Well, here’s a sufficiency of stupid for the day:
I honestly can’t tell if the people referenced here are trolling – which is entirely possible – or if they’re really that fookin’ weird. I guess it comes down to this: do people *really* wash their chicken with dish soap and/or Clorox? It’s not something I’ve ever heard of. I would’ve assumed it to be a joke. But I just can’t tell anymore.
Or, given the direction of food shortages and supply chain collapses, expensive beyond the point of even considering?
Hmmm…
having some burritos for dinner pic.twitter.com/e56pEX38Nb
— Chubbyemu (@chubbyemu) July 9, 2021
For me, meal preparation can generally be summed up with: “Three minutes on high.” But this might be a useful little approach to making good burgers the old fashioned way:
There seem to be two primary ways to tell if a forthcoming movie or TV series is going to be bad:
With Star Trek: Discovery, we’ve had a whole lot of #1. The disregard for established continuity, the jarring design elements, the apparent lack of any actual familiarity with Star Trek on the part of the people behind the show have led a *lot* or people to conclude that this STD is gonna burn.
But now they’re entering into Phase 2. Specifically… the “Ghostbusters 2016” playbook of “let’s blame the fans:”
Yeah, that’ll certainly help fix the problem. Someone doesn’t like your show? Call them a racist or a sexist. It worked *so* well for Ghostbusters 2016.
Some people try really hard to be clever and/or cute. Trying hard is no guarantee of success. Sometimes it’s the fast road to things blowing up in your face. Like… here:
Welcome the real world, kid. Of course it could have been better; she could have come up with a “no.” or my personal favorite from back in the days when I tried: “Good God, no.”
Just back from the grocery store. The mission: procure a can of chicken broth. This idea was to add chicken broth to water, cats will like it and drink more, and it’ll help flush ’em out. End result: cats apparently don’t like chicken broth. Who knew.
While there I wandered the frozen pizza aisle and suddenly noticed this:
OK, frozen pizza. Big deal. But two aspects of it grabbed me:
1) “Feast For One.”
2) Photo of *three* friends goofing off.
On the basic level, this is a simple mismatch, like the art department got conflicting instructions. But on a deeper level… this seems to be wholly depressing marketing. What must the Honest Ad for this say?
“You’re all alone. That’s why you only need enough pizza for one person. But here is a photo of you with two friends you *used* to hang around with. And they’re not here anymore. Dwell on happier times and enjoy the pizza!”
Read the first sentence and tell me just how happy a story this really is.
Via, unsurprisingly, Fark, where we get relevant comments such as:
That shiat is like the first few minutes of Up.
and
There’s an old guy that hangs out at the bar I frequent….one day a couple of years ago, he comes up and asked me to sign his birthday card….that he bought for himself for his 75th b-day…felt kinda bad for the guy..so, I signed it, and bought him a beer and then played Happy Birthday on the jukebox for him, at which time, he promptly starts crying and won’t stop thanking me and shaking my hand….then I just felt horrible for the old guy, realizing that his only “friends” were those of us he see’s at the bar once or twice a week.
Coming soon, the test-tube burger
Where we learn that Dutch scientists believe that a hamburger made from cloned cow stem cells, cultured to grow batches of muscle fibers, is about a year away.
Researchers at Utrecht University have calculated that an initial ten stem cells could produce 50,000 tons of meat in two months.
I’d like to see the math and engineering on that.
Couple the cloneburger with the poopsteak, and the future of disturbing food for all is just about complete. The topper will be when the technology becomes commonplace enough to have a Clone-O-Mat on the kitchen counter next to the Mr. Coffee and the Salad Shooter… and hipsters replace cow stem cells with their *own* cells, and eat hipsterburgers.
You *know* it’ll happen.
Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces
The technology and science described sounds – at least to me – to be both credible and impressive. If it works on a large scale, it could of course solve a great many problems. Poop is, after all, simply “processed” former food; un-processing it is simply a matter of proper chemistry. But still… bleah.
I mean… bleah.
