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[dubb93]

I just cook the spaghetti and sauce in my house. She wants to toss some store bought jar in a pot and I just can’t do that. I do supper about 3 nights a week and if we have spaghetti that week it’s one of those nights.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by Lathum

My wife and I have an ongoing feud about the size of the pot to cook spaghetti in. I use the big pot so there is plenty of room. She uses a smaller pot and crams it all in there. It drives me nuts when I ask her to start a pot of water for me if I am dropping the kids somewhere or something.

So I come home from dropping daughter off at softball. She is making spaghetti for my son, sure enough in the small pot. She goes upstairs and timer goes off. I take off stove and pour into strainer and there are several burned pieces of pasta.

I start picking them out and she comes downstairs and asks what I am doing and I teller. She asks why that happened and I try and be diplomatic and say it must have stuck to bottom of pot. She says she stirred it a bunch then asks what the real reason is to which I reply "that's what happens when you use a pot that is too small" and she gets mad at me!

You are 1000% correct. Any pasta noodle needs room to move as it cooks. Otherwise, it sticks to the pan or the noodles stick together. You really shouldn't need to stir spaghetti more than once or twice just to make sure everything is separated and able to move. It's spaghetti, not top ramen.

[Ksyrup]

Lathum's new arrangement sounds like re-living the Covid months all over again, lol.

[cuervo72]

Got a regular Mrs. Mom it sounds like!

[Ghost Econ]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Got a regular Mrs. Mom it sounds like!

They're essentially remaling Mr. Mom with Nate Bargatze. I kinda thought we had gotten past the whole "husband doing chores... why I oughta..." phase of America, but I guess Trad Wives will bring it back eventually.

Also, his name in the movie is Nate. I wonder if he's one of those comedian/actors who can only act if the character has the same name. Like they start doing scenes and when the other actors use the character's original name they just stand there with a blank expression, so eventually the director just changes the character's name to the actor's name.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Lathum's new arrangement sounds like re-living the Covid months all over again, lol.

At least during Covid she was working.

Shit is about to hit the fan. She wants to do a budget and download one of those apps that goes through all your accounts and separates into buckets then makes recommendations and tracks future spending. She's about to know all the stupid shit I spend money on. Luckily this isn't a "fudge a bank statement" situation.

[PilotMan]

So all your OF went to another account, smart! I'm taking notes. Tell us more!

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

They're essentially remaling Mr. Mom with Nate Bargatze. I kinda thought we had gotten past the whole "husband doing chores... why I oughta..." phase of America, but I guess Trad Wives will bring it back eventually.

Also, his name in the movie is Nate. I wonder if he's one of those comedian/actors who can only act if the character has the same name. Like they start doing scenes and when the other actors use the character's original name they just stand there with a blank expression, so eventually the director just changes the character's name to the actor's name.

I have been fascinated by how he has suddenly become big. I mean, I've listened to his stand-up for years, basically "I'm a dumb southern guy and my wife knows everything" schtick. Funny enough, but all of a sudden the dude is everywhere - hosting game shows, award shows, in ads, now this movie. Who decided he was the next comedian-turned-box office draw? It doesn't feel organic, that's for sure. I swear he went from mostly anonymous to everywhere overnight.

[flere-imsaho]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Shit is about to hit the fan. She wants to do a budget and download one of those apps that goes through all your accounts and separates into buckets then makes recommendations and tracks future spending. She's about to know all the stupid shit I spend money on. Luckily this isn't a "fudge a bank statement" situation.

Offer to download it all into Excel for her and do an initial categorization that she can then modify as she sees fits. This allows you to remove problemmatic transactions before she sees them.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I have been fascinated by how he has suddenly become big. I mean, I've listened to his stand-up for years, basically "I'm a dumb southern guy and my wife knows everything" schtick. Funny enough, but all of a sudden the dude is everywhere - hosting game shows, award shows, in ads, now this movie. Who decided he was the next comedian-turned-box office draw? It doesn't feel organic, that's for sure. I swear he went from mostly anonymous to everywhere overnight.

He is funny and family safe for the most part. He can cross political lines which is almost impossible these days. He isn't overly silly, and jokes about things that are very relatable. Just caters to a very broad base, and talented enough to pull it off.

[RainMaker]

My new favorite conspiracy theory is that school photos were taken largely by 2 companies throughout our lives and they can sell all that data to companies or the government for facial recognition. The data can also be used to create more accurate future facial reconstruction photos.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Offer to download it all into Excel for her and do an initial categorization that she can then modify as she sees fits. This allows you to remove problemmatic transactions before she sees them.

I think I'm just gonna swallow my medicine. She spends plenty of money on stupid shit also.

I still play a lot of online poker and do decent. I suspect it will pull a lot of gaming deposits, but since I withdraw through paypal it likely won't reflect that so I will have to explain.

[GrantDawg]

Did you know that in Europe Miley Cyrus is known as "Kilometery Cyrus".?

[flere-imsaho]

OK Dad.

[flere-imsaho]

[Passacaglia]

Feels like the world is all "What the hell was Sussudio supposed to mean?" But no one ever talks about Abacab.

[Lathum]

I can't stand people who zip through Costco like it's the Italian Grand Prix.

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

Feels like the world is all "What the hell was Sussudio supposed to mean?" But no one ever talks about Abacab.

Abacab was just the chord progression for the song, if memory serves.

[Ghost Econ]

Does a joke become a dad joke if I tell it to my family?

My daughter complained she has a 98.6 in Chemistry instead of it being rounded to 99. So I said, at least her teacher didn't grade her in Celsius. My daughter said stop with the dad jokes.

I feel like it's a joke that happened to be told by a dad. Like if I told a Holocaust joke, I don't think she'd classify it as a dad joke.

[JonInMiddleGA]

When is a joke a dad joke? When the punchline is apparent.

(A ... parent)

(See what I did there?)

[RainMaker]

We need separate grocery stores for the people who park their cart and stand in the middle of the aisle oblivious to the rest of the world.

[cuervo72]

Kirsty Coventry is a really old looking 42.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

We need separate grocery stores for the people who park their cart and stand in the middle of the aisle oblivious to the rest of the world.

I almost always do my grocery shopping Monday mornings.

A couple weeks ago I couldn't go Monday so I went Tuesday. Apparently Tuesday mornings are seniors day where they get a discount. It was literally the most miserable shopping experience of my life.

[Ghost Econ]

Yeah, I went one night it was like everyone was an NPC in the most annoying video game, just standing completely oblivious in the middle of aisles. I was trying to get some pasta and there were two people with carts standing back to back like they were ups trucks parked over night.

[NobodyHere]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

...like everyone was an NPC in the most annoying video game.

Maximum Football?

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

Yeah, I went one night it was like everyone was an NPC in the most annoying video game, just standing completely oblivious in the middle of aisles. I was trying to get some pasta and there were two people with carts standing back to back like they were ups trucks parked over night.

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

Maximum Football?

Why the **** are my bananas $940.11??

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by Passacaglia

Why the **** are my bananas $940.11??

There's always money in the banana tent.

[Lathum]

Fewer places make you realize how many people are out there that have no concept of other humans around them than the grocery store

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

There's always money in the banana tent.

Is there also money in the banana hammock?

[Kodos]

Originally Posted by Lathum

I almost always do my grocery shopping Monday mornings.

A couple weeks ago I couldn't go Monday so I went Tuesday. Apparently Tuesday mornings are seniors day where they get a discount. It was literally the most miserable shopping experience of my life.

Mornings are ideal. Almost nobody there to be in your way, and the produce hasn't been picked over yet.

[JPhillips]

But weekends are the best for getting the expiring meats sales.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Fewer places make you realize how many people are out there that have no concept of other humans around them than the grocery store

I tell you what really drives me nuts is the people that just can't walk in a straight line. They will walk super slowly while zig zagging so you can't possibly pass them. Between that and the people that enter the store and just stand blocking the door just drive me batty.

[miami_fan]

Raising Cane's opened a resturant close by our house and I had my first meal there a couple of days ago. Why are people lining up and giving that place the Chick-fil-A treatment. Saying I am not a fan would be putting it very mildly. The best thing about the food was the sauce. Oh and the advice that someone gave me to request butter on both sides of the bread probably made that better. The sauce is tasty but even a French Dipped sandwich is edible and eatable without having to dip it in the beef broth. The Raising Cane's chicken tender taste like bad fufu.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

I tell you what really drives me nuts is the people that just can't walk in a straight line. They will walk super slowly while zig zagging so you can't possibly pass them. Between that and the people that enter the store and just stand blocking the door just drive me batty.

The people who are in the parking lot walking down the middle of the row.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

Raising Cane's opened a resturant close by our house and I had my first meal there a couple of days ago. Why are people lining up and giving that place the Chick-fil-A treatment. Saying I am not a fan would be putting it very mildly. The best thing about the food was the sauce. Oh and the advice that someone gave me to request butter on both sides of the bread probably made that better. The sauce is tasty but even a French Dipped sandwich is edible and eatable without having to dip it in the beef broth. The Raising Cane's chicken tender taste like bad fufu.

I had the same though. I do like places with limited menus but these are run-of-the-mill chicken tenders. The sauce is good but not going out of my way for that.

[cuervo72]

All of these places. We got a Bojangles recently and there were lines out the door for rather expensive, really pedestrian chicken. Now the county is getting a *second* one. They're tearing down the Applebee's (no great loss) and putting a Raising Cane's there. We also now have two Popeye's, two/three CFA, a couple of Hangry Joe's, a billion Royal Farms, like eight Roy Rogers (I know, not really a chicken place and yes -- Roy's is a thing here still), never mind all of the local, wings, Jerk, or Peruvian places. Like, wtf do we need more chicken for?

[RainMaker]

Popeyes blackened chicken strips are the best "healthy" meal out there that I can find.

[cuervo72]

We have a semi-local chain called Sardi's which has good Peruvian-style chicken, and Crisp & Juicy is pretty good as well. But I can buy a rotisserie chicken from Food Lion for like $6 if I want healthier chicken. If I need sides, I can pretty easily do them myself.

(We don't actually get chicken often; one kid is veggie, wife isn't keen on meat that still resembles the animal. So it was just me and my older kid who would eat it, and with both kids out of the house now I would just be buying it for me. So I don't buy it often.)

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

All of these places. We got a Bojangles recently and there were lines out the door for rather expensive, really pedestrian chicken. Now the county is getting a *second* one. They're tearing down the Applebee's (no great loss) and putting a Raising Cane's there. We also now have two Popeye's, two/three CFA, a couple of Hangry Joe's, a billion Royal Farms, like eight Roy Rogers (I know, not really a chicken place and yes -- Roy's is a thing here still), never mind all of the local, wings, Jerk, or Peruvian places. Like, wtf do we need more chicken for?

I have not had Bojangles in decades even though they also opened one of those in the area. For me, Bojangles was a biscuit breakfast sandwich restaurant that also sold fried chicken if you did not have a Popeye's close by or you did not want to take all the risks associated with eating Church's. I just looked through the Bojangles' menu. Besides vomiting a little bit at all the "Bo's" references, I noticed that they don't actually sell bone in chicken at all and everything else seems similar to the Chick-fil-A menu. I have zero interest in confirming that "Bo's" is not anything close to Chick-fil-A.

[Passacaglia]

I feel like a lot of these random thoughts belong in the pet peeves thread. SkyDog, can you move them? Thanks.

I'm also not sure if this post belongs in the random thoughts thread or the pet peeves thread.

[GrantDawg]

Bojangles is all about the biscuits. The chicken is fine, and so are the sides. "Borounds" are cravable as well. Basically butter milk infused hash browns, they are so good.

[Ksyrup]

We got a Bojangles here locally and it shut down after a few years. Now a Chipotle.

We ate there once. Not a fan. Nothing special about it at all. I don't recall anything about the biscuits.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

Raising Cane's opened a resturant close by our house and I had my first meal there a couple of days ago. Why are people lining up and giving that place the Chick-fil-A treatment. Saying I am not a fan would be putting it very mildly. The best thing about the food was the sauce. Oh and the advice that someone gave me to request butter on both sides of the bread probably made that better. The sauce is tasty but even a French Dipped sandwich is edible and eatable without having to dip it in the beef broth. The Raising Cane's chicken tender taste like bad fufu.

The bread IS the best thing about Cane's, no question.
Then the sweet tea.
Then the fries IF they're fresh (and for the first 3-5 minutes)
Then their honey mustard (I don't like their house sauce at ALL)

And then their chicken.

Although it's still above average for the category to me, one of the more enjoyable tenders from a tender joint. I've never had them burn 'em, unlike Zaxbys.

[Ghost Econ]

They just announced one here. I've had it twice and it was like ithe worst of Zaxby's. No flavor on the chicken or fries, no butter on the bread.

[GrantDawg]

WE just had one open here right across the street from Dave's Hot Chicken. I haven't had either because I don't really care for chicken tenders.

[Ksyrup]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

The bread IS the best thing about Cane's, no question.
Then the sweet tea.
Then the fries IF they're fresh (and for the first 3-5 minutes)
Then their honey mustard (I don't like their house sauce at ALL)

And then their chicken.

Although it's still above average for the category to me, one of the more enjoyable tenders from a tender joint. I've never had them burn 'em, unlike Zaxbys.

We love Cane's. I haven't been to a Zaxby's in over 5 years. The main reason is that the chicken is cooked with light breading and tender. Zaxby's is way too heavy and cooked too long. I also love their house sauce - nice and garlicky with some bite.

We visit my family in Asheville a few times a year, and they have a place called Huey Magoo's which is pretty good too. And here in Lexington a new place called Jagger's recently opened. It's owned by the Texas Roadhouse people. We thought it was good, been there once.

It's hard to believe we as a society can prop up this many chicken tenders places, lol. Although some like Jagger's and Zaxby's expand a bit beyond tenders, while others like Cane's are just that. But still - this country seems to subsist almost solely on pizza and fried chicken.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

We visit my family in Asheville a few times a year, and they have a place called Huey Magoo's which is pretty good too.

I've been past a few of those, there's maybe one in Georgia that I drive by a few times a year (actually Googled, there's now at least 3 within an hour of me) Just never been at/near one at meal time.

[GrantDawg]

We also have a Huey Magoo's. Hot wings used to be the way over optioned category, especially around here because Atlanta seems to be a hot wing capital. Now it is tenders. Every restaurant has them, and several only specialize in them. My wife like tenders, but her favorite is none of them but is a local catfish restaurant.
Btw, we are getting a Texas Roadhouse, and I am very excited about it.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

no butter on the bread.

At Cane's?

That's weird -- or a mistake -- cause it's known for being brushed with garlic butter before its grilled.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by miami_fan

I noticed that they don't actually sell bone in chicken at all and everything else seems similar to the Chick-fil-A menu.

Either you've got a weird one OR you didn't go down the menu far enough. The bone-in stuff is under "combos", "dinners" or "family meals", legs/thighs/breasts all still available.

I almost exclusive get breakfast biscuits there, not a big fan of their breading on their chicken, but its still their main product here. Sundays around lunch (or 2 hours before lunch) are about as batshit crazy as any place I've seen in Athens. Routinely folks lined up all the way out the door waiting to get 10/20/30 piece orders, 30-45 min lines and people just seem to take that as "normal" (not ME, I only made that mistake on a Sunday a couple times)

It's about the only day of the week ours does much business. Hell, you never know when the one closest to me will even be open otherwise.