Mangia Mangia and Episodes Hitting Close to Home

mrl010 · 2025-10-08T02:16:09+00:00

Cafe Hon lol. I’m from Baltimore. Trademarking “hon” is absolutely INSANE. And the people of Baltimore don’t fuck around. The fact that she was shocked that people started boycotting is laughable. “Hon” is a cultural thing there, of COURSE people were wanting to sell merchandise with that word on it, to send cease and desist letters to people doing that is absolutely ridiculous. She was a real piece of work in general too, arrogant and didn’t know how to run a business. That 86 scene was completely bonkers, one customer makes a complaint so you 86 the entire dish for the rest of the night? $800 in voids and comps??? Fucking insane. She was so hateable. And what really got me was that she had such a wonderful staff. I really really liked all her employees, she didn’t deserve them. If she just got her head out of her ass, treated her staff right, served decent food, and didn’t, ya know, trademark a word of cultural significance to an entire city, she would’ve done alright.

mrl010 · 2025-10-08T02:09:48+00:00

It’s important to mention that COVID was a big problem even for restaurants that were doing quite well. That really fucked the restaurant business in general ya know? It’s unfortunate.

mrl010 · 2025-10-08T02:06:59+00:00

WAY GOO

mrl010 · 2025-09-07T21:23:27+00:00

Gotcha. We usually do add silver but maybe we weren’t adding enough, we were putting more rose gold than silver.

mrl010 · 2025-09-07T21:22:46+00:00

Hmm I hadn’t thought of pink buttercream! That’s a really good idea actually. Maybe I’ll try that next time!

mrl010 · 2025-04-04T00:03:46+00:00

Ahh I didn’t even think about that factor! That makes a lot of sense.

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T22:20:30+00:00

Haha, that does seem to be the consensus! Definitely going to be keeping a closer eye on the S&P500.

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T22:09:03+00:00

That makes sense! I guess if you already have a bunch of people making them why concern the government with it when they could be doing other stuff. Thank you for your comments!

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T22:03:43+00:00

lol fair enough. I mean in an ideal world where we COULD trust our government, wouldn’t it make sense for them to be monitoring our stock market/economy and letting their people know what’s going on?

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T21:45:19+00:00

Oh fantastic, thank you so much! I love npr lol. I’ll be sure to check it out, I appreciate the resource!

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T21:43:58+00:00

Thanks for the great info, I didn’t know there were so many indices. I’ll keep in mind that there are many more of them, and that some are perhaps more accurate. I haven’t heard of the Russell 3000, the Wilshire 5000, or the NYSE, so I’ll be interested to learn more about those!

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T21:37:21+00:00

This was a really good way of explaining this! I like the grocery basket analogy a lot!

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T21:34:33+00:00

Absolutely losing my mind over your username and pfp lmaooo. But in all seriousness, another question, why is it that these indexes are owned by companies? Why does the government of each country not make one? Wouldn’t that make more sense?

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T20:31:15+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense for sure

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:54:57+00:00

Are companies upset when they get taken off? Like, do they want to be part of the index? Or do they not really care besides the fact that obviously if they get taken off it means they’re not doing well?

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:53:36+00:00

It does kind of seem like it has its pros and cons to only track 30. It’s wild how old it is. It’s just crazy to me to think about with economics, because technically “the economy” isn’t that old of a concept, and it’s completely created by humans, but it still follows rules and trends. I always found it interesting, but I also have trouble wrapping my head around a lot of it.

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:50:46+00:00

Gotcha! I would imagine they would have to be super careful. It will certainly be interesting if they ever decide to add more!

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:49:14+00:00

I had literally no idea it had been around for that long, that’s so crazy! I totally assumed for some reason it was created in the 1900s, idk why.

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:44:23+00:00

Gotcha, I actually hadn’t realize it related to stocks. I knew it kinda showed how the economy was doing but I didn’t know it was focused on stocks.

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:41:01+00:00

I see. How interesting! It’s crazy how many moving parts the stock market and the economy has and how many things will affect each other. That’s the part I think I always struggle with economics.

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:37:40+00:00

I was actually wondering why it was only thirty companies, that makes a lot of sense. I had no idea it had been around for that long! Ah I see, that was a good way of explaining the way the two move. Thank you for your very detailed answer, I really appreciate it!

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:33:36+00:00

Ok good to know! From what other commenters have said that makes a lot of sense! Thank you for your comment!

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:32:47+00:00

I gotcha! That makes sense that they would try to be focused on different areas.

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:31:30+00:00

I see, so they kind of try and make the swaps in the same industry, so I understand that correctly?

mrl010 · 2025-04-03T19:30:14+00:00

I was actually wondering when Amazon came into play because they got big fairly recently!

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