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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Oreos are 3 cookies to a serving.

    Frequently servings are fairly close to 1 ounce. Oreos are a little over an ounce for 3 cookies at 34 grams.

    This isn’t necessarily a serving suggestion. They’d actually very much like it if you ate an entire sleeve in a sitting, 3 times a day.

    It’s only there so you can calculate with excruciating detail exactly how many grams of sugar you just swallowed when you stuffed the middle of 4 cookies together.


  • Wogi@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldHear something, say something
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    2 days ago

    They think this is a culture war. They believe they are at war with ideas they do not like.

    They will not give ground until forced to do so. They will only do so begrudgingly, and insincerely, waiting for the day they can claw it back.

    They see you as an enemy, and they give themselves rage chubbies at the thought of refusing to negotiate.

    Absolutely, if you hear this nonsense, call it out, but be prepared for it to escalate.

    Let’s return to a time when saying that crap out loud was enough to end a career. Make them afraid to be bigoted in public again.










  • Kind of?

    The electoral college is no longer functioning as designed, and so voters in certain less populated areas have slightly more weight per vote than those in heavily populated areas. Only because the number of districts was artificially capped. So some districts have more people than several states do.

    States also get two bonus votes for some reason.

    The argument was that if someone posed a genuine threat to democracy and had a chance at winning the popular vote, the delegates could step in and vote for someone else.

    A consequence of that, is that exactly the opposite can happen too.





  • Wogi@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldA step too far
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    10 days ago

    I blame Alton Brown.

    Hear me out.

    Alton Brown is undoubtedly a legendary figure and he did a lot of good for the modern state of culinary entertainment. His scientific, experimental approach was authoritative. He came up with what was scientifically the best way to do a thing, demonstrated why, and did it in a very entertaining way.

    But with that, came scores of fans who saw “this is the best way to do a thing” and interpreted that as “this is the only way to do a thing, fuck you you’re doing it wrong.”

    Alton wasn’t doing what other TV chefs were doing. Emeril and Julia presented really good recipes, they’d add some flare and say hey, this is how we do it around here. Bourdain explored the world and showed off a lot of great ways to cook. He was reluctant to criticize and clearly just loved the food.

    But Alton Brown, for all the good he did, opened up authority to fans who didn’t know shit about fuck. He spoke with confidence about how his method was the right method.

    Right about the time the Internet was coming in to it’s own and arguing about nonsense online became a hobby a person could have.

    Now, there’s a culture of being right about cooking online. People who log in every day just to bitch about how somebody else cooked something.

    Obviously it’s not exclusively Alton’s fault, and Alton is as open to new and interesting ways to cook things as Bourdain was, a fact you’ll discover if he ever happens to visit your home town and read what he says about the food there on his Facebook page.

    But there is a through line there, and it starts at Good Eats.