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Lmao!

My eighteenth birthday, two of my friends dragged me to Hooters. Three mile Island wings. Had a contest to see who would tap out first. It wasn't even a close one lol.

And I was very pepper high. I was a shy kid, but I was flirting with this waitress like crazy, just having a great time while my one friend was sitting there trying not to throw up, and the other had this rictus of a grin plastered on his face, dripping sweat, trying to finish just one more wing.

It isn't for everyone, but gods is it an intense experience. I keep being dumb and trying tricks to make my innards handle it. It keeps not working, but I really miss being able to just burn like that

I tell the story fairly often, but not sure I have on lemmy.

Back in the day, my dad and mom would take me and my sister out for dinner maybe once or twice a month. It was usually a rotation of their and/or our favorite places. There was a dine-in only chinese place, a pizza hut, a steak house, all the usual kind of stuff you'd find in the eighties in small and medium sized towns.

But, one day, they decided to go to a newly built place. It wasn't any distinctive "cuisine" at all. They did all kinds of stuff. Pizzas, burgers, diner food, "family style" dishes like meatloaf, etc.

But for whatever reason, one of their sandwiches was intriguingly named "the cannonball".

It was basically similar to subway's Italian sub. But it featured a thick layer of melty cheese and jalapenos.

I had never had jalapenos before. Now, I know that by the usual pepper fan standards, jalapenos are a starter level of heat. But for a ten-ish year old kid, those suckers are brutal.

But that's the sandwich I decided I wanted. My mom and dad tried telling me it was going to be really hot. The waitress tried to talk me out of it because it was piled with jalapeno rings, with the seeds intact. My dad even said that if I couldn't handle it, tough crap, I wouldn't be getting anything else.

And yeah, all that made me both more curious and more stubborn. There was no way I wasn't ordering it.

So it gets to the table, and I dig in. Tried one of the peppers by itself, and wasn't bothered much. But as the meal progressed, I discovered that capsaicin builds over time.

I start getting red. Enough so that my parents and sister stop eating and just watch me. The waitress keeps finding excuses to see how the silly kid is handling it.

I start sweating, it's dripping off my ears.

And around then, the high hits. Anyone that enjoys super spicy foods knows what that means. The endorphins are kicking in. I'm feeling all light and drifty, my mouth is on fire, but it's delightful. I'm just grooving on the feeling, and the sandwich was yummy as well, so I'm sitting there just going at it, making happy sounds.

My mom thought I was faking so that I didn't look like I'd made a bad choice, offers to order me something else. I get annoyed with that and told her no in a very forceful way.

But I sit there and finish every damn bite. I'm glowing, and blissful and have that full belly happiness as well.

I asked if we could come back tomorrow.

They had no idea what they had unleashed lol. I was never one of those folks that chases the hottest peppers or whatever, but I very much enjoyed spice after that, and would put cayenne or whatever we had into anything I cooked (which was mostly stuff like ramen at that age). For a long time, we kept a jar of jalapenos in the fridge, and my maternal grandparents kept some for me too.

Hot sausages as well! Gods, those things with that mouth watering vinegar bite and the spicy kick make me salivate still, and my guts stopped tolerating the peppers years ago.

I still love the experience of capsaicin heavy foods, but I can't tolerate them any more.

Weird hill to climb, but it is definitely obscure enough to be unpopular ;)

I would argue that "best" is always subjective, so there's no point in any discussion beyond that.

However, that's no fun, so let's play along. I don't disagree with you, but I don't agree either.

Milk as a chaser for foods is nothing new. Where it fails is as a palate cleanser. While it definitely will cut through most foods, it leaves its own taste behind, and coats the tongue by virtue of its own residue and saliva mixing.

That means that once you've taken that first sip, you don't always get a full taste of anything eaten after that. Obviously, some foods will cut through the milk, but they have to, which changes the experience. That change in experience can be enjoyable, depending on exactly what the food is and what kind of experience you prefer.

As an example, hamburgers often have acidic condiments, produce a lot of fats in each bite (or should), and have lot of texture. So, with milk as a beverage, your between bite swig is going to be a reliable counter to the condiments lingering in the saliva and dulling future bites. Conversely, the textures of the meat easily clear the milk residue in your mouth as it delivers its own. So each bite and sip combo enhances the next.

That interplay may not be something every diner wants. They may prefer that the acidic components stay between bites. They may want the fatty unctuousness of a greasy burger to remain uncut by the fats of milk. But, it is definitely going to be a different and pronounced difference from water, sodas (where sweetness is similarly going to change how the burger is experienced) or things like iced tea.

Now, Doritos live and die by their coating. A plain tortilla chip is a flat, but pleasant experience. So what you dip them in is the real flavor you'll get. Those flavor powders are designed to tickle all your flavor sensing taste buds at once, and intensely.

Milk is definitely strong enough to counter them. But, the flavor delivery system that is a Dorito lacks the ability to completely cut through the milk with a single chip. It takes multiple. This can be good or bad by preference, but it definitely changes how flavors are presented as you consume. The first chip after milk is going to be heavily subdued, and it will mix with the milk residue. It won't be until the second or third that you get the full flavor back.

Again, preferences differ. But milk does mean that the experience of Doritos is more subdued. To have each chip deliver its full taste bomb each time, you need a palate cleanser that wipes most of the flavor powder's residue while not leaving much of its own, or has one that's complementary.

I think that's why you enjoy Doritos and milk. The milk complements the umami fairly well, while providing a good wipe of the spices involved. You'll end up with multiple cycles of tastes, which prevents the brain from getting fatigued by non stop intense flavors.

Now me, I prefer the experience with a fairly equal preference between water, iced tea, or a low hops beer. That's where Doritos hit best on my palate.

But, a hamburger with milk? Hell yeah. Same with sloppy joes. Spaghetti would be a hell no with milk unless the sauce is really bad.

Milk gets underappreciated as a food adjacent beverage. It isn't just for cookies and pb&js.

Wait, wait, so you're telling me that all my homies can use my toothbrush now?

This whole image is metal as fuck \m/

Exactly. It really seems people crowing about it don't stop to think that a bunch of random assholes packing heat isn't a revolution. It isn't even an uprising. It's just a waste of manpower and ammo.

You don't overthrow a government without some coordination and planning.

You need armaments to make it happen, but the guns don't do the job by themselves

I've often said that I will gladly participate in destroying every single gun in existence.

But it has to be all of them. No military exception, no cop exception.

However, this whole "where are the guns vs tyranny people now" thing is empty headed dreck. Because those of us on the left are right here, and those that are on the right are in support of the fascism.

We're outnumbered, and nobody actually wants a civil war. Well, that's not true. Only idiots want a civil war.

Well, it's true!

I mean, Reed is in the same general age range, and has had a beard multiple times. So those are just stupid.

I suspect "not right" is because of him not being lilly white.

I'm in agreement with the keep it crowd. Looks good on you. Not that you'd not look good without it, but you picked a style that really accentuates your features very well.

Aight, not a biologist, just an interested bystander.

But, yeah, everything alive has their microbiome. There's an assortment of standard ones that are everywhere on earth, but there's also some regional, and species specific types.

Iirc, sloths have a variety of algae that's unique to them, or it may be that it's a variant of a species. Something like that, but the point is that sloths have a biome adapted to them.

Going back to my disclaimer again, I believe that there's also a fairly species related mixture of bacteria and fungi. Not accurate numbers, but something like 50% yeast, 25%staph, 25%lactobacilii as an example. If that were our mix, a gorilla might be 50/20/30 instead. The different conditions on the skin and fur/hair mean different types of microbes will do better or worse in a given climate with given environmental conditions. Again, totally armchair on this.

But the mixes aren't static. All those microbes are competing. As conditions shift, so does the prevalence of one or some of them. That's how yeast infections usually occur. Something happens to change the strength of other microbes and the yeast goes crazy taking over

That was my thought too. If it had that, it would have everything I want a phone to have. On paper at least, things don't always match spec lists

Much appreciated!

Well, sharks be gobblin for sure.

Well, I can't say it the opinion is popular or not, it does seem like one that's mixed at least.

I can't say I fully agree, because you chose to call it dumb rather than any other descriptor in the title and later on the body, but don't support that label very well in the body of the post. It kinda makes it difficult to accept it as more than a rant, which is not really the same thing as an unpopular opinion, even when the rant is unpopular as well.

My points of digression with the concept you're presenting are that microblogging itself isn't the same as hashtag abuse; and that using the platforms poorly isn't the same as the platform itself being bad.

However, microblogging absolutely does seem to draw a lot of people that use it poorly and abuse hashtags. So, while the underlying platforms aren't "dumb", they sure as hell look it.

I would offer the counter argument that it isn't microblogging that's dumb, it's people; but microblogging shows the dumbness easier than other formats.

Ehhh, the big factor is that a pickling brine is controlled and small.

You don't start out with an entire ecosystem of bacteria, fungi, scavengers, and the wide ranging temperatures that exist in an ocean.

Secondary to that, you tend to be dealing with cuts of meat when pickling, not entire bodies.

See, part of what causes decomposition are the enzymes released as individual cells die, and those produced by the bacteria already in the body.

When we slaughter an animal, it doesn't just get thrown in brine whole. If you did, it would rot from the inside, no matter what the outside brine was like.

Instead, the carcass is drained of blood, organs are removed, and the meat will typically be kept very cool during transport and storage. When you put that into the brine, you're severely limiting what bacteria are present in the first place. The brine will almost always be made with processed water from a tap, or from a known clean source like wells or springs. So, again, you have a very restricted range of bacteria.

The salt then limits them more. So you'll lack the bacteria that thrive in salty conditions in the ocean, and only those in the air and fresh water even have a chance to eat the meat before salt kills off the ones that won't ferment or otherwise preserve foods, including meats.

But! Deep sea conditions are very cold, and there has been footage of scavengers down there eating very well preserved carcasses. Some of that meat may well have pickled to some degree, as some of the fermentation bacteria can handle cold.

So, what it amounts to is that pickling isn't purely done by the action off salt on the food. Brine pickling is essentially sourdough for meats and veggies. You grow bacteria that prevent the food from going bad in a dangerous way, which leaves you with something that will stay edible much longer. That's kinda over simplified, but I think it's good enough for this

Tbh, I don't use actual Firefox often any more it's usually forks, and I'm not hyper worried about updating them as soon as a new version rolls out, I'm fine waiting a few weeks.

But I have noticed the sidebar thing on my laptop. Not sure which version it's on, but it can't have been much more than two weeks since I updated Firefox on it, since that's when I did a version update to mint. Maybe three weeks at most.

It only matters insofar as time invested.

If someone is just fucking around, trolling, baiting, or deliberately trying to spread some kind of propaganda in the guise of "just talking", it's annoying as fuck to spend fifteen minutes writing up a considered and meaningful comment. Sometimes it's worth it anyway, if only to leave it for anyone coming along later, but it's still a giant waste of effort that could could have been spent on someone or something genuine.

That doesn't include someone playing devil's advocate though. That's fine, though it's good manners to say so up front.

The line can be a little blurry at times, obviously. Some folks just don't engage with others well. But most of the time, it's fairly obvious within one or two exchanges that someone is fucking with you, or they're just really bad at engagement and discussion.

Side scroll for pc, top down for mobile.

That's how I prefer things

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