aren’t most seafood dishes down South have tails on?
Yeah, I’m talking stir fried.
Mr. brown and I both agree on our favorite cereal: Barbara’s Oat Crunch, a better-quality version of Quaker Oat Squares. It’s not sugary, which we like. We’ve been buying it for years.
I haven’t been able to find it recently, and I just found out why: they’ve stopped making it. The company now only makes sugary stuff aimed at the kid market, or at least that’s all I could find at Sprout’s.
Damn, I hate it when favorite products are discontinued.
This happens to me so often it’s now a joke between me and my wife, that if I like something and buy it regularly I am dooming the company. So frustrating!
I’ve always understood that a right turn on red is only allowed from the rightmost lane.
Here all the three-lane freeway offramps have signs at the bottom that say “Right on red from right lane only”. The city could have made a lot of money if they’d just kept a cop stationed at the bottom of the offramp near the mall.
That’s not true in California. You can make a right turn against a red light from any lane, as long as the lane is marked for a right turn, and there is no signage specifically prohibiting it.
First, I lost all of my saved passwords in chrome. Now Gmail is using AI to make recommended responses to emails that I make to a very good friend that I’ve known for 36 years.
You do not know her.
Oh, and it was wrong on identifying a tree type in a picture I sent. Go figure.
Just STOP IT. GO AWAY. (I figured out how to turn it off).
But dammit, I do not need you to suggest how to respond.
Now this scares me, as I use Google Password Manager. Do you know how this happened?
There are a number of suggestions on the web to do this. What method did you use?
And for the record I am in California.
Sometimes I’m tempted to ask one of the grocery store managers, “How do they manage to know so unerringly what my favorite products are, so that they know precisely what to discontinue?”
You’re old. We keep track of what items old people buy, and discontinue them.
We carry brown bread in a can in many stores where it makes no business sense to carry it, except there’s a tiny, but very vocal, group of customers who will stand at the customer service desk and yell at the manager about it.
Excellent survival food.
Microsoft Teams does something similar in that it gives you a few AI generated suggested responses to your IMs. And honestly sometimes they’re useful, like when the appropriate response is just a quick “Thanks” or whatever. But my very minor annoyance is that the suggested responses are overly fond of exclamation marks and emojis. Like instead of “Thanks” the suggested response will be "Thanks! 
". That’s not how I typically communicate. I prefer to use emojis and exclamation marks sparingly, not in every other message.
If they throw a hissy fit at the manager would that qualify for survival of the fittest?
What I can never find a stable source of is frozen, fully-meat-loaded, meal-size mac and cheese or potatoes. Stouffers used to have one for at least 5 years and even improved it in the end, adding tomato bits to the cheese, bacon, and chicken. Then it suddenly went away. I found Tillamook a few years ago which had a frozen bacon and cheese but that went away after a year or so. I turned to another company, I forget which, which also had a bacon and cheese offering that just went away a month or so ago.
Although throughout this period of a couple decades, there have always been fully loaded frozen mac and cheeses available but they are snack sized (or, I guess, main entree sized if you’re a small person and are having sides as well.)
We track the prices of a basket of items that we sell at our stores and the prices for the same items at a number of our competitors. 300 items that are most frequently purchased (but, for example, only one type of organic/premium butter and one kind of mainstream butter, so that we can keep the basket broad.
Whenever we drop an item from the basket that the old timers (employees who have been in the business for 30+ years) think of iconic there is a huge amount of pushback. When we dropped pork and beans, some of these guys were positively abusive.
And these are folks who are supposed to have a finger on the pulse of the shopper. Instead, they appear to be hanging on to the 1970s in the grocery business for dear life.
ETA: I don’t mean we stopped carrying pork & beans, I mean we stopped checking the price of pork & beans at 100+ competitors’ stores every month. We check them at a few stores every few months.
I have a coworker who uses these constantly. All his answers to me are “Sure thing!” or “Will do!”
Since I only message him when I actually need him to do a task, this is incredibly annoying because it doesn’t always translate to actually doing said task, or giving me an ECD, or anything remotely helpful to me, so I usually have to chase him down again to follow up. It’s incredibly aggravating and yes, I’ve called him out on it.
In his defense it’s not so much laziness as being overworked and too busy, but I still need him to respond to stuff. If it’s something I can handle myself, I just do it, but I can’t do his job for him.
There is a certain member of our household who interprets the “best if used by” or “sell by” date on a grocery item to mean that if the product is used even one millisecond past that date, that it will cause certain death. It makes me crazy to see this person grab something from the refrigerator, look at the date, and then throw it away…
