That sounds like a pretty good combo pizza!

I was hesitant to have Hawiian pizza the first time, but I instantly liked it. I soon changed it up though to get bacon instead of ham so it adds crunch and smokiness.

Korean fried chicken sauce is also good on pizza.

We come up with some particularly interesting ways to execute lobsters, that’s for sure. I’m not sure we dispatch any other food animal in so many ways.

Lol always a possibility. I’ve tried both a few times to give them a fair shake, and while I taste amazing flavor elements in both those things, the cons just always outweigh the pros. 😅

Yes, no matter what flavor enhancer you’re adding to a dish, once it starts replacing the actual flavor of the main ingredient, you’ve gone way too far!

Extreme hot sauces, over hopped beers, etc

All the chain chicken joints (Popeyes, Bojangles, Dave’s, etc) taste so salty as it is, but KFC is off the charts too salty for me to enjoy.

The best fried chicken (for me) is actually from a gas station chain here, Royal Farms, which I coincidentally had tonight!

I still wouldn’t put it as an S-Tier food or anything, but I think it’s well ahead of the bigger brands, and especially KFC.

I see truffle fries most commonly, and I’ve taken to calling them “pig stink fries” in reference to the horny truffle finding pigs. 😁

Nice to randomly bump into you again btw, I haven’t seen a comment from you in a bit!

I’ve had lobster pot pie at 2 different places this year and thought both were amazing. No smashing required, and while lighter than a hearty shepard’s/cottage pie, they really hit the spot!

Also tried stone crab on our honeymoon this year, and though the shell lives up to its name, some things can be worth the effort!

If you get crustaceans out at a place, you can usually ask them to give it a few whacks in key locations with their big ass knives and then the bulk of the work is done for you.

Anything “truffle” I’ve ever been offered smells absolutely terrible to me. While not near as powerful as durian, the smell and taste give me a bit of that vibe.

Perhaps it’s all just been fake truffle oil type crap and real shaved truffle is amazing, but nobody’s ever given me any of that or inspired me to try it.

Lobster High Pressure Processing

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There are now machines that will remove the lobster meat from the shell without cooking it, so you can have 100% of the edible stuff with no shell bits.

It comes at a premium, but if speed and a hassle free experience are what you’re after, the tech exists!

Caves are another great example! Being near the Appalachians, I’ve been to a bunch and there’s always a part of the tour that shows where people used to just bust off stuff for souvenirs, touch stuff and mess up the continued growth of the cave, burn marks from fires, etc. People just don’t seem to consider then accumulated impact of everyone using through doing the same exact thing.

You’re in a cave for crying out loud! You can’t get much more exemplary of how small actions of time cause significant change even to solid rock!

Most of the birding groups I follow will take down posts sharing locations of rare bird sightings for this exact reason. Some people are just jerks doing it for the clicks, but everyone has a desire to catch that one rare animal they never thought they’d have a chance to photograph, and then there are hoards more with the same thoughts, and people get caught up in their own moment. One person doing something dumb or intrusive usually isn’t so bad, but when you start getting dozens/hundreds of people with the same poor decisions going to one specific place, well, you end up with the rare frogs now becoming ultra-rare frogs.

I get most of my stuff from Facebook. Since most of you refuse to go there, it really keeps my content fresh 😁

More seriously, since most of my stuff is from non-profits and photographers, it’s still the number one place these people share their stuff since it’s free, easy, and has a built in wide audience.

Other than that, I look for owls in the Google news page once a week, I look up old research papers or read books, I volunteered at a rehab clinic to learn more and get photos and stories, and I go to events and talk with people that work with owls.

I think the most important thing is that I’m genuinely interested in the subject, so even if social media vanished tomorrow, I would’ve stop doing anything I do to source content, I just wouldn’t be posting. I just post because I think you guys will like it and hopefully donate or volunteer yourselves.

This is the main resistance I see. I thought I’d be boring in the beginning. I didn’t know much about the subject I began to post about. But from continuing to interact, I learned more about the subject, and I learned what the people I was talking to liked more or liked less.

If you’re just being yourself and talking about things you’re interested in, you’re gonna be fine. People here are pretty chill, so if you’re not spouting outright lies or antagonizing people, there isn’t anything to worry about.

I don’t know how those people do it. Putting out stuff every day for one community keeps me as busy as I’d want to be.

I just watched the first episode of the most recent series of Black Mirror and it was this too.

Implant had range limitations, premium tier to avoid you randomly shilling products, constantly increasing subscription fee, etc.

I am glad you got something important out of reading it! I hope you don’t either. ❤️ 🦉

Huh now that you say that, I had felt they seemed “rushed” but I thought maybe he was just testing more brands at once and trying to keep the videos the same length.

My wife absolutely hates his voice, even at standard speed, to the point she leaves the room. 😄

Not only is he semi-local so I get to see landmarks I recognize, but he’s so calming when many creators try to be 90s levels of extreeeeeme these days. Also lots of his repair/resto/DIY stuff is affordable, he gave us Decent Sampler, and the weird and homemade instruments he often uses are actually musical, not the weird ambient beeps, boops, and screeches many channels feature.