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Based off Source: Club 9 by Makoto Kobayashi

chilchuck short kings anthem fancam bc i had to

If you immediately went "okay but where's the whole song" (like I did):

A+ OP, 10s across the board

(To be clear, I haven't watched this yet bc my partners have never been in the mood for it when I am. I'm stuck in bed today tho so maybe I'll actually do the thing.)

The things I devoured so I could devour you

happy lesbian dance

as always l The Oatmeal l ⬇txt-edited

generally a satisfying category structure, but jam is chunks of fruit in a jelly substrate. if the substrate is too liquid your toast gets soggy with not enough coverage in between chunks of fruit. “liquid” in this jam description suggests bad jam. i will die on this hill

also shoutout to German which just says “Marmelade” for everything like good luck in your grocery adventures

FWIW I was taught (for English) that jam is a spreadable preserve made from non-citrus fruits, marmalade is from oranges.

100% with you that the substrate must not be the consistency of a thick syrup, but jelly for me stands up on its own, like a properly cooled pudding would - ideally, jam "juice" is the consistency of yoghurt, for me. A conserve is even worse though, that should be very much specified it's swimming in liquid, as it is a shelf-stable kompót/compotte.

Can you tell I'm peckish?

that’s a great rule of thumb for marmalade in English because 99/100 times it means orange marmalade.

broadly, the only fruits commonly jarred with rind and all are citrus, and seville oranges are classically used.

i do think, though, that marmalade should be assumed to contain rind, and that the rind is a defining factor.

“orange marmalade” without any rind is sold as a concession to pussies offered for children and people with texture issues available and many prefer it, but it’s not classic. imo it’s technically an orange jelly. amusingly, Tiptree labels theirs as an orange jelly but with ‘marmalade’ in smaller type so that the orange jelly buyers don’t feel excluded. well done, brand team: (edit: see f/u post there is a “no peel marmalade” also and i have a lot of questions)

top brands like Tiptree (a good Big Marmalade brand and an easy way to go down the marmalade rabbit hole: not definitive but fun to peruse and illustrative) give you lots of choices re eg coarse-cut vs fine-cut bits of rind as well as degree of bitterness, which is a function of the quantity of rind as well as the type of orange, and generally include a no-rind option. if you get into marmalade enough you’ll see other types of orange, most of which are less bitter even with plenty of rind in, but also lemon, lime, grapefruit, blends, exotics. i, in what apparently is my self-anointed capacity as Marmalade Category Structure Czar, rule that all citrus marmalades are legit marmalades, but beyond citrus it’s iffy. if the rind is used, especially if it’s prominent in the texture of the jam, or if the jam is unusually bitter as basically-sweet jams go, the thing can probably make a marmalade case for itself.

i’ve occasionally seen the word “marmalade” used for savory-sweet vegetable chutneys to be used as sauces. this mostly suggests to me that the product branders or menu/recipe writers are trying to be all fancy-rustic. i’d allow it under poetic license iff coarse jammy texture with bits of citrus rind in it; strain out the rind, you’re on thin ice; jam that’s never met a citrus fruit in its life, you’re a chutney, go home.

Just to echo the citrus thing - have some British staples.

For some reason (Brexit?) Rose's marmalades have become bloody hard to find in Ireland, and even Tesco - who used to make a very good Lemon-Lime - have discontinued it.

At this rate we'll end up making our own.

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what is it that makes siblings so good at insulting your fashion?

one time my brother looked at me and said "Hold on. I need to cook up an insult about your outfit." and after two and a half minutes of silence said "You've got the perfect cammo to sneak through a grandmother's house undetected" and he was fucking right

making fun of americans is pretty much always ok if youre not doing it in an edgelord “you guys have so many school shootings” way or acting like we’re the only country that has racism. but like posts about americans and hamburger get me every time

This is just objectively hilarious

Me, watching my kitten hold still for a suspiciously long time: Ollie, are you peeing on my floor?

Ollie: Not

Me: Are you sure?

Ollie, grunting through time and space to push out a chocolate mcmuffin wider than he is tall: Not

Me, helpless, arms full of hot chili: Ollie, no! Ollie no! No, Ollie! God, Jesus, Ollie! Ollie, nooo!!

Ollie:

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