My diet is simple — buy ingredients, make food. Don’t buy food.

Also, it exists simply for the government to continue to prop up the corn industry because of sunk cost fallacy. (And if you believe the conspiracies, they prop up the corn industry to make us lazy and complacent)

The problem with HFCS has nothing to do with its chemical composition and everything to do with it being used as a cheap filler.  I’ve seen loaves of bread that have HFCS as their second or third ingredient, that’s unhealthy as hell.

So, a while back I came across a picture of a woman in the Army carrying her noticeably larger fellow troop. She was not an unusually large or muscular woman. She was probably in the 5'5" to 5'7" range and had slightly muscular legs, but nothing that would make anyone take note of the muscles (so, not as muscular as…

It shouldn’t be a thing but I think this is being disingenuous.  It’s a thing because of toxic masculinity.  Dissecting such things use to be a mainstay of this website, maybe you could peruse the archives.

Simple. Instead of saying “you should love yourself!”, tell them the reasons why you love them.

So what is the best response to someone saying they hate themselves?
I’m sorry/ that must suck/get therapy/ me too/
I seriously have no clue. The one thing about everyone being open about their feelings online is that you see a lot of fucked up sh!t. and its natural to want to show empathy in some way even if you can’t…

I mean, I care about folks dehumanizing women by intentionally making them look a way society places inherent lesser value on. It’s playing into sexist bullshit tropes that a woman is less worth of care, compassion, and human dignity if she’s less attractive.

I also don’t know why he’s pretending like “pale” isn’t his number one criteria for who is attractive.

Conservatives: Fashion is stupid, feminine, and ridiculous. Real men don’t worry about fashion.

The dumbass actually typed the capital letter O (“oh”) instead of the number 0 (zero) for the score. Does he actually think the letter stands for something other than a shorter way of saying “zero for two”?

damn she knows it and i love her calling it out.

My brother’s fiancé used buttermilk in his garlic mashed potatoes this time. It came out better than I expected. I don’t think I’ve ever tried sour cream in mashed potatoes, but I imagine it would be similar.

Looks delicious.

Yeah, I know a lot of “right” ways to make mashed potatoes, so I’m not going to throw up a fuss if someone’s recipe includes mayonnaise. That can be right, too. I despise mayonnaise, but I could see how they would work as the creamy component of mashed potatoes. That’s really the general formula: potatoes, salt, and…

Indeed:

I show up at every potluck with either a pan of eggrolls from the Chinese place down the street OR a giant box of fried chicken picked up from Popeyes. They always get eaten and I never have to waste my time fussing over a dish people might hate.

I haven’t made this in a while, but in Allison’s category of foods that are ugly to look at and absolutely delicious, I would make ribollita for crowds. It’s a Tuscan veggie soup that’s thickened into a mush with stale bread. Vegetarian (I guess vegan if you don’t throw in a rind of parmiagiano to help flavor things),…

For potlucks, I make a tabbouleh salad swapping the traditional bulgur wheat for quinoa - in the end, this turns the dish into vegan and gluten free. Barring allergies, it’s a dish that everyone can eat and everyone loves, even the hardcore carnivores.

I find this whole thing to be somewhat ludicrous and at the same time hilarious. No one points out that this “subscription model” is basically the way that things started with telephones (like, the land line ones). You didn’t own your phone, you basically rented it. Same thing with Cable boxes.