The Official First World Problems Thread™
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First world problem: Bought VIP tickets to wrong beer festival.
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I suspect that it's done to deter shoplifters,
that's the reason. but there are other ways to achieve the same effect, much more cost effective ones too.
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Back in my alky days I might have said that there's no such thing as the wrong beer festival.
"Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer"-- A. E. Housman
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First world problem: Bought VIP tickets to wrong beer festival.
The Natty Bo thread is over there!
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Beer? Don't y'all have 'shine uppin de hills thar? ;)
I saw a Band's Tour Bus this morning - looked liked Pantera or somebody - wonder if they're playing at your festival...
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All of the thighs in the flat of chicken thighs I picked up for lunch this week were kinda small. Guess I need to pay more attention to what I'm grabbing at the store.
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I need to pay more attention to what I'm grabbing at the store.
Generally good advice.
BTW - keep an eye for boneless chicken thighs!
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Guess I need to pay more attention to what I'm grabbing at the store.
She agrees
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Oh, yeah. I made that mistake once.
Mistake?
They are tasty and delicious!! Just about anyplace the recipe calls for boneless breasts, use thighs instead and you'll avoid having a dried-out and tasteless chicken dish.
OTOH You're apparently making actual Fried Chicken™
So yea, you need the handles for eating!
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They are tasty and delicious!! Just about anyplace the recipe calls for boneless breasts, use thighs instead and you'll avoid having a dried-out and tasteless chicken dish.
Ah, yes, I do that all the time. Dark meat is almost always superior. I'm still sad that McDonald's jumped on the all white meat bandwagon. I remember trading for dark meat with my brother as a kid.
OTOH You're apparently making actual Fried Chicken™So yea, you need the handles for eating!
Exactly. Plus, the boneless version omits the skin, which is the best part.
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This reminds me of a slightly more serious and common first-world problem. For the past few years (at least where I live) there has developed a custom of encasing a product in thick clear plastic. There are no instructions on how to open it. You have to get a pair of industrial-strength scissors and cut it open. The plastic is thicker around the edges, where you would cut it. It takes a little bit of strength to cut it. Even when you have cut it, you are not home free. You must either do more cutting, which is still not an easy task, because you must get the scissors between the plastic and the contents, or grab some cut edges, and using a little bit of strength, tear it open.
I would imagine that there are a lot of elderly people who must find a younger person to open such packages for them on a fairly regular basis
Can openers work on those surprisingly well.
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Exactly. Plus, the boneless version omits the skin, which is the best part.
...oh, yea, the stuff that holds on the spicy crispiness..gaaaah!
Forgot, 'cuz we don't fry it at home...my boyz like to get Popeye's when they've earned a going-out lunch
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Actually, I'm pretty much always looking for reasons to reward them and treat them special..
Since I'm also always nagging them about cleaning up and doing homework, and eating right, and who their friends are, and do you think you're going out of the house dressed like that, tie your shoes! ;)
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i was referring to their preference for popeyes over home fried stuff
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i was referring to their preference for popeyes over home fried stuff
Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Just how it is!
It's not even a preference, for whatever reason, we just don't have fried chicken at home. Come-to-think of it - they get tenders anyway!
They like Dad to take them out, and they like Popeye's because it's spicy.
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They like Dad to take them out, and they like Popeye's because it's spicy.
now that i guess i can get behind.
still, one of these days you should do a home fryup for them. they'll love it and you can make it as spicy or mild as you want!
it's not difficult, you don't even need a deep fryer. a high sided skillet with about an inch and a half of oil in it will do it.
you'll need a thermometer to keep an eye on the temperature of course, don't want it getting too hot.
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Do you get things like this in the States?
I know - the idea of sticking your chicken in a bag and then the oven sounds bonkers, and I wasn't convinced either, but the chicken comes out perfectly.
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i was referring to their preference for popeyes over home fried stuff
Popeye's is good. Plus they have other stuff like red beans and rice. And it's more of a reward for the kids to go out.
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it's not difficult,
I don't think there's any one reason it's not on the menu - except maybe if Dad cooks it, I'll get every single corner of the kitchen dirty!
Raw chicken!
Egg
Flour - lots of Flour
Hot - spattering - oil!Cooking's not hard - organizing cooking is hard (for me).
Looking for :oil_well: - found
and bonus: how easy it is to get s when you're trying to type oil well.Thanks discourse!! Pretty fun, but not super useful.
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Do you get things like this in the States?
I know - the idea of sticking your chicken in a bag and then the oven sounds bonkers, and I wasn't convinced either, but the chicken comes out perfectly.
Used to at least. My mother did chicken like that a lot.
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For lunch, I just throw the pieces right into the fryer. Easy and low carb. Then sprinkle some adobo on them after cooking.
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red beans and rice.
The absolute best side in fast food. (Top five at least!!)
And it's more of a reward for the kids to go out.
nods.
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except maybe if Dad cooks it, I'll get every single corner of the kitchen dirty!
i'm told by several people that that's half the fun of having the parent that doesn't usually cook cook.
i'm told by the parents that usually do the cooking that no it isn't.
I personally go for one of these and the problem seems to go away. ;-)
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red beans and rice
I just said to the wife last night that it was about time to cook up a pot of red beans and rice. When winter comes on, I always get a craving for it. There is a place here that has really good andouille sausage which is pretty amazing in it.
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i'm told by the parents that usually do the cooking that no it isn't.
Wife thinks it's very amusing - insists that I get to clean up.
Actually, except for cleaning the precious stove, I actually do most of the clean up. "Most"? ...mmm... to be safe I should say "a lot".I personally go for one of these and the problem seems to go away.
Have one. Get's gummy, Wife hates. Had one - I think it's "lost".
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@Intercourse said:
I just said to the wife last night that it was about time to cook up a pot of red beans and rice. When winter comes on, I always get a craving for it. There is a place here that has really good andouille sausage which is pretty amazing in it.
Love it. Somehow, my wife and I cook it from the same recipe and it comes out waaaaaay different.
I let it cook a long, long time.
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Had one - I think it's "lost".
ah... sad. yeah it does get gummy all to heck. but at <$10/pop i just buy a new one periodically (the one i linked is actually expensive for the things) it usually takes five or six sessions before the gummy builds up to the point where the dishwasher won't take it off anymore.
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and since i only fry about once a month (or i'd buy a proper fryer) that's not so bad...
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gummy builds up to the point where the dishwasher won't take it off anymore.
We get some sort of industrial degreaser. Purple stuff, comes in gallon jugs at Sam's Club or something. A little bit of that in the pre-wash does wonders.
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hmm... i'll have to remember that the next time i'm in there. might save me some cash on the screens.
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ah... sad. yeah it does get gummy all to heck. but at
I actually got the screen for blurping tomato sauce, since I like to cook it in my cast-iron skillet. (And like the red-beans and rice, I like to simmer it for a goood long while.)
Dang I'm hungry now. Friday's are usually for cleaning out the fridge.
:sad: , can't we have a :sad: !? Why :( is not sad?
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Why :( is not sad?
Ever since someone pointed out that it wasn't a mouth but a moustache on that emo
ticonji, that's all I've been able to see it as.
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lucky. i saw @algorythmics interpretation first and that vision still haunts me!
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:do_not_want:
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no, no she didn't
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Why is not sad?
Because it's more horrified. That's more like "What did I just see my parents doing?! Where's the hot poker for my eyes?!"
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Wouldn't that be a subset of the scenario I posited?
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it sold me poptarts. You may debate whether that is good or bad, tho.
That depends on the flavor of the Pop-Tarts®.
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if Dad cooks it, I'll get every single corner of the kitchen dirty!
Cooking's not hard - organizing cooking is hard (for me).
Hey, I resemble those remarks!! Unfortunately, there's no longer anyone else around to help with the cleaning, either (not that I ever got much help — "You made the mess; you clean it.").
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Do you get things like this in the States?
I know - the idea of sticking your chicken in a bag and then the oven sounds bonkers, and I wasn't convinced either, but the chicken comes out perfectly.
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the fix is to buy only amazon approved frustration-free packaging.
What if you're not buying from Amazon? Is it OK to buy stuff from other retailers as long as it has frustration-free packaging? Even if it hasn't been certified as such?
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I was trying to figure out why they make it so difficult in the first place, and I suspect that it's done to deter shoplifters, which does not apply for mailed goods.
I think that's where it started. They probably added it to mail goods because they were already doing it for retail stuff. It's more work to make something and package it two different ways, and once you're already doing it for some things, why not do it for everything?
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What if you're not buying from Amazon
DOES_NOT_COMPUTE
Is it OK to buy stuff from other retailers as long as it has frustration-free packaging?
yes. if it's not in a clamshell or other ridiculous packaging it's good to go
Even if it hasn't been certified as such?
you really do want to kill that joke dead don't you?
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All of the thighs in the flat of chicken thighs I picked up for lunch this week were kinda small. Guess I need to pay more attention to what I'm grabbing at the store.
Normally that just means you got more of them. Whether this is a problem depends on how you're going to be eating them.
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>ben_lubar:
abarker:
did I just see my parents' 's doing?FTFYFTFTFYFY
[I dunno, I tried to re-indent that and Discourse puked]
Perhaps Ben saw the doing of one parent.
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The noodles in my wife's ramen are the thin ones and not the thick ones like in my ramen.
(Not sure if this is my wife's problem or mine...)
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wait ben doesn't play anything but dwarf fortress.....
Who are you and what did you do with ben?
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