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Sereri
Sep 30, 2008

awwwrigami

I mean, that's always true

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Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

Pastry of the Year posted:


Every thread in PYF will eventually experience its own food derail, but yeah, honestly, chain fast food in America has gotten both more expensive in the last 10 years and, in my opinion, demonstrably worse almost across the board.

These massive faceless corporations will turn things around, I have faith.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


If Americans had any sense a chain called Shwarma Law would have taken over middle America.
Chopped grilled turkey or lamb is just so so good.

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

By popular demand posted:

If Americans had any sense a chain called Shwarma Law would have taken over middle America.
Chopped grilled turkey or lamb is just so so good.

Fun fact: lamb has a higher carbon impact than any other commonly consumed meat.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Pastry of the Year posted:



Every thread in PYF will eventually experience its own food derail, but yeah, honestly, chain fast food in America has gotten both more expensive in the last 10 years and, in my opinion, demonstrably worse almost across the board. I think the only chain food / takeout we still regularly get and enjoy is Domino's.

I thought it would be relatively easy to find some sort of chart, or a dedicated site, that tracks the course of fast food prices, but it's not!

The rule of capitalism is that every product becomes a minimum quality and maximum profit imitation of its original form as much as the market will bear.

Dienes
Nov 4, 2009

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College Slice

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Fun fact: lamb has a higher carbon impact than any other commonly consumed meat.

Wow, I would not expect that. How do they beat cows?

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Dienes posted:

Wow, I would not expect that. How do they beat cows?

Sheep don't have a very good feed conversion rate. Cows and pigs were bred to get big fast which is why we fill feedlots with them.

Blue Footed Booby
Oct 4, 2006

got those happy feet

Atticus_1354 posted:

Sheep don't have a very good feed conversion rate. Cows and pigs were bred to get big fast which is why we fill feedlots with them.

Also I assume that stat is per unit of meat rather than for the entire industry. But I'm in a meeting that's taking up just enough attention I can't Google.

SpacePig
Apr 4, 2007

Hold that pose.
I've gotta get something.

Blue Footed Booby posted:

Also I assume that stat is per unit of meat rather than for the entire industry. But I'm in a meeting that's taking up just enough attention I can't Google.


Basically, yeah.

Environmental Working Group posted:

Lamb has the greatest impact, generating 39.3 kg (86.4 lbs) of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) for each kilo eaten – about 50 percent more than beef. While beef and lamb generate comparable amounts of methane and require similar quantities of feed, lamb generates more emissions per kilo in part because it produces less edible meat relative to the sheep’s live weight

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



Pastry of the Year posted:

Every thread in PYF will eventually experience its own food derail, but yeah, honestly, chain fast food in America has gotten both more expensive in the last 10 years and, in my opinion, demonstrably worse almost across the board.

I find it kinda funny that I think McDonald's of all places has had the biggest turnaround lately with their push to on-demand cooking for the higher-priced burgs and such. I mean, they're still bottom tier, but the difference from a few years back is crazy.

The Bloop
Jul 5, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
I don't think I've eaten an actual burger at mcdonalds in .... nearly forever

But their chicken sandwich is legit (if cooked competently)

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



I always kind of liked their cheese burgers, and it's been years since I've been at a McDonald's. Sometimes I get that craving

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


The Bloop posted:

I don't think I've eaten an actual burger at mcdonalds in .... nearly forever

But their chicken sandwich is legit (if cooked competently)

Kinda hard to gently caress up a chicken sandwich but drat if some places don't try their best.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



I love Popeye's in general but weirdly enough the worst chicken sandwich I've had was from one, just a Long John Silver's-esque grease soaked monstrosity. It was from a gas station location so there was probably less care. Also that meal was the capper to my Christmas 2019 trip home, so it was a very appropriate way to ring in 2020 and beyond.

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
Fun fact: when I was a kid, I (sort of) really liked McDonald's burgers, which was weird, because I didn't like the bread, I didn't like the meat, I thought the cheese had a funny texture. But I'd crave them periodically.
It wasn't until I was well and truly a teenager that I learned that it was the pickles on the burger that I liked. Pickles on a burger aren't standard in Australia (or weren't in the '90s, at least), and McDonald's was the only place I'd ever had that.
I started buying big jars of dill pickles that I stick on a sandwich occasionally, and haven't felt the need to go to a lovely chain restaurant since.

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

I don't know if it's true or not but McDonald's tastes saltier than other burgers and so yeah, even if the other parts of the burger aren't always that good I crave them more than other burgers. A body's craving for salt is powerful. It'll be like those random moments during the day where I suddenly feel like I have to crush an entire bag of potato chips.

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus




Not sure if finding out it was fake is a better headline

Zil has a new favorite as of 03:53 on Sep 23, 2021

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
https://twitter.com/detroitnews/status/1441022974430261248?s=21

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
https://twitter.com/GuardianAus/status/1440923777307750402

Lobok
Jul 13, 2006

Say Watt?

Based on how fingerprints are taken, you might say that using the word 'analprint' gives the wrong impression.

Captain Hygiene
Sep 17, 2007

You mess with the crabbo...



quote:

For the past 10 years, Sonia Grego has been thinking about toilets

Same

Mescal
Jul 23, 2005

i thought sheep food was free cause they walk aroudn eat grass

Atticus_1354
Dec 10, 2006

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Mescal posted:

i thought sheep food was free cause they walk aroudn eat grass

Sure. If you have enough land and infrastructure to let them do that. But lands expensive and selling live animals doesn't make a lot of money.

Devor
Nov 30, 2004
Lurking more.

Robot Voice: CORN

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Oh poo poo it's that Smartpipe skit from Adult Swim, incarnate.

PhantomOfTheCopier
Aug 13, 2008

Pikabooze!
Olde news? https://www.cnet.com/news/this-toilet-uses-butt-recognition-while-analyzing-your-poo-for-diseases/

They're currently trying to market music playing, lid lifting, nightlighting, seat warming, bidet integrated, autoflushing devices as smart toilets. The self cleaning feature could be nice, but there's still going to be condensation and dust collecting around hinges that it won't get, and it probably takes $50/yr of SmaertSafe detergent or something.

I wonder how it responds to worshippers of the :barf: variety. Rick rolls them?

gey muckle mowser
Aug 5, 2003

Do you know anything about...
witches?



Buglord

PhantomOfTheCopier posted:

I wonder how it responds to worshippers of the :barf: variety. Rick rolls them?

holds back their hair and afterwards turns the bidet into a water fountain so they can rinse their mouths out

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?
I can't wait until there's some sort of network error, and these people are forced to poo poo in plastic buckets because their loo is inoperable unless it has the latest patch.

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Lady Disdain posted:

I can't wait until there's some sort of network error, and these people are forced to poo poo in plastic buckets because their loo is inoperable unless it has the latest patch.

Sorry, your smart toilet company went out of business and turned off the servers. If the toilet can't phone home it's not a toilet anymore. Still part of a russian botnet tho.



e: Russian botnet as a service: give us bitcoins and we will make up fake servers so all your orphaned IOT devices to phone home and work again. We will also spy on you and inefficiently mine bitcoins with your electricity, but we were doing that anyway.

Facebook Aunt has a new favorite as of 07:25 on Sep 24, 2021

Facebook Aunt
Oct 4, 2008

wiggle wiggle




Florida Man is at it again.

Tei
Feb 19, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 3 days!

Facebook Aunt posted:

Florida Man is at it again.



This will get some people dead, but also get a few extra votes.

Phlegmish
Jul 2, 2011



Facebook Aunt posted:

Sorry, your smart toilet company went out of business and turned off the servers. If the toilet can't phone home it's not a toilet anymore. Still part of a russian botnet tho.

Toilet company bought out by EA who immediately shut off all the servers

Keystoned
Jan 27, 2012

Tei posted:

This will get some people dead, but also get a few extra votes.

You think?
Seems like it will turn out more voters who are anti dead kids and also kill the kids of his supporters.

I love how pro life literally ends the second you fall out of a vagina, then its on your own kid!

Tei
Feb 19, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 3 days!

Keystoned posted:

You think?
Seems like it will turn out more voters who are anti dead kids and also kill the kids of his supporters.

I love how pro life literally ends the second you fall out of a vagina, then its on your own kid!

*insert here large post that would be very political and off-topic*

the good news is that the full-stupid mode these people drive generate a lot of ludicrous news and we are here for the ridiculous news

PhantomOfTheCopier
Aug 13, 2008

Pikabooze!

Keystoned posted:

I love how pro life literally ends the second you fall out of a vagina, then its on your own kid!
This has been my observation since I was a teenager. Why I would ever ever be surprised at their doublethink on any topic is not something I can explain.

gey muckle mowser posted:

holds back their hair and afterwards turns the bidet into a water fountain so they can rinse their mouths out
I can just hear people in their bathrooms complaining about technology: "Dammit, just turn all that poo poo off!"

Cartoon Man
Jan 31, 2004




https://www.fox5ny.com/news/man-tried-to-bomb-phone-stores-to-prevent-spread-of-porn


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Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?

Oh god, did it work ? Someone check pornhub's still active, and if it isn't, please break the news to me gently :ohdear:

ThisIsJohnWayne
Feb 23, 2007
Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!



Lady Disdain posted:

Oh god, did it work ? Someone check pornhub's still active, and if it isn't, please break the news to me gently :ohdear:

I'm very sorry for your loss. You still have Bloomberg news, which is a kind of porn, in a way, to some? Sort of?

Lady Disdain
Jan 14, 2013


are you yet living?

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

I'm very sorry for your loss. You still have Bloomberg news, which is a kind of porn, in a way, to some? Sort of?

Well, the headline "The Funds Holding Evergrande’s Distressed Debt, From UBS to Saba" is genuinely meaningless to me, but the author's name is Rachel Butt, so I think I might be able to make it work.

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PhantomOfTheCopier
Aug 13, 2008

Pikabooze!

Lady Disdain posted:

Oh god, did it work ? Someone check pornhub's still active, and if it isn't, please break the news to me gently :ohdear:
Don't worry, some of us olds don't like paying per second for video, nor for 100x bandwidth that gets used ten minutes a day. We can start posting betamax versions for you.

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