobarian LMD

      What are you seasoning your cats with?

      • Sean

        5 spice, of course.

    • Ted S.

      The cat may be self-cleaning, but the kitchen isn’t.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    But what do you do with rancid pork?

    The federal government’s Joint Office of Energy and Transportation announced on Thursday $632 million in grants to fund clean vehicle infrastructure. Twenty-two states along with Puerto Rico will be the recipients of this first round of funding from the $2.5 billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure program, which started accepting applications in March 2023.

    Although US carbon emissions fell last year, most of that was achieved through much cleaner energy generation. But when it comes to transportation’s contribution to our annual carbon impact, that line is sadly still going up. Which is why it was encouraging that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2022 included $7.5 billion for clean vehicle infrastructure.

    Two-thirds of that was set aside for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure formula program. That $5 billion is being spent mostly on DC fast-charging infrastructure, mostly at regular intervals along highway corridors, but also on charger reliability. Rather than paying for the chargers directly, the federal government is awarding the money to states and metropolitan planning organizations the way it does with other highway formula funds.

    The other $2.5 billion was allocated for CFI. Unlike NEVI, CFI has been open to a wider pool of applications, including local governments and public-private partnerships looking to fund clean vehicle infrastructure in underserved or rural areas. For this round of $632 million in grants, more than 70 percent of the funds will be spent in disadvantaged communities, according to the Joint Office.

    “A hallmark of the CFI program is its context sensitivity—it gives communities the opportunity to build the right mix of charging to meet the specific e-mobility needs of people where they live, work, and play,” said Joint Office Executive Director Gabe Klein.

    This is vastly superior to organic market driven growth. People who only operate on a profit seeking model might not ever get around to putting chargers where they’ll never be used.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Im surprise NJ allows owners to plug in their own electric vehicle instead of requiring someone else to do it for them.

    • Lackadaisical

      ‘not even the Chinese will pay much for septuagenarian organs’

      What if you don’t tell them the organs are 70?

      • Not Adahn

        The Chinese are very savvy organ buyers. It’s not like trying to pass something off on a Dubliner.

      • R.J.

        That’s the ticket. You have to have inscrutable thoughts and plans.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    “These awards will leverage the creativity and expertise of American communities around the country advancing clean and equitable transportation options through innovative projects like charging and hydrogen fueling for heavy duty trucks on major corridors, electrification at multifamily housing, multimodal charging hubs for e-bikes and scooters, and even pedestrian safety improvements,” Klein said.

    That’s exactly what I would have said. We all know how efficient decisionmaking is at the “community” level. Much equitable. So innovation.

  22. kinnath

    Trump prosecutor Nathan Wade steps out armed with handgun after bombshell Fani Willis affair allegations — and didn’t deny tryst

    Wearing a trendy cobalt suit, he walked from the luxury car toward the office and declined to comment on the alleged affair.

    “No,” he snapped when asked if he would answer any questions.

    Moments later, Wade left the building and appeared to be holding a gun in one hand.

    Georgia is an open-carry state even without a permit and The Post does not suggest Wade was involved in any wrongdoing.

    • R.J.

      So he has that nice suit, but doesn’t own a holster? Typical democrat.

    • Not Adahn

      holding a gun in one hand.

      If a pleb did that, it would be “brandishing.”

      • PieInTheSky

        Its not real

    • R C Dean

      That is just . . . Delicious. I expect his ex-wife has at least some of the receipts. And she subpoenaed Fani, who gets to go under oath.

      If true, it does answer the question of why she brought in somebody less qualified than many on her staff (no RICO or felony prosecution experience) for this very high-profile case.

    • Pine_Tree

      OK, so the close-up pic shows it’s in a kydex holster. So he’s carrying it in a holster but not wearing it.

      Best possible interpretation: he was leaving work and fixing to drive off, and it’s uncomfortable-ish, so he unmounted the holster before walking to the car because it’s more awkward and uncomfortable to do so when you’re sitting in the car. Done that a few times depending on what I’m wearing.

      Is that what he does every day? Doing it to be seen as vaguely threatening? Dunno

      • R C Dean

        Given who he is, I think he was brandishing it on purpose. I see no reason for the default assumption to be anything other than “asshole”.

  23. PieInTheSky

    I don’t wash any meat. My mom washes chicken.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I’ve never understood that video genre.

  24. SDF-7

    Yes and yes — but it has more to do with rinsing and patting it dry with a paper towel to prepare it for rubs / spices than hygiene per se.

    So yes — I always pat my meat to make it spicy for my wife. Thanks for asking!

  25. rhywun

    I rinse off chicken slime, especially if I’m going to bread the chicken.

    • R.J.

      Look at you. All serious and stuff.

      When you bread chicken, do you first baste it with mayonnaise or sour cream? Or an egg mixture?

      • rhywun

        Flour then egg then bread crumbs.

      • UnCivilServant

        flour – egg – millet flour.

        Millet flour won’t make gravy, but it produces a really crispy crust for frying.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Survivalist prepper

    Mark Zuckerberg is giving off survivalist vibes with his recent outdoor activities.

    This week, he said in an Instagram post that he’s “started raising cattle” and shared a clip of a large catapult launching an object.

    “Always be building #7386. Catapult competition, round 2,” he wrote in the caption.

    It follows news that the billionaire is building a 5,000-square-foot underground bunker on his 1,500-acre estate in Kauai, Hawaii, Wired reported in December.

    He said in a separate Instagram post that he was raising Wagyu and Angus cows at his ranch in Hawaii and plans to give them beer to drink, which acts as an appetite stimulant, beef producer Blackmore Wagyu, said on its website.

    Does he have a permit for that catapult?

    • Not Adahn

      This week, he said in an Instagram post that he’s “started raising cattle” and shared a clip of a large catapult launching an object.

      He’s cow-flinging?

      • R.J.

        Tenderizes the meat!

    • B.P.

      Is he wearing Kleenex boxes on his feet and storing his urine in Mason jars yet?

      • Bobarian LMD

        The current version of Zuckerbot recycles its urine and Kleenex boxes would interfere with the caterpillar drive.

    • rhywun

      Can you imagine if Musk was doing any of that? My god the left would be going apeshit.

  27. hayeksplosives

    Yeah, I rinse chicken and Pat dry with paper towels.

    I don’t tend to rinse pork or beef unless there’s a bunch of raw meat juices in the packaging,

    Inconsistent! Perhaps. Important? Probably not.

  28. Rebel Scum

    But lets keep sending Ukraine money and weapons.

    Gonzalo Lira, Sr. says his son has died at 55 in a Ukrainian prison, where he was being held for the crime of criticizing the Zelensky and Biden governments. Gonzalo Lira was an American citizen, but the Biden administration clearly supported his imprisonment and torture. Several weeks ago we spoke to his father, who predicted his son would be killed.

    Too bad he wasn’t a weed-smoking, female basketball player.

  29. UnCivilServant

    Culinarily, it depends on what the packaging was and where I got it.

    The butcher paper-wrapped meats are in more danger of drying out than needing a wash. The regular grocery store shrink-wrapped animal bits need a bath.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Takes a lot of mustard to fire a coach after so long.

      Acting fast is probably the way to go, so I won’t condiment it.

      • juris imprudent

        You don’t want the emulsion to break.

    • Nephilium

      New coach in action.

    • Not Adahn

      I relish this kind of sports news.

      I may start salsa dancing in celebrations.

      • Shpip

        It may not mean much to you and me, but it’s a big dill to New England NFL fans.

    • PieInTheSky

      The chinese recently developed a fatal brain virus. But probably to fatal.

      • juris imprudent

        Brain rot virus is a part of A Deepness in the Sky.

    • rhywun

      So 120′ social distancing and vigintuple masking?

      • Sean

        Stock up on toilet paper!

    • Sean

      Why only 20x?

      Punk ass bitches.

  30. kinnath

    Time is a flat circle.

    True Detective’ Gets a Rewarding Reboot in the Eerie ‘Night Country,’ Starring Jodie Foster: TV Review

    By Alison Herman

    Looking back, 2014 was truly a different time: Obama was in office, skinny jeans still reigned supreme and “True Detective” established itself with an unabashed emphasis on masculinity.

    In pairing Matthew McConaughey with Woody Harrelson on a journey through the bayou, creator Nic Pizzolatto elevated some of that genre’s clichés and left others intact — including a marginal presence for women, crowded into bit roles as wives and villains to make room for portentous monologues and four-minute tracking shots.

    The fourth season of “True Detective,” subtitled “Night Country,” is both a sharp break from the show’s past and an implicit response to its shortcomings. After a disastrous Season 2 and an improved, if understated, Season 3, Pizzolatto has fully ceded all showrunning duties, though he retains credit as an executive producer. In his place, Mexican filmmaker Issa López takes the reins for a haunting murder mystery set in far northern Alaska. (Director Barry Jenkins also joins the “True Detective” team via his production company Pastel.) And to share the titular role, López casts a first for the franchise: multiple female leads, in the form of living legend Jodie Foster and boxer-turned-actor Kali Reis. But “Night Country” doesn’t just tweak the “True Detective” formula in terms of gender. The six-episode season also takes a notably different approach to the supernatural, a background motif of past installments that here becomes a central theme.

    It has the stink of work upon it.

    I was looking forward to this. Now, I think I’ll wait until The Drinker weighs in on it.

    • kinnath

      Fucking typos

      It has the stink of woke upon it.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Work does stink, though.

    • rhywun

      But replacing men with women everywhere makes everything better. I mean, come on.

      • SDF-7

        Put a chick in it! And make her gay!

    • Not Adahn

      I’d watch it if it was set in Cicely.

      • UnCivilServant

        I mixed it up with a different show and was going to make a MAiD joke. Wrong side of the border.

      • B.P.

        Best show ever.

      • slumbrew

        My wife is home on sick-leave for a couple weeks and just started watching it; she was a little too young for the initial run.

        First comment was how dated it is w.r.t. no cellphones / using pay phones.

        That, and she thought the cast was too white to be realistic – we had to have a talk about Alaskan demographics (it’s pretty white).

    • slumbrew

      an unabashed emphasis on masculinity.

      Unmentioned – excellent nudity from Alexandra Daddario.

      • pistoffnick

        She does have very nice………..eyes

      • kinnath

        I read an article recently that said her career basically ended at that show. She sort of disappeared after doing the nude work on True Detective.

      • Shpip

        She had plenty of work after that, but a few years ago she (a) turned 35, and (b) got married — both of which signal the winding-down of a starlet’s career.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    I do not think it means what you think it means

    “Bidenomics” in particular involved his signature Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which involved spending hundreds of billions of dollars to revamp infrastructure and kickstart high-tech manufacturing and green energy and technology.

    The best way to reduce inflation is to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the air.

  32. hayeksplosives

    The strange plight of the libertarian woman: making our own sammich.

    Just had a lovely one of deli thin sliced Turkey breast, Swiss cheese, cucumber slices, mayo, and Ruffles potato chips. Yes, im one of those troglodytes who puts chips on the sandwich.

    Yummy.

    Back under the electric blanket for more back healing. It’s 17 degrees outside. Cat is happy Im home. 😻

    • rhywun

      Wow I thought it was always pretty mild up there.

      That’s not mild.

      • hayeksplosives

        Yeah, it’s considered a cold snap.

        Mean daily min for January is 35; mean daily max is 48F. Record low 1F.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m more appalled at the unpickled cucumber than the chips.

      • hayeksplosives

        I picked up the raw cucumber on a sandwich habit when I lived in Sweden and would buy a premade sandwich at the subway exit to eat later. Instead of lettuce, they used cucumber because it didn’t wilt like lettuce.

        Made total sense to me so I’ve done it ever since.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s more that pickled has more flavor rather than cucumber versus lettuce. I don’t generally put lettuce on sandwiches.

      • hayeksplosives

        I wanted the sammich no taste like turkey, cheese, and mayo.

        I have a jar of pickles in the fridge but tend to eat them as a standalone snack when I want pickle flavor.

      • Pine_Tree

        Cucumber sandwiches are good.

        I picked up various combos of apples, onions, and cheese sandwiches from working in the UK.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Onion sandwiches?

      • Pine_Tree

        Yeah. Or cheese and onion. Any combo of those 3 actually.

      • Pine_Tree

        Pickles and peanut butter is a good one too.

      • Pine_Tree

        Pineapple sandwiches are a thing, too, at least in the South in the summer. Not sure if they’re known in the rest of the world.

      • Shpip

        Better known is the pimento cheese sandwich.

        Lesser known is peanut butter and mayo.

      • Pine_Tree

        My brother used to do that when we were kids. I hate mayo in all circumstances (only other things on that list are sour cream, olives, and anise).

      • Gustave Lytton

        I like cheddar and Branston pickle sandwiches.

      • Not Adahn

        +1

      • PieInTheSky

        Ingredients
        Soybean Oil, Water, Distilled Vinegar, Sugar, Mustard, Salt, Whole Egg Solids, Food Starch-Modified, Xanthan Gum, Spice Extractives.

        so basically toxic ooze

      • UnCivilServant

        Water, Distilled Vinegar, Mustard, and Salt are not bad.

      • PieInTheSky

        those 4 things are not

      • UnCivilServant

        those four are literally the basic recipe for mustard. (or an ingredient off from it)

      • UnCivilServant

        The optional ingredient is whole mustard seed as opposed to the ground.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Water, Distilled Vinegar, Mustard, and Salt are mustard.

      • Not Adahn

        Mustard and mayonnaise mixed together?

      • Gender Traitor

        Yup. I had thought it also had a touch of horseradish, but unless that’s one of the “spices,” I was mistaken.

  33. CPRM

    Why Some People Don’t Have an Inner Monologue Wha? How do you think at all if you’re not talking in your brain? I don’t understand any of this #FuckLoveScience. Does this mean NPCs are real and I live in the Matrix? I don’t want to live in the Matrix! I want to live on the 13th floor.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Crazy ain’t it? I talk to myself all the time in my head, don’t know how I’d get anything done without that. I wish I’d shut up sometimes to be honest but that’s what alcohol’s for.

    • UnCivilServant

      How do you operate? It’s like the main processor of the brain isn’t working.

      • CPRM

        Seems some people do operate on base instinct, without forethought.

      • UnCivilServant

        Just reading that article made me want to shove the author’s head in a toilet and flush it a few times.

    • Not Adahn

      Do you literally say to yourself “I’m going to do this thing now?” I just do it. When I’m setting up a sight picture, there isn’t any English in my head saying “align the sights.” When I’m writing, I’ll have the actual words in my head prior to the fingers typing, but that’s it. When I’m playing music from the written sheet music in front of me, I don’t translate it. I don’t think “F#” or even “second finger D string” the fingers just go where they’re supposed to. I will internally-verbally count rhythm sometimes though.

      • PieInTheSky

        well o if i want a sip of beer i don’t think I’ll get a sip of beer i just grab the bottle. but if I think of anything involving words or advanced concepts I hear words in my head.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Sliding scale:

      Talking to yourself internally
      Talking to yourself out loud
      Hearing responses
      Hearing responses externally

      • Bobarian LMD

        Having multiple voices who are all secretly plotting against you.

      • Beau Knott

        The voices in my head talk about me like I’m not even there.

    • Timeloose

      There is a difference between having no inner monolog and having some inner monolog. Some of us have an inner & outer monolog that makes their significant other want to strangle them. Having no inner monolog is very bizzare to me. It make me think they have no personality or sense of self.

  34. Gender Traitor

    All I can think of is a story my sister told me years ago: Back when she was in college and spending a semester in NYC, she was preparing to cook a whole chicken and rinsed the inside, running the water into the obvious opening. Her roommate began to laugh hysterically and said, “She’s douching a chicken!”

  35. Grummun

    Carrying forward from morning thread:

    When Netflix puts on a season of an anime, I assume they are buying it from a studio and slapping their name on it, rather than actually producing it from the ground up. Netflix frequently (it seems to me) will run one “season” of a show, then you never see any future seasons. What is the likelihood that one would be able to find future seasons of those shows through other distribution channels, like Crunchy Roll? For example, Netflix had the first season of Attack on Titan, but nothing more. I see is on Season 3 on CR (via Prime). I suppose some (many) of those single season show just didn’t get picked up by anybody, and never made any more. More generally, is CR going to have a back catalog of shows that are no longer in production?

    I’m trying to evaluate if it’s worth horking up the extra monthly to Amazon for a CR subscription.

    • CPRM

      Netflix is a Distribution company, not a studio. They do ‘produce’ some stuff, but it’s not in the same sense as a Hollywood studio. They don’t have any production facilities, they just provide funding.

    • Not Adahn

      The new “Netflix” anime are hour-long episodes. I don’t know what if anything that means.

      They made the live-action One Piece, but also have 20 seasons of the original. Which is longer than M*A*S*H.

    • R.J.

      OK, let me help you with your direct question. There are a couple of services which can scan the majority of streaming companies and tell you who has more episodes. My favorite at the moment is JustWatch.com Type in the titles, see what comes up. This is a handy service I use often. No cost. So when I put in Attack on Titan, it shows me which streaming services have it hosted. I got a lot of results, series, movies, etc… along with where you can stream it, buy it or rent it.

      https://www.justwatch.com/us/search?q=Attack%20on%20Titan

    • Nephilium

      The thing that’s getting me is series/movies that were either never released on DVD or the DVD is out of print, and the shows aren’t available for streaming anywhere.

      • Sean

        Are binary newsgroups still a thing? Any chance of finding that stuff there?

      • Gender Traitor

        They’re now all nonbinary newsgroups.

      • Sean

        *golf clap*

      • Not Adahn

        Yup. Tubi has “By the Sword,” an unjustly neglected movie I very much enjoyed.

        It’s a VHS rip.

      • R.J.

        I love it when I find that stuff. Static lines and all.

      • Not Adahn

        It displays on the middle 240 pixels of my screen.

      • R.J.

        Once you get to the level where you absolutely know something was once available, it’s eBay time. Amazon overcharges like crazy for out of print.
        For example, I wanted original Cosmos (not shitty new Cosmos). Original full set on Amazon? $120. Same thing on eBay? $44.
        There is no great solution to find EVERYTHING, other than archival searches of the internet. JustWatch is probably the best tool for immediate gratification. Grummun’s One Piece question, for example. Pluto has 3 more seasons than NetFlix. And Pluto is free. That’s awesome, and you can watch immediately.

      • rhywun

        For example, I wanted original Cosmos (not shitty new Cosmos). Original full set on Amazon? $120.

        Dang. How that be out-of-print? It’s a freaking classic. I want it too.

      • R.J.

        It was out of print in English, I could only find a dubbed version in Spain, which is the wrong zone. Frustrating. originals were super-expensive. Ridiculous. eBay had a few out there at a reasonable price. I think there is some kind of scarcity AI on Amazon that does crazy markups when things become scarce.

      • Timeloose

        Looks like the Hollywood Knights is finally available on DVD. I was only able to watch it on HBO in the 1980’s and 1990’s. It is one of those, couldn’t be made now coming of age stories. Essentially American Grafitti, but X rated.

        https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B003EYDU7Y/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

        Many to be famous stars such as Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer, Fran Drescher and Robert Wuhl. The depiction of cops and the local community organization was hillarious.

  36. slumbrew

    Proteins only get patted dry with paper towels. No rinsing.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Same unless I have put them in a brine or cure

  37. Pope Jimbo

    When my meat is raw, I put lotion on it and cut back on the pr0n.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Wash your sock a little more often.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Sock? I use a canvas like Jackson Pollack.

      • R C Dean

        + 1 spatter