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mediaphage posted:bags of pre-popped popcorn are especially terrible. yum, cheese powder-covered styrofoam "pre-stale"
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mediaphage posted:i would argue that most popcorn is pretty terrible. Oh yeah, I’m referring to fresh homemade stuff.
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Mar 16, 2021 15:16
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Pre-popped is garbage unless caramel, I agree. Bagged popcorn, like many things, is an evil drug that consumes you as you consume it, but then again drugs are cool so it's good once a year to feel the extremes of life experience. Home popped is good and doesn't need a finicky method as long as it has fat and salt of some kind and isn't burnt.
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Mar 16, 2021 15:32
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The overpriced popcorn the boy scouts sell (used to sell?) was pretty good. Those really round pieces covered in cheese dust. Never got any that was stale, and ate it fast enough it never got stale.
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Mar 16, 2021 15:35
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BrianBoitano posted:Pre-popped is garbage unless caramel, I agree. Bagged popcorn, like many things, is an evil drug that consumes you as you consume it, but then again drugs are cool so it's good once a year to feel the extremes of life experience. Yeah. Get some oil or ghee pretty hot, toss in some kernels, pop, shake, pop. Salt, then eat. It's so easy!
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Mar 16, 2021 16:01
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I think I just have a problem with the hulls: I like the starchy popped corn part, but the little bits of hateful shrapnel that each kernel is wrapped in drive me crazy.
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Mar 16, 2021 16:03
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One cannot experience pleasure without knowing pain.
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Mar 16, 2021 17:22
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Scientastic posted:I think I just have a problem with the hulls: I like the starchy popped corn part, but the little bits of hateful shrapnel that each kernel is wrapped in drive me crazy. You need a servant.
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Mar 16, 2021 17:23
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Scientastic posted:Popcorn is actually bad, no matter how good the seasoning
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Mar 16, 2021 17:30
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Popcorn is good. If you put salt and butter on it, it tastes like salty butter! Bagged stuff is bad though yeah.
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Mar 16, 2021 17:30
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Smartfood is bagged but I would kill for it. Actually the true winner of the white cheddar genre is Popcornopolis, but I'm not paying those prices even for manna
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Mar 16, 2021 17:36
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i like nice words
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Scientastic posted:I think I just have a problem with the hulls: I like the starchy popped corn part, but the little bits of hateful shrapnel that each kernel is wrapped in drive me crazy. I hate the semi-popped ones that look like they'd be edible but end up being like a rock.
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Mar 16, 2021 19:09
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:The overpriced popcorn the boy scouts sell (used to sell?) was pretty good. Those really round pieces covered in cheese dust. Never got any that was stale, and ate it fast enough it never got stale. They still sell it, mulch too. Related to Boy Scouts though. I'm gonna get my name updated with them. Then there will be another girl Eagle Scout. 
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Mar 16, 2021 20:48
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Manuel Calavera posted:They still sell it, mulch too. Hell yeah, Eagle sister!
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Mar 16, 2021 21:16
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Manuel Calavera posted:They still sell it, mulch too. I wasn't even sure if they were still around. I knew they declared bankruptcy at some point, and what with all the molesting and homophobia and transphobia and racism, thought maybe they'd had just quietly gone away. edit: Also congrats on all your life changes. Takes courage to be yourself.
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Mar 16, 2021 21:27
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A shop in my hometown sells pre popped jalapeño cheddar and caramel corn. It doesn’t beat fresh stuff, but I’ll eat a whole barrel of that there corn.
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Mar 16, 2021 21:42
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smartfood is terrible popcorn
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Mar 16, 2021 22:15
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Yet like so many foods, compelling despite it. It's mostly a vector for white cheddar powder tbh.
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Mar 16, 2021 23:32
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Liquid Communism posted:Yet like so many foods, compelling despite it. yeah i’d much rather just buy white cheddar powder in that case though speaking of buying things, chile resupply today 
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Mar 16, 2021 23:46
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drizzle niter kibbeh over stovetop popcorn for a good time tbh
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I wasn't even sure if they were still around. I knew they declared bankruptcy at some point, and what with all the molesting and homophobia and transphobia and racism, thought maybe they'd had just quietly gone away. Nope, they've expanded to let girls in as well. But they still segregate Troops by gender. I don't know all the details because I've been out of Scouts for 16 years now, lol. So I've had no reason to keep track. I may at some point go back to helping somehow, as like a merit badge counselor or something. And thanks. It'll be nice to get my Eagle card replaced with *my* name. I'm still waiting on the BMV and County Probate Court to get my paperwork back to me, to replace my license and also have the physical court order.
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Manuel Calavera posted:Nope, they've expanded to let girls in as well. But they still segregate Troops by gender. I don't know all the details because I've been out of Scouts for 16 years now, lol. So I've had no reason to keep track. I may at some point go back to helping somehow, as like a merit badge counselor or something. this is awesome. i went back to help teach scouts merit badge stuff but they wanted nothing to do with me at the time when i came out.
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Mar 17, 2021 09:40
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I got shut out of scouts when I was like 8 because weeblos were "full" and never looked back
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Mar 17, 2021 15:04
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Manuel Calavera posted:Nope, they've expanded to let girls in as well. But they still segregate Troops by gender. I don't know all the details because I've been out of Scouts for 16 years now, lol. So I've had no reason to keep track. I may at some point go back to helping somehow, as like a merit badge counselor or something. Troops being segregated is dependent completely on your area council. Out here its all integrated (unless it's a Mormon troop, but that's another story). We also have lots of girls in the Order of the Arrow now too!
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Mar 17, 2021 15:06
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As a girl, I got kicked out by the troop leader of Jr. Girl Scouts after she had a big argument with my mom. The previous meeting had said woman telling all 5 girls in the troop around the table our biggest character flaws so we could work on them. Passed that on to my mom, and she was livid. Later I bought a boy scout handbook and messed around with knots and semaphore stuff, but with no one to show it off to, I lost interest. 12 year old me Absolutely wanted to go camping, do knots and flags and such. GS had us baking cakes and doing macrame. Food chat: what's your favorite camping food? I tend to camp heavy, with cast iron dutch oven that I love to do either beef stew or sausage and beans in. Just got a lighter weight Stanley cookset. I got a book on making dehydrated camp meals, and want to try stews utilizing dried meat and veg. Any excuse to poke a fire while drinking box wine from a tin cup...
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Arkhamina posted:As a girl, I got kicked out by the troop leader of Jr. Girl Scouts after she had a big argument with my mom. The previous meeting had said woman telling all 5 girls in the troop around the table our biggest character flaws so we could work on them. Passed that on to my mom, and she was livid. Later I bought a boy scout handbook and messed around with knots and semaphore stuff, but with no one to show it off to, I lost interest. 12 year old me Absolutely wanted to go camping, do knots and flags and such. GS had us baking cakes and doing macrame. hot dogs on a stick in a fire if it's a multiday hike i just take pemmican
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Re: boy scout/girl scout/guides chat, in my part of Canada that was called Beavers when I was a kid and I remember at maybe age 8 or so going a few times and having to repeat some really uncomfortable pseudoprayer thing at the start and then they wanted us to bring a nickel or a quarter or something every time to put in some communal fund and I was basically done with it at that point. I'm surprised to hear that so many of you that experienced discrimination in various ways with these groups seem eager to participate in some way now that it's less acceptable for these groups to be outwardly discriminatory. You should start your own inclusive troops/guides where people get to do what they want regardless of gender etc. e: Arkhamina posted:Food chat: what's your favorite camping food? I tend to camp heavy, with cast iron dutch oven that I love to do either beef stew or sausage and beans in. Just got a lighter weight Stanley cookset. I got a book on making dehydrated camp meals, and want to try stews utilizing dried meat and veg. Any excuse to poke a fire while drinking box wine from a tin cup... I no longer really enjoy camping (loved it as a kid, dunno) but basically anything involving the fire is dope. I know you can use coals and create heat zones and do things properly but for me if I'm out camping somewhere I want to leave that complexity at home and just do hot dogs/hamburgers/smores. VelociBacon fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 18:18
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I always love fire baked potatoes, and the British smores equivalent is cutting open a banana, shoving a Mars bar inside, wrapping it in foil and then roasting it in the fire for a bit. Squidgy caramel goodness.
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Mar 17, 2021 18:45
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Savory oatmeal is an easy one, and you can pre-mix the dry ingredients ahead of time. Brown some chorizo in the pan, pour in the water and dry stuff, serve with shredded cheddar. Dehydrated mushrooms, tomatoes, shallots, etc. all work great. Edit: shakshuka/eggs in purgatory is also good. If you want to save time, you can just use a fancy pasta sauce instead of making your own (I like puttanesca). Nestharken fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Mar 17, 2021 |
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Mar 17, 2021 19:29
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Troops being segregated is dependent completely on your area council. Out here its all integrated (unless it's a Mormon troop, but that's another story). We also have lots of girls in the Order of the Arrow now too! I was reading the BSA reddit (there's a reddit for that? wild), and apparently they're not up to code going by the higher ups of the org. But lmao who the gently caress cares? As long as everyone is cool, a coed troop should be perfectly fine. And hell yeah. I never went for OA, because the first selection ceremony I saw weirded me out so I wasn't interested. Lol. But girl got her Eagle and that's all I cared about in the end to prove my mom and one Scout Master wrong. Camping food? I like cast iron pineapple upside down cake. Good times. And smores. Or chili but that's an anytime food.
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I was walking around work thinking about campfire cooking and I realized that actually you could do some really nice baked beans if you put them in a small dutch oven sorta thing and let them sit in the coals overnight. A nice breakfast.
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The best camping food is beer.
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Mar 17, 2021 20:41
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I got out of scouts when I was 10 or 11 or so, I got caught doing the cool crime of kissing and I also proved extremely bad at basket-weaving which iirc was a requirement to move to the next rank. I don't think I got kicked out so much as it just became very awkward to be there and I was starting to be more interested in doing extracurricular stuff through school, like theater. I do still really like camping though. My favorite camp meal to actually cook is enchiladas but nothing beats waking up to the smell of somebody else making eggs and strong coffee.
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Mar 17, 2021 20:50
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In case anyone was curious turning a muffin pan into a doughnut pan with sculpted tin foil does not work
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Arkhamina posted:
For car camping and having a cooler around, I love doing foil packets of veg/taters/meat, as well as tossing a huge stack of tortillas and eggs in and having breakfast burritos and pb wraps all day. For actual backpacking, I mainly survive on tortillas, peanut butter, instant oatmeal, a flask of bourbon, and some sort of sugary candy like skittles or m&ms. Last fall I found some instant bibimbap rations online, and that was pretty fuckin delicious after a long day of hiking. Some of the freeze dried brands are getting to be pretty edible, esp if you pack a bottle of hot sauce along with.
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Casu Marzu posted:For car camping and having a cooler around, I love doing foil packets of veg/taters/meat, as well as tossing a huge stack of tortillas and eggs in and having breakfast burritos and pb wraps all day. next year you guys should come over and we’ll do one of the cool multi day trails here
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Mar 17, 2021 22:34
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On the before times, when we could travel, I went to a beach in Scotland, assembled a ring of stone and made a fire, over which I cooked a whole salmon. Probably doesn’t count as camping food, but it was amazing
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Scientastic posted:On the before times, when we could travel, I went to a beach in Scotland, assembled a ring of stone and made a fire, over which I cooked a whole salmon. Probably doesn’t count as camping food, but it was amazing Nobody cares what you did, popcorn hater. (That whole experience/meal actually sounds really incredible.)
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I love SPAM cooked over a campfire. When I was younger I went to a tripping camp where we'd go into the woods for a few weeks, and a reflecting oven was great for making bannock - the best was when we had dehydrated apples and made apple cinnamon bannock. Tastes great with a little ash on the crust.
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angerbeet posted:I love SPAM cooked over a campfire. When I was younger I went to a tripping camp where we'd go into the woods for a few weeks, and a reflecting oven was great for making bannock - the best was when we had dehydrated apples and made apple cinnamon bannock. Tastes great with a little ash on the crust. That would be fantastic. My partner is half First Nations and half South American so I get to eat a lot of bannock and arepas, the latter being something that I'm always surprised isn't more mainstream. It's so flexible and easy.
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