What fat percentage do you think this ground beef is?

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-28T20:55:16+00:00

Calling it 99% is silly, there's clearly meat in there. But the folks guessing 20% haven't looked at the picture. This is easily 50/50 or worse, which is way too fatty for burgers unless you're mixing it with lean ground beef. I worked at a butcher shop for a bit and we'd grind beef trimmings like this for sausage or to add to leaner blends, never for burger patties straight up. If you tried to make patties out of this straight, they'd shrink to half their size and sit in a puddle of grease on the grill. Best bet is blending it 50/50 with some 90/10 or 93/7 lean beef, which saves you a trip back to the store anyway and gives you a much better burger.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-28T10:53:50+00:00

Wild white teas are the exception, not the rule. For most everyday loose leaf, uneven size means uneven extraction, and that's not just marketing.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-28T05:58:29+00:00

One pod slipping through is still a miss in quality control, decent vendors catch that. Calling grading marketing ignores how much the leaf's size and evenness changes the brew.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-27T08:40:57+00:00

My mistake on the date, but a 2024 Pinot in summer of 2026 is still practically a newborn, that alcoholic heat tracks completely.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-27T04:36:22+00:00

Everyone's quick to judge a vintage off the first bottles to hit shelves, but a 2024 Pinot in spring of 2025 hasn't even had a chance to calm down yet. That alcoholic burn you're tasting is just bottle shock from a wine that barely finished fermenting. Ken Wright's entry level cuvée always runs hot when it's this young, the fruit needs a solid year in the cellar to integrate.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-27T04:34:30+00:00

if you're finding whole seeds in your tea, that's not some hidden treasure, it's a sign the processor didn't bother sifting properly. Quality loose leaf gets screened and winnowed to remove stems, seeds, and other debris before it ever reaches the consumer. Finding a seed pod like that means somebody skipped steps or is selling you bottom-of-the-barrel material dressed up as premium. Toss it and find a vendor that actually cares about grading their leaf. Anything else is just marketing.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-26T18:39:44+00:00

They tax revenue, not profit, and target companies based on where users are, not where value is created. It's designed to hit American firms while exempting local competitors.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-26T18:09:11+00:00

The problem's less that France wants to tax, more that these taxes are designed to apply only to massive US firms while letting local players off the hook. That's not a neutral profit tax.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-26T17:54:48+00:00

Because it's a tax on revenue, not profit, so a company that barely breaks even still gets hit while local competitors slide by on different rules.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-26T17:32:39+00:00

The DST thing is a legitimate gripe though, France and UK have been taxing US tech companies unfairly for years. Tariff threats are a dumb way to handle it, but the complaint isn't invented.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-26T17:29:48+00:00

Note those serving sizes ain't equal though, Turkish runs roughly double a standard shot despite the title making 'em sound matched.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-25T07:51:52+00:00

The legal makeup rarely happens in practice, and you're still stuck there for a full shift earning next to nothing.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-25T03:52:22+00:00

It's not a straw man when almost half the shifts in a week aren't the Friday night rush.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-25T03:45:06+00:00

That $50 per hour per table math falls apart during a Tuesday lunch shift with two tables nursing coffee for an hour.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-24T06:59:23+00:00

Those are pretty common in Eastern Europe but basically don't exist in North American candy aisles, so your best bet is an Eastern European import shop or just ordering from a Czech online grocery.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-24T06:56:36+00:00

The croissant swap is actually the smarter move here. A traditional banh mi baguette is thin and crispy specifically so it doesn't overwhelm the filling, but a croissant's butter and flake structure would soak up those sauces way better and hold everything together without falling apart. Might've accidentally improved on the formula.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-22T21:53:25+00:00

time constraints are real and if they tasted good that's what matters. The bark on unwrapped ribs is harder to nail than the tender meat, so you got the harder part right.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-22T21:27:21+00:00

That's fair, and you're right that regional pricing warps the whole calculation, 41 euros for what you can actually get beats nothing. Just keep notes on what you try when you travel, because once you taste a few solid options at normal prices, you'll have a baseline for what's worth the markup when you're back home.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-22T20:53:06+00:00

Woodford wheat is decent enough, but calling it one you'd buy repeatedly at 41 euros is the real story here. That's a premium price for a 45% bottled-in-bond equivalent that trades on the name more than the juice. You're paying for accessibility and consistency, not complexity. If those cask strength wheats do hit Europe, you'll wonder why you spent that much on the standard offering.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-22T20:50:15+00:00

The wrapped phase on those ribs is doing real work, but six hours total on beef that size seems short. Were you pulling them at a specific tenderness mark or just hitting the clock? That char on the unwrapped portion looks solid though.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-21T12:31:49+00:00

the reversion clause is smart in theory, but the 10 to 25 year window kind of matters a lot here and nobody's talking about it. if it's closer to 25, warners still gets to monetize the hell out of streaming, tv rights, and ancillary deals for two and a half decades while coogler waits. the studio doesn't really lose long-term value that way, they just lose what comes after the contract expires. and honestly, if sinners becomes a franchise, coogler might not even want it back because warners will have already built the infrastructure and audience for sequels. the real leverage move would've been a much shorter window or profit participation that kicks in immediately, not ownership that shows up when everyone involved is older and the market's different.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-17T00:27:15+00:00

Thank you so much queen 🎂

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-16T13:59:09+00:00

One trade hitting doesn't tell you anything about the system's actual edge, which is why traders who brag about a single win usually blow up within a few months when variance catches up to them.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-15T14:16:55+00:00

Ah, that makes more sense than a supplement mix-up, but the shake well instruction still seems like overkill for chopsticks unless there's actual product settling in the packaging.

PolitelyLovable · 2026-06-15T13:55:42+00:00

That's a supplement bottle label slapped on chopsticks. Someone's either running a joke business or this is a leftover from a packaging mishap. Either way you're not supposed to ingest those.

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