• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    22
    edit-2
    9 days ago

    Step 1: Wear a ski mask
    Step 2: Shoplift?
    Step 3: ???
    Step 4: Profit?

    (Step 3 is getting caught and becoming a prison slave 🙃; So yes “Profit” just not for you)

  • themeatbridge
    link
    fedilink
    299 days ago

    Look, I enjoy good butter, too, but are you cooking with it? You probably won’t notice a difference if you switch to a generic.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        59 days ago

        Do people really see kerrygold as a premium option? I haven’t bought butter in a long time, but I always saw kerrygold as overpriced mass market shit.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          109 days ago

          Lol, clearly you haven’t been shopping at budget places in the US. The competition is Land O Lakes, “I can’t believe it’s not butter”, or store brand.

          Where are you buying your butter, and what brand?

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            99 days ago

            Good butter straight from a dairy farm is super dangerous though. You can suddenly find yourself standing in your kitchen, no memory of the last 45 minutes, the fridge door open, a greasy knife in your hand, breadcrumbs all over the floor, and half the butter gone. Gotta be careful with that stuff.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          2
          edit-2
          8 days ago

          I do. I’ve had it on my bagels and it’s noticably tastier than with regular store brand butter. I usually don’t get it because it’s like 4x the price.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          28 days ago

          Well, we’re talking about mass market, supermarket butters in the first place here. Nobody is comparing these to boutique shop butters.

          Beyond that, for me personally, I’ve always considered Kerrygold to be a very decent, better than Land O’ Lakes or store brand butter, but I have a preference for either Plugrà or Lurpak in my supermarket-available butter. Finlandia is also very good.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            1
            edit-2
            8 days ago

            Hmh. Maybe I phrased that wrong. The one I had is also mass market, in the sense that they’re in quite a few supermarkets in several regions of one country.

            Kerrygold is just ludicrously mass market, being available in a lot of supermarkets in over 100 countries.

    • Obinice
      link
      fedilink
      79 days ago

      I dunno, that looks like the USA and their butter sucks, man. It’s not even yellow, and they sell it in “sticks”. I was so glad to find Kerrygold there.

      That’s decent stuff that I use on the regular.

    • Jo Miran
      link
      fedilink
      79 days ago

      Given the rest of the grocery list, I think it is unlikely that cooking will be involved.

      • ggppjj
        link
        fedilink
        English
        189 days ago

        I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it’s in. Really frustrating to taste it in otherwise sugary drinks, like some of the Monster flavors.

        For reference, I also think cilantro tastes like soap. No clue if that’s an indicator or not.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          119 days ago

          does drinking things with sucralose make your mouth have an aftertaste like carbonated and sweet vomit? if yes then i think i have the same thing

          • ggppjj
            link
            fedilink
            English
            79 days ago

            It’s very distinct. I wouldn’t call it vomit, but it’s a lingering chemical-ey taste.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              49 days ago

              yes exactly! in another comment i described it as a sweetened and carbonated bathroom potion made by a 6 year old. i shorthand that taste to vomit because it reminds me of how doing that little puke into your mouth after a big meal feels like…

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          29 days ago

          I think they reformulated Coke Zero and got rid of the sucralose. It uses aspartame and acesulfame potassium.

        • Schadrach
          link
          fedilink
          English
          18 days ago

          I think I have a mutation in a taste bud or something, but Sucralose is really a prominent and nasty taste to me in anything it’s in.

          The only artificial sweetener I get a nasty aftertaste from is saccharine. But I get a really absurdly foul aftertaste from saccharine, I can’t even compare it to anything because it’s easily the worst thing I have ever tasted in my life and I can’t think of anything even sort of similar. Glad basically nothing uses it any more, but it was more of an issue as a type I diabetic kid decades ago. Sucralose doesn’t give me an aftertaste at all though, neither does aspartame or acesulfame potassium.

          My preferred sweetener though is stevia (I used to go to the local new age shop and buy just dried stevia leaves for my tea and such during the time it was legal to sell in any amount for any purpose as an herbal supplement so long as you didn’t mention it had a flavor which turned it into an unsafe food additive because fuck NutraSweet corp). It took such a ridiculous time to get approved because of NutraSweet, when stevia really should have fallen under GRAS status for the same reason things like tomatoes did - New World plant used in food forever by the natives, but wholly new to Europeans when they came to the Americas.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        89 days ago

        pepsi max genuinely makes me want to vomit. i once only had the option to take a pepsi max at a KFC, took a few sips and felt so disgusted i didn’t even want to eat anymore. threw it out, packed my food, and went to buy a coke on the way home

        are my taste buds broken? or do people really like the flavour of what i can only describe as a 6 year old’s bathroom potion of various chemicals, died black, sweetened, and carbonated

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          119 days ago

          I recently discovered that there is a similar taste reaction to aspartame than there is to cilantro. It doesn’t taste like soap, but it tastes awful to some people. I can’t drink any sugar-free or diet drinks as they all taste horrific to me

        • Laurel Raven
          link
          fedilink
          29 days ago

          Well, you did just describe my experience with diet Pepsi pretty well…

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        5
        edit-2
        9 days ago

        I hear this but I don’t understand. All diet soft drinks taste absolutely disgusting to me. I’ve had both Coke Zero and Diet Coke and both have that disgusting fake sugar aftertaste.

        I either get non-Diet soft drinks or I go flavored sparkling water. I can’t do that fake sugar shit. It’s nasty.

        But the one exception for me is that I put fake sugar in my coffee. The bitter aftertaste of the coffee helps mask the aftertaste of the fake sugar.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          49 days ago

          ah man to me coke zero has this different flavor it almost tastes like black pepper or something? some kind of zip or zest. while diet coke is def the sweetest. regular coke now (after drinking diet soda for over a decade) or any corn syrup based soda leaves a weird aftertaste that i hate. but when i was younger i hated diet taste! haha

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        29 days ago

        I’m the opposite, I prefer diet Coke and diet Pepsi. Chances are that you don’t like aspartame.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      55
      edit-2
      9 days ago

      Looks like cherry coke zero.

      Coke zero is the best one until you get alcohol involved, then you’re fucking up if you’re not using full fat coke

      Though if the plan is to mix coke with that honey jack maybe the booze is sweet enough already

      • ✺roguetrick✺
        link
        fedilink
        189 days ago

        That stuff is so cloyingly sweet you’d have to mix it with water to approach something drinkable. A true alcoholic would have a handle of dewars white.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          119 days ago

          I’ve used it instead of maple syrup on pancakes while camping. I intended it to just end up as a shit joke at my own expense, fucking around for shits and giggles, but it was legitimately sweet enough to work. Which is honestly pretty disgusting.

        • BlueFootedPetey
          link
          fedilink
          59 days ago

          A true alcoholic would have there favorite drink. But yea, any alcoholic whos preference is liquor is unlikely to be buying a lower strength flavored jawn. Wish I could remember the name of the one liquorice flavored jawn, the fucking exception. Its the regular 40to45 percent, but was flavored. Dirt cheap. Only wrecked ass elder alchos bought it. Ill remember later.

          Worked at the state stores for a couple years.

          Also cheap bourbon > cheap scotch. Fight me.

          • ✺roguetrick✺
            link
            fedilink
            39 days ago

            jagermeister 70 proof or 35 percent abv. Commonly thought of as a knock you out liquor but actually pretty modest.

            • BlueFootedPetey
              link
              fedilink
              38 days ago

              Lol that is the drink i described. Forgive my sleepy morning brain. Thats something I used to drink with the boys when we, well, were looking to not be very mindful of our evening.

              What I had meant was Rumple Minz, a peppermint liquor.

              Again not to gatekeep being a alcoholic. Genrally they drink whatevers in front of them.

              But thats the one flavored liquor they buy by the handful. They were at the cheapest level, a doller a shooter when I worked there.

              Honestly probably great for cheap holiday mixed drinks tho.

            • Laurel Raven
              link
              fedilink
              39 days ago

              Probably more because of how easy it is to drink than raw strength… It’s way easier to put away a bunch of 70 proof sweetened liqueur than the same amount of alcohol worth of 80+ proof hard liquor, very easy to not realize how much you’ve had until way too late

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        29 days ago

        Switching from beer to Coke Zero + rum/vodka for my drinks lost me a little weight. So much better for calorie counting.

      • circuitfarmer
        link
        fedilink
        29 days ago

        Disagree hard. Diet and Zero are sweeter than full fat coke. It comes out more with alcohol.

      • Laurel Raven
        link
        fedilink
        19 days ago

        I’m pretty sure that’s regular Coke zero, unless they’ve changed the packaging again

        But yeah, something about the artificial sweetener just doesn’t work with alcohol

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      79 days ago

      Technically most coke is “sugar free” in the strictest sense of table sugar versus corn syrup.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    109 days ago

    It’s a lot cheaper if you just make your own moonshine instead. Guy on reddit used to post pictures of his 100L water butt bubbling away, cost something stupidly low to fill it considering the volume, like £25 or something like that. Then he distilled it in batches.

    The entire setup was comically simple too, like plug and play from parts you can easily buy and ingredients you find in any supermarket.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        159 days ago

        It’s definitely dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. As in, “you can die” kind of dangerous.

        But if you know what you are doing, nah, it’s perfectly safe, and kind of easy to do too.

        Probably most definitely illegal in most places too, but if you just shut the f up and don’t blabber about it to everyone you meet or try to sell or give it away, there’s pretty much nothing they can do about it, cause they don’t know about it, and neither does anyone else.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          69 days ago

          Sure, if you don’t know what you’re doing. But, as we eliminate all regulations in the US, we gotta learn how to DIY.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          29 days ago

          This is largely false and due to prohibition era propaganda. You would need to be trying very hard to get enough methanol to be dangerous or deliberately add it.

          • Chris
            link
            fedilink
            28 days ago

            Humans have been distilling for ages, I find it hard to believe it’s that dangerous, especially if you do any research or learning.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        49 days ago

        Sure, but anything that involves drinking spirits by the pint is going to be dangerous so who cares?

        Only illegal if they catch you. He didn’t record his face.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        79 days ago

        Not as cheap as just plain alcohol. But yes, I home brew. Hops and Malt are not cheap, but sugar (insert any fermentable here, rice, cane sugar, corn, potatoes ext…) is.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          69 days ago

          My friend back when i was like 20 used to just brew some stuff using Alcotec TurboYeast and sugar, and then mixed concentrated fruit squash into it. Came out as like 12% and tasted like fruits, cost under 10p/litre. He was popular at parties

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    799 days ago

    I love the juxtaposition of sugar free Coke with sugar added Jack Daniels. Dodging and weaving against diabetes.

    • 3DMVR
      link
      fedilink
      English
      149 days ago

      I just like the taste of coke zero, ill eat candy/dessert still, save the calories id get out of drinking coke, gotta have some vices or you’ll be an uptight bitch

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        99 days ago

        Coke zero is worse for your health. Artificial sweeteners have pretty bad health effects, especially the one used in coke.

        It is heavily suspected of being able to cause, heart issues, and having the counter intuitive effect to actually make your brain want more sugar, because the complete sugar activation mechanism isn’t triggered properly. It is also slightly suspected to cause cancer, although researchers don’t agree at all on this subject.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          149 days ago

          Uhm, source??

          I love how people just feel like artificial sweeteners must be bad for you. They’re okay. Not healthy, but way better than sugar.

          Also: Coke can still be kinda unhealthy, other ingredients etc…

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            3
            edit-2
            9 days ago

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame

            For transparency, here is another page that seems more in favor of Aspartame: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

            Here’s the conclusion of Yuka, which is a lot more on the “alarmist” side: https://help.yuka.io/l/en/article/r2x5e36paq-aspartame (note that the US FDA is considered as really lax compared to some other countries in Europe in terms of additives and health concerns worldwide)

            Many studies show that artificial sweeteners doesn’t help with weight loss at all

            • 3DMVR
              link
              fedilink
              English
              5
              edit-2
              8 days ago

              Having less calories helps? Those ppl they studied likely didnt practice cico and ate more because they thought they saved calories from drinking less soda so they ended up at maintenence or over

              If they studied ppl who thought they were drinking regular soda but it was sugar free than youd see wight loss, but they were aware that it was sugar free and 0 calories so they ate more

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                28 days ago

                The links I listed are only about the artificial sweeteners, not sugar-free sodas

                But the main thing is: it makes you want more sugar, so you’ll end up consuming more, which doesn’t help or even makes weight regulation worse. You’ll end up getting the calories in a way or another, hopefully from good sources though

        • 3DMVR
          link
          fedilink
          English
          78 days ago

          You prob believe vaping is worse than cigs too

          • furry toaster
            link
            fedilink
            English
            68 days ago

            it depends, some vapes are indeed worse than most cigs, i think most can agree with both being bad

            • 3DMVR
              link
              fedilink
              English
              18 days ago

              in what situation is low temp vapor worse than burning smoke and ash in your lungs, ignore the chemicals, which are always better in vapes, even american spirit all natural tobacco have chemicals and aren’t really all natural, tar is always worse

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                38 days ago

                In the situation that you are putting food flavorings in your lungs. Not made to go there… if you’re just vaping pure pg / vg that’s different. Look up popcorn lung for an example of why food flavorings should not be inhaled.

                • 3DMVR
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  17 days ago

                  either way vaping is stupid if youve never smoked, in my case I had gotten into the really bad habit of bong rips with weed and tobacco and vaping made my health a lot better, now I need to taper off the vaping, usually working out helps a lot with that, just staying busy

                • 3DMVR
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  17 days ago

                  Popcorn lung was caused by vitamin e and was only seen through thc black market vapes, it seems you havent done your research, vaping has not been shown to cause popcorn lungs, ive actually seen tons of posts about this on reddit vaping with smarter ppl than me talking about it and posting studies. Cigs do cause popcorn lung. Its more a factory chemical thing tho

                • 3DMVR
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  1
                  edit-2
                  7 days ago

                  Vaping does lead to excessive nic use I think 50mg being the norm is a problem, it was like 5mg when I started at freebase than salt came out and every disposable uses that

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            2
            edit-2
            8 days ago

            Nope. Vaping is so much better (less bad) than smoking. Combustion sucks.

            I suggest you do your research.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            1
            edit-2
            8 days ago

            I’d agree otherwise, else Coke Zero wouldn’t exist I guess.

            Everyone cares for their health, they just think it’s “not that bad”, which it is in a way, but that depends on the level on health and risk you’re willing to have

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              28 days ago

              I’m not a doctor but my understanding of the topic is that it’s pretty clear : any soda is bad.

              Sure, a Coke a week, in a cocktail or otherwise, does not matter much but AFAIK people who buy entire packs (as in the photo) drink sodas at every meal and that’s unhealthy over long term, no matter what brand or type of soda it is.

              So assuming that’s a well known medical fact and people still do it, then one can say they do NOT care for their health, no?

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            38 days ago

            Diet and sugar-free sodas are all marketing BS. It’s all meant to get one to think it’s “healthy” rather than “less terrible”

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        78 days ago

        Shits good though. Got it for free one time and I thought to myself, shit I should always buy this stuff. And never once have I bought it since because I saw the price tags

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    169 days ago

    That stuff would be about $50 or less total in my area, but I wouldn’t buy any of those but the butter.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    149 days ago

    That Tennessee Honey is one of my favorite whiskey drinks. However due to America being a total shit head, I can no longer buy it as I don’t want any of my money going there.

    Anybody got an idea of what a good European drink is to replace it with? I drink it straight or when I want something more mellow I mix with fake DrPepper or fake Red Bull.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      29 days ago

      Have you tried Stag’s Breath Honey and Whisky Liqueur?

      I’m sure there are others. Though liquor laws sometimes stiffle innovation so America tends to have more weird experiments of flavor.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      39 days ago

      Pretty sure Red Bull is Austrian fwiw.

      Anyway, there are lots of Irish, Scottish, English whiskeys. Don’t know about honey flavored ones

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        19 days ago

        Yeah I’m having trouble finding the Honey flavored stuff.

        I use fake Red Bull because I think it’s overpriced, not because it’s not American.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      69 days ago

      Started making my own sloe gin last year, cheapest Aldi gin and then forage for sloes. Fill a large container about half way by volume with the berries and then fill to the top with gin. Seal, turn it to mix a few times and let it sit there for like 3-6 months. Taste and bottle with sugar, quantity depends on how sweet you want it but probably a few hundred g per litre.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          29 days ago

          It’s a bit early in the year to forage for sloe berries. I picked so much when they were in season that I had pretty much filled a freezer shelf. Buying enough gin at once for all that would cost pushing 3 figures. Even at Aldi prices. But at least it should be comfortably over a years supply of berries so that I can restock when they are in season again.

          Building my stockpile of gin so that I can ideally have bottles in rotation, plus it would let the gin age for longer if I have more than a years supply at once. I mean it is gin, it’s not like you go through bottles of it each night.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        29 days ago

        Thanks, I’ll look out for that. Seems like the plain whiskey is available just fine, but the honey stuff is harder to find.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    149 days ago

    I must say, the butter is the only one these I would actually buy. Even then, only if I was going to make toast or something. I use store brand butter for baking.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    63
    edit-2
    9 days ago

    Can’t even afford to be an alcoholic to forget about your money problems anymore in this economy

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      289 days ago

      Unironically. Half the appeal of booze has historically been that its cheap.

      I kinda wonder how much of the decline of high school/college drinking has to do with sticker shock.

      • Da Bald Eagul
        link
        fedilink
        89 days ago

        I mean I’m 20, when I have parties with friends (all my age/1-2y younger) we just split the costs. 5€ each max. And we all have a good time (or throw up, because some of my friends aren’t very aware of their limits lol)

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        169 days ago

        Yep, it’s very easy and cheap to produce alcohol, the only reason it’s expensive now is due to countries adding high excise taxes and the like to alcoholic drinks

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          139 days ago

          Margins on alcohol sales are fairly high, especially with high rates of industry consolidation over the last decade.

          Retail alone collects a 20-30% vig on well standard hard liquor, for instance. Distributors can add another 40%.

          The Gray Goose sticker price of $30 for 750mL includes an excise tax of $2.40 So around 8%, by comparison.

      • 3DMVR
        link
        fedilink
        English
        49 days ago

        Its so expensive to go out now in any city, have to pregame for anything, not spending 30$ on a shot

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    40
    edit-2
    9 days ago

    I work at a grocery store and honestly I didn’t even bat an eye, the first thing I thought about was how to bag it.

    In case you’re wondering if we care about what you’re buying the only (non regular) customer that I remember is one Irish guy who would crack jokes about his ex wife on a roadtrip. Don’t fully remember but my God he made like 4 zingers in a row and I about cried laughing at like 7:30am

    edit: oh and I learned about a new pasta last week, that was cool