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That's pretty slick, I might grab one but I just pour the brine off into a measuring cup with a fork or whatever over the jar mouth so the capers don't pour out with it, then dump out out however many capers I need, then pour the brine back into the jar. takes pretty much no time but you have a dirty fork and measuring cup after. Quick rinse and all good.Quote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
while that would be useful to have given the caper jar, it annoys me that I need a special caper spoon.Quote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
the barrage of "Colorado Gives" emails is annoying AF. Luckily they will stop soon.
Oyster forks are high brow? What about espresso spoons?Quote:
Originally Posted by Boissal
I admit though that the manly way to eat an oyster is to slurp it.
She's actually very low key about it, she doesn't care what I eat as long as I don't use the same knife to chop her veggies after cutting raw meat. Which may have happened early in our relationship and resulted in a major dressing down...Quote:
Originally Posted by riser4
She will occasionally cook meat for group dinners, especially camping. She won't touch it though, something I find really weird considering she spends hours cutting through and digging around people's innards for work. Apparently slicing into human flesh is perfectly fine but cutting a steak in half is over the top. There are a few things that really get her riled up though, so far we've identified oysters (probably cause they're alive and fairly gross looking), raw meat (the very concept of tartare steak makes her queasy), foie gras (cause force feeding isn't great), and all manners of pâtés which she claim look like cat food. Surprisingly she doesn't mind when I shove huge pieces of sashimi down my gullet. She's probably stab me if she saw me eat live octopus (which I doubt I could handle anyway).
I feel bad for her when we're in France, so many rad meat-based stuff to try that she's missing out on. More for me I guess, but it annoys me that I can't share the experience, food is such a big part of the identity over there.
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Originally Posted by old goat
My great grandma, who was very high brow, had about 7 types of forks in her drawers. You'd get smacked if you reached for the dinner fork when eating the salad. I may have PTSD over silverware variety and will only suffer 2 types of forks and spoons: big ones and little ones (little ones for espresso, capers, etc... )
Some caper manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves. Others have figured it out:Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
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Can't you just dump your jar of capers into a dedicated small tupperware when you get home from the store, or is that too rational?
Love me some steak tartare and some påté.
If capers annoy you, they also sell a pickle pickerQuote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
https://www.kitchenniche.ca/fox-run-...er-p-7407.html
I'd wager a 1/8 teaspoon would do the job.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
You could even drill some holes in it for diy points.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
Maybe weld on a longer handle while you're at it.
Fire up the 3d printer to address this caper situation.
The caper caper.
I was at the post office today mailing a Gear Swap item to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
I fill out the Customs Declaration form while I’m waiting in line and hand it and my item to the guy at the desk
he says “it’s overseas shipping day”
he’s completely baffled when I try to explain to him that Canada is not actually “overseas”
he doesn’t seem to understand that Canada is on the same continent as the US, like Mexico - then he tells me that Mexico is in South America and Canada is in North America and the US is in America
I almost started crying
Damn I guess geography isn't part of the post office test
Say it ain't so. That's a whole nother level of dumb.
When I started to read the post I just thought he was being loose with his international mail slang but oh noes lol
I had a work colleague based stateside years back that didn't understand why I couldn't get a truckload of their product overnighted from Toronto to Vancouver.
Damn.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thaleia
My homeboys back in SoCalif think Montana is north of the great lakes.
And? He’s partially correctQuote:
Originally Posted by tellybele
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Latitudes, how do they work…..
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I should have been more clear, I meant due north.
Back in the day I had a client in Idaho, a mining company that a couple guys from Vancouver had bought. They liked to mess with the employees sometimes. While we were there they passed around a quiz they'd found online to all the staff and to us. 10 questions, name the state capital city from a couple clues. They had a German lady in the office who did accounting and the guy I was working with was a recent transplant from South Africa. South African got 9/10, I got 8 as did one of the owners. The other owner and the German lady got 7. None of the American staff got more than 3 or 4 right.
Sig worthy. Bumper sticker worthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ~mikey b
For the love of god please stop replying to emails with “thank you” as the entirety of the message for routine activities that don’t need it. I get enough email as it is.
Bonus points if you don’t reply all to 20 people.
Heh, came here to post something similar. A client of mine just got promoted, email announcing promotion went out to the entire division, and there have been at least 15 reply-all congratulatory emails. FFS.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldnew_guy
Pro move obviously is to reply all scolding the reply all people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
My org. switched to using BCC to announce job opportunities (which are all around the country and world) and other news. It helps with the reply all issue, but unfortunately they also use varying subject lines which makes it difficult to auto filter these irrelevant to me email into a folder so they don’t clutter my inbox.
The best is when they screw up something in the email so there are two, three or even four in a row for the same topic.
I like my addition:Quote:
Originally Posted by Lvovsky
And when it does, there's sand in the lube.
That would make an over the top bumper sticker.
sent paypal payment for a Gear Swap item to the wrong person - misspelled the name - fortunately it wasn’t too big a pain in the ass to get a refund from the random
doh!
Colorado Gives Day annoys the fuck out of me.
Damn Danno. Embrace the hate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
But she's not considering EATING those people's innards, you think? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Boissal
More seriously, conceptually it's all perfect sense. She thinks eating animals, isn't awesome. And she worries about microbes. (Chopping her veggies after raw meat? Dude, you're probably lucky to still be alive!)
Honestly, it sounds like you all get on really well - like real adults should - respecting the choices you each feel strongly about. Bravo.
I always worry about doing that. Glad to know that I won't be alone when I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by ~mikey b
Isn't it venmo that has you provide the last four digits of the phone number or something to try to prevent this? (I don't much care for venmo - even though paypal and venmo are the same company now. But that's a plus.)
lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by lowsparkco
I'm not annoyed that people give to nonprofits. But the nonstop barrage of emails from every nonprofit I have ever been associated with is very annoying. Each organization has probably sent a half dozen emails over the last 10 days. It's annoying AF.
more money than brains
Congratulations for purchases. First home? Sure. First car? Maybe. Everything else, no.
It's a great way to do my annual weed out/unsubscribe of firms that I may have missed during black friday.Quote:
Originally Posted by Danno
The constant barage of spam from Palisades telling me how excited I should be about the base to base gondola. How about getting some actual ski lifts open instead. They're failing epically (or should I say Ikonically?) with some excellent December snow. Their operations blog says they can't open Summit until they get 2 more feet of snow on the runout, despite the fact that Roundhouse, which uses the exact same runout has been open. Liars.