(Potentially) Unpopular Opinions, Jinxes, and Horcruxes Thread

Same people buying 1000 year old eggs. Someone whos got some friends coming round and wants a laugh.

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This is the unpopular opinion thread, mister.

And I agree with @Espresso on this one. :wink: Red is only good for cooking.

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Unpopular opinions, remember?

There are, however, just as many crappy whites as there are crappy reds, and I will definitely take a good red over a crappy white any day.

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I’m with you on that. Wine? Love it. Hard liquor? OK, it’s interesting. Beer? No thanks.

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I wouldn’t go that far, but de gustibus and all that…

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Related to @nimelennar 's post: it’s good to be outside in a storm.

When the edge of my rain hood is snapping like a lifeboat tarp in a gale, things are just getting good. I love it. The feeling is vitality.

 

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Wine?

The extra expense to buy wine in a bottle or with a label isn’t worth it.
There are plenty of nice wines in cardboard boxes or sold as cleanskins around so there’s just no need to spend $30 on a bottle.

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While I think it’s sad when I hear about anyone dying of brain cancer, I just could never get into the Tragically Hip.

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They’re happy to hear that since they’d prefer not to be eaten.

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I like fruitcake!

I’ve never gotten the fruitcake hate. Maybe folks have had bad fruitcake, or their uncle always soaked it in lousy whiskey or something.

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People don’t like fruitcake??? But that’s the best kind of cake (except perhaps Battenberg).


Related: fondant icing is great, and frosting is rubbish.

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Every Christmas I read Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory. I challenge anyone to read that story and not want one of those fruitcakes he and his cousin made.

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Yes!! Or even watch the hard-to-find PBS movie of it with Geraldine Page, which was a Christmas tradition in my family. My mom still says “It’s fruitcake weather!”.

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The whole idea of fruitcake is that it’s bacteriostatic because of being soaked in 80 proof spirits, yes? For me, the alcohol just gives it a bitter taste. But, as you said, maybe I’ve just had fruitcake made with cheap booze.

Still, I can’t imagine any fruitcake besting my springerle, lebkuchen, and marzipan stollen.

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I actually never had booze-soaked fruitcake until very recently. I actually prefer it without. The rum/bourbon kind of overwhelms it.

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20:1 there’s a fruitcake recipe out there that calls for bourbon and bacon.

(Literally thirty seconds later:) Yuuuuuuuuup.

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The pretentiousness of Moleskines follows a similar curve to the pretentiousness of Starbucks, and much like Starbucks it has universally elevated something that used to be cheap crap unless you made it yourself.

ETA: And I pronounce it Mole. Skin. Not Mole-ESS-skeenah. Not mole-SKYNE. There is no official pronunciation because the name is psuedo-European. I’d rather assume it came bound in the hide of a smelly backyard pest.

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What chance @japhroaig has made it?

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There is probably a whole dissertation waiting to be written on that topic.

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I like living in Florida.

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