# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=245 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 246 --- ## [Does the lack of independent coffee shops say anything about a place?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-lack-of-independent-coffee-shops-say-anything-about-a-place/968982)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2022, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-lack-of-independent-coffee-shops-say-anything-about-a-place/968982 "2022-08-04T02:34:08Z")
I’ve lived in a lot of places. Some had lots of independent coffee shops, which I always have liked. Others basically just had coffee shop chains similar to Timmy Hoho’s and Starbucks. Of course we are talking before … --- ## [Cola With Lemon and Lime](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785)
**Author:** [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [August 4, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cola-with-lemon-and-lime/966785 "2022-08-04T01:36:15Z")
I’ve always enjoyed cola with citrus. It is needed for some of the lesser colas. In my university days, the occasional “lime and lager” might have been all that stood between me and scurvy, so there’s the nutritional a… --- ## [Major oopsies due to publishing/authorial choices?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-oopsies-due-to-publishing-authorial-choices/969022)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-oopsies-due-to-publishing-authorial-choices/969022 "2022-08-03T18:01:20Z")
I’ve started reading “Troubled Blood”, one of the Cormorant Strike detective thrillers. It’s copyright 2020, was I believe released in 2020, and is explicitly set in 2020. I forget when the earliest scene may have happ… --- ## [Kill off one flavor in Rainbow Sherbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-off-one-flavor-in-rainbow-sherbert/968650)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kill-off-one-flavor-in-rainbow-sherbert/968650 "2022-08-03T16:23:09Z")
This is companion thread to eliminate a flavor from Neapolitan ice cream. I buy a lot of Sherbert in the summer. Usually Rainbow Sherbert or Orange. It’s non-dairy and easier on my digestion. Rainbow is a mix of Lime, … --- ## [Recommendation for Best Tea Source](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-best-tea-source/967263)
**Author:** [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommendation-for-best-tea-source/967263 "2022-08-03T15:56:17Z")
Does anyone have a good source for buying tea online? I’d like to get better quality than the supermarket. Thank you. --- ## [Favorite currently-running comic strips?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/968511)
**Author:** [@CastletonSnob1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CastletonSnob1)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-currently-running-comic-strips/968511 "2022-08-03T15:55:26Z")
Mine are Baby Blues, Zits, Crabgrass, and I’ve recently gone back to reading Wallace the Brave. --- ## [A looming chocolate shortage? Noooooooo!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-looming-chocolate-shortage-noooooooo/968810)
**Author:** [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-looming-chocolate-shortage-noooooooo/968810 "2022-08-03T15:47:00Z")
A neighbor just told me that Hershey has announced they might not be able to get enough chocolate to get us through Halloween and Christmas!!! Okay, this is too awful to contemplate. I’ve coped with Covid, I’ve weather… --- ## [Watermelon: slice as needed or cube the entire melon?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watermelon-slice-as-needed-or-cube-the-entire-melon/967345)
**Author:** [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Replies:** 47\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watermelon-slice-as-needed-or-cube-the-entire-melon/967345 "2022-08-03T15:39:55Z")
We had a melon discussion yesterday. My MIL was over along with her youngest, visiting from Vermont. I served watermelon for dessert. Earlier I’d purchased a seedless melon and cubed the entire melon, giving the rinds… --- ## [Bacon in the oven](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-in-the-oven/968752)
**Author:** [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Replies:** 58\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-in-the-oven/968752 "2022-08-03T15:05:28Z")
Of course I know how to cook my bacon in the oven. It has the advantage for me that I don’t have to try flipping it over with a fork with my trembling hands. But the cleanup of a cookie sheet (or jelly roll sheet) is a P… --- ## ["Coffee Milk" in South Texas? WTF?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-milk-in-south-texas-wtf/968390)
**Author:** [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coffee-milk-in-south-texas-wtf/968390 "2022-08-03T14:33:36Z")
I thought Coffee Milk was strictly a New England-- or at least an East Coast-- phenomenon. But today I saw this in my local H-E-B (Texas grocery giant H.E.Butt Grocery Company). The … --- ## [Old hamburger](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-hamburger/968224)
**Author:** [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Replies:** 30\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-hamburger/968224 "2022-08-03T14:30:29Z")
My girlfriend finally agreed to remove all of her cold bags from the kitchen freezer, and it freed up a lot of space. (Thanks, hon!) Mixed in with all that stuff were two one-pound tubes of hamburger meat. The expiratio… --- ## [Today's the day for George Jetson - July 31, 2022](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-the-day-for-george-jetson-july-31-2022/968876)
**Author:** [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 3, 2022, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-the-day-for-george-jetson-july-31-2022/968876 "2022-08-03T01:48:06Z")
We’ve been waiting for the day all year and it’s finally here. George Jetson is being born today July 31, 2022. We don’t know who his parents are, oddly, but that may be to protect their identity out of the millions o… --- ## [Micro-breweries--why the boom?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/micro-breweries-why-the-boom/968885)
**Author:** [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Replies:** 76\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/micro-breweries-why-the-boom/968885 "2022-08-02T23:56:08Z")
Not interested in “if there’s a demand, someone will supply it” answers, or “if a sector is profitable, investment will flow in until it isn’t profitable any more.” My question is whether some change in technology or som… --- ## [The Offer - a Docudrama about the making of The Godfather](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-offer-a-docudrama-about-the-making-of-the-godfather/968992)
**Author:** [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2022, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-offer-a-docudrama-about-the-making-of-the-godfather/968992 "2022-08-02T23:34:00Z")
Anyone else watching this? We are three episodes in, and love it. They really nailed the vibe of the late 60’s. If it’s even half-accurate, it’s truly amazing that any decent film ever comes out of Hollywood… --- ## [I need some sheet music please (Harry Potter vs. Star Wars themes).](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-sheet-music-please-harry-potter-vs-star-wars-themes/959374)
**Author:** [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2022, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-need-some-sheet-music-please-harry-potter-vs-star-wars-themes/959374 "2022-08-02T22:37:50Z")
BLUF: The ‘Harry Potter’ theme, and Star Wars’ “Skywalker” theme sound suspiciously the same to me–same key, sorta-same sequence of notes, and I learned that both were scored by John Williams. The only way, I can think … --- ## [Questions about the viability of 5 day old lunch meat](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-the-viability-of-5-day-old-lunch-meat/968323)
**Author:** [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/questions-about-the-viability-of-5-day-old-lunch-meat/968323 "2022-08-02T19:36:12Z")
So last Saturday I bought a commercial deli-style family-sized package of sliced turkey breast, thinking I’d make sandwiches for the next several days. But besides opening and consuming some of the turkey that same day, … --- ## [Question for the UK contingent in the audience (British police slang)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-the-uk-contingent-in-the-audience-british-police-slang/967692)
**Author:** [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Replies:** 52\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-the-uk-contingent-in-the-audience-british-police-slang/967692 "2022-08-02T16:11:34Z")
I’m watching Vera with Brenda Blethyn at the moment. I have to ask: Do British policewomen really call witnesses and suspects “Luv” and “Pet” when they’re interviewing/interrogating them? It reminds me of Christie Love… --- ## [Can you help me remember this adult cartoon that aired on cable from many years ago?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-remember-this-adult-cartoon-that-aired-on-cable-from-many-years-ago/968951)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2022, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-help-me-remember-this-adult-cartoon-that-aired-on-cable-from-many-years-ago/968951 "2022-08-02T05:26:33Z")
Read the thread on Primal, watched the first two episodes and loved it. It reminded me of an older adult cartoon that may have been on Liquid TV or similar. It featured a primitive man in a futuristic world. He befriends… --- ## [What do your friends and relatives eat that you find to be just plain nasty?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-friends-and-relatives-eat-that-you-find-to-be-just-plain-nasty/967972)
**Author:** [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Replies:** 295\ **Last updated:** [August 2, 2022, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-your-friends-and-relatives-eat-that-you-find-to-be-just-plain-nasty/967972 "2022-08-02T02:53:10Z")
What do your friends and relatives eat that you find to be just plain nasty? My landlady’s son eats Chef Boyardee ravioli straight from the can, without heating it, like he’s a criminal on the lam or something. --- ## [Guitar strings backwards](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-strings-backwards/968923)
**Author:** [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2022, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guitar-strings-backwards/968923 "2022-08-01T23:11:57Z")
This is Tom Morello Looks like he has the bottom of the strings at the top of the guitar. Any reason to do that? https://twitter.com/PNCArena/status/1553955799663362049/photo/3 --- ## [Any AccuRadio Users?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-accuradio-users/968924)
**Author:** [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2022, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-accuradio-users/968924 "2022-08-01T15:22:27Z")
I started using AccuRadio 2 months ago. I get it through the Android app. It’s free. Just create a account. I’m pleasantly surprised there aren’t very many commercials. They offer a ad free Genre every day. I have a bi… --- ## [Short story ID please - juror acquits wife-killer, then marries him](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-story-id-please-juror-acquits-wife-killer-then-marries-him/968925)
**Author:** [@Briny\_Deep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Briny_Deep)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/short-story-id-please-juror-acquits-wife-killer-then-marries-him/968925 "2022-08-01T15:25:10Z")
I hope the story is famous enough that someone will recognize it, but I’ve got a bad track record discovering the ID of many old stories that rattle around in my head. More background (100% spoilers below): I read this… --- ## [Anyone else dislike dream sequences?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-dislike-dream-sequences/968170)
**Author:** [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Replies:** 60\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-dislike-dream-sequences/968170 "2022-08-01T15:57:51Z")
Not much else takes me out of a TV show or movie more than an extended dream sequence. Most recently, in the Sopranos ep 5.11. Seemed like most of the ep was an extended dream. Now they’re riding a car with a lot of c… --- ## [Sonny Rollins 'Legendary' or 'Great' Quartet circa 1970s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonny-rollins-legendary-or-great-quartet-circa-1970s/968864)
**Author:** [@Moonrise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonrise)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2022, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sonny-rollins-legendary-or-great-quartet-circa-1970s/968864 "2022-08-01T10:43:56Z")
Sonny Rollins is one of my favourite jazz artists, perhaps my favourite saxophonist. Over the years, I’ve slowly explored his discography and regularly discovered fascinating collaborations with musicians I didn’t expec… --- ## [Techno-peasant wants music - again!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/techno-peasant-wants-music-again/968851)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [August 1, 2022, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/techno-peasant-wants-music-again/968851 "2022-08-01T10:28:12Z")
So, after a long time when I didn’t know how to make music come out of my iPhone, Mrs P said “What do you mean you don’t know how to get music?!?” I said, “Is it something called iTunes?” She said, “Good God!” grabbed… --- ## [Why was the "pick up artist" movement so popular in the mid 2000s to 2010s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-the-pick-up-artist-movement-so-popular-in-the-mid-2000s-to-2010s/966401)
**Author:** [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Replies:** 375\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2022, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-was-the-pick-up-artist-movement-so-popular-in-the-mid-2000s-to-2010s/966401 "2022-07-31T18:33:26Z")
I’ve been recently watching reruns of How I Met Your Mother and, along with my normal TV watching, I noticed something. From around 2005 to around 2015, it seemed like there was a lot of buzz around “pick up artists” an… --- ## [Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - July 2022 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-july-2022-edition/967158)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 83\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-july-2022-edition/967158 "2022-07-31T17:27:24Z")
Summer here in the American West, it is dry, dry, dry, in fact, it is so dry my city has stopped ticketing dead lawns and started encouraging alternative landscaping. :open\_mouth: So far not as hot as the last few years,… --- ## [Uncoupled on Netflix (Spoilers After OP)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncoupled-on-netflix-spoilers-after-op/968868)
**Author:** [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2022, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uncoupled-on-netflix-spoilers-after-op/968868 "2022-07-31T16:18:15Z")
Yesterday afternoon I stumbled across Uncoupled, an 8-episode show on Netflix starring Neil Patrick Harris, Tisha Campbell, and Marcia Gay Harden. It was just released on Friday (7/29). NPH plays an NYC realtor in his mi… --- ## [Favorite 1,2,3 topping pizzas](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-1-2-3-topping-pizzas/968675)
**Author:** [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [July 31, 2022, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-1-2-3-topping-pizzas/968675 "2022-07-31T03:50:54Z")
So you just got a promotional coupon from your go to pizza place that offers you a free pizza delivered on each of the next three friday’s. The first week its a one toppin pizza, second week its a two topping pizza, thi… --- ## [Am I the last person on earth to use ITunes and an iPod Classic?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-last-person-on-earth-to-use-itunes-and-an-ipod-classic/968725)
**Author:** [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Replies:** 29\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2022, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-the-last-person-on-earth-to-use-itunes-and-an-ipod-classic/968725 "2022-07-30T16:56:54Z")
No. Of course not. But when will I lose this treasured gift? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=244) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=246)