Dammit, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 02/26/2019 at 09:17 • Filed to: None

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You got your chocolate in my peanut butter.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 09:23

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Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 09:23

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“ This is Chocolate City.”

—Ray Nagin, 2005

$kaycog > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 09:25

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Not sorry.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 09:28

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HammerheadFistpunch > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 09:36

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I’m officer Reese’s, wha ts going on here?

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 02/26/2019 at 09:48

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How about Ralph Malph and Robby Benson.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 02/26/2019 at 09:49

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Ray who?

I had forgotten about that.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 09:49

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I prefer chocolate in my hazelnut butter. 

ttyymmnn > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/26/2019 at 09:50

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Peanut butter cups might be pretty good if they didn’t use such terrible chocolate and peanut butter. 

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 02/26/2019 at 09:52

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That sounds pretty good.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 09:53

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Katrina stands out in my mind as one of the first and biggest partisan rifts in the media’s coverage of any major US event. It was like we could all get behind 9/11 and Bush, but a few years later everything was controversial.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 09:59

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It is. 

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 02/26/2019 at 09:59

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Oh, well, yeah. Duh. We get the giant bottle from Costco. My son likes to put it on his Eggo waffles.

fintail > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 09:59

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The Costco brand aren’t half bad.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:02

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In other news I had a peanut butter/Nutella sandwich for breakfast

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:06

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I need to try this stuff (hazelnut is actually the first ingredient - less sugar).

https://www.target.com/p/justin-s-174-chocolate-hazelnut-butter-blend-12oz/-/A-15251131

ttyymmnn > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 02/26/2019 at 10:15

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Ever try peanut butter and bacon?

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 02/26/2019 at 10:16

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There are a number of nut butters out there that are so much healthier than JIF or other mass produced peanut butters. I just wish eating healthy wasn’t so expensive.

themanwithsauce - has as many vehicles as job titles > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:18

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Ever put butter on a poptart?

facw > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:18

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They are still pretty good, even with low end-chocolate (still better than a Hershey bar) and peanut butter that’s mostly sugar. There certainly are at least somewhat higher end takes out there for the more sophisticated.

facw > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/26/2019 at 10:18

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I want these. Please have them delivered to me. Thanks!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:22

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Mrs. addiction buys this, fwiw :

facw > Ash78, voting early and often 02/26/2019 at 10:23

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Some of us definitely weren’t behind W. You’re right that the media generally was.

facw > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:24

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I’d say the only problem there is that it’s really not hard to make waffles from scratch that will be considerably tastier than Eggos (even if made ahead and frozen).

facw > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:24

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Only on a donut.

Ash78, voting early and often > facw 02/26/2019 at 10:27

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I would say that “most” people were behind W in terms of the first year of retaliation for 9/11 — Taliban, Afghanistan . Then most people were against the later Iraq action , but that opinion only grew as we learned the evidence was mostly falsified . I mostly felt bad that Colin Powell had to sit in front of Congress making a very strong case based on information we later found out was untrue. 

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 02/26/2019 at 10:29

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We buy  Smart Balance PB. Marginally better for you than regular peanut butters. Probably should just make our own. 

ttyymmnn > facw 02/26/2019 at 10:30

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No thanks.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:32

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A local restaurant had a thing they called “The Brunch Burger, ” with cheese, bacon, peanut butter, and a fried egg on it.  It was amazeballs.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:33

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We used to buy Smart Balance spread, but then just went back to butter. Butter is delicious... =) 

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 02/26/2019 at 10:34

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I refuse to eat fake butter. Moderation will allow you to eat most anything. 

facw > Ash78, voting early and often 02/26/2019 at 10:35

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In the media, the even NYT was definitely cheerleading all the way into the Iraq war though by 2004 they were saying this about their previous coverage:

But we have found a number of instances of coverage that was not as rigorous as it should have been. In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged. Looking back, we wish we had been more aggressive in re-examining the claims as new evidence emerged — or failed to emerge. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-the-times-and-iraq.html

Even then, I feel like coverage of the Global War on Terror was generally pretty positive at that point. If memory serves (and memory can definitely be faulty), a big inflection point on war on terror coverage was Dana Priest’s Pulitzer winning coverage on the CIA’s secret prisons and extraordinary rendition in 2005 and 2006.  

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 02/26/2019 at 10:35

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Hmm, not so sure about the peanut butter part. The rest sounds awesome, especially if you are a lumberjack and are about to go chop down a forest. If you are going to sit at a computer all day, not so much.

facw > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:36

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It was ok? Plenty of donut styles I’d rather have. My donut go to is the classic Boston cream.

ttyymmnn > facw 02/26/2019 at 10:41

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I can only do cake donuts. The glazed ones give me hellacious heartburn. I’ll be burping donut all day if I eat even half of one. 

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:42

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I   overeat at times (helllo, Indian buffet) , and am a little overweight (have been my whole life, frustratingly), but I’m incredibly good at moderation, especially when it comes to sweets. I have a wicked sweet tooth, but I will make a gift of fancy chocolates last months . Mrs. addiction usually will get me Ferrero Rocher or Toblerone as gifts; this Christmas she found me a dark chocolate orange! So good... I still have a third of it left (as well as some of the others from past gifts - ha!). 

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:46

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You say that like it’s a bad thing.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 02/26/2019 at 10:47

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Not at all.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 02/26/2019 at 10:48

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I have never had much of a sweet tooth. I’m a sucker for butter, and other savory foods, though. And beer. To which I owe this totally dad bod physique.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:48

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¿Porque?

ttyymmnn > HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute 02/26/2019 at 10:49

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shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 10:49

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I wasn’t either.  They actually had a guarantee on the menu that if you didn’t like it, they would make you another burger.  Try it sometime, it’s incredible.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 02/26/2019 at 10:50

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Certainly something I could make myself. 

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 11:01

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Soft butter on warm, crusty bread is one of life’s great gifts.

Yeah, beer. Love it. But another thing I’m good with taking in moderation. If it’s a good, complex beer, I happy with just one, maybe two.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 02/26/2019 at 11:14

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I have an English muffin with butter just about every day for breakfast.

With me and beer, it’s either none or a 6-pack. I’ve talked to my doctor about it, and he says it’s a definite psychological thing, the “I’ve had one, so fuck it, keep going ” mentality. I’ve actually reached for that 6th or 7th beer and said, “Ah, fuck it ” and cracked it open. So I’m trying to not drink during the week, and I’m fairly successful at it, even if there is beer in the house. If I can limit myself to none, I’m good. But I do  let myself go a bit on the weekends. The trick now is to avoid doing a whole week’s worth of drinking on Friday and Saturday.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 11:20

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I really need to get myself up 10 minutes earlier and make myself a fried egg with an English muffin and butter every morning...

Hmm... maybe the trick is to only keep 2 or 3 cold at a time? =) 

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 11:25

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My wife makes them for us occasionally.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 02/26/2019 at 11:26

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I often make breakfast sandwiches for my kids . English muffin, egg fried in a small pan with broken yoke, bacon or sausage, American cheese. Pretty quick to make, and I suppose not terrible for you. I don’t butter the muffin, which would make it much better, and they don’t complain. My other son likes breakfast tacos. I feel like a short order cook somedays. But I’d rather send them out the door with a breakfast like that than a bowl of cereal.

Hmm... maybe the trick is to only keep 2 or 3 cold at a time? =)

Maybe. But I know me, and I know that it’s still an all or nothing affair. I am comfortable with nothing. I’m not sitting around  shaking and jonesing for a beer. But then again, perhaps five days of abstinence only encourages binging. 

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 11:36

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Nice you can do that. I love making breakfast for the family on the weekends when I have the time, but that usually falls to my wife on weekdays (I should try to help more before I’m out the door, but timing kind of prevents it - right now I let the dogs out and feed them, get our daughter on her feet, and get our little guy dressed).

Does the type of beer matter? I can easily plow through a bunch of “easier drinking” beer, especially in a social environment with friends or family, but at home I more often have a heavier craft beer in the fridge, and am happy with one or two. 

Kiltedpadre > shop-teacher 02/26/2019 at 11:38

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There’s a restaurant near me with a burger where you tell them if you have any food allergies, or foods you just don’t  like. Then the kitchen staff makes up a burger based on what they have on hand.  It is different every time I’ve been there because the menu changes every couple of weeks.

The best was when I got a burger with Asian coleslaw, general tsaos chicken, and fried rice patties soaked in teriyaki instead of a bun. Oh, and the burger patty is a half pound.

fhrblig > ttyymmnn 02/26/2019 at 17:40

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Bad choc olate + bad peanut butter = still pretty good