This never happened when I was growing up, and I saw a 'nader from the school bus once.
It has to do with the recent capability of getting these big tornado/straight line wind outbreaks predicted days out in advance. They've been talking about this since Thursday, and it's as humid as I've ever seen it out there. If the sun pops through, we're 100% fucked. If the clouds stay, it'll be a nothingburger.
Ive been saying this for awhile.
When I was a kid, a tornado warning meant there was an actual nader on the ground and someone was getting fucked.
Nowadays it might mean “some NWS intern saw goofy shit on the radar.”
I’ve already started shrugging them off a bit.
Yeah, I'm moderately liberal in a fairly conservative community and I've never shied away from my beliefs publicly. I hear people in political minorities on both sides claim a need to do that fairly often and I just don't quite get it. I'm not out there vociferously blasting my politics, but if someone asks me or engages me on the topic I'm honest about it.
But it's probably easier for me because everything about my life would lead someone to think I was a Republican, and I'm not a small guy either, so I generally haven't had to worry about people fucking with me.
100%. Mayo is fine as an ingredient in something larger (deviled egg, potato salad, etc), or as a condiment if it's sufficiently flavored an applied as a light layer.
Excess straight mayo is repugnant.
My friends don't cook like our grandmas did. The internet + major increases in the Latino and Southeast Asian populations in the Midwest have introduced seasoning to the old Germans, Norwegians, and Bohemians.
Scramble it up with some eggs and make breakfast tacos/burritos. Pile up on some chips for nachos. Whatever. Mediocre brisket is still pretty delicious.
Lone Star hits the fucking spot. I consider myself a connoisseur of regional cheap lagers, and for me Grain Belt and Lone Star are 1A and 1B nationally.
I don't know that jello salads and kolaches are inherently Texan. Jello salad exists anywhere poor/cheap white people exist, and kolaches are everywhere the Czechs went. I live adjacent to a super Czech community in north Iowa and kolaches are basically a form of currency there.
I always thought Texas BBQ was the most wildly overrated provincial bullshit out there, but then I went to a legit Texas BBQ joint and I realized I'd just had shitty Texas BBQ previously. The Texas method/style is absolutely my BBQ preference at this point in time. Even if I'm not cooking traditional Texas BBQ cuts, I gravitate to that general method. It is superior.
Texas's dumbest food thing is the rigor of chili. Chili is a fucking canvas. Go nuts with it. It might suck ass, but it might be divine. Following some arcane rules can be kind of a fun challenge, but acting like anything outside of that "isn't chili" is silly AF.
This honestly sounds like very similar in format to the Midwest redneck bbqs my buddies and I throw.
The main difference is ours have a lot more venison, and weird pickled shit.
And it was a fine road treat.
It just didn’t come close IMO to the kind of thing I fucking need when I’m in the vicinity. The way Whataburger once was, or boudin is.