If you mean bell peppers, very much this. I’ll pay a bit more for any other kind.
Yep, green bell peppers. I understand why the heat was bred out of jalapeños (so salsa makers could have a consistent heat level to adjust to mild, medium, and hot in their products, plus I can always just get a serrano or whatever if I want something hotter), but if I wanted a green bell pepper that doesn’t have green bell pepper flavor, I’d just get a red, yellow, or orange bell pepper.
Green bell peppers have neither heat nor flavor. If you look up “cloying annoyance” in the dictionary, there’s a pic of a bell pepper.
I read DMV & was all
for a minute.
My baby gurl had her birthday yesterday but celebrated by being forced to wear a lamp shade & getting a bath (which she hated, but needed) instead of a drive to the park, with her nose out the window sniffing away, for a nice walk. ![]()
They finally got the pre-auth - Monday afternoon, i.e. about 18 hours before forgery.
I have a new verse in an old rant. Oh joy!
It started in this old post about an existing store credit card I had that was provided by a name brand bank. The store switched all their cards to an abusive incompetent card issuer, then hijinks ensued.
The happy new news / rant is that effective today, my primary gasoline card has been switched from a trouble-free major name brand bank to … Yep, the same incompetent abusive turds as that store did. Evidently the issuer cuts a very advantageous deal for the merchant and makes up the difference against the consumer.
Unlike that store card I substantially never use, I buy gasoline about every 10 days. And I’m disinterested in switching stations or brands. So if I want their own-card spiff I need to keep using that card. OTOH, if they kill the spiff, I’m so gone. We’ll see. No sign of that … yet.
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Forgery?!
Good, um, luck.
Er, surgery, not forgery, though I was tempted to try that!!
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One of my favorite work stories (I work in a pizza kitchen) was a lady who pulled up demanding her order.
We were dead quiet, no orders under her name.
“Ma’am what’s the last 4 digits on your phone number?”
(We do this to keep tickets straight when we have, for ex. Jones, Johnson, John all at the same time.)
“The gentleman on the phone didn’t ask my number!”
… we had an all-female crew that night.
Lady, if you talked to a dude, you didn’t call here.
I did almost the same thing to myself a couple weeks ago.
Ordered some crap from Target’s website for the store to pack and I would pick it up from the store. Their shipping charges are outrageous, so I don’t use that option. I’ve taken to always doing order ahead for pickup at Target specifically rather than simply driving to the store to shop and buy. Because so often I look something up online the website says they have it in stock, but when I go right to the store the shelf is empty or a shambles or …
So by pre-ordering online I make them go find it and only ping me when it’s in a bag and ready to go. Whether that’s in an hour or 4 days from now.
Anyhow, a couple weeks ago I order some stuff and a couple hours later they ping me to say it’s ready. Yaay! I show up at Target’s service desk with my pickup barcode at the ready. I’m so efficient that way.
Customer Service Clerk: [Scans code, looks at screen, frowns] Um, Sir, (says the teenager, his tone clearly indicating he thinks I’m senile), your order is at the other Target, the one on [Whatever] Boulevard.
Me: D’oh!Damn. Thank you.
At least I was pleasant to the smart-ass whippersnapper. ![]()
In my defense, there are three Targets around here all about equidistant from home and it’s hit or miss which one the website will assure me has whatever goods I’m seeking. So I probably looked at all three stores online before selecting the one with the best chance of actually having the stuff in stock.
Then drove to the wrong one.
Yep. Sooo efficient. And before anyone asks, no, there had been no alcohol consumed at any stage in this process. Happy hour was supposed to be the stop after Target, not before.
I have indeed though as noted it was a near thing.
And that adds another mini rant: the hospital “food” was every bit as bad as it’s reputed to be. I thought that was supposed to have improved.
Bigger selection != more edible.
There were several meals I sent back essentially untouched, they were that bad. They weren’t able to foul up prepackaged Kellogg’s raisin bran, except of course the packages were about 4 mouthfuls each, but they would have if they could. I did not succumb to the temptation to dump plate contents onto the tray and smear it around but I kinda wanted to.
One day my husband went down to the hospital cafeteria when they had the grill working and got me a burger. I took one bit and moaned and told him he’d been replaced. Then he went to the Subway in the lobby and bought me a 6 inch tuna with extra meat; I devoured that tuna.
I also feel like the old lady at the nursing home: "The food is terrible. And such small portions ". Because it was literally impossible to get enough protein.
You may not know this, but by buying online at Target you may be getting a better price than you would in store. They try (or at least they used to) to match online prices so you can actually get things at a discount by shopping online instead of at the store even if you are picking it up. This has occurred to me more than once.
As to showing up at the wrong place…well I did that at a movie theater and that is something you can’t really easily recover from. It was before movie time and I did manage to get a refund but the showtime I had planned for was not met. I have never made that particular mistake again
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My repaired tire is leaking again. ![]()
I never expected them to have heat. They surely used to have flavor. I only brought up jalapeños because it’s an example of something deliberately being bred out of a commercial vegetable.
The only way I like green peppers are in something like curry, where they can soak up the curry flavor and then taste like curry.
That sounds good. When I eat them, it’s on pizza, in meatloaf (whence yesterday’s rant), or sautéed with onions (or used to, until onions turned against me). Otherwise, I don’t have much use for them.
Pizza and meatloaf… I’ll agree, both decent choices. I myself can’t digest onions properly, so in a meatloaf they are pretty good to give it some texture. And it’s going to take on whatever flavors are in that meatloaf.
I definitely prefer red peppers on a pizza (roasted red peppers are one of my favorite pizza toppings) but green peppers are acceptable.
Ditto! You have excellent taste!
It is my understanding that Canada uses semaphore…