# April Sours... (Monthly Mini-Rants) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2025, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445 "2025-04-01T06:45:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/61 "2025-04-04T20:45:22Z")
I don’t remember the name or the restaurant he works at, but a chef at one of Philly’s top restaurants likes to sabre the cork off of champagne bottles. I am assuming his many knives and caramelizing torch are significantly more dangerous. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/62 "2025-04-04T21:08:44Z")
> [@digs](#): > > some have led to other ones (PT for sciatica wasn’t helping, they recommended a chiropractor). This surprises me. My son and his wife are relatively new DPTs. Many of their instructors were chiropractors, and from conversations with my son I don’t think there are any non-woo things a chiropractor does that they aren’t trained in. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/63 "2025-04-04T22:22:40Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > I don’t think that’s a conspiracy theory, I think that’s common sense. And borne out by history. OK, you’ve followed for one step. Would you consider taking another? Proposed: In a civilized urban society where law and order are in working order… where the courts are both thoughtful and well staffed… and were legislators have the public good ( and not raising money for re election ) on their minds… That guns are a trap and that they are nothing but pricey toys. They can be used for hunting (by a well regulated, educated and trained populace) and they can be used for skeet/trap and plinking paper targets by citizens with too much money on their hands. But… they can Never be used the way Hollywood Movies portray them as being used without destroying someone’s personal morals as well as lowering their rank from upstanding citizen to felon in need of rehabilitation and imprisonment. Anyway, that’s my POV. I doubt I’d ever get elected on any platform for it. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/64 "2025-04-04T22:47:01Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > I hate it when they “improve” things. We got new Xerox machines at work yesterday. The old ones had a hole punch feature on the finisher, and would also let you select one of three trays for output. The new ones don’t allow either. They do produce clean documents free of spots and streaks, and they have pretty touchscreens, so that’s good I guess. 🫠 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/65 "2025-04-05T00:12:49Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > If I was a bystander & saw a guy with a saber & a half dozen people standing around him & no one screaming or running away I know I wouldn’t be overly concerned about it. In the presence of a large deflated balloon, sure. Otherwise I’d be bumping my alertness level a couple notches. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/66 "2025-04-05T00:38:30Z")
Nope, we pack up before toasting the flight; you’d need some good x-ray vision to see the envelope in it’s bag in the back of the vehicle/trailer. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/67 "2025-04-05T00:58:37Z")
Was snacking on [Froot Loops](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Froot_Loops) last night (dry). I Googled it for some reason. Only to learn the yellow loops are not lemon-flavored, and the purple loops are not grape-flavored. There are eight colors, and _they’re all the same flavor_. I have been deceived my whole life. I will never be the same. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/68 "2025-04-05T01:21:41Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > There are eight colors, and _they’re all the same flavor_. Apple Jacks are almost identical to Froot Loops, except they add a bit of apple concentrate to make them a little more apple-tasting. Otherwise it’s the same cereal. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/69 "2025-04-05T01:24:14Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > There are eight colors, and _they’re all the same flavor_. Well, I have some bad news about Trix… Cereals are my favorite food, especially the overly-sweetened ones that Mom forbade us as children. My wife is visiting her mother, so I dropped her off at the airport and picked up a jumbo box of Lucky Charms on the way home… … I wonder if I can tell the difference between the [Leprechaun accent] Pink Hearts, Bluuue Mooons an’ Greeen Clovahs? ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/70 "2025-04-05T01:50:25Z")
Now there is Froot Loops with marshmallows. Society is doomed. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/71 "2025-04-05T02:38:10Z")
Is it like skittles? Where the smell determines the taste? ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/72 "2025-04-05T03:45:16Z")
What I’d like to find is a peanut butter cereal that actually tastes like peanut butter. Captain Crunch can go suck a barnacle. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/73 "2025-04-05T03:53:32Z")
I once discovered a handful of Lucky Charms in my underwear a long time ago. They clattered to the linoleum floor when I went to the loo. Still have no idea how they got there. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/74 "2025-04-05T04:14:07Z")
Autism Awareness Day was this past week. I made a post on Facebook > [@](#): > > For Autism Awareness Day! > I am aware that I am autistic. > I will now resume my usual activity of observing normal people with a mixture of amusement and horror. My family and the friends who know me well all thought is was hilarious. Then, it occurred to me that some friends who don’t know me that well might not know that I really am autistic. They could read the post as a cruel joke mocking people with autism. I made a comment clarifying things. This got more replies than the original post. All those comments were basically ‘Yes. I knew you were autistic. I have known for a long time now.’ I am not sure how to feel about this. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/75 "2025-04-05T05:30:10Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > Is it like skittles? Where the smell determines the taste? No, they smell and taste identical. They’re all the same blend of fruit flavors/scent and sugar. The only difference is color. The “Skittles test” is to taste different ones with your nose plugged so you can’t smell. With Froot Loops you don’t even have to do that; just close your eyes and you can’t tell the difference (because there is none). ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/76 "2025-04-05T11:32:27Z")
Dammit, now I want Cap’n Crunch. (Talk about sugar bomb!) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/77 "2025-04-05T13:22:26Z")
Well, they do have those single portions now (if you can deal with the guilt of those little plastic “bowls”). [![](https://www.instacart.com/image-server/932x932/filters:fill(FFF,true):format(webp)/www.instacart.com/assets/domains/product-image/file/large_b36dba65-b753-4563-b3c1-73425f1b6f0d.png) ](https://www.instacart.com/image-server/932x932/filters:fill(FFF,true):format(webp)/www.instacart.com/assets/domains/product-image/file/large_b36dba65-b753-4563-b3c1-73425f1b6f0d.png) So you don’t have to buy a big box like I do (I should feel guilty about that, but over-the-top cereal is so good…). By the way, there’s a Milk&Cereal Bar in NYC (near Chinatown). Luckily, I don’t live around the corner like people I know do. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/78 "2025-04-05T14:03:21Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I am not sure how to feel about this. For normies to identify autistics is about as hard as it is for a sighted person to identify a redhead. It’s the autistics who have a hard time identifying it in themselves and others. And in going public with that knowledge once they have it. Congrats. You’re now “out”. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/79 "2025-04-05T14:06:55Z")
[Cap’n Crunch, Cap’n Crunch He’s inviting you to munch Cap’n Crunch, Cap’n Crunch Munch a bunch a munch a munch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s2P9XZ7_YY&t=149s) ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445/80 "2025-04-05T15:23:17Z")
Ooooooh, not sure I needed to know about those! But it could be a useful work snack, if I buy the box I will eat the boxful totally absentmindedly! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/april-sours-monthly-mini-rants/1016445.md?page=5)