# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 198
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3942 "2024-10-22T02:23:30Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > some powdered commercial Parmesan from the cardboard cylinder. The green cylinder? I loved that stuff. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3943 "2024-10-22T02:47:12Z")
I’ll take one of the knockoffs that are about ½ the price of the Yeti/Stanley brands. Though please make it have a good quality lid; one that won’t get water everywhere if it falls on it’s side; that also means a slide top, no straw. Planes are dehydrating enough so I usually go with non-alcoholic drinks. Do they still even make ticker tape? What will be coming out the windows in the Canyon of Heroes? It’s my intent to find out first hand in 1½ weeks ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3944 "2024-10-22T02:49:09Z")
I did, too! But i still didn’t like spaghetti dinners. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3945 "2024-10-22T10:58:59Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > > [@puzzlegal](#): > > > > some powdered commercial Parmesan from the cardboard cylinder. > > The green cylinder? I loved that stuff. Ahh, shaker cheese. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3946 "2024-10-22T12:49:37Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > You left out “I have no idea and I don’t care”. Yep - that’s what I would have gone with. Water bottles - we have a couple of [Chilly’s bottles](https://www.chillys.com/uk/categories/bottles), which fit nicely into our respective backpacks. They weren’t terribly expensive at the time of purchase (the ones on the website now are about twice what I paid for mine). ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3947 "2024-10-22T13:22:51Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > > [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > > > What kind of psychopath would put a bell pepper in a marinara? > > My mother. I grew up with a profound distrust of any red sauce. And when she served spaghetti, i had dry spaghetti with some powdered commercial Parmesan from the cardboard cylinder. You come to Tennessee. I’ll make you a red sauce that’ll knock your socks off. > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > The green cylinder? I loved that stuff. They’re plastic now, which is not right. We have to get the Costco sized one, so our youngest will leave enough for the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3948 "2024-10-22T13:33:23Z")
If I’m on a long overseas flight, it’s going to be on Air France, so my meal choices will be a lot better than postulated. In any case, no matter how hungry I am, if the meal choices repel me I have no problem going hungry for however long the flight is. My Personal Modular Food Containment Unit will keep me going (likely for months.) ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3949 "2024-10-22T14:44:38Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > I consider water to be one of the “soft drinks”. That option’s pretty much a catchall for any non-alcoholic drink I haven’t generally heard it used to include water; or even juice, if it’s plain juice. To me it means some sort of soda. But if I’ve got to eat sad lump of chicken breast with almost certainly reconstituted powdered potatoes and tasteless overcooked veggies, I’m going to want some alcohol. And the dish had better be the chicken, because I can’t eat some pasta, and I wouldn’t know till I’d tried it (it’s a texture issue.) > [@Spiderman](#): > > Planes are dehydrating enough so I usually go with non-alcoholic drinks. I was assuming that I can also get water. ---
**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:** [October 22, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3950 "2024-10-22T14:57:22Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > You come to Tennessee. I’ll make you a red sauce that’ll knock your socks off. I’m here, what’s your address? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3951 "2024-10-22T15:32:33Z")
We’re either witnessing the beginning of a beautiful friendship or a burgeoning stalking that will end in restraining orders and murder. Hard to say which… ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3952 "2024-10-22T15:35:07Z")
[![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53978834789_6c9de25438_b.jpg "2024-09-07\_06-46-34") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/190534151@N04/53978834789/) Mine! ---
**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:** [October 22, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3953 "2024-10-22T16:42:07Z")
Walking distance from downtown Nashville? ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3954 "2024-10-22T16:56:50Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > > [@silenus](#): > > > > The Dodgers and I arrived in SoCal around the same time, so I bleed Dodger Blue (Pantone #294.) > > Ah, you’re just a baby. I was in kindergarten. My father had a deep love of baseball. I grew up hearing stories of his youth. When _The Sandlot_ came up it felt like a documentary. Into adulthood many of his stories revolved around baseball. And then the Dodgers crushed his heart and moved out of Brooklyn. It’s not an exaggeration to say he was never as happy again. He would take us to Yankees and Mets games when his company offered tickets but he never really got into it. He never had a team to root for again. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2024, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3955 "2024-10-22T16:57:28Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > We’re either witnessing the beginning of a beautiful friendship or a burgeoning stalking that will end in restraining orders and murder. Hard to say which… I’m not going to mention my sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3956 "2024-10-23T00:31:37Z")
I’m currently driving a Prius. Toyota says to change the oil every 10,000 miles. Because I slow down using the regenerative brakes, I’m still on my original brake pads at almost 85,000 miles. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3957 "2024-10-23T02:23:19Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > And i need to know whether there’s bell pepper in either or both of those options. Because if it’s in one of them, i take the other. And if it’s in both, I’ll end up eating neither. I might take a dinner and eat the roll or something, or i might eat my emergency chocolate bar. But there’s always the choice, “i prefer to go hungry”. _Bell pepper?_ 🤪 In the super bland, blander than hospital food airline stuff? Salt is about it, maybe some black pepper. Oregano in the pasta. I mean, I get your complaint, one of my buddies cant have anything with it either. The last time I got a real meal- it was hot sandwiches. The BBQ beef wasnt horrible. > [@Maserschmidt](#): > > The green cylinder? I loved that stuff. It aint bad, is it? ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3958 "2024-10-23T02:23:43Z")
I change the oil at whatever schedule the manufacturer recommends. That’s been different with different cars. I used to rotate the tires when the mechanic told me to. He retired. I should probably think about that. I don’t drive that much, so some amount of time probably makes more sense than anything based on miles. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3959 "2024-10-23T02:24:54Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > _Bell pepper?_ 🤪 In the super bland, blander than hospital food airline stuff? Yes. Bell pepper is cheap, and it’s in there more often than not. I often throw out half my meal on an airplane because it’s contaminated. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3960 "2024-10-23T10:15:28Z")
My car tells me when it wants an oil change. There is a sensor somewhere in the bowels of the engine that tests the oil and lets me know how much life is left - when it gets to 10% a light comes on. It’s usually in the 5000-7500 mile range. Tire rotations at 5000 miles per tire shop, again an alert appears, but I have to set how many miles I want before the next rotation. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/3961 "2024-10-23T15:24:44Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > My car tells me when it wants an oil change Our cars don’t use oil. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=197) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=199)