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[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for letting me know what brands to avoid

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you weren't avoiding Folgers already, you were fuckin up, bud

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Hey. Folgers is fine.. From a purely consumerist, apolitical standpoint anyway. The coffee is ok.

Is it great? No. It's not gonna win any contests on flavor. But it's perfectly alright.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Listen all I'm saying is that if Jim Holden could carry nine novels and 5 seasons of a TV show drinking something called coffee that contained no actual coffee and still love it, we can all quietly admit that folgers coffee is at least actually coffee, and mostly tastes like coffee. It's not bad, it doesn't smell of cigarettes like Starbucks does. It's just, ok.

Could you get much better coffee for a little bit more? Absolutely, and you should. But if someone offers you a cup and they pull out the Folgers tub you ain't gonna turn that shit down. You're gonna brace yourself for a perfectly passable cup of coffee. Then you'll go home because you gotta poop. Because while it doesn't taste of a crisp summer night atop the Columbian Andes, it does taste exactly like ok coffee.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Expanse always deserves Lemmy Gold.

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Expanse

A movie I should watch?

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Book series. Was adapted by SyFy and Amazon into a TV series. Highly recommend.

EDIT: Apple TV+'s "For All Mankind" is considered by many to be the prequel to the book series.

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'll have to figure out how to check it out, thanks

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Janeway would only commit a small massacre for Folger's.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

folgers coffee is at least actually coffee, and mostly tastes like coffee.

Beg to differ. It tastes burnt. Otherwise it has no flavor.

It's not bad, it doesn't smell of cigarettes like Starbucks does.

Wait is this weird satire or what?

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[–] Wiz@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

"Medicinal caffeine"

[–] model_tar_gz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Not exactly.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did these brands actually endorse Trump, or did he just yank them off the pantry shelf for a photo op?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

4 seasons landscaping vibe.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bean and cheap steaks energy

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It's insane that these aren't AI generated.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

You can tell by the correctly tiny hands

[–] FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I started to believe that everything is AI generated. Makes it somewhat easier

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't... is that his dinner?

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

He's about to do a prop comedy routine

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jimmy Deans in the pooper.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The little sausages, or the big boy?

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The little ones are Johnsonvilles, no?

[–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

I didn't see any giant hammers. So I can only assume he's going to shove them up his ass.

[–] nalinna@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

From https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/business/economy/kamala-harris-inflation-price-gouging.html

Vice President Kamala Harris will highlight an argument that blames corporate price gouging for high grocery prices. That message polls well with swing voters...groups cheered the announcement late Wednesday that Ms. Harris will call for a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries in an economic policy speech on Friday.

Soooo...he's officially just plagiarizing her talking points now? Does he think he'll get points for having said it 24 hours before she did? (I'm sure he didn't blame corporate price gouging; probably immigrants if I had to guess.)

[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

"I'd also like to express my fondness for that, uh, particular beer."

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How about a federal ban on all price gouging?

[–] nalinna@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Let's not get crazy, now.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He must be extremely desperate for the ad revenue. Money a much bigger problem for him than we're aware?

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We're aware of his money problem.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Half of us, at least.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Dude, he advertised beans from the oval office. He just has zero standards, and gets a kick from making a mockery of our institutions.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

He should have been removed from office when he did a bean commercial from the Oval office. Now he's just running infomercials as part of his campaigning? Disqualify his ass! Better yet, arrest him for any of the thousands of felonies he has committed. FFS. Its like I live in bizarro world run by a clown college.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Serious business by top men.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We're getting closer to the reality where politicians wear the logos of their sponsors on their uniform; just like Nascar drivers.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

They would never allow that. Could you imagine the power of a clean suit in such a world?

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

What the fuck.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He looked so youthful and vibrant back then.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Then the world just ate him up...

And like most shitty meals, regretted long after.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Complete disgrace to the presidency, the country, the people, and democracy

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why is American coffee in plastic containers?

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Those two brands are, but most coffee is sold in vacuum sealed bags like the rest of the world.

Folgers and Maxwell House are pre-ground. The containers do a better job of keeping oxygen out. Pre-ground coffee goes bad quickly the more it’s exposed to oxygen.

There are some pre-ground Italian espresso brands that are famous for doing similar things.