# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=100 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 101 --- ## [Superman and Lois Season 3](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-and-lois-season-3/981271)
**Author:** [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Replies:** 117\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-and-lois-season-3/981271 "2024-12-03T17:42:33Z")
Season 3 of Superman and Lois is upon us. With the massacre of DC-TV (and the larger DCU), this may be the last season of the show, though no announcement one way or another has been made yet. Jordan Elsass, who played … --- ## [Leftovers Recipe Ideas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftovers-recipe-ideas/1010983)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leftovers-recipe-ideas/1010983 "2024-12-03T17:10:58Z")
It’s that time again. What to do with all these leftovers? Today I took stock and I have-- a whole tray of mushrooms that did not get used, the greater part of a 13 pound turkey, stuffing and collard greens. How about so… --- ## [Dream On by Aerosmith](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-by-aerosmith/1010971)
**Author:** [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dream-on-by-aerosmith/1010971 "2024-12-03T04:04:45Z")
I was probably 13 or so when it was on the radio and I remember liking the song. Never bought the album, the only one I ever had was Toys in the Attic, and for about 40 years since I have not listened much to Aerosmith,… --- ## [WICKED Q: The Shiz University campus](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wicked-q-the-shiz-university-campus/1011087)
**Author:** [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wicked-q-the-shiz-university-campus/1011087 "2024-12-03T03:08:02Z")
Were the Alhambra-style exteriors of Shiz University based on an existing American university? I swear I’ve seen them before in one of those “20 Best University Campus” articles (and also that collee that Buffy Summers b… --- ## [Can we realistically reduce Food Waste?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-realistically-reduce-food-waste/1010979)
**Author:** [@fedman1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fedman1)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [December 3, 2024, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-realistically-reduce-food-waste/1010979 "2024-12-03T00:11:43Z")
(Caveat: these percentages are my amateur estimates; I’m sure there are studies with more precise figures) There has been discussions regarding reducing Food Waste, but I have my doubts that will happen. We live in a co… --- ## [Is the slow dance still a thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-slow-dance-still-a-thing/1011031)
**Author:** [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Replies:** 45\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-slow-dance-still-a-thing/1011031 "2024-12-02T23:34:48Z")
Last week, I chaperoned a dance at my school. Most of the music they played just sounded like noise to me, but then, I suppose that that’s how it’s always been, from one generation to the next. But one specific differe… --- ## [Mammy Yokum's attire](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammy-yokums-attire/1011075)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2024, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mammy-yokums-attire/1011075 "2024-12-02T21:30:15Z")
I’ve had Li’l Abner strips popping up in my Facebook feed this week. Most of the characters in the strip wear stereotypical hillbilly clothes. But for some reason, Mammy Yokum seems to follow her own strange fashion mus… --- ## [Is Thai booze as bad as the Bond movies say?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thai-booze-as-bad-as-the-bond-movies-say/665359)
**Author:** [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2024, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-thai-booze-as-bad-as-the-bond-movies-say/665359 "2024-12-02T20:09:19Z")
In the film version of You Only Live Twice, Bond makes an unflattering comment about Siamese vodka. In the film version of The Man With the Golden Gun, Bond makes an unflattering comment about Thai wine. Specifically, a… --- ## [Random thoughts about movies](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-about-movies/1010938)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2024, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/random-thoughts-about-movies/1010938 "2024-12-02T15:30:33Z")
Since I haven’t started my second cuppa joe yet, I’m not sure I can adequately explain; but I’ll try. I’ll be watching a movie, and I’ll notice something that is incidental to a scene and wonder about it. Usually it’s … --- ## [Monthly Photo Competition #24 – November, 2024 – “Food” \[poll added\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-24-november-2024-food-poll-added/1009587)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2024, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-photo-competition-24-november-2024-food-poll-added/1009587 "2024-12-02T11:24:05Z")
This is the monthly thread for November , 2024. The topic this month is “Food”, chosen by @Strinka Please post only your photo and, if you want, a title in this thread. Any other text belongs in the rolling discussion t… --- ## [Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - November 2024 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2024-edition/1009478)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [December 2, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2024-edition/1009478 "2024-12-02T01:15:00Z")
turns around slowly Waitadarnminute…You there! Yes YOU! Aren’t you October trying to sneak out the door?! What do you think this month is??? A ding, dong, dash? Seriously, how is October over and 2024 nearly over? Where… --- ## [Recipe help: Ingredient no longer available in form called for](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-help-ingredient-no-longer-available-in-form-called-for/1010336)
**Author:** [@LucyInDisguise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LucyInDisguise)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-help-ingredient-no-longer-available-in-form-called-for/1010336 "2024-12-01T22:13:03Z")
Background: My wife is Danish, and each holiday season she makes a traditional dish we know simply as Red Cabbage. The recipe calls for (2) 12oz cans of frozen cranberry-raspberry concentrate, which a brief search of th… --- ## [Cooking with turmeric](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-turmeric/1010672)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-with-turmeric/1010672 "2024-12-01T14:20:23Z")
We have turmeric in the cupboard, but I rarely use it. Sometimes I’ll bake chicken tenderloins with kosher salt and turmeric. Served with broccoli, it’s a quick and easy meal. I’ve just found this recipe: That look… --- ## [The Shaggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shaggs/1010437)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 46\ **Last updated:** [December 1, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-shaggs/1010437 "2024-12-01T00:14:43Z")
I’m gonna guess most of you are passing familiar with this girl group from the 60s. I got to reading about them, and there’s a story there somewhere. Their dad was a Bizarro Murray Wilson. Where Murray pushed his boys to… --- ## [Subbing fresh mushrooms for canned ones](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subbing-fresh-mushrooms-for-canned-ones/1010922)
**Author:** [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2024, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/subbing-fresh-mushrooms-for-canned-ones/1010922 "2024-11-30T14:44:08Z")
In a few days I will be making my mom’s old tetrazzini recipe to use up some Thanksgiving leftovers. Like many recipes from that era, it calls for canned mushrooms. While I have nothing against the canned variety, I ha… --- ## [Killers Of The Flower Moon (open spoilers after first post)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killers-of-the-flower-moon-open-spoilers-after-first-post/997317)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2024, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/killers-of-the-flower-moon-open-spoilers-after-first-post/997317 "2024-11-30T12:44:39Z")
I haven’t seen a discussion of this movie, yet. (Maybe i missed it?) I just saw it a couple days ago and was really impressed. We did take an intermission (and eat lunch in the middle of it) but it held my attention. The… --- ## ["Wedding at Cana" by Veronese](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-at-cana-by-veronese/1010776)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2024, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wedding-at-cana-by-veronese/1010776 "2024-11-30T08:52:22Z")
(Note: Continuing the discussion from Have you ever been underwhelmed? and What's an underappreciated work of classic art?) Those discussions mentioned an old painting, The Wedding at Cana by Veronese (Wikipedia). Or s… --- ## [Gammon vs. ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gammon-vs-ham/1010731)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2024, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gammon-vs-ham/1010731 "2024-11-30T05:51:34Z")
AIUI, the difference between gammon and ham is that ham is cooked, and gammon is sold raw. Is gammon sold in the United States? When British people serve gammon, is it really gammon? Or is it just what they call their… --- ## [Million dollar/six year old kid sister art {Banana Art}](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/million-dollar-six-year-old-kid-sister-art-banana-art/1010616)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 64\ **Last updated:** [November 30, 2024, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/million-dollar-six-year-old-kid-sister-art-banana-art/1010616 "2024-11-30T00:39:34Z")
Duct-taped banana sells for $6.2M at art auction | KSL.com So a banana duct taped to a wall sells for over $6 million at auction recently. This sort of thing is hardly news these days. I seem to recall a glass vial full… --- ## [Hungarian nut rolls](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hungarian-nut-rolls/1010889 "2024-11-29T21:46:05Z")
I just picked up one. Here in Cleveland they are an essential part of Thanksgiving and Christmas. I know they are popular with the European communities in the Great Lakes area. But I have learned that a lot of foods that… --- ## [Riches to Rags cliche](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riches-to-rags-cliche/1010897)
**Author:** [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [November 29, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/riches-to-rags-cliche/1010897 "2024-11-29T17:14:48Z")
Perhaps most familiar to readers here by the example in the movie “Trading Places”: formerly fabulously rich and successful people not merely fall but fall so far that they become homeless derelicts. It’s a popular trope… --- ## [Surely you know who died yesterday \[Jim Abrahams\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surely-you-know-who-died-yesterday-jim-abrahams/1010855)
**Author:** [@goodkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodkitty)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2024, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surely-you-know-who-died-yesterday-jim-abrahams/1010855 "2024-11-28T22:30:24Z")
I don’t know if these guys invented this type of humor, there are probably plenty of examples it throughout the history of TV/Movies. But I think Airplane was the first movie that the entire movie is not… --- ## [Making food Hawaiian](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-food-hawaiian/1010734)
**Author:** [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Replies:** 41\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2024, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-food-hawaiian/1010734 "2024-11-28T17:52:32Z")
The challenge: take some typical American dish and try to pass it off as Hawaiian without using pineapple. Inspired by my visit to barbecue place and ordering the Big Kahuna burger, which was just a cheeseburger with a s… --- ## [Id this SyFy alien invasion movie ~5 years ago](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-syfy-alien-invasion-movie-5-years-ago/1010849)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-syfy-alien-invasion-movie-5-years-ago/1010849 "2024-11-28T15:56:49Z")
I recall it as somewhat similar to “Independence Day.” The main thing I remember is the aliens deployed these autonomous flying portable band saws. --- ## [Apollo 13: Survival (Netflix) — a good documentary](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-13-survival-netflix-a-good-documentary/1010853)
**Author:** [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [November 28, 2024, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/apollo-13-survival-netflix-a-good-documentary/1010853 "2024-11-28T08:57:44Z")
Haise, Swigert, Lovell of Apollo 13 The wife and I watched it last night. It’s apparently been available since 06 September. Has anyone else seen it? It was quite good. F… --- ## ["A Few Good Men" Would Jessup's charge stick?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-good-men-would-jessups-charge-stick/533437)
**Author:** [@JCorre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCorre)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-good-men-would-jessups-charge-stick/533437 "2024-11-27T19:52:34Z")
I just watched the movie tonight. After the climactic scene in which Jessup admitted to the code red order under oath and he was arrested I was wondering: \[ul\] \[li\]Would Caffey conceivably get assigned to defend Jessu… --- ## [Cooking rice](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-rice/1010302)
**Author:** [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cooking-rice/1010302 "2024-11-27T00:15:14Z")
I recently bought a packet of ‘sticky’ rice for the first time. It said I could cook it in two ways: tear off corner of packet and microwave for two minutes take rice out of packet, add a small amount of boiling water… --- ## [What’s the deal with the trailers for “Kraven the Hunter?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-deal-with-the-trailers-for-kraven-the-hunter/1010464)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 33\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-deal-with-the-trailers-for-kraven-the-hunter/1010464 "2024-11-26T19:21:18Z")
They seem to be suggesting that he’s a GOOD guy! He’s one of Spider-Man’s villains! What’s going on with this bullshit? --- ## [Gardening Season 2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardening-season-2024/1000107)
**Author:** [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Replies:** 140\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gardening-season-2024/1000107 "2024-11-26T16:48:04Z")
In 2021 there were 219 posts in the gardening thread. This was reduced to 133 posts in 2022 and only 9 posts in the 2023 thread. Has everyone quit gardening? --- ## ["next time we meet - ice cream" mention/origin?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-time-we-meet-ice-cream-mention-origin/1010800)
**Author:** [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 26, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/next-time-we-meet-ice-cream-mention-origin/1010800 "2024-11-26T15:03:29Z")
In Hebrew there’s a phrase that translates to “third time - ice cream.” It is generally said when someone meets someone (by chance) for a third time in a row, There is no ice cream purchased, just the expression is said. … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=99) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=101)