They're MAKING TOASTS
@Shelter Aiiiieeeee why would you do that.
@Shelter @lenaoflune The ice cream makes sense if you think about it. That's about it
@Shelter that's the only way to eat it.
FYI, we have plenty down here.
I buy whole milk everything including cottage cheese and yogurt and the full fat cottage cheese is hit or miss here
@Shelter Yeah? I don't bother with the 2% or skim either. And not FL brand. Got some Breakstone's in the fridge.
@Graci
I buy FL 4% when nothing else is on sale.
If any 4% is available.
Currently have Breakstone's because it was on sale but really like Daisy, too.
@Shelter I've become a large curd fan recently.
@Graci
Me, too.
Probably because it's all our FL has.
@Graci
It's been my first morning protein for a ridiculous amount of years.
Shove it into face while drinking coffee so things don't get weird.
It's handy.
@Shelter I remember the first time me ex and now my wife both saw me putting pepper on cottage cheese. Lol
Sometimes I put Montreal Steak Seasoning on it just for the giant pepper and salt chunks.
Gotta have black pepper on cottage cheese.
@Shelter ooh. Montreal. Never tried that. Interesting.
@Graci
I use large ground black pepper anyway, so this is like a treat.
Stir it in, nom.
My husband is a canned peaches on cottage cheese person. I didn't grow up that way. No sweet. Only savory.
@Shelter Sweet is fine. After pepper, then plain.
@Graci
When I had lunch at my grandparents' house it was invariably a cup of Campbell's Manhattan clam chowder, a small bowl of cottage cheese with salt and pepper, and OTC oyster crackers for the clam chowder.
@Shelter My parents lived NE clam chowder. I preferred anything but seafood.
It's really hard to find those crackers here.
@Shelter I haven't given them any thought in years. I love them on a corn chowder. Wife hates chowders
They're super by themselves with horseradish.
@Shelter ooh! I haz horseradish.
@Graci
So good for scooping and shoving it into your maw.
Aldi’s always has it.
@Shelter Literally why we can't have nice things
Lobster - garbage of the sea that only poor people ate.
Suddenly -!!!
@Shelter Chicken wings. Used to be the part that rich folks didn't want. Could get 'em for 13¢/lb.
@Shelter Most of the best foods were created out of necessity. The ability to take cheap staples and turn them into truly flavorful things that people are happy to eat day-to-day is basic survival for the poor. Eventually the rich got a taste, realized that it was better than the "fine" stuff they were eating, and started paying attention to what the rest of us were eating.
@aspecurian @Shelter Brisket is in that category right?
I had a delicious Arby's Smokehouse for lunch.
Oxtails are one of the more recent.
They got jacked up.
"According to the USDA’s National Monthly Grass Fed Beef Report, beef oxtail has risen in price from a little over $9 in January 2018 to nearly $14 per pound. Most oxtail recipes involve about 4 to 5 pounds of oxtail "
https://www.today.com/food/trends/oxtail-price-gentrification-black-history-rcna72053
@Shelter @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN I can't wait to see what is next. Dried legumes are still sort of cheap; let's hope the rich don't get a hankering for 15-bean and ham hocks. We're already paying 5 times what they cost in the 90's.
Cheap ramen that used to be 5/$100 is now 79¢ a package at my grocery store.
@Shelter @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN I remember paying 12¢ for Maruchan, which is a step up from Nissin "Top Ramen."
I feel old.
Yep.
Maruchan.
79 damn cents
@Shelter @SECRET_ASIAN_MAN Capitalism ruins everything.
@aspecurian @Shelter mmmm, black eyed peas and ham hock. Yumm, takes me back to Virginia in my youth.
@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN @Shelter Black eyed peas definitely need the flavor from the hocks. Alone, they taste like dirt.
@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN @Shelter Absolutely.
Barbecue is a great example of great food coming from "less desirable" ingredients. Tough cuts of meat? Cover it in spices and cook it slowly for a day or so.
They're taking my breakfast.
Cottage cheese. Bowl. Salt and pepper.
Spoon.