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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Petrichor: The smell of rain on dry ground. One of those things everybody knows about but lacks a word for.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The way the moon is perfectly sized to just exactly cover the sun while still showing the corona and stuff like Bailey's Beads. It's an extremely rare cosmic coincidence, and a few million years before or after today and total solar eclipses as we know them wouldn't be possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Maybe, but you definitely see more niche flavors like pistachio, coffee, mango, pineapple-coconut, rum raisin, etc. Hard to believe apple would be less popular, unless it's more expensive to make for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Southeastern US. This is my first time seeing apple-anything ice cream on the shelves, from major national brands at least.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

This particular one is apple pie, but the ice cream itself (minus the pie crust chunks) would be great on its own.

 

My local grocery store has started stocking a "limited edition" apple pie ice cream (message me for the details, don't want to be shilling). It's one of my favorites -- not only does it have chunks of real apple and graham cracker crust, but the ice cream itself has a delicious apple flavor. The whole thing tastes like you took a slice of apple pie with vanilla ice cream and blended it chunky style.

I always figured there was some boring food-science reason you couldn't make a decent apple ice cream, but this shows it's perfectly possible. So why isn't it more common? Apple pie is one of the most popular deserts, and you find apple flavoring in plenty of drinks and candies. What gives?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

It's a well-constructed skit -- unabashedly silly, with just the right amount of ironic detachment. I love how after Pumpkins shows up, the couple just coolly analyzes the regular monsters that were making them scream moments before. The music is ridiculous, Tom Hanks demeanor is ridiculous, the dancing is ridiculous (with a dash of sexual weirness at the end). And it comes full circle with him genuinely scaring them in the end.

I do think that them doing sequels and trying to spin a mini-franchise out of it was stupid though.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the correction -- I'd heard about the costume thing the other day and thought it was part of the same event as in this story. Doesn't make it any less anti-semitic (and IDF fuckery in Gaza has been going on for long before October 7th), but it does explain why it seemed like people were ignoring it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)
 
 
 
 
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