Really interesting, but actually brings me to the point of wondering “don’t people have anything better to do than worry about 0.01ºF fluctuations in cooking their dinner?” 
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Sooo, a few hundred meters above base camp at Mt. Everest then? Where will you plug in your water bath? And what if they don’t have 117VAC?
(That’s why I suggested bromine steam.)
Well, I’ll be…
That’s pretty much the best thing since shrink-wrapped taters!
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…and square.
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Where’s the affiliate link?!
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I used to be very sarcastic about bagged salad, but these days I’m all for it. I do hate the packaging, though.
I never understood the association of ramen with poverty. Ramen is expensive—nutritionally and financially—compared to steel-cut oats, potatoes, home-sprouted rye, potatoes, dry beans, potatoes…
I really did eat a lot of potatoes. These shrink-wrapped ones are an abomination. No, I’m not Irish.
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Recognisable, it’s something really calming and soothing. Prepping food while planning the next steps (or even performing some, like slowly union). Love it
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Me, I don’t eat the stuff, unless it happens to be on my plate. Lettuce is a vehicle to transport refrigerated water from farm to table.
Only if it’s iceberg! That stuff tastes nice, but nutritionally it’s worthless. I had a pet millipede for a while, and everything I read said give it any kind of greens but iceberg. So I don’t buy it for people to eat either.
ETA: then I rtfa. Okay. But I ain’t putting collard greens on my sammiches 
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I think part of it is people confusing Celsius with Fahrenheit. There’s more degrees in the practical end of the Fahrenheit scale. So you need fewer decimal points/digits to get the same level of precision. .01 degrees might effect your eggs in Celsius, ifin your picky, but not in Fahrenheit.
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Oddly enough they naturally come packaged in groups but are often unpackaged prior to sale.
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0.045 degrees F… Whaaaaat?
Crikey. This single sliced of wrapped bread must be a sign of the apocalypse. I know what @AcerPlatanoides said but these pictures are like the stills from the as-yet unfilmed sequel to Idiocracy.
And speaking of signs of the apocalypse…
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I had this idea… it starts like this:
Japanese make these special molds (moulds?) for the growing of shaped (hearts, squares) watermelons etc.
… and in Texas we plant pumpkins on the 4th of July to be ready for Halloween. Here is a very young pumpkin in a cube-shaped mold:
Pumpkins are orange.
What else is orange?
So I’m thinking… Trumpkins®. You could make a mold of Trump’s head (which already pretty scary), and then you carve in some eyes and put a candle in it…
I just wouldn’t be able to sell any in Texas except for Austin, where I would sell out of them in about half a day.
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Can someone explain to me what this word means, f it even had any meaning before the hipster dickbags started using it? Because every time i see it i want to punch people.
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Well, you can (or used to be able to) get a package of ramen for less than a quarter. That’s an individually bought package. Everything else you mentioned will cost more to buy, even if you ultimately get more for your dollar.
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From context and experience, I think it means “unfinished”. Not like, incomplete but stuff like bread with tooth-breaking seeds in, soap that’s been sliced with a hammer, drinks with lumps of gunk floating in it, that sort of thing.
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(I used it facetiously and self-deprecatingly. 
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As far as I know, it applies to an “artist” mindset applied to things that aren’t usually considered art. Like food. In practice, it tends to be a bit rustic and niche.
I’m not sure the word wasn’t resurrected from some dusty shelf specifically for the use of yuppies.
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So a madeup douchbag word to market to hipsters for a product trying to make itself seem home made when really it’s just shit that wouldn’t pass inspection.
Aware of that and sorry for implication of you not using it ironicly, but your use had me wondering if the word itself has a meaning or not.
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