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Bico Doce said:
If you constantly hit up people asking for more specs, pics, info of a knife for sale and then you ghost the seller after they have responded you are a putz that doesn’t deserve access to BST.
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Please expound.
 
Hockey3081 said:
Please expound.
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There are a few chronic offenders. Truth is I blame myself. I know it’s going to happen and I should just blow them off but I’m holding on to the fool’s hope that it may be different this time. When it inevitably ends in being ghosted I loathe myself for not having told them to piss off.
 
Hz_zzzzzz said:
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but All Clad pans' handles are awful for home users. It's painful to hold with a bare hand. Might be fine for commercial users who hold with cloth or pad all the time.
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I don't really like my All Clads.. The rivets are just one more thing to keep clean. I like my Demeyre pans and my Falk 10" the best. Nice and clean and efficient cooking tools.
 
Bico Doce said:
There are a few chronic offenders. Truth is I blame myself. I know it’s going to happen and I should just blow them off but I’m holding on to the fool’s hope that it may be different this time. When it inevitably ends in being ghosted I loathe myself for not having told them to piss off.
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I feel that the experience teaches you a valuable lesson, whom to deal with and whom not to. Plus as sellers we should provide all the information the buyer asks for. It is rude on the buyer's side to not let seller know if they choose not to buy ofcourse. It also bugs me when the buyer doesn't tell me they received the knife. I have tracking so I know it was dropped off, but it would be nice for a buyer to also let me know. Not a big thing, but still.
 
Jovidah said:
Personally I'd prefer to feed the insects to the chicken... :p
I'm curious how all the... animal friendly people look at this though. They're certainly less cuddly...
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If an animal is not cute, cuddly, or relatable, then I’ve see very few people trying to intervene on their behalf.
 
Spam is completely unappetizing unless severely doctored to taste nothing like-- well spam.

(apologies to any offended Hawaiian or Korean knife brethren)
 
ch_br said:
Spam is completely unappetizing unless severely doctored to taste nothing like-- well spam.

(apologies to any offended Hawaiian or Korean knife brethren)
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I remember the first time I encountered spam sushi roll. I was in the basement of a Japanese department store branch in Hawaii, gawking at all the food, and there it was. Labeled something like "Spam Musabi." Slices of roll, chunk of spam inside, thick rice layer, seaweed outside. I think I stood and stared at it for a couple of minutes, trying to tell myself it must be a practical joke.

With the accumulated wisdom of additional years, I have gained some acceptance. I figure if you are going to eat Spam, and I can't think why you would if you could afford food, this might be the way to eat it. Treat it like Marmite/Vegemite, as just a small accent, to add some umami and salt to the thing you are really eating.
 
Give me all your scallops (both kinds!) and lobster, and I will give you my bluefish and mackerel.

There are other oily fish I like, but these two, especially bluefish, taste like eating random proteins that have been fermenting in a dumpster for 10 days.
 
Jovidah said:
I'm curious how all the... animal friendly people look at this though.
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It is a pretty diverse group!

I am sure most vegans won't eat insects for the same reasons they dont eat other animals. It depends how far down evolutionary tree an individual is willing to consider animal consciousness/pain and welfare thresholds (or other philosophies). I can certainly imagine a large group of vegetarians might consider eating insects. I have met quite a few vegetarians who are happy to cross a threshold... be it honey, eggs, dairy, leather, seafood. Why not add bugs?

I also get the impression many hipsters are trying to eat less meat. I am one of those virtue signalers. I think treating meat as an infrequent treat is a well balanced compromise of philosophies (enjoying life's pleasures, animal welfare and environmental concerns). I certainly have no qualms about eating processed insects. I imagine many others in the 'less meat' category would feel similarly.

I doubt I will ever go full vegan. But the day they make good and cheap artificial milk is the day I might consider it.
 
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