Meme Thread... no politics

914Driver said:

There's a battle line out there somewhere .....

 

Both of those look delicious, but only the one on the left is pizza.  The other is lasagna with bread instead of pasta, AKA "Italian pot pie".

tuna55 said:

Toyman! said:

In reply to Mr_Asa :

Probably not. I like some weird ass cars as well as some off-the-wall foods. 

Tacos are invariably made with chili powder, which I find to be particularly nasty. The meats in them are also always overcooked. Overcooked and over-seasoned foods are sacrilege to me. This is not to say all tacos are nasty, but most of them are and given the choice, I'd rather eat something else. 

Pizza is invariably made with some kind of tomato sauce, which is also frequently nasty. There are always too few toppings on it so you end up with a tomato sauce covered piece of dried out bread. There are some white pizzas that are OK, but again given the choice, I'm not buying pizza. 

 

I will gladly wreck a dozen tacos without even thinking about it, but typical pizza is something I would pass to the next guy. Good pizza is different. The best tacos come from the southern border or the most run down food truck that hasn't driven in fifteen years.

Love real pizza, but sadly my body can't handle tomato sauces well any more. Tacos though.... I will wreck some tacos. But I prefer nachos.

In reply to Toyman! :

I was about to be up in arms about the tacos (I think everyone knows that as a Chicagoan I'm automatically right about pizza, so no need to go there), until I realized that you were describing white people taco night. Which is disgusting. 

Apologies for the politics in the meme below, just pretend it isn't there as it isn't the point of the meme. 

tuna55 said:

The best tacos come from the southern border or the most run down food truck that hasn't driven in fifteen years.

This is the way and the light.  But please, legitimate taco trucks only.  Fool me once, shame on you...

I am also down for hole-in-the-wall places directly adjacent to Mexican grocery stores or Western wear shops or tortillerias in run-down strip malls.  Al pastor or fish (Baja style) for me, and keep 'em coming.

I didn't get this fat by accident.

tuna55 said:

I will gladly wreck a dozen tacos without even thinking about it, but typical pizza is something I would pass to the next guy. Good pizza is different. The best tacos come from the southern border or the most run down food truck that hasn't driven in fifteen years.

I have never had good food from a truck though I have had food poisoning from one. It's all been greasy, over-seasoned nastiness to me. Hard pass for me now, I'd rather go home and cook for myself. 

Most restaurant food is over-seasoned to cover up poor-quality food. Chain restaurants, cheap restaurants, and Mexican restaurants do the same thing. Buy the cheapest food you can, dose it with so many seasonings that no one can taste the poor quality, and convince the general public that it's good food. They make big money doing it, and compared to the boxed and prepackaged crap the grocery stores sell it's probably good. 

Unfortunately, I grew up on great food. Fresh meat from the local butcher and vegetables straight out of the ground. I've also cooked it. Seasonings should be subtle things that enhance food, not cover it up with a different flavor. Beef should taste like beef not whatever you cover it up with because you bought cheap beef. 

In reply to mtn :

Taco kits have been banned from my house for 30 years. The wife cooks tacos on occasion but she makes the meat from scratch and I usually make a taco salad. 

The tacos I had in Mexico were OK, but again not something I would go out of my way to buy. There is so much better food out there than that. 

I'm not advocating we throw toyman out a window, but I do regret that I can't give another upvote

In reply to barefootcyborg5000 :

It was funny. Even I upvoted it. 

eastsideTim said:

I wish. 8 times out of 10 when in online meetings, at least one idiot keeps having sidebars with their spouse or the TV is on in the background or something.  All meetings should default to everyone muted.

In reply to Duke :

Your coworkers suck. TV is never an issue for us, and spousal interruption hasn't happened that I can recall since April 2020. Worst we see is canine interruption, or occasional, sick-child interruption, which before all of this would have meant the meeting was canceled and moved altogether. 

Duke said:

I wish. 8 times out of 10 when in online meetings, at least one idiot keeps having sidebars with their spouse or the TV is on in the background or something.  All meetings should default to everyone muted.

 

One more reason many are being pushed to return to office.

In reply to Mr_Asa :

Duke said:

eastsideTim said:

I wish. 8 times out of 10 when in online meetings, at least one idiot keeps having sidebars with their spouse or the TV is on in the background or something.  All meetings should default to everyone muted.

 

All meetings should default to an email. 

Duke said:

 

I wish. 8 times out of 10 when in online meetings, at least one idiot keeps having sidebars with their spouse or the TV is on in the background or something.  All meetings should default to everyone muted.

 

I work with a lady that never mutes her mic and will answer any call coming to her desk even though she is in a meeting.  She sits right behind me, so when her phone rings, I just mute her mic in Teams.  There's only 2 people in those meetings that know that I do that.