thegiddystitcher @ thegiddystitcher @lemm.ee

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It's been common for a lot longer than that in the UK, we're very lazy :D

Yeah I'm trying to remember how we used to do it (the last time I went through a normal checkout with a full shop was probably 10 years ago) and this seems right.

Gotta have the heavy stuff handy so you can put it straight into the bottom of the bags. Anything else is wasting time!

You've had some well-meaning but ultimately not quite accurate answers in this thread so just to clarify:

You can follow, post to and interact with Lemmy communities from Mastodon, because they're treated the same way as a "group" on Mastodon in general.

You can NOT follow and interact with Mastodon users from Lemmy, because Mastodon accounts are individual "users" and Lemmy doesn't have the concept of following and interacting with users, only with communities. If Lemmy ever does add a feature to let us follow other users, then in theory following Mastodon users will also become possible.

As a European, I'd read about this phenomenon and assumed it was just a sort of vaguely reminiscent hint of a taste. Because surely nobody would be eating it if it tasted strongly of vomit.

Was given a free sample of Hershey's in Chicago once. Didn't taste of anything at all it was just weird and waxy. So much for that!

Yeah I made it maybe halfway down the street before the taste kicked in. For any other non-US folks who think it's an exaggeration, it is not. Literally tasted like I'd thrown up in my mouth, not just a bit like it but literally like vomit.

My minor life advice is do not accept handouts of Hershey's chocolate!

Allow me to translate. It means our admin is a boss.

The fools!

Entirely fair.

I've not "used" it but for some reason they've decided to include one of my accounts in their gaming feed so I checked it out.

Just seemed like a too-broad-to-be-useful repost bot, although apparently there are real people "curating" too. Why they'd repost my inane ramblings if it's actually human-curated, I do not know.

I do however know quite a few people who blocked them already since it just looks at first glance like complete spam. Like most Fedi stuff, they could probably do with communicating better what it is they're actually trying to do.

What on earth is a butter spreader? If someone's invented a device even better than the spoon, I'm in!

It's kind of an old-timey usage. Comes up a lot in Lord of the Rings.

"Gay" in this context is also old-timey.

But a cigarette is still a "fag" to a lot of people. Interestingly uncomfortable for me to even type out even though I grew up with that being a totally normal word!

ITT: A lot of people not trying it before they dismiss it.

A lot of people have commented about butter being hard and I'm wondering if it's a location-dependent thing? Those solid butter blocks are a thing here (UK) but I don't know anyone who uses them as a normal daily butter for spreading, they're mostly just if you're cooking or something and it doesn't matter that it's a big solid lump.

You're a weirdo but I respect it.

I can't tell if you're mistakenly thinking we use the front of the spoon, which definitely would result in a lot of wasted stuck butter. Or if you just imagine it's way harder to spread it all off the curved surface than it is.

They are a bit better than a regular knife but they just can't approach the efficiency of Spoon Method.

That would be ridiculous. Luckily you're imagining scooping it up as being way more complicated than it actually is :D

I'm down.

We mostly get spreadable butter because life's too short. Although, when I was little I remember my grandma used to use that old-style block butter and would have to leave it sitting out at room temperature for a while before trying to use it for anything, so let's agree that too-hard butter is an annoyance regardless of spreading implement used.

I admit it can be situational, for example I still use a knife for peanut butter just because it's annoying to try and get a spoon into the jar. But I'd argue your first point is what the kids these days refer to as a "skill issue" 😉

Hmm we had Birdhouse In Your Soul as our wedding entrance music so I can't in good conscience agree with you here.