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Wait what is a brownie other than either a girl scout, a small gremlin that lives in your house, or a sweet american chocolate cake-ish thing? Is there some sort of non-sweet brownie? Is that not just manky shortbread?
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My frustration with virtue signalling is that it does describe a real thing that people do and should be rightly disapproved of. Like someone who changed their Facebook profile picture to a black square in May and made no further engagement with the Black Lives Matter movement isn't really supporting BLM, they're just communicating that they're the kind of person who supports BLM. Signalling their virtue, as it were. Where it goes wrong is when chuds label any outward expression of morals or ethics as hollow, attention-seeking behavior. Like they assume that since they don't care about a thing, anyone else who professes to must have an ulterior motive. It's very much like "white knighting" in that way. Any man who so much as hints toward feminism must be doing it to get in some woman's pants.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:01
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OwlFancier posted:Wait what is a brownie other than either a girl scout, a small gremlin that lives in your house, or a sweet american chocolate cake-ish thing? They wanted decorated, fudgy chocolate brownies, and explicitely said "now the tricky bit is that most decorations are really sweet, so they'll have to be careful that its not overpowering and cloying and disgustingly over-sweet"
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Oct 17, 2020 22:04
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OwlFancier posted:Wait what is a brownie other than either a girl scout, a small gremlin that lives in your house, or a sweet american chocolate cake-ish thing? That thread is just the oddest, about 5 of them independently say we don’t have peanut butter here and that the idea of chocolate and peanut butter is alien to us.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:04
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OwlFancier posted:Wait what is a brownie other than either a girl scout, a small gremlin that lives in your house, or a sweet american chocolate cake-ish thing? They wanted decorated, fudgy chocolate brownies, and explicitely said "now the tricky bit is that most decorations are really sweet, so they'll have to be careful that its not overpowering and cloying and disgustingly over-sweet"
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Oct 17, 2020 22:04
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learnincurve posted:That thread is just the oddest, about 5 of them independently say we don’t have peanut butter here and that the idea of chocolate and peanut butter is alien to us. ?? Like I've never eaten it but clearly it is a thing that exists? Are they all dads who have never been to the baking aisle of a supermarket? Strom Cuzewon posted:They wanted decorated, fudgy chocolate brownies, and explicitely said "now the tricky bit is that most decorations are really sweet, so they'll have to be careful that its not overpowering and cloying and disgustingly over-sweet" Brownies kind of are disgustingly sweet and sickly and cloying, I assumed that's the point of them.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:08
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wizzardstaff posted:My frustration with virtue signalling is that it does describe a real thing that people do and should be rightly disapproved of. Like someone who changed their Facebook profile picture to a black square in May and made no further engagement with the Black Lives Matter movement isn't really supporting BLM, they're just communicating that they're the kind of person who supports BLM. Signalling their virtue, as it were. It's one of those things that because CHUDs are so strong about it, it's better to choose the lesser of the evils and let performative virtue be. There are much, much worse things a person can be in the world and if someone's profile picture is your biggest day to day concern then you honestly have a relatively easy life. Either that or it's the only target you think you can get away with venting your rage about your socioeconomic impotence on, in which case your life is very sad as well.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:09
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OwlFancier posted:Wait what is a brownie other than either a girl scout, a small gremlin that lives in your house, or a sweet american chocolate cake-ish thing? Wait until you hear what they did to bagels.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:16
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OwlFancier posted:?? Wait, is peanut butter uncommon in Britain?
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Oct 17, 2020 22:23
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Skwirl posted:Wait, is peanut butter uncommon in Britain? I would think you could probably buy it everywhere but it's just not a thing we eat as much as Americans do. Like maple syrup, because we don't produce it here it's not common, you can get it but most of the things you would use it for in the US we would probably use golden syrup for, not least because real maple syrup is quite expensive. While I assume the US would use corn syrup for structure and maple syrup for flavour (I don't think you can even get corn syrup in the UK outside of catering supply) OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 22:33 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Oct 17, 2020 22:26
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It's not exactly a staple diet and PB&J is exclusively a thing for students and kids in yank sitcoms (not least because of the jelly/jam technology gap) but you can get the usual dozen or so variations on crunchy and smooth in any big supermarket.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:30
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Also yes it took me a while to realise that peanut butter and jelly was not, like, jell-o in a sandwich. It's what the US calls jam and is also I gather slightly different from what we would call jam.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:31
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OwlFancier posted:Also yes it took me a while to realise that peanut butter and jelly was not, like, jell-o in a sandwich. It's what the US calls jam and is also I gather slightly different from what we would call jam. Fruit preserves. I'm sure there's a difference to people who know but jam and jelly are used pretty interchangeably as words over here. I think the reason it's always called peanut butter and jelly and never peanut butter and jam has more to do with the meter of the phrase than if you use jelly or jam.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:35
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I think US jelly is runnier, more like a sauce. E: also apparently in the UK jam has to be at least 60% sugar 
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Oct 17, 2020 22:39
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Skwirl posted:Fruit preserves. I'm sure there's a difference to people who know but jam and jelly are used pretty interchangeably as words over here. I think the reason it's always called peanut butter and jelly and never peanut butter and jam has more to do with the meter of the phrase than if you use jelly or jam.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:42
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For (at least) the first half of the 20th century British food was legendarily bad, including among the British themselves. Most food was either boiled or roasted; vegetables were boiled so long that they were nearly tasteless. The British as a whole disapproved of garlic, of olive oil, and complained of the smell of onions. The extremely popular "aerated bread" wasn't yeast-raised; it was raised by forcing CO2 into the dough. It isn't just about wartime austerity; it's about expectations of what food was and what it would taste like. Every historian I've read says that Elizabeth David made a profound difference. Her first book, French Country Cooking, began a revolution in British home cuisine: fresh vegetables cooked much shorter times, bolder flavors, "exotic" ingredients. Her obituary in the Independent read "Writer who performed a gastronomic miracle dies"; food historians agree that this is an exaggeration, and overemphasizes the hero theory of change. There are also big class issues, of course; she wasn't writing for people who had no money. Complaining about the overall quality of British food in 2020 is just bigotry. Complaining about it in 1929 was accurate.
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Oct 17, 2020 22:43
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OwlFancier posted:I think US jelly is runnier, more like a sauce. American jelly and jam is also full of sugar, in terms of being runny it's usually slightly thicker than like a fancy honey or something, plus it often has seeds and stuff
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Oct 17, 2020 22:45
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learnincurve posted:The french however built their capital city in the wrong place and the aristocracy turned all the fertile land round it into vineyards. This meant meat and fish was pretty much rotten by the time it got to the city and then navigated through the packed streets. Their solution was to invent marinades and sauces that would hide the rotten meat, as the British didn’t need to do this and would serve meat just lightly dry spiced. Made sense for the french government to push the lie that french cooking was awesome look at the plain English food haw haw in case the general population looked at the champagne region and went “hang on why are there not sheep on here” dude, they weren't slaughtering the animals in the distant countryside and transporting slowly rotting meat into Paris. They brought the living animals into the city and slaughtered them there.
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The UK is also chock-full of delicious Indian restaurants and kebab shops, the large cities, of course, have wonderful food from every corner of the globe. The differences in food and culture between the US and UK are subtle, and are worth a chuckle if you travel from one to the other frequently. If you're an American sailor in the UK, and you want to relax off the boat for awhile, the big pubs often have good WiFi, decent British Food for a tenner, with a beer, and don't mind if you spend all evening there talking to the folks back home, and buying their loving ridiculously week beer and wee little shots of Scotch Whiskey, because the UK are assholes about how they tax booze, and you can't get a decent high-ABV IPA in the country that loving invented it. E: also they pronounce it ee-pa, instead of eye-pee-ay which sounds stupid. Elviscat has a new favorite as of 23:11 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Oct 17, 2020 23:09
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Elviscat posted:you can't get a decent high-ABV IPA in the country that loving invented it. This is bizarrely and absolutely incorrect. I'm in the trade and you totally can get a good IPA here between 5 to 7% abv unless you're drinking in the poo poo places. Also we say eye pee ay pretty much everywhere. Plus, this stuff is god tier food. Fight me. 
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Oct 17, 2020 23:16
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I am now curious what impression of the UK you get if you specifically spend your time in major container port pubs. Also "eepa" sounds german, are you sure you weren't in germany at the time? OwlFancier has a new favorite as of 23:21 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Oct 17, 2020 23:17
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OwlFancier posted:I am now curious what impression of the UK you get if you specifically spend your time in major container port pubs. maybe they met one of those people who try to pronounce acronyms as words
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sugar mouse posted:This is bizarrely and absolutely incorrect. I'm in the trade and you totally can get a good IPA here between 5 to 7% abv unless you're drinking in the poo poo places. Also we say eye pee ay pretty much everywhere. Ah yes, the legendary "high abv" of 5%. That's barely more than an OG Budweiser. Good IPAs here start at 6.5% and end around 9. Beer IS taxed by ABV though, right? Or was my bartender lying to me? ee-pa might have been a Glaswegian or a Cornwall local variant, I can't remember where I had that communication difficulty with the bartenders, probably because I ordered too many. plenty of good beer and small breweries in the UK, I'm just throwing shade for fun, and small brewers over here are locked in an insane arms-race over the ABV of various IPAs and stouts. That pub I was talking about had like 20+ beers on tap and in bottle, from the silly cheap UK beer taps that have visible frost/condensation and advocate that it's "ICE COLD" to traditional room temp cellar beers, pumped with a hand-pump without the added CO2 that's usually added, overall the average ABV is a couple points lower than a similar beer-focused taproom in the US The British just seem to always go out of their way to poo poo on American culture, by asking Americans if "(we) know that's what alcoholics drink, right?" While I'm trying to drink 2 2L bottles of cheap cider on the train, or telling my buddy "WHAT? NO! That's so American" when he orders a cup of ranch dressing to dip his pizza in, at a really nice wood-fired pizza joint on the water. E: OwlFancier posted:I am now curious what impression of the UK you get if you specifically spend your time in major container port pubs. Helensborough, Glasgow, Edinburough, and Plymouth were the places I've been to repeatedly, I don't know if that would color my perception of the UK due to regional differences. E2: I, uh, might actually be confusing the UK with Norway on the pronunciation thing. I continue to blame that on the item I was ordering. Anyway's Norway's basically like the UK but not an island and you can understand the people there when they speak English. Elviscat has a new favorite as of 23:37 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Oct 17, 2020 23:30
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doverhog posted:Marriage is a sham, you just gently caress, and get drunk. Children also are a sham. They will die in the afterworld anyway. Wait so how do they get to the afterworld?
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Oct 17, 2020 23:39
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this sucks let’s end talking about britain and go back to making fun of the guy who said everyone in france ate rotting meat before they invented fridges
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Oct 17, 2020 23:40
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Oct 17, 2020 23:40
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Speaking of virtue signalling loving hell chud roommate e: he literally said "covfefe" under his breath while dishing it up I swear to god Data Graham has a new favorite as of 23:55 on Oct 17, 2020 |
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Oct 17, 2020 23:46
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Data Graham posted:Speaking of virtue signalling I'm gonna guess they never bought that poo poo before.
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Oct 17, 2020 23:55
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Captain Monkey posted:Pate is really good. So is sushi. So is steak tartar. Good point, you're absolutely right. I meant the stuff that clown had on his tweet
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Oct 18, 2020 00:04
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SpacePig posted:Tits is raw meat. Not if you do it right
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Oct 18, 2020 00:04
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Man who has fashioned a career as a critic does not understand the least subtle show in human history https://twitter.com/_flowerguardian/status/1317401691076124673?s=21
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Oct 18, 2020 00:14
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Henchman of Santa posted:Man who has fashioned a career as a critic does not understand the least subtle show in human history Why the gently caress don't I get paid for having terrible opinions?
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Oct 18, 2020 00:20
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Skwirl posted:Why the gently caress don't I get paid for having terrible opinions? You post them here where they don't really stand out from the crowd.
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Oct 18, 2020 00:36
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Skwirl posted:Why the gently caress don't I get paid for having terrible opinions? You actually paid someone to post your terrible opinions.
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Oct 18, 2020 00:42
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(sobs) I love everyone in this bar.
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Oct 18, 2020 01:50
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I’m really tired of IPAs being 7+ ABV. I am a small person and I like to hang out over beers for a while but I don’t like being overly smashed. Also not a fan of the alcohol heat and phenols that come through high ABV IPAs. High alcohol beers have their place for sure, but IPA should be at least somewhat sessionable. 5.5 - 6.5% is the sweet spot for me.
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Oct 18, 2020 01:57
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I’m not a fan of IPAs. Much prefer a stout or Pilsner.
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Oct 18, 2020 02:03
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IPAs taste soapy to me so I avoid them generally.
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Oct 18, 2020 02:05
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I used to watch Moviebob's stuff back when he started on video game analysis videos as the "Game OverThinker." They started out fairly okay and I remember liking them, but it took him making maybe three videos tops before he became drunk on his own farts and started inserting his own metaplot fanfiction in the videos. It was extremely weird.
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Shithouse Dave posted:I’m really tired of IPAs being 7+ ABV. I am a small person and I like to hang out over beers for a while but I don’t like being overly smashed. Also not a fan of the alcohol heat and phenols that come through high ABV IPAs. High alcohol beers have their place for sure, but IPA should be at least somewhat sessionable. 5.5 - 6.5% is the sweet spot for me. Just stick with "hard" cider maybe? The ones labeled as dry are pretty nice sipping drinks and not super boozy. Man Moviebob sucks.
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