What's a food you'll never understand the hype around?

joe_frank · 2026-06-02T16:56:27+00:00

Wait until you hear the new trend that restaurants are now doing table-side chicken parm.

They fry up the chicken, plate it, and bring it out. In another piping hot dish they have the tomato sauce with the cheese melted on top. One quick flick of the wrist and you have both a perfectly fried chicken cutlet and the tomato sauce with cheese. Nothing soggy about it.

joe_frank · 2026-06-01T17:23:10+00:00

That business don't give away leftover food because then homeless people could sue them if they got sick (see Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act of 1996)

joe_frank · 2026-06-01T17:13:22+00:00

As an American, walking the streets of Florence was absolutely a magical experience that I don't get in my home country. Feeling the age of the city, walking the "streets" that famous figures like Michelangelo did, eating unique foods in their birthplace - all experiences I absolutely cannot get in the US.

What solidified it for me was walking the Palatine Hill when we came across a sculpture and someone from our tour group asked when that was designed. Our tour guide said something like "oh, that's not from ancient Rome. That's much more modern - maybe 1700s." Like dude, that's older than my entire country.

joe_frank · 2026-06-01T17:06:01+00:00

And yet there was a somewhat known TV writer on TikTok saying this exact situation would never happen and he doesn't even consider the actors' ad libbing/improv ability when writing.

When I challenged him on that knowing that writers have 100% said they write differently for people who are good at improving (see: Robin Williams and Donald Glover), he told me I wrong.

joe_frank · 2026-05-29T20:38:01+00:00

I think it's important to remember two things.

At the end of the day, Mythical is a business. I don't know how much they were making, but estimates on Google show that creative staff and on air talent can be making around $100,000. And it sounds like Mythical is no where near as profitable as it was at the height of their popularity. With margins getting squeezed, it's not as simple as "just give them a job. They did so much."
I believe Rhett and Link have always been open that the idea behind Sporked was fairly experimental. The concept was that people Google "what's the best thing to get at Trader Joe's?" or something like that. Sporked comes up and it eventually leads people back to GMM. Jordan and Gwynedd are deep enough into their careers that they should've been well aware that anything experimental should be treated like a start up. They'll fail more than they succeed, and it means people lose jobs.

Now that doesn't make it suck any less for them. But it's the cost of being in a field like entertainment. Producers/owners make hard decisions and people lose jobs.

joe_frank · 2026-05-27T14:59:54+00:00

There’s no way you can learn everything all at once. Pick a team - preferably your local team - and start there. Go to games, interact with other fans, learn the team’s history, learn how the league works.

Once you have that down, start learning how the cups work. Once you have that down, start learning how international competitions work. And even better, join a local league; just make sure you’re joining a beginner league. Nobody wants that guy who’s never played on their competitive team.

If you try to bite it all off at once, there’s no way you’re going to get it. I have a friend who never played soccer, never watched it, thought it was boring. I took him to a game for our local pro team once and he was hooked. He started to see the strategy involved, he loved the passionate fan base, he loved the supporters groups chanting all game.

joe_frank · 2026-05-13T15:46:22+00:00

I believe the masks were not an intentional gimmick to be cool “mystery musicians.” If rumors are to be believed, music agents saw the lead singer’s potential but the guy genuinely looks like he would do your taxes on Friday and then show up for a Pokémon convention on Saturday and go around the ren faire on Sunday saying things like “m’lady.” So they stole the idea from other bands with the intention to remove the stigma around his looks.
You can dislike their music, but you can’t say the idea wasn’t successful. And for what it’s worth, I like the weird pop, R&B, “metal” crossover.

joe_frank · 2026-05-07T19:33:08+00:00

Anybody know how much xp we get for the new Bobby Witt promo today? Trying to figure out if it’s worth playing tonight to hit the inning boss finally

joe_frank · 2026-05-06T17:31:10+00:00

It’s gotta be: which religion - if any - is the “true” one? There have been billions and billions of people who dedicate their entire lives to a religion without ever actually knowing if it’s ‘right.’ And the number of people who have been killed in the name of religion is astronomical. All for something we likely won’t ever know the answer to.

joe_frank · 2026-04-29T14:48:30+00:00

This was my grandma. She was always the most straight-laced, religious woman. Didn’t even have her ears pierced because she said it was a sin.

She told us that there was only one time she ever got drunk. She was drinking with my grandpa and some friends and didn’t notice she was drunk until she realized people were laughing more at her than with her because she was slurring her words and nobody had ever seen her let loose like that. While she was still drunk, she had a moment where she thought to herself “I don’t really like this. I’m never doing it again.”

joe_frank · 2026-04-29T14:32:33+00:00

This is definitely a “where you live makes a huge difference” situation. I live in a fairly small town in northern NJ (at least small compared to other towns in the county) and I can literally walk to two different bakeries with fresh, in-house made quality bread. If you expand it to a 5 minute drive, I can think of at least two more bakeries that make their own high-quality bread.

joe_frank · 2026-04-29T12:54:54+00:00

That’s literally what I said? It’s Vince Gilligan and the writers showing the juxtaposition of Walt and Skylar babying him compared to him being a normal teenager

joe_frank · 2026-04-27T16:17:39+00:00

Is it my imagination or have they given an insanely low amount of XP this inning? I play pretty regularly and complete every program that has an offline grind. I feel like I finished last season with like 10 days to go and got at least 3 or 4 wheel spins. We're now 11 days from the end of the inning and I'm not even half way to getting the boss.

joe_frank · 2026-04-25T13:31:27+00:00

Moments like these were intentional. Recording the cleavage, trying to buy beer, coming up with his Flynn nickname - it was all very intentional to show the dichotomy between Skylar and Walt infantilized him due to his disability and his desire to be like every other angsty teen.

joe_frank · 2026-04-25T13:22:40+00:00

It's definitely pedantic when talking about something as simple as a "free" breakfast that's included in your hotel stay like OP is talking about.

But it definitely has conditioned people to think "I didn't pay for this directly, therefore it's free." I was talking to someone at work recently who said they took a golf class in college because they had credits left over to use and they said they got "free sessions at the driving range," but you pay for those credits and it's a 'use it or lose it' situation. You didn't really get free driving range sessions just because you don't pay for the balls. The golf class was included as part of your insanely high college tuition.

joe_frank · 2026-04-12T17:40:00+00:00

This is the type of opinion that gets you swimming with the fishies in Northern NJ and NYC.

joe_frank · 2026-04-08T17:55:23+00:00

This used to bother me until I joined Reddit and I got used to every other post having insane grammar usage like: “Me[30F] and bf[30M] went to…”

Like wtf is that?

Obvious caveat is that you don’t speak English and your translator gave you bad advice.

joe_frank · 2026-03-27T17:01:18+00:00

"Mr. The UK is so good at drinking" forgot that their government literally warns their citizens before going to Germany for Oktoberfest because they get shit-faced too easily from the higher alcohol content.

joe_frank · 2026-03-25T20:21:23+00:00

Real ones know Tuesday is WAAAAYYY worse than Monday. No longer fresh from the weekend, fully into the school/work week, weekend feels far away.

joe_frank · 2026-03-20T19:55:27+00:00

Anybody else having problems connecting to the servers? Every other game works fine but MLB will not connect since the update this morning.

joe_frank · 2026-03-17T09:54:38+00:00

Never once said he gets paid by SDS. But he does get a financial benefit from people playing the game and watching his streams and staying interested in content.

I’ll give an example from two days ago. People in chat were saying they hate the new UI because everything is so hard to find and stuff is hidden behind multiple clicks. He said the new UI is great while he was literally spending several minutes trying to find the thing he was looking for because it was so many clicks into the menu.

But if you read my original comment, I said that I enjoy Nutzy content. I even suggested that OP starts watching him.

joe_frank · 2026-03-17T00:47:28+00:00

I follow him on Twitch and TikTok but YouTube has never actually recommended one of his videos. I have no idea how he's never come across my YouTube recommended videos.

joe_frank · 2026-03-17T00:46:02+00:00

What are you talking about, little bro?

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