So these are both “Aw Fuck I’m outta real food” meals BUT ALSO: if you’re learning how to cook, these are great “baby steps” meals to learn how to cook basics into something enjoyable without “wasting” anything expensive. Though I maintain that even cooking screw-ups are valuable in terms of lessons learned.
Also they’re great for when you get absorbed in something and you realize your blood sugar is dropping and you need to make something Quick.
will never forget when i worked in a fast food joint. some customer wrote like “86 cherries” on their mobile order, as like a pretentious way of say no cherries, but the store was run by a bunch of high schoolers who are working their first job so they collectively went “why the fuck does this guy want 86 fucking cherries” and like piled them onto his milkshake
so when i made this i didn’t expect ANY notes so i feel like an asshole now for not explaining. so incase you check the notes, 86 in restaurant terms means “unavailable or out of stock” but has kinda morphed into “omit” or “leave out”. but none of us had worked in a restaurant before, also why would you not just say “no cherries” it’s the same amount of characters to type
Man ordering food: I work in the restaurant business ;)
Children working at restaurant: this guy must really like cherries. Got something in your eye there sir
I CANT OVEREMPHASIZE
how bad my cat wants to be on the quilt im assembling rn
ZENOBIA, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK
The solution to “the cat is in the way” is almost always to give them a way to mirror you.
Not "It's a product of it's time" as a way to excuse its problematic undertones but rather "it's a product of it's time" to say to say that the issues it tackles were relevant then and its stances that now seem milquetoast were radical then, and that heavy handed, cheesy driving home of those viewpoints was sometimes necessary, and our acceptance and normalization of those viewpoints is in large part because of media like it normalizing those viewpoints and imagery, and watching it in the modern day turns into a loving study of history of the masses and public opinion
Yes this is about the original star trek
Yes, so much this. And also, I think it's telling that the biggest changes in characterization made by the Kelvin timeline movies were:
- Kirk is now actually a playboy, and doesn't take the women who he works with as seriously as he takes them men he works with.
- Uhara is now sassy.
- Sulu now uses a katana instead of a Western foil.
- Scotty is now an alcoholic.
People harp on Star Trek TOS for being cheesy and heavy-handed and tokenizing, and I think that's absolutely rich, because the films that were meant to reboot the source material for the modern era are manifestly more racist, sexist, and tokenizing than the work they were "modernizing", which aired in the 1960s. Star Trek TOS risked cancellation every single season in order to tell compelling stories that touched on hot-button current events and pushed the boundaries of what TV was willing to allow on air. Modern Star Trek wouldn't dare, and it shows – just try to imagine a Star Trek episode today which came at a subject like the end of Roe v. Wade, or the death of Jordan Neely, or the war in Ukraine, the way that "A Taste Of Armageddon" came at the then-ongoing Vietnam War.
