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PaperclipPerfector  12d ago (text post)   2338 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for December 6, 2024

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If tomatoes were called nightshades, the standard hamburger toppings would be abbreviable as KLMMNOP.

I'm not sure what all those stand for, but who on earth puts onions on a burger as standard? Onions are nasty fam.

Quality comment, I truly can't imagine which country you could be from.

"Onions are nasty" is surely a sentiment that could only be expressed by an American, but an American would surely know that onions are standard on burgers. Even a Big Mac has onions.

I'm American, and I definitely would not say onions are standard on burgers. It varies widely. Some have em, some don't.

sometimes I bake a raw onion in the oven and eat it plain.

You do you I guess. Though I will say cooked onions are vastly different from the raw onions that are typical on burgers. Cooked onions are alright - they don't really move the needle for me one way or the other. It's only raw onions which are disgusting.

I literally eat raw onion slices with grilled meat skewers. Satay needs the acrid sharpness of unprocessed alllium to contrast caramelized sugar and soy sauce marinated meat.

Also onions on burgers are super common! The Animal Style of In'n'Out has grilled onions, Five Guys has onions 3 ways as toppings, White Castle has shaved onions, an Oklahoma style burger has a literal mountain of onions, every fancy burger place puts onion rings or fried onions as a topping addon in addition to grilled raw or caramelized options. The whopper and big mac both have onions! I HAVE to know which burger product in the USA is heavily patronized which does NOT use onions, except for baconator and shack stack.

Us Americans, who also spell catsup "Ketchup": Lettuce leaves, Mayonnaise and Mustard spreads, and slices of Nightshade, Onion, and Pickle.

A Buddhist walks up to a food truck and says, "Make me one with everything."

I could not figure out what the two "M"s were, thanks! I would not have said mayo spread as a "standard" topping, though, to me it's a slightly less common choice than cheese.

Avacado, Bacon, Cheese, and the third M, Mushrooms, would make it ABC KLMMMNOP.

That reminds me of the sandwich shop I always wanted to open. The primary sandwich would be the BLT, but you would be allowed to add or remove toppings - if you could form a word out of the initials. And you can use slang or nicknames as long as they weren't too outlandish. So you could add egg and make a BELT, but not just avocado, with avocado you would have to drop the lettuce and make a BAT or drop the tomato and make a LAB. Alternatively add something like edam to make it a TABLE. Or you could change the lettuce to romaine or rocket and make a BRAT, or call the lettuce iceberg and then add lemon juice and cheese to make a BALTIC. It would be a fun store to run.

I love the idea, but I feel like the internet would ruin it since it would no longer be clever ideas passed from customer to customer, but an immediate "Top 10 acronym hacks" that everyone would read.

Yeah true lol, nowadays everyone would probably stand in the queue asking gemini to tell them what to order.

I plugged KLMMTOP into Copilot, and after asking it to guess, it said:

Let's have some fun with this one too! KLMMTOP could stand for a variety of burger toppings. Here's a creative guess:

  • Ketchup
  • Lettuce
  • Mustard
  • Mayo
  • Tomato
  • Onion
  • Pickles

This combination definitely covers a lot of the classic burger essentials. Who knows, maybe KLMMTOP is a secret code for the ultimate burger experience! 🍔😄

If you have more questions or another topic in mind, feel free to share. I'm here to help and enjoy the conversation!

LLMs are pretty good at their jobs.

The vendor gives him his order, and the monk hands him a $20 bill. The vendor takes it and turns to the next customer. The monk yells "Hey, what about my change?" "Change must come from within."

If wishes were fishes, there would be no room in the ocean. (the line that has most firmly stuck in my memory from the copious Redwall reading that I conducted twenty years ago)

"If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets."

If wishes were fishes we'd swim in the sea.

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