I’m sorry y’all… I’m the one who convinced and helped out the owner of raycons to advertise on YouTube and podcasts before they launched there business, and I did so for free 😭

They’re just rebranded Ali express Chinese stuff with better packaging btw. At least back then they were, I don’t know about now

I like how you say months instead of years to make it seem shorter, and ignore the actual date of entry into the war for the USA.

Just admit you’re wrong, geez. Spam wasn’t developed for WW2, since it existed years before the war even started in Europe.

You don’t remember much from what you read about Spam did you.

Spam was developed for the US Army during WW2

I’m going to just stop you right there.

I don’t understand how someone can go on a fucking tirade so ignorantly wrong these days when SEARCH ENGINES AND WIKIPEDIA EXIST. It takes less than a giving damn minute to fucking check yourself damn it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(food)

Spam literally existed before WW2.

PS: what you make is still not spam, nor will have the consistency of spam, although it will be similarish. I’ve cured my own meats too, except without the phosphates or nitrates, because I had dialysis.

Obviously nobody was making regulation Coca-Cola, but the dividing line is getting a lot less clear already. Why is a distillate of some cursed local herb fine, but fresh-squeezed cochineal dye not?

That question is called moving the goal posts. We were talking about soda, not something else.

I actually have emusifiers in my kitchen, and I didn’t have to buy them anywhere weird.

That you bought an ingredient produced via industrial processes doesn’t negate that the ingredient was made with industrial processes. It’s not really a “traditional home cooked meal” if you’re still using something that requires extensive machinery or chemical processes to create - even if you didn’t create them in your kitchen.

Your argument on using the additives in your kitchen as a point that it’s not ultra processed anymore is equivalent to me buying chemistry supply and making some paracetamol and saying it’s not a pharmaceutical drug but more akin to a herbal remedy because I made it myself.

Just stopping to point out that’s not food, you aren’t supposed to swallow it. It’s about equally as close to candy as to a teething ring.

And yet it’s sold in the candy section and has calories via sugar. Weird that this is the one you were able to easily identify as ultra processed.

Concoctions involving naturally occurring carbonated spring water were/are definitely a thing.

And none of them were really what we would call “soda”. Heck the closest to that would be modern root beer. But considering the lack of other “medicinal” herbs, they definitely don’t count.

Have been around as long as sugar, which is longer than industrialisation.

A lot of candies, not all of them. Certain candies have emulsifiers and other ingredients that didn’t exist historically, so you couldn’t get that texture or such. And a lot of modern chewing gum is plastic, so I think I don’t have to explain why that’s not possible in the kitchen.

Not sure about spam, but isn’t that just canned ham?

I actually read a book all about Spam once that they had in my school library, because I thought it was funny they had such a book. The name purportedly comes from the parts used: shoulder of pork and ham. It was therefore considered fancier than just ham.

But to make it, you’re not just canning the meats. You also need those preservatives for one thing - they’re part of the taste. I’m not sure celery powder would work as a substitute like it does for ham and bacon though.

Well I guess soda is safe to classify then.

Don’t know why traditional home cooked sodas.

Guess Spam too. You can’t really really get that text or taste by making it at home.

Hmmm definitely a lot of candies too.

I’m pretty sure those are valuable just because I thought they didn’t make DDR4 in such a low configuration.

Like by having such a sophisticated username as “slurpingpus”?

But how does one switch from Lemmy to Piefed?

The UK citizen’s cuck part of the government.

Or, for a malicious compliance approach, plant and transfer rare and endangered species of plants and bugs there and turn it into a haven for them via active support.

I’m not a bot, but you are 💃

Fair

Why not just make a “super wonder machine” that fixes everything with a single button then?

And have it drift where hurricanes hit hardest.

Alternatively, with some help:

So it can float away from Canada and Mexico.

Putin might want it because he’s an idiot, but China would prefer the economic stability.

Realistically only China might come out of this winning.

Keyword “might” because they really screwed themselves over via one child policy.

And I’d like to imagine people aren’t as stupid and naive as you.

Yet here we are.

There’s an idea for using AI for good.

Start having Ai generated ads of things Maga likes so they end up destroying all their property.

In El Salvador, the nuns were way more hardcore than just using a ruler.

Once one made my dad kneel on raw rice while holding up books for half an hour.

My mom has to do something similar too but with salt outside in the sun, but for a bit less time.

I did. She “used to be a Lesbian”, but wasn’t able according to her.

Anyhow, she was very cheery and happy living there apparently.