# Cafe Society **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=47 [Latest](https://boards.straightdope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://boards.straightdope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://boards.straightdope.com/tags.md) **Page:** 48 --- ## [Another plant based product - Hershey's candy bars](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-plant-based-product-hersheys-candy-bars/1025469)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 26\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-plant-based-product-hersheys-candy-bars/1025469 "2025-12-08T21:59:52Z")
I was surprised to see some bars labeled as plant based. I mean it’s chocolate. A bit of research shows they have replaced the milk powder with oat milk. --- ## [How is it that women didn't all strangle men in the 1960s?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-women-didnt-all-strangle-men-in-the-1960s/1022214)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 165\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-it-that-women-didnt-all-strangle-men-in-the-1960s/1022214 "2025-12-08T16:23:20Z")
I’ve been watching and listening to movies and music from the 1960s (and earlier), and it’s hard to believe how women are depicted condescendingly and as essentially brainless. Operation Moonbase – The first astronaut i… --- ## [What under-30 actors will still be working a decade from now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-under-30-actors-will-still-be-working-a-decade-from-now/728210)
**Author:** [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Replies:** 55\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-under-30-actors-will-still-be-working-a-decade-from-now/728210 "2025-12-08T14:11:07Z")
I’m fairly sure we’ve discussed this before. Why, I may have even be the one to start the thread. But there’s no way to prove it, as board search is terribly wonky and every time I enter my own name into Google Search, I… --- ## [Help me identify this mildly traumatizing Apartheid movie or TV scene I saw in my childhood](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-mildly-traumatizing-apartheid-movie-or-tv-scene-i-saw-in-my-childhood/1025451)
**Author:** [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-mildly-traumatizing-apartheid-movie-or-tv-scene-i-saw-in-my-childhood/1025451 "2025-12-08T11:05:28Z")
I think this would have been the 80s, but it could have been the early 90s. I recall my mother was watching a movie or TV show at home, and it depicted a massacre inside a school – my rough memory was an armed Black man … --- ## [Actors' spouses' deaths from influenza?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-spouses-deaths-from-influenza/1025511)
**Author:** [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actors-spouses-deaths-from-influenza/1025511 "2025-12-08T05:44:54Z")
We watch a lot of movies on TCM. Watching Shall We Dance (1937), I looked up Eric Blore. He married his first wife in 1917, and she died in 1919. Christmas In Connecticut (1945) is on now. S.Z. Sakall married his fir… --- ## [Virtually forgotten Christmas Cartoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtually-forgotten-christmas-cartoons/927853)
**Author:** [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Replies:** 40\ **Last updated:** [December 8, 2025, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/virtually-forgotten-christmas-cartoons/927853 "2025-12-08T02:42:11Z")
We watch the same cartoons year after year – the Rankin-Bass Rudolph and all the other ones they made. A Charlie Brown Christmas (which you can see this year on PBS, even if you don’t have Apple+), and so on. But there a… --- ## [Why are Danish style butter cookies so cheap?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-danish-style-butter-cookies-so-cheap/1024969)
**Author:** [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Replies:** 57\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-danish-style-butter-cookies-so-cheap/1024969 "2025-12-07T23:26:40Z")
Not only are they delicious and come in an expensive tin but they are shipped halfway around the globe. Last week we bought the large 2 lb tin at an Asian market for about 10 bucks (a bit high, my wife bought them). Toda… --- ## [What's your Autumn/Winter music?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-autumn-winter-music/1025384)
**Author:** [@Shot\_Clock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_Clock)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-autumn-winter-music/1025384 "2025-12-07T22:07:21Z")
My musical tastes seem to have become seasonal in recent years. This time of year I’m listening to a lot of: Canterbury sound groups (Caravan, etc.); Jethro Tull; Assorted Shoegaze/Dreampop; Moody Blues; Jefferson Airpl… --- ## [Turkey soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-soup/1025344)
**Author:** [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turkey-soup/1025344 "2025-12-07T19:42:14Z")
So, i have just strained a big pot of turkey broth. I actually brewed it shortly after t-day, but didn’t get around to straining it. It’s been sitting chilled-but-unstrained for days. I have a hankering for turkey bean … --- ## [Painting miniatures, but extremely lazily? \[or other techniques\] (As in tabletop games)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-miniatures-but-extremely-lazily-or-other-techniques-as-in-tabletop-games/1020821)
**Author:** [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Replies:** 32\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/painting-miniatures-but-extremely-lazily-or-other-techniques-as-in-tabletop-games/1020821 "2025-12-07T17:19:01Z")
I recently Kickstarted a detective-noir board game set in New Orleans (The Dark Quarter — a fun and well-written co-op mystery game!), which came with several dozen gray plastic miniatures. The figurines are hard to dif… --- ## [It's that time of year-- Split Pea and Ham Bone Soup!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-that-time-of-year-split-pea-and-ham-bone-soup/1025332)
**Author:** [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-that-time-of-year-split-pea-and-ham-bone-soup/1025332 "2025-12-07T14:44:07Z")
Everybody makes theirs different and I want to hear how you do it. Here’s me: Rough chop an onion and soften in soup pot with a bit of olive oil. Add mushed (or diced or sliced-- matters how I’m feeling) garlic. Stir. A… --- ## [Recipe for personal pizzas from pre-made dough? (also rant about enshittification of Google)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-personal-pizzas-from-pre-made-dough-also-rant-about-enshittification-of-google/1025403)
**Author:** [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Replies:** 101\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipe-for-personal-pizzas-from-pre-made-dough-also-rant-about-enshittification-of-google/1025403 "2025-12-07T05:51:20Z")
So the actual factual question, first: Anyone have a good recipe for personal pizzas from pre-made fresh dough? The dough (from Whole foods) comes in 1 pound bags (unfrozen), how do I subdivide them to make personal piz… --- ## [Causes of deaths of actors from "The Conqueror" (1956)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/causes-of-deaths-of-actors-from-the-conqueror-1956/1025482)
**Author:** [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [December 7, 2025, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/causes-of-deaths-of-actors-from-the-conqueror-1956/1025482 "2025-12-07T03:21:15Z")
There’s no mention of “The Conqueror” without a conversation about cancer deaths attributed to radiation exposure. I went down the list of 63 actors and stunt people listed on IMDB and made a table of their causes of de… --- ## [Shang Tsung has returned to Outworld (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has died)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shang-tsung-has-returned-to-outworld-cary-hiroyuki-tagawa-has-died/1025426)
**Author:** [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shang-tsung-has-returned-to-outworld-cary-hiroyuki-tagawa-has-died/1025426 "2025-12-06T23:52:55Z")
--- ## [Looking for an (SNL?) robot-AI based sketch](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478)
**Author:** [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-an-snl-robot-ai-based-sketch/1025478 "2025-12-06T23:45:51Z")
A group of around 8 to 12 characters supposed to be children sitting around. They discuss personal robot (or somehow artifical companions) somehow one of the group (which is an AI companion) decides that they are no long… --- ## [Time Wasters](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-wasters/1025037)
**Author:** [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Replies:** 39\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-wasters/1025037 "2025-12-06T21:38:13Z")
Let’s start small: is there a TV personality or show that habitually wastes your time? For example, Rachel Maddow, with whom I agree on most everything, is unwatchable for me because she takes an hour to deliver about tw… --- ## [Why am I seeing Donald Trump dancing to the Village People?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435)
**Author:** [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Replies:** 48\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-am-i-seeing-donald-trump-dancing-to-the-village-people/1025435 "2025-12-06T21:12:02Z")
I’m in a bar for lunch and suddenly the tv is showing the Village People singing and dancing on a stage. Trump is in a balcony watching them and shaking his booty. ??? --- ## [Superman (2025)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-2025/1011886)
**Author:** [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Replies:** 464\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/superman-2025/1011886 "2025-12-06T16:34:00Z")
This already looks amazing. Hoping my favorite hero is done right this time. --- ## [Thought there was a Murder on the Orient Express Thread, but can't find it, so.... (spoilers, maybe)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-there-was-a-murder-on-the-orient-express-thread-but-cant-find-it-so-spoilers-maybe/801266)
**Author:** [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Replies:** 42\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thought-there-was-a-murder-on-the-orient-express-thread-but-cant-find-it-so-spoilers-maybe/801266 "2025-12-06T16:12:30Z")
Who has seen the new one? I’ll say right off that I didn’t like it very much. I didn’t think it held up to the 1974 version at all. It was so busy being elegant, it forgot to be suspenseful, and no, it’s not just becaus… --- ## [In praise of "stomp clap hey" music](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-stomp-clap-hey-music/1025392)
**Author:** [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [December 6, 2025, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-praise-of-stomp-clap-hey-music/1025392 "2025-12-06T09:29:28Z")
We’re getting to the point in the nostalgia cycle where people are starting to memorialize the early 2010s. In the past few days, I’ve started seeing the term “stomp clap hey” used to refer to the kind of acoustic folk-p… --- ## [Do YouTube chefs use too much salt?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-youtube-chefs-use-too-much-salt/1025377)
**Author:** [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-youtube-chefs-use-too-much-salt/1025377 "2025-12-05T20:52:14Z")
Billy Parisi in particular says to use a crazy amount of salt (to my mind) on almost every dish he prepares. I was told by my doctor to cut back on my sodium intake, (strange, because I don’t use a lot of salt so I becam… --- ## [Crickets\> Beatles\>Byrds\>Animals\> Monkees\> Eagles](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-beatles-byrds-animals-monkees-eagles/1025376)
**Author:** [@hideousidiot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hideousidiot)\ **Replies:** 24\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-beatles-byrds-animals-monkees-eagles/1025376 "2025-12-05T17:48:41Z")
I think the Crickets started the whole trend of naming your band after a (misspelled?) creature of some sort, but the trend seems to have caught fire after the Beatles made it big. Can you think of an earlier instance th… --- ## [Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - November 2025 edition](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2025-edition/1024462)
**Author:** [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Replies:** 69\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/khadaji-s-whatcha-reading-thread-november-2025-edition/1024462 "2025-12-05T15:30:59Z")
As my four year old once famously said \*HAPP HOWWEEN! GIMMIE CHEEZ!” (Said 4 year old is almost 30 now, but still enjoys cheese especially the queso version of it.) Final quarter of 2025 is upon us, up North the nights … --- ## [Identify this song and composer](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-song-and-composer/1025427)
**Author:** [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-song-and-composer/1025427 "2025-12-05T14:00:57Z")
Seems like a long shot, but I’ve seen the dope come through on this sort of thing multiple times. There’s a very well-known piece of music you hear on tv and movies that’s instant code for “ostentatious refinement”. It’… --- ## [Legendary Memphis guitarist Steve Cropper dead at 84](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-memphis-guitarist-steve-cropper-dead-at-84/1025387)
**Author:** [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legendary-memphis-guitarist-steve-cropper-dead-at-84/1025387 "2025-12-05T12:47:39Z")
You couldn’t grow up in Memphis without knowing who Steve was and being aware of his many, many accomplishments. And he was a really nice guy to boot. RIP Booker T. & The MG’s - Green Onions (Official Audio) --- ## [Tickled documentary on HBO](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tickled-documentary-on-hbo/781066)
**Author:** [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [December 5, 2025, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tickled-documentary-on-hbo/781066 "2025-12-05T03:15:08Z")
Anybody else watch the 2016 documentary that is currently airing on HBO? Synopsis on Wikipedia: Tickled - Wikipedia I won’t reveal any spoilers but basically it’s about two Kiwi documentarians that become fascinated ab… --- ## [Do you have any DVD box sets?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121)
**Author:** [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Replies:** 86\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2025, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121 "2025-12-04T20:37:29Z")
And if so of what genre? Relevant to a discussion in a particular show thread but that discussion is not relevant to the question so no link. if you care to know though. --- ## [Shows or movies in which the actor’s name matches the character’s](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-movies-in-which-the-actor-s-name-matches-the-character-s/986954)
**Author:** [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-movies-in-which-the-actor-s-name-matches-the-character-s/986954 "2025-12-04T17:26:10Z")
Hypothetically, if Tom Cruise played a character named Tom Smith, that would count. Cameos or characters based upon their real lives would not. So neither Ray Romano in “Everybody Loves Raymond”, John Malkovich in “Being… --- ## [Quentin Tarantino's list of the top 20 movies from 2000-2025(not including his own). What are yours?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quentin-tarantinos-list-of-the-top-20-movies-from-2000-2025-not-including-his-own-what-are-yours/1025350)
**Author:** [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Replies:** 15\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quentin-tarantinos-list-of-the-top-20-movies-from-2000-2025-not-including-his-own-what-are-yours/1025350 "2025-12-04T12:39:00Z")
His list: Black Hawk Down Toy Story 3 Lost in Translation Dunkirk There Will Be Blood Zodiac Unstoppable Mad Max: Fury Road Shaun of the Dead Midnight in Paris Battle Royle (2000) Big Bad Wolves (2013) Jackass: The Mov… --- ## [Help finding a video, or better yet, a videographer(?)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-video-or-better-yet-a-videographer/1025388)
**Author:** [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [December 4, 2025, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-finding-a-video-or-better-yet-a-videographer/1025388 "2025-12-04T05:36:48Z")
Yo SD, can one of you brilliant teeming millions help me find some videos? Back in the early 2000s, maybe even as late as 2010, there was a person who made videos for YouTube (?) that seemed to be a symptom of their men… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=46) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/cafe-society/15.md?page=48)