start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

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Asian food that you can't take a single fucking bite of without examining it carefully for bone fragments, inedible stems and sticks, fucking eggshells (!?!), etc. Just let me eat your food, that is supposedly what it's for

Dan I., Tuesday, 27 March 2018 02:45 (six years ago) link

xp
yes, also prone to very slight changes in direction so you second guess yourself in overtaking

Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link

People that smoke in National Parks. Fuck you.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link

Do you mean cuz forest fires?

motorpsycho nightmare winningham (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 21:25 (six years ago) link

No. Well, yeah, but also because it's this pristine preserved beautiful wilderness being sullied and defiled by cigarette smoke. And then you see cigarette butts littered all over the place.

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link

xpost I don't think that's "asian food" as much as "shitty restaurant/cook."

Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 22:49 (six years ago) link

there's a type of grilled fish in korean cuisine that is just 70% bones or something and it's served that way and i've gone out with women who love it and i'm like i do not want this obstacle when eating food

likewise with japanese food

luckily it's only the couple of dishes that do it (though samgyetang comes to mind)

i would say it's no big deal/easy to avoid them

i'll eat the bones off that one grilled small fish that japanese make no problems, though

F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link

Broken egg shells aren't really a staple in any culture. I guess lemongrass and bay leaves are things people forget to take out. Stems like cilantro? The stems have a lot of flavor. Bone fragments, I can kind of empathize. It's annoying but some people like to chew on the bones and it's for flavor.

Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link

ya i'll put up with non-fish bones for flavour

fish bones i can't do

you're otm on egg shells for sure

F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link

I had some chicken in a Chinese restaurant once where the chef had cut the pieces up with a cleaver, leaving lots of small but sharp bone fragments throughout. And I'm talking leg bones, not tiny delicate bones.

nickn, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link

Yeah, I am not a fan of eating meat on the bone in general. Some people are way into it.

Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link

What about ribs?

Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link

Nope. Everything better off the bone. Even corn. I hate to do the work.

Yerac, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 23:36 (six years ago) link

Oh, no doubt, I've found gross shit in food from all parts of the world. I just happened to have two recent experiences with an indian place (many, many bone fragments, and sticks) and a thai place (egg shells, and sticks again!). The bone fragments (I'm talking little shards, all smaller than a pinky finger nail and some quite sharp) in the indian are intentional, but still make it nigh impossible to eat and make the dining experience fraught and unpleasant

Dan I., Wednesday, 28 March 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link

the indian place does just as nickn describes; chop everything up, bones and all, and let the customer figure it out. Why do I eat there you ask? Because it's a corporate cafeteria and they're one of the only external vendors and the alternative is flavorless institutional slop!

Dan I., Wednesday, 28 March 2018 01:47 (six years ago) link

I really gotta start packing a lunch

Dan I., Wednesday, 28 March 2018 01:47 (six years ago) link

I don't think this has anything to do with the ethnicity of the food or its preparers. A local bbq place I like walks the line between impressing me with good meats and really irritating the shit out of me because they slice/carve the meat on-demand and the dude who works there on the weekend keeps getting bone fragments in my pulled chicken sandwich

mh, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:09 (six years ago) link

very true. the ethnicity of the restaurants I had bad experiences at was a coincidence. The more general principle for ALL restaurants: keep the inedible tooth-breaking shit out of my meal please!

Dan I., Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link

Yeah, there has been kind of a recent push to look at these feelings and descriptions of certain cultures' food (especially asian) as being dirty or gross or cheap and where that comes from.

Yerac, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link

Goat and chicken bone fragments in every delicious Caribbean curry ever: annoying as hell but no less delicious.

Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link

Nope. Everything better off the bone. Even corn.

gonna have nightmares about corncob skeletons tonight, thx for that

sir chesley bonestell, qc (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 28 March 2018 15:55 (six years ago) link

The New Yorker published this story a few years ago about the Chinese immigrants who work in Chinese restaurants across the country and have to learn how to cook American "Chinese" food. This paragraph near the end always struck me:

When I arrived, the door was wide open, and Rain was sitting at a glass-topped table with his cousin and two friends. They wore plastic gloves to protect their hands as they munched on cured duck heads. Rain poured tea and told me, “Don’t feel like you have to eat the duck head.” A soup-filled wok bubbled on the stove, and his cousin, having retrieved a half bottle of wine he had stashed away, cooked rice noodles in the broth, tossing in oysters and cabbage and a handful of tiny, curled squids. “There’s no name for it,” Rain said. “It’s just a simple soup, with noodles. Call it seafood noodle soup.” He opened kitchen cabinets to show me the ingredients his cousin kept. “You see?” he said. “Chinese people use all of these sauces and ingredients for just one dish.” His cousin, gesturing toward the duck heads, said, “Do you know why Americans don’t like eating meat with bones in it? They’re too lazy!”

pplains, Wednesday, 28 March 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link

With the suddenly popularity of true crime im finding myself more and more infuriated with podcasts (im looking at you sword and scale) as well as all the mass shooting coverage refering to killers as 'Monsters' or 'Evil'. Guess what guys, killers are just like you and me and thats why you should really be terrified.

Right column Leftist (sunny successor), Thursday, 29 March 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link

INTERLEAGUE PLAY

brimstead, Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link

xpost Ha, exactly. Eating meat on the bone is way too much work for me. My mom will sit at the table for hours chewing on the bones. I can't do it.

Yerac, Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link

gonna always think of "corn off the bone" when I see it now, hopefully

just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Thursday, 29 March 2018 20:53 (six years ago) link

Seriously, f eating corn that way. It's not fun and you need floss immediately after.

Yerac, Thursday, 29 March 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link

this is well-trodden ground but jfc I hate ppl who leave their shopping carts in empty parking spaces. Like they don't even attempt to put it somewhere out of the way, it's just sitting in the middle of an empty spot bc they don't give a fuck

I mean, I kind of hate ppl who don't return carts period, but if you really can't be bothered, at least make it so that someone could pull into the space ffs

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:44 (six years ago) link

shopping carts just floating around the parking lot seems so foreign to me, partly because most places near me where you'd conceivably take the cart to your car have the cart corrals throughout the parking lot, and it's incredibly rare that people don't return them

it's some weird regional cultural thing, though, because when I was visiting a friend in another state there were carts all over the place in the grocery store parking lot!

mh, Thursday, 29 March 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link

thames water:

"Please would you rate our service on a scale of 1-5 (where 5 is great)?"

your service? it was an online form - *I* did all the work.

koogs, Friday, 30 March 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link

I answer my grocery store's surveys to get the bonus gas points.

The questions are always Did you interact with anyone in the meat department? Did you interact with anyone in the bakery? Did you interact with anyone in the dairy department? Was your cashier courteous and friendly?

Did I interact with anyone in the dairy department? What, the shadowy figures that lurk behind the gallons of milk and the containers of cream? Are they supposed to greet me? Am I supposed to offer them a confession of my sins? Those guys?

I also didn't interact with anyone in the canned goods. Maybe I'll come back at 4:30 tomorrow morning while they're stocking the shelves.

pplains, Friday, 30 March 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link

Unless, of course, it was the web server that was asking me how it was doing...

koogs, Friday, 30 March 2018 22:32 (six years ago) link

Supermarkets sometimes have cheese counters where you can buy posh cheese. Would that count as dairy dept?

koogs, Friday, 30 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link

It would be awesome to be greeted by the guy behind the milk jugs.

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 30 March 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link

ppl who are not news ppl who post BREAKING when reposting breaking news on social media platforms

forensic plumber (harbl), Friday, 30 March 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link

BREAKING: wind

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 30 March 2018 23:10 (six years ago) link

Did I interact with anyone in the dairy department? What, the shadowy figures that lurk behind the gallons of milk and the containers of cream? Are they supposed to greet me? Am I supposed to offer them a confession of my sins? Those guys?

i've definitely been startled by a presence behind the milk more than once

map, Friday, 30 March 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link

Can I help you find anything, sir?

https://d2w9rnfcy7mm78.cloudfront.net/989448/large_9af265f85ba382837cbb9bfb9109d541.jpg

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 30 March 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link

Our dairy department guys are always shooting the shit about video games and frantically trying to restock the yogurt. People eat so much yogurt.

I hate those surveys that everyone asks you to do on their receipts these days. It's like "hey, you look like a rat. would you rat out the produce guy for a chance to win a $500 gift card? we KNOW the baby spinach leaves aren't fresh. all you have to do is say it and he's gone."

how's life, Saturday, 31 March 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link

When I worked at the liquor store, the keg boys would stand in the coolers and look for shoplifters through the Zima.

pplains, Saturday, 31 March 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link

Did you interact with anyone in the meat department?

My new fave sexual euphemism, thankx

bone thugs & prosody (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 1 April 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link

btw your mom and I interacted in the meat department, ifyouknowwhatimeanandithinkyoudo

bone thugs & prosody (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 1 April 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link

Meat

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 April 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link

Sandwich

fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Sunday, 1 April 2018 02:12 (six years ago) link

hickory dickory dock etc

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 1 April 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link

thrift

not 'not being able to afford things' but thrift, the at times compulsive desire to save, to cut out unnecessary expenditure, to make a nest egg, the pride in being financially sensible, comparing prices to get the best deal, the satisfaction in getting a lower price. money sends ppl insane and this is self-centred control freakery

ogmor, Friday, 6 April 2018 13:01 (six years ago) link

damn, I would have you in a constant rage

WilliamC, Friday, 6 April 2018 13:04 (six years ago) link

my parents are thrifty (w/ ascetic sympathies) and distrustful of money, and I fight the former tendency in myself but I share the distrust of money and it makes me distrustful of the saving mentality, the fuss and the caution and the inhibition

ogmor, Friday, 6 April 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link

I don't understand what "distrust of money" means. It sounds like being distrustful of a screwdriver or a frying pan or something.

WilliamC, Friday, 6 April 2018 13:39 (six years ago) link

I can think of some things that it might mean, but I'm definitely curious how it could propel different people in opposite directions, thrifty vs distrustful of thrifty.

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 6 April 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link


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