I thought it was a toss up between the declaration and the Constitution. I voted for the Constitution because it was a more interesting choice.
I’m more or less in @Dr.Drake’s POV. Lots of people declare things in seriousness and not, but the actuality is more important than the Declaration IMHO.
Therefore a more appropriate choice (to me) would have been September 3, 1783 with the Treaty of Paris but…
Most people treat the 4th of July as our “Founding” holiday, rather than just Independence. In that sense, the ratification of the Constitution is best choice. So that was my vote, but if I went with the most strict interpretation of the poll, yeah, September 3rd.
^This.^ July 4th was the day it was announced, not passed. Jefferson thought the 2nd would be the day of celebration and was surprised when it was the 4th instead.
The engrossed copy of the Declaration, the one we’re all familiar with, was signed over a period of time, mostly on August 2nd but a few as late as September.
The copy that was sent to George III was signed only by Hancock and Thomson, the secretary to the congress.
Well, that’s what you get when you write “July 4th 1776” in big letters across the top of your document.
I don’t think the actual date matters much. Independence Day is (ideally) a day to commemorate and celebrate all of the events in the poll, and the country in general.
Any of the dates would have worked for this purpose. July 4th is by now so entrenched in our national identity that it seems pointless to argue over its calendric accuracy at this point.
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Porthos: You know, it strikes me that we would be better employed wringing Milady’s pretty neck than shooting these poor devils of Protestants. I mean, what are we killing them for? Because they sing psalms in French and we sing them in Latin?
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Aramis: Porthos, have you no education? What do you think religious wars are all about?
Restaurant dessert:
If the event is “going out to dinner” then we usually get dessert, too. And maybe i don’t get my own but negotiate a taste of someone else’s, it maybe I’m hungry enough to order my own. But we’ll usually do a dessert course.
If the event is “we need to get a meal between dance sessions” or “we’re picking up takeout instead of cooking” or “we’re going to a show and it’s convenient to grab dinner nearby”, then basically never.
So it really depends why I’m eating out. I guess i travel a lot, and a large fraction of my restaurant meals are associated with travel, and i generally don’t get dessert with any of those.
How about March 4, the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s first inauguration in 1801? It was the first time that power transferred from one party to another, peacefully.
(Personally, I will stick with July 4. Inertia works for me.)
I don’t really care about the date. Come on, what’s next, we’ll celebrate Christmas on Jesus’ birthday?
This is exactly why we do and should celebrate the birth of the United States on July 4th. It’s the date on the nation’s birth certificate.
Yep. Several other dates could have been chosen, but they settled on the 4th, very early.
I used to work for a company where we had food scientists, who, as part of their job, developed and tested the cooking directions for microwaveable foods. So, I have a lot of respect for the instructions, because I know the work that goes into them.
They obviously can’t correct for every oven, but I use the instructions on the box as a starting point for how to prepare the food. The first time I try an item, I’ll follow the instructions as written. If it turns out to be not enough (or too much) time, I’ll fine-tune how I cook it the next time.
I don’t make microwave meals, but i microwave a lot of frozen vegetables, and figured that counts.
Like Kenobi, the first time i cook a new item i follow the instructions. After that i adjust some. My husband prefers his vegetables less cooked, so usually i adjust down. If it says to stop partway through and stir, i do stop partway through, and usually shake the whole container to mix it up.
I follow microwave directions as if they were written by an alien race that uses base-11 that I have to convert to base+10 for my microwave:
- 30 seconds becomes 33
- 1 minute, 30 seconds becomes 99 seconds
There are some inconsistencies:
- 60 seconds becomes 66 seconds
- But 1 minute becomes 111 seconds
Or maybe I’m just lazy and am minimizing unique keypresses.
Now that our new microwave has a 30 second button, all times are in 30 second increments and base-11 is mostly a thing of the past.
I eat a lot of microwaved food: my microwave is on the “slightly more powerful” side, so I generally subtract ~30 seconds from whatever the directions say. Whether I pause to stir while cooking depends on the item, but I’d say that most of the time I do; same goes for steps that call for a lower power level. I think the only direction I follow without fail is whether (and when) to cut/vent/remove the film.
I peel the lid slightly and cook everything straight through for 4 minutes 30. Seems to work pretty well.
The microwave is for just two things; poaching an egg (44 secs) and heating milk for a latte (2:22)
I don’t cook things in plastic in a microwave. I use one mostly for heating things back up. If I were going to microwave something that came wrapped up in plastic, I’d dump it out into a glass dish and heat it up that way, probably for something resembling but not exactly the recommended time and number of stirrings, and probably checking partway to see whether I thought it was done.
I, also, put my frozen veggies into a glass container with a lid. But then i mostly follow the microwave instructions.