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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-12-04 16:31:00
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Entry tags:defensiveness ahoy, food, otf can ruin anything, the mods hate otf so much, whipping cream is hard!

Cool Whip: It's a Floorwax and a Dessert Topping!
Over in the hip_domestics community, [info]petrel asks the age old question, "Cool Whip is the same as whipped cream, right?" followed closely by "How do you make whipped cream anyway?" This draws some slight mumbling from the crowd on the evils of Cool Whip, nothing spectacular, really.

Anyhoo, domestic snark picks it up and upsets a friend of the original poster, [info]coflower, who wouldn't have been upset if everyone knew what an IQ smart person [petrel] is.

Once again, short but sweet. (I should really stop looking at food comms when I'm hungry.)


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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-12-05 01:01 am UTC (link)
I knew how to make whipped cream before I figured out how to hard-boil an egg. I'm honestly surprised that you didn't know. Not that that makes you stupid, but... it's pretty common knowledge.

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[info]hallidae
2007-12-05 01:55 am UTC (link)
You might want to reword that to sound just a little less condescending. Not that it makes you sound like a superior bitch, but...

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-12-05 02:00 am UTC (link)
Nice. I reworded it a couple of times trying not to sound condescending and thought I had succeeded. (Because I honestly don't think not knowing something trivial like how to make whipped cream makes someone stupid.)

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[info]hallidae
2007-12-05 02:08 am UTC (link)
Maybe I'm too used to all this often really fucking annoying local passive-aggressiveness, then, because that comment smacked of "Well, bless your heart," in the not-kind way.

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-12-05 02:13 am UTC (link)
Rereading it, I can see where you got that. But that wasn't my intended tone at all.

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[info]hallidae
2007-12-05 02:30 am UTC (link)
Alrighty. Apologies for taking it the wrong way and snapping at you.

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[info]risha
2007-12-05 04:07 am UTC (link)
Still, thank you for stepping up to reply while I was away from the computer.

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[info]singe
2007-12-05 06:01 am UTC (link)
Y'know, I thought a recipe or specialized equipment was involved, too. And I've been cooking for a bazillion years!

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(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2007-12-05 08:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]missdaisy, 2007-12-05 02:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2007-12-06 12:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2007-12-06 01:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2007-12-06 04:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]magic_lilybean, 2007-12-07 09:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2007-12-08 12:56 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]magic_lilybean, 2007-12-08 03:26 pm UTC
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[info]frequentmouse
2007-12-05 06:10 pm UTC (link)
See, what I came too late to say was that I knew how to whip cream before I knew how to read; it was one of the jobs my sane grandmother thought small children were born to do.

So you've paved the way for those of us who would have really been minimizing and dismissive.

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[info]greenling
2007-12-05 02:35 am UTC (link)
It is? I'm not sure I've even seen cream before, and I can cook just fine.

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-12-05 02:47 am UTC (link)
Wow. I'm going to spare you my continued surprise, since I have no business being so unfunny.

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[info]morgyne
2007-12-05 03:05 am UTC (link)
These people have obviously just never been to the dairy section of the grocery store, that's all.

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[info]puipui
2007-12-05 04:50 am UTC (link)
Or a coffee shop.

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[info]ladybirdsleeps
2007-12-05 05:42 am UTC (link)
Just don't ask for whipped cream on your cuppaccino or I will cut you.

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[info]puipui
2007-12-05 05:43 am UTC (link)
How about if I pronounce espresso with an "x"? That's totally acceptable, right?

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[info]greenling
2007-12-06 02:41 am UTC (link)
Don't worry about it, I'm kind of surprised myself. I've seen braised rabbit steak at the store before, but... not cream.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-12-06 02:55 am UTC (link)
Where do you live that you can't find cream? I've never lived anywhere that didn't have at least one source and I find it perplexing that no shop would think to carry it -- I mean, it's cream! It makes so many tasty things! I've had a hell of a time finding buttermilk these days, admittedly. Sometimes I see the low-fat kind at the grocery but that doesn't bake worth crap. Three cheers for my local dairy, makers of cream and full-fat buttermilk so poundcake with whipped cream can be mine!

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[info]shaysdays
2007-12-06 10:11 pm UTC (link)
It's usually off with the coffee creamer and soy milk- where people who just drink regular milk wouldn't look. And it's fucking surrounded by half-and-half. Who drinks all this half and half? I was looking for cream the other day (homemade pesto with cream + shrimp +angel hair pasta = crazy delicious) and I literally spent five minutes shoving aside Vanilla Dream and Hazelnut Surprise to find the little box of creamy goodness.

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[info]julesnoctambule
2007-12-06 11:02 pm UTC (link)
Agh, those 'creamers' make me feel queasy just looking at them!
Mmm, pesto cream sauce on the other hand. . .I have a new idea for my husband's birthday dinner now.

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[info]rosehiptea
2007-12-05 03:25 am UTC (link)
You can find cream here (in Southern California) but a) I've only ever seen one kind even in large grocery stores and b) I know plenty of people who have never bought any and wouldn't know what to do with it if they did.

I only ever had any around to make butter with my kid. Oh, and ice cream in a bag, that's fun.

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[info]squib
2007-12-06 01:02 pm UTC (link)
By cream, do y'all mean "whipping cream"? Or something else? I've never had a problem finding whipping cream at any grocery store.

(Can't cook worth a damn, but did learn to whip cream.)

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[info]rosehiptea
2007-12-06 07:34 pm UTC (link)
I think I mean "whipping cream" or possibly "heavy cream" or possibly they are same thing and I don't know because of my pathetic cream ignorance.

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[info]queencallipygos
2007-12-06 07:52 pm UTC (link)
I believe that "whipping cream" and "heavy cream" are interchangeable terms for the same cow-produced substance. At least, they both behave the same way.

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[info]magic_lilybean
2007-12-07 09:27 pm UTC (link)
I think whipping cream is heavy cream with an added ingredient that's supposed to help it hold its shape better once whipped? That's what I heard anyway.

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[info]risha
2007-12-05 04:10 am UTC (link)
Alas, it always seems like common knowledge once you know it.

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