Flame Free Confession III: Even More Flame Free (Part 2)

I like mine. Protein ice cream is still a little chalky but much better than sucking down a shake or packing the pounds on with real ice cream. I usually use fairlife whole milk, protein powder, some sugar free gelatin and a frozen fruit of some kind.

Machine is crazy loud but works.

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I’m gonna have to get one…

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I confess I only ever had pop tarts once, probably about 40 years ago and was very underwhelmed.

I also confess that lately cheese has become my chocolate. I find it really hard at night to walk past the fridge without cutting off some cheese and eating it. This is done whilst still in the fridge with the door open to block the view from my misses.

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The thing with Pop Tarts is that they taste like nostalgia. If you grew up eating them, taking a bite out of one will just immediately light up the ol’ dopamine centers, irrespective of actual flavor. In truth, like you wrote: they’re underwhelming on their own. It’s a low quality ā€œpastryā€ full of low quality processed sugar and fat.

But, like, if I were to bite into one of these bad boys

Suddenly, I’m 11 years old again on the family road trip to Tucson to go see Grandma for Christmas.

Funny enough: I picked these over the donuts because I thought they were healthy. I mean: they have REAL fruit filling! Haha.

Fun fact about cheese: it has casomorphins, which some believe have an opiate-like effect on the brain. So your love for it is just your addiction speaking! Haha.

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Takes me back to 5th & 6th grade, when I would go to a nearby diner for lunch and grab one of those on the way back to school. Either cherry or chocolate, sometimes lemon.

Tastes like autonomy!

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CLEARLY the chocolate one was the unhealthy desserty one only for special occasions!

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I guess we are all addicted to something

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:rofl:

Celebrating a good week of delivering papers. No dog bites, caught the alarm every day- Chocolate pudding pie! :+1:

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I have been getting this recently with this

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Only difference being that when I grew up the milk was in glass bottles and got delivered daily But the full fat flavor and cream on the top is exactly as I remember it. Drinking this makes me feel 40 years younger.

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This reminded me of something that is definitely a confession. I had some Walmart branded cheese wiz and it was amazing. Not in a ā€œThis should be in a fine dining restaurantā€ way but a ā€œI can’t tell you the last time I had this and this shit’s goodā€ way

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I confess I have no idea what this is, but strangely want to try it.

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It might be an America thing because of how lazy someone would have to be to think of it.

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That is both equal amounts terrible and unnecessary. Quality

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Who first saw what came out a cow and said ā€œyeah, I’ll drink thatā€¦ā€?

It’s quite weird when you think about it.

But…I love all things dairy.

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Whilst I am no historian, I believe that when people first started drinking cows milk, there was a lottery as to whether you got explosive diarrhea or vomiting, or whether you could digest it. Seems there was a genetic component as to who could digest cows milk.

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I mean that makes sense but is secondary to the initial move to drink it.

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I guess it is not that different to drinking breast milk, but I do see your point. Also interesting that people chose cows over other animals who also produce milk. I am assuming that is just a yield decision.

ā€œThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.ā€ - G. K. Chesterton

Also American cheeses get too much hate. Think of them like a sauce.

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100%. There’s a reason everyone tries to replicate how American cheese melts

On that note, the Mongol army was notorious for drinking mare’s milk. Often mixed with blood.

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