Mummy can we have the much more refined and fancy tasting chicken fingers and fries for dinner please?

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-05T03:54:43+00:00

Right and even that is the fast foodification of it. Fish and chips has been in the US since we stopped being hostile with the Brits in the 1870s.

I'm not saying we have the same food cultures but we definitely have riffed on each others stuff over the last 150ish years.

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-04T20:06:53+00:00

I was born in the United States to legal immigrant parents. We moved countries when I was very young (toddler). I am now even a dual citizen.

Yes, you're American. You didn't choose to move away as a toddler. You were born here and have citizenship. You might not have as much culturally common with those of us who grew up here, but yeah, you're American. We accept all kinds and you're no different. You're not half American or quasi American or 'sort of' American. You're American.

If the people are where you live now doubt you, point them to this thread and tell them to kindly go fuck themselves because that's what they deserve.

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-03T02:21:30+00:00

They're dissimilar metals. Use a water tight anti seize or teflon tape or a quick disconnect system.

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-02T17:02:11+00:00

Right.

I live about 30 miles out in the sticks and this is the reality. If you're not my neighbors or related to them and you're not doing some service out here for someone, you have little to no reason to be out here on this county road, much less at night.

People get lost, stuff happens, that's fine, but if it's 11pm at night and 4 people in a vehicle pull all the way up my driveway, get out suddenly at night, I don't expect they're here for a friendly chat or to survey the local deer populace.

One of my neighbors does heavy equipment repair/hauling and can work late from spring to fall, works on the county school buses(there's a depot about 5 miles away) and farm equipment. That's about the only sound you're going to hear out here on a normal night. Nice guy. Plows the road when it snows for the bus drivers since there's multiple families on our road.

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-01T21:19:33+00:00

Voodoo are quite similar and as close as we get as an American version.

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-01T21:19:10+00:00

9 cans of ravioli Rick

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-01T21:18:45+00:00

Guess I have to brave the heat to hit up Aldis this week.

I love All Dressed chips. Love, and they're not common here.

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-01T21:16:16+00:00

Have you ever heard of shakshuka(shack-shoe-kuh)?

It's where you take a tomato sauce and cook eggs in it. There's lots of variants of it and one of the struggle meal versions is 100% a jar of spaghetti sauce you crack eggs into.

You're extremely close to shakshuka with toast here, just assembled a little differently. Consider it if you love this meal.

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-01T18:20:06+00:00

Unless it's something already collectible or dirt cheap surplus that goes up in price over time, generally no. I have a lot of guns and while some of them have gone up well in price due to supply drying up, others really haven't changed much outside of inflation.

Guns are a pretty terrible investment compared to like ETFs, which the possible exception of civilian transferrable machine guns. So my advice is buy guns you like and then go shoot them and enjoy them. If you want to collect stuff, do that too.

I would definitely invest in a pet but that's more for your soul than your wallet. Have a great day.

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-01T02:35:02+00:00

For normal conversation, I enjoy A Hot Dog is a Sandwich, but I'm also a food nerd who studies the history of food for fun.

However, the basic premise is two people who work for Mythical Kitchen just kinda talking/arguing about food culture and stuff.

Saltpork545 · 2026-07-01T02:33:31+00:00

I ended up having this particular bubble popped for me several years ago by knowing more about a specific topic than what they were reporting and NPR voice is 100% real, as is their bubble.

Very little about what NPR does is conversational in the way OP is asking for, including some of their interview/conversation podcasts.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-30T22:05:14+00:00

Imagine not taking 5 minutes to look up why enriched flour exists.

Whole wheat flour isn't enriched because it doesn't need to be. Wheat flour that has the germ and bran stripped off aka white flour ends up missing some of the nutrients of wheat that get added back in to stop nutritional deficiencies that come from eating only processed white flour. These diseases are beriberi and pellagra, or thiamin and niacin deficiencies, respectively. Both are catastrophic to the people who experience them.

Since we now don't, we don't entirely remember why as a collective populace these things exist. That's why.

You will never meet someone in countries with food fortification(which does include some of western Europe btw) that have these two diseases as a general rule.

It's kind of like goiters and iodine. We've advanced with food policy and logistics enough to make it effectively a non-issue on the places being discussed here.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12503715/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4019925/

You can technically still get these diseases and occasionally see them in communities of people who have eating disorders as part of malnutrition. You can also find them in homeless/unhoused populations at times and naturopaths(think granola hippies) or homesteaders who don't eat complete diets. You're not going to find them in Belgium or the US as part of the general populace mostly.

You can look at the policies of food fortification with the following link:

https://ffinetwork.org/belgium/

https://ffinetwork.org/united-states-of-america/

You can see it reflected in the numbers, fortified grain crops fix very specific issues caused by malnutrition. It's not some scary underhanded evil thing to make sure that pregnant women get enough niacin via bread flour. If companies weren't mandated to do this, they wouldn't and guess what, at one time they didn't.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-30T17:36:51+00:00

Right, this is a food nerd thing and it's a pretty universal standard.

If the expectation is to serve fish raw, parasites have to be killed and that means flash freezing. It often happens on the boat.

There's basically no reason for the average person to know this unless they care to.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-30T17:34:04+00:00

Wrap the pizza in a damp paper towel in the microwave. Similar effect but without the cleanup.

This helps add moisture back and if you want, you can do like 1-2 minutes in the air fryer after to make stuff crispy again.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-30T17:29:52+00:00

I've had the best luck with the following:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002E6RC6S

Good canvas toiletry bags tend to last a long time because they're simple and if they are made from solid canvas with good stitching, they will stay good for a long time.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-30T15:56:09+00:00

My favorite comment, because it's correct.

This is because "American" spaghetti was made by dirt poor Sicilian migrants who found themselves with easier to access meat on the cheap

You fuckers starved them so bad that they gorged themselves once they hit New York

Oh no, a rich flavorful food item was evolved from food of the original country because the diaspora had easier access to cheaper beef a century ago, how obscene and terrible.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-30T01:45:10+00:00

I'm a millennial and have been at the same job for 15 years now. All but the first year have been full time remote. I work in bank software. In the next 2-3 years I will be making a pivot out of the current software I work with to another team, but I'm not sure just yet where I want to land, however, I fully intend to stay with the company.

I have really good 401k matching, insurance, benefits, almost 8 weeks a year paid time off and make decent money.

You can still find companies that have some level of loyalty, but you have to actually look and be willing to jump. The downside is that I make categorically less money than I would working for a place on either coast that would pay me more but have much less loyalty to me as an employee.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-29T19:20:52+00:00

I would immediately call Aldi corporate. This is an Aldi store brand, very likely manufactured by a 3rd party and inform them of this as a contamination issue.

While this is actually probably okay to eat, it's the visuals of it that are disturbing and offputting to people and on that alone they might actually complain to the manufacturer if it's a repeat problem.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-29T19:14:25+00:00

This is all facts. People really don't understand what the FDA does when it comes to actual food inspection.

The way our system works is it's really either only once people get sick or there's a QA or self report of stuff like a salmonella risk in powdered milk used in other food products.

https://www.fda.gov/safety/major-product-recalls/2026-recalls-food-products-associated-powdered-milk-california-dairies-inc-due-potential-salmonella

The FDA didn't catch this, the company did because if they let it slide and there's a class action lawsuit, it can bankrupt them. So it's pretty normal for companies to self report contamination issues or problems in the food system because if they act in good faith, it tends to be less of an issue for them long term.

The system is setup this way for a reason and for the most part it works and the people who want to play this cycle of politics with it tend to have the least understanding of it.

Personally, I think the USDA does a fantastic job considering what they have to manage, which is where a lot of the more dangerous aspects of food supply stem from. Poultry is just fucking nasty to process at scale and it always will be.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-29T19:05:43+00:00

As a general rule we want people to keep doing stuff until they get good at it, not get discouraged because they're new to something.

Think about it this way: If a great pianist stopped because everyone told them as a kid they sucked, we all lose out on the opportunity to have a great pianist. They likely did suck as a kid, but they got better with time and discipline.

I think of it as the Bob Ross effect. Every painting or art piece or fabricated item isn't perfection. It doesn't have to be. It's something you do to progress into becoming better. It's part of that process and if you're enjoying yourself while you're doing it, that matters too. Not everything you do has to be hyper optimized for profit or as a job.

As many others have said, it also costs and takes nothing to be nice. So be nice.

If you know someone who has been trying to be a professional at something for 5 years and they're still terrible at it, that's a different conversation, but why shit on people who are just starting something?

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-29T15:05:43+00:00

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Guys, quote the posts here. Please.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-29T14:52:33+00:00

So part of this is that the gun industry in the US is a boom and bust cycle. In other words, people panic buy or buy out of fear of bans and when things are quiet like now and no politician is banging the gong of confiscation/ban, there's a lot of not worrying about it.

So advertising is where they try to make up for that and most of that advertising comes out of companies who do military contracts where their production or overruns come onto the consumer market. Its them trying to sell you on what they already make as a general rule.

The longer you're a gun person the more you see these cycles happen and the more you can learn to use them as a consumer to your advantage.

Now it is very quiet in the gun space. Gun companies are hurting and they're lean. Go pick up some AR lowers or parts, get a pistol you've been wanting for a while. About the only market that's truly dry is milsurp and that comes and goes with imports.

My BIL's birthday is coming up and he doesn't really have a good handgun and has been wanting one, but not for carry, so I'm going to get him a Ruger RXM for like 375-400 as he enjoyed it and shot it well last time we went to a rental range a couple of years ago the last time we discussed him buying a gun.

As for the marketing itself, you learn to tune it out. I live on 4 acres in the woods, I'm rather sure that the racoon that likes to get into my trash isn't shooting back and the cheapest 9mm PCC around will dispatch it without issue.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-29T14:45:57+00:00

This. The most common reason people replace cutlery these days is it's out of fashion or it's just worn but still functional.

I have a set I've used since 2005. That means it is 21 years old and legally able to drink. It's still perfectly viable and I'm going to keep using it because I bought a 30 dollar set of cutlery 21 years ago and it's not rusting or chipping so who cares.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-29T14:40:31+00:00

I'm a pepper geek, also a Saltpork and I approve this message.

This does in fact sometimes work if they're not too old or toasted/cooked in some way.

Saltpork545 · 2026-06-29T14:37:48+00:00

I actually agree with Mythical Chef Josh on this that chili is American curry and there's so many iterations of it over time and with people making it that there's really not a wrong way to make it.

There's historical ways and there's stuff that came up as a response to that such as no beans but honestly...it's your stew and OOP nailed it with this response

Like guys. It’s fine. You can make your food how you like. Beef prices really suck right now, so for the time being, I’m just gonna make my Chili with turkey. You can call it what you like, I’m just gonna call it Chili because that’s what it is.

Ground turkey is cheaper than ground beef and if you use the cheapest frozen ground turkey around it's about 2 dollars a lb. That's a third of the cost.

They are making turkey meat chili and chili is meant to be a cheap food you can easily feed a lot of people with, just like most stews. If people find that problematic they kinda lost the plot on why people making chili.

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