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Oh, it was amazing. I finished about 90% of it... Had some fun follow ups, haha. Thank God for immodium! Christ I'm old. Still won't slow me down from doing it again!

I used to hate hot sauce and spicy food. My sense of taste is still working fine, but as I get older I find I like hot food items more and more.

I enjoy a little bit of spicy, but it quickly reaches a point for me where I'm just not enjoying the food anymore and it's not worth it.

I like spicy food.

I don't like the tinted vinegar crap some places try to pass off as food. Frank's Red Hot and similar sauces are disgusting.

I love Frank's. I put that crap on everything.

If you like a kick but also like flavor and not just all hot, I highly recommend Tiger Sauce. If I had room in the fridge, I'd buy a gallon. It's both sweet and spicy. Not too spicy, but it has a kick. Very flavorful. That's a sauce that I think was done right.

nonamesleft wrote:

So maybe when Charlie Sheen was saying he was on Tiger Blood, this was what he really was on? LOL

HybridCRoW wrote:
Ha. Who knows. Maybe. It's a pretty great sauce.

I hate going grocery shopping. It sucks. Buying most anything these days sucks, so why not essential stuff like food.

@BucketofJustice My wife and I both hate grocery shopping too. A few months ago we switched to having our groceries delivered, and it's been a game changer. Saves us so much time, and it's easier to keep the grocery bill down that way when you see the price going up as you add stuff, and can easily edit the cart before checking out. Also, no impulse buying. It requires a Walmart+ membership, but the money we save on gas alone pays for that.

I’ll try that this weekend. Thanks for the suggestion!

We use DoorDash over here to get groceries delivered. Maybe a little bit more money due to delivery charges and whatnot but time saved/gas saved makes it worth it. Plus not having to interact with people = simply wonderful.

Good ideas all around. I love y’all.

As much as I don't like going to the grocery store, I can't have other people pick out my fruits, vegetables, and salads. Then there's the fact that I'm constantly changing what I purchase due to availability or possibly a better deal or a clearance item. I usually get a few clearance items when I go to Kroger. As far as dealing with people is concerned, it really isn't an issue for me because I go in the morning and check out a little after 7 a.m., so not a busy time to go. Also, deep down, I just know they're going to screw my order up somehow.

citizen_zane wrote:
I agree with the not wanting someone else to pick out my produce. We've gotten food deliveries with produce that was damaged, that I would never have picked at the store on my own. The way I view it is that it's a way for the workers in the store to get rid of non prime produce without having to throw it out, by putting it into the delivery of a customer. Just my opinion. Perhaps I'm wrong.

Non produce though, I'm definitely a fan of getting things delivered sometimes.

I've never liked grocery shopping... especially if I know what I'm getting, but still gotta deal with people being stupid and then there's the people just standing in the aisles or walking area chatting... it's understandable to socialize and catch up with people you run into but don't block the way!!

I've also come to the realization as a single person living by myself, it helps I don't go grocery shopping because I end up eating more food than I should because I don't do much when I'm not at work. So I guess I'd save myself money in the long run to just go get what I'm going to eat for dinner and lunch the next day when I come home.

As for pick up and delivery options... never really had an issue on pick up but delivery I've had stuff delivered and just sit outside for 5-10 min w/o a notification my stuff is delivered or a knock on my door. Luckily nothing got stolen or gone bad in the time frame.

I do my own grocery shopping because I like to make sure I'm not getting things that are due to expire soon.

I finally got the white chunks hung up in my tonsil area to dislodge after weeks. It normally goes quicker. What a glorious day!

In related news you just dislodged the chunks in my stomach into my sink thanks a lot.

Grocery delivery rules. Made soup. I found a marry me chicken soup recipe and I followed it exactly and eh. It was OK. Not great. Not terrible. I’ve eaten two meals today. One was an omelette from a breakfast joint here in OKC and the other was that soup, and both sent me to the bathroom for extended periods of time and neither were particularly enjoyable. I also found a screw in my tire yesterday and I brought it to a Hibdon tires and they fixed it for free, so that was cool. Today was lazy and I pushed off a bunch of stuff I should’ve done today, like cleaning. I’ll do that tomorrow. I’ve been saying that for at least a week. We’ll see what happens.

Bucket, a recipe is just a starting point. You make it once, then the next time you figure out what to add or remove.

That's basically how I ended up making my own style of ramen bowls with cooked pulled pork, dark and slightly aged soy sauce (a brand I use for cooking gets much tastier a month after I open it), some veggies, and the latest experiment was a bit of chili crisp. That really made it taste much better.

I’m glad those modifications worked out. That sounds really good. I don’t know if this soup I made yesterday is worth modifying. It was OK but that’s about it. I’ll have to try again at some point. My immediate modifications would be to add the mushrooms I meant to add this time, make it spicier, less salty, and thicken it up. Might add some soy sauce in there for a little umami as well.

https://www.maebells.com/marry-me-chicken-soup/?fb...

Fantal Finasy

There are so many cars near where I live. Endless flow of traffic. Terrible for trying to listen to messages on your phone as you walk. The trucks, cars, and busses just don't stop.

There's very little traffic where I live (rural), but we have no cell reception.

Ahhh I miss the visuals... This is surprisingly accurate.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3Ax2NF/

Had my first true experiences with psychedelics in 2023. That video is pretty accurate… it can get pretty friggin wild.

bill wrote:
Would you rather have a ton of traffic during peak hours yet have cell reception?

I’d rather have a small amount of traffic and have cell reception myself. But what do I know?

This made me think of, then miss, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing. That series needs to be revived.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3D3Vgg/

I never had Rock em Sock em Robots as a kid. My cousin had it, but I only interacted with it a little. Got it for my kid. It's much smaller/cheaper than I remember, probably a combination of me being bigger/35 years later and it actually being cheaper/smaller. Love this game. My strategy is legit, and I feel like I have an advantage... but my youngest wins maybe a little less than half the time. This game is great.

Any game where I win a little over 50% of the time is great for me. Less than 50% and I feel like I suck too much to keep playing. But, if I win too much, it's too easy and I lose interest.

re:father son gaming - a friend of mine in college had a story about playing chess with his dad as a kid, always losing. He finally won and they never played again. Excellent parenting!

Oh hell no. I relish the day my kids beat me in chess.. I had 1 scare, but none of them have reached 10 yet. They've known how to set up the board since 4 or 5, know the moves. On the flip side, I've lost to my 5 year old in checkers... lol

Once my daughter got old enough to truly understand the games we were playing, I never let her win. Sometimes I would discuss the strategies we were using so that she could learn how to get better.

We didn't play Monopoly very often, but she played several times with a high school friend. Both of them used the strategy of never selling property to anyone who could complete a set and start building houses on them. This usually made the game pretty long. When she got married, she called me and complained because her husband's friends would sell/trade and let others get all three properties in a set.

KCPenguins wrote:


We gotta play some chess one of these days, love the game. You'd kill me.

Chess is great. I’m terrible at it. I can’t remember the last time I played though.

I've regaled GameTZ with this story before, but it has been a while. My favorite "who was that masked man" kind of story involved chess. One night when I was a senior in college, I was walking past a room near the cafeteria when I see a couple of tables lined with guys playing chess. I enter and after a game ends, I ask one of the players what this is about. He tells me it is the Southern Indiana Chess Club tournament. He points to one of the games and tells me it is for the Championship. I quietly explain how I played chess on my high school chess team, but hadn't played more than a couple of games in college. A few more games end, and it turns out a few of these guys went to the same high school and had the same Chess Club sponsor. The Championship game ends and the winner leaves. The runner-up asks me to play. A few moves into the game, almost everyone in the room is watching us. I beat the guy fairly easily and get lots of offers of "play me next". I walk out while I'm ahead.

I'm actually not that great at chess. I enjoy endgame, but I'm a lost child when it comes to the beginning.

I hate earthquakes, especially those that happen like 10 miles away from where I live

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/usgs-report...

Every modern video game I have played in at least ten years has been too gosh darned fudging dark. Can't see crap, even with max gamma

You ever walk into a store and then feel a bit off without buying anything? Nothing wrong with browsing, but still.

https://youtu.be/9nicFiHHib8?feature=shared