You joke but you can get much better saffron if you buy by the ounce, if you drop about $100 on a tin it works out to be a lot cheaper by volume than the 3 threads in a jar you usually see. And it’s a hell of a lot better.

Since it’s a whole spice keeps reasonably well, stored right it stays good for a couple years. 

Or, depending on how much and what type of dishes a household cooks, it may make sense to buy spices in bulk. (Not necessarily massive, industrial-sized bags, but one- or two-pound bags or canisters.)

What’s nothing more than a large spritzer?

A spritzer is wine mixed with seltzer with garnish. Occasionally a small amount of flavoring from bitters/amaro or a splash of juice.

The US actually currently bans the use of Champagne for any US produced wine, starting from 2006.

Prior to that they restricted it’s use and you needed approval, mostly based history of using the term. Some of those brands were grandfathered in. I believe for pretty long time it’s use on imported products was…

So it’s a Mashed.com article not a Mashable one. They’re different companies, Mashed.com is basically part of a content farm from ad network.

But the article doesn’t claim Julius Caesar drank Champagne or Sparkling wine. It attributes modern New Years celebrations to him, probably bullshit too, but not what Lillian…

To prepare a punch bowl’s worth of the stuff, you’re going to need a lot of champagne—which, in my case, means reaching for the cheapies.

I know exactly what it’s for. Exact what the article advocated using it for.

And exactly why a lot people don’t use them for anything. 

Also was a professional. For about 15 years.

Babbage’s yes. EB less so.

People seem to mis-remember on that. I dunno if you are. But Babbages and EB were different companies. Babbages eventually turned to GameStop through weird ass series of purchases and mergers, and bought EB eventually.

Thing was not a lot places had one of those. Nor a Software ETC (who were…

I’ve heard of people doing this for various purposes. Sewing, wood work, anything where having a measure quick to hand seems useful.

Apparently had tattoos fade and stretch so fast it just becomes useless in a few years. 

It varies quite a bit.

If you’re talking actual rated, imported Japanese Wagyu like Kobe? Then there absolutely no comparison. It is a completely different thing. Whether that’s worth the premium is down to whether you like it, and there isn’t a cheaper equivalent.

For American Wagyu it depends.

The “it’s Wagyu” you…

without actually ruining most of the real hardware.

Yes and no. Kobe isn’t a protected term in the US. So practically anyone can use it. And many do. Either for American Wagyu, and not neccisarily quality American Wagyu. And sometimes even just for any random beef.

Thing is it’s not typically the restaurant that’s doing this. Food labeling like this is a fuck show. And…

That can be a thing with lower frame rates. I tend not to have much issue with running things at 30fps in terms of actually noticing anything, but it definitely makes me motion sick from time to time. Especially in certain games. Supposedly it’s an input lag and motion smoothness thing.

Yerp. $65 in 1990 dollars is about $140 today.

And poke around here for a bit:

I REMEMBER THAT. Seemed like it was only sold in shops that mostly carried Macs for a long time too.

Though what I also remember is that Myst came out at the tail end of a period where paying full price for a game at release involved mailing $140 off to the dev or publisher and waiting for them to mail you a box.

I do…

gaming desktop from several years ago still can play new releases at top or near-top quality graphics

Actually it does.

European retailers barring Monkfish in general, over sustainability concerns with European catches. And the global god damn pandemic.

Both of which have negatively impacted exports on shit like monkfish. 

Less often than you think. A huge amount of the US catch is exported, Japan is one of the main buyers.