Dear Diary: Question Of The Day(s)

[Leeds]

Live and Let Die.  I'm trying not to think too hard about what this might mean.

[Babalu]

Figures....

 

[Anela]

On 6/10/2021 at 9:17 AM, JTMacc99 said:

Thank you @Ohiopirate02 for this one!

 

It's Saturday Night Fever for me the rest of the way...

One of the Police Academy movies. I think it was the second one.

[JTMacc99]

[Anela]

Center, I think. I hardly ever eat brownies, but I was thinking about making some this week.

 

[Annber03]

I'll eat either, but if I had to pick, I'd probably go with center, too. 

And now I want some brownies. 

[Bastet]

I find brownies just okay; eating them so infrequently, I don't have a favorite.  I guess I'd pick the center piece for its softer texture.

[FormerMod-a1]

Edge piece!  But if all are taken, the middle is good, too.  :D

[Browncoat]

Center all the way.  I'll eat the edge pieces, but I really don't like the corners.

Edited July 6, 2021 by Browncoat

[LexieLily]

Center, but if it is between eating the edge and getting no brownie, the edge pieces work, too :)

[Quof]

Well, I guess that leaves all 4 corners for me. 

[shapeshifter]

Not that I'm going to fight @Quof for the corners, but, they were always my thing.
😁

Dad used to offer to bring his "secret recipe" brownies to parties. 
They were a Betty Crocker mix with chocolate chips added in and icing on top. 

Edited July 7, 2021 by shapeshifter

[MargeGunderson]

Edge for sure. Pro tip - make brownies in a mini muffin tin for maximum edges!

[Miss Anne Thrope]

Center!  And the hub likes edges (he's edgy!), so it all works out.

[DearEvette]

Oh, the edges.  I love that little bit o' crunch.

[jennifer6973]

Depending on who made them, center.

[Mabinogia]

I'm an ooey gooey center girl. I can tolerate a crunchy edge if that's all that's available (a brownie edge is still a brownie after all), but give me that center cut any day. 

[Stats Queen]

It depends on who made them. If they are nice and gooey, I want the edges to go with the gooey. If they aren’t very gooey, the middle please.

 

[ABay]

If they don't have chocolate chips, neither. If they have chocolate chips, I suggest you put the pan down and back away slowly.

[jewel21]

Center all the way, baby. I like my brownies like I like my chocolate chip cookies, ooey and gooey. 

[KWalkerInc]

Definitely the center.  I haven't tried to make brownies, but given my baking history, the edges might be a disaster!

[ohjoy]

Edge, edge, edge, edge, edge, edge….

[ratgirlagogo]

Edge all the way.  I much prefer a cakey brownie to a gooey brownie.  I also prefer them with nuts, walnuts especially.

[partofme]

Center

[Gramto6]

I'm edge all the way, not necessarily corner, but I like the crunch of the edge. Add Choc chips and nuts and I am even happier. 

[isalicat]

Center, please. But I actually prefer blondies over brownies. Blondies with chocolate chips are also good :)

[JTMacc99]

For all of you Edge people, just in case you didn't know, there are "all edge" brownie pans.

[WinnieWinkle]

I have been known to eat a whole pan of brownies.  Which is why centre or edge, it doesn't matter.  It's also why I don't bake them anymore.

[JTMacc99]

51 minutes ago, icemiser69 said:

Can you find a brownie pan that doesn't have any edges?

Both of my kids prefer the center pieces, although my daughter has a strong preference. So I've been known to take the brownie out of the pan whole, and use a sharp knife to remove the edge before cutting it into squares.  

And then I get a glass of milk and have a brownie edge snack party.

[partofme]

I've never made brownies that didn't taste like crap.  I used to have a coworker who made the best brownies.  I don't miss her but I do miss those brownies.

I do make good cakes, I prefer brownies though.

[Quof]

Brownies are one of those things that are generally pretty good when made from a mix - unlike cakes, cookies and just about everything else.  The next level up are the really intense brownies from the Barefoot Contessa, Epicurious, etc that involve several kinds of chocolate - melted, chips, cocoa.  Sometimes you just don't feel like going to the trouble unless it's to impress guests.  When I want to do that, this is my go to recipe:

Triple Chocolate Fudge Brownies

[Mittengirl]

On 7/14/2021 at 4:47 PM, JTMacc99 said:

So I've been known to take the brownie out of the pan whole, and use a sharp knife to remove the edge before cutting it into squares.

I have been known to cut a piece out of the middle - the exact middle, where it should be the least baked.  No apologies.

[JTMacc99]

Just bounced this one off of my college friends. So many memories. Horrible memories.  Heh. 
 

[Browncoat]

Rum and Coke.  It's the only drink that ever made me throw up when I got drunk on it.  Also, generic beer -- it came in a can with just the word "BEER" written in large black letters on a white label.  Nasty stuff.

[Bastet]

Natural Light beer.  (What college kid turns down free beer?  This one.  If Natty Light was in the keg, I went and found another party.)

[shapeshifter]

Boone's Farm apple (or was it strawberry?) wine

 

 

ETA: All alcohol disagrees with my digestion, so I only ever have a few sips of whatever is being toasted at the rare times I'm somewhere for such an occasion.

Edited July 27, 2021 by shapeshifter

[JTMacc99]

9 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

Rum and Coke.  It's the only drink that ever made me throw up when I got drunk on it.  Also, generic beer -- it came in a can with just the word "BEER" written in large black letters on a white label.  Nasty stuff.

[Annber03]

14 minutes ago, Browncoat said:

Rum and Coke.  It's the only drink that ever made me throw up when I got drunk on it.  

For me, it was rum and Mountain Dew-in my case, I didn't have it in college, but rather at a party at a friend's house one time. I had the exact same reaction to it you did. That one time was more than enough. I stick to lighter, fruity alcoholic drinks whenever I want something of that sort now (which isn't very often). 

[Bastet]

20 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

Boone's Farm apple (or was it strawberry?) wine

OMG, I forgot all about strawberry hill - our wine of choice in high school.

[Ohiopirate02]

The drink of choice at parties back in my day was PJ, AKA Jungle Juice.  What does PJ stand for, I have no idea.  The basic recipe calls for the fruit punch of your choice and budget, Everclear, and whatever fruit you felt like throwing into it.  Mix it up in whatever plastic tub you have handy and let it sit for a few hours before your party.  When the party starts, just place a stack of cups nearby and let people get their own.  Ladle and ice optional.

 

Edited July 27, 2021 by Ohiopirate02

[SoMuchTV]

Okay, you weren't specific about "drink" so I'm going to say, the milk in the dispenser in the cafeteria that went bad that one time.  Scared me off of milk for quite a while.

[ABay]

Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill was the first wine I ever tasted. An older boy gave it to me up on the railroad tracks when I was about 12. My dad gave me a taste of beer when I was very young and it put me off it for life. Once in high school I smuggled in a thermos of screwdrivers. Warm vodka tastes like airplane glue smells.

So by the time I reached college, it was old hat and I just drank regular white wine. Sometimes the kind in a box, but that was as wild as it got.

When I was an undergrad and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the drinking age in NYS was 18. When it changed to 21, student associations at my university would hire buses and drive students over the border to Ft. Erie ON where the drinking age was, and remains, 19.

 

Edited July 27, 2021 by ABay

[Ohiopirate02]

2 minutes ago, ABay said:

When I was an undergrad and dinosaurs roamed the Earth, the drinking age in NYS was 18. When it changed to 21, student associations at my university would hire buses and drive students over the border to Ft. Erie ON where the drinking age was, and remains, 19. I was already 21 by then so I only went to Ft. Erie for Chinese food.

 

Ah the good old Drunk Bus.  

Your story reminds me of what my dad got up to his senior year of high school.  He had an October birthday so he was older than his classmates.  At the time the drinking age in Ohio was 18 for beer and wine, 21 for liquor.  Over in West Virginia, it was 18 for everything.  His classmates would give him a ride and the cash and go over the river to WVA to purchase their supplies.  

[SoMuchTV]

18 minutes ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

Your story reminds me of what my dad got up to his senior year of high school.  He had an October birthday so he was older than his classmates.  At the time the drinking age in Ohio was 18 for beer and wine, 21 for liquor.  Over in West Virginia, it was 18 for everything.  His classmates would give him a ride and the cash and go over the river to WVA to purchase their supplies.  

And in a parallel universe... I grew up in WV, but whenever we went to visit relatives in OH, my dad would stock up on beer because apparently WV had a much lower limit on the alcohol content.  Not sure when if ever that changed.

37 minutes ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

The drink of choice at parties back in my day was PJ, AKA Jungle Juice.  What does PJ stand for, I have no idea.  The basic recipe calls for the fruit punch of your choice and budget, Everclear, and whatever fruit you felt like throwing into it.  Mix it up in whatever plastic tub you have handy and let it sit for a few hours before your party.  When the party starts, just place a stack of cups nearby and let people get their own.  Ladle and ice optional.

 

Ooh ooh I know!  Purple jeezus.  At least so I've heard. (And, i've heard, it involved grape Kool-Aid.)

Edited July 27, 2021 by SoMuchTV

[Ohiopirate02]

13 minutes ago, SoMuchTV said:

Ooh ooh I know!  Purple jeezus.  At least so I've heard. (And, i've heard, it involved grape Kool-Aid.)

That makes sense.  It was always red when I was younger.  Somewhere someone decided fruit punch was a better flavor than grape and the change was made.  It's not like the flavor of Kool-Aid was the important part of the drink.

[MargeGunderson]

Zima (don’t judge, it was the 90s).

[Stats Queen]

Really cheap bear from a keg and rum and coke!

I went to a Catholic university in San Antonio in the early 80s (1982-1986). We had our own pub on campus and Thursday night was pub night where you drank beer, played quarters, and got drunk with the religious brothers and a couple of priests. The drinking age was 19 and the philosophy was that the students will drink and it’s better if they stay on campus.

When the drinking age went up to 21, the pub became an ice cream shop or something (I had graduated by then).

The amount of alcohol I could consume - especially being about 118 lbs (miss that!) and never really drank before college is kind of surprising.

[ABay]

A ratskeller! I totally forgot about those. Ours was in the basement of the student union but I don't know what happened to it when the drinking age went up.

Are there still student unions or have they all become student centers.

[Drogo]

5 hours ago, Ohiopirate02 said:

That makes sense.  It was always red when I was younger.  Somewhere someone decided fruit punch was a better flavor than grape and the change was made.  It's not like the flavor of Kool-Aid was the important part of the drink.

Literally one of the thread rules is grape being the best flavor...

On 4/23/2019 at 10:29 AM, Drogo said:

• Be honest!  We're all just as weird as you are.  Probably weirder.
• I may make up rules as we go along. 
• Grape is the best Kool-Aid flavor. 

 

[Ohiopirate02]

23 minutes ago, Drogo said:

Literally one of the thread rules is grape being the best flavor...

 

Grape may be the best flavor of Koolaid,  but we're talking about a concoction full of Everclear mixed in a large plastic tub served at room temperature. And those tubs, well do you really think the frat boys were sanitizing them in between parties?  We were not drinking PJ because it tasted good.  We were drinking it to get drunk and it was free.  Usually the only other free option was lukewarm beer.