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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • You mentioned TGI Fridays.

    When I was in college, we’d go to Fridays all the time, and the food was incredible.

    Then, over the years, it turned to shit. We stopped going.

    One day, we were craving the memory of what it was and decided to give it anorher chance.

    When we sat down, the manager stopped by our table to thank us for coming in and informed us that they had changed their process. She said that in recent years all their food was being prepared off-site, frozen, and just microwaved to order at the restaurant. However, they recently went back to doing all the prep from scratch in their kitchen.

    The food was incredible! Exactly what we remembered. We started going back.

    Then COVID hit. The Fridays that we would go to shut down.

    The last time we went to a Fridays, the restaurant was empty, the staff was disinterested, and the food was shit.


  • Where does Applebee’s get their potato skins?

    I’ll give you instructions for making potato skins.

    1. Since you referenced food from Applebee’s, first you’re going to need to wean yourself off whatever drugs you’re on so you can tell the difference between food and what Applebee’s sells.

    2. wash and dry some potatoes.

    3. pierce the potatoes several times, all around the outside with a fork.

    4. bake the potatoes in a preheated 400° F. oven until you can easily insert your poking fork all the way to the center of the potato (probably about an hour, depending on the potatoes).

    5. take the potatoes out of the oven and let them cool down.

    6. slice each potato in half

    7. scoop out the insides of each potato, leaving about a quarter inch thickness for the skins. Last time I did this, I used a melon baller and deep-fried all the potato balls.

    8. deep fry the scooped out skins at about 375°. I prefer beef tallow for frying.

    9. when they are golden brown, take them out and set them aside to drain.

    10. cook bacon until crispy, then brake it up into small pieces.

    11. arrange all the fried potato skins on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

    12. season with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.

    13. fill each potato skin with shredded cheddar cheese, and sprinkle bacon pieces on top.

    14. bake in the oven at 350° until the cheese melts.

    Serve with sour cream and chopped scallions.



  • NABDad@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.worldPaging Dr. Land Baron
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    I’m biased, because I work for a non-profit health system.

    We have definitely been absorbing hospitals. There seem to be four major categories they fall into:

    1. Hospitals that are doing well and fit very well with the system’s goals so they make a very positive addition to the system.

    2. Hospitals that are surviving, but struggling and unable to compete against the for-profit bohemoths that are breathing down their neck.

    3. Hospitals that have failed because they simply couldn’t compete and are leaving a community without any viable options for healthcare.

    4. Hospitals that have failed because they were bought up by venture capitalists, assets sold off to benefit the VCs, and bankrupted when they couldn’t pay the debt that the VCs incurred for their purchase.

    My employer is far from perfect, but there is no question that the single overriding mission is to provide healthcare. We are not a real estate mogul masquerading as a hospital system.

    I couldn’t read the entire article, but the initial premise seems like something promoted by the for-profit healthcare industry to try to distract from their financial rape of their patients and communities.












  • We need to stop seeing governors and senators and representatives and saying, “they would be a great president!”

    Instead we need to see teachers, co-workers, and neighbors and say, “they would be a great on the city council or county government or as a state representative.”

    We need to stop thinking in terms of only one chance of victory every four years and start putting people who care about us in places where they can help.

    Of course, that means we have to be prepared to run, and that is hard as hell. So many of us are stretched to the absolute limit just trying to survive. I honestly don’t understand how anyone can do it.