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More like the opposite—what I consider scary might not be scary enough for everyone else :joy: that, and I also don’t have as much experience consuming horror media as I do with other genres. Maybe I’ll feel comfortable enough writing horror after I read a few horror books, but hmm, my TBR list is already rather long :thinking:

I don’t know if I have any, I feel like I haven’t watched enough :see_no_evil: I do like the horror videos TED Ed puts out, though.

And since you brought up The Nun, I now feel obligated to talk about the second Annabelle movie. I remember watching it in theaters and I wouldn’t say it was bad—I’ve seen way worse movies—but I couldn’t help but have my immersion broken when I see “Catholic” things that actually don’t make sense. For example, when the nun in the movie was giving confession to one of the girls. The only ones who can hear confession are priests, and not just that, but there’s a specific prayer at the end of each confession that the penitent recites. So seeing how the movie handled it made me think, no, that’s not how it works :joy:

OH, YES!

I’ve mentioned this a while ago, but I generally hate seafood. But I have a few exceptions. One of them is salmon, but it has to be raw salmon, or cold smoked so that the texture still feels very raw. I remember trying to eat cooked salmon and I just couldn’t :confounded:

Another would be fried eggs, more specifically the manner in which I eat them. I hate it when people just split the yolk and it makes a mess all over the plate >.< I prefer to carve a circle around the yolk and eat it whole, then eat the whites. Much neater :grin:

Soft boiled eggs are a guilty pleasure of mine :weary: I wonder what you think of Singaporean-style soft-boiled eggs? We used to order those growing up, and we’d usually eat them with soy sauce. My mom likes to put white pepper powder on hers too :grin:

Here’s a pic!

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We eat it with a spoon, but my guilty pleasure is to lift the bowl and slurp it up when no one’s looking :stuck_out_tongue:

Crap, I forgot what other super specific preferences I had. I should know though because I literally created a food thread :joy: for which I have a special post coming up! :eyes:

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Just things I don’t like. I can’t stand anything sour, bitter or tart, so I hate vinegar. Also hate sour candy, licorice, candy corn. Love chocolate! Or anything sweet, salty or neutral. Hot food’s fine up to a certain level. Three or four alarm chili is good; anything beyond that just burns my mouth. ( -.-)\(^◡^ )

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Rotti with satay sauce 100% of the time. It’s nice, hot and buttery. The downside is I always end up eating more than I should :joy: Also, roast beef and cheese sandwich? Always add supreme cheese doritos. NO idea why it’s just so good. I also really like black licorice. Apparently that’s “weird” :joy:

That sounds like something you’d need one of those egg cup things or a soup bowl

OMG SAME and you can always tell when someone is using saltless butter in cooking

I used to do this exact same thing :joy: Also so jealous of your food picture :sob: :yum:

Got a favourite flavour?

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So glad I’m not the only one! It feels less wasteful too, because there’s virtually no yolk left on my plate vs the puddles on everyone else’s.

And thanks! It’s not mine, I got it off Google Images :joy: but I am gonna take a friend to dinner tomorrow evening so I will probably post some new stuff :eyes:

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Well then it won’t hurt to add a few more :stuck_out_tongue:

I’ve only ever watched horror. Haven’t read much of it. Pet Semetary by Stephen King has been recommended to me over and over by Stephen King fans for people who want to get into his books.

Maybe we could both try… adding it to our TBRs? XD

What are some books on your TBR that you’re excited about?

I don’t remember this XD Is this the movie where they show the origins of the Anabelle doll? And there’s a well?

Anabelle side stories are all muddled in my head.

I love smoked salmon with capers. It’s the best thing :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

My partner is the exact same way as you when it comes to salmon. He won’t eat cooked salmon, but he will eat it raw or smoked.

So I get to hog the cooked salmon :stuck_out_tongue: But I don’t eat cooked tasteless salmon. It’s been flavored with a sweet sauce first. Would you be able to eat cooked salmon with a sweet miso or teriyaki sauce?

I actually do that sometimes when I want to enjoy the yolk whole on it’s own at the end. The very end like a treat :grin:

Looks a little too raw for my liking :sweat_smile: I prefer a tad bit more firmness for my sunnyside-ups.

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How particular are you about your chocolate? My partner loves chocolate and is quite particular about it, so here’s some specific chocolate questions :grin:

  1. Is there a flavor of chocolate that you like above all others? For example, orange, raspberry, strawberry, caramel, vanilla…
  2. How much cacao percentage of chocolate can you enjoy? Could you go with a 72% one? Anything higher?
  3. Do you like chocolate with nuts in them? If so, what are your favorites?
  4. If you ate chocolate every day for a week, would you be able to eat the same type of chocolate or do you prefer to have variety? For example, eating chocolate-coated almonds all week vs having a different favorite chocolate every day.
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Yes, you certainly can!

Not cooking, but I was reminded of a saltless episode. Once in college when I wasn’t feeling well, my mom made me toast with butter because it’s our comfort food, and it was saltless butter (she got it by mistake), and I thought I might just melt away from the blandness :melting_face: I felt betrayed by the butter XD Of course, I sprinkled salt on top, but it just wasn’t the same.

Have you ever had saltless-butter shocks like this where you didn’t realize it was saltless until you ate it?

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Welp, my favoritist kind of chocolate of all is Choceur hazelnut milk chocolate bars, but any kind of milk chocolate is splentastical! I can’t stand dark chocolate or white chocolate–they just taste funny to me for some reason. Don’t like any kind of fruit in them either, but caramel and almost any kind of nuts are okay, especially peanuts, almonds, hazelnuts, and cashews.

Hmm…as for eating chocolate every single day, I think I’d probably get sick of whatever I was eating and would need some kind of variety. Like eating salted caramels one day, then chocolate covered almonds the next, then something else the day after, etc.

Now I regret that there’s no candy in the house! (♯^.^ღ)

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Choceur! I love the white chocolate. Not sure if we have the hazelnut here. Their dark chocolate is veeeeery bad. I like Green and Blacks for dark chocolate

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Pet Semetary is actually the one horror novel I have in my TBR! :joy:

I’ve finished Eragon sometime ago, and I’m excited to read the rest of the series :eyes:

Hmm, I don’t remember the well, but it’s the movie that came out later. It showed the origins and how the doll was created by a man who lost his daughter.

Unfortunately not, it’s the texture and fishy taste that bother me :see_no_evil: more for you!

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Did someone say chocolate?!

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I haven’t heard of this brand, but apparently it’s available in Aldi’s? I might try one :eyes:

And yes, milk chocolate is the best! As a toddler I ate way too many of those tiny Cadbury rectangles because they were just too addictive :yum:

Oh yeah, speaking of which, @CoffeebyNight have you heard of Hotel Chocolat? There are two branches near me and apparently it’s a UK-based chocolatier :eyes: I did go there once to try their hot chocolate and while the drink itself was decently priced, the chocolate bars and other goodies were beyond my budget :sob:

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Oh yeah they’re so good! Here you can pop in and buy a stick of marshmallows to hold underneath one of the chocolate fountains and it’s soooo good. It’s a bit of a meme here in the UK about how expensive their home devices are, but apparently they’re exceptional…

Boom. I heard through a friend of a friend that staff get a very substantial discount, though. It’s a bit rich for my blood, I’ll stick to my Whittards of Chelsea hot chocolate and a kettle :sweat_smile:

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Yup, that’s where we get it–Aldi’s. I highly recommend trying it, I think you’ll like it! Tastes like European chocolate to me, but not too expensive right now. ( ˆ◡ˆ)۶ ٩(˘◡˘ )

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Yes and it’s defs most obvious on toast :joy:

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‘Tis the season!

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Ooooh, never seen that brand before
I’m not a big chocolate person, but I like pralines and chocolate with hazelnut in them :yum:

Same! White chocolate tastes weird to me. Oddly buttery and like it’s trying to be vanilla flavored, but not succeeding kind of flavor :stuck_out_tongue:

But I don’t always hate it. When it’s in one of those fancy assortment boxes, and it’s from a good brand, white chocolate can taste good. Sometimes.

There’s chocolate with cashews? I don’t know if I’ve ever seen it

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You’re ahead of me. I don’t even have it :stuck_out_tongue: What medium do you have it in?
I was thinking of getting it on Kindle.

Can I just point out… A B C D E. Dragon. Eragon. :stuck_out_tongue:

When I first noticed this, I thought it was so funny because it’s just such a writer-thing to do XD

Ooooohhhh, that one

I don’t have much memory of that one other than the closet scenes

Omnomnomnom :yum:

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lol XD

Thoth will not have to worry about getting bored

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My weirdest food combination is yougurt on toast. The sweet yogurt as in Yoplait, not greek yogurt.

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Oh when I mean TBR, I mean I put it on a list and figure out how to read it later :see_no_evil: I’m thinking of either buying it from a used bookstore or borrowing it from the library!

I might be misremembering, but some of the Indonesian chocolate bars I’ve had used cashews :eyes:

It’s a bit tragic that my country is one of the biggest cacao producers but our homegrown chocolate brands aren’t as high-quality as overseas brands in general. I do remember eating a chocolate bar from an Indonesian-based brand that was pretty good, but I don’t remember the name :thonk:

EDIT: I remember now, it’s Chocolate Monggo! :yum:

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