Fucking love halloumi

I’m not quite sure why I ever used to have such an objection to it, it’s great. Particularly nice if it’s charred corn.

It’s also a pretty common lighting choice in just about any office building or commercial entity. When you’re as big as a giant fast food franchise, I can see the likelihood someone might have done the research necessary to conclude it was worth getting this lighting specifically to avoid sleeping customers and staff but I think it’s also quite likely they’re just cheap.

Gotta love pub grub.

Is that including the r/Australia main sub? I didn’t go there very often because, well, it’s just going to parochial at best but it was somewhere I’d see the occasional top post now and then. I probably first ever visited it and spent any time there around 2013 and it was weird man. It was so hardcore right-wing and overly political that it was impossible to browse it functionally, if I actually waded in on anything explicitly political in nature it was a nightmare. I also even had weirdly innocuous stuff I said just straight up deleted by mods, I’d never up until that point had interaction with any reddit mods so that felt just crazy. That was an abiding and striking memory of the place that I found very odd indeed and weirdly out of step with the experience of reddit in general. One gets used to their bubble and Reddit had always felt like 20-30 something year old male liberal-ish tech enthusiasts so when you accidentally step in to a mixture of a Liberal voter retirees and the One Nation fan club it’s disconcerting. It meant that I was even less likely to ever really see or actively seek anything from that corner of Reddit.

A few years later I returned there, I can’t remember when this would have been but I guess maybe 2018-ish? And then it’d gone a lot more normal. It’s a general forum and there for interaction so I try not to describe and analyse exclusively through the lenses of 2 dimensional political leanings but it’s useful here and I think it was accurate to say, it’d settled on a mainstreamish slightly left of centre type of crowd for most posts where politics featured. This was noted by the occasional disgruntled conservative who disliked having to be in relative minority, but nowhere near the vitriole of before. I always wondered if there’d been a cleaning of house or something, and how that managed to happen if so. I also always wondered where the previous majority of One Nation admirers had scurried off to. Having also quit Reddit a year ago, obviously I’ve not been back and between 2018 and last year I wouldn’t have been in r/australia a great deal anyway, but if it’s gone full Murdoch as your describing I wonder what weird forces were at work to bring it back to its former repellant mix of visitors and moderation policies.

Not gonna lie, I was pretty excited to find out what apple fries were before realising you just sliced up sticks of raw apple and put it on a plate. Looks like a nice sandwich in any case. Got that nice Hotel Food look.

Damn dude knocked it out of the park.

Of all the days to have dedicated a day, pizza day must be among the most deserving. Well done Italy.

Oooh huevos rancheros pizza would be awesome.

Which aspect of this would have been controversial, since you bring it up?

That’s a good idea, but then again, with the effort and labour of making a really good lasagne, you might as well make a big one. For me one of the best things about lasagne is that it keeps on giving. It’s easy to portion, it freezes well, and to a certain extent gets even better with time. Makes a great ready meal once you’ve frozen it too because it microwaves so well whilst maintaining most of what made it great to begin with.

In Australia and the UK we like the skin as well when roasted. We call it crackling.

Tell me more. Not familiar with Danish food.

So what have you got? Looks like a baked potato and I think, fish? How are all the veggies cooked?

Damn dude I want you around to give commentary on everything I do, so encouraging.

What is it? I see toast, scrambled eggs, sausages and a waffle, but I don’t recognise those things that look food-court style sweet and sour pork and whatever that stuff on side the toast surface is .

Call it Eton Mess and suddenly it’s whole-assed.

I hate blue cheese but even I must admit that’s a mighty pretty burger

Goddamn

How do those things work? When I first saw them come in to existence I was under the impression they were just front ends for navigating and playing media in your personal library and storage, like windows media centre used to be, but they seem to be something altogether a lot more capable and complicated. Where does the content come from? Is it streamed?