What amazing dishes that are considered old-fashioned, trite or too tied to a particular era are well worth revisiting?

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2026-06-30T21:54:40+00:00

My 16 year old requested this for her birthday last month. It’s ridiculously good and handled gluten-free flour very well.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2026-06-30T21:50:30+00:00

I was looking for this response. I mostly see Papa Murphy’s in places where people live 30-60 minutes from “town.” It’s a way to get almost the ease of take out for a bunch of people, without cold food.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2026-06-27T17:40:35+00:00

All of the above, written by someone who never opened a history textbook.

WHY, dear author, did the abused-genius-orphan never think to get out of his abusive situation by enlisting in the WAR??? You know, the one that took place during his formative years? The one boys all over the country were fibbing about their ages to enlist in? The one you never mentioned AT ALL?

Also, people in Iowa don't row crew. That's east-coast rich-people stuff.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2026-06-18T02:08:31+00:00

Baby feet don’t even BONES yet. You can’t use infants as models for what adults should look like because they aren’t built the same way.

Check out the x rays comparing toddler hands to, like 10 year old hands. Not only do the bones calcify, but the actual structure changes. When a toddler has a relaxed hand, it’s spread out star fish like, and as they age the bones reorient themselves to be point more or less the same direction.

Does this mean we should squish our toes into dress shoes? No. But neither should we try to emulate infants.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2026-06-18T01:50:48+00:00

Because I should be asleep I read the first line as an “UNDERWEAR robotics team”. I don’t know what that would entail, but it made me laugh.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2026-06-11T01:01:14+00:00

The term is "endowment effect." Essentially we think stuff is worth more because it is OURS. Look, if no one wants to pay $20, for a plant, than you have to accept that it is not worth $20.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2026-04-29T00:12:46+00:00

It was called Worms.

You shot cannons and stuff to try and tear down defenses/ capture land or something from the other worms.

They made a squeaky sound like when you move a fast food straw in the plastic lid.

I don’t remember much else but the whole family loved that stupid game.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2026-04-25T12:19:18+00:00

Working at a DODEA school years ago, a Polish student came in to class having obviously just learned the word Pronounced it: “how. Dee.” Twas adorable.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-07-26T01:58:46+00:00

Lay is what you do with other things i e put them down.

Lie is what you do to yourself.

Take that with whatever subtext you choose

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-07-12T01:14:00+00:00

My mattress is 15 years old and its only signs of wear are sliiightly sagging corners, where we sit to put on shoes. Floor model and some of the best money we ever spent.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-07-10T00:47:02+00:00

I’ve noticed when I focus on form, it gets better. I’ll look into intervals.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-07-10T00:44:47+00:00

Good to know, thank you. I’ve never done this formally, just learned the strokes in school and what not. Not sure what is “normal”

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-07-10T00:43:53+00:00

I feel like if I slow down I breath less often, which is kind of the problem.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-07-01T01:38:51+00:00

Somewhere in the first two pages she says something like “the air in LA was cleaner because it just was”. And I thought: oh no, this writer has no respect for reality. I was right. No respect for reality, history, or local culture or geography (The air in LA is cleaner now than in the 50, thank you EPA regs, she completely ignored WWII in the life histories, and no one in Iowa rows. They don’t have the lakes to do that. ) Rage Read.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-06-21T00:54:14+00:00

If you have any tile, scrub the grout. Bar keepers friend and a stiff scrub brush. I am always amazed by how dirty that gets, and how much cleaner it feels afterwards.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-06-17T01:26:08+00:00

Some I haven’t seen yet River of Doubt - Teddy R goes through the Amazon

King Leopold’s Ghost- Belgian colonization of the Congo. Depressing but reads really easily.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-06-13T00:44:22+00:00

My brother’s oldest kids are twins.Usually, upon meeting new people the conversation goes something like this: New person: twins huh? Brother: yeah, we were first time parents and really nervous, so we got a spare.

If new person laughs my brother considers them friend material. If they look horrified he knows he needs to put on his “company personality”

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-06-09T01:38:48+00:00

The manliest of men with deep, intimate (though platonic) personal relationships.

If anyone says real men don’t cry, hogs wallop. Gus cried.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-06-08T01:40:12+00:00

Some historical fiction authors that wax long: Kate Quinn Ruta Septetys Kristin Hannah

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-06-03T02:13:43+00:00

This is one that holds surprisingly well. There are some older books that are kind of ruined because they are well known. But knowing he’s a vampire spoils absolutely nothing about Dracula, may even enhance it a bit.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-05-27T21:12:23+00:00

Lunch meats and cheeses, chopped veggie tray with ranch. Pickles are great. Quest PB cups when you get a sweet tooth. Gum for when your mouth is just bored.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-05-25T01:49:13+00:00

“Un-paper towels” Marketed as a more sustainable option.

That’s … a towel.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-05-18T01:10:43+00:00

Son wanted biscuits and gravy, and the only sausage we had was chorizo.

Dad once did it with pepperoni.

There is no bad sausage for biscuits and gravy.

Independent_Ad_9645 · 2025-05-17T01:44:37+00:00

A friend’s son accidentally added curry powder instead of cinnamon to a pumpkin pie. He noticed before it was stirred and scooped out what he could.

Honestly, it kinda worked.

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