# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=109 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 110 --- ## ["Bridgerton" ball was a Wonka-esque flop](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridgerton-ball-was-a-wonka-esque-flop/1008204)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bridgerton-ball-was-a-wonka-esque-flop/1008204 "2024-09-28T18:55:56Z")
I never watched the show, but I saw the headline and had to check it out. These kinds of abysmally-planned events are clearly set up to be grifts, aren’t they? Just trying to pull in money? --- ## [Tupperware inc files for bankruptcy 70s and 80s kids sob](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tupperware-inc-files-for-bankruptcy-70s-and-80s-kids-sob/1007457)
**Author:** [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Replies:** 79\ **Last updated:** [September 28, 2024, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tupperware-inc-files-for-bankruptcy-70s-and-80s-kids-sob/1007457 "2024-09-28T12:11:56Z")
Wow, this one brings back memories of playing Atari in the bedroom with the cousins while Mom and Aunts took turns having the parties. The snacks were the best! tho And yes, Aunt still has a lot of hers. LOL. Though I h… --- ## [How to cook steelhead trout: need answer fast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-steelhead-trout-need-answer-fast/1007626)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-cook-steelhead-trout-need-answer-fast/1007626 "2024-09-27T21:13:07Z")
My husband doesn’t eat fish, so i rarely cook it. But i like fish, my adult daughter (who lives with us) likes fish, and my husband is out of town. So i went to the supermarket and picked up some thing labeled “steelhead… --- ## [Culturally/Regionally common foods and drinks you've never tried](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culturally-regionally-common-foods-and-drinks-youve-never-tried/676221)
**Author:** [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Replies:** 104\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culturally-regionally-common-foods-and-drinks-youve-never-tried/676221 "2024-09-27T19:43:44Z")
Thanksgiving reminds me of common foods I’ve never tried, and then there’s Christmas for a beverage most people I know seem to enjoy. Most of them just seem like they’d be gross. Others are because of ethical objections.… --- ## [Haitian food](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haitian-food/1007226)
**Author:** [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2024, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haitian-food/1007226 "2024-09-27T16:13:46Z")
All kidding about cats-as-food aside, I’m now curious what Haitian cuisine is like. I loves me some jerk chicken, but that’s a Jamaican thing. Does Haitian food have similar Caribbean tendencies, or is there more Fren… --- ## [MrBeast's "Beast Games" Vegas shoot an unmitigated disaster, say local staff](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2024, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mrbeasts-beast-games-vegas-shoot-an-unmitigated-disaster-say-local-staff/1007779 "2024-09-27T09:25:02Z")
The prominent Youtuber recently conducted a three-day shoot at Allegiant Stadium for the first part of a Squid Game-esque competition series he’s producing for Amazon. The 2,000 entrants were required to live and sleep i… --- ## [Story ID: Young man trapped on an island in Ireland? Scotland? \[Spoiler\]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-id-young-man-trapped-on-an-island-in-ireland-scotland-spoiler/1007772)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2024, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-id-young-man-trapped-on-an-island-in-ireland-scotland-spoiler/1007772 "2024-09-27T03:20:48Z")
This is a classic story, but the title is not coming to my mind. I have it in my head that it took place in the 18th or 19th Century. A young man is stranded on an island. He can see the mainland a short distance away… --- ## [When did the meaning of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing shift?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-meaning-of-the-left-hand-not-knowing-what-the-right-hand-is-doing-shift/1007619)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [September 27, 2024, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-the-meaning-of-the-left-hand-not-knowing-what-the-right-hand-is-doing-shift/1007619 "2024-09-27T00:55:53Z")
If you say somebody doesn’t let his left hand know what his right hand is doing, you’re saying that person is very sneaky and good at concealing his questionable deeds. But that’s not the original meaning of the idiom. … --- ## [Is it possible to create a horror movie too scary to be commercially viable?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-horror-movie-too-scary-to-be-commercially-viable/1007649)
**Author:** [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Replies:** 68\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2024, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-create-a-horror-movie-too-scary-to-be-commercially-viable/1007649 "2024-09-26T23:21:49Z")
I’m not someone who enjoys horror movies but I gather there is a contingent of people for which it’s a pleasurable sensation and a subset among them who are thrill seekers and try to consumer the scariest movies possible… --- ## [Suffragette cat postcards!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suffragette-cat-postcards/1007707)
**Author:** [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 26, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suffragette-cat-postcards/1007707 "2024-09-26T15:23:12Z")
I’ll admit my title is a little clickbait-y. There is more fascinating stuff here besides the suffragette part, and I guess the lure of sending cat pictures has been with people for much longer than I thought! --- ## [What was this Deadpool like movie?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-deadpool-like-movie/1007681)
**Author:** [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2024, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-deadpool-like-movie/1007681 "2024-09-25T18:24:13Z")
Probably 20 years old. A kind of revenge flick. A guy suffers grievous injuries, the recovery from which robs him of an ability to feel pain. I think that was his main “power”. He dressed (iirc) swathed in bandages from … --- ## [David Duchovny Why Won't You Love Me (A 90s flashback)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duchovny-why-wont-you-love-me-a-90s-flashback/1007680)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-duchovny-why-wont-you-love-me-a-90s-flashback/1007680 "2024-09-25T16:08:43Z")
Hank Green brought this up today but I actually remember this swimming around the Internet back at the time. It is like a Who’s Who Time Capsule of 90s Pop Culture and the song is darn catchy. --- ## [Young Child Acting Question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-child-acting-question/673023)
**Author:** [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/young-child-acting-question/673023 "2024-09-25T00:58:57Z")
I’m watching Boardwalk Empire and there is a scene that takes place where one of the main characters is arguing with his wife and there are two small children in the dining room supposedly waiting for their breakfast. T… --- ## [Which nut butter (except peanut) do you find tastiest?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-nut-butter-except-peanut-do-you-find-tastiest/1007618)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 25\ **Last updated:** [September 25, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-nut-butter-except-peanut-do-you-find-tastiest/1007618 "2024-09-25T00:29:32Z")
For more than a decade I’ve suffered with frequent ‘digestive’ issues – mainly urgency, sometimes flat out diarrhea, occasional constipation. I put this down to the known side effects of some of the medications I take d… --- ## [The soundtrack of your life](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598)
**Author:** [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-soundtrack-of-your-life/1007598 "2024-09-24T18:30:51Z")
Today’s grocery trip required two stops; we get most of our stuff at Aldi to save money, but a few things need to come from Fresh Thyme, which is just down the street from our local Aldi. Sitting in the left turn lane a… --- ## [Scary music videos](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-music-videos/1007242)
**Author:** [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-music-videos/1007242 "2024-09-24T17:25:31Z")
This Back Sabbath video from 1970 is just… scary. It’s a rather boring song, IMO, but it still gives me the chills after all these years. This song about a plane crash by Bloodrock is just… I dunno. Disturbing and horri… --- ## [Who's this actor and where else have I seen him (Dog Day Afternoon 1975)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-this-actor-and-where-else-have-i-seen-him-dog-day-afternoon-1975/1007593)
**Author:** [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-this-actor-and-where-else-have-i-seen-him-dog-day-afternoon-1975/1007593 "2024-09-24T17:22:05Z")
I noticed this guy at the end of “Dog Day Afternoon” (which, if you haven’t seen it - see it! Now!) He looks very familiar to me but the character only appears in two scenes at the end and he doesn’t have a name or dialo… --- ## [Has anyone here tried "Spiced Coca-Cola"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-tried-spiced-coca-cola/1006587)
**Author:** [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-here-tried-spiced-coca-cola/1006587 "2024-09-24T14:59:25Z")
Hy-Vee, a Midwestern grocery chain, is giving away 12-packs, and by all accounts, this stuff is nasty. Has anyone here seen, let alone tasted, it? I’m just curious. (My brother said it had “natural flavorings” listed,… --- ## [Happy Autumnal Equinox!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-autumnal-equinox/1007581)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-autumnal-equinox/1007581 "2024-09-24T14:10:57Z")
--- ## [ID a Mad Magazine comic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-mad-magazine-comic/1007636)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 10\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-a-mad-magazine-comic/1007636 "2024-09-24T07:05:14Z")
Likely from a 1970s issue. With the stuff going on in Beirut lately it has crossed my mind. A woman visiting a man in a hospital in traction in a full body cast. She is (silently) yammering about everything bad in the wo… --- ## [Picadillo!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picadillo/1007504)
**Author:** [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2024, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picadillo/1007504 "2024-09-24T04:47:49Z")
Trader Joe’s used to carry jarred picadillo sauce. You’d brown some ground beef, add the jar of sauce, and there was dinner. Because it was so easy and tasty, they discontinued it (some years ago). I’ve had it at Cuban… --- ## [How accurate is the war movie trope of soldiers or entire units wandering around just sort of doing their own thing?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-the-war-movie-trope-of-soldiers-or-entire-units-wandering-around-just-sort-of-doing-their-own-thing/1007559)
**Author:** [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-accurate-is-the-war-movie-trope-of-soldiers-or-entire-units-wandering-around-just-sort-of-doing-their-own-thing/1007559 "2024-09-23T19:26:13Z")
There seems to be a common movie trope of soldiers or entire units who become disconnected from their chain of command, appear to have no mission or larger purpose, and often appear to be pursuing their own agenda or mis… --- ## [A little bit of this, a little bit of that](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-bit-of-this-a-little-bit-of-that/1007571)
**Author:** [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-little-bit-of-this-a-little-bit-of-that/1007571 "2024-09-23T18:57:00Z")
Have you ever put together something from odds and ends, had it come out rather tasty, and then been frustrated because you will never be able to have it just that way again? Today I finished a project that took me a wh… --- ## [Question for Jimmy Cagney fans](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-jimmy-cagney-fans/1007615)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-jimmy-cagney-fans/1007615 "2024-09-23T15:59:42Z")
Was Jimmy Cagney known for playing a gangster with a death wish, like at the end of White Heat when he goes up in a blaze of glory? I ask because last night’s episode of Foyle’s War a psycho hood was (an informer said) … --- ## [Recommend Some Science Fiction Novels](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-science-fiction-novels/986389)
**Author:** [@cjackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjackson)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-some-science-fiction-novels/986389 "2024-09-23T15:46:53Z")
Right now I am reading Revenge of the Sith and Heir to the Empire. I have read 2001: A Space Odyssey, Rendezvous With Rama, Fountains of Paradise, Tau Zero, Dragon’s Egg and Leviathan Wakes. I will next be reading Caliba… --- ## [Who is the narrator in this?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-narrator-in-this/1007609)
**Author:** [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-narrator-in-this/1007609 "2024-09-23T05:46:04Z")
In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozz-Hsx-QCI , which is the cold open of SNL that’s set in Politics and Prose bookstore and is it the only cold open that ends with the narrator, not an actor in the sketch, saying “Live… --- ## [A Blackadder question](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackadder-question/1007288)
**Author:** [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 23, 2024, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-blackadder-question/1007288 "2024-09-23T00:10:51Z")
I was re-watching an episode of Blackadder Goes Forth (the World War I series) and something occurred to me; why was Captain Blackadder in the trenches? We saw that he feuded with Captain Darling, who was a staff officer… --- ## [Calphalon Cookware Questions (regarding their need for TLC)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calphalon-cookware-questions-regarding-their-need-for-tlc/1007590)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/calphalon-cookware-questions-regarding-their-need-for-tlc/1007590 "2024-09-22T22:55:12Z")
In the year before Joan (my second wife) died, we bought a nice set of Calphalon cookware online. We never got an opportunity to use them (or even open the box they came in) before she died, so I brought them to Oregon w… --- ## [Hot Dogs vs. Hamburgers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-vs-hamburgers/1007353)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hot-dogs-vs-hamburgers/1007353 "2024-09-22T22:34:24Z")
I saw this in a tweet and I am honestly not sure what I think about it and I was curious what others think: “A 10/10 burger beats a 10/10 hot dog but a 5/10 hot dog beats a 5/10 burger” Assuming they both have whatever… --- ## [Any jigsaw puzzle fans?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-jigsaw-puzzle-fans/961634)
**Author:** [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Replies:** 145\ **Last updated:** [September 22, 2024, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-jigsaw-puzzle-fans/961634 "2024-09-22T21:41:27Z")
We usually have one going at all times over the winter months. I just cracked open the number one rated puzzle from this site, which ranks the top 18 best 1000 piece puzzles. This is it: … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=108) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=110)