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[wierd]

Which one? I know for a fact that GreatValue Toaster Pastry is still a thing.

As is BestChoice Toaster Pastry

[Mech#4]

I was very disappointed with Oreos when I tried some. They're very coco-ey tasting, like baking chocolate and the cream is just kind of meh. Much prefer TimTams or Shortbread Creams.

[McTraveller]

I'm still disappointed that they changed the Oreo recipe.  They are more... crispy than they used to be, among other things.

[Frumple]

Oreos are best once they've basically gone stale and turned kinda' squishy, tbh. Their out of packaging state is thoroughly bleh.

[Great Order]

This lack of rain is actually getting a bit absurd. All of July and June we've had nothing more than brief, heavy showers. The fact that there's any water still flowing in the rivers and streams seems something of a miracle.

[Grim Portent]

The dog has managed to cry about my mother being out of the house (went to the movies with my father) more or less constantly for about four hours now. How he hasn't given up or decided to go to sleep and wait is beyond me.

EDIT: He finally seems to have quietened down.

All he's wanted to do for the past while is cry to be let out, just so he can sit in the front garden and wait for my mother to return. I'd be fine with letting him do so, but the garden isn't secure so he can't be out in it without some level of supervision or he might jump the wall, which he has done before.

[Frumple]

While back we got one of those anti-bark collars (not a zappy one, but lets out a fairly loud noise when the dog gets too loud) for the dog here and, like. It works pretty well? Might give it a try if it becomes a significant issue.

in personal wtf, I'm starting to think my boss has a vendetta against packing materials. Came back from being sick for a few days and they've yet again yeeted all the boxes and packing paper (and the reusable mailers, which were previously left alone) we were keeping around to ship stuff with. It's now something I have to talk to them about instead of just an odd quirk, because they've managed to toss a bunch of stuff we, like... needed to do our job. There's things we just straight up can't ship out at the moment, due to them chucking everything we had big enough to fit it.

... it's extra problematic due to us having built back up a decent stock of boxes. Think somewhere over a hundred bucks worth of usable boxes and miscellaneous other packing supplies got trashed this time, which is, just... yeah.

[Vector]

Pop tarts just started being a thing when I was a kid, and I remember that eating them untoasted used to be the "rogue" consumption. Kinda like the kids that just ate their ramen noodle as a brick and then the flavor packet, no hot water involved. Or cereal without milk or any other liquid. Or pouring hot juice over your oatmeal instead of actually boiling it up.

Now it's the normal one I guess!

[Ziusudra]

Pop tarts just started being a thing when I was a kid, and I remember that eating them untoasted used to be the "rogue" consumption. Kinda like the kids that just ate their ramen noodle as a brick and then the flavor packet, no hot water involved.

Eating ramen like that isn't "rogue" it's psychotic.

[McTraveller]

I used to drive past the Kellog's factory in Muncy, PA.  The air smelled like pop tarts for around a mile, sometimes more if the wind was blowing just so.

[Rolan7]

Pop tarts just started being a thing when I was a kid, and I remember that eating them untoasted used to be the "rogue" consumption. Kinda like the kids that just ate their ramen noodle as a brick and then the flavor packet, no hot water involved.

Eating ramen like that isn't "rogue" it's psychotic.

Yeah ramen's kinda sharp for that.  Letting it soak in room temperature water for at least 20 minutes is a lot more pleasant. 
If I'm going to bother to "cook" quick-ramen, I'm breaking out the eggs and cutting board vegetables and making a proper meal of it.  At which point the only reason not to make a rice dish is variety.

Also, quick-ramen is a little greasy already but benefits from adding a bit more vegetable oil IMO.  And maybe using one "flavor" (salt) packet per two bricks, or better yet, some miso paste.

I used to love eating instant oatmeal dry while hiking.  And adding liquid to any cereal besides grape nuts is still weird to me.  Especially milk, bleh.  Yes I was making gruel out of grape nuts, it was better than dousing crystalline sugar in milk like most kids.

I used to drive past the Kellog's factory in Muncy, PA.  The air smelled like pop tarts for around a mile, sometimes more if the wind was blowing just so.

Speaking of Kellog, my love of bland cereal did not have the effect he claimed it should have.

[Vector]

Pop tarts just started being a thing when I was a kid, and I remember that eating them untoasted used to be the "rogue" consumption. Kinda like the kids that just ate their ramen noodle as a brick and then the flavor packet, no hot water involved.

Eating ramen like that isn't "rogue" it's psychotic.

welcome to elemeeeeeentary schooooooooooooooooooooool

[Loud Whispers]

Pop tarts just started being a thing when I was a kid, and I remember that eating them untoasted used to be the "rogue" consumption. Kinda like the kids that just ate their ramen noodle as a brick and then the flavor packet, no hot water involved.

Eating ramen like that isn't "rogue" it's psychotic.

Horrors beyond ramen imagination

[Rolan7]

Horrors beyond ramen imagination

I hate croutons in my salad but other than that this seems enlightened NGL

[Frumple]

And maybe using one "flavor" (salt) packet per two bricks, or better yet, some miso paste.

Like, when I started experimenting with seasonings, I found you can pretty easily stretch one of those packets out over like... 8+ other meals, and still taste plenty strong. You don't need one packet per two bricks, you need one packet per like dozen bricks. There's just way too much goddamn salt in those things.