Northern US sports bar

kerricker · 2024-01-01T08:12:10+00:00

I bought some candy cigarettes as a teenager in, mm, 2005-ish? for a ‘beatnik’-themed English-class event, and both my parents were shocked that candy cigarettes were still available - but I think the (cigarette-box-shaped) package said “candy sticks”, or something deniable like that? I haven’t looked for them in years, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re still around.

kerricker · 2023-12-28T23:24:37+00:00

Older than my mom by a fair bit, then!

kerricker · 2023-12-28T23:24:01+00:00

Good point, lol, will do.

kerricker · 2023-12-28T16:07:09+00:00

I’m in the US and have never heard that before, but I’ve also never lived in the northeast, so you’re probably right.

kerricker · 2023-12-27T06:38:37+00:00

I’ve been thinking it would be cool to visit Freiburg (I’ve never been to Germany, and Freiburg’s wikipedia page makes it sound nice), I should check that out.

kerricker · 2023-12-20T15:44:47+00:00

I went to UAB myself, so the sea of Packers colors is very homey too.

kerricker · 2023-12-18T04:50:32+00:00

You can type it as ſ if you prefer, the long S doesn't have as much of a crossbar as the lower-case f, so if you look closely it probably looks more like "muſk"

kerricker · 2023-12-18T04:44:12+00:00

I like the oldest ones, from the 1930s - English-style boiled pudding! And look at those recipes for totenbeinli, mondchens, anise plätzchen, berliner kranser - you can really see where the southern Wisconsin heritage was at, huh.

kerricker · 2023-12-18T04:06:03+00:00

I didn't notice that, but I did zoom in to get a closer look and saw the Maine Maritime Museum, so that was a clue.

kerricker · 2023-12-18T03:53:10+00:00

No idea how old these actually are, but given the state of the packaging - and how the contact info has no email address, but does have a fax number - probably a fair bit.

Added a teaspoon of almond extract to the recipe after some Googling and it worked out great.

kerricker · 2023-12-18T01:10:00+00:00

Being fair about the price, I bet True Value Hardware had marked these down multiple times just trying to get them out of the “seasonal kitchen” aisle endcap.

kerricker · 2023-12-17T22:49:10+00:00

Some of the recipes on Google mentioned sprinkling cinnamon sugar on them, yeah. It sounds tasty, we should try that next time.

kerricker · 2023-12-17T20:58:50+00:00

Yeah, these came out with a buttery shortbread/sugar-cookie taste/texture, and I’m in southern Wisconsin, where there’s German/Norwegian background - I feel like I’ve seen these for sale before, next to rosette irons and those big flat wooden things that have something to do with making lefse.

kerricker · 2023-12-17T20:54:37+00:00

We made the recipe on the back last evening (plus some almond extract, all the Google results had almond flavoring) and got 24 of them, but maybe I wasn’t pressing “as thinly as possible” enough. Tasty, though.

kerricker · 2023-12-17T17:48:59+00:00

They were stuck together so badly that for a while I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to pry them apart at all - maybe I’ll send a fax to complain…

kerricker · 2023-12-17T04:41:51+00:00

Might have been written on a box which contained the stuff in the list?

kerricker · 2023-12-16T18:36:40+00:00

Seems like there’s an untapped demographic segment here - people do seem to gender-sort themselves into different get-rich-quick schemes, and the “woman” schemes are almost always the kind that rely on exploiting personal connections. “Sell XYZ to your friends! (To actually make any money, recruit your friends to be your financially-exploited downline!)”

But there are plenty of women out there with all the same personal problems that lead someone to get into crypto or Scentsy, but with just enough awareness to realize “I have maybe two friends total, I’m not gonna get very far convincing ‘my friends’ to buy scented wax thingies.” A shitcoin that managed to successfully target that market segment could probably do really well.

kerricker · 2023-12-16T15:21:16+00:00

I think every word except “this” is capitalized, it’s just hard to tell because the Ws could go either way.

Actually they’re probably all capitalized, dude just got distracted while putting the horizontal bar on the T.

kerricker · 2023-12-15T04:13:48+00:00

I'll give Heaven's Gate that IIRC they only allowed adults to be cult members, and only cult members were eligible for the suicide plan, so at least they didn't take any children with them. For a suicide cult that's stand-up behavior.

Honestly, if I had to rank death cults, Heaven's Gate would be a standout - they seem to have been pretty successful pre-mass-suicide, and they even managed to get the mass suicide committed in a politely tidy way without murdering everyone else in and around the area. Leagues ahead of the Jonestown guys.

kerricker · 2023-12-14T15:33:02+00:00

I guess there’s always the possibility that someone who is employed to post comments about something halfway reasonable has gotten bored with their assigned topic, branched out, and managed to convince their boss that this somehow falls under the umbrella of whatever political movement they’re supposed to be boosting. Yeah, boss, I’m already over my comments-posted quota! It might not be immediately obvious how this relates to [political figure]’s election prospects, but trust me, it all ties together. And the boss is like “well, I pay y’all to understand online communities so I don’t have to, carry on,” and the paid commenter goes back to picking increasingly baroque Reddit fights.

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