I don’t know about y’all, but between food quality and food prices I’m basically vegetarian nowadays. (TikTok screencap)

A frying pan with two little slivers of chicken with the caption “The size of my chicken breast after I cut off all the suspicious pieces”

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[–] 52 points 10 months ago (7 children)

The size of supermarket chicken breasts after you cook off all the water padding

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    You gotta buy "air chilled" chicken. Water chilled chicken absorbs lots of extra water and shrinks like that.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    wtf are these. Why would you need to chill a chicken. Are these precooked, then quenched like a sword ?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    This is for raw processed chicken that you can buy at the grocery store. Processing plants need to chill raw meats before shipping to the store. So if you see a pack of chicken breasts, it was either water chilled or air chilled before packing and shipping.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    I don't know about y'all, but between food quality and food prices I'm basically anorexic nowadays. (meirl)

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Beans, rice, lentils, oat meal, almonds, some frozen mixed veggies, and some soy nuggets; that's basically all I eat anymore due to the rising costs of food. And portion control as well because hot damn are costs flying up.

    It's dirt cheap and filling as hell, but damn do I miss going out to eat every weekend with the guys. We only go out once a month now and this last meet up we brought up not going out to eat but doing potlucks instead (which I'm down for for sure).

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm not a vegetarian, but it's very rare that my protein of choice is not pork, ground beef or chicken these days for cost reasons. I'd love to be able to buy steaks every now and then, but it's just not worth it these days.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    Breast reduction surgery.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (19 children)

    AND THEN YOU COOK IT IN A FUCKING TEFLON PAN

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Okay but does that matter? I recently saw a video from Veratasium about teflon and there they mentioned that teflon is too large to be absorbed by the body, it just comes out on the other end. It's the smaller compounds used for producing teflon that are poisoning our water, bodies, and everything else with PFAS. Companies just dumping this poison into our water supply. If this is false I'm open to learn ofc.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    What's wrong with plastic thongs?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Its manufacturing requires relatively large quantities of fairly toxic and also very resistant chemicals. This means that when they enter the environment (and they will), they will poison it for a very long time, with consequences that are not yet fully understood.

    In addition, it decomposes when heated above 260°C and can detach from the pan and get into your food. Keep in mind that almost all oils start to smoke well before reaching this temperature, so you should be able to tell when you've just ruined your pan.

    In my opinion: hot stainless steel and a little butter will prevent food from sticking. This requires a (easy to learn, but still) technique, but once you got it, you can enjoy your stainless steel pan for basically forever.

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    [–] 22 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    You should be put in food jail. That's food waste I cannot accept. A living being has been raised and slaughtered to accommodate you and you throw it away due to perceived funny ness? Where do you get your meat that that's even a thing and why do you keep shopping there? Either it is all good or it is rotten. "Fresh" Meat is not sufficiently dry and solid to separate good and bad bits.

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    The way lemmy comments go full snark in the meme comms (which is 90% of lemmy comms) deserves a psych research grant.

    memes are shitposts, yet half the comments are "not a meme, not a shitpost, you're wrong!"

    chill

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago

    I mean I don't think it's that deep. Can a joke not inspire conversation? Like, can a person not understand the levity, laugh, and then go "but really since you bring up the topic..."?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    We lack broad social awareness of our relationship as digital neighbors. If anyone feels a narcissistic whim to rage rant, we should have a system like captcha on 4chan, only it forces the person to make a post in order to add the comment based on sentiment analysis. Everyone should be subjected to experiencing the effort required to make a post and specifically the toll of negativity and rage comments. The narcissistic negativity leads to the situation proven by the Prisoner's Dilemma whereby everyone is brought down and suffers stagnation, regression, or collapse. ALL negative feedback systems are incapable of producing positive outcomes. So negativity directed at strangers on the internet is just shitting on everyone and especially the targeted victim of the abuse. It reflects a person without any real independent morality or ethics, when anonymity allows them to remove the masked cosplay of real world social pressures, and reveal the true ugliness of the raw person that resides within.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Amen. Lately we've started buying whole rotisserie chickens. There's so much meat! I make sure I scrape the neck, the ribs, get all the brown meat around the spine and inside the ribcage, get that liver, there's so much to eat. One chicken feeds the whole family of four, and then two people for lunch the next day. All for like 7 dollars.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe it's a vegetarian thing but I almost never have to worry about eating stuff that's off. Unless there's visible mold on it, so long as it passes the sniff test and sometimes taste test if I'm feeling a little suspicious I'll eat anything that's been in the fridge over a week without any noticeable consequences.

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I eat all the chicken except the feathers and beak.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Does your dad know you are on social media?

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