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@LexYeen i'm okay with restaurant seating if it's like, full moon barbecue (order at the front, get a number to put on your table) or dreamland barbecue (more traditional restaurant but with the feeling of a bed and breakfast being run out of someone's house, if you can understand what we mean), but jim and nicks gets a little ehhh (a proper sit-down restuarant with fancy menus and stuff????) and beyond that is just, why are you even doing barbecue if you're going to do it like *that*
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@LexYeen we have fairly strong feelings about barbecue apparently

possibly because it's a food that feels kinda "ours"? like we aren't good at making it but it's a cuisine that's unique to where we grew up and one of the first foods we ever *really* enjoyed
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@artemis@vulpine.club @owashii@plush.city @LexYeen the position-momentum thing applies to literally everything, it's a consequence of some fairly simple mathematics
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@LexYeen (oh, when i say barbecue here i mean the actual cuisine barbecue, smoked pulled pork or chicken or brisket with barbecue sauce--i'm not thinking about the community cooking kind of barbecue which is something we personally don't have great associations with as we grew up in the suburbs around a bunch of middle-class white people. the proper barbecue i'm talking about kind of has to be a restaurant thing in the modern world, smoking meats properly like that isn't easy and results in way too much food for a small gathering)
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@owashii@plush.city the pop-tart variety or the toaster strudel variety?
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@LexYeen i have some problems with that definition of fancy, i think? because we like barbecue a lot and one of the big Things about barbecue is that it's Not Fancy--the best barbecue is served on paper or styrofoam plates, often with store-brand white bread

a lot of barbecue restaurants seem to go out of their way to not look fancy, either out of tradition (the whole cuisine kinda started from, and largely still is, a community of poor people) or just because if you walk into a barbecue restaurant and it looks fancy, that just *screams* gentrification
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@owashii@plush.city @astra you might have arrived to fedi too late for it, but there was a meme in the early days about people finding mastodon's UI unintuitive that went something like "likes are now florps and the timeline goes sideways"

i believe cybre.space renamed likes to florps in response to that, and at least one person made a css thing that turned everything sideways
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@owashii@plush.city ocarina of time is a good game, maybe even a great game, but it's not by any stretch of the imagination the best game ever
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@LexYeen of course! i just mean that it doesn't feel fancy when it's like. The thing you'd get home from school and ask your mom to make for dinner when you're twelve

more comfort food than fancy!
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@LexYeen that was just what our mom made occasionally!
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@LexYeen we didn't know ihop had them, makes sense that they specifically would do a version with breakfast sausage and pancakes

growing up for us it was always croissant dough (the premade stuff from pilsbury or store-brand equivalent) wrapped around halved hot dogs
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@LexYeen We're not familiar with a version wrapped in pancakes! always wraapped in pastry for us
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who was your favorite gym leader?
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@dodec I wonder if it would have anything to say about the name Kary in relation to the marilith
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@iBolt07 looks very smug about it too, befitting a ferret who won
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@socks we have the "why would i use an app on my phone when there's also a website" mentality but for a different reason: we would much rather use our laptop for anything over a phone
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@astra i know what you meant but i parsed this at first as vegan+girlfriend bakery
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@b424 being multibodied is absolutely the best thing 💚 I need to write more stuff along those lines
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@Nerts @pup_hime eggnog sometimes also has... i forget what alcohol but one of them. we don't drink.
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@rey what if i like pigs in blankets
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