alright. i very unfortunately have to say something about this post. yesterday, i had a tonic-clonic aka grand mal seizure, yknow what you usually picture when you see the word “seizure”. anyway, as one would expect, coming out of this seizure i couldn’t remember most things. i had no idea what time, day, month, etc it was. i couldn’t remember what i was doing before the seizure or even what i did that morning and i still have no idea. i couldn’t even remember what i did for fun and i’m still kind of trying to remember. anyway, what i DO remember is that when i was coming out of the seizure a slowly regaining consciousness, this was the only thing i could think of. over and over in my mind, all i heard was “it’S GOOFY. from mcdonalds”. over and over. and i literally had no idea of anything that was going on or anything that had ever happened ever, so i couldn’t just switch thoughts. i was stuck with this stupid video replaying in my head over and over. it wouldn’t stop. this had a big enough impact on me to be the only thing i could remember, out of all the things to remember. thanks i guess.
If you’re an American and ever go to another country my biggest advice to you is to go someplace “American themed”. Even if it’s just a seasonal section in a grocery store. It’s always a good time and sometimes it’s even cute.
When I was in Germany my cousins dragged me to a “rodeo” and it was hilarious. It was just a clown and his assistant in bad cowboy outfits lassoing things. Literally a clown. I’m not making that part up. There were no horses or bulls. I’ve seen more impressive lasso tricks from four year olds.
It was so fun. The American section of the grocery store in Switzerland had blueberry juice in it. What the hell is blueberry juice? Delightful, is what it is. 10/10 not accurate in the slightest would recommend. I’m glad they’re having fun.
My middle school teacher’s wife is from Japan. And the first time he visited Japan around Christmas her family plopped a sponge cake with strawberries in front of him like “look!!!”
And my teacher is like “???? Nice!”“
And they tell him "it’s Christmas Cake!”
So he learns Japan has Christmas Cake, which is an “American thing.” Except if you’re American, you’re realizing Christmas Cake is NOT a thing we do.
They were pretty devastated that their American custom was made up. But hey, Christmas Cake is GOOD. so win lose
We do? Have Christmas Cake? At least, in Canada we do. But it’s not the same thing as they apparently have in Japan. But it definitely exists.
This is Christmas Cake:
It’s like a dense spiced cake with tons of fruit bits in it, and it is definitely a real thing
You can find a million recipes if you google it, so be free in your newfound Christmas Cake knowledge, and enjoy this upcoming holiday season!
I swear to God if people keep telling me about fruit cake which is not even close to what I described
At least you’re not the op and getting every single mention of fruitcake on the post. Good god there have been so many mentions of fruitcake. I never used to think about fruitcake ever. I’m like *this close* to just blocking people that mention fruitcake at this point.
Alright here’s an fun infographic for those of you who have trouble reading
but my favorite lab equipment will always be our hand crank centrifuge
im sorry the what
this bad boy, for when you’re too lazy to walk up two flights of stairs to the shared lab space with the preparatory centrifuge but not too lazy to put some elbow grease into spinning your shit down
Method:
Samples were centrifuged at whatever rotations per minute (RPM) Joey “the beast” McRipped could achieve on his saucy days. We’re not sure how fast, but it was impressive. Supernatant decanted off and….
