Step 1: Get some dank ass flower

Step 2: Follow the advice in this video

Step 3: Rinse and repeat

It’s the art of the deal; you gotta start high so you have somewhere to go.

Tum mak hoong, in a way. To anyone not from SEA, it can be quite off putting. Being formerly married to a Laotian woman, I got used to the smells pretty quick. Now all of that fermented stuff smells good to me.

Some of the ingredients, on their own, have very powerful aromas. Fish sauce is the one people would know off hand. Also used is shrimp paste and crab paste, which are very pungent.

However, when combined with the rest of the ingredients, it creates this awesome papaya salad. Depending upon how many peppers you put in, the heat level can be insane.

My then-MIL originally taught me to make it with fish sauce, crab paste, and shrimp paste. Another family member taught me to make it with Padaek, which is an ingredient that you store in a bag, in a bag. It is some gnarly stuff, with chunks of fermented fish mixed in it, so you know it’s good. Kidding aside, it provides some truly amazing flavors. But dear lord, it is pretty rank.

Highly recommend trying Tum Mak Hoong! Laotian food is so good. When you order the papaya salad, make sure you order Laap to go with it.

Where is this leading to? Camps? Is that really going to happen?

No, you’re a towel.

I know I’m in the minority here, but I liked the sequel trilogy. I understand why people hate on the sequels, I just don’t feel that way. I liked the characters in it. The only thing I didn’t like was that they made a CGI Carrie Fisher; I thought it was in poor taste. But the rest of it? Liked it quite a bit. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Super interested to find out what you mean by that.

Aron continues, “And second — those moviegoers are also seeking value on concessions. While moviegoers are not required to purchase any food or drink to take advantage of the ticket price discounts, there is an opportunity to add incremental snack purchase revenues for AMC on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.”

We have NCG and Celebration Studios where I live. They continue to raise the cost of concessions, to where it costs at minimum $50 for my son and I to go to the movies, get a large popcorn and 2 drinks. It’s getting ridiculous, so much so that we rarely go. When we do go, we choose NCG, and usually choose the Extreme 2D. When we saw Wakanda Forever, the sound dropped out twice, and then the picture dropped out as well. As in, the audio/video just stopped until I went out to get help, 3 times. After the third time, I asked for some sort of refund. They gave us 2 tickets to a regular showing, not an Extreme one like we had paid for.

$50 for 2 people to go to the movies is insane. Hell, they removed the flavored salts for the popcorn a couple of years ago, and now sell mini bottles of them at the concession stand. I understand that they make their money off of concessions, but something has got to give. Hell, they’ve raised prices and also shrank the actual sizes of the drinks and popcorn buckets.

We used to go to the movies often, but now maybe twice a year; the cost is just too high. If they brought their prices down to a more reasonable level, I bet folks like us who used to go once a month or more would be more apt to return. As it is, I just wait for movies to come out on streaming services. They are shooting themselves in the foot. But I get it, if there isn’t unlimited growth year over year, then they must extract more, while providing less service and inflating prices of everything they offer. 🙄

Capitalism is definitely a major issue. I just don’t see how someone should not be compensated for work they perform, this includes art. Art can be free, but it shouldn’t have to be free. I think we may be saying similar things here.

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Disagree

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