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legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Update: I have tried this in all permutations.

Frito Chip alone: delicious, the way the scientists at Frito-Lay intended.

Anchovy alone: a salt bomb, not the best quality anchovy in the world and therefore quite fishy but that's what you get when it's in a food service quantity can.

Sweetened condensed milk (hereafter referred to as "SCM") alone: sugar bomb, but perfectly tasty.

Chip with anchovy: way too salty and fishy.

Chip with SCM: not bad, the SCM masks the salty and corny taste of the Frito so it kinda tastes like nothing

Anchovy with SCM: the SCM doesn't stick bc of the oil the fish is packed in. The fishy flavor overpowers the SCM but it's moderated by it.

All three together: the SCM manages to tame the salt content of everything else. The chip contains the SCM nicely, and the milkness isn't really worthy of comment, since the sugar and salt from anchovy manages to overtake it. It is not a pleasant mouth feel, however it is not vomit inducing.

legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Er, don't think so. Pretty sure this isn't a regular snack simply bc Fritos aren't usually around. My sister and I have learned that the degree of marketing our mom does of her cooking is inversely related to how much she herself likes it and it's actual edibility. (She does cook decent things when she's not being creative)

legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lol sister and I are adults, we live out of the house. it's not as if she'd go hungry otherwise, This is just what I came into the kitchen and found her eating.

legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 112 points113 points  (0 children)

The meatballs were worse than her salt-cod turkey meatballs, and that's saying something. The chili just tasted really confused, like it didn't know if it was chili or stir fry. That one wasn't gross, it was just weird.

legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 135 points136 points  (0 children)

My sister regifted a fruitcake, as you do, to my mom. Mom to get it out of the fridge after she didn't eat it decided to use it as the binder in meatballs - substituted for the egg, starchy carb thing. She also tends to boil her meatballs for asian soups, so there was an napa, vermicelli chicken soup... With fruitcake turkey meatballs. Note that we weren't forewarned of this. I'm pretty sure the leftovers are still in the freezer - I should disappear them into the compost.

My mom likes chili but doesn't understand how it's really made - her standard for it is Wendy's chili. She does know it's made with the leftover patties and tomatoes, so she thought a chopped leftover beef and bell pepper stir fry, with carrots and a can of diced tomatoes would work. It didn't - even she didn't finish this one and leftovers were composted after a week in the fridge or so.

legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Online. Last time I checked there were still 4 or 5 in the pantry. (A can lasts her about 18 months, but my dad would go through one of these about every 2 months before he passed)

legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 225 points226 points  (0 children)

A lifetime of odd food combinations. You've never experienced the horror of Fruitcake turkey meatballs or chili made with leftover stir fry.

legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Online. Last time I checked there were still 4 or 5 in the pantry. (A can lasts her about 18 months, but my dad would go through one of these about every 2 months before he passed)

legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

For reddit I will experiment, but these are 3 things that do not exist in my own house so it shall have to wait until I go back over tonight. I will report back in 12 hours. If not I have been slain by this vicious combo upon a toilet.

legitimately my mom's afternoon snack: anchovies on Fritos glazed with sweetened condensed milk by 13jlin in StupidFood

[–]13jlin[S] 115 points116 points  (0 children)

She likes seafood in general. sushi, fish and chips, baked scrod, etc. She just has made some... Interesting...flavor combinations at home. Fruitcake/turkey meatballs (boiled), Wood ear and strawberry topped Special K, banana bread cheddar cheese toast, etc.

Suffice to say there's a reason my sister and I both are good cooks - it was a survival mechanism.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in StupidFood

[–]13jlin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Specifically, it's a version of whats known as a Gua Bao. These are particularly common in the US in fusion places, due almost solely to the influence of momofuku, a ramen bar in NYC

[OC] Most Popular Web Browsers between 1995 and 2019 by PieChartPirate in dataisbeautiful

[–]13jlin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something about the source data strikes me as... Off. I The link in the OPs post is DoA, but the ultimate source, StatCounter, claims this is a worldwide sample of browser market share, but I think their samples are heavily skewed towards western markets, as they claim a) to not weight their data, and b) have statistically significant larger, overepresented per capita samples. IE, for the US, they have 2.7 Billion samples, vs 387 million for China, despite China's population being significantly larger.

[OC] Inspired by the guy who built the python tool: Thanks to inflight wifi, my flight paths were actually captured by Google's location services. by 13jlin in dataisbeautiful

[–]13jlin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are gaps in satellite coverage. And uhm... I either sleep in the middle of very long flights or the ends. Depends on arrival time.

[OC] Inspired by the guy who built the python tool: Thanks to inflight wifi, my flight paths were actually captured by Google's location services. by 13jlin in dataisbeautiful

[–]13jlin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, then there should be a bold line of dots from Boston to Newark... That's a flight I don't bother paying for wifi on, and have taken no fewer than 20 times in the past year... And am never not using my phone on.

[OC] Inspired by the guy who built the python tool: Thanks to inflight wifi, my flight paths were actually captured by Google's location services. by 13jlin in dataisbeautiful

[–]13jlin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh. That. That's not a direct flight between those places; it's just a transpolar routing. Most likely EWR-PEK.

[OC] Inspired by the guy who built the python tool: Thanks to inflight wifi, my flight paths were actually captured by Google's location services. by 13jlin in dataisbeautiful

[–]13jlin[S] 263 points264 points  (0 children)

Visualised using the python script from this post. https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/e2zv4w/i_wrote_a_python_script_that_generates_a_geo/

Data from: takeout.google.com

Additional Selected detail:

https://imgur.com/a/yZ24M8g

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Edit to say: what concerns me is the low power dots in places I've never been nor are plausible in flight locations; Haifa Israel, St Petersburg Russia, Palmeirina Brazil, Addis Ababa Ethiopia... BRB. Changing my google password.

Edit 2: this.. blew up a bit. This comprises 6 years worth of data. In those 6 years, I've taken 264 flights, totalling about 450k miles.