The problem is, if she’s looking for recipes for her “peanut butter balls”, she’d have a much easier time of it if she’d just accept the fact that the majority of the recipe world calls them “buckeyes”. As was pointed out in the other thread, there are over twice the number of hits from a search for “Buckeye Confection” over “peanut butter balls”.
When I run a search on Allrecipes.com for “peanut butter balls”, I get fifteen results - TWO of which might be what Opal was looking for.
Run a search for “Buckeyes”, and I get nine results - SEVEN of which are candidates for Opal’s desired recipe.
I understand her desire to not have to think about eating squishy deer eyes, but really - if you disdain to call the treat what the majority of the cooking world calls the damn things, then you’re not gonna find what you’re looking for. Responding with “oh, ew, I’d never call them THAT!!!” without even checking the recipe to see if it’s what she wanted…yeah, that’s pretty prima-donna.
I wouldn’t call it “nasty”, but I would certainly call it rude.
Just as I would if someone asked me in person if I knew where they could get a recipe for “Peanut Butter Balls” and I said, “sure, just look up recipes for “Buckeyes”; there’s tons of 'em out there” and the person said, “EW! GROSS! I’m not looking that up, that’s an ICKY name!”
Well, sucks to be you then. Good luck finding your “peanut butter balls” recipes. They GAVE her the help she wanted, she just didn’t like the nomenclature, and therefore decided to be rude about the help she got.
I’m a little late to the party, but this pitting is long overdue. I also noticed the ring thread and it drove me crazy then too.
Sometimes a Pitting serves to get your attention to behaviors in yourself you haven’t noticed, so I’ll say this nicely and without insults: Opal, many of us are just tired of giving you advice. I flat-out won’t. I’ve seen how you respond to people nicely giving you advice when you have asked for it. You are dismissive and curt, and don’t even consider many of the suggestions, and you come up with 1000x ways the idea won’t work.
It’s like crying wolf. After a while it doesn’t work anymore.
FTR, I grew up in MI and do indeed know what buckeyes were.
Just read the thread Dio linked, and that is some bizarre behavior. Several of her responses had me saying “WTF” almost immediately. How does one live in Ohio and not have the slightest idea what a buckeye is? How does one believe that post #3 is an appropriate response?
Everyone claiming that “she just said she doesn’t like to call it that” needs to have their sight checked.
I didn’t see a “thank you” in her first response. That’s the first sign of nasty. If someone does something to help you even if it’s not exactly what you want, they need to be thanked for their effort. Did anyone here sign up to be her minion?
I took a look at the other thread mentioned - same treatment - as though some of the posters are beneath her or if some of their suggestions don’t warrant a response.
If a friend of mine is an ass, I’ll call him on it - I won’t defend boorish behavior as you seem to be doing.
Well, it looks to me that the conversation was polite until develsknew threw out the snark:
Before that it appears that Opal’s comments were closer to conversation than confrontation.
After the snark, ** Opal** fired back. I agree she’s oversensitive about the animal/tree nut issue but I think she had a damn good reason to go into hyper-pissed mode after devilsknew’s comment.
Wait a minute! Peanut butter!? Where the hell does peanut butter come in?
Traditional Buck Eye recipe:
1.) Scoop Buck Eye from eye socket with large melon baller.
2.) Skewer Buck Eye with pre-prepared 4 foot pointy stick.
3.) Roast over open fire, rotating as required, until Buck Eye is a golden brown or until pupils fully dialate.
4.) Serve with (optional) Sour Cream and Guacamole.
5.) Enjoy!
The ring one was bad, but the “I need a case that locks for my liquor” was nuts too. That’s too big! That’s too small! Too expensive! That won’t work! Oh, I don’t want to do that! On and on.
I believe the ring one was more a cry for attention about her engagement and being an artiste than the actual jewelry. There are many professions where wearing any type of jewelry is downright dangerous. These people find a way to soldier on with their work without wearing their rings. I’m sure it’s super tough, but by God, they find a way!
People were giving her good advice, and she was just smacking each one away with nary a thank you to show appreciation for other people spending their time to help her. If there are NO options she can accept, then put on your big girl panties and put the ring in a drawer while you’re doing your art. I promise, you’ll live without the ring on while you’re working. Pinky swear!
Ugh, yeah - it doesn’t help that I’ve been making my own bento-inspired lunches and the creator of the Just Bento website, and similar sites, will occasionally have recipes using the stuff. Those are bad, so are those decorative seed pods - sometimes showing up in dried flower arrangements - that have a mess of holes in them with a big seed inside each hole. You know, the one that shows up in a photoshop on Snopes that I’m not even going to describe lest I think about it more.
Oh, you don’t understand. That’s cruel to me; the ferrets barely notice my efforts. They have teeny-tiny little attention spans, and their energy levels are much like they’ve been sucking down espresso, complete with long crashes and zonked-out-cold sleeping.
(I did actually manage to teach one to sit up on command, though.)
Getting back on topic, I used Google’s image search on “buckeye” and the first three pictures, in order, were related to the sports team, then the nut, then the dessert. Checking out the nut, I realize I grew up calling those “horse chestnuts” (semi-rural Wisconsin), and on top of calling the dessert “peanut butter balls”, learning how “buckeye” was the more common term would have done a lot in helping me search for a recipe were I looking for one.
I must have been living in a cave. Where I grew up (St. Louis Mo) a buckeye was a nut or an Ohio State fan. A peanut butter ball was a peanut butter ball.
I can see how somebody wouldn’t know about the peanut butter ball name.
Still, it looks to me like Opal is getting pitted because of past issues.
This was an attempted joke, obviously failed. Bucks in hunting lingo are identified by their antlers. It’s kind of silly, but generally a hunter is prouder of killing a buck with a higher point value… 8 points would be two antlers with four points each… like this, and considered an impressive kill (illustrative photograph of a very alive and apparently happy male deer.)
It’s sort of weird, since my religion now precludes killing things, but I actually did some bow hunting when I grew up (I never killed anything though, I was more into it for the archery.) My stepdad was obsessive about hunting and considered it his own kind of religion, so it’s something I just did as a family activity because my parents were really enthusiastic about it. I don’t personally wish to participate in the ritual killing of animals and I never even really understood it when that’s exactly what I was sitting in the woods to do. Despite my current perspective, however, it would never occur to me to be grossed out by the word ‘‘buckeye’’ and while I don’t support hunting personally, I can respect that it’s a huge part of the culture and upbringing of a lot of perfectly well-adjusted, decent people. Besides, venison is really tasty, and that’s one way you’re guaranteed to eat ‘‘organic.’’
I’m totally serious about the deliciousness of those cookies, though. Methinks I am going to have to make an impromptu shopping trip this weekend…
But that’s when this whole internet thing comes in handy, so to speak. You get a squiggy reaction to stuff IRL? Can be difficult to restrain, I agree. However, since you’re posting on a fucking message board, you really have the ability to wait the 30 seconds or so for the squiggy reaction to pass so that you can respond in an appropriate manner.
But that didn’t happen here, now, did it.
