I am 99% certain that the bulk of that subreddit is men’s rights knobs and incels role playing. The article doesn’t get the similarity by half. It doesn’t just ape the fondness for acronyms and general approach. It perfectly mirrors the ideology, from the fixation with traditional values and chastity to the “clean…

Live in a major pumpkin growing region in the North East. Pumpkins are fine here. Though most of the pumpkins we grow don’t go to supermarkets and home improvement stores anyway.

They grow ornamentals here for tourist trade, otherwise we’re heavy on heirlooms and squash you actually want to eat. 

Wait so the Guys throwing an obvious novelty, stunt festival. On that’s serving chowder in a land locked state. Are going to throw shade at “regular festivals” cause they “serve up the latest sandwich trend”?

And their major funding source was the brand itself. Meaning it was a pretty much just a marketing promotion?

Th…

That’s an aweful lot of hand wringing there. For the most part no. People don’t use pumpkins for more than pie. For about the last 100 years they’ve primarily been grown as an ornamental crop. That’s only started to change the last 10 years or so, people actually eat them these days. So it kinda the opposite of your…

I’ve only had it cold. You could probably warm it up, I’ve seen nog done that way. Personally hate nog, but for some reason I love coquito. At least the ones I’ve had.

It’s not traditional to cook the eggs in either nog or coquito, and they tend to taste better and end up with a better texture if you don’t. If that…

I don’t think this stuff would froth up much. It’s a bit more like ice cream base than anything else I could compare it to. It’s a bit dense to foam up too much.

That is definitely too big for even the larger standard sized blender carafes. But there’s no reason it has to be blended, aside from maybe the pumpkin puree…

OOO yes. I work in boozahol wholesale. Our trucks break down, some times catastrophically, on the regular. Even supposedly brand new trucks.

The boom on this goes back further than the pandemic.

I suspect it comes down to the real estate market. People approaching retirement who got priced out for that whole vacation home dream. An RV, even a trailer and vehicle counts as a second home. So it can be a tax write off. It gives you some of that same shit as…

I think that’s a big part of it. No one seems to be watching. Like there are regs and safety standards for this shit. And “not adequately welded together” certainly doesn’t meet them. If GM started doing shit like that some one would go to prison.

The freaky bit is that a lot of the commercial box trucks, big rig…

Cheaper is relative.

Yeah that sounds like the sort of thing that might side step some of the biggest issues. Like my folk’s frame problem. A bus or van conversion isn’t going to be stuck buying from one frame builder that can’t be assed to weld. Being a vehicle there are safety regs to be dealt with. And to the extent that something like…

From what I hear the high end ones aren’t any better built. At least not with any kind of consistency.

It’s not like you pay $x you get a more reliable one. It’s that some of the more expensive ones also happen to be the more reliable ones. 

Any and everything. New used, doesn’t matter. There was always a little hinkyness with this sort of thing, my grandparents were towing around airstreams in the 60's. Things need to be lightweight, and that has an impact.

I think it’s a bit more specific than just typical cut costs to juke margins BS. And like the article points out, this ain’t new.

My parents just went through something with their 10 year old RV that finally has them replacing it. The frame suspension failed catastrophically. The camper basically collapsed on the…

If you’re not good at cutting off the tops. Take the cake and put it back in the pan, or a larger pan of the same height (or the height you’re looking for) and run the knife across the top of said pan as you cut.

It also helps to have the right knife. You want a very long scallaped knife, rounded bumps rather than…

How much looking did you do?

Nah it’s just something familiar that works as a good example of the difference. Not a lot of people outside the NY Metro are familiar with black and whites, which are actually good.

Poured fondant is also the filling in Cadbury’s Cream Egg. But I hate those with a passion, so didn’t use the example. 

The trend is actually shifting the other way. A lot of the bakeries and catering places around here won’t do it, and I haven’t really seen a wedding with a pretty cake that tasted like shit in years.

Which kinda doubles down on the “looks good on TV” thing. The whole shift in home baking towards the technical and…

Poured. Why would a factory making tons of these be rolling out sheets, punching out circles and carefully lining them up? It’s inefficient.

Fondant is basically playdoh but sweeter/not salty.