I’m originally from the Midwest;
As God is my witness, I will never eat Spaghetti-o’s, again.
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I enjoyed them as a kid. A couple years ago I was wondering the isles at the store and saw the cans and felt some nostalgia. Welp, glad I only bought one can. Nostalgia cured.
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So did I… because I didn’t know any better.
I just bet!
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Ha! I did the same thing! Bought some remembering having liked them as a kid. I guess my palate improved. They were simulaneously bland and too sweet.
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me too.
Yes, this exactly.
The extra sad thing was that on this shopping trip I was sick with the flu and had a fever. As a kid, we always had a couple cans on hand and I tended to skip over them until I was home sick and then it was something easy and comforting. So now adult me gets home, looking for some good old fashioned comfort food. First bite, I’m like this is like fucking ketchup. ugh. But i’m too sick to walk all the way back to the store to get something else. So I sat there and ate the shitty spagetti-os and then took a nap and no comfort was felt. lol.
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I LOATHE avocados with every fiber of my being, but even I think this is going a bit too far to eliminate the green menace.
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If you can’t drink tequila raw, you don’t deserve to drink tequila. /s
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Is that an avocado I see on your plate? May I?
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Whoever prepared those didn’t consider that it’s impossible to eat and laugh at the same time.
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I hope this isn’t condescending but I sometimes wonder if people who don’t like them just got bad ones… I mean I love avocados, but if they are overripe they get a gross musky flavor and if they are underripe they are inedible. And pre-packaged Guacamole from the store is never right at all. I don’t know what sort of preservative thy use but it just ain’t right. I’ve learned it’s a fruit that takes a bit of patience. I get best results by buying a hard one and letting it sit untouched for a couple days in my kitchen. That ensures they weren’t all bruised by other customers. But then they quickly get overripe. It takes a bit of planning to get a good avacado. I mean maybe it’s easier if you live in California or somewhere where they are actually grown but I’m in friggin Iowa. But then again maybe you just don’t like them. That’s valid.
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You were missing the critical Vienna Sausages, amateur. It’s like Italy made sweet love to Austria!
(OK I ate that as a kid and still do, twice a year or so a few decades later - don’t get me started on Tostino pizza…)
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And that would be wonderful and a good reason to close the border. It’s terrible that American car companies have shifted their manufacturing to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor, lack of unions, and lack of environmental regulation. We should not import cars from Mexico, or from any place that doesn’t have working conditions and environmental regulations comparable to ours. There is no way American businesses or workers can compete with workers who will work for a fraction of the rate and businesses that have much less regulation. Instead of lowering our standards to match theirs, we should say no to their imports until such a time as their standards match ours.
As for the other cheap imports, great, let’s buy our own domestic production and support American workers.
I’m envisioning avocado tunnels, and secret avocado mules (don’t ask where they hide them)…
It’s not like groups in Mexico don’t have a pretty well established infrastructure for importing expensive and illegal things to the US…
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O’Rourke’s competitors are right to demand a fairer and more humane system for evaluating asylum claims. But an improved asylum system won’t reduce the number of people fleeing violence in Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador—Central America’s “Northern Triangle.” To the contrary, the better chance migrants have of gaining asylum, the more likely they are to seek it.
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Trump wants Americans to view Central American asylum seekers as marauding invaders, heading north to fleece America’s welfare system and rape and murder its people. By focusing on the actual conditions in Central America, O’Rourke can tell a different story: Central Americans aren’t migrating to commit violence but to flee it. Thus, Trump’s recent call to cut off American aid to El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala as punishment for migration is epically stupid. It’s stupid because aid is America’s best tool for reducing the violence that leads Central Americans to migrate in the first place. By linking immigration to foreign policy, O’Rourke can do what his competitors can’t: credibly promise to treat asylum seekers more justly while also reducing their numbers.
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but that’s when they’ll finally be ripe!!!
Y’all realize that Trump is doing this to try and get the mexican government to shoot the asylum seekers, so that it’s a terrible tragedy but not our fault, right?
Which is also a result of many American manufacturers using sugar as a taste enhancer. I recall that when Kraft (now Mondelez) bought German chocolate brands like Milka they also dictated to the staff to cut down on cocoa and add more sugar, because it was cheaper and their market research said people would still buy it.
Sugar is the USA’s version of MSG, really.
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Of course, there will be exceptions.
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