Are there things that have been discussed to death that we should not debate anymore?

No. Mayo being heated causes some weird changes in its texture & flavor that do not reverse when the stuff cools again. The heat de-emulsifies the mayo or something.

I would say the issue is not the subject of an excessive number of threads, but it consistently has a tendency to derail even tangential threads - ones on any sort of athletics, schools, and of course trans treatment by society. The reason it sucks in bad faith arguments, and trips up even people who otherwise may be arguing in good faith is there is a tiny, tiny sliver of legitimacy to the argument compared to 99% of the other ones. And the bad faith folks do everything they can to magnify that tiny bit to make a mountain out of an anthill. And here it’s one of the last arguments anti-trans individuals can still make in light of the TOS so…

But in terms of overall thread discussions by volume, it is still pretty minor. Just that it’s the one that came to mind in terms of the OP’s intent, and one that I haven’t seen any movement on in the 4ish years since I actually joined.

Interesting. I asked a bunch of people who was right. More than half agreed with me but less than 50%+1 did so IDK.

Agree completely.

As I sorta pointed out back up at

My intent there was to put trans denial & all the trans-adjacent whining about bogeymen into the banhammer on-deck circle. I just didn’t say it as well as you did. Thank you for that.

At what temperature does this happen?

Great minds think alike and so forth!

(use whichever version of the saying you like depending on mood :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: )

FTR: This is only a semi-serious rant about one man’s opinion of warm / hot mayo. And probably one that would do better in a different thread. But …

IMO/IME if you slather typical refrigerator-temperature mayo on a warm hamburger and immediately try to eat it, at least some of the mayo is already destroyed and the flavor and texture is abominable. It’s not food.

YMMV. And probably does. :wink:

Mustard and ketchup/catsup are a personal matter. I may judge you. But, I will not say anything or interfere with your right to condiment choice.

Borscht is just wrong though. Pickled beets in beet juice. My Dad used to microwave it with sour cream

English literature teachers would thank some version of god if there were such a book …

my aunts from michigan … this explains a lot …

History proves you wrong. Approximately 4000 years ago, in the second millennium BCE, Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt in search of the Promised Land, famously parting the Red Sea to help with their egress. He apparently parted the Atlantic Ocean, too, because some of them found their way to Montreal, where they established iconic Jewish delicatessens. There they crafted Montreal smoked meat, and to this day it is said that you have not lived if you have not tasted an authentic Montreal smoked meat sandwich on rye bread with a full-sour kosher pickle on the side. The essential condiment on such a sandwich is, of course, Dijon mustard.

Here we have a universal truth, indeed. It is one of many reasons that the Big Mac, with its mayo-like glop, is not actual food.

And a couple of slices of tomato, surely? The lettuce and tomato are the crucial factors here; they act as insulation between the hot chicken and the mayo. Even if the bun is toasted, it doesn’t have enough thermal mass to do much to the mayo once it’s been squished on top of the cool lettuce and tomato, and in any case, any decent chef will have buttered that side of the bun first, thus cooling it before the application of mayo. This has all been empirically demonstrated in that famous culinary lab, Wolfpup’s Kitchens.

Here in Philly, we have mastered a thing called the soft pretzel. It is food. It is definitely improved by the addition of mustard.

All of these inane food topics are OK with me as long as I can still tip the vet for declawing my cat.

Good point. Back to the OP.

Ref the sage @ParallelLines’ several posts, there’s a distinct difference between topics unworthy of discussion because one side is purely trolls or morons, versus topics unworthy of discussion because although both sides are informed and sincere, nobody is budging and every plausible argument on both sides has already been made and every useful bit of objective evidence cited repeatedly already.

That’s not borscht.

The obvious examples I can think of are debates that are regarded as settled among most liberal internet westerners (board people here) but not globally and perhaps only recently. The really nasty stuff to us:
Is it good to enslave some people? Is it OK to murder certain races because they are dangerous and/or inferior? Can married women be raped by their husband?
As a society we debated these topics and had some big violent disagreements but I’d argue they aren’t fruitful topics now and there aren’t any useful tangential issues there.
So yes, there are issues that shouldn’t be debated because we’re done with them.

So m->f trans athletes circumcision is off the table than.

Speaking of pointless food debates, there are always those stupid “right type of BBQ” or “correct type of chili” inanities.

It’s like what you put on hotdogs or pizza. Your food, your choice. My food, my choice. I have no idea what’s going on with people who insist on telling others what is “right” in this regard.

I don’t see how it is a debatable topic at all.

Sounds like something that somebody who eats the wrong kind of BBQ would say

I agree. Except for borscht.

How I loathe borscht.

How could a loving G-d allow borscht?