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Breakfast Saturday 2 May 2026 (Original Post) irisblue 12 hrs ago OP
Black coffee ☕️, and a toasted bagel with cream cheese. Emile 11 hrs ago #1
Cottage cheese and tomatoes sounds delicious. Dunc 11 hrs ago #2
Coffee with cream, now gademocrat7 10 hrs ago #3
Lunch jfz9580m 10 hrs ago #4
Breakfast Klondike Kat 9 hrs ago #5
Yawn... i think I'll have an eggsalad sandwich SheltieLover 7 hrs ago #6
I used to work at a hospital in the deep south jfz9580m 6 hrs ago #7
Bleak is a kind expression to describe Wal Mart pre-made egg salad. SheltieLover 5 hrs ago #10
-- NJCher 5 hrs ago #11
Oh, I meant it. I'm in the mid-south and the farther south one travels the weirder it gets. SheltieLover 5 hrs ago #12
I liked the Deep South jfz9580m 4 hrs ago #13
Decaf tea NJCher 6 hrs ago #8
The usual Bayard 6 hrs ago #9

Dunc

(406 posts)
2. Cottage cheese and tomatoes sounds delicious.
Sat May 2, 2026, 05:27 AM
11 hrs ago

Good morning friend. I just back from the gym not sure what Dunc the chonk and i will have.

gademocrat7

(11,998 posts)
3. Coffee with cream, now
Sat May 2, 2026, 06:30 AM
10 hrs ago

Extra sharp cheddar cheese toast with a bowl of watermelon and pineapple, later.



Good Morning, you all 🤗

jfz9580m

(17,643 posts)
4. Lunch
Sat May 2, 2026, 06:39 AM
10 hrs ago

Beets and carrots, 2 Puris, chickpea curry.

I am back to plant-based only after a break.

jfz9580m

(17,643 posts)
7. I used to work at a hospital in the deep south
Sat May 2, 2026, 10:10 AM
6 hrs ago

I used to think the eggsalad, tuna salad and coleslaw looked rather bleak .

Years ago I came across this website where this girl wrote all these amusing captions for Weight Watchers cards. It is still pretty funny:

http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html

She was one of two diet bloggers I used to follow on the ai free web. They were both pretty funny.

https://plork.blogspot.com/2005/03/one-can-of-tuna-in-water-drained.html?m=1

Those ai generated sites set my teeth on edge. At least that must be what they are. There was a thread about that earlier today.

SheltieLover

(81,452 posts)
10. Bleak is a kind expression to describe Wal Mart pre-made egg salad.
Sat May 2, 2026, 11:53 AM
5 hrs ago

No onions, no celery, and certainly no black olives.

It was all I could do to choke it down.

Thx for the links - I'll give them a look when I have more time.

So sorry you had to experience the deep south.

SheltieLover

(81,452 posts)
12. Oh, I meant it. I'm in the mid-south and the farther south one travels the weirder it gets.
Sat May 2, 2026, 12:03 PM
5 hrs ago

No words to describe it.

jfz9580m

(17,643 posts)
13. I liked the Deep South
Sat May 2, 2026, 12:20 PM
4 hrs ago

The people were generally pretty nice. I have never had a problem with the subset of Maga voters I have met superficially.

I have met similar people here in India. In a way Maga are closer to a lot of people the world over re saying not pc things and so on. But sometimes it is not ill intentioned. I have never been uptight that way where no offense is intended.


But, if I have never viewed it condescendingly, I view it the same way I view specialized instrumentation. You need to be trained on it and the people Maga vote for are vile and would have no issue manipulating and using Maga the way I see the Darwin Awards candidates on my own street manipulated into idiotically flooding a street they should avoid. They have damaged my ear drums too often for me to now have any compunction left for them.

Conservatives have too much in group cohesion and they move en masse whereas with lefties it is like herding cats.

It can be more complicated than race, gender and class. Otoh it can be all about that. Figuring out which parts of this complicated hairball that is society are working ways most alarming overall and how to communicate that in a time sensitive way but while reaching the most people is the bind.

I think most people are okay with the stragglers in the group when they are far away. I am sick of the idiots on my street here in India. Maga are over there and making life hell for among other people a small subset of dem voters I tend to dislike and so I don’t care ( in those few instances - anyone who attacks Paul Ehrlich can suck up Maga imo ). The anti-Green left of centre Cato-Romney types who made life so hellish for me I had to uproot overnight and leave. They don’t really like environmentalists and will use any excuse to harass and smear us imo.
It was the right call and I am much happier today than had I somehow stuck around throwing my pride to the winds. I couldn’t have anyway. Work or social- an impossible task for a loner.

Maga never ideologically forced me out of spaces I would at least have liked a decent notice to vacate. That was all democrats of the type I avoid - technocratic bullies. Unpleasant people - they behave irl the way is common only online. But I don’t want to go and tell some sort of Maga sleuth . Lame.

I didn’t take it personally as these cliques and gossip types are cracked. They are closer to Maga in their herd like behaviors.

So I am more tolerant for Maga than of those idiots. Otoh my few friends and colleagues are also there and if Maga were harassing them that would be vile.

Life is complicated. My sense of identity is mostly based in environmental issues and the right has outright not given a shit forever and the left has a lot of that too and I was used to pretending to take it as casually as one should at normal levels. It was different to now deeply reinvent oneself as this insipid douchebag who thinks all of earth should be a giant theme park/toilet/garbage bin/parking lot to fit in ..heh. A type of camouflage that gets so ingrained it feels like a shock if people actually genuinely give a shit about earth.

Bayard

(30,086 posts)
9. The usual
Sat May 2, 2026, 10:44 AM
6 hrs ago

Apple juice to take meds with. Scrambled eggs with cheese. Whole grain toast with sugarless orange marmalade (gotta save calories where you can!), and coffee. This breakfast powers a whole day of farm work.

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