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Cake day: June 10th, 2025

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  • Ah, yes, I remember those days with the text-only LYNX browser from the unix terminal and the joy of Netscape Navigator on machines that could handle windows. Searching was difficult until there was Alta Vista, which was AMAZING compared to the competition, but even it failed for D&D-style gamers who tried to search for “role playing games” and got back a list of a million sex sites and zero visible pen/paper/dice games. Happily, you could add boolean operator rules to get rid of some of that (NOT sex NOT babes NOT XXX) – but you’d either be typing a lot of naughty words to skip or you’d have to remember the sites that catered to RPGs because searching could be very hit or miss.


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    8 days ago

    That doesn’t work for me because part of the issue is the number of servings I get at the end and the size of the cooking container. Example: random veggie casserole calls for 1 pound frozen broccoli, 1 pound frozen caulflower, 1 medium onion, 3 stalks celery, and a bunch of other stuff (rice, cheese, spices, breadcrumbs, etc.).

    Frozen veg is now mostly bagged at 3/4 of a pound instead of a full pound (same with certain pasta). While I can theoretically use 1.5 bags or reduce other measures by 25%, I don’t want a bunch of half-bags in the freezer – and if I make a casserole that’s 75% the size… well, I don’t have a 75% sized casserole dish so it still has to bake in the dish I’ve used to decades, but now as a sad thin version of what it ought to be – and it typically dries out while cooking (if I don’t try to fix it).


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    8 days ago

    I don’t know if we’re all in different places, but I agree with @[email protected]. In particular, every bag of onions and potatoes I’ve bought in the last couple years have had at least one bad veg so damaged that I couldn’t use it – like rotting on the inside kinds of bad. Lettuce seems smaller and more dirty, and everything generally seems older by the time it gets to the store. The only way I can get fruit with any flavor is by going to local farm standsand paying top dollar.