17 thoughts on “July 20, 2023: Dare”

  1. The same can be said about

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  2. Yesterday on Twitter someone referenced GOTG3 and I thought it was related to Game of Thrones and for the life of me I couldn't figure out what G3 stood for. When I saw your comment above I finally got it.

  3. We were nearly out of milk Tuesday, like less than 1 bowl-worth of cereal left, so I placed a Target order for drive up and got it on the way home from a late evening meeting.
    Put the order away and noticed that the “best by” date was July 16 … two days before I bought it. I did not have time to make another run so we got into it for breakfast yesterday and I had cereal instead of a smoothie and made sure Kernel had cereal instead of her usual granola bar. I also made pancakes (breakfast for dinner) last night to use an extra cup of it, and plan to do Mac and cheese tonight.
    This morning, Niblet is horrified to note that, “Dad, the milk is expired!” I told him to read the wording … and he’s like, “…doesn’t that mean ‘expired’!?”
    Now, we always went right up to the edge with food in my home growing up … like, beyond frugality, the result I suppose, of a couple generations of big families with not a ton of disposable income and memories of losing a farm during the Dust Bowl & Depression. Lessons were learned. As a result, I always smell/sample milk and cream before adding it to anything, no matter what the date indicates.
    I had him smell it and tell me if he thought it was bad (it wasn’t) and I’ll admit I did enjoy explaining to him that the best by date means that’s when it’s freshest and best-tasting, not that it’s automatically gone sour or rancid ... but I will continue to monitor it before they pour a bowl. No need for them to learn the lesson the same way I did.

    1. Ayup. Some things go bad before that date, some well after. Humans may not have powerful noses, but they've developed a pretty good sense of what might kill us.

      1. I cut up some summer sausage last night and had to spit out my first (and last) bite because the fat had turned rancid. It was still before the Best Used By date, but it sat in the fridge for a couple of weeks since the last time I had some. So opening the package pretty much negates the Best Used By date and starts the real spoilage clock ticking. Also, I threw out some perfectly good salami last week because it was way past the Use By date, but didn't realize my wife had taken it out of the freezer the day before to use in pasta salad.

  4. What was your favorite moment of the Cedric Alexander Era?

    Mine was when his secretary threw him under the bus in front of the STrib a few weeks ago.

        1. I can't decide which measurement was funnier on Twitter. The measurement of the length of Cedric's no-show job in Scaramuccis or the measurement of the cost of the latest settlement of MPD misconduct in Cedrics.

  5. I hadn't realized that, in the Florida State League, they only use two umpires. In the Fort Myers game, one of them was injured in the sixth inning, so they'll be going with one the rest of the way.

    1. It may be an illness rather than an injury. The announcer doesn't seem to know what happened.

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