Today, some links to awesome stuff of great interest to Man Boobzers.
6 Ways to Fight Trolls Instead of Starving Them
In The Daily Airship, former Man Boobzer Erica Stratton reflects on her experiences fighting trolls in the Man Boobz comments section.
Things More Numerous Than People At MRA Rallies
Inspired by the recent very tiny MRA rally in Toronto, this new Tumblr blog posts pictures of groups of people — and horses, and bees, and other things — that are larger than the group of people that the MRAs managed to attract to their little shindig.
Thunderf00t has decided to talk about rape
Mike Booth, friend of Man Boobz and the guy behind mostly immobile internet cartoon sensation SomeGreyBloke and faux-MRA Dan Cardamon, presents an effective takedown of a recent video by infamous atheist asshole Thunderf00t.
Ok, this isn’t directly relevant to Man Boobzers, but this Wretched Refuse post on Sex Toy recycling is pretty hilarious.
And finally, I think I have found where Julian, the creepy PUA coach from Real Social Dynamics we looked at yesterday, got most of his ideas about women:
Fuck the crust! Just melt the cheese before you burn the bread because the cheese isn’t melty enough!
Paraphrasing my brother from yesterday. He’s 25. (Mine? Try not to burn it? I’ll do it before the pan’s that hot. K thanks)
I love hot things, but the chocolate with the peppercorns wasn’t hot (to me), it was just weird and unpleasant. Like someone had encountered salted caramels and thought “I can and will one-up that!”.
Can you turn autocorrect off, Argenti? It’s more like automakethishardtoread! O_o
I’ve had chocolate with black peppercorns, I wasn’t a fan. Chocolate with sea salt? LOVE.
Also, why pink peppercorns? I think the thought process was a. pretty (it was in white chocolate) and b. fancy.
What they forgot is that chocolate is supposed to be c. tasty.
Ooh ooh ooh the other thing about “Boy” I just thought of is that MRAs would totally hate it. It’s all about a young guy who has always worshipped his absentee father but when Dad comes back into his life he slowly comes to realise that he’s the ultimate egg. Obvs feminist propaganda.
The peppercorn chocolate had a bizarre texture, it was like they managed to make chocolate feel like soggy cardboard in your mouth.
My reaction to seeing “salted” and “caramel” in the same sentence for the first time (thank you Starbucks) was EWWW NO WHO HAD THAT IDEA? I didn’t know it was a thing at the time.
Cassandra – I never get the point of white chocolate at all. Okay, it’s a white sweet, but chocolate? Gimme cocoa!
Oh man, chili chocolate is dope.
White chocolate is just mild and smooth, though, so putting spicy things in it will just overwhelm it. You need nice mild complementary flavors, like raspberry, Oreo cookies, or vanilla beans.
Ha ha, salty/peppery chocolate and the avocado smoothie in the other thread reminds me of peanut butter. I was an adult before I realised that American peanut butter is sweet! Then the fucking peanut butter manufacturers started going all American-style and lots of people like me were all EW WTF!? Cultural food differences can be amusing to simple-minded folk such as myself.
Salted caramel is divine.
Chocolate.
Plain, unadorned, Spanish sipping chocolate.
(with apologies to Sir for it being Spanish and not French)
Starbucks was giving out salted caramel mocha samples and they weren’t bad, though a bit sweet for me. The pumpkin latte samples, otoh, were awful. I like pumpkin, just not with coffee.
Backing up katz here; chili chocolate it AMAAAAZINGGGG <3 Peppercorns of any color would be weird, though, I think. It's a totally different chemical/taste.
Anyways, this reminds me that I need to attempt to recreate this delicious hot chocolate I got in Italy once; it had chili in it and was so thick it was almost like pudding. SO. GOOD.
Salted caramel is great! But it doesn’t really go with a mocha, IMO. It needs to be the dominant flavor in whatever it’s in and goes best with things on the sweet-savory divide, like pretzels.
What they did was make the drink so that you couldn’t taste the coffee at all, it just tasted like over-sweetened salted caramel.
Could be OK; Starbucks does seem on a crusade to create the least coffee-like coffee beverage ever. But I’d rather dispense with the coffee and chocolate altogether and just make it a salted caramel steamed milk.
It was so much better than the pumpkin drink, though. That one was about as WTF as the white chocolate with the peppercorns.
Dammit, you’re all making me hungry!
…Not that that’s a bad thing at all… 😀
pumpkin latte
pumpkin latte
pumpkin latte
Brain bleach, I need brain bleach!
Daughter#2 once worked in a cafe here that had chocolate in every item on the menu. Basically meant that every meat dish was a Mexican / Latin American recipe, but it worked pretty well overall. Often you couldn’t even taste it as chocolate, it just enriched the other flavours. But you could certainly taste it in the desserts and the drinks.
Sugar in peanut butter??!!? Finally, at last, I understand all those mysterious references to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Though I should have guessed. Everyone I know who talks about American food mentions how hard it is to adjust to everything being so over-sweetened. (Got stepped on very smartly once when I mentioned that a hamburger bun was a bit sweet for my taste. “You should try the %!*&!# ones they give you in the US – they’re horrible”, they cry.)
Brain Bleach:
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Ooooooh, it’s that time of year I can start baking with pumpkin again!
You can bake with pumpkin any time of the year.