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Showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s a version of this in China called Longevity Noodles: https://msshiandmrhe.com/longevity-noodles/

The idea is to make one very long noodle to represent a wish for a very long life.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I recently found out about Yard Long Beans... a green bean 3 feet long? Blew my mind, or whatever was left of it.

Huh, so I will go to the gigantic Chinese grocery store near my house and inquire about this. Long noodle : Propserity

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh god, they come in large too?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Three Ladies Brand Rice Stick comes in S, M and L (actually just the diameter...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the canned ones? Or your mom made a weird casserole? (Hot Dish sorry, if you're in Minnesota). It's so different. I haven;' tried the 3 foot long beans yet, but regular green bean cooked fresh - it';s really diferent! The canned ones are mushy and weird. They're like, okays! But REAL green bean is pretty good. They can be toothy. They can be chewy. They can be.... anything you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am against any kind of green bean that is green bean flavored.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

boil them longer! tastes like water and bean fiber, which tastes like uh.... anti-bean. Negates all bean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard people make similar claims about other food I hate. Like tofu. There will still be essence of green bean.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I could do that, or I could not buy them in the first place. I think that might be the better option for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You know what is best, in your heart. I suggest to avoid Noodle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Despite the common name of "yardlong", the pods are actually only about half a yard long, so the subspecies name sesquipedalis (one-and-a-half-foot-long; 1.5 feet (0.50 yd)) is a more accurate approximation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The singular form of spaghetti is called a spaghetto

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also what you call the slums near Little Italy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Disney did ... with Lady and the Tramp

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And of course, in Hot Shots! Part Deux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The face I made when reading this was one of disgust, but honestly I have no reason for that other then knowing it just one long noodle which somehow makes me uncomfortable. Honestly, don't know why.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It’s simply wrong, and we all know it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was what I've wanted all spaghetti to be ever since I saw it in cartoons as a kid. And yet I'm always disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

sluuuuuuuuurp

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a clickbait YouTube video waiting to happen. And now I really want to see it to find out all the logistical issues they'd have to go through to make, cook, and eat a single noodle long enough to reasonably be considered a single plate full of spaghetti.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought maybe you could take a really long noodle and feed it into water, but that would result in one end being overcooked and one end super al-dente. So, I guess, passing the noodle through the water really slowly would work. I'd put it in, then grab the end with kitchen tweezers (you have those, right?) and then move it really slowly through the boiling water.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m just thinking like the cheap ramen packs but it’s just 1 nood all folded on itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am not thinking it may be… it might be just one noodle (?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m sure they are many noodles in those but I don’t know that I’ve ever pulled the noodles out for science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It’s a bunch of noodles, trust me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, your spaghetti has more than one noodle?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Several noodle

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

that’s what cartoons made me think, reality is often disappointing…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Noodle in the singular vs. plural is always sad, unless it's a pool noodle. Then it can be fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd like to see the packaging this noodle would come in

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

they can make the noodle bendy at the factory