# (Old) It's a matter of taste in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [June 22, 2026, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-its-a-matter-of-taste-in-the-mmp/1031097 "2026-06-22T11:31:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 353
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> [@swampbear](#): > > most of the best soups are those we make up as we go along. I have never made a bad soup with that method. I wholeheartedly endorse this. > [@swampbear](#): > > Hopefully it will be fixed for today. Miracle of miracles, it was! But the cold line is still kaput - we used the “2 bags of ice” method which worked surprisingly well. It took me FIVE buckets of hot water to melt it all, even after a 10-hour stint. Speaking of, I was complaining about how hard the ice was fighting me back at the end of the night, and one of my coworkers helpfully piped up with, “Get you a bucket of real hot water.” First of all, I was on my 4th bucket. Second of all, what the hell did you think I was doing, going back’n’forth to the sink _while you were standing there washing dishes_? Third of all, this fool boy thinks I was born yesterday. “Melt ice with hot water? Whaaaaa… ?!? { _forehead smack_ } Why didn’t I think of that?” > [@swampbear](#): > > you could spell your name **Maellaeighe.** This made me smile. > [@AskNott](#): > > Their July 4th parade starts at midnight or 12:01 am. Perhaps that’s so they can be first Well, as we all know, 'tis good to be juvenile. > [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > Happy Hammer Time! I made sure to drink lotsa water, too. > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > When I go by, I yell, " honk!" hoping that counts. I’d laugh. And sip. > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Okay to start a sentence with Many times…? I guess “often” works, too, if brevity is your thing. > [@Misnomer](#): > > Ok, so, now I’m a little scared of your manager… Oh, she didn’t mean it like in a Clint Eastwood type menacing way. She just meant _I_ wouldn’t hafta interact with her. She didn’t show back up today, for those playing along. > [@swampbear](#): > > the biiiiiig trash can has been hauled all the way down to the road for pickup tomorrow. Me, too! It’s pretty full this week, so I didn’t wanna take a chance on forgetting. Or saying, “Ah, eff it” and then having regrets. Was accompanied by a couple of instances of “dry lighting” just in the few minutes the task takes, which we also saw at work earlier. I don’t think I’d ever heard the term before a fellow crew commented on it. * * * Had fancy tuna sushi (it’s from a box at the frozen section of the good supermarket 🤫 ) to nibble on all day. Was supposed to be yesterday’s food, but .. nope. Yesterday was just a big ol’ nope. Anyway, at least I had that to look forward to for today. But all evening I was craving some sort of fluffy carby-thing, to offset all that protein I guess, so I just plopped a mini-tube of whomp croissants into the oven. … and it was rainy earlier & is now quite hyoooomid, so between that & the oven, I’m really glad I left **Coolio** running throughout my shift. **Monkey** has just had some gooshy-fud, so don’t let him lie to you and say how poorly he’s mistreated. > [@susan](#): > > Nitpick: Pawcatuck./former Rhode Islander Is that what y’all call it when a cat tucks its paws under? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-its-a-matter-of-taste-in-the-mmp/1031097)._