Real wasabi paste sounds like a poor value, wasabi doesn’t age too gracefully when grated and you’d presumably pay a markup for the packaging and grating
For those who live in areas with good Japanese grocery stores, I highly recommend looking for some rhizomes and grating it at home. Super easy, less than $10 for several servings, and lasts a couple weeks. If anyone is interested but doesn’t wanna Google it, feel free to reply or DM me and I can send my grater/process.
There are a lot of foods that aren’t quite as good out of their home country, but American grown wasabi is excellent. I’ve had someone tried to gatekeep me but like, I coincidentally am very into sushi and am reasonably friendly with a couple ***/Tabelog gold sushi chefs that I visit when in town, some of the best in the world with access to the highest quality ingredients. I’m not eating the wasabi directly but I can’t tell a difference between theirs and the American one from half moon bay. It’s definitely worth trying if it’s available in your area, you aren’t missing anything by doing it yourself and it takes minutes.
Yeah that’s exactly the price of mine too! A lot of people talk about how expensive it is, but it’s definitely cheaper than high quality fish which can cost as much or per pound, and you need a lot more than just a small rhizome.
Yep. I’m a little too deep into sushi and it’s pretty funny that people will gatekeep ingredients.
The ingredients that Edomae chefs now use are extremely traditional. Essentially every single one was for food safety, not taste. Vinegar, wasabi, and sake in nikiri are all meant to prevent food-borne illness. The red rice vinegar used at high end restaurants was originally used because it was cheap. Fish is obviously readily available. Edomae chefs now use them because they prefer the taste— which I’ll agree with, I make it the same way— not because it’s sacrilege not to. Every one of the top chefs can tell you the history of sushi as a stall food meant to be accessible.
Even crotchety Jiro, who might chastise you for using soy sauce, deviates from tradition by using exclusively white vinegar and adding sugar. Yet the same gatekeepers love that guy (until you reach the super gatekeepers who are too cool for him because he got famous).
Sushi superiority is truly insane to me. I wonder if some assholes back then looked down on the “peasants” for trying to extend the shelf life of their food.
Sorry this comment is so long, I’m way too deep into this. It’s funny, two chefs I know are top five in Japan (thus, some would say, the world), respected beyond belief, and on my first visits they stayed well after close to talk to the dumb foreigner who wanted to improve his at home sushi. One doesn’t speak English and has one of his apprentices translate between us. I guess when you get far enough into sushi, you feel the need to ramble about it.
Well yeah, but you can get cheap fish for less than the wasabi. I meant more like, if you’re gonna spend some money on higher quality ingredients, may as well spend $8 for wasabi.
Most of the seasoning for sushi can be had for cheap and would still taste good, thankfully. Wasabi is more an undertone anyway
Not arguing in favor of them, with how awful the police and oftentimes court systems are, I’m not surprised to hear parole ones are bad too. But what about them contribute to reoffending?
(I’m too lazy to check myself right now, and maybe the answer will help others too? Plus it might vary in jurisdictions)
Hi op, thanks for making this. My opinions of Reddit aside, this is a neat app.
Is it possible to open a link from Reddit in this app, maybe with a Safari extension? The mobile site is dogshit and, because old reddit threads often provide the most useful solutions, I sometimes find myself struggling against that unusable site.
I’d also suggest having collapsible sub groups separate from subscriptions, like Alien Blue did, since you have an AB reference in the colors. Back then, I liked having that so I could have groups for news, hobbies, etc. But without having to see the whole list. Seeing AB there reminded me of a lot of great features that app had.
I use crea supps creapure. I believe that all creapure is functionally identical, just 100% pure Creatine marketed and backed by some German company. Amazon feels so sketchy nowadays that I wanted something simple and not well known enough to counterfeit. Plus creapure has quality seal verification to minimize chance of fakes.
While checking for the brand I use, I now see that it is out of stock. That sucks, I will have to find another creapure soon
No one’s explaining because it seems pretty obvious to most, but I’m gonna anyway in case you really don’t understand. It mostly comes down to your unusual preference towards the two most extreme options, which invalidates your entire premise, but I’ll get to that at the end of this.
Let’s use the worst case scenario numbers for now. The report indicates that Ozempic costs ~$969 a month, a number I’ll use because it fits the analysis that, if 50% of obese Americans took it, it would be ~400bil a year. Don’t have more than 10min for this so I can’t promise that’s accurate, but a quick Google search seemed to agree.
That’s about $11.7k a year. From what I can find, 2/3 people stop using it after about a year. Let’s go with 60 weeks, which is where weight loss seems to plateau. So around $13.5k per person.
Thanks to the absurd cost of healthcare in the US, a single hospital stay for obesity related emergencies will cover a lot of years of Ozempic. But of course, this is the extreme case, and it doesn’t need to be this way.
The report indicates that Ozempic is sold for less than 16% of the US price in virtually every other country. Let’s go with the next highest price, $155 (I assume USD as the others appear in $ as well) per month in Canada. That’s less than $1900 a year. A single hospital stay could cover dozens of people. Long term care for obesity or obesity related issues is also more than $1900 a year or $2200 for 60 months. This pricing is still profitable for Novo Nordisk, merely not extortionately so.
Thus why your opinion is unpopular: you appear either too dull to consider a broader view, or cruel for saying that 70 million people should receive no healthcare. While the latter is both stupid and evil, it actually seems like people are assuming you lack the capacity of thought to have considered the numbers or read the report. Cruelty is too common on the internet so that one is more shocking, hence the very negative reactions. It’s easier to ignore a clear ass than someone blindingly narrowminded; even I couldn’t resist and I don’t engage with trolls or dicks.
I only wrote this to explain why your comments come off as largely nonsensical, then why they are receiving such negative response. I won’t respond if you fight me on it, I haven’t actually given my opinion (you’ll note I only went and pulled numbers from the report) so there’s nothing to discuss
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This is my thinking for using .world. I don’t get all my news or interaction from Lemmy or the internet as a whole, and Lemmy is small enough that it has an almost zero impact on broader society. I respect those who try, but if my internet experience was antagonistic or frustrating I’d probably just stop using it.
I also feel that conversations of that nature are best had in person, where there’s a higher chance of changing minds. I’ve no proof but it feels like internet discussions are taken less seriously and thus merely end before any opinion changing can occur.
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