Modern Vespa

Oops. (I know what you did here.)

No, just a typo.

A Freudian slip is when you mean one thing but say your mother.

And here I thought is was an undergarment worn by cross-dressers

S'mores are waaay overrated. The chocolate never actually melts and graham crackers are just kind of meh. At some point someone thought by adding honey to sawdust they could sell them as a food product.

They are difficult and messy to eat and the ROI just isn't there. They're worse than bone in chicken wings. Another hot take, but a fair comparison.

In my life I have never had a s'more, so that Hot Take doesn't surprise me.

Yup.
I dated a very lovely American girl way back and this was one of the uncrossable cultural divides.

While I am not arguing in favor of the actual taste of s'mores, I think you are both missing the point of them. I don't think they were ever supposed to be a culinary masterpiece. Making s'mores is a shared experience (friends and family), with a specific context (camping, the great outdoors, etc). The process of building a fire. Finding appropriate sticks for the marshmallows. Whittling the sticks so they are appropriately pointy with your trusty pocketknife. Roasting the marshmallows and (in all likelihood) setting them on fire. Eating hot marshmallows (!) and assembling them into goopy sweet graham sandwiches.

Together.

Or, to put it another way, the journey is the reward. If you got bogged down in the actual finished product, then you weren't paying attention to the process by which you arrived at that finished product and the people who were with you for the journey.

Yeah, I'm all about the process. I love the camping, the building of the fire, even the roasting of the marshmallows on carefully crafted sticks. Because I love toasting marshmallows over the fire. And I really like chocolate. But the graham cracker addition is like wrapping it up in an old pizza box that explodes in your hands and leaves a crumbly mess on your lap, all the while making the marshmallow taste worse.

Honestly, I prefer almost anything else on the fire over s'mores. Last night we had a fire in the chiminea on the patio, roasted hot dogs and listened to the Moody Blues. I enjoyed the company of the fam, a Bells Big Hearted Ale and the sunset after a very busy weekend. We even followed the suggestion of a friend and tried making the s'mores with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups instead of just chocolate. I didn't like them any better.

Next time it will be hobo pies instead, for sure.

Well bless your heart.

OFG

Yeah, I know what that means down Alabama way.

The only legitimate use for celery is as a vehicle for peanut butter delivery.

Definitely!

Adult with teef shouldn't have to eat bananas.

And the garnish for your morning Bloody Mary.

OFG

I hate to be the grammar nazi but why are you not using plurals?

If large enough, one is plenty.

OFG

You may or may not believe it but I invented that.

Celery or peanut butter?

PB's origin:

A peanut sat on a railroad track,
His heart was all a-flutter.
Along came the five-fifteen,
Toot toot - peanut butter.

With apologies to real poets

Hot take: Arabic numerals are better than Roman numerals.

Wait.

Which one is Celsius and which one is Fahrenheit?

I keep forgetting.

Whatever happened to Centigrade?

Sorry, I was referring to Anders Celsius and Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.

Whatever happened to them?

The problem with centigrade is that it can only be converted to Fahrenheit with a slide rule, so it had to go.

As long as we're on the topic, nobody has ever explained the difference between centigrades and tardigrades to my satisfaction.

Agreed, although they originate from India and not Arabia.

Yes, but they got to Europe through Arab scholars.

And on that topic, tardigrades might be the only living thing that can survive at 100°C.

Ok. Now we have calibration points for °tardigrade
Those little fellas can survive from absolute zero to 151°C

So, one degree tardigrade equals 424.15 degrees Celcius.

One centitardigrade equals 4.2451 degrees Celcius.

This could resolve our entire Celcius-Fahrenheit controversy here.

Peace at last.

I'm getting a headache..

Yawn…….😴

OFG

Couldn't resist a Google search, and now I'm down the tardigrade rabbit hole.

No and no. The only legitimate use for celery is a mirepoix for soup.

That must be a very small hole.

But deep.

OFG

It's great for weight control, we would burn more calories chewing it than what it contains.

Okay, okay. I used celery in a beef barley soup this weekend. Was it necessary? Maybe not, but it was a nice contrast to the other ingredients.

But why I'm REALLY here ...

Anyone, unless you are physically disabled, who drives around without removing the several inches of snow from your entire vehicle, you are an inconsiderate jack hole.

Oh, and to the guy who held up traffic turning left from a parking lot in a right turn only lane and then blocked traffic actually using the left turn lane for what it was intended, you also are a jack hole.

Jack hole is a great insult...

It's all I could think of, and I try to keep things PG, you know?