So many Fandoms...

It’s pretty likely that it’s a four digit number, and as there are four digits chosen there, that means that there cannot be any repetition. This mean that there are:

No, no, no. Don’t base your deductions of psychology. Let’s talk chemistry. When you first press a button, there’s more of the natural oils on your skin, and therefore it wears down the numbers on the keys faster. Obviously 0 is the first one, then. Try 0791 first.

The light is green.

“Organic” isn’t better for you or for the environment. It actually means nothing of any significance at best and is sometimes even the more wasteful, more hazardous option.

A shitload of “natural” food including a lot of imported produce is grown and harvested through slave labor in inhumane conditions.

Pizza, fried chicken, french fries, fast food, candy bars and chips ARE nutritious. They are loaded with good things. Just because they have an abundance of excess fats and might not be healthy as a staple doesn’t mean they are “nutritionless” or that their calories are “empty.” Those are hokey buzzwords pushed by the people in charge of how much you pay for the alternatives.

Eating healthier costs more. Much more. Looking down on people for their reliance on cheaper food is extremely classist and expecting everyone to be able to live off fresh veggies and cage-free meats is insultingly unrealistic in the modern world.

“Processed” literally only means the food went through some kind of automated process. This can be literally the exact same thing a human being would have done to the food for it to be labeled “unprocessed.” Being processed does not make something less healthy.

Chemicals with long, scary names are part of nature. An apple is full of compounds you probably can’t pronounce. A shorter ingredients label only means they didn’t bother listing all 300 things the product is actually made of and HAS to be made of.

Preservatives, artificial flavors and other additives are not the devil. Most are harmless and in general they are part of the reason you haven’t already starved to death or died of a food borne illness.

MSG is not bad for you at all.

The fact that something might be made of “scrap” meats like pig snouts or chicken necks only means one thing: that we didn’t waste perfectly normal, edible meat.

Organic food isn’t better for you: [1] [2] [3]

Tracing food industry slave labor: [1]

Healthier food is more expensive: [1] [2]

Saturated fats (i.e. “junk food”) still provide needed energy, aren’t as bad as people thought: [1] [2]

“Processed” isn’t synonymous with less healthy, because it means a lot of different things: [1]

“Chemicals” also means a lot of things and many food components are misunderstood by the general public: [1]

MSG is not harmful: [1] [2] [3]

NO

B R E A T H E

This post: *exists*

It’s not bread but honestly I’m not sure we’re keeping track anymore

So.  You want to bring something homemade but you’re pants at baking?  Not much experience with batter and dough hooks and yeast?  All thumbs in the kitchen?  NEVER FEAR.  Bring this cake and you will be the hero of your potluck, family gathering, or holiday party (or any other occasion).

It requires zero skill.  There are no steps.  You don’t need a mixer.  You need a bowl and a something to stir it with.  You need ONE measuring cup.  The only thing you will need that you might not have is a bundt pan, and you can get one at the grocery store for like four bucks - and you will be using it again, because you’ll be asked to make this cake again, I promise.

Ingredients

1 box devil’s food chocolate cake mix

1 box (the bigger box, 5.9 oz) instant chocolate pudding mix

4 eggs, beaten

1 cup veg or canola oil

1 cup sour cream - full fat plz, none of that skinny crap

½ cup water

1 bag chocolate chips or chunks - i use Ghirardelli because they’re bigger chips

Preheat oven to 350.  Grease the bundt pan.  The quick easy way is to use a baking spray. the kind with flour that’s for baking.  Do that.

Dump everything together in the bowl.  Mix it up till it’s well combined.  It’ll be pretty thick.  Pour/spread it into the bundt pan until it’s nice and even.  Bake for 60-70 minutes or until when you stick a knife in all the way to the bottom, it comes out clean.  Start testing at 60 minutes.

Let it cool a couple of minutes, then invert onto a plate and give it a little wiggle - the cake will fall right out.  If you want to get super fancy, dust powdered sugar on it.

There are endless variations.  Use broken-up Andes candies instead of chips and add a little peppermint liqueur with the water.  Use peanut butter or butterscotch chips instead of chocolate.

IT’S SO EASY.  And it’s so damn delicious.  This isn’t the original name of the cake, but I’ve renamed it hero cake because you will the hero of the day.