Your weekly dose of Notre Dame news, opinion, and other stuff.
Top News
Notre Dame tight end George Takacs said he’d return for 2022 but recently changed course and is now in the Transfer Portal. He ends his Irish career with 8 receptions for 78 yards and 2 touchdowns.
Georgia leads college football with an incredible 14 players invited to the NFL Combine. Notre Dame had Kyle Hamilton, Kyren Williams, Kevin Austin, MTA, and Jack Coan invited.
The Miami Hurricanes have hired Michigan’s Josh Gattis to be their new OC. The Wolverines are expected to promote tight ends coach Sherrone Moore and quarterbacks coach Matt Weiss to Co-OC and hire Vanderbilt’s Jesse Minter as their new DC.
Auburn is expanding an investigation into head coach Bryan Harsin and these things rarely go well for people in the SEC.
According to reports, the ACC is looking to get rid of its 2 divisions.
After recently missing out on the College Football Hall of Fame, former Notre Dame defensive tackle Bryant Young has been announced in the latest Pro Football Hall of Fame class.
Uniform of the Week
Last week, the Washington Football Team re-branded themselves as the Washington Commanders. The name had leaked prior to the announcement and it had been known the organization would be keeping their traditional burgundy and gold colors. So, this was largely about the layout of the uniforms. At first glance, the new logo is fine and their burgundy helmet and jersey keep a familiar look from their previous uniforms.
The black uniform and helmet is a big, big yikes. The white jersey with its strange gradient numbers and sleeves with splashes of black and no gold (except the Nike swoosh) looks incredibly out of place. There’s also no indication that I’ve seen if Washington will wear yellow pants (RIP if true), no stripes on the pants is depressing, and judging by this roll out they plan on utilizing the monochrome look quite a lot which sucks.
Recruiting
The Ivy League offensive lineman of the year Hunter Nourzad has transferred from Cornell to Penn State.
Top 100 offensive tackle J’Ven Williams (0.9568) is staying in-state after a commitment to Penn State.
Texas wide receiver Ashton Cozart (0.9326) gave a verbal to Oklahoma.
St. John Bosco safety R.J. Jones (0.9185) committed to California.
Defensive lineman Andrew Depaepe (0.9420) out of Iowa committed to Michigan State.
YouTube Channel
I chew a lot of gum. At home we keep packs of a fruity Trident in the fridge. For whatever reason, my wife has always kept gum and pasta in the fridge. I don’t know why. I’ll usually pop in a piece before going on a run but it’s when I’m at work where I am straight up crushing gum. Specifically, I prefer Orbit Bubblemint in the big 180-piece bags. I’ll go through a bag in about 3 weeks, so roughly 12 pieces a day in the office.
When I was a senior in high school at the Frederick Gunn School my parents dropped me off in mid-August equipped with a Dubble Bubble bucket which held something obscene like 350 pieces. Of course, it got raided a bit by friends but let me tell you I chewed an ungodly amount of that gum in a short amount of time. To this day, I can’t chew a piece of Dubble Bubble without thinking how much my jaw hurt.
Tunes
In doing some research, I was surprised to find out that Stevie Wonder is only 71 years old. It’s a testament to how young he was at just 11 years old when he first arrived on the music scene on Motown’s Tamla label. Today’s song comes from his 1976 album Songs in the Key of Life and is the tune that opened side two titled “I Wish.” It was the first single off the album and would reach No. 1 on the Billboard charts. I’m sure most people have heard this one in the past.
I have always thought the lyrics in the beginning are strange: “Then my only worry was for Christmas, what would be my toy. Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.” I know artists sometime use words to rhyme if it has the necessary feeling but no kid is excited about missing out on a gift for Christmas! That phrase has always bugged me.
Trivia (answers at the bottom of the article)
Name the only Notre Dame head coaches to be 0-1 in their career with the Fighting Irish.
The Other Football
Manchester United and Leicester City were the EPL clubs knocked out of the FA Cup 4th round this past weekend.
Senegal defeated Egypt 0-0 (4-2 on penalties) in the Africa Cup Finals to win their first ever title.
Chelsea got past Saudi club Al Hilal 1-0 and will meet Brazilian club Palmeiras in the FIFA Club World Cup Finals on Saturday.
Kurt Zouma abused his house cat, has been dropped by Adidas, fined by West Ham and faces possible jail time. True story.
Former Stoke City and Liverpool winger Xherdan Shaqiri was sold to Lyon this summer and is now headed to Chicago Fire in the MLS for a club-record $7.5 million. Douglas Costa’s contract is running out at Juventus and he will be joining LA Galaxy this summer.
AC Milan beat Inter 2-1 in the Derby della Madonnina as the latter team’s lead atop Serie A is down to just 1 point, although with a game in hand.
Streaming
Last week, I covered a Netflix show I watched during the early stages of the pandemic that was a tough watch. However, the miniseries The Last Dance was a freaking delight to watch. Maybe, just maybe, a touch overhyped and didn’t quite match the massive expectations that it had coming with it for a long time. Still, just awesome.
I was a little too young to have any recollection of Michael Jordan’s early NBA career and it wasn’t until the Bulls’ back and forth battles with the Pistons that I can remember watching on TV with the classic NBC intro music. In contrast, I’ve witnessed everything LeBron James has done from high school to today and felt myself drifting towards him as my favorite basketball athlete. But The Last Dance is a good reminder, MJ was just built different.
A Look Back
We’ve got some stiff competition for the least visually appealing Notre Dame game on NBC although this 2014 matchup against Stanford may take the cake. I know we’ve had readers weigh in before that this game was a truly miserable experience inside the stadium. It’s like watching a game from inside the ruins of Stalingrad. Just bleak and depressing. Cold and damp, yuck.
But what a great ending (miss you, Everett). And we witnessed one of Jaylon Smith’s 4.5 sacks too. Look at me getting all nostalgic, I’m sort of missing the times when Stanford was a tough opponent. Actually no, I rather like them being terrible. Which other throws beat this Golson game-winner in Notre Dame history?
18S Paddock Club
Car unveilings have begun with Haas kicking things off this past Friday, releasing a 3D rendering of an “early developmental phase” of their 2022 car according to team principal Guenther Steiner. The car features extremely wide sidepods with smaller intakes, a very skinny rear body, and a short and square nose.
The Haas VF-22.
The suspension looks to be the standard pushrod in the front taken from the FIA show cars, although it’s expected Haas will adopt the pullrod suspension in the front like quasi-parent team Ferrari is rumored to be using. The Haas livery colors are only slightly tweaked for 2022. The Russian flag colors are a little less pronounced, the shark fin is now black, while the driver number is now ridiculously small.
Red Bull unveiled their 2022 livery on Wednesday, fooling no one in the process with essentially a replicated FIA show car and not their real car.
The Red Bull RB18 new livery.
Oracle is now the team’s lead sponsor (signing a 5-year, $500 million deal) and moves to the main sidepods with the smaller Red Bull script placed above it. With Honda no longer “officially” making their engines, their name is now relegated to the HRC (Honda Racing Corporation) near the exhaust on the body while removed from the end of the nose and the rear wings. In its place on the rear wing they have Red Bull in the front and Oracle in the back. Also note, the outer wheel rim covers are red.
Aston Martin unveiled an actual real-world 2022 car yesterday! The pink trim is gone and replaced by a more visually appealing yellow, while Saudi oil company Aramco is added as a sponsor to the front wing, back of the rear wing, and on the air box.
The Aston Martin AMR 22.
The front of the car has a very high front wing, shorter nose, with pushrod suspension. The first wing element is separated from the nose being attached to the second wing element, while the second wing element blends heavily into the nose. A big floor edge wing sticks out behind the front tires with very small square engine cooling inlets pushed towards the front, including a fake outside intake that could possibly be opened up depending on the track conditions. The sidepods are enormously flat and high-waisted through to the back of the car, while the blister bulge on the engine cover remains from the 2021 in common with the Mercedes engine. With 15 cooling gills on each side, it allows the bodywork to narrow considerably at the back.
We have our first look at a functional DRS, too. On the actual car and renders the rear wing is quite low with a very scooped angle. As expected, many parts of the car point to sealing the floor in the back, especially directing air to the beam wing.
Livery unveilings to come:
McLaren 2/11 (we’ll cover this next week and it’s dropping later today)
AlphaTauri 2/14
Williams 2/15
Ferrari 2/17
Mercedes 2/18
Alpine 2/21
Alfa Romeo 2/27
Scuderia AlphaTauri (6th place, 142 points)
Led by a career year from Frenchman Pierre Gasly it was a solid year for AlphaTauri who integrated volatile rookie Yuki Tsunoda into the team. Tsunoda really struggled with consistency but did flash a high ceiling like finishing 4th in the final race at Abu Dhabi. Gasly heads into 2022 with his stock incredibly high again following his disappointing 12-race run with Red Bull back in 2019 and is in the last year of his contract while the pressure is on Tsunoda to prove he should remain on the grid.
As the sister team of Red Bull it’ll be interesting to see how AlphaTauri handles the new regulation changes and the small tweaks to the Red Bull Powertrains engines. Opinions are all over the place on Tsunoda’s future while Gasly has the chance to prove he belongs in a stronger car for 2023.
Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team (1st place, 613.5 points)
Lewis Hamilton lost his bid for a record 8th world driver’s championship but Mercedes still came away with their incredible 8th straight constructor’s title to reign supreme during the turbo hybrid era. The team was also some bad luck (Bottas’ crash at Imola, Bottas’ wheel not coming off at Monaco, Verstappen driving on top of Hamilton at Monza) from breezing to the team championship. In the final year of the Hamilton-Bottas pairing that lasted a fruitful 5 seasons, the Silver Arrows notched 8 wins and 29 combined podiums.
Although it feels like Hamilton’s title was ripped away illegally (we still await changes to the race-day operations) Mercedes should feel good they didn’t waste nearly as many resources as Red Bull in 2021 and should have a big jump on their 2022 car. George Russell comes over from Williams and likely offers a higher ceiling than Bottas and you’d expect Hamilton to be on the war path this season. Pretty much the only concern moving forward is if Mercedes can continue improving the reliability of their engines which were rumored to be turned down to start 2021 and degraded quickly when turned up at certain races.
Trivia Answers:
Kent Baer and Marcus Freeman
They should have just stuck with WFT, and instead they went with the worst possible nickname of their options, which also happens to have a ton of really inappropriate derivatives.
Bill Connelly released his early SP+ projections (which I just found out that since I have hulu live I also get disney plus and espn plus 18 months later) and have to say where ND lands and the set up of the schedule is pretty nice. only rough part is opening as presumably 2 TD dogs at number 1 ohio state. Please let USC end up where he has them projected in the 60s
Thank you for this, I had no idea hulu tv got me into the espn+ articles too.
FWIW regarding USC – Bill Connelly’s being very cautious with how he factors in transfer impacts:
They haven’t done much on the defensive side with transfers, so it may balance out and the 60s makes sense. We’ll see!
Yea no way USC ends up in the 60’s unless their OL is just sooo bad that Williams never has a chance and is running for his life (like Howell was last year). Their OL just has to be below average for them to be pretty great on offense.
Maybe it’s wishful thinking but I can very much see USC, at least for the next year or two, having outstanding QB and WR play but still a garbage OL and porous defense. The type of thing that leads to them blowing out some teams but still getting punched in the mouth by Utah or whatever
Us too, I hope! But I meant their annual loss(es) to teams that they should clearly be able to out talent yet still totally fold against
Yeah, but them going 11-1 helps out ND more. And the ND loss is all the more painful.
I’m much more of the stance that I want USC to go 0-12 than 11-1 with a loss to us
Hmmm. I think CFB is better when USC is good (and ND is even more good)
nah, hard pass, SMU them. Same thing when people say “baseball is better when the Yankees are good” or Lakers in basketball or etc. No thank you, I’m not a fan of those teams and actively dislike them, make them a dumpster fire
I think a version of that will be true. But I think that also means they will be able to play like a top 15 team one week even if a top 50 team the other week – depending on matchups, etc. And that either way, it’ll lead them being significantly better overall than a top 60 team.
I just think their OL has to be historically bad for it to really set back the offense because Williams is so athletic and makes so many plays with his feet. If they are just sometimes porous (and so below average) then that offense could really get humming – esp. with a lot of big plays.
No doubt Williams is exceptional but a bad OL can make life hell for any QB to the point that it makes guys regress and pick up bad habits. I don’t know the numbers off hand, but how bad was their OL last year and do we have any reason to see significant improvements?
Actually looking at PFF real quick their OL graded out pretty well last year both in pass and run blocking. They had 6 linemen play a lot of snaps and 5 out of the 6 were above average starters it seems (and the 6th would have been an average starter).
To put it in perspective, they had a top 10 pass blocker, 2 in the top 100, and all 5 in the top 200 for pass blocking.
ND’s 2020 line for pass blocking: 1 in the top 100 (62), 3 in the top 150, 4 in the top 400, 5 in the top 450.
Though I don’t know how many of those USC guys will be back.
Actually this says 4 of those 6 are coming back: https://247sports.com/college/usc/Article/USC-Trojans-offensive-line-leveled-up-in-21-under-Clay-McGuire-180068654/
So I’d actually expect their line to be pretty solid next year, if not actually good.
neat, thanks!
That go ahead TD throw in the Stanford game was the perfect summation of golson as a qb: made a laser beam toss with some scrambling in the pocket to extend the play for a exciting finish (heck yeah) BUT the TE was literally wide open the entire play until golson threw the ball; he never saw him. Similar stuff in the wake forest 2012 game. That fella was a rollercoaster of emotion, especially when he had to do so much in the latter half of the season, since the defensive schemes got more exotic than the spearmint rhino in vegas.
In my ultra tin-foil hat mode, I put golsons 2014 poor plays on… A THAT DAMN VAN GORDER DEFENSE. The offense had no choice but to go score for score with everyone, and everett starting forcing so much more. I’m sorry young lad, he might have been the most exciting QB of the kelly era
The Arizona State game that year was BVG-era ND encapsulated. They were down 34-3 – 34 to freakin three! – and managed to score 4 straight TDs before it all went to hell again.
I was there. A truly emotional roller coaster. But worth it for a trip to Tempe in November.
Didn’t Golson have like 4 INTs in that game, but at least 3 of them were absolutely not his fault?
4 INT and a couple fumbles? I think that was when I became convinced he had tiny hands and couldn’t grip the ball properly
Officially:
2 fumbles (1 lost)
4 interceptions
446 yards on 22 completions
7 players had at least 1 catch of 20+ yards.
Unreal
From your recap on OFD:
Also, while searching for that article, I found Wimbush’s commitment post from manor98, which is oddly accurate and inaccurate at the same time (Just like him!):
The good old days.
It’s so weird that LaFleur was our QB coach
He learned from the best, though. Patches O’Houlihan.
If you can dodge a
wrenchdevelopmental QB, you can dodge aballlot of losses (until the playoffs anyway).Yeah. The most painful one being a pick 6(?) that bounced straight off Corey Robinson’s(?) chest.
I feel like there was one that absolutely got hit up in the air 14 times before ASU grabbed it. And it should have just been caught by the ND receiver.
This game…
Final INT near the end ughhhh.
I remember losing my mind during this game but that play’s comical in hindsight
And that game was only a warmup for the true goat rodeo the next week against Northwestern. Only 1 INT and 1 fumble for Golson but feels a lot worse in memory. Dude was electric but absolutely 0 ball security.
Also brutal. By the end of that game I felt more numb, to the point that the UL loss and the USC beat down didn’t phase me
May I interest anyone in a doink INT off Christian Lombard’s helmet?
Up next: USF highlights!
So apparently we’ve all gotten into masochism just in time for Valentines Day.
I clearly joined the pick 6 with the final pick. Memories are a fickly beast.
I can’t/won’t be the only one to stop reading after the “gum in the fridge” part. This seems like some Charlie Kelly’s mom/Ted Kaczynski type behavior. You’ve never dug into WHY this was a behavior? Or argued against doing this? I understand picking battles…but…this seems like an enormously large hill I’d be willing to die on.
(For clarification, I’m sure your wife, a total stranger, is a lovely person – questioning the specific action, not the person doing the action.)
Gum in the fridge seems quirky but I sorta get it, it’s going to be more firm and some people like chewing cold things. Refrigerated pasta meanwhile, is the odd one.
Not to rag on your wife, I’m sure mine does odd things too and I do even worse.
Yeah, but you’re cooking the pasta ihreghadless, so the product you’re eating is the same. The gum just gets hard and chalky. I keep gum in my car, and in the winter, it sucks for the first 20 seconds of chewing.
does dry pasta go bad? I don’t even know, partially because we don’t eat a ton of pasta. But we also have a much higher premium on fridge space than cabinet space anyway
I don’t think it goes bad, no. It definitely has an expiration date on it, but so does honey and bottled water.
I don’t think it goes bad either, however some habits like this get carried over from learning from mothers, etc. When I first got married my wife would deep fry potatoes for french fries and make breakfast potatoes. She would chop them and throw them in a sink of water. I thought it a bit odd, asked about it, she didn’t have a good answer, but whatever… then one day I come home and she tells me that she found out why she soaks the potatoes, turns out that is what her mother did to keep them from browning. She called her mother and asked how long she needed to soak the potatoes, her mother kind of laughed and told her why she soaks potatoes. So who knows, maybe pasta goes in the refrigerator because the grandmother did that to keep it away from mice.
I think scientifically, rinsing/soaking potatoes before frying removes some of the starch and makes the outside crispier. But the, “I dunno, because my mom did” is the better answer.
Bit of both I think. Helps with the starch, but rinsing can do that, but it does prevent the browning/graying. Not a huge deal depending on how much you have or on the cut. But potato pancakes get really gross looking in a hurry if you don’t put them in water.
Agreed, gum in the fridge doesn’t sound too weird but pasta in the fridge is pretty odd. Is it supposed to keep it fresher? Or just the quirk that the person thinks it keeps it fresher? That’s the one I’d be more interested in drilling down about, having a cool piece of gum doesn’t sound as strange.
I lied, I kind of do know why. Before we built our addition and re-modeled our kitchen most of the house, and especially the kitchen, were really sticky and humid. So, if you left a pack of gum out on the counter it would be really soft and kind of gross. We don’t keep the fridge super cold so the gum isn’t very hard at all.
Not sure why she puts the pasta in there, I tease her monthly about it.
The pasta thing might be about storage, now that I think about it. Mind you, this was her grandparent’s house that’s now our house so I walked into this as we were dating.
Originally, it was a very small galley kitchen and she’s Italian so she kept a lot of pasta on hand. Definitely before kids, the fridge was not very full and might have been a good spot to keep it all?
Do I need Kathy to come write about blog post about this?
I think between this and shitting your pants on the T, there’s enough for an entirely new website.
I held that in until we arrived at some random Massachusetts Home Depot, thank you very much sir!
Perhaps, frozen pasta affected your digestive track ?
LOL, I was like 14 years old at the time. I think the real culprit was crushing a gigantic Italian ice at the Red Sox game, plus whatever garbage 14-year old me ate at the game.
Did you have a sausage from a vendor outside the park ?
Nope, probably a hot dog in the park though.
She texted me back. Same as the gum…when she lived alone it was a moisture and humidity issue so she started putting the pasta in the fridge to help.
This is absolutely baffling to me. From what you’ve shared, you live near/around Buffalo, yes? I didn’t realize it got that humid up there.
Apparently, this is a new topic of discussion. When my ex-girlfriend, now wife, and I moved in there were a few differences on refrigerating/non-refrigerating:
Oh yeah, all of Western New York has terrible humidity being just east of a giant lake. Central AC has cleared up so many of our issues, god bless it.
Syrup – We keep it both in and out of the fridge. Typically, I like mine cold but she likes to keep the real stuff (we get it often from friends) on the counter which I’m fine with, too.
Butter – In the fridge, absolutely.
Bread – This seems much weirder than pasta in the fridge!? At least you’re cooking the pasta. Although, a cool couple pieces of bread on a sandwich sounds not bad!
Syrup – I would think the real stuff would absolutely need to be refrigerated, but I’m wrong sometimes
Butter – We do butter now and leave it out, in a butter bell for spoilage.
Bread – She claims she’d freeze half a loaf because it would go bad and then leave the rest in the fridge. If she knew she wanted to have a sandwich the next day, she’d take some out of the fridge the night before. (We do not keep our bread in the fridge or freezer now. Any near expired bread now goes in the front yard for animals.)
For those wondering. Real maple syrup should be kept in the fridge after opening. Table syrup, as my friend’s mom calls it and now I do too, can be kept in a cupboard.
Pro tip. Anything that should be kept in the fridge says refrigerate after opening somewhere on it. As noted, climate might make one put more things in the fridge.
This article is going to have more comments than CBK to LSU
I opened the article with 30 comments on it and I thought: “o I wonder what interesting topic already has so many comments…..”
Didn’t expect this!
The off-season is loooong.
Were you expecting the Spanish Inquisition ?
they put “refrigerate after opening” on everything. No, I will not refrigerator hot sauce, it’s vinegar, salt and some pepper.
Buffalo sauce might say refrigerate after opening (it has butter). But most hot sauces don’t.
Buffalo sauce I’d refrigerate if I didn’t make it myself, yeah
What else do you put on that tiny shelf on the inside of the door opposite the ice maker/water dispenser? Cholula & Tapatillo specifically designed their bottles to fit in there.
Various mustards and other condiments? Not hot sauce
I guess I have enough hot sauce varietals to fill up that little shelf, or, just the one mustard that would fit. I keep the hot sauces in there from a convenience standpoint, I suppose. Because they are definitely kept on the table at restaurants. But so is ketchup, but I’d wager most people keep that in the fridge at home.
We’ve got a lazy susan corner cabinet thing and so the hot sauces are in there. Then again, I keep the hot chili oil in the fridge so who knows. The oil doesn’t set so that’s fine
unlike giardiniera, which I swear I’ve seen “refrigerate after opening” on some brands but the olive oil sets in the fridge, which is disgusting
Ketchup is on the table at restaurants because it’s used quick enough to not go bad. You should refrigerate it if you want it to stay good longer.
But I don’t like cold ketchup, since it usually goes on hot food, so my house is a no fridge zone for ketchup, with the trade off of having to use quickly or buy new ones more frequently.
The trick is to throw away your ketchup.
Though unfortunately we have some since my wife insists on occasionally using it or it’ll be an ingredient in something else on occasion. It is refrigerated
Sounds like you might have the same opinion as I do with ketchup, which is that it’s not the #1 condiment for any food I can think of. I don’t voluntarily use it in any instance, unless it’s a last resort.
I only occasionally use it in cooking and usually because a recipe I’m unfamiliar with calls for it. I loved ketchup as a kid, which is normal, but now I think it’s super gross
Counterpoint: in my family, a grilled cheese without ketchup for dipping might as well be a piece of cardboard. My younger brother calls them “ketchup plates”. My wife thinks I’m nuts everytime I eat a grilled cheese with some, but the children now do it too so I win.
Tomato soup! Everyone knows after sledding on a snowy winter day you dip your grilled cheese in tomato soup!
I’ve recently found that some worchestershire sauce on top of a grilled cheese is excellent
Or, mustard, onion and bacon.
Soy sauce & scrambled eggs is a combo I didn’t figure out until maybe 3 years ago.
we’d often have a slice of salami in grilled cheese growing up, sometimes i’ll do ham too
Grilled cheese with tomato is pretty good as well, sometimes just throw a slice of tomato on a piece of toast with mayo, slice of cheese on top, and throw it under the broiler for a few minutes
I’m with you. No ketchup in our house. Anything I might put ketchup on is better with hot sauce instead.
OR my brother just introduced us to making greek yogurt based aioli type sauces/dips if you want the thicker sauce on a burger or to dip fries.
This is actually why I started noticing that sauces will tell you if they need to be refrigerated. I used to put everything in the fridge. But once I evolved beyond ketchup and needed space for like 5-7 different types of hot sauces, I started needing to keep stuff in the cupboard and figured out most can go there.
Mine is more juvenile, I guess. I just dip my fries/onion rings/tots in BBQ sauce, mustard on my hot dogs & burgers, nuggs in bbq sauce/honey. I also don’t eat the above foods all that often.
Love BBQ sauce as well. But for some reason, the older I get, the more I just want more spice on everything. Maybe I’m slowly killing my taste buds?
Treasonous words in Western PA, my friend. Almost as bad as getting caught with Hunts.
I’m in Chicago where the local hot dog stands often won’t even carry it, or if they do its in shameful packets off in the corner
No ketchup on a hot dog is like no pepperoni on a pizza to me.
You can put other condiments on it but ketchup is the standard, IMO.
lol no
And pepperoni is fine but sausage is the correct meat choice
GIS is the arbiter of this discussion. Vast majority show ketchup, mustard, or ketchup and mustard.
Just cause the Chicago people put a 6 pound pickle on their hot dog doesn’t make it popular or right.
Everyone slathering ketchup on their hot dogs doesn’t make it right, it makes them children. For hot dogs I either go plain at home or Chicago style from stand
Children are the future! Lots of kids gonna be adults eating ketchup on them dogs.
lots of kids wear diapers too my friend but eventually you have to move on
But in the end, don’t we all return to diapers eventually?
Correct, C’mon E, I thought you just turned 40 not 14.
I’ll stay with the kids then, thank you.
Ketchup shame is just a fad, it’s fine.
why are they using dill pickle chips, that’s weird
GIS = Geographic Information System, General Mills stock symbol or servicemen?
Gross Ingredient Surveys
I frequently do mustard. rarely do ketchup.
My philosophy on ketchup is something like this: It was created to season the cast off meat from steaks and pork. This meat is ground up to make it more digestible and ketchup is added to make it tasty. I know that burgers and hotdogs have evolved since they were first made and that people grind up choice angus beef to make a burger today. So why still put ketchup on it?
I don’t have a Masters on the history of ketchup so I’m not sure.
I just know I enjoy it on my hot dogs, burgers, and fries like a completely normal American.
*like a
completely normal,gum refrigerating American.This will really get the takes going. I a man of nuance and taste, if it’s a sausage/brat a mustard works.
And while many will never get on Team Ketchup Hot Dog, I think they’re crazy to not acknowledge it is good!
As a generally non ketchup guy, I definitely put ketchup on my hot dogs. That and potentially some relish.
This is key. To my analogy, it’s great if people like sausage, peppers, pineapple, and more toppings on their pizza. But millions enjoy pepperoni (ketchup).
We keep both the hot sauce(s) and Buffalo sauces in the fridge after opening, although I usually take the hot sauce out 30-45 mins before consuming if I know I’ll be using it.
Bread in the fridge is a definite no no. It will absolutely go bad more quickly. I was brought up in a house that did this. It’s wrong!
Doesn’t it get stale more quickly in the fridge, but moldy more slowly? During the summers, we keep bread in the fridge otherwise it gets moldy in less than a week (we don’t have central air). In the winter, we keep it in a drawer.
Yes more stale, mold I would imagine depends on what’s going on in your fridge and outside your fridge
Doesn’t it get stale more quickly in the fridge, but moldy more slowly?…..Yes, freezer to counter is best I think. Unless you don’t mind stale bread. The type of bread matters too. Your typical store bought loaf molds more quickly due to oil and water content.
Good to know. Will have to do more bakery bread.
Slight tangent, anyone noticing store bought bread from the “big” companies not being as fresh lately?
I’ve made a more conscious decision to buy whole wheat white or whatever it’s called instead of white or wheat so i just chalked it up to that type of bread.
Like Ted Kaczynski would have a fridge.
Can I also ask why you chew gum on a run? That line also threw me.
Keeps the mouth wet and/or something to do while otherwise doing the most boring thing in the world, running.
Nothing better than poppin’ in a few cold ones (sticks of gum, that is) after a run!
The white Commanders jerseys look like someone just found the WordArt gradient function in Word in 1997.
For many folks, especially those under 40(?), “I Wish” is probably more famous for being sampled by Will Smith in “Wild Wild West”
yes, I haven’t hear a lot of people being fans of the Commanders new look, there are slightly more that approve of the new name.
Preston Zinter committed. Low 4 star ATH/LB from MA.
https://247sports.com/player/preston-zinter-46101469/
I think he is better than his current rating. Ohio state, LSU, Georgia, USC, among some of his other offers.
Offer lists are a bit weird to me. No doubt that if there are no (other) big programs it’s probably a red flag but on the other hand, I believe Parker Boudreaux had the most FBS scholarship offers in his year (ever?) and he was a 3*
Yeah, star rating system is based on current ability, not projected ceiling. Coaches have to look at a bit more than that.
That only seems partially true, there are lots of guys who are highly ranked who people still presume will need seasoning to reach their full potential. Probably not for 5* recruits but definitely for 4*.
Yea I think star rating is *definitely* a mix between current ability and their ceiling.
True. And his brother is a OL for Michigan that ND was recruiting too, I believe he started last year on their Joe Moore line. CFB world has to feel good about the genetics and athleticism. So that could give his offers a boost over his rankings from the services if the coaches are going to add credit.
There’s a picture of him standing next to Freeman. Little doubt his height 6’3″ and weight 220 are legit. His speed on tape at that size is very good. He’s a Mass. guy, which will leave doubters but, at least they play a top schedule in Mass. A few years ago I’d see him as an H-back type. Now more likely an inside LB, I think.
The Bryan Harsin – Auburn dumpster fire. Wow, this doesn’t paint Auburn in a good light at all. It may be impossible for Harsin to coach there next year, even if he is retained by the school. It sounds like he demanded more out of the players (and maybe the coaches) than the previous regime did, which sparked multiple transfers and resignations. However, I’ve always appreciated Derek Mason, so could be personality conflicts as well. Yet Auburn hired the guy… you would think they’d give him three years, despite their statements to the press, everything Auburn is doing seems like knee-jerk reactions, especially updating their investigation policy this past week. Not sure if I’m a coordinator or group of five HC and Auburn calls that I’m willing to go if Auburn does fire Harsin. The whole thing seems pretty toxic.
Are they basically just trying to fire him because he sucked this year and no one gets along with him? What is the premise of the investigation?
I can’t find anything talking about what he has done, other than 5 assistant coaches and a dozen players leaving the program and a 5-6 record.
I can’t tell either, from what I’ve gathered someone or a group really wants him gone and is pumping out smoke but so far there’s no actual fire beyond what you mentioned
https://247sports.com/college/auburn/Article/bryan-harsin-auburn-football-182578739/
timeline in there of the happenings, it sound like some influential boosters didn’t like what they were seeing and started spreading rumors,
This is easily the weirdest/most surprising 100+ comment thread given the post in the history of 18S
Agreed!
Geez… I’m late to the party but I like F1 and ketchup. But I’m not sure about ketchup vs mustard vis-a-vis pushrod vs pullrod front suspensions. This is a lot of information and opinions to process but I feel like reasonable minds can differ, at least until team ketchup goes against team mustard on the racetrack where it counts. I could run some rough numbers though. Are the ketchup or mustard suspensions refrigerated?