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I myself eat venison, moose and reindeer. Sometimes horse when it's off-season for hunting, but that's kinda janky as it's not really game, but the incentives for "farming" horses don't really exist so..

Anyway, my local butcher's has some frozen 'roo. I've had some on a pizza when drunk once, but don't really recall it that well for my BAC was kinda high. I do remember feeling a tad absurd eating a pizza with kangaroo on it while a guy rode past on a unicycle. I'm not imagining that, although I may have also been high at the time.

Anyway, my point is how'd you compare 'roo to beef in texture and taste?

I hated lamb for instance (and generally don't buy it because the morality is horrible, just had a chance to taste and didn't like). Venison, moose, reindeer, horse, all awesome. Reindeer most gamy, moose second, then venison and horse on a pretty similar level. All really lean usually.

Eh, we may have a slightly different outlook on the utilisation of dead animal parts, but how we gain most of them is definitely fucked. As in, most industrial farms are just animal cruelty. But I don't know that I'd make the same argument necessarily for small-scale farming, given proper regulations.

And hunting is just a thing that genuinely needs doing in certain places. I'm strongly against trophy-hunting of any sort, fuck that, but my brother helping cull the local deer population since humans got rid of apex predators around here ages ago and the ecology and the deer themselves would get utterly fucked if they weren't culled.

That's ideologically how I feel. I don't mind cooking meat. But then like... could I butcher an animal? Like from live animal to a plate? I genuinely don't know. I'd know how to, but I don't know if "I had what it took". And I'd like to, since it'd feel hypocritical eating animals if I didn't have the capability. When I was in the army, had I lived up north in Finland, the supply NCO's training there did actually butcher cows afaik. And I learned like how to execute various animals, were there a need for it, but just theoretically. (There's like a slightly different place on the forehead that you want to pop the bolt gun into, because most massive herbivores have kinda large and differently shaped skulls.)

Sorry if this is like too much "graphic" info or something. We're not on a vegan community so I hope a respectful disagreement is allowed. And I'm only assuming disagreement, though, but username and the comment, I'm assuming perhaps you don't utilise animal products. I may be mistaken idk. Apologies if so.

I don't eat a lot of meat and I prioritise game and if that's not available, sometimes horse and yes, sometimes beef as well. But I feel like Finland has pretty decent regulations when it comes to treating them, but that's an excuse for my own moral failings, no factory farming is good.

“Ferdman found that one single McDonald’s patty can contain the meat of up to a shocking 100 cows.”

If it's just the number of cows, then, idk man, feels like it would be higher in a bag of gummy bears, because those bears have various tastes, so they're obviously form a few different lines, and those lines make those gummies from a huge vat of some sort, and that vat is from an earlier even larger vat, which is boiled down the bones from — I'm assuming here — more than a 100 cows in total.

I don't know it's that much more macabre than a Happy Meal if you look at how mince is made.

This post made me want to read it, gonna look into a copy I guess.

Her:

robbers skedaddle

I now understand cat language.

Nah, it's just the parasites in their poop which infest your brain and make you ignore what little assholes they are.

In rodents, T. gondii alters behavior in ways that increase the rodents' chances of being preyed upon by felids. Support for this "manipulation hypothesis" stems from studies showing that T. gondii-infected rats have a decreased aversion to cat urine while infection in mice lowers general anxiety, increases explorative behaviors and increases a loss of aversion to predators in general. Because cats are one of the only hosts within which T. gondii can sexually reproduce, such behavioral manipulations are thought to be evolutionary adaptations that increase the parasite's reproductive success since rodents that do not avoid cat habitations will more likely become cat prey. The primary mechanisms of T. gondii–induced behavioral changes in rodents occur through epigenetic remodeling in neurons that govern the relevant behaviors (e.g. hypomethylation of arginine vasopressin-related genes in the medial amygdala, which greatly decrease predator aversion).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Behavioral_differences_of_other_infected_hosts

They say it's "generally asymptomatic in humans", but that's just the parasites talking.

Oh... so what you're saying is that it isn't quite as simple as the picture makes it out to be..?

Got to clean your containers and not just top them up, lol

You made me get up to look for a tape measure. Couldn't find one. 2e coin will have to do.

The Hellmans mayo bottle is definitely not 3cm. The other one is way wider but the Hellmans is barely the size of a 2e coin, a 2e coin not fitting in it and a 2e coin being roughly an inch (25.75cm as opposed to an inch which is 2.54cm)

Look at this

Idk of any inch wide mini spatulas. Could be useful but I've not seen any.

My ketchup bottles are also probably closer to 2" than 1"

Oh and I'm not gonna use the bottle I had the coin on, it was on sale but I didn't like it so I'm just waiting to throw it away. Also I don't ever scrape bottles of month old mayo, if I make my own I use it like at least within a week. Even if it's mixed from mayo and other premade sauces that have long shelf lifes. I just use the bottle as a sort of medium. I make a mix of sauces, because the ketchup isn't tasty enough, but the mayo ain't hot enough, and the mustard isn't sweet enough. So I mix a bit of all in decent relations, then throw in a bit of garlic, spices, jalapeño relish. Then blend and put in the squirter.

Use for a day or a couple. Then get rid.

Then rinse and repeat.

My line of thought for this is that stressing about whether you'll have enough money to cover rent won't make it any easier to cover rent. Happiness is more about mindset than circumstances

No... but if you don't worry about it at all, you won't pay it. You need to be able to pay it. Which means having to get money. Which means having to do things. Which means having to plan. Which means thinking about the future.

I do not see how your millionaires explanation is in any way relevant, as they are still won't be living from paycheck to paycheck.

Oh yeah I do, like a silicon scraper. But one of those wouldn't fit into one of those tiny shop mayo squeezer bottles.

The openings on these generic mayo bottles is like 3cm, whereas on the squeezer mayo bottle, it's like less than one.

But aye, the silicon scrapers "mini-spatulas" are great at scraping anything. Saves me like 5% of loss on with my blender, lol. Also really goot when you're prepping things for freezing.

Well then it's not a terrible solution, sure, but if you're going through the trouble already, why not use one of

These. They're practically free, way better shape, easy to wash, and prolly easier to fill given the whole size on those small bastards.

Also making your own mayo / sauces is something I'm kinda used to doing nowadays. I used to think it takes a lot of effort but nah, just mix some mayos/sauces/spices/herbs/garlic, give a tiny blend if there's hard parts and that's it. Sometimes I fluff it up by gently adding Turkish yogurt after squeezing it out of the bottle (the yogurt loses consistency if you blend it, so I blend everything else, put it in a squeezer, than lightly mix that with the yoghurt)

Wait this place is really named "Alligator Alcatraz"? That's not a "funny" quirky name the media came up with?

Eugh.

If you have enough money to not worry about your next month's rent, it's rather easier to "live in the present".

This feels like a live laugh love vibe, no offense. I'm not just at a place to accept this... uh, "wisdom."

It's not that bad in a train, as people can't just run away before the next stop. You wouldn't have this level of trust in a street cafe for instance.

Just today some bastard stole my headlight from my bike. Like two hours ago. Finland. We're known as rather honest.

But the junkie who desperately needed a 10e flashlight is welcome to have it, the pathetic sack of shit.

This bottle design is an utter bastard. You simply can't get the last bits out of there no matter how much you wait or bang or make it cough and splutter to your food.

I'm sure someone has actually designed it that way as opposed to designing it in a way that would be best for the consumer.

Most people would still say they're going to a grocery store, they wouldn't specify "hypermarket".

It's mostly to due with sizes. There's three levels, and the leading chains in Finland both (or "all" before one got bought up by the second biggest and now there's generally only two) have a small store, which have their own names, Sale/Alepa and K-market, then there's the larger ones, S-Market and K-Supermarket (formerly KKK-supermarket, really), and then the largest ones, Prisma and K-Citymarket.

It used to be only the small grocery stores had the longest opening hours, but some years ago they released those regulations and now even the hypermarkets are 247. But the small and medium sized usually don't. Some small ones are in larger cities, I think.

But yeah it's generally just about the size, and "just" supermarkets not having department store shit as much. Like the supermarket K-Supermarket 1.2km away from me has their own fish& meat counter for instance.

The grocery store near me has a pharmacy, but the hypermarket has a pharmacy, a few restaurants, large deli and meat counters, and of course an a liquor store as in a government store that sells specifically alcohol. They're allowed to sell any alcohol, whereas grocery stores are just allowed to sell drinks up to 8%, and that's up from like 4.9% for the most of my life. Some years ago they changed it so grocery stores can sell up to 5.9, then when that didn't break society, it took like 2 years for the limit to change to 8%. And I'm pretty sure someone's gonna push for it to go to like 14 so we got proper wines in grocery stores.

The 8% crap is just awful wine. But drinkable if you carbonate it a tad. Sounds weird perhaps but I enjoy it.

Anyway the department store part of the hypermarkets is often kinda meh. Like if you want electronics or something, you'll usually go to a store that specialises in them. Like a large electronic store for clothing store or whatever. But you can sometimes get decent deals or some store brand clothes for a nice price. But like in general electronics, hardware, general hardware. There's kind of a lot of places with a lot of stores like that.

Like 2km from me by bike is an IKEA and then lots of similarly sized stores selling hardware / electronics / and always a few competing ones. Like there's several furniture stores within literally a stones throw from the ikea parking lot. (You'd have to be pretty good at throwing, but I maintain the assertion. Like frisbee golf throwing distance, definitely.)

Same with electronics stores. Like three huge stores in the same area, all within like 2-3min drives from each other. Some almost next door to each other.

Also hardware stores.

And sports stores.

Tons of others.

There's even I think like a horse-supply store, but that's a bit to the side. Not as mainstream.

Well no, not just produce. You'll find a section for general shit even in the smaller stores. Like tape, glue, underwear (at least for women, usually really thin cotton ones and I'm furious they don't sell the same for men, but I've still used them very comfortable). You can find basic household items like cleaning stuff and diapers and everything you need. but like the selection of tapes or glues won't be anything akin to a proper department store or a hardware store.

You can definitely find dog food and laundry detergent in all stores. And I mean it, I've worked in a bunch basically Kwik-E-Mart style shops and they all had those as well

But hypermarkets will be like almost on the level of specialised hardware stores in their selection of actually usable things. And they'll have bikes and whatnot.

Basically the sizes go with the square footage of the market in Finland at least, I don't think it's to due with what is being sold. And at one point only smaller stores were permitted 247 opening hours or sunday opening hours, whereas larger stores would only be open from 7-21 or something. Nowdays they're actually open 247 as well.

But they can only sell alcohol from 09 to 21