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I never cared for it as a kid, but for some reason it's grown on me.
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I never got stuff like that as a kid. Too poor for even the poor people stuff except top ramen. Was probably in my 30s before having any quick stuffings. In my late teens before having a pop tart or anything like it. 99% of that kind of thing I don't like. Some quick and easy stuff like stovetop stuffing is serviceable enough for my needs.
 
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popsicledeath said:
I never got stuff like that as a kid. Too poor for even the poor people stuff except top ramen. Was probably in my 30s before having any quick stuffings. In my late teens before having a pop tart or anything like it. 99% of that kind of thing I don't like. Some quick and easy stuff like stovetop stuffing is serviceable enough for my needs.
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Were you a no frills kid? We lived off this stuff, because fuck you, I know what corn looks like, I don't need no fucking picture

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Were you a no frills kid? We lived off this stuff, because fuck you, I know what corn looks like, I don't need no fucking picture

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Hah yeah had some no label stuff.

Just very poor up in the hills. Like no electricity and without generators and satellite dishes like some neighbors poor. We had the "government" cheese that wouldn't melt and peanut butter in the tin where it would crust around the edges of the opening so getting any out was like playing that board game Operation.

My mom hated that shit, though, so we mostly just ate a lot of real food. Rice and beans and potatoes and stuff. Corn bread in cast iron made on the wood stove. The irony is we were too poor for all the convenience foods that poor people seemed to afford, so were pretty healthy.

I remember eating steak and burritos with avocado and sprouts, though, because that was just food. And my depression era grandma who was a windower on a fixed income but who ate out a lot and got a lot of TV dinners actually weeped because being able to eat an entire avocado with dinner was so extravagant.

Good lessons. Can't afford to eat out much now and have to bargain shop, but eating like a king compared toost people I know making way more money. I'm so poor now I feed beef roast to my dog because it ended up being cheaper than the good dog food that wasn't always being recalled. Fucking bizzaro world all around.
 
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popsicledeath said:
Hah yeah had some no label stuff.

Just very poor up in the hills. Like no electricity and without generators and satellite dishes like some neighbors poor. We had the "government" cheese that wouldn't melt and peanut butter in the tin where it would crust around the edges of the opening so getting any out was like playing that board game Operation.

My mom hated that shit, though, so we mostly just ate a lot of real food. Rice and beans and potatoes and stuff. Corn bread in cast iron made on the wood stove. The irony is we were too poor for all the convenience foods that poor people seemed to afford, so were pretty healthy.

I remember eating steak and burritos with avocado and sprouts, though, because that was just food. And my depression era grandma who was a windower on a fixed income but who ate out a lot and got a lot of TV dinners actually weeped because being able to eat an entire avocado with dinner was so extravagant.

Good lessons. Can't afford to eat out much now and have to bargain shop, but eating like a king compared toost people I know making way more money. I'm so poor now I feed beef roast to my dog because it ended up being cheaper than the good dog food that wasn't always being recalled. Fucking bizzaro world all around.
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My mom used to save all the bacon grease, so we always cooked up our eggs, potatoes, etc in it, was great. We'd also mix up some flour, water, and salt and fry it up in bacon grease as a kind of toast to have with the eggs. She had some of her mothers depression era recipes like putting spaghetti and ground beef in a skillet and adding some tomato soup. We called it amateur spaghetti and it was actually really good.
 
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popsicledeath said:
Hah yeah had some no label stuff.

Just very poor up in the hills. Like no electricity and without generators and satellite dishes like some neighbors poor. We had the "government" cheese that wouldn't melt and peanut butter in the tin where it would crust around the edges of the opening so getting any out was like playing that board game Operation.

My mom hated that shit, though, so we mostly just ate a lot of real food. Rice and beans and potatoes and stuff. Corn bread in cast iron made on the wood stove. The irony is we were too poor for all the convenience foods that poor people seemed to afford, so were pretty healthy.

I remember eating steak and burritos with avocado and sprouts, though, because that was just food. And my depression era grandma who was a windower on a fixed income but who ate out a lot and got a lot of TV dinners actually weeped because being able to eat an entire avocado with dinner was so extravagant.

Good lessons. Can't afford to eat out much now and have to bargain shop, but eating like a king compared toost people I know making way more money. I'm so poor now I feed beef roast to my dog because it ended up being cheaper than the good dog food that wasn't always being recalled. Fucking bizzaro world all around.
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how you not know about ebt lobster?
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Now I have to weigh in. I love stuffing. Bloody love it. When I make it. I use home-made bread, and the other options are unlimited. Make your own stock, include a fruit like craisins or dried apricots, pic your protein, beef? sure. Pork? you bet! Venison? even better! Then you add whatever else you want. Onions, leeks, whatever. It's the dish that is never the same twice, and each time you make it you figure out how to make it more to your taste. It's a fantastic model recipe.
 
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how you not know about ebt lobster?
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I love that the recipe says "life is full of choices ..."

We got free government cheese and stuff through the school for a short time, but she hated the "welfare queens" and people abusing food stamps. Would say we were poor, but not trash. She never took a cent of welfare or food stamps despite maybe at times she probably should have. I remember being in line at the grocery store and people with food stamps buying stuff that looked pretty tasty and I was probably looking at my mom like any number of black boy memes


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If I were to start making more sandwich loaf bread in bulk to freeze, what would the best method of slicing it in a fast and even way? Those bagel guide holders? A cheap spin blade slicer? Just do it by hand and hope to get good enough? Gotta be some Amazon gadget.
 
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popsicledeath said:
If I were to start making more sandwich loaf bread in bulk to freeze, what would the best method of slicing it in a fast and even way? Those bagel guide holders? A cheap spin blade slicer? Just do it by hand and hope to get good enough? Gotta be some Amazon gadget.
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i have a deli slicer and slicing a whole loaf seems impractical

this bald dude tries it and at the end it still seems annoying (the way you slice it "falls" down like a slinky which is good for deli meats but annoying for breads cuz it gets "caught")
(he's also doing a side to side motion if thats for the camera or not? you really should be doing a push/pull turn the deli slicer 90degrees and use the natural motion of your shoulder)
i'd get one of those bread guides on amazon,

i'd probably say don't get one where they have variable thickness
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cuz if you put the loaf on there and start slicing, you'd have a bunch of various thickness and you know it's silly to stop midway and flip it around

get one w/ uniform sizing, imo.

of course they have a home auto slicer, but it's impractical, lulz
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C'mon, that 500$ bread slicer would look amazing next to your 300$ rice cooker
 
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There's a $220 hand crank bread slicer that gets good reviews. But wtf. I guess the expression best thing since sliced bread is apt because good slicing methods are expensive and seem rare according to reviews.
 
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Now I have to weigh in. I love stuffing. Bloody love it. When I make it. I use home-made bread, and the other options are unlimited. Make your own stock, include a fruit like craisins or dried apricots, pic your protein, beef? sure. Pork? you bet! Venison? even better! Then you add whatever else you want. Onions, leeks, whatever. It's the dish that is never the same twice, and each time you make it you figure out how to make it more to your taste. It's a fantastic model recipe.
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I appreciate the enthusiasm but stuffing just doesn't do it for me like it does for you. I'm apathetic. Mostly because I'm just not much of a bread enthusiast. Very rarely eat it in any form.
 
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popsicledeath said:
There's a $220 hand crank bread slicer that gets good reviews. But wtf. I guess the expression best thing since sliced bread is apt because good slicing methods are expensive and seem rare according to reviews.
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at that point just use a miter saw
 
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Lanx said:
at that point just use a miter saw
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You might as well just use a bread knife then. That thing is like 30 miter saws at once!
They're common in euro grocery stores. Buy a whole deli loaf then pop it into the machine at the store so it doesn't have to sit around all sliced up getting stale. Pretty handy if you're going to eat it quickly, if not, cutting it as you need it will keep it fresh longer.

Also, gypsies will fill shopping bags with the mountain of bread crumbs to throw out for the pigeons and seagulls. This manages to cause a truly impressive display of mass-bird-hysteria that I probably wouldn't have believed possible if I hadn't watched it happen many times. (That's probably not in the feature list, but a definite selling point imo!)
 
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lurkingdirk said:
Now I have to weigh in. I love stuffing. Bloody love it. When I make it. I use home-made bread, and the other options are unlimited. Make your own stock, include a fruit like craisins or dried apricots, pic your protein, beef? sure. Pork? you bet! Venison? even better! Then you add whatever else you want. Onions, leeks, whatever. It's the dish that is never the same twice, and each time you make it you figure out how to make it more to your taste. It's a fantastic model recipe.
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I agree that it would make for good stuffing, except the fruit. The wife does, but just doesn't work for me. I don't like bits of it in a savory dish, don't mind it for a glaze / sauce or marinade though. Pretty sure a lot of medieval recipes always had fruit in them.

The way I look at stuffing is that it's meant to use up whatever old ass bread you have that's simply not edible on it's own. Same thing with bread pudding. Now you can add all this stuff to make it palatable. Personally I wouldn't go out of the way to make a whole bunch of bread just so I can turn around and turn it into stuffing, I would just enjoy all of those things fresh. Yeah if I had leftovers of it sure I would repurpose it into stuffing. Off cuts of meat, sure throw it in. We used to make a cornbread stuffing with shrimp and andouille, it's delicious, but it's almost a main vs a side.

I'm sure though if you crafted every component homemade and put it together, it's delicious but that's a hell of a lot of work, and isn't supposed to be the star of the show if you're doing a big fancy holiday meal, that's normally your centerpiece of whatever bird or roast you've got going.

We don't eat it often enough though so I'm happy to stick to doctoring up the box. Now if I'm going to a larger gathering and was tasked to bring a side, then I would probably go all I'm trying to make the best from scratch stuffing I could possibly do.
 
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I agree that it would make for good stuffing, except the fruit. The wife does, but just doesn't work for me. I don't like bits of it in a savory dish, don't mind it for a glaze / sauce or marinade though. Pretty sure a lot of medieval recipes always had fruit in them.

The way I look at stuffing is that it's meant to use up whatever old ass bread you have that's simply not edible on it's own. Same thing with bread pudding. Now you can add all this stuff to make it palatable. Personally I wouldn't go out of the way to make a whole bunch of bread just so I can turn around and turn it into stuffing, I would just enjoy all of those things fresh. Yeah if I had leftovers of it sure I would repurpose it into stuffing. Off cuts of meat, sure throw it in. We used to make a cornbread stuffing with shrimp and andouille, it's delicious, but it's almost a main vs a side.

I'm sure though if you crafted every component homemade and put it together, it's delicious but that's a hell of a lot of work, and isn't supposed to be the star of the show if you're doing a big fancy holiday meal, that's normally your centerpiece of whatever bird or roast you've got going.

We don't eat it often enough though so I'm happy to stick to doctoring up the box. Now if I'm going to a larger gathering and was tasked to bring a side, then I would probably go all I'm trying to make the best from scratch stuffing I could possibly do.
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Bread pudding is food from the gods. Add a whiskey sauce and I'm in heaven.
 
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Bread pudding is food from the gods. Add a whiskey sauce and I'm in heaven.
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It's such a versatile dessert, and you don't really need to have many things on hand to make one taste good. Plus the benefit of using old French bread and like you were saying earlier if you've got leftover homemade bread I'm sure it'll be even better. You can use up old or frozen fruit, just need some butter eggs and dairy. Whiskey's good but I really a good sweet spiced rum, but both help make a delicious sauce.
 
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I think we've found lurkingdirk's weak spot: amorphous blobs of carbs bound together by proteins.
 
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Korean style spaghetti and meatballs. Very tasty. Nice bit of heat.

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