It’s the part of the biscuit that puffed up during baking, they call it the “foot” or “jumper”. Because the biscuits are left unbaked to dry overnight, the tops get hard to retain the impression from the mold (see Wikipedia page for the special rolling pin used to make the impressions) and the bottom puffs up like that: [Springerle - Wikipedia https://share.google/bcarMIBDFgXTmURW6](Springerle - Wikipedia https://share.google/bcarMIBDFgXTmURW6)

Hell yeah, gherkin is where it’s at.

I mean, I made a conscious decision not to have children, so…

In the 90s, I felt like I knew so much about computers, both the hardware and the software, but I’ve definitely fallen off from all the improvements in the past 20 years, and I’m so Goddamn lost now. I miss those simpler times when it was more about the physical aspects of a PC and less about the technical aspects.

I write fanfiction and have a modest 250+ following. I never thought it would amount to much, but it’s been several years, and my followers are invested enough at this point that I keep going.

Uuughhhh, this reminds me of that episode on My Strange Addiction with the widow who was addicted to eating her husband’s ashes. Fucking heartbreaking, man.

Becoming a quadriplegic or suffering from “locked in” syndrome, where I can no longer move anything myself, cannot feed myself or use the toilet, etc, just laying there, 100% dependent on other people for everything. I’d rather be dead, thanks.

One of the many reasons I’ll hang onto my 2012 Toyota Corolla until I drive it into the ground. It has a touch screen for just the radio and Bluetooth, but it must be some sort of gen one prototype because it’s pretty awful. Thankfully, everything else is tactile. I can’t imagine giving it up.

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Binti series by Nnedi Okorafor

Sips of beer from my parents when I was a child.

I’m a “Xennial” (born on the cusp in X and Millennial). I quit smoking cigarettes 14 years ago and haven’t touched one since. I used to drink like a fish, but have cut way back just in the past 2 years or so. With all the articles coming out about how even more than 1 drink a day is bad for you, I suppose I should quit that as well, but alcohol makes fun times even more fun for me, and that’s not something I’m ready to give up forever just yet. I’m healthy, go to the gym 3 times a week, excellent bloodwork, etc, so I don’t feel the need to give it up 100%.

Never did this myself, but I watched a guy in the army crush and snort Altoids once. Boredom can make you do dumb things.

Walton Goggins and Will Arnett. I dunno why, I don’t like their acting and they look creepy to me.

Hah, the only time I’ve bought things on EBay is to purchase Transformers toys! Though it had been a while.

Think nothing of it. I dream about people in my life all the time and I don’t tie any significance to it.

There’s dust in closets, too. I just bought a 3-pack of zippable plastic dust covers for all the hanging clothes I don’t wear often because they were getting dusty AF.

I do the cooking because I enjoy it and am halfway decent at it, he does all the dishes. It’s a fair trade for both of us, since he hates cooking and I’m not a fan of doing dishes.

I like both, just depends on what I feel like listening to.

I dated a guy who spent part of his childhood on [The Farm](The Farm (Tennessee) - Wikipedia https://share.google/Qygnr43R6gFX23nd6) in Tennessee in the '80s, where his mother was a nurse. He said it was like Lord of the Flies, just herds of unsupervised little kids doing whatever they pleased 24/7, and I mean way beyond the latchkey kid stereotype of unsupervised kids, which I was in the '80s myself. He hated it because there were no adults that were really in charge, no discipline when the kids hurt each other, food was scarce, school lessons were a joke, etc.

I think like so many other things, the idea of a commune draws in certain types of people, and some of those people are lazy free-loading assholes. I think they’re a good idea, but the lazy fuckers ruin it for everyone else.

I only pair jam/jelly with buttered toast. Butter AND peanut butter seems like you’re just adding calories for no reason (can you even really taste the butter under peanut butter?).

When I was an exchange student in Australia in the late '90s, I remember the family I stayed with with would add butter to EVERY sandwich they made, regardless of what the other contents were. Ham and cheese with mayo? Butter first. Turkey club? Add butter. Just cheese? Also butter. Adding any other condiments to your sandwich, like mustard? There better be butter added first.

I dunno if it’s just an American thing to NOT add butter to every piece of bread depending on the meal, or what.