Enjoy a burger how you want, or not, I could hardly care any less as long as you’re not hurting anybody with your lifestyle choice.

Personally, I just don’t like cooked pineapple very much. It’s a pale imitation of fresh in both taste and texture. Pure disappointment, and I’ve got enough disappointment in my life already, don’t need anymore on my pizza or burger or tacos or spaghetti or upside down cake or colada.

Thought you were going to say “in the butt”, but then you said “In HELL.” and I assume you don’t refer to the butt as hell. Right?

If I’m being honest, I was born in the year of our Lord 2005 to the most amazingly loving, caring, and down-to-earth parents a child could ever ask for. At the tender age of 18, I lived life to its fullest, moved out from my parents’ house, and then a year later I turned 19 for the first and only time ever. That was a turning point in my life, after which I was and forever would be over the age of 18. So yes, emphatically yes, I am indeed over the age of 18.

It’s a mineral, Gurk.

Did anyone else get in school suspension?

Yes, though my memory of it is kind of limited all these years later.

It was a case of collective punishment. At least that third and final time the bus was late, it was because a number of the kids on the same route took too long to get on the bus and get settled, which caused us to be late. Some kids would wait to leave their house until they saw the bus or heard the horn beep. So, I guess they decided to punish everyone, for reasons.

I don’t even think it was literally everybody that rode the bus, because some of the kids’ parents would/could drop them off at school any time the bus was late or not running. But that wasn’t an option for me.

Tastes just the same.

It loses some of its crispness, so you wouldn’t necessarily substitute frozen / thawed celery in a recipe that calls for raw / uncooked celery. Though, I have used the thawed stuff for things like potato salad and chicken salad before, which are things that typically use raw celery, and it still added enough texture and crunch to make it worthwhile.

But for things that involve cooking celery, like in soups, stir fries, and things along those lines, frozen works just fine for me. I don’t find any difference in taste or texture in the finished product, assuming that the frozen celery didn’t get freezer burned or go through multiple freeze/thaw cycles.

Most grocery stores in my part of the world sell frozen celery or at least frozen veggie mixes that include celery, so I’d say it’s a fairly common practice.

This is probably stretching the definition of strange, but I got in school suspension in middle school for having 3 tardies (aka arriving late to school). I rode the school bus to school each day, I had no control over whether I was late or not, so I find it strange to be punished for something like that.

Any of the “salads”: Tuna salad, chicken salad, egg salad, potato salad benefit from a little added celery, both as an added flavor component as well as for a little texture and crunch.

While I use celery in a lot of cooking, I tend not to be able to use an entire bunch of it before it goes bad. So, whenever I buy it, I use what I can, and then I chop the rest up and freeze it. Then I can pull out what I need for cooking purposes at my leisure, and I don’t end up wasting much celery.

All the options you mentioned for eating the celery raw are great. I’d also add cream cheese to that list.

It’s a comforting sentiment, but unfortunately, it’s not really true.

A lot of grifters grift not because they failed at “legitimate or useful” employment, but because grifting is easier, quicker, and better money for them (or has other tangible benefits) and they have no moral quandaries about what they’re doing.

TV shows and movies are art. Eliciting an emotional response is kind of art’s thing. Maybe not all art, but that’s neither here nor there.

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I know this is probably the worst place I could possibly pose this question, but I’ve been wondering, so here goes. But first some background.

Probably within the past year or two, I discovered that FedEx started showing the name and a photo of the delivery driver on the tracking pages. Since they started doing that, I’ve noticed a very strong trend.

Whenever my package is late, meaning it’s marked as “Out for delivery” on a given day, but doesn’t arrive, it’s always the same driver. Now it’s at the point where if I get a notification that my package is out for delivery and I happen to see that Bob (not his real name) is the driver, I know for sure it’s not coming that day. Sometimes it’ll come the following day, but most often it doesn’t get delivered until a different driver shows up on the tracking page several days later.

So, I’m wondering, when they know they don’t plan on actually making a delivery attempt but they need to mark the package as out for delivery, do they just have a designated “fake” driver they assign it to? Is Bob even a real human?

Sure. Sometimes things touch your soul when you’re open to it or vulnerable.

…why does that soap have a bite out of it?

Because people see the picture and think “What in the world why does that soap have a bit out o fit” and then go ahead and click the link. And after doing various “experiments” over the years, advertisers have found that these sort of practices substantially improve engagement/click-through metrics and ultimately result in higher traffic / sales / ad revenue / etc.

Give me your spinach and whatever green leafy veggies you buy knowing you won’t get around to eating it. I’m sure most people would tell me that I eat crap, but the one good thing I can say is at least I eat a lot of greens.

Please note: These are not mutually exclusive.

Almost 30 years ago, when I worked in retail, there was a couple whose kids were orange because of this.

The parents were pretty open about intentionally feeding large amounts of that kind of stuff to their kids and not concerned at all about the ramifications of having unnaturally orange children. They’d clear the shelves of all the carrot, sweet potato, and pumpkin baby foods when the kids were young and then later on they did the same with produce and canned stuff like canned carrots, pumpkin pie stuff, etc.

They never explained why they did it. I suspect there was a degree of mental illness in them both, though.

Like those hunters in the USA that go out in the wild and get attacked by grizzly bears and almost nobody with any sense has sympathy for them because at the end of the day the hunters put themselves into the bear’s habitat and then weren’t savvy, educated, vigilant, or concerned enough to stay the fuck away from the apex predators with knives built into their mouths and feet.

I get it’s a meme, but I’d be hard pressed to find one thing that’s not annoying about shopping in these places.

Right hand to baby Jesus, I thought Kmart was basically no longer in operation, when did it become a programming language for nerds?