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Curious why you thought it was disgusting. Outside the texture… it’s just cold food.

It’s really good au gratin with garlic butter. But it looks like a chunk of snot.

I’m so gonna regret asking… what dude? 🥲

I thought you were supposed to eat them whole, and didn’t realize people actually took bites out of them. It’s literally bite sized already…

Didn’t say otherwise

There’s no way to eat those cleanly tho, short of shoving the whole thing in your mouth and risk pulling bits of cartilage, to be fair. Same goes for most seafood, especially shellfish like crab, prawns or lobster, unless you pre cut everything, it’s just messy food by default

There will be people to call you an antisemite for this

With 38% of our federal politicians having real-estate investments or being landlords, and the rate of ownership amongst canadian politicians being twice as high as the general population... They literally have skin in the game.

Feel free to point where I missed the point, cause I don’t see it. Outside these “functions as a service” things like Lambda, I genuinely struggle to think of anything that’s truly “hostage” of a big provider or just plain worse. Especially amongst the examples you’ve given.

When I was a kid, a “normal” tip was 15%. I remember cause it’s equivalent to our sales tax lol. Somehow the expectation became 18-20% in the last couple years. I guess tipped jobs being often minimum wage doesn’t help - feeling the squeeze of the last handful of years’ inflation?

Yes, fuck tipping. Absolutely. Pay your employees.

However, “doing [your] part” would be stopping to frequent places that have employees that are tipped. Most of these employees can’t make a living off the base salary. You’re not passing the message you think you may be - the only person you’re penalizing is the employee. The business got your money regardless, why would they pay their workers better?

Hell, around here, minimum wage for tip jobs is a couple bucks lower than regular minimum wage, so not tipping means making those employees pay taxes on tips you didn’t give them lol