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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Users reviews are useless because they’re easily astroturfed for bonkers reasons.

    Critic reviews are useless because they are largely just ads bought and paid for.

    This has forced me to create a new system I like to call “talking to your friends”. If I wanna know if a movie or show is good, I ask Rebecca or Muhammad because they have similar interests to me. If I wanna know if a game is good, I can talk to Eugene or Jake. Is this music any good? Well, Marcy has similar tastes to me but not always so it’s a toss up.

    If I don’t got no friends with that interest, well, time to find a niche online community and start chatting people up.


  • This is kind of ridiculous.

    You can’t win in this country without being a member of one of the two parties. They’ve seen sure to that. In addition, you can’t get the money needed to run a campaign without approval from those parties.

    It’s the parties that decide who is on the ballot, not the people. And it’s the parties who control the purse strings.

    No candidate on the ballot is trying to help the common people. No matter who you choose, it’s not going to help the situation. We can talk about harm reduction or lesser evils all day, but when you choose lesser evil, you’re still choosing evil and the country trends towards more evil. When you’re reducing harm, you’re still accepting some amount of harm, not cure.












  • Yeah, but there are hotter peppers and foods available and the jalapeño is an incredibly mild pepper, it’s barely spicy and not a good comparison.

    Challenge foods and sauces in general tend to also use pure capsaicin extract to really bring home the heat, but this tends to affect the flavor and make it bitter and unpleasant. Foods shouldn’t be “challenging” you to eat them and then artificially raising the stakes. It’s hard enough to get decently hot foods as it is, having to keep an eye out for companies “cheating” by using the pure extract from the peppers is annoying.



  • Didn’t down vote ya, but kvetching about votes ain’t a good look.

    Why? I said in the post, it doesn’t taste good and it artificially makes things spicier, but in an unpleasant, astringent way that isn’t flavorful like hot hot peppers. The manufacturer states they use the Carolina Reaper and the Naga pepper in the chip, but I’ve had it, and it lacks the flavor of those peppers and tastes bitter like other “challenge” sauces that use some amount of pure capsaicin extract.

    It’s easier to get something spicier with pure extract and probably cheaper, but it ruins the taste of the heat.

    Edit: it ain’t about extracts in foods or nothing, it’s not “artificial”, it’s just pure capsaicin from the peppers. It just affects the flavor and experience poorly.




  • Capsaicin extract should be banned from food in general.

    It’s unpleasant and tastes astringent, unlike the capsaicin coming naturally from peppers.

    I’ll regularly eat incredibly spicy foods, I grow Naga, scorpion and ghost chilis, and I love the thrill of these treats, but also the flavor. Capsaicin extract is immediately detectable because the flavor and feel of the heat is different and unpleasant. It isn’t that it’s “too spicy”, it feels bad to eat.

    If your heat doesn’t come from a pepper included in the recipe, it shouldn’t be consumed.