recipe on https://cooking.boymoder.biz/recipes/milk-bread.html soon (maybe tonight (maybe tomorrow))

My aunt gave me some leftover food from Easter and I wanted to share some of the finest Polish cuisine with people from around the world, and no better place to do this than this cosmopolitan platform.

So, here is traditional Polish Easter cake the Mazurek:

I'm pretty sure it is Mazurek with almonds, rains and... stuff.

Of course that's just the dessert. I also got traditional jars of meat:

It is indeed real meat. I emptied one of the jars into a bowl so you can take a better look:

It's not yet heated up so forgive the floating clumps of fat, but you can tell its fine meat indeed.

I also had a cheesecake, but sadly no pictures, I ate it already because it actually looked edible.

Well, that's it. It may not be much, but I'm sure those pictures say a thousand words each. I do hope I didn't make any of you too hungry.

Anyway, I'm off to eat some of these delicious specialities, it's not everyday I get to dine on such fine food. I sure love getting unidentified leftovers.

I got a free 2 month trial of Panera's Sip Club they are constantly shilling and I have opinions about it. I was planning to send this as feedback for the survey they send me via email almost every visit, but these frickers are so cheap you don't get anything for filling it out. Might as well get some DC instead.

The main problem with this whole thing is that the drinks at Panera just aren't very good. The quality of all the drinks (most of them!) I've had are middling at best. That immediately sets this thing up to fail, it doesn't matter how many options or how cheap the club is if the drinks aren't worth drinking.

The other main problem is that the selection is weird. There are a bunch of items, but they are almost all the same type of product with very few exceptions.

They may have 25 items, but let's break them down so you can see how little meaningful variety there is:

• Only 4 of those drinks are caffeine free, and 1 isn't available after 2 PM.

• 4 coffee options, but 2 of those aren't available after 2 PM (including the decaf!)

• If you want iced coffee, the dark roast is your only option, no decaf, hazelnut, or light roast.

• The hot tea has many flavors (6), but they only list the ingredients of the Br*tish Breakfast and they all taste pretty similar.

Another issue is the warped sense of value, they market it as "once you get 4 drinks, it pays for itself". However the drinks are an overpriced ripoff without the sip club, soft drinks are $3.19! If you pay that much for a soft drink, you might be r-slurred. This is the only place in town that serves soft drinks for anything over $3, and most places have a much wider selection of sodas. The coffee is $2.89 which isn't bad, if it wasn't gas station quality... None of the drinks they offer as part of the club are worth more than $2. This means you'd need to get 6 drinks a month to make it worth getting.

The frustrating part is they do offer some other nice interesting drinks, but they aren't part of the sip club. I understand why, they cost more to make, but they should have an option to get them for at least discounted. Even better would be making them free, but no refills, or even only allowing someone to claim 1 a week. Any of these solutions would allow someone to get these nice higher quality drinks as part of the sip club, without causing Panera to lose tons of money.

Also corporate has mandated that you get the cups with your order. They used to be right near the counter, however now they have to serve the empty cup with your food. This is brain dead. The time it takes to actually get the drink means your food is getting cold while getting your drink. It also means you can't enjoy your drink while waiting for the food, which takes time. This means the best way is to place 2 separate orders, one for just the drink first, and then another for the food. I don't need to explain why this is stupid. It also doesn't help that the app is slow as shit.

The program has one potential saving grace, the coupons. The idea is that every Saturday (and other days randomly) you get a coupon, not bad right? The problem is most of them suck; from a pathetic $2 off a Pick Two, to "Buy One Get One 50% Off" entrees, few are worth using. This means I usually just end up getting the Value Duets and using the entree coupons on them, as they are the only items that aren't a rip-off.

If Panera wants this to actually go somewhere it needs to do any one of the following:

• Reduce the cost of menu items to make eating here a better value.

• Make the coupons better, they don't need to be Burger King good, just better than what they are now.

• Allow the Sip Club to be used on premium drinks, whether that is only a discount, free with no refills, only so many a month, or some combination of those restrictions.

• Add more self serve drinks, specifically more soda and decaf options. Pepsi Zero, different Mt Dew or Pepsi flavors, fruit juices, iced decaf (and make the decaf coffee all day please!), and non caffeinated still lemonades would all be fine additions.

Note, it doesn't (nor should it) do all of these, that's unreasonable. However if they did even one of these it would be worth keeping the subscription. As it stands after my subscription ends, I don't plan to ever go back to Panera unless they fix the Sip Club or lower prices.

Also this is a small little tangent, but holy shit do a lot of the stuff they serve have too much sugar. All but 1 dessert item has more than 20g of sugar, and many are around ~50g! Also excluding the drinks that have 0g of sugar, most are around 50g a serving, I don't want to know how many people get refills on these... This place is one of the unhealthiest for desserts where I live, most donut places are much healthier! Kinda wild, it's not like the desserts really sell, so I'm not sure why they do this.

I am curious to see if other people view Panera differently these days so I'm going to make a poll. Do you go to Panera?

recipe at https://cooking.boymoder.biz/recipes/chocolate-cake.html

!goyslopenjoyers !sodadrinkers

https://youtube.com/@Oliviatieds

Just like cast iron, redditors are way too precious about this stuff.

Used cherry wood for mild sweetness. Finished by basting with a mixture of butter, garlic, lemon juice, parsley, and Parmesan cheese.

It was pretty good, if I had to do it again I would've smoked for longer at a lower heat.

We've already established that Starbucks employees hate their customers in classic rdrama posts like:

• Here is a list of things that /r/starbucks employees complain about

• Starbucks baristas still hate their customers

This week's rant comes from /u/Jewicer, who's unhappy about customers who complain when she doesn't bother to even say hello to them. She also rants about customers who don't say hello to her, so I'm not really sure how she hasn't managed to figure this one out yet.

I open 5-6 days a week and 95% of people coming in before 7AM do not say hi, do not say thank you, do not acknowledge us WHATSOEVER even if we literally place the drink directly into their hands.

Most of the time I am solo-barring and am clearing out 5 or so drinks every few minutes. People will see me struggling and still not acknowledge any efforts.

It's 4AM.....you're WELCOME for making your stupid butt drink! And HELLO, mf! Idc if you haven't gotten your coffee. I'm tired too! Who raised yall??? And then they get mad when we don't acknowledge them, greet them, say their names. Same people who I've "served" forever and have never said a word want to complain on google reviews. We're not robots! Literally makes the job so freaking miserable and then we get b*tched at for not connecting with customers. I don't like yall! No one does! Entitled asses.

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No matter how I'm greeted at the speaker I always say good morning/afternoon and ask how they're doing today. I can't tell you how many times their voice and demeanor totally changes. It costs nothing to be nice and you never know how it impacts their day. ☺️

[OP] that's great, but asking that and then being completely ignored makes me violent

And

After many years I understood my morning customers and realized they didn't want small talk that early. Anyone before 7am got the bare minimum from me. Maybe a half smile and a nod.

[OP] saying thank you isn't small talk. i don't want to talk to them either

It might be time for a new job my dear!

The ones that come in don't acknowledge us and went straight for the washroom then get mad when the washroom is out of order..those the worst

What do you want them to say? "Hello don't mind me while I shit in your bathroom while not ordering anything"

Finally a non-Starbies employee /u/Inevitable-End-7957 decides to start a fight and for some reason hasn't been banned yet:

When people come in and ignore my greeting to go straight to the bathroom, I go “oh do we know the code to the bathroom or are we not saying hello?” Then they either sheepishly say hi and ask for the bathroom code or get annoyed.

[/u/Inevitable-End-7957] And then you expect a tip on that $6 drink and I happily say no

.....we don't expect anything? just customers being good humans, is that too much to ask?

[/u/Inevitable-End-7957] Yes! So if a customer walks in and needs to use the bathroom, but doesn't hear a worker's greeting, they have to be subjected to that persons passive aggressiveness?

Maybe they have a hearing impairment. Maybe they about to sh!t their pants lol

Just because you assumed doesn't make it fact. Heres an idea. Be nice, say “if you're using the bathroom, you will need the code”.

Don't speak to someone in riddles and say they are sheepishly coming back.

But then, that might be too much to ask…or just some of that good human stuff

🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 please keep giving sbux your money so you can pay for our college tuitions ^.^ we dont care if you tip or not, thanks NPC!

[/u/Inevitable-End-7957] Hahah. More than happy to help you with that liberal arts degree

imagine dissing someone for getting an education lmao. there's actually a ton you can do with a liberal arts degree, maybe you should google it before you act so condescending

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What the heck kinda racism is this:

Obviously a Russian psyop to turn the world against Africa:

LIVE IN THE MOMENT:

At least it's organic unlike burgslop:

Check quote tweets for more.

!goyslopenjoyers run, don't walk to maccas for the Surf & Turf burger. The west may have fallen but goyslop is healing. The days of "healthy" offerings are hopefully behind us, and no longer will we be sold grilled chicken wraps and other hippy garbage.

This burg is peak slop, pinnacle of American innovation. TWO beef patties on a classic bun sandwiching a fish filet, pickle and cheese.

The placement of the patties both above and below the fish was a brilliant move (my burg differed from the one pictured). The pickles add a much needed tang to the fish, which is in itself delectable. Finished off with a garnish of ketchup and mustard, who could possibly ask for more? It's the first time in ages a maccas burg left grease on my fingers. 11/10

Takoyaki

Tastes amazing. Just love going down my local Chinese owned, Korean employee sushi joint and getting some takoyaki skewers.

What am I supposed to eat with chicken wings now?

It's said that Mao's son was napalm bombed by the Americans who saw the cooking fire from him cooking egg fried rice

Hence posting about egg fried rice around the son's birthday in October 24th or around the date of his death on November 25th might get you into trouble

Found out that the ultimate egg fried rice chef in China got cancelled because of this

Good fried rice battle scene from a Thai cooking movie

Egg fried rice protests are a form of internet protest used by Chinese internet users against the government, occurring yearly around October 24, the birthday of Mao Anying, son of Mao Zedong, or around November 25, the date of his death. Posting recipes for egg fried rice is done as a subtle jab at the death of Anying during the Korean War; such posts are usually blocked or taken down by Chinese officials and can lead to sanctions against those involved.^[1]^

Background

Mao Anying worked on the staff of General Peng Dehuai in northeastern Korea during the Korean War. On the morning of November 25, 1950, he had overslept. According to some accounts, once awake, he stole eggs from the general's supplies and was cooking breakfast for himself despite orders that staff were only to cook at night for fear of American air raids. As he was making a pan of egg fried rice, he is said to have perished in a napalm attack by American forces on the area, who were drawn to the cooking fire.^[1]^

While some doubt the story's authenticity,^[1]^ internet users have taken to posting egg fried rice recipes yearly during October or November as a form of protest against the Chinese government.^[2]^

Consequences

In October 2020, food blogger Wang Gang posted an egg fried rice recipe and was widely denounced by officials and forced to post an apology.^[1]^ He was accused of using the video post as a "malicious political innuendo" insulting to Mao's legacy.^[3]^

On October 23, 2021, a regional branch of the China Unicom company posted a fried rice recipe and had their account on Weibo suspended, and all replies to the post were frozen.^[1]^ The account was shut down as the post "insulted the People's Volunteers" fighting with the North Korean communists during the war.^[2]^ A man who posted a comment on October 8, 2021, about fried rice deemed "obnoxious" by authorities was jailed for ten days.^[2]^ He is quoted as having posted, "The greatest result of the Korean War was egg fried rice: thank you, egg fried rice! Without egg fried rice, we [China] would be no different from North Korea. Sadly, there's not that big a difference nowadays."^[4]^

Official response

Controlling posts about egg fried rice during October and November and publicly shaming those involved "is seemingly a condoned method of constructing an internet that conforms to socialist core values."^[4]^ The fried rice story involving Anying's death has never been confirmed and is said to enrage Chinese nationalists and Communist Party officials.^[5]^ The Chinese Academy of History (中国历史研究院), a state-run institute set up in 2019, denounced the fried rice story as rumors spread by those with "vicious hearts" aiming to "gravely dwarf the heroic image of Mao Anying's brave sacrifice." The academy, citing declassified documents, stated Mao's position was compromised through intercepted radio transmissions.^[6]^

I got lucky with sourdough and have never had a failure with this recipe for the starter https://www.bostongirlbakes.com/how-to-make-sourdough-starter-from-scratch/#h-ingredients-and-equipment-needed and this recipe for the actual bread https://heartbeetkitchen.com/rye-sourdough-bread-recipe/#recipe

I want a good go-to regular bread though, I've tried a lot and had some success but none that especially stood out, pls post if you have any

Other recipes:

This is my favourite brioche, very forgiving recipe https://old.reddit.com/r/food/comments/eenrxt/homemade_brioche_hamburger_buns/fbvn2g1/?context=8&sort=controversial

This is a great pizza dough but I found it a little salty when measuring by weight, I'd maybe split the difference between the volumetric and measured weight https://www.seriouseats.com/jim-laheys-no-knead-pizza-dough-recipe

After years of Big Biscuit pushing super flaky biscuits on the American public, I had a crumbly type biscuit for breakfast this morning. The inside was so tender it made me cry.

Chick-fil-a is literally the most overrated restaurant ever in my opinion. I have been multiple times and never been impressed, and I have nothing wrong with chicken, fries, etc. Everyone acts like it's the best place ever and it's really just… not. I've tried the waffle fries and they were lukewarm and nothing special, and the chicken sandwiches have all just been bleh.

Edit: for everyone saying “What are you comparing it to?” Popeyes is way better