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Helith posted:I may regret asking this, but what is Outback's Alice Springs Chicken? because no such dish actually exists in Australia. They made it up, they're above food law.
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Helith posted:I may regret asking this, but what is Outback's Alice Springs Chicken? because no such dish actually exists in Australia. What, you've never eaten roadkill bin chicken cooked on the exhaust manifold of a V8 landcruiser?
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Jan 13, 2021 23:40
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Helith posted:I may regret asking this, but what is Outback's Alice Springs Chicken? because no such dish actually exists in Australia.
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Jan 13, 2021 23:58
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I expect it's dry as too.
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Jan 14, 2021 00:01
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Helith posted:I may regret asking this, but what is Outback's Alice Springs Chicken? because no such dish actually exists in Australia. Outback is an extremely American restaurant that just names things after stereotype australian places and things It's just chicken breast with cheese and mushrooms and some kind of honey mustard sauce and I think bacon
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Jan 14, 2021 00:51
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It not being an actual dish in Australia is a bonus as far as Outback is concerned because they can trademark the name.
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Jan 14, 2021 01:20
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You're telling me Outback's kookaburra wings are just chicken?
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Jan 14, 2021 01:25
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And that onion... not a flower! lies all the way down under.
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Jan 14, 2021 01:26
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Shifty Pony posted:And that onion... not a flower! Man, this has really turned my world right side up.
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Jan 14, 2021 02:08
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Jan 14, 2021 02:48
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Jan 14, 2021 04:16
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The Bloop posted:Outback is an extremely American restaurant that just names things after stereotype australian places and things My 'favorite' Outback food name is the one that proves they never had a single twelve-year-old in the focus group: the Chocolate Thunder From Down Under
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Jan 14, 2021 06:52
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The Bloop posted:You have my That sounds as dwarfy as a meal can get without rat.
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Jan 14, 2021 06:56
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Are the names stupid? Yes. Are the steaks mediocre one-step-above-chili’s steaks? Yes. But blooming onions are delicious and they’re annoying to make at home.
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Jan 14, 2021 06:56
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Captain Monkey posted:Are the names stupid? Yes. Are the steaks mediocre one-step-above-chili’s steaks? Yes. But blooming onions are delicious and they’re annoying to make at home. The proper place to get a bloomin onion is a county/state fair. 
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Jan 14, 2021 07:03
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The proper place to get a bloomin onion is a county/state fair. But what if, just stick with me here, you are in the midst of a pandemic and your local areas actually cares and therefore no fairs? Do you get it via doordash or ubereats?
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Jan 14, 2021 07:09
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You have to do curbside pickup at the closest Outback and get there 5-10m early so you can have the hottest possible bloomin’ onion. Also you turn your oven to 250 before you leave and pop that sucker in there for about 5m when you get back. Otherwise it’s no good. Delivery is 100% out of the question. If a fair was open I’d agreed with you though. Way better and bigger, thinner onions/petals and that’s where it’s at.
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Jan 14, 2021 07:13
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bunnyofdoom posted:But what if, just stick with me here, you are in the midst of a pandemic and your local areas actually cares and therefore no fairs? Then you wait.
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Jan 14, 2021 07:28
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Captain Monkey posted:Are the names stupid? Yes. Are the steaks mediocre one-step-above-chili’s steaks? Yes. But blooming onions are delicious and they’re annoying to make at home. I’ve tried making them and I don’t find the process to be too arduous, but I’m doing something wrong because they don’t come out right.
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Jan 14, 2021 07:37
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Platystemon posted:I’ve tried making them and I don’t find the process to be too arduous, but I’m doing something wrong because they don’t come out right. The temperature, probably. you need the water in the onion to turn to steam right away to keep the oil out.
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Jan 14, 2021 07:41
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Ugly In The Morning posted:The temperature, probably. you need the water in the onion to turn to steam right away to keep the oil out. Hmm maybe. Years ago, the batter just sloughed off. I tried again last week and the batter stuck. The thing was, though, that I I had looked up a bunch of recipes to compare and see what I might be doing wrong. Half of them said to air fry, which I know isn’t not, for lack of a better work, traditional, but I thought it was worth a try. The result was O.K., but I really ought to deep fat fry them, and I’m sure I could do better on the batter this time.
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Jan 14, 2021 07:54
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The real key is temperature control. It’s gotta sit at a consistent 350F for like 8 solid minutes. Any dips or peaks gently caress up your batter. If it’s falling off it was too low and the water turned into condensation and sloughed the batter off the onion. If it’s not crunchy enough, same problem. I’ve also found that you really really need the double layer (so liquid/fat, flour, liquid/fat, flour) or it just doesn’t work right. But all of that is a huge hassle, oil temps are frustrating, that much flour always makes a mess, and even cutting it the right way is kind of annoying. It also only costs you like 87c if you do it at home instead of $8 or whatever.
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Jan 14, 2021 08:56
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Here's a weird/stupid thing I've noticed: CHUDs put so much of their self identity/self worth into their political affiliation. I can vaguely understand it if it was a sports team, just as I can understand the nerd version of it, (Harry Potter fan, video gamer etc.), and the people who put way too much worth on what brand of poo poo they use, (Apple people, or car guys that will argue over the relative merits of Holden or Ford and would rather die than be seen driving the wrong car). But to do that, to an exponentially higher degree based on the political party you probably can't even be arsed to go out and vote for? (America doesn't have compulsory voting, and has a normally low turnout AFAIK) I consider myself pretty left wing and informed about the news and politics and stuff. But not so much as to name my dinner "Liberal tears Lasagne". Also I dunno if this is an American thing, a right wing thing, or an American Right Wing thing. Or maybe just a 'cult of Trump' thing.
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Jan 14, 2021 09:18
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You'd think so, but then: Hamilton.
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Jan 14, 2021 09:26
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Ghost Leviathan posted:You'd think so, but then: Hamilton. You'll have to explain this because while I followed along with BrigadierSensible's post just fine, this means nothing to me.
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Jan 14, 2021 09:29
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Honestly, in a non-dysfunctional political system I think political affiliation is one of the more sensible things to build an identity around. "How I think the world should be run" is a huge and important thing that should impact the world and your behaviour, far more than what kind of car you want to drive or which superhero you prefer watching. The problem is more the tendency to let it work the other way around: when people decide "I am a Republican" and then conclude that anything the Republican party advocates for must therefore align with their personal morality.
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Jan 14, 2021 09:59
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If a person's views perfectly align with any established party in any country, then they're either misinformed or naive. It's perfectly fine to support a party that represents most of what you believe, but I've run into too many people that feel their team is infallible and that all opposing politicians are 100% evil
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Jan 14, 2021 10:18
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Sentient Data posted:If a person's views perfectly align with any established party in any country, then they're either misinformed or naive. What’s much easier is to have views that are completely and utterly misaligned with one or more parties. “My” party may not be right about everything, but on issue where they are wrong, the other party is also wrong.
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Jan 14, 2021 11:28
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Memento posted:You'll have to explain this because while I followed along with BrigadierSensible's post just fine, this means nothing to me. I'm not Ghost Leviathan, but I think he's pointing out the tendency of fans of the show Hamilton to be similarly liberal-leaning but kinda empty of strong reasoning for it. Not really the same thing, and I don't really know any big Hamilton-heads to say if he's right, but I can sorta see it? For an Australian comparison, the best might be the kind of person who thinks Paul Keating's speeches were great but have no other political opinions whatsoever.
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Jan 14, 2021 11:41
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BrigadierSensible posted:Here's a weird/stupid thing I've noticed: It's a fully American thing, not limited to one party. Politics have fully been turned into sports and everything is culture war. And famously the right does have high voter turnout. People will mobilize to vote for anyone with an R next to their name and the party will contort to appeal to the loudest and most insane voices, whereas democrats are a totally disjointed mess who need to capture wealthy suburban moms and disaffected socialists at the same time while also dealing with voter suppression targeted at their most consistent bases.
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Jan 14, 2021 15:20
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Outback's blooms are frequently overly greasy and bordering on burnt (and I love greasy fried poo poo) probably due to individual management cheapness on replacing oil or something. The onion bloom thing at Texas Roadhouse is WAY WAY better if you have one of those to order from nearby and are craving fried onion
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Jan 14, 2021 15:32
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The Bloop posted:Outback's blooms are frequently overly greasy and bordering on burnt (and I love greasy fried poo poo) probably due to individual management cheapness on replacing oil or something. I feel like this is why I have a strong aversion to Bloomin Onions. They're just gross to me TBH, and the rest of my family will just devour one barely coming up for air, while they make fun of me for picking at the piece of rye bread in horror.
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Jan 14, 2021 15:45
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hyperhazard posted:Love marketing pitches that call for exactly one token black customer. They just got tripped up over whether it should be Uncles Tom or Uncle Toms.
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Jan 14, 2021 18:10
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More very good tumblr ads 
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Jan 14, 2021 21:40
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are you sure this isn't a fake ad someone drew up like even with the url telling me it's real I don't believe it's real and I love it 
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Jan 15, 2021 15:49
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Does that mean that the ad sponsor was rejected for whatever reason, like they're not allowed to buy an ad? But then the ad got put into rotation anyway, and if you look up the sponsor you are given some null error message because the sponsor has already been removed from their database? All other things aside, it is an extremely tumblr ad.
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Jan 16, 2021 05:47
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The going theory is that Tumblr is a testing bed for ads before they're ready for any of the real social media sites. Clicking on that one went to a broken Facebook link
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Jan 16, 2021 17:49
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That looks like the ancient practice of loving around in the CMS while trying to keep your boss/editor from publishing by accident. Presume you pay when you approve to publish in this system and somebody hit the button on someone's sandbox object.
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Jan 16, 2021 19:32
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Do Not Approve 2: Your mother in law is back and she's got a little personal problem with your lifestyle choices. Rated R, coming to streaming services this Friday
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Whatever you do, DON’T
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