trendy

I learned about Manfred the Bunny.

I saw this lady on a front page picture and figured it was interesting.

Tiffany Fong
But I don't know Sam or what he did (or did not do vis a vis "Risk management")

What my first impressions are (no one cares,) but I wonder why the photo above was so carefully altered.
And how hot people seem to rule the internet world.

Another article laments China's moves against trendiness (I'm not too sure wtf the author wants to say yet) and he used a word I've never heard, prolly never will again, "ineluctable"

But the Atlantic and the New Yorker are bastions of the most Bombastic, so nvm, it's not for me, not being upper-crust, not in some waiting room in New York, to read nor understand.

Having an opinion that bucks a societal trend is dangerous.
Once you know what the official opinion is, best keep your mouth shut unless you've got the money and the big-ass names to back you up.

Are you a contrarian curmudgeon stick-in-the mud-luddite (but your opinion actually has value?) They'll ignore it. (at best) 

At worst, threaten shame and kill.
(...)

This just in: Comics (the ones in newspapers) used to be funny (sort of) so they called them "the funnies."
The carbon monoxide on buses was easier to tolerate with comics and some friendly lady with a paper.
NOW they're online, less funny, and Commented on!?? (WTF)?

https://www.gocomics.com/matt-bors/2021/03/24

Not so Trendy anymore (I just clicked on a front-page blurb about Heidi Klum)

Nina Garcia (*sigh*)
(Where is she now?)

This next thing defies description, but the internet says it's trendy.
(but what does it do??)
Maybe it looks a lot like it does something else?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WzO1j7n7E0

A day Later, I want to ask someone but no one is there to ask,
which "crock pot" is more trendy (and decent and good) (Minus $big-bucks and nationalistic folderol)

"Rival" got bought by "Jarden" which was assimilated by Newell.
I don't know if Newell cares about crockpots (any more than "Samsung" cares about crock pots nor Color TV's, and I've gotta brush up on decent (not pretentious) brands Lexus, Cadillac and Corsair (e.g.)

The old people buying their favorite brands are dying off, and I don't know the younger more trendy brands (Sony?)

So I'll need a all-clad stainless dutch oven with electrical capabilities
Whut? nvm
Too poor to eat.
blah.

FU and the upper-crust horse

Call it a cocotte, they'll swoon.

Get Thee BeHIND me, eveil "Best of" review sites

I don't know. These reviews are NOT encouraging:

"Ruined 2 roasts" kind of covers it for me.

I'm bringing them up because I saw them (the $39 ones) after writing an entry on dutch-ovens. Electric crock pots seem perfect, except the bugs, my bad cooking, and no food to cook (once I pay for the pot.)

WE (I) don't care what it's made of, it being an electrical thermostat-thing, and I'm not buying for looks (Nor trends), and that brings me back to my little stove.

Which one has a better thermostat (forget the paint-job, ?)

My inglorious lord+Master (my digestive system) has sent orders to never eat onions, garlic nor any other traditional spices nor concoctions (Worcestershire sauce is a capital offense)
So I make do with vinegar and beef broth.

(What? don't judge me) 

I, being wise, should shun "cast Iron" and "Stainless" therefore, and seek out something ceramic (I think) 
Or did we already decide they were too heavy?

(omg...)

The antithesis of trendy (for upper-crust judgmentals) is Martha Stewart.
I've always liked her, and would gladly be the Merlot guy.
Anyway, She says

In your FACE, judgmentals.

Well, clicking a button is much easier than trekking to the store and braving hungry women. but I've resisted "Buy Now" for this long, I can resist the sitting-on-butt shopping for a little longer.

Blackfriday.com

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Mail order sales (this is a rant) sort of beat the mad crush at the holidays (why the F** you don't shop now I'll never know)

BUT, and please excuse the pissed-offness, the bitter regret, of buying from a company filled with temps just off their pot-smoking-break, stuffing your box with some random item they picked off a shelf to fill their quota (or worse, an *empty* official-looking box.)
So shopping sucks from now til after Chinese-New-Year, whenever that is (February?) because the stuff they'll misdeliver or pack wrong, will be out of stock (due to the supply chains, the snow and a few wars.)

I mean, you wanna buy stuff? Buy f'n *today* but you won't, you'll wait until "Black friday" when there'll be lotsa weeping and teeth-gnashing (mostly mine.)

I want my pot and I don't want you smoking it while you deliver it (the pot.)

Bah.

Humbug

EDIT: At least One company I use is relying tons more on the very reliable post office, lately.
Yay, Post Office (and my mailman)

https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/10/amazon-delivery-driver-charged-in-robberies-of-usps-mail-carriers.html

YAY! (Bcuz, FTS already, geez)

It's "Stoneware", whatever that means.
It's consumer-report's little darling.

Some guy didn't like the flecks of aluminium poking through the stoneware (fucket)

No one talks about power cords, Two or three prong?
Two would be ideal. But I'm betting, three.
O well.

This site gives cooking specifics. 325F minimum (???!!) and the internal temp should be 145F when it's done (I glossed, but I think that's what they said.)

'K, I'm totally missing the whole "Slow-cook" thing, that temp would burn it up (don'tcha think?) IDK.

I agree with the second picture, except they don't list times.

*My* potroasts (stovetop) fall apart at 4 hours, and start to melt away at six hours.
(IDK)
This newfangled crockpot stuff is dangerous (for pot-roasts)

Wait, though, "Pot roast" is mostly swimming in a 212F bath, so nevermind 

(I need to read some more)

I wonder how the temp-probe is smart enough to ignore the boiling bath and concentrate only on the meat??

Hmm.