Actor Ben Stein says he misses the good old days when "a large African-American woman" was on his syrup bottle, but woke corporate culture ruins everything.
We used to be a country. A proper country. I would wake up and there would be a large African American woman smiling on my syrup bottle, and I knew everything would be okay.
Imo, maple syrup is one of the things that's worthwhile to spring for the real stuff
That's very true. And the fake stuff is just sugar syrup with some lame maple flavoring. But I assume many right-wingers would still prefer the fake stuff - even if it was more expensive than the real - because it's not woke food.
There's like dozens of things I'd put on pancakes before "table syrup": jam, agave syrup, nutella, powered sugar, chilli oil
There are apologists for the corn syrup, but I assume that it's mostly nostalgia and bot having it available or affordable. I'm lucky to have grown up where I know people who have sugar bushes so it's always been a fixture for me. The biggest difference in my opinion is the viscosity and general mouthfeel. Maple syrup soaks into stuff a lot better and also doesn't stick to your palate as much as corn.
But, the other thing that's great about maple syrup is that it's actually got a lot of applications beyond slathering a breakfast. It's tight with some soy sauce for a marinade, you can put a tiny bit into a cocktail, it's great for glazing or just about anywhere you might use honey, including a coffee or tea! and my favorite: it makes for incredible whipped cream. Just a cup or so of cream and a teaspoon of maple syrup and a few minutes of whisking makes for a delightfully light whip that's not too sweet, but is haunted by a tasty flavor ghost of maple.
Friend in high school had family near Canada that made maple syrup from their trees and she used to give me a full bottle whenever I needed it. It was liquid gold and she moved away so I have to buy it, but it's not as good :deeper-sadness:
That's what food made with unalienated labor tastes like. You can't buy that in a store.
That and no profit motive to drive corner cutting and cost saving. Wild what even small amounts of non-capitalist production can achieve
I got real maple syrup awhile back and it was like 4x more expensive and I actually liked it less than the fake shit. :(
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the expensive stuff is typically less sweet and has a more subtle maple flavor
Guess you just like corn syrup then, which is to be expected considering that is basically all cheap food here. No judgement for it from me
I can't imagine ever being so invested in brands lmao
Our new mascot is based on several real-life black women who are lawyers and eat pancakes some mornings when they aren’t too busy litigating on behalf of the disadvantaged. While Sheila does enjoy our extended line of breakfast foods, that is only one small facet of her rich and complex identity as a human being: Sheila also speaks fluent Italian, likes U2, is bisexual, and enjoys cross-country skiing. Let us make it clear that Sheila never serves the pancakes herself, but now and then goes to a diner near the courthouse where waitresses and waiters of a variety of races serve them to her.
You gave me a posting idea - https://hexbear.net/post/253276
It had "brands" in the image macro but just as I was about to post it - I realized removing that word would make it clearly bipartisan. So I changed it.
Americans in the 1980s: "You can't put a black person on your marketing material that's disgusting I hate it I'll never buy your product again!!!"
Americans in the 2020s: "Put it back! Put it back! Put it back! Whaaaaaaat!"
Nation of fucking babies.
If they like Aunt Jemima so much, then I wonder how they feel about the portrayal of white men in Velma?
:frothingfash:: "MOM! CUTTIES!"
I was more thinking about people melting down over Michael Jordan being on the Wheaties box.
The fact that WB greenlit a second season of Velma while tossing the entire Batgirl movie in the trash tells you everything you need to know about the state of modern streaming media.
Bro aren’t you supposed to be rich you can afford real maple syrup lmao
I have a coworker that refills his aunt Jemima bottle. As I'm sure you guessed, he's an amazing politics understander.
refills bottle
damn what a great environmentalist thats what we are talking about right
Wait, doesn't refilling a single-use plastic bottle make microplastics peel off into the food at an accelerated rate?
you terminally online hyper leftists may not know this but we call it 'taking one for the team'. every particle of lead you inhale helps someone else's emotional instability and i for one think thats beautiful.
I guess if you're not the final destination for everything that bioaccumulates, you're not really an :chad: apex predator.
The woke leftist vegans are trying to ban cannibalism. Eat each other to own the libs
Ack.
refills his aunt Jemima bottle
Every night before he goes to bed I bet he has a little prayer: "They can take it from my cold, dead hands..."
Do you feel stupid for still regularly listening to left grifter podcasts while doing almost nothing politically productive? Sometimes I do. But at least I'm not listening to Rush Limbaugh reruns with Ben Shapiro thrown in for a little variety.
Old washed up man yells at Cloud
:anti-shinra-action:
The man who said "If you believe in evolution you are literally a eugenicist" has bad takes? You don't say.
Slowly? The man wrote Nixon's speeches while he was in the WhiteHouse, undoubtedly with direct input from Kissinger.
Dude was a Nixon speech writer, so this wretchedness comes from the heart.
Everybody connected to Nixon was dog shit if they are dead. And are dog shit if they are alive. A steaming mountain of feces
How is this old overweight fuck still alive? I'm shocked he's only 78, he looks like he's pushing 90 in that clip.
How is this old overweight fuck still alive?
He's powered by evil.
I’m shocked he’s only 78, he looks like he’s pushing 90 in that clip.
The devil's help comes at a high price.
