What's Oppo Drinking?

"CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever" (carsoffortlangley) 05/16/2020 at 23:52 • Filed to: None

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I’m drinking a beer from the brewery near my place, Ridge Brewing, called Toss a Coin ( Hazy pale ale) and playing Cities Skylines.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:08

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Sodastream Coca-Cola

smobgirl > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:09

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Some kind of generic Aldi beer. And I am supposed to have cities skylines on my Xbox, but I do not.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever 05/17/2020 at 00:13

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Do you like your soda stream? I've thought about one, but I literally need so many things before that

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > smobgirl 05/17/2020 at 00:13

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Aldi? 

OhCrikeyTheRozzers > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:17

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Good ole’ Kentucky brown drink. McKenna 10 year tonight, served neat with a side of water.   Cheers and good night, everyone.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:18

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Cheap ass Scotch and watching “The Big Short”. Cause I love reliving the 2007-2008 housing crash.

Chan - Mid-engine with cabin fever > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:21

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Yeah been happy with it. Had it for a little over a year now and just started trying out a can of Cola syrup.

Deal Killer - Powered by Focus > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:22

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Think of Aldi as a basic grocery store,with out any frills. Seriously, you put a quarter in a slot to get a grocery cart. Very few name brands. Mostly off brand items. You can live off an Aldi grocery store, but you won’t enjoy it.

smobgirl > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:23

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Discount German (?) grocery store found in the eastern half of the US (and maybe also California?). They have good cheap staples and lots of things I’ll try for the novelty of them...including cheap wine and beer. 

Stef Schrader > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:25

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Earlier tonight: a coffee stout with Softy Bunny. (He’s so soft. I <3 the bun.)

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 00:26

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Hows work looking these days btw?

ClassicDatsunDebate > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:26

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I dunno where my reply to you went. Painting, watched the Ovareem fight and a few glasses of...

How’s that beer?

Stef Schrader > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:29

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Ugh. Still no full time job, everything I applied for is on hold and with a bunch of places in layoff mode, not much to apply to at all.

At least there’s a steady stream of freelance work, but as I said earlier...ugh.

I just want it all to be over. 

Grindintosecond > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:30

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Tonight I am drinking my salty tears. I’m typing this just after diagnosing my Washing machine’s problems - wiring harness is just worn out/rusting/shorting/internittent. So the 21 years on a Maytag was worth it. This also means a thousand dollars tomorrow on a Speedqueen, B ut that equals twenty five years. A day AFTER buying a garage fridge.....I cant NOT piss money this month.

Grindintosecond > smobgirl 05/17/2020 at 00:33

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oh, that good times lager I think its called. It’s not too bad really. WAY better than anything budweiser related fo sho .

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 00:36

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Don’t stop there!

Stef Schrader > smobgirl 05/17/2020 at 00:40

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Yup. Ze Germans. Aldi’s weird over there since it split into Nord and Süd, with the former being over Trader Joe’s but the latter being over the regular ol’ Aldis over here. The brother over Süd didn’t want to sell cigarettes, and the one who got the Nord half did. (This may or may not have been an internet rabbit hole once.)

I am crap, so I took a photo in the toilet paper section where I belong a couple years ago.

jeepoftheseus > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:40

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We had fridge issues this evening... as in, take everything out, fill coolers with ice and the important foods then remove the shelves and back panel  to access the frozen over drain to begin the thawing process. Thankfully I have some backup brews out in the tool room mini- fridge. That being said, Lagunitas IPA for this evening. My old standby. 

Stef Schrader > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 05/17/2020 at 00:46

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Heh, this beer has the best can illustration I think I’ve ever seen. There’s even a Hunter S. Bat on the side:

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Grindintosecond 05/17/2020 at 00:47

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Garage fridge? Sooo fawncy!

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > smobgirl 05/17/2020 at 00:48

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They’re connected to Trader Joe’s - I think the same family that owns Aldi owns (or owned?) Trader Joe’s.

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:49

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Wild Cherry Pepsi because it’s impossible to get cans of Cherry Coke here.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CB 05/17/2020 at 00:50

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They still make cherry coke?

smobgirl > Grindintosecond 05/17/2020 at 00:50

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I think it’s actually a bock? It was the tail end of German week or something. It’s not bad.

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:51

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In America, yes. And you can get it in bottles at some places here, but no packs of cans.

smobgirl > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 00:52

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Little did you know you were sitting on such a valuable commodity.

I wish we had Aldi in CO. 

PowderHound > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 00:54

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Same as the past few days with the last of the whiskey lemonade, Moab fmu, and upslope experimental ipa

Stef Schrader > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 00:56

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Fun fact number two (huh huh): I sent this in as an option for an author photo on another website.

I wanted to use the one in my Porschelump shirt instead (which they did), but the idea of being photobombed by “Toilettenpapier” brings me great joy.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CB 05/17/2020 at 01:01

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That's a weird addiction man! But I guess you try to avoid drinking during work weeks

CB > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 01:09

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I actually don't drink (minus scotch once or twice a year).

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > CB 05/17/2020 at 01:15

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oh!  Well, then the odd cherry coke is just fine

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Dead_Elvis, Inc. 05/17/2020 at 01:16

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In europe there are 2 aldi’s (the brothers split the company) and one owns trader joes and the other company owns all the US aldis.. 

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 01:22

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As deal killer said off brand products, and (at least the store near me) they’ll only have 1 or 2 options /types /brands of an item.

They do have good and cheap produce. 

Chariotoflove > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 01:29

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I am drinking cheap whiskey from a Star Trek hip flask. What do I win?

Chariotoflove > Grindintosecond 05/17/2020 at 01:30

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Brother, I feel ya.  My washers and dryers always go out in the middle of the worst possible time, usually at the beginning of the weekend.

Chariotoflove > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 01:32

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With all the old Jalopnik alums growing up and getting Real Jobs ™, those relationships have got to start bearing fruit some time soon, right?

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Right?

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > Chariotoflove 05/17/2020 at 01:34

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Just a gif

Chariotoflove > Deal Killer - Powered by Focus 05/17/2020 at 01:34

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BUT, the produce is often cheap and fresh at mine.  Also their chocolate is a real secret find.  I had a german coworker who would stock up on the stuff and put me on to it.  Best value.

Chariotoflove > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 01:36

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I’ll take it.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 05/17/2020 at 01:39

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Ah, I knew there was some sort of bifurcation (and also, Lidl, right?), but I can never keep it straight. I stopped into an Aldi for the first & only time outside of Milwaukee last September on a cross-country drive.

Can’t say I was too impressed, but I was also looking for some specific things, and their house brands just didn’t cut it.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 01:41

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I am crap

WRONG!

Much of t he world is deeply flawed & doesn’t recognize your talent.

Also, depression fucking sucks.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Dead_Elvis, Inc. 05/17/2020 at 01:50

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according to wiki I think lidl is not associated with aldi, but copies their business.

Yeah, if its an item you don’t care about, like rice or produce, its ok. If you’ re looking for Sweet baby Rays Honey BBQ sauce, you’re out of luck.       

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 01:52

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Washington State’s finest old man school cheapshit lager (brewed only in California for quite a while now).

S ometimes quantity > quality.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 05/17/2020 at 01:56

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Ah, for some reason I had the idea that one was an offshoot of the other.

RPM esq. > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 02:57

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A lot of red  wine while eating Chinese takeout and playing Red Dead Redemption. Last night was whiskey and Zoom poker night. Not a bad weekend.

Stef Schrader > Dead_Elvis, Inc. 05/17/2020 at 03:04

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To be fair, though, that last sentence is PEAK “I am commenting with insomnia”-ese and now I can’t edit it. Well, that’s crap.

Stef Schrader > Chariotoflove 05/17/2020 at 03:05

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you’d hope, but hope is dead

Stef Schrader > smobgirl 05/17/2020 at 03:07

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I haven’t been to the ones here, TBH. If the bread section is as good , though, I may have to find one and go.

Bread! It’s what’s for dinner. And lunch. And breakfast. Also, brunch? Sure, brunch. Lunner? Is that a thing? Then l unner, too. Snacks, also.

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 03:16

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So, not Scottish ?

The beforetimes pic of you in front of all that toilet paper looks like you’re taunting us now, in the idiotic-TP-panic-hoarding present. Love it, as well as your photobomb crop.

Stef Schrader > Dead_Elvis, Inc. 05/17/2020 at 03:21

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I know my crap!

(IDK if I’m Scottish, but I’m crap.)

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 03:24

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Kinja’s edit window is crap.

Let us not speak of Kinja, as a whole.

404 - User No Longer Available > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/17/2020 at 08:48

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Almost half a bottle of Cesari Mara Ripasso to go with my steak last night, and 2 scotch and club sodas afterwards.

smobgirl > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 09:43

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The internet tells me some of them have in-store bakeries  but they seem to be mostly in the midwest. Bread at the Wichita Falls Aldi was nothing to write home about, sadly.

Stef Schrader > smobgirl 05/17/2020 at 22:53

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Ha! I was born in Wichita Falls. Are you up that way?

smobgirl > Stef Schrader 05/17/2020 at 23:34

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Not currently! I’ve had to drive from CO to the general DFW area for work twice  since the ‘ Rona hit and that’s a good place to take a break and stuff the car full of weird groceries. It’s a cute town and it smells much better than Amarillo. 

Neil drives a beetle and a fancy beetle > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/29/2020 at 17:49

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Haha- Didn’t mean to reply to such an old post.