thrawnWhat petty hill will you die on?
madkarlssonI loathe tomatoes on burgers and will throw it in your face if you serve it to me.
Absolutely pointless taste wise and all that water is what makes the bread and patty move around with no respect for each other.
I disagree completely but I appreciate your candor and, frankly, accurate analysis.
Ooooh them's fighting words. Have you tried a burger with a homegrown tomato? Pretty night and day, might just change your mind.
[Image description: a plate with a burger and sides. The burger is open and ready to be assembled, one bun has sauce and a slice of an heirloom tomato, the other has the patty, cheese, pickles and bacon.]
That’s the ugliest tomato I’ve ever seen on a burger!
Hah! You must broaden your horizons beyond a basic red tomato.
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ChrisFheyThat looks really weird. Not knowing about it, I'd assume the tomato isn't ripe yet in that state.
But I assume it's perfectly ripened and delicious?
But I assume it's perfectly ripened and delicious?
Yes, there are all sorts of tomatoes, coming in various shapes, sizes, and colors. They all have different tastes too, although it is going to taste like a tomato to some degree.
I'm going to look around for something like this where I live. I've only ever come into contact with the "normal" tomatoes, but I'm intrigued.
snooggumsIn addition to color variety, different tomatoes have different textures. A farmer's market is more likely to have a grower who knows the difference than a grocery store with a small heirloom basket where the staff just pit out what they have.
Like some are more firm, or have more juice, and with a lot of variety like apples.
Well that's definitely a tomato I've never seen - wild! My most interesting this year is probably the German Striped but I'm going to have to try those tie-dyes I think
Imo the more fucked up the tomato looks the better it tastes.
Wot_TheEh.. Not always....sometimes they taste the way they look.
Itty53Fresh vs store bought is really a world of difference in tomatoes. Store bought tomatoes are treated with ripening chemicals, making them redden and appear ripe, but they aren't. So they taste bad. We really need a vegetable revolution in the states because for how pretty your local grocery store's produce aisle is, it's not good.
LilkevIdk man, I've heard this sentiment before. So I said fuck it, I'll try a fresh one straight off the vine from my mom's garden, I still hate tomatoes!
See reply here: https://beehaw.org/comment/476775
However, I bet that tomato can be removed and you wouldn't even notice if no one told you
That is exactly why I avoid getting tomatoes on my burgers in restaurants except for when I cook my own, the homegrown tomato has to be there. I am still shocked at how different the taste is.
Does it not taste or feel like you’re eating a tomato? Because those are the parts of eating tomatoes that I don’t like.
While there are differences in textures and flavors, different kinds of tomatoes are like different kinds of apples. Someone might just not like apples or tomatoes and never find one they enjoy, and someone else might only like one or a few types.
All tomatoes will have the firm outside and structure with liquid parts. Even with the variance on firmness and amount of liquid, they are all clearly tomatoes.
Not telling you how to live your life but if I may offer a different perspective: tomatoes can be very flavourful but the ones you buy at supermarkets won't be. Your stance might simply be due to not having had good tomatoes? (which is fine in its own right but I will not stand for tomato slander)
They can be, sure. I enjoy tomatoes otherwise. I can enjoy eating them like an apple or those cute cherry ones as snacks. But generally there are other ingredients on a burger (dressing, cheeses, bacon, whatever) that makes the tomato disappear completely and just become a watery slice of nothing but annoyance.
Tomatoes are fine, just keep them of my burgers.
caffeinePleaseI deem this opinion absolute fact. Unless you're at Louis' Lunch in New Haven, CT, you have no need for a tomato on burger.
Hence ketchup
No, ketchup is wrong. I don't mean on burgers specifically, I mean in general
ag_roberston_authorYou gotta try heirloom tomatoes. Completely different food compared to the waterfilled Beefsteak and Roma varieties you find in the supermarket.
SenorBolsaMan a good tomato could just be eaten on its own with a little salt. Delicious, can't wait for ours to come in, about a dozen different varieties each more delicious and beautiful than the last. 😋
Oh yes a good tomato is "a poem", as we say in German (Gericht=meal and Gedicht=poem sound similar, maybe that's the origin of this? careful, Gericht can also mean court [of law])
I really like that! I knew Gericht as court of law from my very limited German.
Track_ShovelThere is no space between the last letter of a sentence and punctuation.
Please , please , make it stop !
Fun fact: this applies for pretty much every language, except for 50% of French punctuation.
luciole (they/them)This is simply evidence that the English were right.
nlmWait, what?
HubertMannewhy no space after the commas ! ! !
Related, we have modern word processors with kerning. Only one space at the end of a sentence! I always find+replace when folks send me documents to publish with double-spaces.
Don’t get me started. I write really long documents for a living. While I don’t see this issue at work, when I encounter it in the wild, the vein on the side of my neck starts throbbing uncontrollably. Unfortunately, I’m married to a person who thinks the double space at the end of a sentence is a good thing.
Alimony is too expensive, is it?
Double-spacing was taught into me when I was taught typing and I'm never stopping!
Someone also probably taught you that pineapple on pizza was also acceptable. In both cases, they were fucking wrong! :D
Whoa whoa whoa, I'm not THAT depraved!
There is also a space after an ellipsis… like this. Not…like this.
I don’t care if everyone does it wrong, it’s both harder to read (less functional) and it flies against normal punctuation conventions.
Also, don’t get your punctuation inspiration from Japanese games. An ellipsis is three periods, no more. Exclamation mark always goes after question mark. “?!” Japan adopted our punctuation marks and did it their way. If you write in English, do it the English way.
I will return anything sent to me in an Amazon package.
I went directly to your site for a reason, which is to avoid Amazon. If you secretly fulfill from Amazon or Amazon Warehouses, I will return the item and shop elsewhere.
But… a lot of people and businesses reuse boxes.
SuedelticaI will return anything sent to me in an Amazon package.
Ooh, that’s a good one. I might need to adopt this policy.
A Chihuahua is not a legitimate dog, it's a rat with delusions of grandeur.
Th4tGuyIIThat's a disservice to rats, their domestic variety are smarter and better behaved. Least that I've seen
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I don't think they have delusions of grandeur. They legit are afraid of everything, and they pee CONSTANTLY (more like large dribbles, but pee regardless). Oh you're home? Pee. You startled me? Pee. Oh you said something? Pee. You gave me pets? Pee, sometimes while on my back blasting it everywhere. They shake for no good reason. They yap ALL THE TIME. And it's not a noise you can ignore easily. It's high pitched, and surprisingly loud. I hate Chihuahuas so much.
A year or so ago I mostly would have agreed with this but there are exceptions. I had a foster dog who was the opposite of everything I ever imagined about a chihuahua. She was curious about everything instead of afraid, only peed outside or on the piddle pads during training, didn’t shake unless it was actually cold, and didn’t really bark, even when we kept her separate from the rest of the house during the introduction process. She was friendly to any people she met and loved other dogs and cats. She was a quick learner with tricks and desperate to please. She was all-around super chill and honestly I should have kept her and immediately regretted letting them adopt her out. What prevented me from doing so was… my prejudice against chihuahuas and being seen as someone who owned a chihuahua. It was dumb and I regret it and miss her all the time. I hope she is living her best life out there in the world. So hashtag notallchihuahuas! (My neighbors also have some pretty chill chis, but foster Pixie was the shit. Great little dog.)
In the words of Ron Swanson, any dog under 50 lbs is a cat and cats are pointless
I'd tell him but he'd never be able to see the street signs from down there.
MudManThe Oxford comma is bad. The "and" conveys the end of the list just fine.
Gaming laptops are good and have been for decades.
Soup is not food. If you spill your drink over my plate of pasta I call that a ruined plate of pasta.
Desktops are better in almost every aspect by a longshot. They're fully upgradable, can adequately cool the components, and deliver like twice as much power to the processors.
Gaming laptops are perfectly usable but they don't tend to last nearly as long as a good desktop.
Not my experience, at least for a long while. I give away my old laptops as hand-me-downs, and the one I got with a 1070 on it is still in operation, as is the one I got to replace it. The contemporaneous 1080 I was using at the time is in a box gathering dust.
Maybe I had bad luck with brands but none of the gaming laptops I had or used seemed to stay in good shape for more than a few years, while my PCs last over a decade.
The sample size is always going to be very small, even without accounting for things like purchasing habits or type of usage, so beyond the light trolling of this thread it's hard to tell.
I will say that desktop pre-builts are more likely to need some tweaking than gaming laptops, in my experience. The last one I had needed a new case unless you like your CPUs well done instead of medium rare and the one before that was an Alienware that needed a full motherboard replacement halfway through its lifetime (I know about the Alienware thing, but hey, they did send a guy to my place to swap that out, so there, overpriced, overengineered garbage justified).
When I went back to a self-built desktop I ended up with a temperamental motherboard that doesn't like my RAM on XMP on some slots but does on others, and there is some weirdness about the fan curve I can't quite figure out. It's all a crapshoot.
Gaming laptops are harder to troubleshoot by yourself, but on the plus side they tend to be handled on RMA, since they are a self-contained unit. Depending on whether you think that's more or less convenient your mileage may vary on their resilience, I suppose.
I definitely don't hate desktops or anything, but there was the meme of telling people to not buy gaming laptops for a good long while, even from very knowledgable people, even well past the point where gaming laptops on all price ranges had become very competent and versatile. The pet peeve is more with the repetition of the meme than anything else.
Oh, they can deliver plenty of power, for sure.
As much power as a microwave oven, as it turns out. In the form factor of a microwave oven, in fact. Even though gaming laptops will give you most of the performance for a fraction of the wattage.
Fully upgradeable is nice in theory, but in practice I've had just as many upgrade cycles where it turned out one component or another had updated their standards causing a chain reaction of buying an entire new computer. Oh, your CPU socket changed? Well, I guess it's time to update your motherboard as well. What do you mean, you need a 1000w GPU with a different cable to go with that GPU? Oh, that new RAM standard? Yeah, physically different. So about that new motherboard...
I don't know what you mean by Gamings laptops are good. Compared to what? Has there been a rumor that they were bad? I might be missing context. I mean they're obviously not as good as desktops, but they're good considering the size and mobility