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Desperado Bones posted:All of you... I live with women in their early 20's which means I have to suffer through 25-50% of my fridge being taken up by those loving margarita buckets. 96 whole ounces of chilled tequila goodness with a dispenser spout and around here they are cheaper than actual margarita mix which is baffling but does leave me with a lot of spout buckets to dispense things from. Obviously beer is a poor choice, but I'm a simple person with simple tastes so instead I have buckets of hard liquor, Mojitos and other nonsense. One has Yukon Jack, I'm pretty sure I'm the only living human who likes Yukon Jack since the guy at my liquor store points out that I am the only person he ever sells it to. My cocktail of choice is SoCo 100, Lime and Coke so I am pretty much the opposite of a person you should listen to about alcohol.
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El Estrago Bonito posted:I live with women in their early 20's which means I have to suffer through 25-50% of my fridge being taken up by those loving margarita buckets. 96 whole ounces of chilled tequila goodness with a dispenser spout and around here they are cheaper than actual margarita mix which is baffling but does leave me with a lot of spout buckets to dispense things from. Obviously beer is a poor choice, but I'm a simple person with simple tastes so instead I have buckets of hard liquor, Mojitos and other nonsense. One has Yukon Jack, I'm pretty sure I'm the only living human who likes Yukon Jack since the guy at my liquor store points out that I am the only person he ever sells it to. My cocktail of choice is SoCo 100, Lime and Coke so I am pretty much the opposite of a person you should listen to about alcohol. Yukon Jack used to be my poo poo... Then I switched to Bulleit..
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Nov 15, 2014 01:51
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Hey, I wasn't saying sweet potatoes are bad, just that they aren't a substitute for regular potatoes, as they don't resemble them in the slightest. That's like replacing your bowl of ice cream with a bowl of whipped cream--they're almost the same, they both have cream in their name! 
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Nov 15, 2014 01:53
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To be honest, the margaritas probably taste better than any cheap beer you can get at a store.
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Nov 15, 2014 01:58
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karl fungus posted:To be honest, the margaritas probably taste better than any cheap beer you can get at a store. Trader Joe's has that Simple Times stuff for like 4 bucks and its pretty good as far as high ABV American Lagers go. In a similar vein we can also get Hite around here since we have a huge Korean population which is a very middle of the road Lager that comes in a big resealable plastic jug. And there's always Olympia, Rainier and Session, which are more like soda than beer but they are decently cheap (and Session is actually all right).
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Nov 15, 2014 02:05
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RandomFerret posted:Roasting any vegetable with oil is a prohack. Yeah, but gently caress celery in general, though.
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Nov 15, 2014 02:11
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Trent posted:gently caress celery Ribbed for your pleasure.
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Angela Christine posted:Ribbed for your pleasure. Ribbed in the wrong loving direction though, I'm pretty goddamn mad about that... I mean my friend, my friend is pretty goddamn mad about that.
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Nov 15, 2014 03:36
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Gabriel Pope posted:At least they didn't use any of the "substituting cauliflower for real food" hacks One of my relatives did this. They were on a no-carb diet and invited us over for dinner, and said "here try these mashed potatoes." They didn't say, "We've substituted mashed cauliflower for potatoes for our no-carb diet, try them and see what you think!" I actively hate cauliflower, and while the mashed stuff actually tasted less like cauliflower than any other cauliflower preparation I have eaten (and the texture was remarkably similar to mashed potatoes), it still had the unpleasant underlying rotting-gym-sock notes that cauliflower always manages to have. It's like Diet Dr. Pepper: Yeah, I don't taste the antifreeze AS MUCH, but it's still there, permeating and ruining everything good.
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Nov 15, 2014 04:28
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Trent posted:Yeah, but gently caress celery in general, though. Celery is crucial to any good stuffing and Mongolian beef. 
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Nov 15, 2014 04:31
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Che Delilas posted:One of my relatives did this. They were on a no-carb diet and invited us over for dinner, and said "here try these mashed potatoes." They didn't say, "We've substituted mashed cauliflower for potatoes for our no-carb diet, try them and see what you think!" Hahaha what? Just do mashed sweet potatos. Sure it doesn't taste like mashed potatos but at least it will stil taste good.
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Nov 15, 2014 05:26
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I don't think you understand what a carb is
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Nov 15, 2014 05:29
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I like cauliflower but it seems like that makes me objectively wrong. 
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I like cauliflower but it seems like that makes me objectively wrong. I love cauliflower!
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Nov 15, 2014 05:35
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I don't actually hate cauliflower that much and there are ways to serve cauliflower that are cool and good, but pureeing them and saying LOOK IT'S JUST LIKE MASHED POTATOES is not one of them.
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Nov 15, 2014 05:54
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Gabriel Pope posted:I don't actually hate cauliflower that much and there are ways to serve cauliflower that are cool and good, but pureeing them and saying LOOK IT'S JUST LIKE MASHED POTATOES is not one of them. That's exactly what point I was trying to make. Every dietitian I've spoken with (I uh, don't have very good health) tries this sort of spiel where somehow just because they say X is just like Y, you're expected to believe it, despite Y not at all resembling X. Sweet potatoes replacing regular potatoes in everything from fries to bakes is the best example I have, but there are a lot of them. I do admit that some on the website link there were pretty good. Frozen fruit makes for a pretty good desert, especially if it's something juicy like grapes that have lots of flavor in the middle, for instance.
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Nov 15, 2014 06:10
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I like cauliflower but it seems like that makes me objectively wrong. Gabriel Pope posted:I don't actually hate cauliflower that much and there are ways to serve cauliflower that are cool and good, but pureeing them and saying LOOK IT'S JUST LIKE MASHED POTATOES is not one of them. It's fine to not eat potatoes, and if you want to eat puréed cauliflower then that's fine too. The problem is when you try to convince people that one is so much like the other that you won't even notice the difference. Because you will notice the difference, and when you're expecting one thing and get another, it tastes wrong.
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Nov 15, 2014 06:13
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It's a pretty damned good substitute, but yes it's still a substitute. The secret, assuming you can stomach cauliflower at all, is large quantities of butter and sautéed garlic.
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Nov 15, 2014 06:17
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Tiggum posted:Cauliflower is great, sweet potatoes are terrible. Lifehack: cook and eat sweet potatoes like a regular vegetable instead of making retarded marshmallow concoctions and they will actually be cool and not gross.
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Nov 15, 2014 06:51
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The only thing I have against cauliflower is that cooking it makes the entire house smell like farts.
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Nov 15, 2014 06:56
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Real margaritas are like one of the simplest and tastiest cocktails you can loving have why would you use a mixer?
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Nov 15, 2014 07:19
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Bhodi posted:It's a pretty damned good substitute, but yes it's still a substitute. The secret, assuming you can stomach cauliflower at all, is large quantities of butter and sautéed garlic. This was what they did, and yeah, it mostly worked. It was the best cauliflower I've ever had, mostly because it tasted the least like cauliflower. LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I like cauliflower but it seems like that makes me objectively wrong. For the record, every single human I know personally loves cauliflower. It doesn't bother me, just don't try and trick me to get me to put it in my mouth. I don't want to eat it.
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Nov 15, 2014 07:27
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Tiggum posted:Cauliflower is great, sweet potatoes are terrible. I'm pretty sure your taste buds are broken.
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Nov 15, 2014 09:05
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Someone I know who is vegan made a cauliflower alfredo sauce which was surprisingly good, especially since it was topped with balsamic vinegar sauteed portobello mushroom slices. But I just like portobello like nothing else. I ordered a veggie burger which had a roasted cap for the pattie, and it was loving amazing, but my friend had a shitfit about me going a meal without meat, like I was going to die or something.
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Nov 15, 2014 09:42
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Why are people so drat obsessed by carbohydrates? Use loving portion control instead of changing your entire eating style because of what someone on the internet told you to do. Theres a reason why people who actually exercise dont really worry that much about their drat carb intake.
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Nov 15, 2014 10:11
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Grabbing on to a fad diet is a lot easier than actually trying to figure out what's wrong with what you're eating. I was a picky eater as a kid, which led to me having some pretty bad dietary habits once I started feeding myself. "If you avoid toast, you can eat ALL the bacon," is a lot easier than "alright body, I know you don't think vegetables can be a meal, but you're going to have to get used to it."
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Frostwerks posted:Real margaritas are like one of the simplest and tastiest cocktails you can loving have why would you use a mixer? Because some people apparently love that awful medicine taste that comes with premixed drinks. It's like instead of sugar, they put in glycerin or propylene glycol 
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Nov 15, 2014 14:57
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Gabriel Pope posted:Lifehack: cook and eat sweet potatoes like a regular vegetable instead of making retarded marshmallow concoctions and they will actually be cool and not gross.  Why would anyone do that? What sort of concoctions are we talking about here? Is this like some kind of pumpkin pie style dessert, but with marshmallows for some reason? The best way I've ever had sweet potatoes is roasted, and even then they're kind of like really disappointing pumpkin. I'll eat them if they're served to me, but they're probably my least-favourite vegetable. Brussels sprouts may be worse, but I haven't eaten them in many years so who knows, I may like them now.
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Noyemi K posted:Ribbed in the wrong loving direction though, I'm pretty goddamn mad about that... I mean my friend, my friend is pretty goddamn mad about that.
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Tiggum posted:Brussels sprouts may be worse, but I haven't eaten them in many years so who knows, I may like them now. If you like broccoli, give brussels sprouts another shot. They're good lightly steamed, overcook them and they go bitter and mushy.
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Tiggum posted:
It's a common American dish served at Thanksgiving. You peel them, quarter them, then plop them into a casserole dish with a shitton of brown sugar, white sugar, and butter. A shitton. If someone asks "hey can I have sugar for my coffee" and your answer isn't "sorry, I'm out," you're doing it wrong. Throw that into the oven and when they're nice and tender, you throw some marshmallows onto the thing you've created and weep softly, taking care to keep your tears out of the dish.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:It's a common American dish served at Thanksgiving. You peel them, quarter them, then plop them into a casserole dish with a shitton of brown sugar, white sugar, and butter. A shitton. If someone asks "hey can I have sugar for my coffee" and your answer isn't "sorry, I'm out," you're doing it wrong. Throw that into the oven and when they're nice and tender, you throw some marshmallows onto the thing you've created and weep softly, taking care to keep your tears out of the dish. Can you even taste the sweet potatoes? It sounds like you may as well just be eating a bowl of sugar.
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Nov 15, 2014 17:35
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Tiggum posted:Can you even taste the sweet potatoes? It sounds like you may as well just be eating a bowl of sugar. That's essentially what it is. It's too sweet to eat to be honest. Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it. Sweet potatoes are absolutely delicious if done properly, and buried in varying sugars is not proper.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:It's a common American dish served at Thanksgiving. You peel them, quarter them, then plop them into a casserole dish with a shitton of brown sugar, white sugar, and butter. A shitton. If someone asks "hey can I have sugar for my coffee" and your answer isn't "sorry, I'm out," you're doing it wrong. Throw that into the oven and when they're nice and tender, you throw some marshmallows onto the thing you've created and weep softly, taking care to keep your tears out of the dish. I've never heard of this before, and it sounds like something that would make me vomit. Here's a great food made of sweet potatos: sweet potato fries. They're pretty tasty, and they don't need much seasoning to have some real flavour. They don't crisp up the way potatos do but they go GREAT with seafood burgers  Lifehack: drown everything you eat in copious amounts of butter and one other thing!
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Tiggum posted:Can you even taste the sweet potatoes? It sounds like you may as well just be eating a bowl of sugar. Smelly posted:That's essentially what it is. It's too sweet to eat to be honest. Makes my teeth hurt just thinking about it. Kids like it because it's sweet, also what kid doesn't like marshmallows? As an adult, I can't stand all that sugar but you can't not eat grandma's sweet potatoes at Thanksgiving. Leave it to us Americans to ruin a perfectly good food by dumping butter and sugar all over it. Sweet potatoes are great by themselves. I like to steam them until they're tender and just go to town 
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Noyemi K posted:
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Yeah, every Thanksgiving someone has to make sweet potatoes with marshmallows because  IT'S TRADITION!! and then all of two people actually enjoy it at all, half the people take tiny teaspoon sized portions because they feel obligated, and then 75% of the stuff is left over at the end and nobody wants to take it home with them. It's gross.My grandma when she was alive would make a concoction of "Marshmallow Stuff" which was basically like, what I've also heard called "Ambrosia" in that it was the marshmallows, with 7-up, pineapple, and melted vanilla ice cream in it. My uncle loved it, nobody else ate it.
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Choco1980 posted:Yeah, every Thanksgiving someone has to make sweet potatoes with marshmallows because Recently my wife's extended family has starting making some sort of vile concoction for every conceivable family event. It starts out as Hawaiian Punch (or some sort of other red fruit punch drink) mixed with Sprite or 7Up. That's not so bad, a bit overly sweet but my extended family has done the same thing for years, the carbonation makes the punch a bit better too. But then they add in whole scoops of rainbow sherbet and set it out to melt until it becomes this disgusting pile of foamy poo poo floating on the top.  loving no one drinks it with the sherbet still on top. Not even the three year old kids. It just gets pushed around by people trying to get the punch without a nasty film of sherbet on top. And most people won't even bother with all that extra work so it just sits there until it gets dumped out at the end of the party.
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