GreggAlan

GreggAlan t1_j7jqhpf wrote

That's why making a universal vaccine for influenza, or for all the rhinoviruses and coronaviruses hasn't been figured out. There's so many variants that play hokey-pokey-mixmaster with their components that a vaccine for one may only work on it and a few closely related mutations.

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GreggAlan t1_iy2wn4o wrote

Ugh. I *hate* highly peppered gravy. Whenever I order a chicken fried steak (which is a rare thing) I always have to specify no gravy or gravy on the side, and half the time the plate still comes drowned in "country gravy" that can vary from a good light gravy to apparently having an entire pepper shaker poured into it. Then there's the breading. Is it lightly seasoned or did they knock the whole pepper shaker into it?

Chicken fried steak without it swimming in a quart of gravy poured onto the steak, mashed potatoes, and rapidly tsunami-ing toward the vegetables is a concept some restaurants seem to have trouble with.

Remember that old saturday morning cartoon PSA "Don't Drown Your Food"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIyPm0Z06KE

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GreggAlan t1_iy2w25s wrote

Different vegetables are better canned or frozen.

Green peas, frozen. When canned they turn an odd color, the skins slide off, they're mushy and taste bleah. Frozen they stay bright and when heated just right they retain a bit of crispness.

Green beans, canned. Frozen they do the same taste thing as canned peas and they turn rubbery.

Carrots, canned. When frozen they do the rubber thing like green beans.

Cauliflower and Broccoli, frozen. When canned they're always overcooked, mushy, and taste terrible.

Most restaurants I've eaten at will either use an all frozen mix where the beans and carrots are lousy, or if making their own mix they go for the canned peas and frozen green beans and frozen carrots.

I'd like to see a company do a split vegetable medley with the ones that do best frozen and the ones that do best canned put together. Print on the labels Best Frozen and Best Canned, with a note to look for the other half in the Canned Vegetables or Frozen Foods.

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GreggAlan t1_iy2vh2y wrote

My local store has honey, in two different aisles. Different brands in each location. No idea why. Put all the bleeping honey in the same place!

It has a soft drink aisle but the Jarritos sodas are in the ethnic foods aisle. Do Mexican grocery stores put Coke and Pepsi and Shasta in the "foreign foods" aisle?

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