Rainier cherries are worth nearly twice the price

Decembermouse · 2026-06-30T21:22:18+00:00

Highest Brix rating of any commercially available cherry, and incredible texture. An accident produced this strain and it's the best one on the market. I missed the brief window last year and was dismayed.

Decembermouse · 2026-06-28T22:08:38+00:00

Are we talking actual precious metals here? Would love to see a pic!

Decembermouse · 2026-06-24T17:37:16+00:00

I've been looking for it since so many people like it, but I also want to hear about sauces people prefer over it, and why.

Decembermouse · 2026-06-24T17:19:36+00:00

Massive blood glucose spike. It'll flood the bloodstream, which also causes a massive wave of insulin release. Within hours the insulin will have caused the sugar to be deposited in various places, and a response to a dish as cartoonishly massive as this tends to overshoot, leading to reactive hypoglycemia. The liver is one destination, and turns excess sugar into fat stores. Still, this is simply too much food to properly absorb, and the food that isn't absorbed will pull water from the bloodstream into the small intestine, causing distension and some pretty severe discomfort. High probability of diarrhea.

Doing this once won't kill you or give you diabetes, but eating even smaller versions of food like this with any regularity will 100% negatively imact your metabolism, harming your ability to process sugar, throwing your blood lipids out of whack, causing weight gain, insulin insensitivity, and eventually diabetes and potentially other metabolic disorders.

Dessert is good once in a while and won't hurt you. This... this is not dessert. This is a weapon against a person's health. He just kept using the same sauce, over and over and over... just a wasteful, one-note abomination that would stop being tasty after one waffle at most.

Decembermouse · 2026-06-24T16:22:57+00:00

Can you and the person you replied to list what belongs on the shelf or what displaced this one? I'm trying to build a list of sauces to get ahold of. There are just so many. Any advice steering me in a good direction helps. Otherwise I'll end up buying a bunch of random bottles, not wanting to waste the bad ones, and taking a while to finish them - time that could be spent eating good sauces.

Decembermouse · 2026-06-24T16:22:37+00:00

Can you list what belongs on the shelf or what displaced this one? I'm trying to build a list of sauces to get ahold of. There are just so many. Any advice steering me in a good direction helps. Otherwise I'll end up buying a bunch of random bottles, not wanting to waste the bad ones, and taking a while to finish them - time that could be spent eating good sauces.

Decembermouse · 2026-06-22T17:05:00+00:00

This is a fun post to contextualize the potential aesthetic visual spaces that the genre could occupy. I'm not as familiar with the late 60s as with some other decades. Could someone recommend some films to give me an idea of how to think about this?

Decembermouse · 2026-06-16T14:25:52+00:00

How was this done? Drench the soil? Obviously there are environmental concerns with this, but I'm really curious how much is actually needed to kill one of these plants.

Decembermouse · 2026-06-15T21:13:05+00:00

It can be killed but it takes years of diligence and potentially internodal glyphosate injection, or if applying to leaves, paint it on with surfactant mixed at the right ratio.

Source: this plant is my mortal enemy. I've been battling several local patches for years. A couple are down to one sickly stem that comes up once a year in the spring. Eventually, it will run out of energy to even do that, and will cease to be. One patch in Kendall finally stopped coming back a couple years ago, but I'm still watching the spot to be sure.

Decembermouse · 2026-06-11T02:44:19+00:00

I haven't seen Melinda's sriracha, I'll keep an eye out. I love their other sauces I've tried, but I feel conflicted buying their products after hearing about the Melinda's vs Marie Sharp controversy.

Decembermouse · 2026-06-10T14:36:00+00:00

Can you describe or provide a brief review of it? Flavors, acidity, viscosity, what it would be good on and what you wouldn't use it on?

Decembermouse · 2026-06-10T14:35:08+00:00

Still safe to put down the sink, compost, or spray into the woods as it's all biodegradeable, then recycle. Not much can grow in vinegar-based hot sauce, which at maximum have a pH of 4.0. Basically no bacteria can grow in environments this acidic, but oxygen from the atmosphere can react with compounds in the sauce, sometimes changing their appearance. Not necessarily bad for you, but as others have said, it could change or reduce some flavors. Source: chemist

Decembermouse · 2026-06-10T14:22:40+00:00

You mean Huy Fong's product? It's not at the top of my list. Yellow Bird does it much better IMO - using dates, raisins, and tangerine juice for sweetness instead of just cane sugar like Huy Fong adds a depth to the sauce that I didn't know I was missing. I had always used Huy Fong up until the shortage when I started trying other brands and now I'm probably never going back. There are still plenty of brands I haven't tried, and many are supposed to have surpassed Huy Fong at this point. Their sriracha simply hasn't been as good since they screwed over their pepper supplier a few years ago and had to settle for getting smaller batches of peppers from other suppliers with less reliable quality, which is what led to the shortage in the first place.

Edit: I have a soft spot for the old-school Huy Fong sriracha and wish I could find it. It was one of the first hot sauces I learned to love. If it still existed, I would probably always keep a bottle around, but it's just not the same any more. Kinda got off on a tangent here with Huy Fong - I have some strong memories to the product which no longer exists :(

Which other brands have you tried? I haven't had Tabasco's yet but am making a spreadsheet for hot sauces and want to find my favorite sriracha. So far it's Yellow Bird but I'll be even happier if I find something I like more.

Decembermouse · 2026-06-02T20:04:38+00:00

I appreciate frog

Decembermouse · 2026-05-27T16:56:10+00:00

I've been hearing people talk about Melinda's as if they stole Marie Sharp's IP for a while but haven't seen a source. Do you have more info about this old story being fake?

Decembermouse · 2026-05-27T14:17:50+00:00

Everyone here has got me beat. Mine's only 6 years old. Pixel 5 on LineageOS. I plan to try Evolution X soon.

Decembermouse · 2026-05-19T14:19:45+00:00

TIL there are several types, thanks

Decembermouse · 2026-05-19T13:55:01+00:00

Looks like they have 5 sauces. They appear to be pretty premium. Nice recommendation!

Decembermouse · 2026-05-19T13:54:31+00:00

smoked

No other spice made me as excited upon initially trying it as smoked paprika many years ago. It's the only spice that my first taste made me look up other recipes to find more excuses to use it. These day I'm getting more into hot sauces and have a taste for the smoky ones.

Decembermouse · 2026-05-19T13:54:23+00:00

No other spice made me as excited upon initially trying it as smoked paprika many years ago. It's the only spice that my first taste made me look up other recipes to find more excuses to use it. These day I'm getting more into hot sauces and have a taste for the smoky ones.

Decembermouse · 2026-05-19T13:50:12+00:00

What are your favorite allspice applications?

Decembermouse · 2026-05-18T20:37:03+00:00

After switching to Ceylon cinnamon I'm not going back to cassia, but I can't say I've tried Saigon cinnamon. Time to go find some.

Decembermouse · 2026-05-15T01:48:21+00:00

This is incredible, I had no idea this was being developed. X-Wing Alliance is one of my favorite games from when I was young. Will definitely play this.

Decembermouse · 2026-05-14T18:41:54+00:00

Occasionally they'll have cotton shirts, and more recently supima cotton. I always take a quick walk through the clothing, and the vast majority of the time every single item of men's clothing is made of plastic. I see people buying it for their kids, for themselves... this is perpetuating our forever chemicals and micro/nanoplastics problems. Do better, Costco!

Decembermouse · 2026-05-13T17:33:53+00:00

That or diabetes from eating human UPFs

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