# 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:** 386
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7702 "2025-07-23T15:00:12Z")
Costco chickens are brined (injected with saline) which makes them moister than most grocery store roasted chickens. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2025, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7703 "2025-07-23T15:24:22Z")
That, and they tend to get snatched up quickly, so they’re usually fresher. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7704 "2025-07-23T15:44:11Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > Dry, mealy, and falling off the bones. That’s how I like 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:** [July 23, 2025, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7705 "2025-07-23T15:50:22Z")
My mom, too. I realized one day that most people who cook at all are decent at it. They just have very different food preferences. So most people either over season or under season, according to the tastes of others. And many people also undercook or overcook, again, according to the preferences of others. If you cook stuff you enjoy, you are probably a good cook. Even if i won’t eat anything you make. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7706 "2025-07-23T16:14:19Z")
Yes. My husband simply refuses to eat my bread, because I like really dense whole-wheat loaves. It’s not that I couldn’t make lighter loaves: I just don’t want to. More for me! On the other hand, while I’m a decent cook, he’s a great cook. If I were to grade them, my meals range from C- to A-, average B. His from A- to A+, average A. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2025, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7707 "2025-07-23T16:55:00Z")
Salting the earth destroys it’s ability to grow crops and is destructive. But salt, in the right place, is very valuable. And the salt of the earth represents that value, and it’s a compliment. ---
**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:** [July 23, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7708 "2025-07-23T16:57:21Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I realized one day that most people who cook at all are decent at it. They just have very different food preferences. Yeah. When I was a teenager, I worked in the records room at my father’s office, because that was the job I could get to; and we ate breakfast at his father’s cottage, because my mother stayed up late and slept late but my grandfather was always up early. He always made scrambled eggs for breakfast; incompletely scrambled, so there were large areas of whites and large areas of yolk as opposed to a well-mixed even pale yellow. I thought at the time that he didn’t know how to scramble eggs, but they were edible and I wasn’t about to tell my grandfather how to cook, so I said nothing and ate them. Some twenty years later and well after he was dead, it suddenly occured to me: that almost certainly wasn’t a repeated mistake. That was how he liked his eggs. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2025, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7709 "2025-07-23T20:15:32Z")
[![](https://echosofantiquity.com/cdn/shop/files/Maroon_177a6b69-5d70-444f-bce7-613001fd1c27.jpg?v=1749476616&width=990) ](https://echosofantiquity.com/cdn/shop/files/Maroon_177a6b69-5d70-444f-bce7-613001fd1c27.jpg?v=1749476616&width=990) ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7710 "2025-07-24T00:10:19Z")
There is an English version [![](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jAQAAOSwrORmwp0z/s-l1200.jpg) ](https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jAQAAOSwrORmwp0z/s-l1200.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7711 "2025-07-24T02:53:39Z")
The Latin expresses a rather stronger sentiment! ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7712 "2025-07-24T14:35:45Z")
And without the sexism. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7713 "2025-07-24T14:45:59Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > And without the sexism Always good! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7714 "2025-07-24T14:46:54Z")
But with genocide, slavery and war crimes… ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7715 "2025-07-24T15:00:50Z")
Well, true. But I take the tshirt to be making the point that nonchalantly salting the earth is Bad. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7716 "2025-07-24T15:04:13Z")
But the slavery comes with free Frogurt! ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7717 "2025-07-24T15:11:35Z")
Nah, that’s the Pharaoh’s plagues. No salt, just boils. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7718 "2025-07-24T15:12:51Z")
And potassium benzoate ---
**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:** [July 24, 2025, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7719 "2025-07-24T20:53:42Z")
I sometimes donate to Wikipedia when they solicit, and sometimes don’t. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7720 "2025-07-24T21:14:42Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > The Latin expresses a rather stronger sentiment! However, the Romans didnt really salt the earth at Carthage. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7721 "2025-07-24T21:21:16Z")
Pfft. Technicalities. _Atqui Carthago salienda est_. (Wavering between _atqui_ & _iam_, trying to go for the sense of “not disagreeing; salting still must happen.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=385) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636.md?page=387)