Random Raves ΜΔ: Crate Expectations

[Phrossack]

My daughter and her husband love that style. They live in St. Louis. I'd hardly call it pizza, but don't tell them that.

I live here too, and can probably only stand the stuff because of growing up on it, and because the local chain accommodates my odd taste in toppings. Generally it's drunk food at best!

 

[Kaitzilla]

Clearly some people have never had the glorious melted-plastic-on-a-cracker experience that is the St. Louis pizza:

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Is that Imos?

St. Louis is also the only place to get good toasted raviolis.

Chicago has never heard of them.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Imo's is the best. I can sort of recreate it with a custom thin-crust Domino's concoction but the sauce isn't as sweet and they don't carry provel.

I can get provel and make the sauce at home (or buy it - they sell bottles) but they don't sell canned or frozen thin crispy crusts.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Is that Imos?

St. Louis is also the only place to get good toasted raviolis.

Imo's is the best. I can sort of recreate it with a custom thin-crust Domino's concoction but the sauce isn't as sweet and they don't carry provel.

I can get provel and make the sauce at home (or buy it - they sell bottles) but they don't sell canned or frozen thin crispy crusts.

Imo's = cheap cardboard with crappy sauce. Sorry.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

So many haters

 

[cardgame]

thin crust is bad crust

But I will at least acknowledge it's pizza.

 

[Kaitzilla]

Imo's = cheap cardboard with crappy sauce. Sorry.

Imos is quality junk food pizza.
No real coupons, no real discounts, one city, and it's still the #34 pizza chain in the country by gross sales.

Disgusting pizza?
That would be Cici's.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

They have really high prices as well. But they cover a lot more than one city. They reach into about half of Missouri and are huge in Illinois' second-biggest metro area. They apparently have a location on the Kansas side of Kansas city as well.

 

[Phrossack]

Is that Imos?

St. Louis is also the only place to get good toasted raviolis.

Chicago has never heard of them.

But of course!

Strange how the foreigners--I mean, non-St. Louisans--have yet to experience the glory of t-ravs...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Cover frozen ravioli with bread crumbs using an egg bath.

Deep fry them in peanut oil, server with Italian seasoning, powdered Parmesan and a red sauce.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

But we're changing that right now

Oh?

You had a similar hesitance to accept 'dude' as gender-neutral, so I made a search on /r/twoxchromosomes and I'd say most women do accept it, along with 'guys' as potentially neutral.

I still don't accept "dude", and as for "guys" when referring to a group of females, is something I'm less in favor of as I get older.

It must be a generational thing.

 

[MaryKB]

It's not just you @Valka D'Ur, I feel the same way, and I sort of just <sigh> every time someone does it, but I rarely make a stink. I feel it's part of male-normative behavior, and people don't realize how you can feel "othered" by it.

I spent $100 on some various costume jewelry that arrived yesterday, and then later yesterday afternoon I spent another $100 on things I probably don't need, I might've gotten a little carried away once I started seeing things I liked and imagined myself wearing it.

Well my rave part is my fiance reacted really positively, he said I look very pretty, and I think he's getting my hint on what I'd like for Valentine's Day. I feel a little weird throwing him this curve lol, since I've always been very anti-jewelry before. I hope he doesn't think I'm randomly going to change course on things at any moment, but he seems to be taking this right now in good humor. I sincerely hope he understands how because I'm so deeply in love I for once in my life care about my appearance and trying to look pretty.

I've been buying things with constructed sapphires and cubic zirconias, and almost everything is set in sterling silver. I'm not spending considerable money on myself for these things, that's for him to do. I'm purely concerned right now with trying things out. And I love sapphires, blue is my favorite color, and I love how this looks, I don't care if it's a September birthstone and I'm a Scorpio, it's pretty and I like it. I think too it might make my eyes look like more of a blue color instead of cold grey.

Well I'm afraid I've sort of gone crazy with this whole thing, since my feelings just started this last week. But it's making me feel very happy, I was so excited when my package arrived yesterday, and I'm deeply anticipating more arrivals tomorrow.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's not just you @Valka D'Ur, I feel the same way, and I sort of just <sigh> every time someone does it, but I rarely make a stink. I feel it's part of male-normative behavior, and people don't realize how you can feel "othered" by it.

I've seen younger women say "you guys" to older women, and sometimes they end up on the receiving end of a lecture on etiquette.

I spent $100 on some various costume jewelry that arrived yesterday, and then later yesterday afternoon I spent another $100 on things I probably don't need, I might've gotten a little carried away once I started seeing things I liked and imagined myself wearing it.

If you're into fun stuff, try ThinkGeek. They have some pretty nice (and out of my budget, but likely within yours) Star Trek items (earrings, necklaces), and I think they also have Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, and numerous other fandoms. There's a solar system necklace I've been eyeing for some time, and there's a Star Wars version as well.

Well my rave part is my fiance reacted really positively, he said I look very pretty, and I think he's getting my hint on what I'd like for Valentine's Day. I feel a little weird throwing him this curve lol, since I've always been very anti-jewelry before. I hope he doesn't think I'm randomly going to change course on things at any moment, but he seems to be taking this right now in good humor. I sincerely hope he understands how because I'm so deeply in love I for once in my life care about my appearance and trying to look pretty.

You might need to express your new liking for jewelry verbally, once or twice, as some men just don't pick up on non-verbal hints.

I've been buying things with constructed sapphires and cubic zirconias, and almost everything is set in sterling silver. I'm not spending considerable money on myself for these things, that's for him to do. I'm purely concerned right now with trying things out. And I love sapphires, blue is my favorite color, and I love how this looks, I don't care if it's a September birthstone and I'm a Scorpio, it's pretty and I like it. I think too it might make my eyes look like more of a blue color instead of cold grey.

Don't let astrology rule your jewelry choices! If you like something, go for it. I've found that I really like emeralds, and that's definitely not my birthstone.

 

[Phrossack]

For what it's worth, most if not all the women my age say "you guys" as a gender-neutral term. It's definitely a generational shift.

 

[rah]

You might need to express your new liking for jewelry verbally, once or twice, as some men just don't pick up on non-verbal hints.

Sounds a tad sexist to me. While complaining about the use of the term 'you guys'...........

I heard a lot of women (of all ages) at work use this. No one has seemed offended by it.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

For what it's worth, most if not all the women my age say "you guys" as a gender-neutral term. It's definitely a generational shift.

It's just a term. "You guys" is synonymous with "You people", or "You group of individuals". For me at has no more meaning than that. It doesn't make me feel marginalized at all.

 

[rah]

Some people like to find offense when none is being offered. It's always best to assume that none if being offered. It's usually really obvious when it is.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

It's just a term. "You guys" is synonymous with "You people", or "You group of individuals". For me at has no more meaning than that. It doesn't make me feel marginalized at all.

And because younger women don't care, elderly women over 60 shouldn't care either?

I'm not that many years older than you chronologically, but I was raised by people two generations older than me and a fair number of my friends were a generation older. They were all definitely offended by the "you guys" thing if we were all in a women-only group.

"You guys" is something I found disrespectful, but tolerable in the past. I even tried to calm my friend down when we were at a coffee shop in Innisfail, but she went off on the waitress anyway. This was over a decade ago, and I find my own views shifting. I won't be yelling at a waitress for calling me a "guy" but I might politely explain that some older women consider it rude.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

And because younger women don't care, elderly women over 60 shouldn't care either?

All I'm saying is that there are more important things to get into a tizzy about.

 

[cardgame]

You really wouldn't like Spanish then.