u/Special-Steel — reddlx

A man sees a men’s store with a suit on sale…

It should be expensive. Hart Shaffer and Marks, but it’s only $100!

So he goes in and asks if he can get one in a size 44. The salesperson says, “well we don’t actually have and in stock. The owner puts that in the window to get people like you to come in. Can I show you something else?”

The man goes on his way, and a block down, sees the same suit in a different store window. Price is $1800. But he gets an idea.

He enters the store and asks, “do you price match?”

“Yes, I own this store and I will not just match, but beat any competitor pricing.”

“Well your competition has that same suit priced at $100! So what would be your price for a size 44?”

“If I was out of stock, like my friend up the street, it would be $50.”

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u/Special-Steel — 6 days ago

▲ 4 r/smoking

Complete the sentence. Your know you are a real smoker when….

If you do this enough there are lots of ways to end this statement. Like…

- The neighbors call the fire department because of the volume of your smoke

- Your pit “seasoning” catches fire.

- Your pit chimney catches fire

How do your finish the sentence.

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u/Special-Steel — 6 days ago

▲ 1 r/citi

Citi transition = total disaster

OK, I get it.

Credit card business defines what airlines are now. But if that is your business, you might expect it would be done with some degree of professionalism.

Not so in the transition from Barclays to Citi.

Zero meaningful communication so far no idea when a new physical card will actually show up web links to be set up on Citi are dead links more than 50% of the time.

Perhaps most critically, Citi appears to have more than one logon portal. When you set up your log on credentials, it does not propagate across these portals so setting up your log on won’t actually let you log on depending on which link Citi sent you.

There may be something Citi could do to make this more irritating right now. I can’t think what that would be.

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u/Special-Steel — 11 days ago

▲ 48 r/Old_Recipes

One of the dangers of this subreddit is the urge to buy cookbooks.

When the James Beard “cook it outdoors” was mentioned on this subreddit, I ended up buying one.

It is an odd thing.

First it was written in the Great Depression. Published in mid 1941, it must have been written in 39 and 40. Hard times. Yet a lot of the food is very elegant.

Second, a lot of it is just odd. Some dishes are not recipes at all. They are just streams of conscience. Like what is a great snack tray which leads to an assessment of the promise of American cheese vs his favorite Swiss varieties.

Third some of the recipes simply could not be made outside in any kitchen of the time and maybe not now in 99% of backyard kitchens. Some of the sauces are described in terms which assume detailed knowledge of classic French cuisine.

Apparently if you might use something outside, or serve it outside that was enough.

Finally, some recipes are incomplete and obviously untested. He describes how wonderful a marinated steak can be. He suggests an olive oil and lemon juice marinade but neglects to provide ratios. Worse, he suggests leaving the steak out at room temperature for up to 24 hours.

This is just nuts. The steak will not be safe to eat, and the acid will have denatured the surface layers of the meat making it look fuzzy like velvet.

The book is very entertaining. Beard is fun to read. But cooking outside is clearly not where he earned his reputation.

u/Special-Steel — 19 days ago