I think your answers would be more satisfying if the flavor and textures were closer on substitutes. I’m sure it is hard to do, I think I always assumed if companies spent more time making tasty meat alternatives, instead of trying to replicate meat we’d make more progress in reducing meat consumption. Maybe that’s just wishful thinking though.

I look at it as a person who eats meat but is interested in trying alternatives pretty casually. I’m not looking for something to replace meats in my life, I’m looking for new foods to fill the same role in a meal as meats (sometimes). And I just find it a bit annoying to have to go to the fine print / ingredient list so often to see what I’m actually buying.

I appreciate the chat though, I can see where you’re coming from. I think I treat food a bit differently from someone just looking to grab their components of a meal… and calling in “meat substitute” is mostly a tell that it’s high in protein and fills that roll in a meal. Removes the extra step of needing to know what parts of the alternatives have the protein…

If I cared enough I’d have some from-scratch recipes, but it’s more of a minor annoyance and something to think about while I shop

They’re making a joke about a typo. I wouldn’t expect an actual answer from them.

Isn’t cooking with the meat substitutes different enough that you need to compensate for it? I’m not a very good cook, so my assumption might be wrong there. But if I’m making reb bean burgers instead of beef burgers I imagine it’s more useful to know “this is mostly bean with some binder” than “beef substitute”

And if flavor is the main goal then I think the industry in general is doing a bad job. Most of the time the base for the substitute has such a different flavor that they throw a bunch of other stuff on top of it to mask it instead of embracing the flavor of the substitute.

I’m not trying to say you’re wrong, but it still doesn’t make much sense to me. Why remind people of the moral conundrum in the label.

They have more flavor but the flavor isn’t chicken… Despite being called chicken. My main issue with imitation meats is just that they won’t be honest about what they are… If it’s a flakey tofu or something of a certain style just name it that, why call it the thing people are trying to avoid?

Help meow-ta here

This has an all new meaning in the age of LLMs

two lifetimes of protection

I was gonna say “90% of the time” but fuck it… Discard…

Simply fill your bath with lotion and bathe in that instead of water!

I just played last night at it was fine. Not to mention last time I noticed an issue (months ago) it was fixed within a week or so. They may not officially support Linux, but they do try to fix issues if they come up…

I’ll happily bake 2 dozen cookies today to eat them all in one sitting tomorrow…

I’m a colemak typer and I switched my phone to it to help when I was learning and it actually works really well since it emphasizes alternating hands it makes thumb typing pretty fluid. It does also tend to have some finger rolls which really just feels like tapping as you move your fingers back to the middle of the keyboard.

Not to say there aren’t better, I was just surprised how well it worked

And Pat

Hey, this one’s expired!!

Gladly

My bet is on “wanted pets while the human had a highlighter in hand”

A lot of office buildings actually use metal studs, so these screws are used to attach them together. They’re a common enough thing that I wouldn’t be overly suspicious of anything.

Might be something about the self tapping head that makes them more likely to bite in a tire?? Just speculating there…

Looks to me like a self tapping screw which had its head broken off / worn down. You probably just picked them both up from the same spot, double check your driveway / lot

Friday Games! My team gets together and plays a boardgame. Lately it’s been Gartic Phone, but we also like Code Names, Wavelength, Jackbox… Fun way to spend an hour on a friday

Or just buy the same mouse and replace the casing with the spray painted one