Cranky Cold War Vet
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Cranky Cold War Vet
@Bhess
Las Vegas native, business owner, disabled veteran (Army), I like to cook and bake too. Astros fan. Milk Chocolate is far superior to dark chocolate.
Las Vegas, NV Katılım Ağustos 2008
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@pammalamma @Austen IKR?
He was very food insecure.
He did all the grocery shopping. The frig was packed to the gills at all times.
Even when they were going away for business a couple weeks or so he'd be at the store buying a roast my grandmother would have to give to the neighbors.
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@Austen I tend to make stuff where I'll get at least another meal out of.
Or I'll make a pot of beans and eat those over the course of a few days. I'll eat something different during that time though.
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@CartoonsHateHer In college I well remember my roommate and I rejoicing when the Taco Bell up the street would have a one day 19 cent taco sale.
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It's actually very normal and not "dsytopian" for 20-somethings living with roommates to make like a 4-ingredient stir fry with chicken, garlic, noodles and soy sauce. This was my life for years (no, my parents weren't sending my money) and it was absolutely fine.
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I'm late to the party on this but the DoorDash discourse kind of reminds me of "nobody can have kids anymore" discourse because our idea of what "cooking" entails is like, a top privileged expert chef you saw on NYT or social media and not what cooking really is.
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@pammalamma @Austen You hear some stories from them.
My grandfather would have to chase down his dad on payday and get money from him at the bars he was drinking at before he spent it all so they would have money to eat.
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I’m willing to say when I’m wrong. So far the VA health care has exceeded local health care options by a mile. Easy scheduling, care coordinator who’s calls me to check that everything is getting done, competent physician, minimal wait times. Lovell VA is doing a great job. I like my Endeavor doctor a lot but this is a new world for me.
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8 euros is too much for that meal the guy presented.
I worked at hotel/casinos in Vegas and they had free meals for employees. Food a lot better than what that guy presented.
We're talking about dining facilities that served 3000-5000 employees.
They didn't want us leaving property so they paid for our meal time and our food.
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hello from Germany. when you stay at the hospital and they feed you from the cafeteria this is what you get. also you can get a full meal combo for $10.99 from Jersey Mike’s and the sub is so huge that you can eat it for dinner too.
Littoria@Littoria14
This is what an ordinary German factory worker can get at his employer provided cafeteria for 8 Euros: Breaded veal, veggies, french fries and mashed potatoes, a dessert and a soft drink. Anywhere in the USA, this same exact meal will cost you 30, maybe 40 with tip. So no, don't listen to conservatives, they are paid to gaslight you to protect Trump and the GOP. The American economy is structured to maximize shareholder profits at the expense of everything and everyone. That is not how economies work in normal first or second world countries, where there is much more balance between capital and labor.
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@pammalamma @Austen In my leaner and younger years I ate a lot of cheap meals and never really felt food insecure.
Depression era grandparents told how bad they had it and I never had it that bad.
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DEVELOPING: Multiple outlets are reporting this morning that Tom Hardy has been fired from MobLand’s 3rd season for being consistently late & clashing with producers. Season 1 of MobLand impressed me, which is why this news sort of sucks. Hardy worked well with Pierce Brosnan.
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Sweden almost built the ultimate piston fighter… just a few years too late.
The Saab J27 looked like a love child between a Spitfire and a P-51 Mustang, but under the skin it was something else entirely:
• Swedish 24-cylinder monster engine
• Contra-rotating propellers
• Heavy armament
• Designed for extreme speed and climb performance
It may have become one of the most advanced propeller fighters ever built.
Then jet engines arrived… and instantly made projects like this obsolete.
So Saab pivoted.
The lessons from the cancelled J27 helped shape the Saab 29 Tunnan — Sweden’s first true jet fighter.
The J27 never flew. But you can almost see an alternate timeline where Sweden entered the 1950s with the deadliest prop fighter on Earth. 😎✈️
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Americans do eat a lot.
I wonder how much of that is from grandparents/parents that were in the Depression or soon afterward.
Food security was a big deal to grandparents when I was a kid.
The whole you aren't leaving the table till you eat everything was drilled into many of us.
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The American diet has a lot of meat in it. We are some protein hounds.
That's expensive to many around the world.
I remember reading a story about French troops commenting on the Americans they met in AFG. They commented on how big Americans were muscle-wise.
It's like you can see some of those boys in Ukraine are some corn fed boys, big boys.
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When I lived in Ukraine an old guy demanded that I tell him what food Americans eat nearly every night (looking for borscht equivalent).
He was convinced I was lying.
Eventually he stood up and said, “You mean to tell me your mother prepares a different meal every day?”
Brien Jackson@Brien_Jackson
I can stop you right at the first one: This idea that you just HAVE to have completely different cuisines every single meal is in fact a sign that you have a serious problem with dopamine addiction and social media induced psychosis
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Tom Hardy has been fired from ‘MOBLAND’ and won't return for Season 3.
He allegedly clashed with producers after being consistently late to set and attempting to give notes & change dialogue on the series.
(Source: puck.news/newsletter_con…)
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When I was a bachelor, I made pretty good money right out of college so I splurged and got Cambell’s chunky instead of the condensed soups.
Carly@RhyminCarly
I agree with this, but I’d like to add that the cooking illiterate can still: -heat canned soup in microwave -throw together a sandwich -heat up a frozen dinner -buy from places that don’t cost $28 None of which costs $28
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The Democrat party is slowly being taken over by socialists and Islamists.
Kalshi Politics@KalshiPolitics
NEW ALL-TIME HIGH: Abdul El-Sayed has a 63% chance to win the Michigan Democratic Senate Primary
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@El__Bohemio My grandfather did the shopping and he kept that frig packed at all times.
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@Bhess Mine was an orphan during the great depression. Food was her security blanket. You visit her and she would make sure to fill you full of food before you left.
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I grew up with a mother who was an accomplished baker but regular cooking was straight from a cardboard box.
First thing I did when I went away to college was learn to make food I acttually wanted to eat.
"I have no clue where you learned this from. It wasn't me". -- My mother after I returned home to care for her full time.
It's not difficult to do and you can get damned good at it.
The Gormogons@Gormogons
GP It's intimidating to start cooking when you have no experience with it. You're going to make mistakes. It's okay. Start with easy stuff you like. Chili isn't hard. Even making yourself a burger is rewarding. You'll get more confidence and get better at it as you do more of it. Like with everything else.
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@Ruffin_Shot @JXakc @lizealivi @potatoslav I’m not Mormon but I am informed.
Temple is a big place and non Mormons are only allowed in before it is dedicated officially.
The regular church for Mormons are called wards.
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i never met a Mormon irl until one weekend my husband and i were bored and he said hey we should go to Hill Cumorah and i was like what is that. and he was like it’s where Joseph Smith got the gold plates and started Mormonism and it’s 25 minutes from our house. so i was like yeah whatever. we thought it was literally just a hill but no. it’s a pilgrimage site. there’s a Building. we gotta go in, he says. absolutely not. he insists. we go in. i am wearing a miniskirt and fishnets at the Very Serious Pilgrimage site. they want to give us a tour. they insist. husband is thrilled. they clearly view him as the patriarch and me as some sort of Fallen Woman. there’s a room with a giant Jesus where we sit first. then there’s a museum. then a shockingly high budget reenactment film of the birth of mormonism. then they finally let us go to the hill and there was a monument covered with the most ladybugs i’ve ever seen in my life. all the women are wearing floor length skirts and i am dressed like Elvira. anyway when we got back down to the center they gave us both our own books of Mormon and bookmarked pages for us and that was my first and only experience with Mormons.
defleppardfan94@lemonade_grrrl
why is cultural mormonism on the rise
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