I gotta say, that was a totally off-the-wall insane reply.
My favorite part is the “I’m not even staying in Ohio” bit. Like, whoah, okay. I understand you are going to keep that prized Arizona identity and not let the lameness of Ohio infect you. God. Like anyone from the vaunted promised land of Arizona would consider stooping to using an Ohio word. Especially when they aren’t staying anyway. Ohio! Sheesh.
I’m going to try that here. Next time someone calls me beer “Pijiu” I am going to say “I will never use that word. It is gross and sounds like pee, and I’m celibate so I don’t like watersports and besides I’m from California we don’t use gross words that sound like pee in California and besides I’m not even staying in China anyway!”
That’ll be TOTALLY called for.
Wait wait no maybe my favorite part is where after exactly one critical exchange she says the thread has reached the point of “fucking absurd” and should be closed. It’s a rare bird that doesn’t have the backbone for Cafe Society.
One shudders to think what would happen if Opal were in Paris and asked for the recipe for a certain chocolate-covered marshmallow treat. Poor dear might be overcome with the vapours.
Get over yourself yourself, ** Diogenes **. **Opal **
wasn’t pissy nor sanctimonious. She just said “I wouldn’t call them that way, I’m accustomed to call them otherwise, and besides this name gross me out”. And stated so much again when some people mentioned that it shouldn’t gross her out for some reason or another.
I’m not sure when you were appointed to decide what should or shouldn’t gross people out or how they should call fucking cookies.
You win my vote for the “lamest pitting of the week” prize.
Maybe you haven’t been reading closely enough. I gave up on the “I hate Ohio and the school I’m in but no matter what possible advice or support you give me I shall continue to be miserable whilst asking for more advice and support.” For more supporting evidence, I submit the “I want a way to take a ring on and off a necklace quickly” or some such. I was amazed she wasn’t Pitted for that one.
There is nothing more aggravating than to give well intentioned advice and have it be ignored or dismissed. Opal is indeed a talented artist and generally a nice person here, but this is a game that many are tired of.
On a more personal note, it never occurred to me that buckeyes didn’t refer to the nut. I never once considered a buck’s eye when hearing the name or looking at the confection. Ok, I’ll play along one more time: I got tired of dipping the damned things (they are time intensive), so I spread the peanut butter stuff out into a pan, and drizzle the melted chocolate over it. They are now peanut butter BARS, but they tend to shatter upon cutting, unless you wait a bit for them to warm up from the fridge. (I’m sure that will not be acceptable in some way, most likely that she will want them in ball form. Whatever.)
Where was the thanks or appreciation for posting the recipe? She simply dismissed it offhand without even acknowledging whether this was a suitable recipe. Surely she could have said something to indicate she had even read the recipe instead of going off on the wild tangent of thinking the name was gross.
I first want to say that I have never in my life thought of a Buckeye as a the eye of a dead dear or a live one for that matter. I always thought of it was referring to the nut of the buckeye tree. I have lived in Ohio my entire life.
I have not been here all that long and I noticed it. The necklace for the ring thread was the most recent I saw. It is not just that she does not like the suggestions it is that she completly ignores some responses but then writes out long condesending responses to others why that is not what she is looking for.
Maybe instead of posting to ask a suggestion she should give all the requirements she is looking or not looking for upfront so only people that have a suggestion other than what she has already deemed as not what she is looking for need reply. Of course she may not get many responses that way.
Growing up, we called them “Bear’s nipples.” The name “Buckeye” makes me think of disembodied deer eyes. Yuck! Anyway, that recipe is what I was looking for. Thanks!
But what she said was:
This matters how? There is just no reason to bring this up. Unless you want to somehow imply that us bloodthirsty omnivores take pleasure in the sight of gooey dead deer eyes. This is totally just prissy moralizing. I was a vegetarian for ten years, and the only time I’d ever bring it up was when we were deciding pizza toppings. It’s just not something that matters in 99.9% of conversations. Certainly not conversations about cookies.
Fact: People who bring up their vegetarianism for no reason are attention whores.
Again, who cares? Are you really that insecure that you have to make it absolutely clear you are not in any way attached to Ohio? And I hate to break it to you, but the rest of the world thinks Arizona is just as crappy a place as Ohio.
We all get grossed out by stuff. When adults get grossed out by something, they just don’t eat it. Or they say something like “Oh, I’m not fond of pig brains.” They don’t point at it and say “ewwwwwww gross that looks like wooooooorms!!! OMG look!! he looks like you are eating wooooooorms!!!” The way Opal said this was really condescending and insulting to the people who do call them buckeyes. I mean, come on. It’s not like all the dirty carnivores from Ohio really like the idea of jiggling brown deer eyes any more than she does.
This is probably the rudest way you could express this information.
This is the name of a dessert, not your position on kiddy porn or something. To take such an apparently deep and intense on this is just really strange. The only way to interpret this is that you meant to be insulting to someone. Which is where the “is your mental health okay?” thing comes up, since there was nothing anywhere in the thread to call for such a bizarrely strongly worded statement.
Once again with the Ohio thing. What does this have to do with anything? We get it. Opal has nothing to do with Ohio. Except live there. But it doesn’t matter because she’s not staying. Well, most likely, that is.
As many posters above note, “What’s with the Ohio thing?”
OPAL! Wake UP! Your Location is listed as “OHIO”, hello…hello…hello…Are you there Opal?
In OHIO there’s a school, a university in fact, called Ohio State.
Said University’s teams are called The Buckeyes. Not the Buck’s Eyes, but probably close enough for you.
oh, and Opal, being a Vegetarian and all, you may be interested in something on their home page—it’s “How To Save Some BIG BUCKS!” For some reason IT links to a automobile insurance website. go figure.
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well, I gotta bring this level of craziness elsewhere.
At our recent church social I witnessed members lining up for Devil’s Food. While you may feel that’s just cake, I have my suspicions and my work cut out for me.
I was given an actual buckeye when I moved to Ohio; I think I’ve still got it somewhere around here. It has a (very) vague resemblance to an actual deer’s eye but you’ve really got to stretch your imagination to see it. I would imagine the buckeye tree got its name back when deer where a staple of diet and when someone with damn little to do came up with the confection under discussion, the (very) vague resemblance was noted and thus the name of the confection came into use. I mean, hell, they had to call it something, didn’t they? I’ve eaten a ton of those confections and not once did I ever pause to think of the connection between the candy and a genuine deer’s eye. That anyone could be put off by the (very) vague resemblance or by the name passes my comprehension.
I would sincerely believe Opal was punking y’all. [She’s located in OHIO, and evidently in school there, where perhaps the best known sports teams are the Buckeyes…]
But there was no whoosh from her on it.
Could she hate her situation to such a degree she’s repressed not only where she resides (known as The Buckeye State, IIRC !), but also its sports teams?
Perhaps it’s gotten to the point she’s not able to use the English language effectively?
Hey, we all have our problems, but really!?!
I seem to recall she’d mentioned before that she has a really, really, really squeamish reaction about certain things, maybe related to OCD or something similar. That being said, whenever I get a similar reaction (anyone else get totally wigged out looking at cross-sectioned plant cells in the microscope back in science class? Just me? OK then…) I don’t go on and on about it at the time, I’ll kind of close my eyes for a second and try to think happy, distracting thoughts, then not discuss it.
I’m also a vegetarian, who grew up with those cookies being called “peanut butter balls”, and knew what the hell a “buckeye” is in nature. Then again, I’m not squeamish about meat (even though I do feel bad about how modern American livestock raising is typically carried out at the factory farm level), so my brain wouldn’t have gone there even if I didn’t know.
People who were just trying to be helpful and give out recipe suggestions/ways to more efficiently search for other recipes really didn’t need to be on the receiving end of that. Say thanks and move on. Oh, and related to the other “I’m looking for” threads - be waaaaaaay more specific in the first post about what you’re looking for. That way no one needs to get dismissed because they’re not a mind reader.
Dio, I agree completely, it was a bizarre reply to a nice answer.
Maybe Opal is like me and just hates this time of the year. Maybe there are too many memories of loved ones that are no longer with us, loved ones that are too far away. Maybe the stress of it causes her to sometimes strike out with inappropriate anger in trivial matters.
She is sitting behind her computer monitor wistfully thinking about her pets Bambi and Dancer who were sadistically brutalized and were blinded so some goddamn midwesterners could enjoy a tasty snack.
