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i’m smarter than every doctor and scientist in the world, but can you please break down the correct dosage of horse paste to feed my sick husband in kindergarten terms

afeelgoodblog

Refugee girl skipping on the tarmac with happiness as she arrives in Belgium

alwaysscreechingbasement

deaddolin

tavo-bell

“Aw man! This pie doesn’t taste at all like what grandma use to make! I’m must be a terrible baker:(“

Maybe! Or maybe one of many things might be different from the recipe you’ve been trying to follow

Baking is largely both a science, and bullshit. Anything from the altitude you’re at, or the mosture in the air, or the way you’re measuring ingredients (ie weight vs volume) can effect how your final result of what you’re making will come out. A few examples just in my grandmother’s Apple Pie recipe are

Her recipe calls for Crisco in the crust, but Crisco changed their formula in 2007, effecting the taste and texture of the crusts made, so adjustments have to be made to account for that

The Apple tree in her backyard is gone, and no apples sold commonly in stores are similar to whatever random variety she had, and there are over 7,500 known varieties of apples

Not all flour that you buy from the store is the same, and I’m not just even talking about like. Cake flour vs wheat flour. Even in the US the kind of regular baking flour differs depending on where you live, and where it’s sourced from

So will I ever make that Apple pie I remember fondly from my childhood? Probably not! Just gotta figure out my own thing that works.

I dunno why I made this post at 6am. Just shit to keep in mind next time you’re struggling with an older recipe I guess!

charlottemadison42

Not to mention water.

Not only is water different in different places, water flavor changes over time. The seasons might change your water source. The pipes in a specific neighborhood or even a house can make the water unique. That changes so much about cooking; the trace minerals wind up everywhere, like the fingerprint of a place and time.

Treasure the memories of magical foods of the past, and at the same time, sink energy into finding what works where you are now.

expiredcheese

tailung

marxheadroom-deactivated2024012

One flight can change someone’s course forever SUPPORT A FLIGHT One flight can change someone’s course forever SUPPORT A FLIGHT One flight c

huffylemon

kommunistkaitou

According to my brother, the camera operators are told in advance when they're going to be cut to or at least given a heads-up, so this guy assumed he was safe to use his camera basically as a pair of binoculars bc he wasn't supposed to get the focus. But the person who was switching between camera feeds accidentally cut to his camera by mistake instead of the one that was supposed to be filming, so they ended up televising what was supposed to me one man's private cockroach observation moment.

erinmccomics

Boy heroically puts horse conditioner in princess’s hair without a moment’s hesitation

murderhusbandsshop

It is important to respect our natural spaces. Just ask Hannibal.

Vinyl sticker available on Etsy.

thanatos-girl

The third world is not poor, you don't go to poor countries to make money. There are very few poor countries in this world, most countries are rich! The Philippines are rich! Brazil is rich! Mexico is rich! Chile is rich! Only the people are poor! But there's billions to be made there, to be carved out and be taken. Theres been billions for 400 years! The capitalist European and North American powers have carved out and taken the timber, the flax, the hemp, the cocoa, the rum, the tin, the copper, the iron, the rubber, the slaves, and the cheap labor, they have taken out of these countries. These countries are not underdeveloped, they're overexploited!

Michael Parenti

graceofgosh

Soda was an effervescent corn-based drink that was popular during the height of the American Empire. Regionally known as pop or coke in some provinces, it was prepared by extracting corn sugars into a thick syrup to be mixed with water

guerrillatech

chillgamesh-the-swing

Don't forget you have none of the benefits of wetland plants (cooling, regulated evaporation, food and habitat for wildlife), when the canals go stagnant they breed tons more mosquitoes because they don't support the amphibians that eat them, it's no longer an accessible water source for bigger wildlife, storm water is faster and more dangerous in a straight channel than in a natural stream, the concrete and the speed prevent water from infiltrating into the soil and maintaining the aquifer... I could go on.