Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

I did learn much earlier in life to never have all of rum and coke, peach schnapps and orange juice, beer, and wine coolers. :-/ That was really unpleasant. (It also taught me to moderate my drinking).

This was me, in college.

Never a hangover…from anything. I don’t get them. I strongly suspect that’s genetics, and a big factor in how all 7 of my grandfather’s siblings became alcoholics.

 

[Ryujin]

This was me, in college.

Never a hangover…from anything. I don’t get them. I strongly suspect that’s genetics, and a big factor in how all 7 of my grandfather’s siblings became alcoholics.

I never got a hangover, right up until I gave myself alcohol poisoning and quit. So for 40 years I have had no chance to find out what a hangover feels like. I'm not sad about that

 

[Bedrockgames]

There's this little test where you can determine a lot about a person, and generally get a judgement of their character. That is the shopping cart test. Barring any potential disability, or emergency preventing you from doing so, once you finish your grocery shopping, and load the groceries into your vehicle, do you then go and return the shopping cart to the corral? Or do you leave it next to the parking space?

I think there is a similar test, but on a smaller scale. Rather than judging someone's character, you're instead judging their general temperament. That test is asking the pineapple on pizza question. This one is a trick however. Yay or nay.. Regardless how you feel about the food itself.. What's more telling is the way in which you answer. If you start to evangelize in either direction, whether you are writing your congress person suggesting they present a bill banning pineapple on pizza, or you're petitioning the CEOs of the famous pizza chains suggesting that pineapple should replace pepperoni as the default pizza topping... Either way.. I'm not saying you're a bad person... but you are getting un-invited from the pizza party.

Now that we have had hundreds of pages of discussion I have some conclusions about this:

1) Shopping Cart Courtesy: I too have heard this proposed (usually on public radio). It sounds like a good idea, but when you think about it, not returning carts to the corral creates jobs. There are at least two employees at my local stop n shop whose primary responsibility is bringing the shopping carts back to the corrals. Also having carts strewn about the lot encourages people to drive at slower speeds. Who knows how many lives are saved because drivers are going 2 miles an hour instead of 10 or 15. It may seem like an inconvenience to get out of your car, move the cart, and then pull into your space, but this is good exercise and also excellent mental stimulation to keep your brain from declining.

2) This pizza party you are hosting sounds like it is going to be very dull . While I have been on the opposite the pineapple haters on this thread, I will say their verbiage is entertaining and you know where they stand on the issues. A party that excludes the passionate on both sides of the pineapple pizza debate, is going to lack spirited discussion.

 

[Umbran]

Now that we have had hundreds of pages of discussion I have some conclusions about this:

1) Shopping Cart Courtesy: ...

2) This pizza party you are hosting sounds like it is going to be very dull .

Have the pizza party in a shopping cart strewn parking lot. By your own admission, that will be excellent mental stimulation.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Shopping Cart Courtesy: I too have heard this proposed (usually on public radio). It sounds like a good idea, but when you think about it, not returning carts to the corral creates jobs. There are at least two employees at my local stop n shop whose primary responsibility is bringing the shopping carts back to the corrals. Also having carts strewn about the lot encourages people to drive at slower speeds. Who knows how many lives are saved because drivers are going 2 miles an hour instead of 10 or 15. It may seem like an inconvenience to get out of your car, move the cart, and then pull into your space, but this is good exercise and also excellent mental stimulation to keep your brain from declining.

OTOH, it provides a decent real-time litmus test on people’s base level of courtesy. I’ve seen people leave carts- including motorized mobility carts- in handicapped spaces. And behind other shoppers’ cars.

Hell- the last time I went to the grocery, I was walking out of the store with a cart of my own (and leading my Mom in her mobility cart) when the guy directly in front of me yanked his bags out of the cart he was using and just vector off at a 45deg angle towards his car. It was inconsiderate enough that he did it directly in my path, but he did so while his cart was in motion and right at the edge of the entrance ramp adjacent to the main parking lot roadway of traffic. I managed to run ahead of my cart and catch it before it got more than a couple feet into traffic while retaining overall control of my own fully-loaded cart as well. My Legion of Substitute Heroes/Mystery Men moment of the week.

Besides, even if the carts are all corralled, someone has to bring them back to the store, because 99% of the customers aren’t grabbing them from anywhere else. So those employees’ jobs are still safe. And arguably, they themselves are safer, since they’d be spending less time out in the elements, dodging drivers.

 

[Thomas Shey]

The book I got that dirty soda recipe from uses them a lot, and yes, every one we've tried so far has been quite good. You can find a lot of really fake flavored syrups out there, so Torani has been a great find.

I notice they have sugar free ones; any experience with those from anyone?

 

[Thomas Shey]

I did learn much earlier in life to never have all of rum and coke, peach schnapps and orange juice, beer, and wine coolers. :-/ That was really unpleasant. (It also taught me to moderate my drinking).

My wife's one really awful drinking experience involved rum and coke, so apparently its common.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I notice they have sugar free ones; any experience with those from anyone?

My Mom is a diabetic, and she LOVES their vanilla syrup. I tasted a little on my fingertip one time, and didn’t detect any “off” notes.

Based on that and the quality of the regular syrups, I wouldn’t hesitate buying other sugar free syrups from Torani.

 

[Hussar]

NOpe. Not going to engage.

 

[Cadence]

NOpe. Not going to engage.

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