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Squashy Nipples: Aug 18, 2007

I hate buying wine at restaurants because I'm cheap.

# ? Mar 9, 2016 13:37

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# ? May 3, 2024 13:29

Force de Fappe: Nov 7, 2008

fxcuisine.com has been updated :stare:

# ? Mar 9, 2016 13:49

Mr. Wiggles: Dec 1, 2003; We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.

Squashy Nipples posted:

I hate buying wine at restaurants because I'm cheap.

That's why I only order cocktails.

# ? Mar 9, 2016 19:06

The Maestro: Feb 21, 2006

Discendo Vox posted:

regional blocking.

drat same here.

# ? Mar 9, 2016 19:46

Marta Velasquez: Mar 9, 2013; Good thing I was feeling suicidal this morning...; Fallen Rib

The Maestro posted:

drat same here.

It worked for me at my job through the Canadian proxy I'm required to use. At home, directly from the US, I'm also getting regional blocking.

# ? Mar 9, 2016 22:18

sweat poteto: Feb 16, 2006; Everybody's gotta learn sometime

Force de Fappe posted:

fxcuisine.com has been updated

woah.

he said in a comment there's a new kitchen and he'll be posting more in future.

# ? Mar 9, 2016 22:53

Croatoan: Jun 24, 2005; I am inevitable.
ROBBLE GROBBLE

So what do you guys think about tipping?

# ? Mar 9, 2016 23:19

Flash Gordon Ramsay: Sep 28, 2004; Grimey Drawer

Croatoan posted:

So what do you guys think about tipping?

I think it's great. In fact, I think circumcision should be mandatory.

# ? Mar 10, 2016 00:25

MiddleOne: Feb 17, 2011

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I think it's great. In fact, I think circumcision should be mandatory.

# ? Mar 10, 2016 13:44

Trebuchet King: Jul 5, 2005; This post...

...is a
WORK OF FICTION!!

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

I think it's great. In fact, I think circumcision should be mandatory.

remind me not to eat any pork rinds you serve.

# ? Mar 10, 2016 16:19

pr0k: Jan 16, 2001; "Well if it's gonna be
that kind of party..."

WanderingMinstrel I posted:

My bread failed to get a second rise and I decided after 45 min of waiting for the yeast to show some sign of life I'd just try baking it anyways. Any ideas on what to do with super dense flatbread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwfCuv-OedU

# ? Mar 10, 2016 17:53

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

# ? Mar 10, 2016 22:48

esperantinc: May 5, 2003; JERRY! HELLO!

Where is that because I want to smash it to pieces with a hammer.

Edit: I'm gonna take a shot in the dark and say Bay Area.

# ? Mar 11, 2016 04:00

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

The Grove, in Beverly Hills

# ? Mar 11, 2016 05:39

Scientastic: Mar 1, 2010; TRULY scientastic.
🔬🍒

I look forward to hearing about an increase in lead poisoning there

# ? Mar 11, 2016 08:53

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

Soylent is The Worst.

Its creator is late-stage Howard Hughes, without the skills or business acumen. Absolutely peak Valley. Enjoy this blog post where he tries to live like a Dune character:

quote:

Hygiene
I awake the morning of the challenge and throw off my cotton sheets with disgust. From this moment on every drop counts. I brush my teeth without water and put on dry deodorant. Relieving myself in the toilet is not an option. For a moment I consider following Clinton�s advice: �if it�s yellow let it mellow�, but decide to go full Bukowski instead: �sometimes you just have to piss in the sink�. Could we engineer more efficient kidneys?

For number two I had to plan in advance. Inadequate sanitation is an enormous quality of life problem globally. The most popular toilet in the world is no toilet at all as 4 in 10 people in the world defecate in the open. Flush toilets use enormous quantities of water so I needed a way to make it unnecessary.

Feces are almost entirely deceased gut bacteria and water. I massacred my gut bacteria the day before by consuming a DIY Soylent version with no fiber and taking 500mg of Rifaximin, an antibiotic with poor bioavailability, meaning it stays in your gut and kills bacteria. Soylent�s microbiome consultant advised that this is a terrible idea so I do not recommend it. However, it worked. Throughout the challenge I did not defecate.

In lieu of showering I sprayed myself with AOBiome�s custom skin bacteria blend. Body odor is caused by the emissions of proliferating skin bacteria, as unique as a fingerprint. The Nitrosomonas eutropha taking over my skin now metabolizes ammonia into odorless nitrite and nitric oxide. Success! I wish I had a strain that excreted lipases, as my hair was still greasy.

Direct water usage: 0L

Virtual water usage: 0L

# ? Mar 11, 2016 20:00

Brawnfire: Jul 13, 2004; 🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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LOL wow

But the custom skin bacteria sounds like it might be interesting... Could we basically replace perfumes with bacterial colonies bred to produce certain smells? Kind of neat, at least as a sci-fi concept.

# ? Mar 11, 2016 20:04

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

While I'm punching down, let me also punch up- the FXcuisine guy seems more than a little crazy in his fetishization of traditional/"slow" food, particularly when he uses it to indirectly attack, say, health regulations. More generally, both him and Soylent Man feel like they're typing their posts singlehandedly.

# ? Mar 11, 2016 20:11

AnonSpore: Jan 19, 2012; "I didn't see the part where he develops as a character so I guess he never developed as a character"

Half expected an open palm slamming of a vhs in that quote, Discendo Vox

# ? Mar 11, 2016 20:16

taqueso: Mar 8, 2004

Poe's Law strikes again.

# ? Mar 11, 2016 20:45

THE MACHO MAN: Nov 15, 2007; ...Carey...

draw me like one of your French Canadian girls

Force de Fappe posted:

fxcuisine.com has been updated

what is this I've never heard of it?? What is the relevance

# ? Mar 11, 2016 22:24

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

taqueso posted:

Poe's Law strikes again.

wait, so fxcuisine is a joke? Excellent! It's played so straight I couldn't tell!

# ? Mar 11, 2016 22:58

sweat poteto: Feb 16, 2006; Everybody's gotta learn sometime

THE MACHO MAN posted:

what is this I've never heard of it?? What is the relevance

It's a pretty good European home-kitchen food blog with a lot of Italian cuisine and some interesting road trips. The author stopped posting several years ago with no explanation. Now he's posting again.

Have a browse through the old articles

# ? Mar 11, 2016 23:08

taqueso: Mar 8, 2004

Discendo Vox posted:

wait, so fxcuisine is a joke? Excellent! It's played so straight I couldn't tell!

Sorry, was referring to the soylent guy.

# ? Mar 11, 2016 23:13

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.

taqueso posted:

Sorry, was referring to the soylent guy.

oh. so, it's real. :smith:

For the record, so is soylent guy.

It's not real speck (let me tell you how to pronounce it, prole) unless it's aged in the open air above an active kitchen in the wooden rafters of an ancient chalet under conditions that would give an EU ~~health~~ inspector (who hates slow food, btw) a heart attack. The waiting list for this hole in the wall you've never heard of is so exclusive. You'd know the difference if you saw it, but you're probably used to lovely industrially processed artisan meats protected under a PGI. That's not good enough. I would post more pictures, but I'm trying to clean the ejaculate from my black backdrops.

edit: now I'm getting soylent banner ads. The struggle is real.

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Mar 12, 2016

# ? Mar 12, 2016 02:46

Squashy Nipples: Aug 18, 2007

Is it just me, or have strawberries sucked this year?

I'm just now starting to get Florida berries instead of California, but I don't feel like the CA berries ever peaked... they were like early unripe ones, but all season.

# ? Mar 13, 2016 13:43

Croatoan: Jun 24, 2005; I am inevitable.
ROBBLE GROBBLE

Squashy Nipples posted:

Is it just me, or have strawberries sucked this year?

I'm just now starting to get Florida berries instead of California, but I don't feel like the CA berries ever peaked... they were like early unripe ones, but all season.

Did you mean to post this in March or did you just have a tab open for eight months that you forgot about?

# ? Mar 13, 2016 14:25

Squashy Nipples: Aug 18, 2007

Heh? They start picking California strawberries in mid January, and they peak in like late February. And then we start getting the Florida berries in mid-March.

# ? Mar 13, 2016 14:44

Sextro: Aug 23, 2014

Until recently I lived in Florida and 90% of strawberries have been trash for years.

I feel there's a downward trend in the quality of a lot "ordinary" produce even as heirloom/rare varietals of fruits and veggies become more available and delicious.

# ? Mar 13, 2016 16:05

Casu Marzu: Oct 20, 2008

Squashy Nipples posted:

Is it just me, or have strawberries sucked this year?

I'm just now starting to get Florida berries instead of California, but I don't feel like the CA berries ever peaked... they were like early unripe ones, but all season.

Idk, I've had like 5 boxes of the most fragrant, sweet and flavorful strawberries in ages. And they're cheap too!

# ? Mar 13, 2016 18:09

bartolimu: Nov 25, 2002

Half flats of strawberries were $22 at the farmers market yesterday.

Basically gently caress Las Vegas.

# ? Mar 14, 2016 14:05

Croatoan: Jun 24, 2005; I am inevitable.
ROBBLE GROBBLE

I always thought strawberries were in season in mid to late spring. Huh.

# ? Mar 14, 2016 15:03

Chemmy: Feb 4, 2001

If they're from California I thought that too much water made strawberries tasteless. With the heavy rains we've had all season so far maybe that makes sense.

# ? Mar 14, 2016 17:21

bongwizzard: May 19, 2005; Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"; Grimey Drawer

I have never gotten into just eating fruit. Vegetables, sure all the time, but fruits have always been a "cooked into desserts" thing to me. Dried fruits are an exception, but even then I never think to buy them unless I walk past them in a store.

I really really hate the sensation of being sticky, so maybe that is it. Also really love pies, tarts, and the like.

# ? Mar 14, 2016 18:22

Brawnfire: Jul 13, 2004; 🎧Listen to Cylindricule!🎵
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bongwizzard posted:

I have never gotten into just eating fruit. Vegetables, sure all the time, but fruits have always been a "cooked into desserts" thing to me. Dried fruits are an exception, but even then I never think to buy them unless I walk past them in a store.

I really really hate the sensation of being sticky, so maybe that is it. Also really love pies, tarts, and the like.

I eat way too many berries. Seriously, I will get sick from berries if you let me. I have berry bushes in my backyard, and it's the first time in my life I've ever said to myself "ok I think I've had enough berries" and stopped eating berries

Here's one you'd like bongwizzard:

# ? Mar 14, 2016 18:39

Mr. Wiggles: Dec 1, 2003; We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.

Chemmy posted:

If they're from California I thought that too much water made strawberries tasteless. With the heavy rains we've had all season so far maybe that makes sense.

They're all grown in greenhouses anyway so that doesn't matter.

# ? Mar 14, 2016 22:28

bartolimu: Nov 25, 2002

Croatoan posted:

I always thought strawberries were in season in mid to late spring. Huh.

Strawberry season in the Midwest was always May through July for Everbearing varieties, The ones with the best flavor were Juneberries though, and they only bore for 2-3 weeks in June. I imagine in the twenty years since I worked a strawberry field they've phased those out for more productive plants.

# ? Mar 14, 2016 23:19

Chemmy: Feb 4, 2001

Mr. Wiggles posted:

They're all grown in greenhouses anyway so that doesn't matter.

Are they? When I drive through Watsonville they all look like they're there outside.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 01:53

bongwizzard: May 19, 2005; Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"; Grimey Drawer

Brawnfire posted:

That is like a thousandfold more appealing to me. But I am also a fiend for dairy, and you just know there is some custard in that thing.

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# ? May 3, 2024 13:29

Drink and Fight: Feb 2, 2003

bongwizzard posted:

That is like a thousandfold more appealing to me. But I am also a fiend for dairy, and you just know there is some custard in that thing.

Same. I also hate being sticky.

# ? Mar 15, 2016 05:18

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