• 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I don’t get the hate for Arby’s. The brisket sandwich and their sauce are good as fuck. Maybe it would have made a difference back when they first started and were like 5x more expensive than the competition (their signature sandwich was $0.69 when the next most expensive fast food was $0.10) 🤔

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 days ago

      Well, I don’t go there for two reasons -

      • Their vegan options don’t seem that interesting.
      • They don’t seem to have a presence in the continent I’m on.
      • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        16 days ago

        I had an ex who was so excited to take me to Arby’s for the first time. It was gross. I held my tongue as she went on about how much she loved their horsy sauce and cheese stuff, but it was nasty. She had terrible taste in food.

    • thirteene@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I have a standing theory that people that hate Arby’s used too much horsey sauce, or gets older dry meat repeatedly. I don’t love the place, but they don’t deserve that much hate.

      • the_doktor@lemmy.zip
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        16 days ago

        1. Go to Arby’s

        2. Get their roast beef sandwich

        3. Stop by the grocery store

        4. Get REAL horseradish sauce

        5. Go home or wherever, put the real horseradish sauce on your roast beef sandwiches, enjoy.

        Arby sauce and their “horsey” sauce are garbage. Their actual foods are mostly fine.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      It’s not top notch, but depending on what you get they have some gems. The buffalo chicken sandwich is super simple and good.

    • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      16 days ago

      The curly fries are good if you can get them hot and, y’know, cooked all the way through. Arby’s is very consistently disappointing as an experience.

    • nomous@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Yeah I fuck with Arbys, that sauce is dope and the Jamocha shake is pretty good too.

      I have a thing for bad gas station food too though so I might not be the best judge.

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I dunno, some gas stations have good shit. Had a pre-packed Italian sub from a Loves truckstop that blew most sandwich chains out of the water. Loves is kinda cheating as far as “gas station food” goes tho.

          • nomous@lemmy.world
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            16 days ago

            Chicken strips are exactly what I was thinking! We have a “Chesters Chicken” attached to some of the gas stations here that have these big battered potato slices, they’re almost a meal by themselves!

          • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            16 days ago

            Ive heard of Krispy Krunchy chicken in a shell gas station before, i dont remember it being very good tho.

            There’s a chain called Huey Magoos that is pretty good. Zaxbys is great too but the nearest one is like, a 2 hour drive from me

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      It’s all just salty processed meat block. It’s absolute shit compared to the real thing. It’s like they are advertising fancy German brats and then serve you a hotdog.

  • letsgo@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    Oi I’m not wiping my manly butthole with those pink girly wipes. That’d be GAY or probably something equally incoherent.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I’d never heard of Dude Wipes, and I don’t get the point of them at all. I’d probably buy Gendered Butthole Wipes, though, I love the name!

      • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
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        14 days ago

        I remember reading somewhere that men’s buttholes are tougher than women’s and therefore more resilient to anal sex. It was in a thread though where feminists were complaining about anal sex being degrading and potentially injurious for women, so take it with a grain of salt.

      • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Lol at the idea of gendered buttholes… like a dude burning down a California town celebrating his butthole’s gender reveal.

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          15 days ago

          I mentioned Dude Wipes to my wife, and she said that they were popular with the young teens she works with. Apparently they’re not for your butthole specifically, but just general cleanliness wherever.

  • TTH4P@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    I was given that exact red quesadilla maker for a work anniversary. I used it to make quesadillas, ngl.

  • paultimate14@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    A few years ago my friend’s father passed away. My friend’s mother continued to live in the house for another year or so. She never worked and had to eventually sell the house and downsize.

    My friend had referred to her mother as a hoarder before. I’ve seen the reality TV shows about hoarders. But you don’t really understand just how bad the problem is until you spend several days helping your friend clean out their childhood home for sale, filling up several dumpster bags worth of… Stuff. Apparently the mother has always had some mental health problems and a shopping addiction, but spending over a year alone in that house drove her off the deep end.

    We could have opened an entire new Harbor Freight store. There were clothes in sizes I didn’t know existed. My wife casually found a pistol just shoved in a random box. It was madness.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      My MIL once brought a trash bag full of clothes for my wife, from friend who didn’t want them. Most of them were brand new with tags still on them. We thought it was strange, but they mostly fit and we didn’t think too much about it. Next visit she brings two more big garbage bags of new clothes, and one of the bags had dirt (like actual earth/dirt) on the outside. It turned out that the friend was a shopaholic and had been stashing the bags of clothes under the house so her husband didn’t see, but she was running out of room, and was trying to make space.

      We stopped taking the clothes. It felt like taking advantage of someone’s mental illness. Never met the lady, but seemed sad.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I grew up in this kind of house. My spouse retrained me. I didn’t know that it was weird for your living space to smell like urine.

  • thorbot@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Dude wipes are the most toxic masculine bullshit product I’ve ever seen. Honestly who the fuck buys that shit except the most fragile male ego in the universe

    • glitchdx@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      They’re larger than regular wipes, and the chemicals are less irritating. Compare to cottonelle wipes which make my down there burn, and the choice is easy. These days I prefer crocodile wipes though.

    • Clent@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      Not to go political but have you paid any attention to the number of supporters of the king of fragile male egos, their king? It’s a huuuge market segment.

      • Clent@lemmy.world
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        15 days ago

        Yes, Real Men™️ fall for toxic masculinity marketing tactics. Real Men™️! Also, just your average mindless consumer regardless of gender but Real Men™️, too! Especially, Real Men™️!

        Be Real Men™️

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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      16 days ago

      Agreed. Stop flushing wipes, none of them are “flushable”. If it doesn’t dissolve from light manipulation when wet, it’s not flushable.

      Bidet. Just get one. They’re like $30 and take 10min to install. Clean buttholes forever.

          • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
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            16 days ago

            Guess I was wrong about price… it’s $850 but it’s the Toto S550e. Bought it two years ago and haven’t regretted it at all. I’m actually going to have an electrician come out to install plugs in the other bathrooms to put bidets in all of them.

            The one I have now also sprays the front area for the ladies to I can’t comment on that but might be why it’s so expensive.

            The seat heats, the water is warm that sprays, auto open… pretty much all you need. I will say that as a dude on the taller side (6’ 2”), I really have to scoot my ass forward quite a bit so I’d probably find something else for my next bidet.

            TOTO SW3056#01 S550E Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat with Cleansing Warm, Nightlight, Auto Open and Close Lid, Instantaneous Water Heating, and EWATER+

            https://a.co/d/8Xao9AX

            • akakunai@lemmy.ca
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              16 days ago

              Ah man, you’ve got a Cadillac.

              I had me an old Panasonic model at my old apartment that wasn’t as nice but goddamn if you set that MF to the strongest setting 🫨🫨. The thing would clean your ass, rectum and colon lol.

            • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
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              16 days ago

              Ah that’s a lot more features then even the nice hotel in Korea had. The instant heat and all the automatic stuff is probably why it’s so expensive.

              The second nozzle for vulvas is standard on even cheap models.

        • akakunai@lemmy.ca
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          16 days ago

          I know a guy that said he doesn’t wash around his ass when he showers because “that’s gay as hell”. I don’t even wanna know what kind of biome he’s got flourishing down there.

    • bbuez@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Anything other than a bidet, bonus points for charging more for having more ‘masculine’ advertising

    • downpunxx@fedia.io
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      16 days ago

      when you have large hands and a large asshole that takes large messy shits, you need a larger than normal ass wipe. dude wipes is the largest asswipe on the market. no cap.

      • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        I’m a caregiver for a man who needs coaching through the entire bathroom hygiene process and I can say that in my professional opinion, Dude Wipes are terrible. They pull apart just getting them out of the package (see below), let alone when someone with dexterity issues tries to clean their butthole with them. He ended up with a poop covered hand after pulling the bits of pulled apart dude wipe out from his butt.

        They are the largest “flushable” wipes, but are smaller than a normal baby wipe. Flushable wipes shouldn’t be flushed anyway, just bite the bullet and get the one with the baby on it.

      • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Fine, but now big gals with same need to buy “dude wipes.” Just call it heavy duty, or industrial strength.

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I buy them because they smell like mint. I prefer them over normal wet wipes. I didn’t think this was such a passionate issue for people.

      • Classy@sh.itjust.works
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        16 days ago

        Yeah same, I got ones that smell like Shea butter, they’re pretty nice. I mean if the store had other ones branded differently with the same wipes I would just buy those lol. I feel like the only ones triggered by the imagery are ironically the guys who are insecure in their masculinity and feel threatened by a literal moist toilette.

        • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          15 days ago

          I buy the product, the comment attacks people who buy the product. I’m quite literally the target group. “For some reason”

  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I would probably hate wet sandwiches too. Glad my Arby’s near me doesn’t have wet sandwiches. It sucjs that even with all the work franchises do to try and make sure each location is as similar as possible, some people just get unlucky that the one they live close to sucks.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Arby’s can be pretty good if you get stuff other than their regular roast beef. I like their reubens, gyros, and jamocha shakes.

    That said, they’re definitely not as good as they used to be. I miss their sliced roast chicken sandwiches, both the normal one that came with tomato and shredded lettuce and mayo, but more particularly the “triple cheese and bacon” roast chicken sandwich that they had like 20 years ago with sliced swiss, cheddar sauce, and parmesan spread.

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    The quesadilla maker’s pretty useful. Skillets only cook food on one side at a time, you know.

    • troybot [he/him]@midwest.social
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      16 days ago

      Mine has been sitting in the back of my cupboard for at least a decade. This post just remindied me to donate the thing to Goodwill. There once was a time when I would eat a quesadilla on a regular basis. At this point in life I can’t justify having a whole appliance for making only one type of dish.

  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Liquid Death? It’s just fucking water. There’s already water in your house you don’t need a fucking can with a threatening name for it.

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
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      16 days ago

      while i am a proponent that different brands of water is different and there is a difference in taste, ill never defend overpriced water.

      like you arent going to give me a bottle of arrowhead water.

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I hope you guys are memeing because getting passionately mad over guy branded stuff that we just find kinda neat is a new level of stupid I haven’t been exposed to yet. I want my asshole to smell like mint, so I buy dude wipes. I want canned water to cut down on plastic usage, so I buy liquid death. I want a burger that’s not made of animals so I buy a beyond burger. Beyond what? I don’t fucking know I just want a burger.

      It’s not that deep.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      16 days ago

      I’ve heard of kids who have been too corrupted by drink marketing to drink water drinking liquid death. If it gets demographics who wouldn’t otherwise drink water to drink water I can’t get upset about it

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      16 days ago

      eh I find their tall boys of sparking water have made it so I hardly drink alcohol at all now.

      It’s worth $1.57 to fool my brain, and certainly cheaper than the same amount of beer.

      • PLAVAT🧿S@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        16 days ago

        I had heard that’s the point, to a degree, or at least to help people with a drinking problem not feel ostracized while out with friends.

    • otacon239@feddit.de
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      16 days ago

      Okay, but their teas are actually pretty darn good and not loaded with sugar. I agree about the water though.

      (Although, aluminum is essentially infinitely recyclable compared to plastic, so is probably a better alternative to bottled water)

      • Baguette@lemm.ee
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        16 days ago

        If you have a local filtered water supplier you can bring a large reusable container and refill water from there. That way you still get the filtered water taste but cut out shipping

        • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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          16 days ago

          My local filtered water supplier is the fucking city I pay taxes to and it’s just fine. I don’t understand why so many people are afraid of tap water. I can download fifty fucking years of water testing data. I can get my home water tested for free every year. And you still have these assholes out here who drink nothing but plastic bottled water because it’s $5 per case from Aldi. That shit should have at least $5 of taxes added to it which go straight to the municipal supply.

          • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
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            15 days ago

            I’m not afraid of tap water but, in the city I live in, it tastes like pool water and I find that highly unpleasant.

          • Baguette@lemm.ee
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            16 days ago

            Nothing wrong with tap, it’s the best choice if your city has proper mechanisms to ensure tap water quality. Unfortunately not all cities invested in good infrastructure. Theres still a couple of US cities with either bad pipes or local water pollution

      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        16 days ago

        Hate to break it to you, the inside of cans are still lined with plastic. Still marginally better than plastic bottles though.

    • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      I heard the branding was to help recovering alcoholics, so they don’t feel like they’re “missing out,” and won’t stand out so much with a scary can instead of a water bottle/glass. So they can still crack a cold one with the boys and such.

      • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
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        16 days ago

        I’d believe this with how much I see Steve-O drinking it on his YouTube channel. The dude made a point to drive a whole ass vending machine of Liquid Death across the country to his new home lol. At his previous home in California, it was apparently up against the coping of the half pipe in his backyard so you could do trick off of it.

  • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    The apple watch one is stupid, almost everyone I’ve talked to that owns an apple watch bought it because it’s one of the best in terms of collecting metadata and stats regarding your heath:

    • blood oxygen level
    • heart rate monitoring and notifications
    • irregular rhythm notifications (like atrial fibrillation)
    • can capture an ECG in combination with monitor alert/notifs or any time you want
    • fall detection

    I could go on and on. The apple watch was a GAME CHANGER for my elderly grandmother as well as my own damn self as heart problems run in my family history.

    but go ahead, apple bad and thus anything apple is also terrible and anyone that owns one is an asshole

    • the_doktor@lemmy.zip
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      16 days ago

      it’s one of the best in terms of collecting metadata and stats regarding your heath

      …and sharing that to Apple, your mobile provider, the government, your health care provider, and every huge business who wants to know everything about you against every single bit of privacy we as human beings should have by default. Apple is an evil corporation (and so is Google, and Amazon, and Microsoft, and tons of others) and the less information you give them, the better. If you want to monitor your health, find a device that YOU control and does not give the information to anyone you do not approve of. (And Apple will say they don’t, but it’s been shown in the past that this is a huge lie for so many other things they swear to keep private.)