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(DIR) Post #AtGN9SNMuzGTaxKfdQ by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-19T22:43:04Z
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EZ Cheese has a low rent reputation, but I think if you could take it through a time portal it'd be considered some kind of amazing gourmet food. Just for being so consistent and evenly flavored. I think Henry VIII would have gone nuts for EZ cheeze on ritz crackers.
(DIR) Post #AtGNKO8wzkaTeZnjI8 by chicating@mastodon.world
2025-04-19T22:44:59Z
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@futurebird I like it.Not that I don't know real cheese.
(DIR) Post #AtGNPeSjkS7NiLZ8OO by timo21@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-04-19T22:45:48Z
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@futurebird industrial cheese product on crackers is great for when nothing else is available. Much better than rats or little birds.
(DIR) Post #AtGNQaFctM5qwTsU0e by DrOinFLA@lounge.town
2025-04-19T22:46:03Z
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@futurebird When I was team-teaching English in Japan, one of my Japanese team teachers tried to embarrass me in class by asking me questions in English like "Do you like Britney Spears?" or "Do you eat cheese from a spray-can?"He was kind of a dick.
(DIR) Post #AtGNYEGkVIdN5E34ZE by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-19T22:47:32Z
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@DrOinFLA Spray cheese is part of my heritage I will not be cowed
(DIR) Post #AtGNj9pvKC22WMiDsu by DrOinFLA@lounge.town
2025-04-19T22:49:29Z
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@futurebird It was kind of funny to recognize East Asian stereotypes about white guys from the U. S. Gives you perspective.
(DIR) Post #AtGO3nIsIU9KiX5u52 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-19T22:53:15Z
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@DrOinFLA You don't want to know what I encountered traveling with my (white) husband. I was asked if I was in a gang, if I knew various rappers. And some chick ask my husband if he was very poor and that's why he "had to" marry a Black woman. All of this really naive racist junk. Although, this wasn't super common it was enough to be kind of obnoxious. The same sort of people wanted to touch both of our hair. Which was funny because that never happened to my husband in the US.
(DIR) Post #AtGO8ST9Bb5LY57giO by michelestrider@mastodon.social
2025-04-19T22:54:01Z
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@futurebird I have often thought about how the cheapest table wine today would be amazing in the past -- so smooth and refined and doesn't make you go blind. Henry VIII would have loved washing down his EZ Cheese with some Sutter Home White Zinfandel.
(DIR) Post #AtGODWSdlvFlNRIiWG by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-04-19T22:54:59Z
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@futurebird I heard he divorced eight of his wives because they hated EZ Cheese.
(DIR) Post #AtGOX5LqH5Yh5cRupU by DrOinFLA@lounge.town
2025-04-19T22:58:30Z
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@futurebird Yes, that's horrible. Although the Japanese kids always wanted to "pet" the blond hairs on my arms, but they were in elementary school, so I just chalked it up to curiosity and dealt with it. But it never feels good.Also, the "aunties" would follow me around the supermarket and rifle through my cart, like "What's the gaijin going to eat tonight?" That was rather annoying.
(DIR) Post #AtGOuzeX755WMkaliS by baibold@mastodon.social
2025-04-19T23:02:50Z
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@futurebird Dude, it's the leaning tower of Cheeza!https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2-adaowehIk
(DIR) Post #AtGP3E2bVBNLJ5mC2a by LinuxAndYarn@mastodon.social
2025-04-19T23:04:18Z
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@futurebird @DrOinFLA I haven't had spray cheese since I was ten, and am in no hurry to pick certain childish things back up.
(DIR) Post #AtGPldaTslG5HNncYa by jannem@fosstodon.org
2025-04-19T23:09:52Z
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@michelestrider @futurebird I keep thinking that the floor in quality of so many things have silently gone way up in the last 2-3 decades.As a guess: digitalization and process control; better management practices; stricter regulations; and competition/market access.
(DIR) Post #AtGPleu0zcThMFwjdw by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-19T23:12:21Z
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@jannem @michelestrider I got a cheap RC car with a camera on it. (control it with your phone)I was FLOORED by the high quality of the camera. It's better than an iPhone from 5 years back. Good enough to use in video editing without it looking suspect. The camera is smaller than a matchbook. The RC car is the same size as a matchbox car.
(DIR) Post #AtGPsmbAmG2DFoWvdg by funkula@goblin.camp
2025-04-19T23:13:38Z
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@futurebird have you ever heard the Mitch Hedberg bit https://youtu.be/f1sibCRPWHQ?si=CcYeNMhPtmw4NMLF
(DIR) Post #AtGPyLljRUTRmT7jUm by RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo
2025-04-19T23:14:37Z
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@futurebird @DrOinFLA I didn't grow up with spray cheese but I did grow up with tube cheese which was maybe the Canadian equivalent. It came in a plastic sausage shaped tube with a little star shaped valve where you squeezed the cheese out. My dad lived on that and cheese whiz when I was a kid.
(DIR) Post #AtGQOqbbPnc4wq1LJQ by TerryHancock@realsocial.life
2025-04-19T23:06:38Z
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@DrOinFLA @futurebird I don't think I mind stuff like that, as long as they ask first. Of course, it doesn't happen to me that often (it'd probably be my beard, if anything).Kids do occasionally look at me funny around Christmastime... đź¤
(DIR) Post #AtGQOrAhJJgahgRN0y by samhkennedy@aus.social
2025-04-19T23:12:00Z
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@TerryHancock @DrOinFLA @futurebird when I visited China last year with my family, all white, pretty typical, the Chinese all wanted to be photoed with me. Not my husband or my kids, just me. I think it was my height and age. The tour guide was a bit embarrassed but I told him I saw this 20 years ago when I was with another tall white older western woman. She was surprised but something about regional Chinese people not sure what.
(DIR) Post #AtGQOrtibvhMxJVKBk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-19T23:19:23Z
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@samhkennedy @TerryHancock @DrOinFLA My husband got that when we were in rural China too. They just ignored me as I think they've seen a short brown woman before. But he's pretty tall and blonde. I told him to start demanding $10 bucks
(DIR) Post #AtGQuiJrl3WwW2v50K by samhkennedy@aus.social
2025-04-19T23:25:11Z
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@futurebird @TerryHancock @DrOinFLA I went the opposite. I said I was a visitor and as long as they were polite I had no problem. They were very nice particularly the older woman.
(DIR) Post #AtGRfr530DTLIXT1Dk by DrOinFLA@lounge.town
2025-04-19T23:33:42Z
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@futurebird @samhkennedy @TerryHancock One difference between Japan and China:In Japan at the train station platform, when the train door opens, people stand aside to let people off, before boarding the train car.In China, when the train doors open, it's a free-for-all, survival of the fittest scenario. I used to have to drag my Japanese wife by the hand into the car, because she was just waiting for her turn and wouldn't fight back.
(DIR) Post #AtGRoXUVClVJ9HVwae by huntingdon@mstdn.social
2025-04-19T23:35:16Z
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@futurebird @jannem @michelestrider WTF would you have to control a car's camera with your mobile phone? Especially these days, as travelers are encourage not to bring them.
(DIR) Post #AtGRuCXpzljJvGm41I by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-19T23:36:17Z
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@huntingdon @jannem @michelestrider I'm confused. It's just a wifi toy car.
(DIR) Post #AtGSEDM2h6fwE3nfQe by david_preston@mastodon.social
2025-04-19T23:39:55Z
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@futurebird @jannem @michelestrider any link to where to get it, sounds ace
(DIR) Post #AtGSULf5Zm5qciOzx2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-19T23:42:51Z
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@david_preston @jannem @michelestrider FYI because it has tiny wheels you can only drive it on smooth surfaces. So driving on a sidewalk is a bit much for it. To drive on the sidewalk outside bigger wheels are needed. Does great on smooth floors. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256808357286752.html
(DIR) Post #AtGT0G65nezEdGFUem by johnefrancis@cosocial.ca
2025-04-19T23:48:35Z
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@futurebird "EZ Cheese on Ritz Crackers saved my marriages" - Henry VIII
(DIR) Post #AtGTVnrAKlGeJOJBx2 by michelestrider@mastodon.social
2025-04-19T23:54:18Z
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@futurebird @david_preston @jannem That looks like TOO MUCH fun!
(DIR) Post #AtGThHWuLk7ZWkJ4E4 by prdan@mastodon.online
2025-04-19T23:56:22Z
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@futurebird Makes me think of Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
(DIR) Post #AtGV0b0IGntvNfpDOa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-20T00:11:05Z
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@tasket @michelestrider IDK have you ever been around a kid with "healthy" strict parents when they taste some junk food for the first time?
(DIR) Post #AtGWVuCN3PuJqMy2sa by GarLipow@mstdn.social
2025-04-20T00:27:54Z
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@futurebird I don't disagree, but: Ritz crackers are just objectively good. Pretty much anything not completely terrible is good on a Ritz cracker. (Or to be fair, many competing bargain brands.)
(DIR) Post #AtGeqBsHqNck5dkzg0 by TobyBartels@mathstodon.xyz
2025-04-20T01:29:32Z
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@RobotDiver @futurebird @DrOinFLALike toothpaste?
(DIR) Post #AtGeqCfYtB2UYSoLTs by RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo
2025-04-20T01:31:01Z
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@TobyBartels @futurebird @DrOinFLA More like a little plastic sausage with a valve in the middle of it.
(DIR) Post #AtGeqDnOhWtw33U7Ki by TobyBartels@mathstodon.xyz
2025-04-20T01:41:42Z
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@RobotDiver @futurebird @DrOinFLAA valve in the *middle* of the tube? That's wild!
(DIR) Post #AtGeqEfzQYZOmN1iQS by RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo
2025-04-20T01:46:12Z
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@TobyBartels @futurebird @DrOinFLA I found a picture of it. Ours wasn't Kraft though. Some other brand.
(DIR) Post #AtGeqLDX6kxz48laXg by TobyBartels@mathstodon.xyz
2025-04-20T01:43:32Z
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@RobotDiver @futurebird @DrOinFLAI think that I found a picture (linking to a whole Facebook group about it). Sadly, they're saying that it doesn't exist anymore. https://images.app.goo.gl/2Qjs2AwTMEVRRLQ9A
(DIR) Post #AtH1I98tnESKiUGLeS by th@social.v.st
2025-04-20T06:12:45Z
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@futurebird it's hard to believe but a single Dorito chip today has more nacho cheese flavour than a medieval peasant would get in their whole lifetime
(DIR) Post #AtHI31GkTy1vAtJ6Ei by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-04-20T09:20:35Z
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@th This painting seems related https://www.1stdibs.com/art/paintings/still-life-paintings/scott-fraser-cup-cheetos-2025-scott-fraser-original-oil-painting-whimsical/id-a_16081182/#zoomModalOpen
(DIR) Post #AtI1hfhS4qQ25ZYWMi by sollat@masto.ai
2025-04-20T17:52:06Z
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@futurebird @david_preston @jannem @michelestrider Maybe you could glue it to a bigger RC car. :ablobcatwink:
(DIR) Post #AtI3aw70rGZWs7QaXI by BLTpizza@mastodon.social
2025-04-20T18:13:08Z
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@futurebird I don't think I ever had EZ cheese. That's odd since I grew up eating only Kraft singles and other foods created by food scientists. My job putting out charcuterie boards would have been so much easier with canned cheese.
(DIR) Post #AtIihkyok3tWUfxuuO by bhasic@mastodon.social
2025-04-21T01:53:57Z
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@futurebird https://youtu.be/YT5kI3zJFmA
(DIR) Post #AtJn7ZnxVVyKL3PhhY by twipped@twipped.social
2025-04-21T14:18:08Z
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@futurebird ten dollars?! Holy crap!