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Groups at work win "cake" regularly, it looks smells and tastes like a dishwashing sponge. We asked if our little group could get something different(there's only 5 of us) and despite there being no price difference we couldn't choose our cake because it would be "favoritism". So we baked our own and wouldn't let the administrator have any. In real lifehack news my wife couldn't buy the right size bags for our internal compost bin so she put an empty margarine pot in the bottom, now the smaller bags fit!
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flosofl posted:Are you talking about cakes from an actual bakery (i.e. store that does nothing other than cookies and cakes) or from a grocery store? Feel free to tell that to every single american workplace which is apparently the only customer that buys these things with the delusion that people will eat them
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Sep 19, 2016 19:05
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I'm glad Marie Antoinette isn't alive to read this.
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Sep 19, 2016 19:24
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Man, buttercream frosting is barely in the top ten of cake crimes these days. You haven't suffered until you've eaten rolled fondant.
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Sep 19, 2016 19:34
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Sep 19, 2016 19:58
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Instead of using American or European cake, use two grilled portabella mushrooms. Walla!
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Sep 19, 2016 20:25
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Control Volume posted:Feel free to tell that to every single american workplace which is apparently the only customer that buys these things with the delusion that people will eat them We didn't get Walmart cake, we got Oreo ice cream cake from Dairy Queen with inappropriate messages written on them 
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Sep 19, 2016 20:27
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thecluckmeme posted:We didn't get Walmart cake, we got Oreo ice cream cake from Dairy Queen with inappropriate messages written on them At a previous job, one of my coworkers brought this in for her last shift. 
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Sep 20, 2016 00:42
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I heart bacon posted:At a previous job, one of my coworkers brought this in for her last shift. I got my college roommate a cake when he got expelled and another for the replacement roommate when he moved in.
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Sep 20, 2016 00:50
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Len posted:I got my college roommate a cake when he got expelled and another for the replacement roommate when he moved in.
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Sep 20, 2016 02:48
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bunnyofdoom posted:Man I want more details now. Was he a drug dealer? Bad student? International arms dealer? I also would like to know more. Please tell me it was over something stupid like he plagiarized a paper written by the professor he was turning it in to.
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Sep 20, 2016 02:58
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CharlieWhiskey posted:Instead of using American or European cake, use two grilled portabella mushrooms. Walla! lmao
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Sep 20, 2016 03:20
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Okay it's a bit of a long story that I can only vouch for up to a certain point. Monday morning November 2008 there's a knock on the door around 730. I was still awake from the night before because I only had afternoon classes so I go to open it expecting it to be Brendan who always forgot his keys. Instead I open it up and find a cop and a German Shepard she asked if she could come in and I said okay because she could have gone and gotten the head RA and come in anyway. I wake Drew and Dan up because hey the cops are here. She goes walking through the living room and both bedrooms looking for bottle rockets (which we did have. clearly their dog was poorly trained). Turns out a guy across the street had been shot at by a paintball gun earlier in the morning and was outside yelling and bitching about it so Mike decided to shoot a bottle rocket at him. She doesn't find the bottle rockets but does find Brendans weed which wasn't hidden in any way and was instead just sitting on his nightstand. So she leaves and then the three of us in the room find out that Mike had indeed shot a bottle rocket at the guy. They come back a couple more times that day but by then we had removed the bottle rockets just to be safe. Tuesday night it's around midnight and CNN has just declared Obama won the election when there's a knock on the door. The head RA, two street cops, and a plain clothes detective are at the door. The cops were outside trying to help someone with car troubles and heard a voice yelling "gently caress YOU PIGS" out the window at them. Mike and Brendan are high as gently caress, Dan and I are getting ready to sleep, and Drew was sitting in the living room eating wings and underage drinking thankfully they end up leaving pretty quick because they got a call about a shooting. Friday Mike and Brendan get busted trying to sneak Natty Light into the building. This being Brendans second offense in a week puts him in a position where he has to go and have a meeting with the Residence Hall people about whether he can keep living in the dorms and they decide he can't and has to move out by the end of the next week. He turns in his key but doesn't actually move out. He just called or texted when he needed in the room. This is the point where I start to get fuzzy on the details. Mike, Brendan and their friend from the third floor Matt were looking for a place off campus to move into. Matt was roomed with this other guy they knew but hated and decided to bring him along as a fourth. The other guy told them the apartment was confirmed and the papers were signed and it was theirs so the trio cancelled their housing and meal plans. That was right before Thanksgiving break. Monday comes around Drew, Dan and I are back but we haven't heard from Mike or Brendan and we don't until Tuesday when we get a text from Mike "I just got out of jail Brendan is still there I can't tell you what happened our lawyer says not to," and he comes to get his poo poo. A couple days later Brendan comes and gets his poo poo leaving his couch behind. We don't find out until May what happened. After the police escort left (Brendan couldn't come back on campus without one) and his couch was out of the room we took them for lunch in exchange for what the hell happened. Apparently the Other Guy had lied to them and didn't actually get the apartment and after he told them this he went to class leaving them in the room where they proceeded to destroy his poo poo. According to Mike they poured water on his computer and took a poo poo in his backpack. The guy pressed chargers and they were originally going to get hit with a felony charge but in the end it got plead down to a misdemeanor with community service.
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Len posted:Okay it's a bit of a long story that I can only vouch for up to a certain point. Those guys sound like real winners there. Please tell me your replacement roommate(s) were decent human beings. edit: Lie, if you have to.
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Kwyndig posted:Man, buttercream frosting is barely in the top ten of cake crimes these days. You haven't suffered until you've eaten rolled fondant. God, yes, it's like the worst parts of eating chalk and plastic combined with none of the pleasure of eating raw sugar because the poo poo is barely sweet. It makes great-looking sculpted cakes, but I shouldn't have to use a chisel to get at my baked goods.
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Ryoshi posted:I don't think I've seen anyone over the age of ten eat white bread, ever. You must've lived a very sheltered life. I mean, just for a start, the parents of those children who eat white bread usually also eat it themselves. That's why the kids eat it.
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Sep 20, 2016 10:24
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Kwyndig posted:Those guys sound like real winners there. Please tell me your replacement roommate(s) were decent human beings. Yeah Steve was pretty chill. He ended up getting deployed so by the end of the year our five person room was down to two. Drew just had to move out because he stopped being able to pay for school.
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Tiggum posted:You must've lived a very sheltered life. I mean, just for a start, the parents of those children who eat white bread usually also eat it themselves. That's why the kids eat it. You literally have a "sheltered idiot" gimmick so unsaddle the high horse there.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:You literally have a "sheltered idiot" gimmick so unsaddle the high horse there. I didn't intend to come across as judgemental in any way, it was just an observation.
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Tiggum posted:I didn't intend to come across as judgemental in any way, it was just an observation. Put down the shovel, try a ladder
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Tiggum posted:You must've lived a very sheltered life. I mean, just for a start, the parents of those children who eat white bread usually also eat it themselves. That's why the kids eat it. In my experience, plenty of families buy cheap white bread for the kids' toast and sandwiches and more expensive, tastier bread for the adults to eat, under the principle that your 7-grain isn't going to appeal to the kids' palates (this part is self-reinforcing, of course, since people's tastes change based on what they're eating) and also that the kids are eating more bread and why waste the expensive stuff on 'em
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Sep 20, 2016 13:58
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Tiggum posted:You must've lived a very sheltered life. I mean, just for a start, the parents of those children who eat white bread usually also eat it themselves. That's why the kids eat it. The parents of children, surprisingly enough, are not usually eating as many PB&J sandwiches as their kids are, and indeed often buy their own bread. Hope this helps, you weird socially challenged hermit man.
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Sep 20, 2016 14:25
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Palates have been changing and wheat bread recently overtook Tiggum in grocery store sales
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You're insane if you think in this economy a huge percentage of adults don't eat 75 cent white bread instead of $3 multigrain stuff.
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Ryoshi posted:The parents of children, surprisingly enough, are not usually eating as many PB&J sandwiches as their kids are, and indeed often buy their own bread. Hope this helps, you weird socially challenged hermit man. La di da lookee here boys someone can afford to buy multiple loaves of that 'fancy' bread.
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rydiafan posted:You're insane if you think in this economy a huge percentage of adults don't eat 75 cent white bread instead of $3 multigrain stuff. I like that $5 bread with apples and raisins and poo poo in it. I'm pretty sure it's got more sugar than regular white bread, but I'm an adult and I do what I want.
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rydiafan posted:You're insane if you think in this economy a huge percentage of adults don't eat 75 cent white bread instead of $3 multigrain stuff. What about millenials? We're all eating $7/loaf artisinal bespoke bread baked in a clay woodfired oven that we bought at a farmers market, right?
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InediblePenguin posted:In my experience, plenty of families buy cheap white bread for the kids' toast and sandwiches and more expensive, tastier bread for the adults to eat, under the principle that your 7-grain isn't going to appeal to the kids' palates (this part is self-reinforcing, of course, since people's tastes change based on what they're eating) and also that the kids are eating more bread and why waste the expensive stuff on 'em The sense of taste changes as you grow up. Like, things legit don't taste the same to kids and adults. It's gradual enough you can't tell it's happening, and the change isn't the same degree for everyone, but it's real. In particular, kids on average have greater tolerance for extreme sweetness, lower tolerance of bitterness, and greater sensitivity to texture. Anecdotally, I disliked wheat bread until my teens. I didn't even know white bread existed until age eight; I thought I just disliked bread.
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Kids also eat more adult food like brussels sprouts once they find out "boil the hell out of it" isn't a good cooking method
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Sentient Data posted:Kids also eat more adult food like brussels sprouts once they find out "boil the hell out of it" isn't a good cooking method this. I thought for years that I didn't like veggies because my family cooks them via "take them out of a can and nuke them in the microwave". once I learned how to cook I suddenly found that I love veggies
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Anecdotally, I disliked wheat bread until my teens. I didn't even know white bread existed until age eight; I thought I just disliked bread. Similar experience here. I knew white bread existed, my parents were just health nuts. The worst thing to give to a child that wants chocolate is carob.  I mean, carob's not bad (I'm lying, but that's okay), it's just not chocolate.
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Sociopastry posted:this. I thought for years that I didn't like veggies because my family cooks them via "take them out of a can and nuke them in the microwave". once I learned how to cook I suddenly found that I love veggies Legit lifehack tbh. Taking stuff you hated as a kid and making it into something edible is rad
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I hated carrots for years until I started cooking them myself. Turns out if you don't cook them until they're mush they're loving delicious. Same for asparagus, artichoke and most onion based things. Still hate fish, though. Turns out that one was a legit dislike.
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Sentient Data posted:Kids also eat more adult food like brussels sprouts once they find out "boil the hell out of it" isn't a good cooking method On the flip side I loving loved broccoli and lima beans, because I was around people who knew how to cook them properly. Turns out kids like food that isn't pre-ruined. Who knew?
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Sociopastry posted:Still hate fish, though. Turns out that one was a legit dislike. *like blendered box wine dude
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Canned green beans brought to a rolling boil for several minutes are legit disgusting. The flavour is awful and the texture is worse. I was raised on that and even now the thought of them is making sad and angry. Sangry.
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Picnic Princess posted:Canned green beans brought to a rolling boil for several minutes are legit disgusting. The flavour is awful and the texture is worse. I was raised on that and even now the thought of them is making sad and angry. Sangry. Best way to make them tolerable is to add some slivered onion, a little black pepper and a drop of cooking oil and let them simmer on the back burner for half a hour. Stewed green beans aren't great, but long cooking dulls the grassy-greenness and the onion and pepper give them an actual flavor. It may not be green bean flavor, but at least it's a flavor.
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My husband hated green beans until I made him fresh ones, sauteed with shallots and bacon. I converted him on brussels sprouts the same way. Lifehack: eat three pounds of food. The next day, you'll lose two pounds! Walla!
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When I was a child the only chicken I was served was either fried chicken or chicken alfredo, so I thought I hated chicken until I moved out. It turns out I hate the poo poo out of alfredo, and fried chicken is the worst form of chicken. Turns out if the chicken is cooked in a form that isn't covered in garbage cheese or deep fried in fat it's pretty good.
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Xythe posted:When I was a child the only chicken I was served was either fried chicken or chicken alfredo, so I thought I hated chicken until I moved out. It turns out I hate the poo poo out of alfredo, and fried chicken is the worst form of chicken. Turns out if the chicken isn't cooked in a form that isn't covered in garbage cheese or deep fried in fat it's pretty good. Why are you posting on SA?
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