• 7bicycles [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Me riding the protected bike lane up and down, forcing the trucks full of goods to idle for hours to increase the price of coleslaw slightly :sicko-biker:

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      "I'm forced to work 17 hours a day at the lead distillery, but my children are forced to not work and my wife can vote, so that'll fix everything!"

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    My coworker the other day was complaining about his property taxes being so high and blamed them on sidewalks

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I think we've all been in contact with enough people with car commuter brain-worms to know this is 100% true.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I've been in cars with :grillman: that scream homophobic slurs at people in bicycles, supposedly because their shorts are too short. The :brainworms: are endemic to car culture.

  • JonathanKington [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Protected bike lanes? Must be nice. In my city they just paint a while line on the road and people still lose their shit over it. If we're really lucky they'll separate the bike lane from the road with a row of parked cars so you can get doored instead of run over.

    • culdrought [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      If we’re really lucky they’ll separate the bike lane from the road with a row of parked cars so you can get doored instead of run over.

      Also you'll get cut off by cars turning into driveways, because they can't see you until they're entirely in the bike lane

    • bombshell [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Actual Southern style coleslaw is great. The problem is that most people have only had fast food side dish coleslaw, which is utter garbage. Long John Silvers or KFC is frozen yak vomit. Coleslaw shines as an accompaniment to barbecue, where the palate is cleansed of heavy fatty meat with bites of crunchy, vinegary cabbage.

      Here's a recipe that works really well and is easy to make. I knew it was the real deal as soon as I added the celery seed. It just immediately smelled like coleslaw and it was a hit when people ate it. You know it's good when people are scraping the bottom of the bowl for more and then dipping their bread in the leftover dressing.

        • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          Disclaimer: I haven't had KFC in the US but I've had other fast food in the US, and there is a huge difference between American fast food and elsewhere. This story talks about kfc coleslaw outside the US.

          That being said, I don't have much of a sweet tooth, so whenever I rarely eat fast food I don't get ice cream or anything like that. I liked the KFC coleslaw, but I found it extremely sweet, like you know this has more sugar per 100g than some candy bars.

          So naturally, next time I got KFC, I got one of those little mini tubs of coleslaw and ate it after the meal like I would a sundae or some dessert.

          Follow me for more weird food stories and takes

          • culdrought [he/him]
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            2 years ago

            I'm also not in the US. It may be that US coleslaw is just particularly shit

      • leninstoupee [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        I will give it a shot, thanks comrade! I've only ever seen the kind with mayo, even at German-themee restaurants!

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]M
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      2 years ago

      I feel like coleslaw just shows up at parties, picnics, and potlucks. Like it just shows up, nobody brings it. Kind of like those round cylinder containers of table salt. You never see anyone buy them, but they always seem to be in everyone's kitchen.

        • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          I live alone, and there is not a single salt shaker in my house. I always buy sea salt and refill the kitchen salt pig whenever needed. If food in the dining table needs salt, salt pig goes on a journey.

          • leninstoupee [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Hell yeah. Normally I just buy that big diamond salt box and fill a little jar with it. Cheap, flaky kosher salt. But someone gifted me a sea salt cylinder :|.

            Clearly, life is pain.

    • AFineWayToDie [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I don't normally order it, but radioactive green coleslaw was part of my KFC combo and my flashlight was broken.