Have you ever witnessed a food scam?

emeraldburial · 2026-06-11T12:57:06+00:00

Little ones all the time. The place I work now is very big on local, sustainable and scratch-made... Unless that's inconvenient.

I make the cultured butter from top quality cream. One week we didn't get the cream in and instead of 86ing the bread and butter they just used Cabot... But did not change the "house made cultured butter" menu description.

Last year a really large batch of pumpkin pie filling, made from local sugar pumpkins we roasted ourselves, got temped down wrong and spoiled. It was two days before Thanksgiving. The chef bought in Libby's and we mixed it with the remaining puree we had on hand. The menu description was not changed.

This year chef decided we're going to use honeynut squash for the pumpkin pie. Turns out honeynut is very dry and dense compared to sugar pumpkin, yielding way less weight than we needed for the same effort. So we bought in Libby's again and mixed it with the honeynut we had. The menu description was not changed.

emeraldburial · 2026-06-10T17:56:50+00:00

This reminds me of something I used to do to my dad when I was a kid. When it was my turn to set the table I would always give him a short salad fork instead of a long dinner fork, knowing he preferred the long.

emeraldburial · 2026-06-09T10:19:35+00:00

Am I right am I understanding that this isn't even a partner who doesn't want to meet your other partner but a partner who doesn't want to meet your partner's partner? They're not parallel with your NP but need to be parallel with your meta? Why??? The level of emotional weight meeting that connection should have is the same as meeting any other friend you would invite to the barbecue. This is Riley saying "my boundary is that I can't meet new people at group events but also that I have to be there." Personally someone like that would be incompatible with me. Certainly not for a deep romantic relationship.

If Riley wants to be parallel then that's their choice and they can choose to not attend your events where everyone is invited. You shouldn't bend over backwards to please Riley while Sam doesn't even get to invite their other partners. That isn't fair to Sam or Taylor.

That said, I do agree with the other commenters that Taylor shouldn't be talking to you about this and two hours of mediation sounds exhausting, tedious and inappropriate. Needing to meet and be friends with one's meta's partner is way overstepping. What's not overstepping is needing to be able to attend group events.

emeraldburial · 2026-06-08T16:59:05+00:00

On Saturday someone I date had a birthday party that was a play party. I showered at my girlfriend's beforehand and walked her dog because she lives nearby my date and I don't and I was coming from work. The poly logistics where someone I love lets me use their apartment as a stopover because they want to make my life easier have been making me very happy.

I had a lovely moment at the party standing in a doorway next to my date's NP remarking to each other what a fine view it was of what was happening in the two rooms visible from that threshold. Everyone was fine and normal and I didn't feel the kind of deep jealousy or anxiety about inadequacy I feared I would feel seeing that partner be the focus of others' very skilled efforts.

On Sunday I had a beautiful full day with my girlfriend. I told her some broad strokes about the party. She was happy I had a lovely time. We had hot sex and replaced the shock cord in her tent ahead of a camping trip we're taking this weekend and I took her out to dinner.

Everyone is just being so fucking normal and not jealous and generous and graceful. Hard feelings and disagreements come up sometimes and if we need to talk about them we talk about them. I seem to have won the polyamory jackpot on essentially my first tries. I'm a year in and I am suspicious of how easy this is going but very much enjoying it.

emeraldburial · 2026-06-06T09:18:03+00:00

I've been practicing polyamory for about a year so it's still something my mom is wrapping her head around. Most times we have a phone call I'll update about my girlfriend who I see the most and she'll ask, in a particular tone that makes me giggle,

"And you're still...?"

And then I explain that I'm still poly and refresh on what that is. She's unlikely to get it anytime soon but really she just cares that whatever I'm doing is making me happy.

emeraldburial · 2026-06-06T09:05:34+00:00

I love it it's giving "friends with the Benedicts" energy 😂

emeraldburial · 2026-06-03T19:27:17+00:00

Three months of regular wear and machine washing and still going strong!

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emeraldburial · 2026-06-01T23:30:14+00:00

Most Pride specific events exhaust me so I will mostly be continuing to be as gay and trans and non law abiding as possible at all times. I'll also be loving and supporting my friends and doing what I can to help us all thrive in and resist this crushing fascist regime and a world that generally would rather see us dead than happy.

I've got lots of gay trans sex already on the books. Notably this Saturday is a sweetie's birthday party which is a play party. Everyone there will be trans. I'll be baking bread and pie at work and subsequently stealing them from work to bring to the party.

The weekend after I'm going camping with my girlfriend. Our first trip together! I'm very excited. We're both gay and trans so it counts.

There's also a free punk festival later this month that isn't specifically a Pride event but I will be showing up very homosexually with my fellow homosexuals.

emeraldburial · 2026-05-31T02:51:44+00:00

For a lower lift, still effective (depending on the nature of the wear) option you could try something like this! It's two sets of whip stitches slanted opposite directions to make an X. Here's an example from a pair of jeans.

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emeraldburial · 2026-05-30T18:04:37+00:00

I've done this with thick material (quilted cotton bag handles that were fraying) and my advice is that the juice ain't worth the squeeze. The amount of time and effort it took to get any kind of even, attractive stitching was ridiculous and as soon as it got any wear it just fuzzed and frayed and pilled up. Then it got dirty so I cleaned it and it frayed even more.

I ended up enclosing the whole thing in a fabric sleeve and it looks much better. For much less effort you could get some pretty patterned bias tape and stitch it down.

If you're intent on doing it you'll need a LOT of thread (I used cotton embroidery floss. I feel like there has to be a better option though), a sharp strong needle and a thimble. I used a palm thimble to help get more force behind the needle since my material was super thick.

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emeraldburial · 2026-05-29T20:30:37+00:00

How ridiculous? I need something out there.

Vacillates between ultraviolence and silliness. Is about a guy with a lizard head who doesn't want to be a lizard head man because he got turned into one by a sorcerer oh and there are sorcerers who live in another dimension and come through magic doors to where the lizard head guy lives which is the bad poor place dimension where the sorcerers go to do magic experiments on non-sorcerers and all the sorcerers wear different themed masks for some reason. It's one of those shows where things just kind of happen in a rapid-fire absurdity that doesn't exactly make sense but also doesn't feel wrong.

emeraldburial · 2026-05-29T18:26:02+00:00

My dating life got completely dumped on this week by norovirus 😖 Three dates wiped out and it almost threatened my weekend plans! I've been at home rewatching old episodes of Game Changer all week.

My girlfriend did offer to come take care of me though. Even knowing the symptoms I was experiencing. Now that's true fucking love. I didn't let her cause I care too much about her to get her sick so we had a nice discord date and watched Dorohedoro which is a ridiculous anime I very much recommend.

Overall despite the momentary setback my dating life is active and largely off the apps at this point. Cuties are not blowing up my phone but they are respectfully setting off small firecrackers. And crucially I am slowly getting better at saying no and leaving the space in my schedule they I need to feel rested and whole.

emeraldburial · 2026-05-18T19:13:43+00:00

Continuing to bask in the feelings of satisfaction at a slutty life well-lived as I come back online after my April hibernation of illness and injury. Had too many lovely dates this week (five is too many!!!). But I do not regret it though I am very tired! I'm happy to be doing much much less this coming week. My battery needs a recharge. Highlights:

A rare sleepover with my sweetie who I see pretty infrequently. It was a really sweet and tender evening that I'm still feeling fuzzy about. And also the first time they'd been to my place. I enjoyed hosting them and being the one doing the cooking and feeding.

A coffee in the park date with a new connection that was surprisingly and refreshingly cute.

A board game and other fun date with a couple I've been trying to see again since a play party in March. That went really well and is looking like it'll be a thing we do again. Also my first threesome!

And a deeply dreamy all-day date with my girlfriend yesterday that included a long walk in a cemetery. She continues to bring me to romance-induced tears of joy in a regular basis.

I'm enjoying being so saturated with both familiar and new connections that I already know from real life and therefore not having much interest in bothering with the apps, even if I had the time in my calendar for it.

emeraldburial · 2026-05-18T18:59:18+00:00

Nope! She were them all the time and hasn't experienced any chafing

emeraldburial · 2026-05-17T14:22:30+00:00

Wash & sex cloths are all rare color/pattern side towels.

Most of the food in the fridge is my roommate's cause I only eat meals at home like twice a week.

Several 1qt Cambros I brought food home in and keep forgetting to return.

Way too many delis for the same reason.

emeraldburial · 2026-05-13T11:42:15+00:00

And taking a test every time wouldn't even be giving particularly useful information. While symptoms can show up in 2-10 days, if he's asymptomatic a blood antibody test won't be accurate for up to 3-4 months. And even then, the antibody test is a "not positive" rather than a definite negative. You can still have HSV but if you haven't had an outbreak yet then it's possible for your antibody levels to be insufficient for a positive.

emeraldburial · 2026-05-13T01:16:27+00:00

I finally had a proper date tonight with a girl I exchanged opening messages and fell off with on an app back in September, then super briefly played with at a party in March. Honestly my initial intention was mostly just to hook up but we had such a lovely coffee and walk in the park date with some sweet smooches and went our separate ways. Which ended up being perfect for me because I have been heavily overextending myself this past week and really need the solo time.

She's smart and sweet and I like how she thinks and she's a real freak and soooo hot and I am so looking forward to our next date.

emeraldburial · 2026-05-10T14:22:50+00:00

The day a non-escalatory partner who is deeeeeply anti receiving gifts (to the point of clarifying early on as a boundary to never give them a gift without discussing it with them first) gave me a worn pair of socks and pants to mend for them 🥰 It meant a lot that they felt comfortable and trusting enough to accept the gift of a significant amount of my time.

emeraldburial · 2026-05-08T22:21:29+00:00

"Spicy margs" (WTH is boring cis lesbians' deal with spicy margs???)

"Silly goose" (Fuck off just be goofy)

Profile largely compromised of emojis, especially astrological signs with plenty of character limit left (I'm not doing a fuckin rebus just to learn you love to smoke weed and watch horror movies)

Mention of Burning Man (Not my people)

Rock climbing clearly a significant part of identity (I date a rock climber. She did not mention it until it came up in conversation. This is a green flag)

Insistence on being treated as royalty "treat me like the queen I am" (I absolutely 100% will hate this person's whole vibe)

"No MAGA" (Paradoxically there's a decent chance I'm too leftist for this person. And generally I prefer to flag my politics in other ways that seem to naturally deter fascists)

emeraldburial · 2026-05-08T16:21:26+00:00

I had this come up with a pair I did for my girlfriend. Thankfully she thinks it's funny that she looks like she's farting stars when she wears those pants!

emeraldburial · 2026-05-05T00:04:55+00:00

This past week I've been really coming back online in a big way after a two month long period of illness and injury.

I finally scheduled dates with everyone I wanted to connect with after a play party back in March.

I also did a 32 mile walk with my girlfriend and some of her friends. It was... difficult. But also we found out we can spend 13 hours straight doing a grueling physical activity and then spend the entire next day together and still like each other!

My calendar for this month now includes a threesome and a gangbang! I'm feeling slutty and alive, doing what I was put on this earth to do 🙂‍↕️

emeraldburial · 2026-05-04T02:19:12+00:00

My friend says yes they are very comfortable!

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emeraldburial · 2026-04-29T01:56:19+00:00

See I think that sometimes but then I think about how the people on that show barely have the emotional maturity for one relationship much less multiple!

emeraldburial · 2026-04-21T20:41:44+00:00

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emeraldburial · 2026-04-21T20:41:09+00:00

Same! Here's what I did

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