Oh man, I laughed my ass off at this exchange. Read it to my wife and she laughed. And yeah, you hit the grocery store at the right time of day it’s a MILF emporium.
If they are there at 3pm then they are not working and in order to do anything with them you better be doing better than the person currently funding their lifestyle. Just saying.
Right around the time I was getting serious with my now wife, I stopped in the grocery store on the way home, and a very attractive woman hit on me relentlessly throughout the store, including practically chasing me to my car. In addition to being a little weirded out, I was half convinced it was some kind of test, and this was some friend of my wife. So yeah- side eye fuck and moved along.
Boooo. Boooooooo! Next time, whip out your junk, say something about your "produce section" and ask to "squeeze the melons" gah.
What's everyone's opinion on hard apple ciders? I'm a fan of Downeast but I'm sure there's better stuff out there.
We’ve got a bunch of local cider makers around here that are pretty good. I’ll drink hard cider seasonally but that’s about it. I’ve made my own as well. I like it, just not all the time.
I quite like them... we have a local producer (Heeman's) that makes various apple and berry ciders, as well as meads, and they are fantastic.
All my favorites have been discontinued; it's a tragedy. Crispin used to make a cider called The Saint which had maple syrup in it and was amazing, before going completely out of business. Apparently they've been resurrected, but with a pretty simple lineup that does not include The Saint. Angry Orchard is kind of the budweiser of ciders, but they did make a pair of specialty "apple wines" that were like double the normal ABV and quite good: The Iceman and The Strawman. Those have also been discontinued. Downeast isn't bad, nor is Woodchuck up in VT.
I agree on Angry Orchard. Way too sweet for my liking. I like cider that is more dry than sweet. I would argue Woodchuck > Downeast, just seems to be harder to find.
Woodchuck, Magners and most of Angry orchard are too sweet, but AO does have some dry versions that I like. In general, IMO, cider is like beer, in that the big market mass produced stuff isn’t very good, but the smaller batch and local ciders can be very good.
I'm not a big cider guy, but I like the Fighting Elleck and Picket from Arsenal Cider House out of Pittsburgh. They have a pretty wide range of ciders and they ship to most states.
I tried to keep my irritation at being without power for the last few days under check. Because it was about as good a time weather wise for it to happen. And also some places northwest of me got destroyed by flooding as we talked about. This is the upper part of my county. Dirty Dancing was filmed in the Lake Lure area. The Last of the Mohicans was filmed in Chimney Rock. They both got flattened. It keeps it in perspective. https://www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/video-chimney-rock-north-carolina-helene-flood-aftermath
Yea. It's not a case of this place is horribly damaged by a hurricane, its this place no longer exists.
And, it's not just places that no longer exist. There are parts of interstates and highways that are gone. Interstates. If people think that isn't going to impact costs over a wider area, they're living in a delusion. There are some retirement communities that the one bridge in / out or road in / out is just gone. So, they're entirely cut off.
Reminds me of the pictures after the Northridge quake. LA had an earthquake this morning, and all the comments were like "NOT FUCKING NOW SAN ANDREAS! FEMA IS BUSY!"