• Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      I buy squeeze jelly because the campus-affiliated market that I have a meal plan for only sells jelly in squeeze bottles. Though it’s nice how it saves a spoon, it’s a bit of a pain to operate. Especially the grape flavor.

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        7 months ago

        Shake the everliving shit out of it beforehand. Get all your aggression out. And if it’s still being ornery, squeeze from the wide side.

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          I guess I’ve always considered it poor form to let ingredient containers mix at all. The knife is already covered in peanut butter, so putting it in the jelly container would get a bit of peanut butter on the jelly, and that’s no good for some reason.

          Also because I find it way easier to scoop jelly with a spoon than a knife.

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              I have not yet achieved the level of skill with peanut butter required to get all of it off the knife. Most, yes, but there’s still a plainly visible amount left.

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                  7 months ago

                  But then I’m gonna get peanut butter on the bread I’m going to put jelly on. What if the spoon gets contaminated, and then I put it back in the jar for the next person?

                  …Wait nevermind, that’s not a problem, I use a squeeze bottle.

        • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de
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          I was at my moms house making my son a sandwich and she admonished me for using a knife in the jam. At first I thought she was worried about peanut allergies (non of our family have a that allergy), but then she claims that knives break up the pectin in jam and only spoons can scoop it without ruining it.

          I use a knife in ours almost every day and have never had (good) jam go soupy.

          I assume it’s just another bullish “tip” from social media.

    • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      It’s Welch’s though which actually tastes good and IIRC is owned by a growers collective not a megacorp.

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            7 months ago

            Just means it’s owned by the farmers

            Though at their size, the farmers could be people that just own the farms and use farmhands for all the work

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              At some point, any business venture big enough to operate at commercial scale will see those with ownership drift towards management roles, since the owner is initially the only person with the authority to make a lot of those choices.
              If it’s a family farm, at some point it’s likely that someone realizes that inheriting a farm gives you a leg up at operating a farm, but that you can still probably hire someone to run the farming business better than you.

              If it’s family owned, they’re still less likely to raise to the level of ick that some of the big farm corporations can raise to, so it’s still likely better.