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We get these bastards in early fall...

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Not every woods has them, but the ones that do seem like every two trees had web strung between them. Annoying. I hate webs in my face, and you're always wondering "Where's the spider?"...
 
Just finished a jar of salsa with chips. I didn't want to dirty a bowl, so I just ate out of the sorta widemouth jar. Problem is the jar still isn't wide enough, and I got salsa all over my hand trying to get to the bottom. It would be nice if they put common dippables in ultra widemouth jars so you can just put the thing on the table and be done with it. No extra bowls or anything else. Bonus for doing it old school, and making nice painted jars you can reuse if you choose to. Minimal extra cost, and it leaves persistent advertising in people's houses.
 
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Just finished a jar of salsa with chips. I didn't want to dirty a bowl, so I just ate out of the sorta widemouth jar. Problem is the jar still isn't wide enough, and I got salsa all over my hand trying to get to the bottom. It would be nice if they put common dippables in ultra widemouth jars so you can just put the thing on the table and be done with it. No extra bowls or anything else. Bonus for doing it old school, and making nice painted jars you can reuse if you choose to. Minimal extra cost, and it leaves persistent advertising in people's houses.
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I officially really want this to be a thing. I want "them" to make bowls with lids. Do it stylish, put the ingredients and nutrition facts on a sticker so you're left with just logo/motif/branding. Make collections, or make different shapes that are better suited to different uses after they've been washed. It'll be kinda like gunny sacks back in the day, when companies tried to use the most attractive and stylish patterns so that frontier housewives would reuse them as clothing materials. It made the quality of the contents less relevant than the purpose the container could serve after it was emptied.

It'll help reduce the ammount of trash in landfills, water wasted on dishes and extra hand washings, and the level of guilt I feel when I chow an entire jar of salsa and associated chips for "lunch".
 
I get the sentiment, but the idea of persistent advertising on my table is off-putting.

My rather formal mother, gone 10 years now, would roll in her grave at the idea of putting a jar with a label on it on her table :).
 
Not all labels are the same. Doesn't necessarily need branding at all. The people that bought the product will remember where it came from, and keep the brand in mind. It isn't a new concept, I'm sure you're aware. Jelly and mustard come immediately to mind. I'm sure there's been other things. It's hardly done anymore cause everybody throws everything out. Why not when you can buy more crap from China, somehow for about what it costs to produce.
 
I'd like to watch a professional pecan picker get nuts out of the shell. I want to see how they reliably get nice unbroken hemispheres. Pecans stress me out. You crack the shell, pull a big chunk out of the way, and the meat's *right there*. You think "Alright, I'll have some nice pieces this time!", then reality kicks you in ass, and you're extracting slivers from the shell. Whatever the trick is, I don't know it.
 
Every so often the stars align(maybe 1 out of 20 times), I get a whole nut out, but it's almost always pieces.
 
How are you cracking the shells, John?

The old Southern method is holding two pecans in your fist and gently squeeze then against each other until you get a cracking sound, then rotate them a bit and squeeze to cracking again...rinse and repeat until the shell (usually only one of the shells is breaking, but not always) is well broken all about. Then dissect.

You have to exercise control...you don't want the shells to be smashed, just cracked.
 
I use a nutcracker, and squeeze lengthwise on the nut. Minimal pressure to crack the shell. That usually frees up a sizeable chunk of shell you can pull off, and the meat's right there taunting me. Looks like it'll come right out. Everything goes to hell getting the rest of the shell off, and the meat out. I'll try two nuts together, and see how that works out.
 
My bedroom's probably about 45°(I need to get a thermometer in there to check), but I feel colder when I first take my clothes off for a shower than I do exiting the shower after having hot water poured on me til the heater's empty. I get out of the shower, only half ass dry myself off, then go brush my teeth in the other bathroom, which is probably even a couple degrees colder than the bedroom. Finish that, then get dressed for bed. At no point am I thinking "ZOMG, I'm so cold!".

That contradicts everything I know subjective temperature experience, and is pretty much the sole outlier. I find that interesting.
 
I'm scrolling through lemmy, and see that. I think "Oh, that's interesting". The gears engage, and I'm like "Oh... You guys..." :^D

Got me thinking about what the most complicated solar system could be. I wonder if anything greater than a binary system is plausible assuming planets with a stable orbit?
 
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