#snickers salad

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[therighthandofvengeance]

all I’m saying is that if John J. Sheridan were really midwestern, he would have brought a potluck-style salad to Delenn's quarters

[lesbian-foxmulder]

one day I'm going to succumb to the horrors and become so sickeningly despondent that I buy the ingredients for a snickers salad and hide them in my house and then when everyone is asleep I'll make one and eat it alone in the kitchen. secretive and ravenous, I will lurk in the corner and consume the whole thing. apple peel and peanuts will form the gristle that scrapes my fingertips and sticks between my teeth. the nougat will taste nearly metallic, still carrying the harsh scent of the candy wrapper and the knife I pull from the drawer. cool whip will sink in my stomach as surely as despair.

my consumption of the monstrosity will be grotesque, such that I will not seem to be human at all while I am crunching and wheezing and licking the bottom of the dish. and then I will wash the glass mixing bowl and dispose of the apple cores in the woods behind my house and I will live another fifty years without ever admitting to the events that occured that fateful night. but I will never eat snickers salad ever again. I will avoid the produce aisle and I will never buy chocolates for trick or treaters, lest I see something that brings back memories so strong that I again feel the urge to eat a snickers salad in the middle of the night.

[anjaghosty]

tbh snickers salad just kinda tastes like a candy apple

[worksby-d]

happy thanksgiving friends in my phone 🫶 what are we all bringing to dinner

[fangirl-nadir]

It... Sure is a taste

[tazmiilly]

been having this weird feeling where food feels too weird in my mouth and it throws me off so bad that I can't finish my food

[senadimell]

You know what, I reblogged it, then realized I should not participate in that negativity.

Humans everywhere like to eat good-tasting food. If they have no money they will find a way to make something taste as good as they can.

Boiled peanuts are eaten on at least four continents. Hot grains cooked with liquid are a staple food for basically everyone. Meat-dippings-based dishes with bread are generally going to be very good because rendered fat is good and bread is good and salt is good. Unseasoned food generally tastes bland, so anyone who can taste food will try to season it somehow.

And of course, the food most likely to be mocked is food eaten by people who can’t afford what’s served in abroad in restaurants as the representation of foreign national cuisine.

[laika-the-bitch]

my love for the cuisine of the midwest knows no bounds

[thedeathdeelers]

watching in abject horror as americans refer to literally anything with a Fruit and/or Vegetable (or sometimes neither) as a salad

[thegrayjedi]

i gotta get this out--i really wish tumblr would stop making fun of food.

it's just... tumblr's fun new game of pointing and laughing at weird food--mostly midwestern food--really rubs me the wrong way. and look, i get it--some of it may not be very appealing if you didn't grow up eating it. i didn't grow up eating it. i grew up in the american midwest, but in chicago--the food in chicago is a pretty far departure from the rest of the midwest. those staples i've seen floating around in polls and posts, like snickers salad and canned green bean casserole? they weren't things i ever ate, let alone heard of, as a kid. and honestly? all the mayo and cool whip based salads did gross me out when i first experienced them in college (moved to iowa), and the majority still really aren't my thing.

but here's the thing--all those mayo-based pasta salads? the jello and cool whip salads? the casseroles made exclusively with canned and frozen goods? the meatloaf? they aren't just midwesterner food. they are often poor and/or rural midwestern food.

because mayo and jello and canned goods are cheap and have a long shelf life, so they'll last if you can't make another trip 30+ minutes to the store this month. because you can easily fill a deep freeze with frozen potatoes and veggies and meat and not have to worry about the money you're wasting when they spoil. because adding breadcrumbs and seasoning and ketchup to that last scrap of ground beef is going to help stretch it into a proper meal for your family so now you don't have to throw it away and it will still taste good.

sure, not every person today who is making hot dish or stained glass salad is dirt poor and living in "the middle of nowhere." not every meatloaf ever made was cooked up out of desperation. some people eat tuna tetrazzini casserole because it is quick, easy, and they just like it. but that is still their food. it is all someone's food. i thought we learned not to make fun of people's food when we realized who we hurt when making fun of southern food, or appalachian food, or the plethora of other cuisines that we have seen derided as "gross" and "unhealthy" time and again. people get hurt when you mock their food.

part of being human is being different from each other, and i think its good to acknowledge. i don't think there is anything wrong with acknowledging that something isn't to your taste, that you find it strange or weird or curious. i don't think there's anything wrong with having fun with it either! i think its really great to have fun discovering and trying weird new shit, even if you still don't like it afterwords and just confirm that its too weird for you! but i do think there is a line in the sand that takes the fun somewhere mean and tumblr's exploration of midwestern and other wierd food seems to be stepping over it. people intentionally misrepresenting dishes, sneering at the ingredients, seeking out recipes but making them poorly and talking about how nasty the results are, and just... mocking food. its just really been leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

[thebrideoftiffany]

not to traumatize him even more but Sam should experience a midwestern jello salad… to keep him on his toes

listen. i’m midwestern. and i am enjoyer of the jello based salads (sweet not savory never savory jello). and i think, sam, with his lets say unrefined palate given years of just eating what he can, would rock with a sweet dish, no matter how conceptually horrifying it is.

[ringneckedpheasant]

that snickers salad post makes me so sad why did they think they were supposed to add milk to pudding cups instead of pudding powder why didn’t they use cool whip

[starlit-hopes-and-dreams]

❤️What scene do you think your readers will love/anticipate the most?

🍑Pick your favorite of these and explain why: fade-to-black love scenes, open door love scenes, or a story without love scenes 😂😂😂

😇Describe the plot of your story as if you’re explaining it to a beloved elderly family member. I'm so sorry please don't kill me

Thanks for the ask Elli... *glances up* I think... :') From this ask game

❤️What scene do you think your readers will love/anticipate the most?

Umm. Heh. For Shattered Dreams, I think it would be the Hallin chapters. They're the first chapters Alaia finds any measure of acceptance and happiness in the book, and then I did what I did and... but I know several betas loved those chapters (yeah, I'm cheating a bit lol). A bright spot if you will :')

For Shattered Soul, I think the chapters where Darian takes Alaia into the city will be favorites. Maybe bc *I* love them so much, but readers are supposed to be able to tell when the author loves a scene, right? 😅

🍑Pick your favorite of these and explain why: fade-to-black love scenes, open door love scenes, or a story without love scenes 😂😂😂

Oh geez. What did I ever do to you? 😶 don't answer that 😅😅

I like aesthetics... So I generally prefer open-door love scenes over fade-to-black, as long as they're tastefully done and not overly drawn out. God I don't want to read 5 pages about sucking dick please

That being said, all I really want is some kind of relationship between characters. It can be sexual, romantic, platonic, QPR... I just want some kind of commitment-but not even that, really. I want them to *really* care about one another. If they were to be separated, or if something were to happen to the other person, I want devastation from the other party. I want them to care about each other to that degree :)

😇Describe the plot of your story as if you’re explaining it to a beloved elderly family member. I'm so sorry please don't kill me

*glares* Please, let me explain my captivity/torture/sex story to my grandparents I WOULD RATHER DIE *cough*

SIGH

Oh hey grandma, you... you heard I was writing a book? What's it about? *clears throat nervously* Well, umm, you see... it's a nice fantasy love story.

Tell you more? *shitshitshit-racks brain* The female main discovers she has magic, which is bad. She spends the book trying to escape her situation, which is further complicated when she falls in love with a fellow mage and has to include him in her plans. She also gets a cute little dragon companion. Then, there's a couple more characters on the other side of the world with their own issues, but they get dragged into her problem as well. *sweats*

You want to read it? cue this internal reaction -> 😨😱 Well, um, you might not like it much grandma. It has *whispers* sex scenes in it. *turns bright red* I'd really rather you didn't.

[m1d-45]

THAT IS SUCH A COINCIDENCE, IM MAKING DINNER TOO

midas what are you and teddys favorite meals? maybe I know how to make em

also teddy darling /p thank you I'm glad you liked it

any updates about genshin?

- with love, 🍄

uhhhh favorite meal…

i like salami 👍 um. simple sandwiches. toast and cream cheese fucks. cheesecake. beef, just.. in general. chow mein is good.

i don’t… have a favorite though—

[kidnamedfinger]

this is mental illness