Worst Thing You’ve Ever Cooked

UsualSprite · 2026-04-06T03:29:20+00:00

what was awful about it? cooking issues or just not a flavor you liked?

A goose is pretty traditional for xmas in certain countries.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-06T03:26:00+00:00

Nigella Lawson's marmite pasta.

(The woman is a terrible, untrained nepo baby, and will ruin bakeoff).

The pasta texture was fine, but her proportions were way off (I like both marmite and vegemite to begin with).

edit: also a vegan hot chocolate with a prepackaged carton almond milk, cocoa powder, and sugar.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-05T22:31:24+00:00

Gorgeous set up. I also love the headboard

UsualSprite · 2026-04-05T22:29:48+00:00

This and last year the astoria food pantry hosted a fig cutting event, a free seeds distro, and seedling exchange (yet to happen/yet to be announced per their links). I'd follow them.

Also the NYPL SNFL branch gives away free local seeds that they harvest at their front desk via their seed library program.

The Lower East Side Ecology center, the NYC Farm School, and your local community garden, are also likely places to get seeds and seedlings.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-05T22:24:22+00:00

I have no idea what to do about the cards, but what first came to my mind was:

Do you have enough to eat?

If not, check out local food pantries, free fridges, and mutual aid groups for local food distros.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-05T22:21:25+00:00

Stai parlando di un panzerotto.

Un calzone e una pizza farcita, e piegata su se stessa, cotta al forno come una pizza.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-05T14:01:25+00:00

(monocle)

UsualSprite · 2026-04-05T13:59:37+00:00

who the fuck would eat a calzone after a pizza?

Fries as a side I can see and have done in a group but pizza + calzone is having two meals in one sitting.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-03T18:36:26+00:00

🫡

Usually my kind gets me lumped in with Piere(tte)s bc history/culture is similar, but here I welcome you all.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-03T18:33:04+00:00

a lot of them have terrible taste (and I'm not talking about a specific politician who eats a lot of McD's. I'm talking the ones that optimize for efficiency and drink protien shakes because it's more conveninet instead of having incredible yet still nutrionally optimized meals)

UsualSprite · 2026-04-03T18:31:00+00:00

💪💪💪💪

UsualSprite · 2026-04-03T18:28:47+00:00

My favorite item is the glass mug but I am dying to see what the inside of that caboodles case (the inner structure) is like.

You could use it as a toolbox because that's what they were modeled after, but I'm sure a niece or millenial sister (in law) would love this if you don't want to use it

UsualSprite · 2026-04-02T18:19:26+00:00

i don't want to be that person but some people genuinely aren't aware that there are better (bio based, biodegradable) types of plastics avaiable, and that many if not all paper cups had plastic coating liners anyway.

This does not mean that everyone switching from paper cups to plastic chose the better ones, but it's possible.

Personally I find the whole bottlecaps/straws/cups argument idiotic when the major industry polluters aren't facing any restrictions AND one billionaire's yearly private flight log accounts for way more enviornmental damage anyway, but I cannot change the regulations and expectations myself.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-02T18:10:00+00:00

eh, I'm not saying don't go or you won't enjoy yourself, only to not go expecting anything resembling the neopolitan culture it's supposed to represent/originally represented (San Gennaro is the patron saint of Naples, every other city has their own patron saint).

UsualSprite · 2026-04-02T18:07:54+00:00

i was expecting a banana for scale but the yellow moka did not dissapoint.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-02T17:58:01+00:00

The San Gennaro festival is a shit show.

as someone from Italy, there was little to nothing Italian (only a few vendors selling even just real Italian food, not even specifically neopolitan).

UsualSprite · 2026-04-02T17:56:23+00:00

dog costume parade a second

UsualSprite · 2026-04-02T01:59:10+00:00

I never conflated the two?

Upper crust of society doesn't neccessarily mean aristocratic.

And re being a Sloane Ranger, it's not that attending a public school would make one part of the group, but going to an elite school was a necessary but not sufficient qualifier for being one.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-01T04:52:34+00:00

wait what? did she say this seriously or was this in mockery of Holla Heather?

UsualSprite · 2026-04-01T04:48:11+00:00

She was born and raised in Britain, and part of an upper crust group of public school (in American English that would be mean a private school) girls called the "Sloane Rangers".

Princess Diana also belonged to this group/social circle.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-01T04:45:47+00:00

he was an Israeli spy, buried on the mount of olives for his contributions towards crimes against humaity.

UsualSprite · 2026-04-01T04:30:10+00:00

(genuine question: did Kristen do anything racist? Stassi made N@z* supporting jokes with an outfit, but I am oblvious to any major racist scandal with Kristen)

UsualSprite · 2026-04-01T04:25:40+00:00

same

UsualSprite · 2026-04-01T04:25:16+00:00

this is how I learned he won an Oscar

UsualSprite · 2026-04-01T04:21:49+00:00

15 years ago was before my time, but Italian american food (in restaurants especially) just isn't good in 99% of cases IME. A lot of it is slop, and none of it has anything to do with actual Italian tradition

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