#cranberry discourse

[unofficial-trader-joes]

cranberreies are good. youu agree.

[littlethingwithfeathers]

Can I make my own cranberry sauce?

Yes.

Do I?

No. I don't have room for one more pot on the stove. Long live goo can!!!!!!!!

And they look out so hard for the well being of the spiders AND the dolphins

[l0ve-lett3r-4-u-txt]

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rusty / Russell / r0b0

clover / zomber

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any + all prns !!

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Lesbian, Objectum, genderfluid, radqueer

╰┈➤ interests . . . 🌐

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Bolded = favs !!

𝄞⨾𓍢ִ໋ music . . .┊Daft Punk, MF DOOM, limp bizkit, bloodhound gang, ICP, femtanyl, 4lung, Harley Poe, lustsickpuppy, Albert Hammond, David Byrne, S3RL, Disko Warp, kikuo, maretu, luvwillow, goreshit, SacriStuff, Andrew W.K., oingo boingo, creepP, vampyx, Styx, M, strawberry switchblade, she wants revenge, toy-box, sir mix-a-lot, junie & thehutfriends, MSI, MAILPUP, boy fantasy, ANGELMANE, rebzyyx, death grips, Hollywood undead, millionaires, Ayesha erotica, beastie boys, they might be giants, kitty gore, sum 41, the offspring, your favorite Martian, Kevin Macleod, pixies, David Bowie, Radiohead, the strokes, Jeff Buckley, weezer, the cardigans, the cranberries, the smiths, dazey and the scouts, bratmobile, Le Tigre, hole, MCR, the velvet underground, the white stripes, Fiona Apple, mitski, odie Leigh, the sugar cubes, the moldy peaches, the crane wives, cosmo sheldrake, yaelokre, CBMC, big thief

── .✦ dislikes . . . 🌀

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[nostalgebraist]

Back to the way of the human being as defined by the Real People. Conperception-within-a-manifold (see the puffin, below), medicine, healing, language, food are all mediated through the Place Who We Are. A Real Person of This Place is absolutely present and participatory, and knows how to discourse with moose, bear, caribou, seal, walrus, ptarmigan, tundra swan, cranberries, blueberries, herring—and, ah, salmon, the Swimmer.

[septembersung]

My contribution to cranberry sauce discourse is we always homemake it and we cook the cranberries in orange juice instead of water.

[penig]

Concerning Pink Lemonade

So, in the wake of yesterday’s brief lemonade discourse with @prismatic-bell, I started wondering. I began my researches at home, by consulting my late-70s edition of the Betty Crocker Cookbook. Yes, Betty Crocker is a corporate invention and shill, but her cookbook (at least for that edition ) is very handy for a lot basic things. If a dish is frequently found on American tables, odds are good it’ll have some sort recipe for it, even if it isn’t your favorite version of the dish. And sure enough, “pink” was down as a variation on lemonade, and the lemonade recipe itself is an acceptable one. Alas, to make pink lemonade the instructions are to make basic lemonade and add two tablespoons of grenadine syrup and a drop or two of food coloring! Which is about what you’d expect from commercial lemonade but I think we can all probably agree that it’s a cheat in a private kitchen and not worthy of the name “home cooking.���

So I started considering what I knew, or thought I knew, about pink lemonade, and why I thought so. That it was made from grapefruit I had no doubt - I distinctly remember my mom’s voice telling me that when I hesitated to drink it the first time. But I think the rest of the idea I had about it, though logical and experience-based, is not something anyone ever told me. (I have never actually made the stuff myself; never had that much grapefruit juice on hand.) Because, pink lemonade excepted, if a drink is made from a fruit, water, and sugar, it is fruitade - lemonade, limeade, orangeade. But grapefruitade is not a word and you only have to see or say it to know why. So grapefruitade became pink lemonade - essentially the same recipe, with an appropriate amount of grapefruit juice in place of the lemon juice. If a fruit is added to lemonade it becomes fruit lemonade - strawberry lemonade, raspberry lemonade, etc. Add one more fruit and you’ve got yourself a fruit punch.

This all seems tolerably obvious to me. But prismatic-bell’s evidence demonstrates that, to some people, strawberry lemonade is an alternate term for pink lemonade, not a separate thing.

So I asked my husband what was in pink lemonade and he said: “Well, if it’s real pink lemonade, grapefruit.” Which was highly gratifying but not definitive. He’s from Georgia and my family is all midwestern (though I”m an Air Force Brat and my cuisine, like my accent, is a kind of American Fusion). We are, however, the same age, and I thought it entirely possible that the original pink lemonade had fallen out of fashion and that Kids Today had never known The Real Stuff. So I cranked up the old search engine and went looking for pink lemonade recipes and culinary histories.

Well! Imagine my consternation when I turned up not one single pure grapefruitade recipe, only a lot of variations on fruit lemonade. Cranberry is apparently far the most common, but prismatic-bell’s strawberries, raspberries, pomegranates, and even watermelon appeared. Even more shockingly, one of the legends of its invention (which are lost in the mists of the 19th century circus) is that it was created when a refreshment stand worker threw cinnamon candies into the lemonade. I can believe a lot of things, but I do not believe that.

So now I’m curious. I have no particular hope of a poll made on my blog getting any traction, but I’m going to turn the Shiny New Post Editor back on and make a poll, and plead for it to be reblogged around. I’m typing this in Legacy because I forgot and anyway who’s going to read all this before voting in a poll?

[cranberrytea451]

Have tea with me!

Ask game I made in the middle of the night.

Green: ask me for an unpopular opinion or tell me one of yours

Ginger: tell me about your comfort character and I’ll talk to you about mine

Black: music discourse! Let’s talk about songs and artists

Earl grey: I’ll tell you my personal head canons on characters and stories(you can also tell me yours)

Peppermint: weird stories. Ask me about one or tell me one of yours

White: send me a meme or tell me a joke

Golden flower: I’ll pour my heart out to you, if you need some comfort I’ll draw you something small and cute

Lavender: random thoughts and questions you have

Cranberry: guess something about me!

[honey-makes-mogai]

[ID: A nine horizontal striped flag. The fourth and sixth lines are wavy, while the second and eighth lines have wide semicircles on them facing inwards. On the bumpy lines there are six hot pink hearts. The colors, from top to bottom, are dull red, cranberry pink, hot pink, neon fuchsia, pastel magenta, neon fuchsia, hot pink, cranberry pink, and dull red. End ID]

Lustadored -

[PT: Lustadored -]

A gender under the genderadored system related to the sin of lust and being adorable / adored, being lustful and adorable / adored, being the sin of lust and adorable / adored, the sin of lust being adored by all, the sin of lust being adorable / adored, etc!

[ID: A nine horizontal striped flag. The fourth and sixth lines are wavy, while the second and eighth lines have wide semicircles on them facing inwards. On the bumpy lines there are six light pink hearts. The colors, from top to bottom, are light gray, white, light pink, plum pink, dark magenta-red, plum pink, light pink, white, and light gray. End ID]

Chastityadored -

[PT: Chastityadored -]

A gender under the genderadored system related to the virtue of chastity and being adorable / adored, being chaste and adorable / adored, being the virtue of chastity and adorable / adored, the virtue of chastity being adored by all, the virtue of chastity being adorable / adored, etc!

IDs by: @/mogaidescribed

Tagging: @radiomogai

[Banner ID: A pastel yellow banner with a sunflower on either side. In brown text with a white outline, it says "- Please let me know if this has been coined before! -" /End ID.]

[DNI transcript: "-DNI- Basic criteria, anti-mogai, proshippers, ableists, aphobes, racists, zoophiles, rpf shippers, fandom discourse, under 13, transid/transx". /End transcript.]

[prospitian-monarch]

Under the cut: my palamedes' sollux DNA proof, recently unearthed while rummaging through tazmuir's fanfic for vrisrezi quotes (vote vrisrezi here!).

@diamond-rings-and-gutter-bones as per request. (note if you want to see me talk more about tlt or post with any regularity you'll have to find me at my main at @augerer!)

Also please note I've turned off reblogs on this post because I don't want to be misconstrued as trying to get into discourse about tlt being homestuck fanfic with the serial numbers filed off, which for the record i think is completely untrue. although as you've been mentioned i think you can reblog if you'd like to reply!

From "The Last Hearing of Gamzee Makara", urbananchorite:

Kanaya is mopping a little at the cracked goggles with an embroidered handkerchief, smelling luminous, clean. “Sollux was a marvel,” she says, with surprising warmth.

From Gideon the Ninth:

"Sextus was a marvel," admitted Harrow. "Too bad you didn't marry him. You're both into old dead chicks."

(second line maintained for the Aradia comparison).

From "BL4CK HOL3, green 2un", urbananchorite:

The story is a terezi-narrated oneshot about the moment when Sollux dies piloting the meteor through the veil. I think it illustrates well the type of Sollux characterization that ua and e.g. paratactician generally had (not entirely the same as canon sollux) which is specifically what palamedes has the vibe of. Also there's the very similar line at the end.

Blood comes in great mustardy gouts from his empty eyeholes. It fills up his goggles and squelches out the rims, khaki on cranberry. It leaks out his nose and you know his screams without hearing them; not from the pain, but as acceleration. You know what he’s like, don’t you? His mind is cracking its whip to never mind his shell, his meat, where the hell did they ever get him. They’re bullshit. An ecstasy of contempt. Do it, asshole, do it, do it. You think you can hear his bloodpusher pounding, quicker and quicker, hurling itself against his ribcage with beating wings. You think you pinpoint when it starts to give; when it misses those first few beats and he screams through them, the moment when at last Sollux Captor’s heart bursts. The remaining ten seconds he runs on adrenaline and wild, maniac stubbornness, his mind running up a bill that his body can't pay. His mind skips town, his mind goes running far into the distance. There's so much light. You swear you can see it. [. . .] Sollux becomes a falling star.

From Gideon the Ninth:

"Yes," said Palamedes. "I also know you must have studied radical thanergetic fission, so you know what happens when a necromancer disperses their entire reserve of thanergy very, very quickly." [. . .] The sickroom exploded into white fire, and the bonds pinning Gideon snapped. She fell hard against the wall and spun, drunkenly, lurching back down the corridor as Palamedes Sextus made everything burn [. . .] She ran for her life down the long corridors, past the ancient portraits and crumbling statues, the grave goods of the tomb of Canaan House, the mechanisms of this feeble shitty machine crumbling as Palamedes Sextus became a god-killing star.

[lovejustforaday]

Shoegaze Classics - Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger - Curve (1992)

Main Genres - Shoegaze, Alternative Dance

A decent sampling of: Industrial Rock, Ethereal Wave, Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia

The common story of the origins of the term "shoegaze" itself is often told in a way that would suggest the term's meaning is twofold.

The more literal meaning comes from the heavy usage of multiple guitar pedals for bands to achieve their signature swirling, washy, dense guitar sounds, the guitarists spending more time at live shows staring down at their feet as they prepared to adjust their pedal board.

But it is also often implied that the idea of these bands coming to be known as "shoegazers" is for the generally introverted, shy, wall-flower disposition of the performers. I suppose it doesn't help that long bangs that hide the face, and baggy clothes were common fashion choices for the scene at the time. Of course, your mileage with this stereotype will vary depending on the band.

Next on my shoegaze classics retrospective, I wanted to take a look at a band that defies the wall-flower stereotype of the shoegazers, by taking the genre's signature heavy guitar reverb and turning it into the most bewitching, trancey, and euphoric 90s dance music. Today, we will be discussing Curve.

The Band

Curve emerged onto the London alternative scene in 1990 as a creative duo, comprised of the mysterious, semi-goth and generally badass vocalist and guitarist Toni Halliday, and the guitarist, bassist, drummer and programmer Dean Garcia, a signature lover of wearing sunglasses even at night.

It's easy to say that Toni Halliday had a considerably more memorable stage presence than almost any other frontman, woman, or person in the shoegazing scene. Her performances were animated, but in a very transfixed sort of way, her eyes casting a piercing gaze, with a dark and commanding, but nonetheless ethereal contralto voice coming out of what seems like a rather small woman.

Aesthetically, Curve were kind of in a separate category from most other shoegaze bands. They seemed to have more of a sleek, futuristic, and dare I say sexy image as a band. This was also reflected in their sound, which was decidedly much more intertwined with uptempo 90s dance music and industrial rock, their performances more frenetic and adrenergic.

Unfortunately, Curve is a band whose legacy has been obscured by tired comparisons (and the surrounding discourse) to garbage. *cough* that is, as in the band Garbage. So much so, that I feel compelled to take a minute of my own review to chime in with my own two cents on this ridiculously clichéd fan dispute. For those not in the know, Garbage were a frankly much more commercially successful and mainstream alternative rock outfit from the 90s, started by legendary Nevermind and Siamese Dream producer Butch Vig and a couple of his buddies, plus the 90s most iconically sullen yet outspoken Shirley Manson. The band already started out with connections to some of the biggest 90s alternative bands, most notably Smashing Pumpkins and The Foo Fighters.

Garbage has often been accused of ripping off Curve's sound and style, and at the very least, there are some undeniable similarities. Both bands took a maximalist approach to their sound, making layered, dancey alternative rock that incorporated many of the emerging subgenres of the time, and both with a moody "sad chick" contralto vocalist.

I'll be transparent: Garbage was (along with Smashing Pumpkins and The Cranberries), the band that really got me into 90s alternative rock. There was a time in high school when I was much less versed, and considered them to be one of, if not my #1 favourite band. Like many of my generation, I first learned about Curve THROUGH these comparisons.

And so I imagine it's hard for OG Curve fans not to look at Garbage's success, notice how a decent part of that success was tied to Butch Vig's industry connections, and not become very resentful towards Garbage and the band's many fans.

But let's also be fair: neither Curve nor Garbage were the first band to have a glum, sardonic female vocalist (Lydia Lunch and Kim Gordon come to mind almost immediately). Neither band invented the alternative dance subgenre. And to their credit, Garbage has acknowledged the comparisons to Curve over the years while only having nice things to say about the smaller band. Lesser people with bigger egos from that time (*cough* Billy Corgan *cough* Courtney Love) probably would've taken the opportunity to shit on the band.

Moreover, as their inclusion in this list would suggest, Curve were and are a shoegaze band first, which is a pretty clear distinction. Garbage's sound was never really shoegaze at all; at best, there's a lot of noise pop on the first Garbage record. But Garbage's brand of alternative rock is a lot more poppy, and sometimes trip hoppy (which was hugely successful in the 90s). Likewise, Curve's sound was almost certainly never going to go as mainstream as Garbage. And that's okay, because most great music doesn't go mainstream.

But honestly, even having to acknowledge all of this is kinda lame. It's beating a dead horse that's already been dead for at least 20 years, and Curve's legacy as a band should not be "the band that was Garbage before Garbage".

Instead, Curve should be understood as shoegaze pioneers, being one of the first shoegaze bands to experiment with fusing electronica elements, and playing around with more studio-based guitar sound layering. They are the studio nerds of the original scene, and they deserve to be celebrated for their gorgeously crafted, methodical 90s hybrid sound. Shoegaze walls of sound had never felt this pristine.

The Record

Doppelgänger is Curve's debut record, released after a string of EPs and subsequent compilation LP, as per usual for 90s first wave British bands. It is by all means a very stylish sounding record, co-produced with the famed alternative producer Flood, who's impressive resume of collaborative work spans from electronic bands like New Order and Depeche Mode to abrasive alternative rock like P.J. Harvey and The Jesus And Mary Chain.

As I've hinted at already, this is one of the most 'produced' albums of the first wave of shoegaze records. Far from being a negative, I really enjoy this approach. There is a lot of layering of different tracks happening in the mix, and the whole project comes together as this really punchy, roaring, and technicolor shoegaze that feels very urban and dancefloor ready for your local goth club.

The album's second single "Horror Head" is, put simply, one of the many masterpieces of the first wave of shoegaze. Among the trippiest and most surreal songs of its era, with dazzling, iridescent guitar feedback, sparkling drum machine sounds bouncing off of thin metallic sheets, and sonic colours of violet and indigo. Toni's haunting refrain of "heys" guide the listener to an enchanted nowhere like little forest fairies, while her deliciously dark lead vocals peek through all the many layers with the sense of a delirious protagonist in the songs' swirling universe. Like having the most unusually pleasant sensory overload headache.

As the second track on the record, this is frankly an incredibly hard act to follow, and I'd be lying if I didn't say that some other tracks feel like an attempt to recapture the godlike production of "Horror Head".

Oh, and for some odd reason, the version of the track that I downloaded off of Bandcamp is compressed and a little bass-heavy, versus the version on most other platforms. It would be a bit unfortunate if it is indeed an album/single discrepancy, since the mastering of the version up on YouTube is definitely superior. Regardless, I will judging this based off of the superior version, because its my blog and I can do what I want. Plus, in the age of mp3 files you can just go in and switch it out anyway.

Another standout moment is "Lillies Dying", the most rhythmic song on the record, with a groovy semi-baggy bassline, a descending, melting vocal lead, and a grainy sandstorm of guitar soundscapes. Music for a rave in a barren wasteland, makes me feel like spinning in circles.

I also really like the other single "Faît Accompli", less of a shoegaze track and more of a jagged, darkly erotic industrial rock dancefloor banger. Feels very intended for accompanying a light bondage session in a dimly lit BDSM dungeon.

The record eschews the dance beats for closer "Sandpit", a more atmospheric and introspective song featuring a more traditional combination of dream pop and shoegaze. The track is a nice palette cleanser, bringing a night of Dionysian wonders and relentless dancefloor madness to a definitive close with soft headphone sounds to acompany the bleary transit ride home.

What Came After That?

Curve had a longer original run than most first wave shoegaze bands, releasing 5 LPs from Doppelganger up to their last record in 2002 titled The New Adventures of Curve. I have not heard any of these records in full, but it seems like the band largely continued to do their thing, sometimes veering more into industrial rock territory.

Since then, the band has remained largely inactive save for a few archival releases. Curve are not among the many bands like Slowdive and Ride whom have gotten back together to record and release new records in the 2010s and 2020s.

Toni Halliday started a solo project in 2008 called Chatelaine which has also been mostly inactive, meanwhile Dean Garcia has been in and contributed to about a dozen bands since Curve finished.

But then not every band should have to keep putting out records indefinitely. Curve has a respectable discography, and I've heard bits and pieces from Cuckoo and the more overtly electronic Come Clean that assure me I would thoroughly enjoy those albums as well.

As it stands, Doppelgänger is inadvertently probably one of the most prescient shoegaze records of the 90s, even if it isn't nearly as acclaimed as any of the big three. There were several bands that blended with electronic dance music during the 2000s Nu-Gaze revival that owe a bit of influence to Curve whether they know it or not.

I also feel like this record broke ground for a lot of late 90s records in the alternative scene that were getting darker and dancier, like Smashing Pumpkins' Adore and Tori Amos' From The Choirgirl Hotel.

So here's to Curve, the too often unsung pioneers and studio witchcraft makers of the 90s first wave of shoegaze.

8/10

Highlights: "Horror Head", "Lillies Dying", "Faît Accompli", "Sandpit"

[themisinformer]

Bloodiest Thanksgiving Political Argument on Record Ends With 3 Deaths, 14 Injuries

TOPEKA, KANSAS - The local community is reeling after an incident that occurred in their town last night, an incident that authorities are calling “the bloodiest Thanksgiving dinner in modern U.S. history.” According to reports, a heated political argument at the Henderson family’s annual Thanksgiving gathering spiraled out of control Thursday night, leaving three people dead, fourteen injured, and a flipped dining room table.

Witnesses say that the chaos began innocently enough, with Uncle Randy annual ritual of loudly proclaiming that “This country needs a third party!” But eyewitness accounts suggest that tensions escalated when Cousin Karen countered with, “We do have a third party, Randy — they’re called the irrelevant Libertarians!”

This escalation caused things to be tense at the dinner table, which only added more fuel to the fire as many people were already on edge about Aunt Judith’s decision to use canned cranberry sauce instead of making her famous homemade cranberry sauce by hand.

And Aunt Judith would only make things worse when she allegedly claimed that she kind of liked the idea of ranked choice voting. This bombshell set Grandpa Joe, a staunch traditionalist, off, who would yell, “That’s Communism!” so loudly that he would almost choke on his green bean casserole.

Things would reach its climax when an anonymous family member would utter the phrase, “Let’s just agree that both sides are bad, okay?” This single phrase set nearly everyone off, as the violence quickly became physical, and a food fight ensued.

“I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Sheriff Asher Dale, who arrived at the scene with six deputies and a riot shield. “They were throwing mashed potatoes like they were grenades. Someone even got hit in the head with a heavy boat. Blood was everywhere. It was total mayhem.”

When all was said and done, three people were left dead, and fourteen more were injured. Fatalities included Uncle Randy, who died from blunt force trauma after being hit in the head with a Turkey leg, Cousin Karen, who suffered third degree burns after a whole pot of gravy was thrown at her, and an unidentified distant relative, who was shot in the head after she allegedly tried to calm the family by saying, “See? This is why I don’t vote!”

Aunt Judith, who suffered non fatal injuries during the argument, expressed deep regret in a statement from her hospital bed. “I just wanted to talk about policy. I didn’t mean for it to turn into the Boston Gravy Party or whatever.”

This family dinner tragedy has led to calls for stricter regulations on political discourse during family gatherings. The National Thanksgiving Association (NTA) has issued a statement in response to the incident urging families to implement “conversation control measures” such as only talking about commonly agreed upon neutral topics such as your kids, school, work, and the inevitability dry Turkey.

Despite the tragedy, Grandpa Joe has doubled down on his actions. “This wouldn’t have happened if we had just stuck to football and blamed everything on Millennials,” Grandpa Joe told reporters with casts covered all over his body. “Those entitled little shits are ruining this country! Them and cranberry sauce. Who in their right mind thought that was a good idea?”

The Henderson family has already reportedly cancelled next year’s thanksgiving, instead opting for a “silent, Turkeyless Friendsgiving conducted entirely via group text.” Meanwhile, Congress is in the process of passing legislation to make Thanksgiving a “politics free occasion” to prevent accidents like this from happening in the future, with high fines being handed to anyone who brings up politics during any Thanksgiving celebration.

[bisluthq]

She’s often out sober? She never misses a show. She produces great work. Her life is reasonably together for someone who’s had 20 years of a highly unusual life. I think you probably are too deep in your Annie Grace era (a fraudulent opportunist imo) if you’re so judgemental and intolerant of another person having a drink. Perhaps think about why Taylor Swift (rich bitch stranger - you called it) holding vodka cranberry and smiling and being affectionate to her boyfriend is always so triggering for you. There are no other messy signs of a problem. She’s 34 and has no kids at home that she’s slobbing on and she’s on a tour break. Relax.

…. when is she often out sober lol except at work (where I’m not even sure she’s sober 😂😂😂😂😂). I mean idc but idk why you do. This lady drinks a lot and normalizes drinking a lot (hardly the first person to - she does this through public behavior and lyrics). Also dunno what Annie Grace did to you or what alcohol did to you to make you its bestie. Drink, don’t drink, do whatever the fuck u want, but like… also why are we so caught up on “problem”?? I hate that. It’s not a “problem” necessarily but MOST people in western society could cut back on alcohol dude. Go to like a shop and see all the alcohol merch and ask yourself why we think that’s normal or admirable? Why do we want people to not be sober? Why do we think it’s “cool”? Again do what you want, I really don’t give a fuck, but you cannot deny Taylor drinks a lot. Also many people are super fucking functional and take a lot of substances. And “problem” discourse ain’t it for me btw.

[cosmossystem]

hi! we're the cosmos system. (as featured on award-winning world-renown nobel-prize-winning subreddits such as r/SC!!!)

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[allieisacrybaby]

not to start food discourse but cranberry apple juice 🤌🏼💋

[glimmering-brainfamily]

...Okay I, as a non-american, did not realize that this was discourse. But let me put my finger on the scales for a second.

A chicken sandwich and a chicken burger are two very different things. If I ask you for a chicken burger and you hand me a chicken sandwich I'm going to complain to the chef and say I got the wrong order. A chicken sandwich:

-Always served cold -Pretty much always served between two slices of bread, although it might be between two sourdough buns if you're buying it from one of those fancy cafes -The chicken is pre-cooked and shredded and usually mixed with mayonnaise. It's going to have some fresh greens as well, and the best ones find some way to incorporate cranberry somehow (the one pictured literally just threw some fresh cranberries in but usually it's cranberry sauce). A chicken burger:

-The chicken can be breaded and deep-fried, breaded and pan-fried, or grilled without being breaded (among other methods of preparation). It can be a ground chicken patty or it can be a whole breast of chicken, or a thigh if you're feeling decadent. The only thing that matters is that it's one contiguous piece and that it is served hot. -It can be served between burger buns or between slices of bread. Using slices of bread is a lot rarer though. -Just about any burger fillings you'd use for a beef burger can be used for a chicken burger. Pickles, lettuce, tomato sauce, sliced tomato, barbeque sauce, fried egg, beetroot, whatever. Burger fillings are as flexible as they are universal.

i just went on a 5 minute rant about a burger being not a food, but a feeling deep in ur soul and had the horrible realisation that my time in america has changed me

but also chicken in a burger is absolutely a burger and i will fucking die on this hill

[shapelessfacade]

You know what people in the fandoms say? HA! I have no doubt you're the type to arguing with some of the threads, or maybe you love watching the chaos of people trying to dissect your character or defend your actions in the game.

I heard in the original script, you were supposed to live, but I guess they scraped that last minuet huh? How does that make you feel, knowing you could of avoided being crushed to cranberry juice?

His expression is blank for just a moment; whether he's considering a response, remembering something, or just plain pretending is unclear. One word makes it out:

"Script... ha."

Though, there's something repressive about the expression - like he's deliberately hiding something. He realises this, though, and corrects himself to hide it more adequately.

"You moron! Changes to the script... you think I care? I'm the most spontaneous person in the entire world! I tooootally get it!"

His posture is upright, and his body language oozes giddy superiority. It's deliberate. "Hey, you gotta make a good show, right? The fact they needed to kill me off for dramatic effect just proves how utterly important and beloved I am!"

He tilts his head.

"What, you think I'd be upset about a script? Think about it, dummy. What's a script but one giant lie? I respect it, if anything!"

He rolls his eyes. "That being said... they coulda chosen a lie that hurts less." He rubs his arm and winces, trying to denote physical pain. "The possibility with lies is so vast, so endless - y'know, could've made it... nicer."

A pause. He brightens.

"But, hey, not like I can talk! And you're totally right about the discourse thing. I just looooove arguing with fans!"