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spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

El Spamo posted:

what the gently caress is with people trying to sneak stuff into peoples food

An inability to understand that everyone isn't exactly like them.

"I love the thing, so everyone must love the thing. You are either lying about not loving the thing, or ignorant of the thing."

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Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
'You don't eat what I eat!?' has been a running theme in this thread and much longer for causing decades-long grudges and violent flip-outs.

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

I've got a lib friend who refuses to eat anything not "American". So basically cheeseburgers and pizza (yeah I know).

We just don't ever invite her out when we're eating anything remotely interesting/tasty.

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?
For some reason I imagined him actually standing on the kitchen table for his speech and having to duck occasionally to avoid the ceiling fan hitting him in the head.

Killingyouguy!
Sep 8, 2014

El Spamo posted:

what the gently caress is with people trying to sneak stuff into peoples food

SA threads regularly devolve into 'if there is even one food you dislike you are uncultured and a manbaby' so I am not surprised this might become important to a parent
The fixation on mustard is weird though

AngryRobotsInc
Aug 2, 2011

spacetoaster posted:

I've got a lib friend who refuses to eat anything not "American". So basically cheeseburgers and pizza (yeah I know).

We just don't ever invite her out when we're eating anything remotely interesting/tasty.

Even if you wanted to eat only "American" food whatever that's supposed to mean, you could still have a ton of variety. That's just a sad excuse to be a picky weirdo.

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

Evil Willow posted:

AITA For Refusing to Make a $120 Cut of Steak Well Done?

She sees the first person cut into their steak and sees pink and she is just mortified. Immediately she acts him of eating raw meat and stresses that the steak should be, "Brown all the way through or else you'll get sick."

Feel like this part got lost. Steak guy is a dweeb, but this girl has some gaps in her education.

Hellblazer187
Oct 12, 2003

16 year old brother guy needs a sit down talk about how porn isn't real life, not to get punished for a month.

Mustard parents are of course assholes.

Wizard of Goatse's post about about expensive foods is good and correct.

I should buy a sous vide machine (is it a machine I don't even know what it is)because I'm pretty bad at cooking steak.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts
Sep 9, 2011

The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Police can subpoena commercial DNA databases, so 23andme falls under the umbrella of "don't talk to the police".

Yeah, my entire extended family has an unspoken agreement not to do genetic testing while my uncle is still alive. He miiiiiiight have been a serial killer in the 90s but he's a pretty good dude now.

El Spamo
Aug 21, 2003

Fuss and misery

Killingyouguy! posted:

SA threads regularly devolve into 'if there is even one food you dislike you are uncultured and a manbaby' so I am not surprised this might become important to a parent
The fixation on mustard is weird though

By all means, have an opinion and voice it if you want. Dunk on someone for eating nothing but chicken tenders w/ ketchup, but for fucks sake don't "sneak" poo poo in that's just mean.
Steak guy is a dork, let her microwave her steak if she wants just enjoy your own meal, you don't have to get up.

Sou vide is great for chicken btw, hits the temp mark for food safety and doesn't risk drying it out if you make a mistake.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

AngryRobotsInc posted:

Even if you wanted to eat only "American" food whatever that's supposed to mean

Fry bread and corn mostly

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Yeah, my entire extended family has an unspoken agreement not to do genetic testing while my uncle is still alive. He miiiiiiight have been a serial killer in the 90s but he's a pretty good dude now.

What the actual gently caress

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

any food made by an American is American food, that's how the country works

sean10mm
Jun 29, 2005

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, MAD-2R World
Half the food ingredients used in Europe were just stolen from the Americas anyway.

Fil5000
Jun 23, 2003

HOLD ON GUYS I'M POSTING ABOUT INTERNET ROBOTS

hawowanlawow posted:

any food made by an American is American food, that's how the country works

i thought it was any food found on american soil

Xakura
Jan 10, 2019

A safety-conscious little mouse!

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Yeah, my entire extended family has an unspoken agreement not to do genetic testing while my uncle is still alive. He miiiiiiight have been a serial killer in the 90s but he's a pretty good dude now.

gently caress you and your family.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Fil5000 posted:

i thought it was any food found on american soil

Three-second rule?

Luigi's Discount Porn Bin
Jul 19, 2000


Oven Wrangler
Any food is American if it contains one or more of the five mother ingredients (deep frying, HFCS, Kosher salt, the word "slam," and Campbell's cream of something soup)

spacetoaster
Feb 10, 2014

Xakura posted:

gently caress you and your family.

No horny!

StrangersInTheNight
Dec 31, 2007
ABSOLUTE FUCKING GUDGEON
Oh that's just Uncle Wilbur, we think he killed a few folks, but he makes us chuckle now so, water under the bridge, right?

Hey, does everyone else regularly see pale women reflected in your car's backseat in your rear-view mirror, their cold lips mouthing 'you could help you loving coward' then shrieking into dark mist? No? Just me? Gotcha just making sure.

BIG FLUFFY DOG
Feb 16, 2011

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.


a little-known fact is that you don't have to post things. you can just say to yourself "no. I will not share this with strangers on the internet."

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

Fil5000 posted:

i thought it was any food found on american soil

Hawaiian food doesn't count.

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Yeah, my entire extended family has an unspoken agreement not to do genetic testing while my uncle is still alive. He miiiiiiight have been a serial killer in the 90s but he's a pretty good dude now.

Good old Uncle Bob the Long Island Slasher.

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

StrangersInTheNight posted:

I mean, it's pretty rude to keep lacing someone's food with an ingredient because you want to prove they'll eventually 'like it'. Who the gently caress cares about if someone else likes yellow mustard or not enough to keep trying to 'whoopsie' them into surprise-liking it? What the gently caress is wrong with those parents.
bastards are just like this. i've got a lot of family members who pull the same crap on my younger cousins, etc and it feels like i'm the only person who's ever willing to call them out for it. gotta make up for family always pushing pecan dishes onto me growing up despite an allergy

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
I assume more to not provoke the potential serial killer.

And given the mention of liberal I presume another case of someone taking 'cultural appropriation' all the way back around to hardcore segregation.

BIG FLUFFY DOG
Feb 16, 2011

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.


Ghost Leviathan posted:

I assume more to not provoke the potential serial killer.


hes a good dude now didn't you read

Alchenar
Apr 9, 2008

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

hes a good dude now didn't you read

he only allegedly ate those people

cumpantry
Dec 18, 2020

you're all clowning on serial killer uncle guy now but if you've been to his family potlucks and tasted the killer wagyu this dude grills up you'd be having second thoughts about dna testing too

Funky Valentine
Feb 26, 2014

Dojyaa~an

Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in the shoes he compulsively stole from his victims thus earning him the moniker of the Sketchers Slasher.

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Yeah, my entire extended family has an unspoken agreement not to do genetic testing while my uncle is still alive. He miiiiiiight have been a serial killer in the 90s but he's a pretty good dude now.

Yeah, you're not going to just leave this dangling, explain yourself.

Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004
It's pretty well explained. They caught the golden state killer cop based on some various family members submitting their genetic information to these databases. OP is worried about them doing the same thing to his uncle.

I guess the fun question is what makes you think your uncle might be a serial killer?

limp_cheese
Sep 10, 2007


Nothing to see here. Move along.

Hellblazer187 posted:

16 year old brother guy needs a sit down talk about how porn isn't real life, not to get punished for a month.

Can't agree more and all they are doing is helping the 16 year old develop even worse views. I'm assuming they are American so his sex ed probably involves "Don't ever have sex unless your married" if he has gotten any at all. If the sister may have just talked with her brother she might have helped him.

God drat am I resentful of the American sexual education system. Its just hurt so many people.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:

Yeah, my entire extended family has an unspoken agreement not to do genetic testing while my uncle is still alive. He miiiiiiight have been a serial killer in the 90s but he's a pretty good dude now.

I guess this is supposed to be a joke otherwise you and your entire family are sociopaths and it's no wonder you all think the uncle is a serial killer.

AnoHito
May 8, 2014

Wait, are there people who ask a 16 year old boy what kinds of girls he wants to gently caress and expect an answer that isn't gross and weird?

OP really should've just let him leave it at "she's not my type"

Alchenar
Apr 9, 2008

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Yeah, you're not going to just leave this dangling, explain yourself.

That's really what should have been said to the uncle a few years ago.


e: nobody will ever find a r/ story that tops this one, will they

olylifter
Sep 13, 2007

I'm bad with money and you have an avatar!

the holy poopacy posted:

:yeah:

I don't know if there's a chapter in Emily Post about this but there should be

Calpurnia tears a strip off of Scout over her judging how someone eats in To Kill a Mockingbird, that's always done it for me.

"There's some folks who don't eat like us," she whispered fiercely, "but you ain't called on to contradict 'em at the table when they don't. That boy's yo' comp'ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?"

KIT HAGS
Jun 5, 2007
Stay sweet
Wasn’t there a poster on SA who thought their grandfather was behind the Tylenol poisonings in the 80s?

Also my newsfeed section on Facebook is now inundated with articles based on r/relationships posts. “Internet backs man who xyz.”Newsweek, Washington Post, Buzzfeed, etc.

ponzicar
Mar 17, 2008

AnoHito posted:

Wait, are there people who ask a 16 year old boy what kinds of girls he wants to gently caress and expect an answer that isn't gross and weird?

OP really should've just let him leave it at "she's not my type"

Yeah, she had to dig a bit to get him to say something gross. Give the kid a talk on respect instead of trying to get him in trouble.

kimbo305
Jun 9, 2007

actually, yeah, I am a little mad

Ghost Leviathan posted:

'You don't eat what I eat!?' has been causing millennia-long grudges and violent flip-outs.

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Woodchip
Mar 28, 2010
I'm struggling with our 10 year age gap, 2 years into our marriage.

quote:

I love my (26f) Husband (36m) so much. He's my soulmate, the father of my baby and future children. He's an amazing person, dedicated family man and ambitious worker. He puts me first but also works out and takes care of himself too. If the apocalypse hit tomorrow he's the one I'd want by my side. We have our problems but we always work through them. I have everything in a partner I could have ever wanted. Except the 10 years between us.

I don't know what changed but one morning I noticed the lines around his eyes had gotten deeper, and his hair was thinner. I think the thought of soon being with a 40 year old got in my head. We got together when I was 18, it just didn't seem like that big of a deal. I'd not realised he was as old as he was when we met and I fell for him, and once I found out I just didn't care. We've been together for 8 years, married for 2 of those. We've had a wonderful baby. But suddenly I'm doubting everything and thinking about what it would be like to seperate and date guys my age.

A woman at work recently made a snarky comment about older guys with their oblivious younger girlfriends when talking about a news story we'd seen and it hit me in the chest. I felt a little sick and embarrassed. Now I can't help but feel like people think of me as a fool who married the first man who came along, and maybe I was. When I was worried about the gap before my wedding I called my mum and she told me that true love would mean the gap wouldn't matter, and she felt that we had that. I agreed and proceeded with the wedding. Now I wonder if everyone who attended was watching and thinking about me making a huge, stupid mistake.

I will not leave him, and I will never cheat. I promised him forever and I still want that. How can I get past this feeling? Am I stuck feeling like an idiot forever? We have the healthiest relationship and I don't want to sour it because I'm a lovely, shallow person. Why am I suddenly struggling with this? Am I that shallow that the slight signs of age could make me consider discarding everything we have? How can I fix that if that's who I am? Is watching each other age something normal married couples have to contend with? I still feel that we have physical chemistry and a strong emotional connection, but the guilt is eating at me. Any advice would be appreciated. He's my best friend and it's the first thing I haven't been able to talk to him about.

TL;DR - Love has been blind for a long time, suddenly it's not and I'm struggling with the age gap. Looking for advice.

Edit - A quick note to say thank you to all of the wonderful people who commented sage wisdom and reassuring advice/stories of their own relationships. Your kindness has touched my heart and made me feel so much better. I think a lot of you are right and my fears/worries are based on my own fears of aging, stagnation, and what the future holds for us. I'm so lucky, and truly happy with my marriage and life, I just let myself get too worked up about my own anxieties. I'm going to give my man the biggest hug when I see him.

For those concerned, I'm not looking back at younger people and thinking about the wrongness of our relationship. Our power-dynamic and sex life are healthy and full of love and respect. I can understand the concern, but it's not who we are.

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