The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XL

[hobbsyoyo]

They might be temporarily skimping due to a sales slump. Dairy Queen's quality has plummeted here and it started about a month and a half into COVID-19.

My local Domino's has been trash for a while though

 

[cardgame]

I think you're right and domi's is back to receding levels of quality

 

[Cutlass]

Pizza places here are doing so much business it can be hard to get them on the phone. It's hard to see how they'd be in a slump.

 

[Takhisis]

Hawaiian pizza is very good, the sweetness of the pineapple matches nicely with the savory nature of the cheese and sauce.
Indeed, it is actually a very traditional sort of flavor combination, going back to the Middle Ages where most dishes were a combination of sweet and savory.

I know, there's lots of recipes here from the pre-refrigeration colonial times that combine meat with peaches or other sweet fruit to compensate for the meat having been salted and/or spiced to conserve it.

But it's still pineapple on pizza, man. Better keep the pineapple separate and serve it for dessert in a fruit salad.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

what about ketchup?

What a disgusting, revolting idea.

I just ordered a pizza: Spinach Alfredo, with added toppings of pepperoni and tomato. From Papa John's. It arrived not-piping hot, but it'll do for a spinach and tomato craving.

Has the pizza chain Domino's begun to backslide into terribleness or is it just my local shop? The crust in particular went from a fluffy, season-encrusted delight to this limp, barely there thing with almost no seasoning. And the other ingredients seemed to have gotten cheaper as well and I feel like they're pulling a Papa John's or Subway's. But it may only be my local shop that is being cheap and not the national brand as a whole.

The reason I ordered from Papa John's is because Dominos' website has decided not to recognize me even though I've been a customer for well over a year, and I honestly do know my email address and password, thankyouverymuch. It's especially infuriating, because I only need 10 more points for a free pizza.

 

[Zkribbler]

What a disgusting, revolting idea.
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We have that beat here. There's a restaurant down the road that uses Grade-ZZZ pepperoni. Instead of pizza sauce, the use banana catsup.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Are chocolate mints primarily defined as chocolates, or as mints?

Yes.







Actually, it depends on the kind of chocolate mint, whether the chocolate is covering a mint center or if the chocolate is the filling surrounded by mint candy. There's a difference between chocolate mint and mint chocolate.

Basically, if the chocolate is on the outside and covers a mint center (ie. an After Eight), it's a chocolate. If it's the other way around, it's a mint.

Mint chocolate, on the other hand (ie. Laura Secord French Mint chocolate bars - which aren't sold here anymore ), is definitely considered a chocolate, most likely in the form of a chocolate bar.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Pizza places here are doing so much business it can be hard to get them on the phone. It's hard to see how they'd be in a slump.

It may be supplier issues rather than financial ones.

 

[Cutlass]

It may be supplier issues rather than financial ones.

Possible. There's been intermittent disruptions. But Dominoes was never reliably good in the first place.

All the best pizza places are run by Greeks.

 

[H4run]

Whenever there are donation package, for the poor, it mostly consist of:

1. Rice.
2. Sugar.
3. Oil.
4. Eggs.

I really confuse with these list, why sugar or oil? I suggest several time to changed sugar and oil with other things like can food (sardine), because I thought oil is not necessary, if there is no oil you can still boil your food. I even argued that salt is lots more important than sugar. Everybody agree but looking at me like some sort of weirdo, what is the science behind the importance of oil and sugar for survival anyway.

 

[cardgame]

oil is good for cooking but yeah idk about sugar

 

[H4run]

oil is good for cooking but yeah idk about sugar

We supposed to give it to those who are lack in basic necessity, I mean literally to survive, and I don't see any nutrition value on those list except eggs.

Oil is expensive while fried egg is a lot better than boiled egg, but boil food are more healthy than fried food, and the price of it can be substitute with other commodity.

Everyone who send help to the needy, always give the same package, sometime add with instant noodle, smh.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

We supposed to give it to those who are lack in basic necessity, I mean literally to survive, and I don't see any nutrition value on those list except eggs.

Oil is expensive while fried egg is a lot better than boiled egg, but boil food are more healthy than fried food, and the price of it can be substitute with other commodity.

Everyone who send help to the needy, always give the same package, sometime add with instant noodle, smh.

Would you want to eat nothing but rice, boiled eggs, and sardines? Granted, I can think of a way to combine those, but they would require a different cooking method than boiling, and they would need something for flavoring.

I had a diet similar to that for awhile, when I couldn't tolerate most foods that people take for granted (canned salmon instead of sardines). Cottage cheese, bananas, cream of wheat porridge, honey, and milk made up the rest of what I lived on. No refined sugar added to anything, no chocolate... I used honey to flavor the porridge and rice (seriously, do you not consider that "poor people" might like to have food that has some flavor to it?).

It wasn't fun. And thank goodness I don't have to do that anymore, though eggs are still a huge part of my diet.


It's a common thing here for food banks to get donations of Kraft Dinner (aka macaroni and cheese). However, food banks don't get a lot of donations of things like butter or margarine. I do agree that salt is more useful than sugar, but both salty and sweet are part of most people's diets.

 

[Takhisis]

Those are non-perishable goods. If you're donating to the poor chances are that they are people who do not have the means to preserve food such as a refrigerator or a batch of salt for preserving.

 

[H4run]

I do agree that salt is more useful than sugar, but both salty and sweet are part of most people's diets.

You can use salt to eat rice, but sugar? When I told my team it's better if we give them condensed milk than sugar, at least they can have a warm drink with a good source of energy and the children like it too, everybody raising their eyebrow

Those are non-perishable goods. If you're donating to the poor chances are that they are people who do not have the means to preserve food such as a refrigerator or a batch of salt for preserving.

This is true really nice spot, they even planning to make a public refrigerator to be used by the community, most of them are farmer who grow vegetable which are easily rotten, so some of the social activist organized those vegetable to not only sold but barter with other goods to the nearest market. That's why I proposed sardine, with salt, and a lot of water, a can of sardine may feed the whole family for a day. And as long as they don't open the can, the food will be preserved.

 

[W|M]

rice feeds far more people per $ than sardines

MST often helps vulnerable people out with food (in portuguese), rice+beans are the staple with different meat and vegetables added depending on availability

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Those are non-perishable goods. If you're donating to the poor chances are that they are people who do not have the means to preserve food such as a refrigerator or a batch of salt for preserving.

That applies to the homeless. Low-income people in this country - at least in non-reserve regions of the provinces - who are not homeless will have access to refrigerators. It's a basic component of any apartment, even for the newly-housed. At the very least they have access to a shared kitchen that includes a fridge.

You can use salt to eat rice, but sugar? When I told my team it's better if we give them condensed milk than sugar, at least they can have a warm drink with a good source of energy and the children like it too, everybody raising their eyebrow





This is true really nice spot, they even planning to make a public refrigerator to be used by the community, most of them are farmer who grow vegetable which are easily rotten, so some of the social activist organized those vegetable to not only sold but barter with other goods to the nearest market. That's why I proposed sardine, with salt, and a lot of water, a can of sardine may feed the whole family for a day. And as long as they don't open the can, the food will be preserved.

So you want to give them a can of sardines that will apparently be breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a whole family (the standard 2 parents/2 kids?)? No milk, no cereal, no fruit, just a can of sardines...

Well, I have been in the position where a single can of whatever had to do me for a day. It's better than nothing, but it also gets really godawful monotonous after several weeks, and it doesn't do wonders for nutrition, either. I was missing some really basic food groups, and not doing very well.

I have to ask this: What would you donate for a family in which someone is either diabetic or has a medical condition that means they have to avoid salt? What if they have a nut allergy?

 

[H4run]

So you want to give them a can of sardines that will apparently be breakfast, lunch, and dinner for a whole family (the standard 2 parents/2 kids?)? No milk, no cereal, no fruit, just a can of sardines...

It's a huge region Valka that involved hundreds of houses, we cannot provide more than necessity, these are people who directly get hit by Covid economically and struggle on daily basis to feed themselves to survive.

I have to ask this: What would you donate for a family in which someone is either diabetic or has a medical condition that means they have to avoid salt? What if they have a nut allergy?

We are not even going to give those help directly, or else the masses going to be all over us and things would not only become chaotic but also can turned to be awful very quickly, we usually use the head of local community or youth organization's leader (here they call it: Karang Taruna) to distribute the donation. So we don't know them in detail or in personal level.

rice+beans

Beans is a good source of protein, in Turkey mostly rice served with chickpeas (nohut, @r16 ) but here if I provide beans it would be foreign for people, we usually used nuts to be eaten together with porridge, but the use of chickpeas or cannellini beans (kuru fasulye) to be eaten together with rice is very foreign here, even though it's a very good nutritional diet.

 

[Synobun]

Beggars can't be choosers. Something is better than nothing. It is not a catering service, it is an if-you-have-nothing-else service.

I have been in the position of turning down donated food due to personal health limitations. It sucks, but that certainly doesn't give me cause to complain and moan about the limited offerings being provided. It's a system that is a slave to the almighty dollar, I can hardly be mad at the people doing their best to provide for as many people as possible for as little cost as possible when I'm the exception to the norm.

Sugar, oil, and eggs are useful for baking, but that seems an inefficient use for bulk nonperishables in a situation where you have to be picky. As you mention, salt and canned meat would be better. With canned meat, you may not need to include salt at all, as you can use the liquid from the can for salting rice. Canned vegetables would be more expensive than salt, but more nutritious. There's a balance to be struck between efficiency and a "satisfying meal," and having rice, meat, and vegetables seems a good combination with the greatest reach.

 

[Commodore]

Beggars can't be choosers

The subreddit r/choosingbeggars says otherwise.