And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins
@moss-wizard of course this isn’t how we serve it!!
It has to be in a dish with much higher sides, so when we go to cut it and it tries to sliiiiiide away it doesn’t escape and blorp blorp blorp across mom’s nice tablecloth
SLICE YOUR CANNED BOGBERRY GOO INTO DISCS BEFORE SERVING, YOU FILTHY HERETICS.
NO. IT WILL BE SERVED IN PROPER CAN SHAPE, AND WILL HAVE ITSELF SCOOPED INTO WEIRD SHAPES THE WAY THE GODS INTENDED
YOU STAY OUTTA THIS, GOD-QUEEN-EMPEROR. AND TAKE YOUR CERVID STALKERS WITH YOU.
It’s supposed to be served in can shape with two discs already sliced and laying tastefully in front
I have consulted the scriptures and this is variation is still within the bounds of orthodoxy.
Mash the can shape up. We giving the table what they want, chaos in a dish, with a serving spoon.
Not to derail the escalating heresy, but what do dolphins have to do with cranberry bogs?
cranberry is served in its can shape in the can direction, not on its side but on its cylinder
Right but you guys know that ocean spray also sells like. Cranberries. Which you can use to make an actually edible cranberry sauce on the stovetop in 10 minutes of unattended cook time
actual cranberries? ew no thank you. The unprocessed chunky stuff is GROSS.
Look, in my house, we mix it with whipped cream and freeze it in a graham cracker crust for dessert!
Behold, my grandmother’s recipe for Cranberry Surprise:
For the crust, combine 2/3 cup crushed ginger snap crumbs (put them in a large plastic bag and crumble with a rolling pin, or a mug if you don’t have one) with 2 T. of sugar. Press into a 9" pie plate.
For the filling, pour a half-pint of regular whipping cream into a bowl, and beat until stiff. Mix in 2 T. of sugar and ½ tsp. of almond extract.
In another bowl, take a 14 oz. CHILLED can of jellied cranberry sauce and mash it with a potato masher if you’ve got one, or a fork if you don’t. (My mom bought me a potato masher specifically so I could make this dessert at holidays without having to borrow hers.)
Once the log is goo, fold the cranberry sauce into the whipped cream mix. Yes, it’s supposed to be THAT pink.
Pour the pink cream-and-cranberry mix into the crust and freeze for at least 24 hours. Cut and serve immediately upon removal from freezer.
American Horror Food is one of my favorite tumblr post types.
(I make it from real cranberries but if I decide to go with Goo Log, I mash it like the unorthodox godkiller that I am.)
I can only add that I worked in a deep freeze warehouse for a little bit when I was younger. The cranberries would come in loose around Halloween. This big machine would clean, sort, and dump them into 1000 lb wooden bins that would be forklifted and stacked to freeze in the warehouse.
One time, somebody lost control of a bin and broke it open. I would like you to picture a dozen warehouse workers slip sliding around on frozen cranberry ball bearings for hours, trying to clean them up, while you play Yakety Sax in your head. It was a nightmare.
Doesn’t everyone have a special cranberry-from-the-can serving plate and slice-cutting tool! What, are you all just living live Neanderthals?!?!
Oh my ZOD I love that
my brother is a culinary artist. one year he made some amazing cranberry sauce that nobody touched. the next year he made the same sauce, added a thickener, and set it in a ribbed can (he reused a pumpkin can iirc), and it was a hit.
we like the vague can-shaped fruit gelatin. i personally like it even more when it’s home-made.
Ah, in my house we serve this standing up on a plate, and we call it Invisible Can. It is not a holiday dinner without Invisible Can.
how is the traditional Festive Jiggly Log served in your family?
sliced completely before being brought to the table
a few slices for presentation and the rest left untouched until sliced as-needed
whole and unadulterated in its ribbed glory
i’m not american, and wtf are y’all doing over there
i’m not american, and i am seething with envy that i cannot also enjoy Cran Tube
Things are heating up in the superlative canned goo fandom
According to some of the commentary here and there in the notes, heating up is exactly what is supposed to have happened to the canned goo before it reaches the table, causing it to transmogrify from shaped gel into fluid sauce
when will we talk about the willful helplessness epidemic on here. So many people on this god forsaken website demand to have any and all things that exist outside their personal experiences directly, personally pre-chewed and spoonfed to them. And when you do, they’ll then ask for you to swallow for them, too, because, you see, in THEIR experience..,
I used to think the phrase “get over yourself” was needlessly cruel and dismissive. Then I got over myself and realized just how frustrating and annoying it is to deal with someone who utterly refuses to engage with anything outside of themselves and their own emotions until they’re sufficiently placated and reassured and satisfied.
You really, really need to learn how to set aside your sense of needing to have a role in everything (yes, even if that role is Thing To Be Discarded Or Ignored) and engage with the world as something that exists independantly of you. Your experiences are limited and your interpretation of things is only your own; what may seem obvious or sensible to you is likely unthinkable and baffling to others. What may seem mind-boggling and indigestible to you is very likely something someone else could only dream of being unfamiliar with.
Humble yourself and seek to incorporate others’ experiences into your worldview, lest you be doomed to unwittingly enforce the solipsistic belief that your experiences are the only ones that matter with every breath and motion.
Sometimes, things will exist, facts will exist that will not serve you in any way. They will not acknowledge you and will not gratify you with a place in things. This is not a statement on your value or worth or your necessity in life, in fact it is strictly not that; some things just genuinely have nothing to do with you. They say nothing about you, and are unaffected by any truths about you, or any of your experiences. You must make peace with this or else.
New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and California state AG’s are already stating they will REFUSE any Trump effort to do mass deportations, attacks on reproductive rights, or attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.
These states will not allow him to enact any harmful legislation without a fight. Other blue run states are expected to join them.
One of the first things I said Wednesday morning was that I needed a statement from the Governor of New York (where I live) that the state would throw down to protect the people here and I’m so relieved that she and Letitia James wasted no time making such a statement.
A Pragmatic and surprisingly comforting perspective about the Trump 2nd Presidency from the ACLU
***Apologies if this is how you found out the 2024 election results***
Blacked out part is my name.
I’m not going to let this make me give up. It’s disheartening, and today I will wallow, probably tomorrow too
AND
I will continue to do my part in my community to spread the activism and promote change for the world I want to live in. I want to change the world AND help with the dishes.
And I won’t let an orange pit stain be what stops me from trying to be better.
A link to donate to the ACLU if able and inclined. I know I am
he had promised to fully deregulate and privatize food safety inspections in his second term. this is to favor massive producers and reduce their costs at the expense of public health and safety. the reason why I make immediate mention of this is because anything that can be construed as “culture war” makes the news and everyone finds out about. these things, however, happen quietly because they aren’t sensational stories for the media to profit off of clicks with. the recent numerous recalls can be tied back to these first term rollbacks, which went over so quietly and discreetly no one demanded reinstatement during the Biden admin.
I appreciate the hustle for the warning in OP’s post and yet as a disabled household with several severe food allergies and with four people paying a mortgage and we are still below the poverty line I cannot help but feel anger because this feels extremely unhelpful at best.
Can we please stop with this, for real? This is not about your hyperspecific personal circumstances. I get it. This sucks for all of us. We are all caught up in this to some extent or another. But seriously, you’re mad at OP for not taking your specific needs and availability and budget into account when warning people about deregulation of food safety, when we are either still in the middle of or just finished a HUGE issue with pre-cooked chicken, and it’s about to get worse?
It’s extremely unhelpful for them to literally say “I know it’s not at the top of the concerns list but” and then provide a bunch of sources about a literally deadly issue? Like… seriously, what?
Stop lashing out at people putting out warnings with sources into the world. It’s embarrassing to witness.
With the summer heat rolling in I really wanted to take a moment and highlight a program I am a big fan of, A.N.E.
“Adopt-A-Native-Elder (A.N.E.) serves to help reduce extreme poverty and hardship facing traditional Elders living on the Navajo Reservation. A.N.E. is a trusted humanitarian organization focused on delivering food, medical supplies, firewood and other forms of Elder support. Respecting the tradition and dignity of Navajo Elders, we create relationships and honor and serve the Elders. The Program is organized in the Native American Spirit of the Giveaway Circle. The Giveaway Circle has a tradition of giving the best that we have. That may be a gift of time, talents or skills, or actual gifts of food and donations. When asked what the boxes of food meant to her, Ruth Benally explained that they were like "miracles from the sky.” The miracle is the letters and gifts that arrive from people that they don’t know and may never meet. For over 30 years, Adopt-A-Native-Elder has used an integrated approach to go beyond charity to assist indigent Elders on the Navajo Reservation in Utah and Arizona.“
A.N.E also puts on an annual rug show & sale, you can read about last years here. Apart from their annual events they also host an online shop where you can buy jewelry, woven baskets, and elder made rugs. All proceeds go towards providing support for our elders be it food, medical assistance, firewood, weaving supplies and so much more.
“in order to create loving males we need to love males” means teach boys that they can be themselves without being less of a man. it means being encouraging and nurturing of their emotions so they don’t become cold and hateful. it means showing boys, early in their lives, that they have value outside of what our society deems proper masculinity. what it doesn’t mean is that it’s our job to handhold men who see women as walking sex toys through the concept of empathy, and maybe if we’re really really nice to them and don’t say things that hurt their feelings they’ll stop killing us for saying no
This is what that bell hooks essay actually says, btw.
ALT
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