Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[trappedslider]

moving away from food: I just love how odd a conversation looks when one side decides to remove all of their comments which also includes quotes.

 

[payn]

I'm with your wife on this. She never puts ketchup or mustard on anything, doesn't care for salsa with chips, etc. I'm the opposite. While I like sauces in general, not just ketchup, I never let the ketchup run out in my house. I just can't enjoy fries without ketchup or burgers without something saucy on them. I know I would never be considered a true barbecue fan. I had a colleague who was from the Carolinas and was a huge barbecue fan and set out to educate me on true barbecue, taking me to the what he considered to be the best places throughout North and South Carolina when we were working on some projects in those states. The traditional, dry, smoked, chopped pork with sauce on the side just doesn't do it for me. Give me a rack of ribs dripping in sauce that requires a roll of paper towels on the table to eat over traditional bbq anyday. Though I do appreciate him introducing me to the magic of good, freshly made from scratch, hush puppies. And I did pick up an addiction to sweet tea while I was there.

While I was a big fan of Anthony Bourdain, the episode where Barack Obama was a guest and they went off on people who eating hot dogs with ketchup was annoying. I love mustards and will happily eat hot dogs, brats, and sausage with just mustard, but they're good with ketchup as well. Ketchup is a sauce that suffers from its popularity and ubiquity and, admittedly, folks who are unwilling to try anything else. But I find people who stick to what they like and have little willingness to try new things far less obnoxious than those who feel the need to make negative character judgements over other people's personal taste. I generally don't eat steak with ketchup...unless I'm with someone who has made disparaging comments about it before. Their disbelief and umbrage makes the food tastier. Ketchup is fine with steak. Even though there I find that are many more interesting ways of enjoying it, I would never give anyone grief for eating it how they like.

Living in Asia, I've met many Westerners who are food snobs about the dishes they are familiar with, but engage in the same unadventurous behavior they put other people down for when faced with foods outside of their experience.

I'd kill for some good hushpuppies. Nobody makes them in the TC worth getting.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Meanwhile talking about American cheese

I am not seeing the connection here

 

[trappedslider]

I am not seeing the connection here

Well the first comment and quote from you was me pointing out what I felt was an irony about not being snobish regarding meat but totally snobish about cheese. american cheese. The second quote from you and the pic below it was an example of what you could do with a block of american cheese.

 

[Ryujin]

This new Kickstarter things where people can make "late pledges", after a campaign is supposed to have ended, really confuses me. OK, it's great that something that met its funding goals can continue on toward stretch goals, after the supposed drop dead date, but why wouldn't you just set your goal artificially low and bank on pulling in more after the curtain falls?

OK, too many metaphors.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Well the first comment and quote from you was me pointing out what I felt was an irony about not being snobish regarding meat but totally snobish about cheese. american cheese.

I wasn't though. I don't have any issue with kraft singles. I am American cheese of all varieties. Especially on this most patriotic day. The only reason other brands came up was people were crapping on American cheese, and some of us made the point that American cheese isn't all kraft singles and cheese wiz. You can get boars head or land-o-lakes and it is a different experience. Someone else made the point that kraft singles were cheap and sometimes that was the only option. So that got me curious and I looked into the actual costs of a block of land-o-lakes cheese and was surprised they came out about the same total cost (though I should say smaller packs of Land-o-lakes were more expensive: roughly the same price for 6 fewer slices).

The second quote from you and the pic below it was an example of what you could do with a block of american cheese.

I am not going to lie. While I have never attempted a full deli block of cheese, I have finished blocks of cheese on my own

 

[billd91]

why wouldn't you just set your goal artificially low and bank on pulling in more after the curtain falls?

Because that would risk setting it too low to finish the project?

 

[Warpiglet-7]

USA! USA!

I am drinking cheap domestic beer and am about to eat a hamburger! If I had a Kraft single I’d put that on it!

Yeah!

 

[Bedrockgames]

USA! USA!

I am drinking cheap domestic beer and am about to eat a hamburger! If I had a Kraft single I’d put that on it!

Yeah!

Be sure to put ketchup on it too soldier

 

[Warpiglet-7]

Be sure to put ketchup on it too soldier

I got mustard and possible (gasp) A1 sauce! My kids dig on the ketchup…I am just using that with fries…

All good! Time for another low brow beer! Because yes, I like it too. Maybe better on a hot ass day like this in fact