On the one hand, strong respect for raising this legendary account, which I continue to point to as evidence that advertising can and should be art as well as business and should be the gold standard to which brand social media aspires to.
On the other hand, I am deeply disappointed by your surface level scroungings of the Steak-Umm tweets, completely missing out on the glorious late 2010s and early 2020s where if I remember correctly, amongst other things it was giving detailed explanations of existentialist philosophy and quantum theory and all manner of other topics in a far more engaging way than most official scientists.
How could you miss out the genuine Twitter flame war they had with Neil De Grasse Tyson!? The beef puns write themselves!
Edit: Nonetheless, the true title for greatest philosopher of our times has to go to the YouTube Channel Seals Are Good, who is expertly choosing to explore increasingly deep cuts into political philosophy and ethics through the ultimate medium of humorously dubbed Star Wars Prequel scenes with impressively in depth in jokes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3rT52ckkJ-LbP4Udn9ypUF_q1x6nYMMF&si=QnhQkZfoQ_85j13T
Our beloved and generally all-wise and all-knowing host seems never to have experienced an actual "loose meat sandwich," a Depression era Iowan invention of seasoned and crumbled hamburger meat on a steamed bun. Nothing to do with Steak-Umm, unless that is yet one more dastardly New York based DSA plot to ruin America.
Not quite, unlike Sloppy Joes, a loose meat sandwich contains no tomato sauce. The savory flavor comes from seasoned beef, onions, and broth, and traditionally it goes on a steamed bun. A whole chain of Iowa based Maid Rite franchises across the Midwest specialize in it.
Next it'll emerge that a bot has been not only writing the text but operating the account 100% autonomously in pursuit of inscrutable ends of its own, and the eschaton will truly be upon us
The only reason that green bell peppers exist is to satiate the trailing end of society's bell curve. The only thing worse than a cooked green bell pepper is a raw bell pepper, and the only thing worse than that is a crudité platter with green bell peppers, cauliflower, and raw snap peas.
I don't know if this is common practice elsewhere, but where I live supermarkets commonly sell bell peppers (or "peppers", as we call them) in three-packs - one green, one yellow, one red. This is wrongly thought to represent "good value" by people who don't realize they're being tricked into buying two crap peppers for every good one.
Plenty of peppers are eaten "unripe." Jalapeños for example. It's not the quality of their flavor, but the quantity that you probably object to . It's flavor has to be balanced with the rest
of the dish. You wouldn't eat a bowl full of grated ginger for example. I agree the an entire green pepper with its flavor unblended it too much for many folks, however as our friend pointed out, cooked green pepper combined with other flavors is essential to certain styles of cooking. It is has a delicious bitter aromatic character that contrasts nicely with rich food.
I've been contemplating and torturing myself for several months looking to justify upgrading. This was a no brainer. upgraded! Thank you, and keep up your crucial work Jeff.
On the one hand, strong respect for raising this legendary account, which I continue to point to as evidence that advertising can and should be art as well as business and should be the gold standard to which brand social media aspires to.
On the other hand, I am deeply disappointed by your surface level scroungings of the Steak-Umm tweets, completely missing out on the glorious late 2010s and early 2020s where if I remember correctly, amongst other things it was giving detailed explanations of existentialist philosophy and quantum theory and all manner of other topics in a far more engaging way than most official scientists.
How could you miss out the genuine Twitter flame war they had with Neil De Grasse Tyson!? The beef puns write themselves!
Edit: Nonetheless, the true title for greatest philosopher of our times has to go to the YouTube Channel Seals Are Good, who is expertly choosing to explore increasingly deep cuts into political philosophy and ethics through the ultimate medium of humorously dubbed Star Wars Prequel scenes with impressively in depth in jokes: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3rT52ckkJ-LbP4Udn9ypUF_q1x6nYMMF&si=QnhQkZfoQ_85j13T
I honestly didn't know it went that far back -- I only recently became aware of this account.
Our beloved and generally all-wise and all-knowing host seems never to have experienced an actual "loose meat sandwich," a Depression era Iowan invention of seasoned and crumbled hamburger meat on a steamed bun. Nothing to do with Steak-Umm, unless that is yet one more dastardly New York based DSA plot to ruin America.
so... a Sloppy Joe??
Not quite, unlike Sloppy Joes, a loose meat sandwich contains no tomato sauce. The savory flavor comes from seasoned beef, onions, and broth, and traditionally it goes on a steamed bun. A whole chain of Iowa based Maid Rite franchises across the Midwest specialize in it.
Next it'll emerge that a bot has been not only writing the text but operating the account 100% autonomously in pursuit of inscrutable ends of its own, and the eschaton will truly be upon us
Wabi: My thoughts exactly.....
Rene Descartes
Wrote dreadful spam
I shave my face
Therefore I am
Burma-Shave
Time for me to pack it in
I was wondering what to eat for dinner tonight. Problem solved. Thanks!
The only reason that green bell peppers exist is to satiate the trailing end of society's bell curve. The only thing worse than a cooked green bell pepper is a raw bell pepper, and the only thing worse than that is a crudité platter with green bell peppers, cauliflower, and raw snap peas.
Go team Red Peppers... and team Orange Peppers
I don't know if this is common practice elsewhere, but where I live supermarkets commonly sell bell peppers (or "peppers", as we call them) in three-packs - one green, one yellow, one red. This is wrongly thought to represent "good value" by people who don't realize they're being tricked into buying two crap peppers for every good one.
My store Sprouts (CA) offers red, orange, and yellow 3 packs.
With any other fruit, you don’t buy unripe examples because they taste terrible. Why do we buy green peppers, they’re unripe and taste terrible!
Plenty of peppers are eaten "unripe." Jalapeños for example. It's not the quality of their flavor, but the quantity that you probably object to . It's flavor has to be balanced with the rest
of the dish. You wouldn't eat a bowl full of grated ginger for example. I agree the an entire green pepper with its flavor unblended it too much for many folks, however as our friend pointed out, cooked green pepper combined with other flavors is essential to certain styles of cooking. It is has a delicious bitter aromatic character that contrasts nicely with rich food.
The Holy Trinity of Cajun cooking would like a word about the green pepper!
These are much better than a Warby Parker ad.
Though less good than an upper tier Jon Krakauer book.
B+
If only Michael Pollan would write about White Castle frozen cheeseburger 6-packs. That would be the greatest of all possible worlds.
Not gonna lie, my friend made me some Philly steak stuffed peppers with Steak-umms and they were damn good.
Yes! I have always admired this account’s super super meta post post modern tweets. It gets the millennial angst out of the way early.
I've been contemplating and torturing myself for several months looking to justify upgrading. This was a no brainer. upgraded! Thank you, and keep up your crucial work Jeff.
I remember Steak-Umms from my youth but assumed they were banned as part of the Love Canal congressional hearings.
Mike Pesca interviewed this guy a few years back: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-gist/id873667927?i=1000575927498
I could have swore there was also a Russ Roberts interview with him, but I seem to have hallucinated it
Having departed Twitter when He Who Shall Not Be Named was restored, this bit of news made me unreasonably happy. Carry on, Steak-Umm, no notes.