[link]

If you jailbreak you iphone you could be rickrolled

On the butter / margarine issue, I knew a girl whose family tested the kids on their ability to differentiate between margarine and butter before they were allowed to have butter. Feeling, I suppose, that it was wasted on the younger palate or something.

Anyway, it became a family rite of initiation. At age 12 you sat down to a blind taste test of butter and margarine on toast. If you identified the buttered toast you could have butter thereafter. If you failed, then you had margarine again until your next birthday when you were tested again. All three kids were tested. I think one failed on the first try.

That's undeniably fucked up but the kind of detail you stow away for a story.

I knew another girl at college who hated mayonnaise so much that just mentioning the word to her caused her to have a gag reflex.

And I knew another girl in college who inquired whether the fried clams were boneless.

Thus Endeth The Post of Girls I Knew in College With Weird Food Issues

sticking the opened bags of potato chips in the fridge.

I've never heard of this! What was the purported reason for putting them in the fridge? To keep them from getting stale?

Maple syrup will last forever. Or so it seems to me.

No, this is basically true, maple syrup in the freezer will last indefinitely.

And if maple syrup in the fridge gets moldy you can actually just skim it off and boil the syrup and it's fine.

And I knew another girl in college who inquired whether the fried clams were boneless.

I'm pretty sure I had a dream recently about fried clams. Because I remember a conversation about bellies vs. strips, but am reasonably certain I haven't been in a room with fried clams recently.

Huh.

Huh. My syrup is in the fridge. I should go move it.

Yes, because it's syrup, it doesn't freeze!

I've never refrigerated maple syrup or had it go bad on me. I just keep it in the pantry.

I've never heard of this! What was the purported reason for putting them in the fridge? To keep them from getting stale?

Yep. Sure sign you're in South Florida is going to the beach with a big picnic, opening a bag of chips and within an hour or so, they're stale and kind of bendy from the humidity. However, putting the bag in the fridge was sort of redundant, since you'd pull them out and if you didn't open the bag immediately and let them air out, they'd gather condensation and then be soggy, so... EUGH.

Plus, they'd get a weird taste to them, being in the fridge.

I will say, it kept me from eating chips excessively until I was in college.

I've never thought to put syrup in the fridge. It would make the pancakes cold!

I have a friend who refrigerates everything, though -- peanut butter, syrup, bread. She seems to operate on some weird "If it's been opened, it goes in the fridge" principle.