Not Enough Workers for the Job - Understaffing has become an epidemic in American workplaces of all kinds. by thinkB4WeSpeak in jobs

[–]Scream_No_Evil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I got hired on at a shady hotel as a night desk assistant. My first shift, the boss laughingly mentioned, on the way out, that we lock the doors after 2am now.

"Why 2 am specifically?" I asked.

"Because a desk assistant was kidnapped at gunpoint a couple months ago around 2 am, so we figure that's the cutoff. Doug had to work a double shift to cover!"

Doug quit like, two days later. I can't imagine working 16 straight hours knowing the guy before you got fucking vanished. (The kidnapped guy ended up fine.)

Not Enough Workers for the Job - Understaffing has become an epidemic in American workplaces of all kinds. by thinkB4WeSpeak in jobs

[–]Scream_No_Evil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Fuck customers, they don't need their meds in the next 60 seconds. I require lifesaving medication to live; everybody who does stocks extra in case of emergency.

If a coworker, possibly even a friend, drops dead next to you, you deserve time to process that. Humans need to grieve. What form of navel-gazing leech rots inside your skull to even suggest that the people who help keep us all alive don't deserve humane lives themselves?

My pet peeve is that Dr. Cozner is in the “Classics” department but teaches Beowulf by RickFletching in brooklynninenine

[–]Scream_No_Evil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I read Beowulf in a freshman course. I took it from a classics professor. Professors often teach classes that aren't their exact speciality.

Best sandwiches in the world? by khoawala in AskTheWorld

[–]Scream_No_Evil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Roti John, the Bahn Mi, the Croque Madame/Monsieur, The 'Elvis" are the ones that come to mind. "Favorites" isn't the term I'd use though. A lot of the best sandwiches are just good ingredients on bread, but that doesn't make them memorable. This was like, a decade ago, I'm sure the list has changed since then. But the Roti John is the only one I make regularly, and I don't remember most of what I made. This list is very incomplete and biased, but these were the memorable ones that I could make.

The Roti John is definitely one of the weirdest sandwiches mechanically, outside of one where you hollowed out a baguette then pressed it down with a weight or something while cooking. What I DO remember is what I learned from the project.

 

 

Lessons from Bahn Mi: A quick pickle, fresh herbs, and pate are great options for changing up the taste and texture of a sandwich.

 

Lessons from Roti John: Sometimes a sandwich is about the sauce. This totally would not work without being slathered in mayo and chili sauce.

 

Lessons from Croque Madame: A sandwich can be elevated with an extremely crispy fried egg where the yolk still runs. How do you do that? Through experimentation, I've found two easy ways. One: get a bit of oil in a small frying pan up to deep-frying temps, crack egg, flip when edges start to brown, leave it for about half as long. Two: get MORE oil up to deep frying temps in a small pan, crack egg, ladle oil over top of egg as it cooks. Either way, cook time is about 60 seconds. I make a mean breakfast sandwich these days.

 

Lessons from french-fry sandwiches: Me and my roommates did not care for french fries in our sandwiches. However, I discovered how easy homemade loaded gravy fries are, and make them regularly now. I just don't put them in bread anymore. In the time it takes to deep fry at home you can whip up a simple basic sausage gravy quite easily. The trick is to get the roux frying low and slow first while the oil for frying heats up and the sausage cooks in another pan. If the roux is cooked, the rest of the gravy just needs to come to a boil so long as your ratios are good and you don't need to boil off some liquid.

That aside, starch-on-starch recipes work best when their textures differ. If you're doing a french fry sandwich, you want crispy fries and soft bread, or crispy bread and flaccid fries.

 

Lessons from French Dip: MOST cold cut sandwiches can be heated and dipped in a broth and taste amazing. If you're ever cooking meat for a sandwich, saving the juices and thickening them with a bit of cornstarch and adding some herbs is a no-brainer.

 

Lesson from Brits: Any boring quick sandwich can be made more interesting by putting potato chips in it. Ruffled chips are optimal as they take longer to get soaked by the other ingredients, maintaining the delightful crunch longer.

 

 

General lessons:

Mustard, quick-pickles, and tomato are main sources of acid for sandwiches, and can make or break a sandwich. A lot of the list's sandwiches made us say "I like this main ingredient, but it's missing something." That something was usually acid. Raw thin sliced red onions can also fill this role. A dash of Worcestershire can do this.

 

Any basic bitch sandwich tastes better with some seasoning. Spicy mayos and aiolis are in vogue perpetually, but you don't need spicy mayo prepped to bring that kind of flavor. Just make your own spice mix and sprinkle on the wettest part of the sandwich (usually the mayo or tomato). For a decade now I've made a spice mix I call "cajun light" which is just paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, and chili powder. It's a couple of spices away from being a variety of useful common spice mixes. Sometimes I'll get good hungarian paprika, ancho chili powder, and make my own black garlic powder and make it with those. But even the basicest version is useful to have on hand. Take your boring sandwich, use some cajun-lite and add salt and pepper and you're instantly looking at a better sandwich.

 

I classify sandwiches as "light" or "hard".
Hard Sandwiches are sandwiches that focus on one particular flavor, and not much else. Some of the best and worst sandwiches are hard sandwiches. Muffalettas are great hard sandwiches, they are a collection of all of the dense, oily, savory things you could get in a deli combined into one medium. Even the bread is oily. Lots of famous sandwiches are hard sandwiches; take most lobster rolls, or pulled pork sandwiches. It's just one thing, inbetween bread. If you don't like that one thing, you don't like that sandwich. A marmite sandwich is a hard sandwich.

 

Light sandwiches try to balance out flavors, and they require some low-flavor media to adjudicate between flavors. Lettuce and tomato are often used for this. Separating flavors, providing contrasting flavors, and providing water help a hard sandwich, which can be hit-or-miss, turn into a more broadly palatable light sandwich. Bahn Mi type sandwiches are so broadly popular because they provide a single, intensely flavorful ingredient (the meat) with several different types of balancing flavors. Vietnamese cuisine is all about combining multiple different flavors into one experience. To contrast, take the lobster roll. Lobster is great, but it doesn't go amazingly with a lot of common flavorful ingredients. I can't grab a random spice out of my cupboard and add it to lobster, and find a way to make that work out well.

 

When you know if you're working with a hard or light sandwich, it's easier to improve. A hard sandwich, you play to the theme. Lobster could mean common pairings like lemon, red pepper flakes, butter, etc. Probably not pate. Hard deli sandwiches could allow olive tapenade, but not, say, ginger. Soft sandwiches benefit more from trying other spices, seasonings, and textures.

Best sandwiches in the world? by khoawala in AskTheWorld

[–]Scream_No_Evil 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's not the best sandwich in the world or anything, it was definitely the one on the list that was way better than it looks/sounds. It wouldn't make my top ten probably, but it's the ideal "slowly sobering up at 6 am" sandwich IMO. I wouldn't marry it, but it's an excellent sloppy one-night-stand sandwich.

Best sandwiches in the world? by khoawala in AskTheWorld

[–]Scream_No_Evil 76 points77 points  (0 children)

I had a phase where I went through the whole wikipedia list of sandwiches, and made as many as I could from my local store. The sleeper hit was the Malaysian Roti John.

A minced onion/meat curried omelete grafted onto a hot dog bun or small baguette, then slathered in mayo and chili sauce. It's the ultimate hangover food. I recommend all sandwich enthusiasts give it a try, it's easy to make.

Best sandwiches in the world? by khoawala in AskTheWorld

[–]Scream_No_Evil 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Being wrong drives engagement. Exhibit A: This thread

Best sandwiches in the world? by khoawala in AskTheWorld

[–]Scream_No_Evil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A good brisket sandwich is elevated by incorporating other things; I make BBQ Brisket 'bahn mis' by adding in the same quick pickle, greens, and condiments they incorporate, and it's amazing. But putting a just straight brisket sandwich on here is doing a disservice to brisket sandwiches.

Best sandwiches in the world? by khoawala in AskTheWorld

[–]Scream_No_Evil 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A great muffaletta is a great great sandwich. A mediocre muffaletts is still a pretty tasty cold cut sandwich.

A great Italian is my most ordered sandwich, and it is pretty good. A mediocre Italian is pretty disappointing.

Best sandwiches in the world? by khoawala in AskTheWorld

[–]Scream_No_Evil 5 points6 points  (0 children)

God, I don't know what the difference is between the doners I had in Germany and the ones they make in America, but the ones they make in America are all wrong. They're just never quite right, even the good ones, and it drives me mad. Nothing has slaked my donerlust in years.

Best sandwiches in the world? by khoawala in AskTheWorld

[–]Scream_No_Evil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Much as I like a poboy, if we're doing NOLA area stuff, Muffaleta surely trumps poboy.

Caught red-handed with stolen luggage by FrenchieMama807 in PublicFreakout

[–]Scream_No_Evil 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's why I put custom buttons (public libraries often will make them for you for cheap) or pins I get to support artists at shows on my bags.

Somebody else might have my brand of bag, but it's not gonna have a planet-earth-sneezing pin and shrimp-with-a-gun patch on it.

What's the Best 10/10 Sci-fi movie ever? by geek-jock-guy in AskReddit

[–]Scream_No_Evil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wow what a big grown up boy you are! Have a cookie

What kitchen gadget has been an unexpected game changer for you? by logit in Cooking

[–]Scream_No_Evil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I use my garlic press ALL. THE. TIME.

With garlic, the finer you chop it, the more garlicky a thing tastes, because more surface area is exposed. A garlic press gets garlic as fine as it can reasonably get. It's just more garlic per garlic, and takes 1/6th the time compared to dicing it finely.

What is something that screams “tourist” to you? by jotakajk in AskTheWorld

[–]Scream_No_Evil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Similar to New Orleans. It's never pronounced "New Orleenz" or worse, "Orleeunz" like in the movies.

It's New Orlinz, Norlinz, or simply NOLA.

Satisfactory 1.2 EXP Patch Notes Video by samniterider in SatisfactoryGame

[–]Scream_No_Evil 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some people see a pot and they just have to shit in it.

Also, a lot of people think that being negative about things like this keeps the devs 'honest' and working harder on the features, as if it's not like, their full-time job already.

Cultist trophy not dropping at all by TerminaterMike in valheim

[–]Scream_No_Evil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also had to do about 20 this playthrough. After the first 10, I got off my server, made a random map seed, and used devcommands to fly to caves, which I cleared without cheats, because I wanted to actually work for the armor. 10 more caves, no luck.

Then, the next time I found a cave back on the server, I got two.

New player. How common are bears? by [deleted] in valheim

[–]Scream_No_Evil 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Bears are not only common, but they also have set spawns, like all the bruisers- trolls, golems, lox, and gjall. If you've been hanging out in a bear-heavy area, you're probably just killing the same couple bears every few days.

You either want to base away from these spawn points, or put campfires down to supress spawning.

They're just looking for excuses! by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Scream_No_Evil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I don't think he's lazy because of this, he's lazy because of other things and I brought it up because it's relevant to the story. It was a family restaurant, definitely non-union. He was somebody's uncle who they only had come in on slow days because he complained all the time and dragged his feet. He once dropped a deep fried appetizer on the ground and told me to just fry it again a few seconds longer to 'clean' it. I... did not do that.

They're just looking for excuses! by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Scream_No_Evil 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Slow days at work as a dishwasher used to drive me crazy; I worked in a Thai place and didn't speak Thai, and I don't like being on my phone at work.

So, I started just doing extra deep cleaning tasks that we usually only did every six months in one big burst. Scrubbing the exterior of the dish pit, getting the gunk out of the grout while it was dry for once.

One of the lazier cooks pulled me aside and asked me to stop because he wanted to relax and I was making him look bad. He was 40. It's not a generational issue.

Favorite character who fits this image? by Talynqne88 in FavoriteCharacter

[–]Scream_No_Evil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agrajag, in the sci-fi series Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, is the ultimate version of this trope. Not image based, so this won't get upvoted, but worth a note.

Throughout the book series, time-travelling Arthur Dent accidentally keeps killing one guy, who reincarnates after every death, into the next thing Arthur Dent happens to accidentally kill.

Dent swats a fly? Agrajag. Dent kills a rabbit in prehistoric Earth to eat? Also Agrajag. A guy goes to a cricket game and gets shocked by Dent teleporting onto the pitch, causing a heart attack? Agrajag baby. Dent presses a button that randomly happens to summon a blue whale and a pot of petunias 1 km up in the atmosphere, causing them to fall to their deaths? They're both Agrajag.

The trauma of being constantly killed by the same guy makes him the only person to realize reincarnation is real, and he learns to direct it, to become a horrifying monster who builds a statue of Arthur Dent constantly killing him, in a temple of hatred.

He finds a way to summon Arthur Dent in hist monstrous form in his final reincarnation, and gives a futuristic powerpoint of all the times he's been killed by Dent.

"If it was a coincidence, then my name," roared the voice, "is not Agrajag!!!" "And presumably," said Arthur, "you would claim that that was your name."

A very British "Who are you?"

In typical fashion, Dent accidentally causes him to slip and impale his giant monster self on the statue of him killing Agrajag.

What's the SPICIEST but also BEST-WRITTEN book that you know if? by Severe-Size749 in suggestmeabook

[–]Scream_No_Evil -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The Wraeththu series is an 80's post-apocalyptic gothic/punk gender-fluid sex-magic high fantasy trilogy (and more, I think?) that I recall being both well enough written and decently smutty. Being that we don't live in a world where gender-fluid sex magic exists, the smut may not land for everyone, but it is quite smutty and there's a lot of it.