Nutmeg is a criminally underutilized spice, and a little goes a long way. Damn-near everything I cook gets a little bit of nutmeg.

If what you’re cooking tastes like it’s missing something but you can’t quite put your finger on what it is, in my experience most of the time it’s acid. My go-to way to add that is with a good squirt of yellow mustard.

A little bit of cocoa powder finds its way into a lot of darker colored savory dishes like stews and such

In my experience, when a dish tastes like it’s missing something, most of the time it’s acid. My go-to is a healthy squirt of yellow mustard.

No it isn’t.

In general many people consider it to be kind of rude to ask people why someone isn’t drinking/doesn’t want to drink. A lot of the reasons may be things they don’t want to share details about, past alcohol abuse, family history, traumatic experiences, health issues, etc. Even if it’s something pretty benign like they just don’t enjoy the taste it can get old just having to answer the same questions again and again because a lot of people really want to push the issue for one reason or another.

Personally, I do enjoy drinking, and don’t have anything against bars in general, but I can see the appeal of sober bars. Some people are just in search of a “third place” somewhere that’s not work or home that they can just go to hang out, talk to people, etc. and for a lot of people bars fill that role, but if they’re not drinking for any reason, bars may not be very attractive option for them. Also a lot of people when drunk can get loud, annoying, or just otherwise unpleasant to be around, not that sober people can’t also be jerks, but people in general are probably going to be dialed back a bit more when they’re all sober than when they’re drinking. And if your goal is to try to meet more people, you might have a chance of having more authentic interactions with the people you’re trying to meet, some people’s personalities can really change when they’ve been drinking, you might hit it off with people you wouldn’t have if one or both of you were drunk.

On the other hand, they also believe that we were created in his image, so perhaps he created atoms because he himself is made of atoms.

We’re probably not talking about the cute hornless domesticated puffballs you’re probably picturing when you hear “sheep,” but something more like a bighorn sheep, but honestly even a domesticated ram can be pretty intimidating.

And really, canned hunting like this aside, why not hunt sheep? They’re not all that different from a deer, probably the most popular type of game animals at least in the US if not the world. They’re both ruminate ungulates with horns growing out of their head, depending on the species they can be in roughly the same weight class as deer or even larger, and sheep can be pretty well-adapted to some environments that deer aren’t as well-suited for, so they can present more of or at least a different kind of challenge to hunters (which is part of the appeal for some hunters)

I don’t support what this guy did or the type of hunting industry he’s involved in, but hunting wild sheep isn’t exactly a novel concept, and is fairly popular in areas where wild sheep are present.

I know in the US it’s something a lot of hunters would like to do if they had the opportunity, but those opportunities are limited (and rightfully so) for conservation reasons, most states have a lottery system to get a bighorn tag because the demand for the tags well exceeds the amount of hunting the sheep population can actually sustain, meaning you often have a less than 1% chance of getting a tag the first time you apply for one, so I guess I understand the appeal of this kind of hunting as a way around the tag system for wild sheep, even if I don’t really agree with it.

A lot of people are saying it’s primarily a NY thing, so I’d just chime in to say we use it in PA as well, at least in the Philly area, to refer to the northern parts of the state.

Not much more to it than youre going far enough north to be out of your city’s metro area, but staying in the same state. In PA I’d say upstate probably starts around the Poconos. I think new Yorkers kind of tend to use it to refer to the rest of the state, we wouldn’t tend to do that here, Central and Western PA are different things than Upstate PA, although there is definitely some overlap and there’s not exactly clearly defined borders.

I don’t know how many other states use the same terminology, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s pretty common in other largish states with larger population densities in the southern part of the state and lower densities in the north (I don’t know off the top of my head which other states that would apply to, maybe it’s only PA and NY)

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I’ve been at it for a bit over a year, casually chipping away at it on Duolingo. I have a feeling I’m probably in pretty much the same boat as you, there’s no particular reason I’m learning it, just kind of seemed like something different to do.

And I dabble in a bit of ham radio, but I don’t do much with it, and I’m curious if this has been your experience as well. I think the biggest problem with ham radio is other hams, because for a lot of them their biggest hobbies is ham radio so all they want to talk about is ham radio. Don’t get me wrong, I think antennas are cool too, but surely they must have something else going on in their life worth chatting about.