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[wizards8507]

Let's dunk on millennials.

https://www.thebillfold.com/2018/02/i-put-10k-into-a-me-fund/

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is called a “checking account” <a href="https://t.co/WTb0Bq9yts">pic.twitter.com/WTb0Bq9yts</a></p>— park slope trophy wife (@floozyesq) <a href="https://twitter.com/floozyesq/status/961299489209319427?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">How does one establish a “Me Fund”? Well I’m glad you asked: <a href="https://t.co/io5df46opo">pic.twitter.com/io5df46opo</a></p>— park slope trophy wife (@floozyesq) <a href="https://twitter.com/floozyesq/status/961300538854866945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 7, 2018</a></blockquote>
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[zelezo vlk]

Man, $10K no strings attached? Who the hell has parents like that?

 

[GowerND11]

Man, $10K no strings attached? Who the hell has parents like that?

Seriously. If my parents had $10K to give to me, I'd have $10K less in student loans. It never would have just been handed to me like this person had.

 

[wizards8507]

Man, $10K no strings attached? Who the hell has parents like that?

My mom brought three boxes of Girl Scout cookies to my house last weekend.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Seriously. If my parents had $10K to give to me, I'd have $10K less in student loans. It never would have just been handed to me like this person had.

If my parents gave me $10K, I'd be $10K closer to a down payment on a house. Well...maybe I'd get a beer too.

My mom brought three boxes of Girl Scout cookies to my house last weekend.

Lucky! Though I can't complain, my mom is coming to visit me this weekend for the first time so I'm about to get a couple free meals.

 

[GowerND11]

If my parents gave me $10K, I'd be $10K closer to a down payment on a house. Well...maybe I'd get a beer too.



Lucky! Though I can't complain, my mom is coming to visit me this weekend for the first time so I'm about to get a couple free meals.

Yeah, we both are "adulting" (I just vomited using that word) in a scenario with $10K, whereas there are people, like her don't. I can't say enough about the importance of experiences and world travel, but priorities for me mean smaller vacations, and paying down loans, saving for a down payment, etc.

 

[wizards8507]

Yeah, we both are "adulting" (I just vomited using that word) in a scenario with $10K, whereas there are people, like her don't. I can't say enough about the importance of experiences and world travel, but priorities for me mean smaller vacations, and paying down loans, saving for a down payment, etc.

Student loans are for poors. Get that shit paid.

 

[GowerND11]

Student loans are for poors. Get that shit paid.

It's what I am! haha

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Here's Walther on why David Tran, the man behind Sriracha, is an American hero:

Many decades ago, a man in Vietnam had a noble dream. David Tran wanted to make the greatest hot sauce the world had ever tasted.

For five years after the fall of Saigon, he put his homemade chili sauce in old glass baby food jars and delivered them via bicycle. In 1979, he boarded a Taiwanese freighter called the Huey Fong and was able to gain entrance into the United States as a refugee.

Soon afterward, working out of a 5,000-square-foot building in Los Angeles' Chinatown, Tran began making sauces under a brand name borrowed from the ship that had carried him to freedom. Tran's Huey Fong produced Pepper Sa-te, Sambal Oelek, Chili Garlic, Sambal Badjak, and the concoction that would become his best known, Sriracha Hot Sauce. He painted the now-famous rooster logo himself on the side of a blue Chevrolet van and drove as far as San Diego and San Francisco delivering his creations to Asian restaurants. His sauces became popular by — there is no other way of putting it — word of mouth.

Tran's dream came true, and the rest of us are lucky to live in the now realized kingdom of his envisioning. In my household, Sriracha is the most important condiment. It is an ingredient in everything from hot wings to carrot soup. My wife even puts it on pizza. Nor are we alone in our devotion to the red bottle. "I use rooster sauce on everything," one enthusiast claimed in a recent documentary film. "Pastas, pizzas, eggs, soups, sandwiches. I've even tried it on ice cream."

As of 2014, Tran was selling more than $100 million a year worth of sauce. It has been decades since he has increased the wholesale price of his creation. He does not bother going after restaurants and other businesses that use his sauce in their dishes and products, even though he could make millions from them in licensing fees. His company's advertising budget is nothing. He hasn't even bothered to trademark the name "sriracha."

This is not only because Tran is already making what he considers more than enough money; it is also because his fortune is less important to him than the product. "I love my girlfriend," he told a journalist years ago. This happily married family man was not referring to his nonexistent mistress; "girlfriend" is what he calls his signature sauce, an adaptation of a style originally produced in Thailand. Tran has claimed in interviews, which he only began granting about five years ago, that in all his years he has had only one principle in conducting his business: "Make a rich man's sauce at a poor man's price."

In this ambition he has succeeded. Even now he refuses to allow his sauce to be sold in any quantity for more than $7.99. These days his sauce is produced in a 750,000-square-foot factory east of Los Angeles. He has consistently refused offers to sell his company, which he hopes to keep in his family.

There are, I think, several important lessons that can be gleaned from Tran and his story. One is a simple timely reminder about refugees, to whom we must be welcoming whether or not they are hot-sauce mavens. Another is that businesses can and should be run by decent, honorable people who value certain things — family, integrity, quality — above profit.

Last of all, there is the charmingly old-fashioned idea that there is something inherently good about doing something one enjoys well for its own sake — not something high-brow or avant-garde, but something everyone needs, like hot sauce. One of the biggest problems in the American economy is that nearly everything for sale is either garbage made by wage slaves half a world away or a luxury good. Tran is almost unique in his quixotic dedication to creating a product that is both excellent and affordable. If he wanted to make more money he could; instead he just wants to make sauce.

This is why Tran is such a delightful figure. He is one of the last true populists and an American hero.

 

[zelezo vlk]

How could Tran try to create the world's greatest hot sauce when it already existed?

 

[Black Irish]

I'll 2nd Cholula. Sriracha is okay, but I never got why people lose their minds over it. The best part about it is the consistency; it's not runny and watery. But I think it's unremarkable in both flavor and heat content.

 

[wizards8507]

Frank's Red Hot or GTFO.

Unless you have access to Hank Sauce.

 

[zelezo vlk]

I'll 2nd Cholula. Sriracha is okay, but I never got why people lose their minds over it. The best part about it is the consistency; it's not runny and watery. But I think it's unremarkable in both flavor and heat content.

My man! I think ACamp is in our corner too

 

[NorthDakota]

I like siracha mayo drizzled on my homemade "tacos." Other than that....tobasco or fuck you.

 

[GowerND11]

Franks, Cholula, Tobasco, Texas Pete, and Tapatio are all superior to Sriracha IMO.

 

[ulukinatme]

I use Franks or Texas Pete as well.

 

[ACamp1900]

Oh shizz... now we are talking my stuff... hot sauce nerd here. I always have a huge stock of sauces.

Best general, all-purpose hot sauce: Crystal

Though no one has posted a hot sauce that is bad here.

For Asian give me Sriracha, Huy Fong Chili Paste, or Crystal

For Mexican, Got to go 1.) Tapatio 2.) Cholula (red AND Green, the green is very underrated and incredible). The thing about Cholula that it's so damned expensive and just doesn't "fit" every mexican dish the way Tapatio does.

Breakfast: Tabasco Red I can roll with Tabasco Green or even Chiptole every now and then but typically, if it's bacon and eggs, Tabasco all day.

Creole, BBQ, American: Crystal, Franks, Texas Pete, Cajun Sunshine (A lesser known but very good hot sauce, I recommend if you haven't tried), Red Devil etc... all work well.

I love hot sauce, I went to Santa Fe one year and they don't do hot sauce, just green chili... like they didn't even know wtf 'hot sauce' was, I'm not joking... I had to drive to Albuquerque to get a bottle of Tapatio and take it with me everywhere. Those people live in the dark ages and don't even know it.

 

[ACamp1900]

Oh!!

Filipino food, kind of it;'s own category... Crystal and Franks do wonders but they have a hot sauce that's kind of like a thicker, hotter version of Tabasco called Mama Sita's... it's hard to find but brother... it's AMAZING with Adobo and Pancit.

 

[GowerND11]

How could I forget about Crystal?! Put that stuff on some American BBQ like ACamp said... Glorious.

 

[ACamp1900]

How could I forget about Crystal?! Put that stuff on some American BBQ like ACamp said... Glorious.

I'm typically picky about what hot sauce goes on what food(s)... honestly prob the only hot sauce that I'll put on just about anything in a pinch and feel good enough about it is Crystal.

When Katrina knocked out their distribution for a number of years I honestly thought it knocked them out period. A few years later when I suddenly saw Crystal back on the shelves I was beyond giddy.

 

[ACamp1900]

https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/a-definitive-ranking-of-the-best-hot-sauces

 

[wizards8507]

https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/a-definitive-ranking-of-the-best-hot-sauces

Nando's Peri Peri Garlic Sauce

Nando's, a Portuguese restaurant that is wildly popular in the UK, is now selling its hot sauces in the United States. Definitely a winner for those who want more flavor and less heat.

 

[ACamp1900]

The only one I have never had on the list... I'll have to look for it.

 

[ACamp1900]

Not a big fan of the El Yucateco sauces though, or the Melinda's sauces... they both tend to be more straight heat than flavor imo.

 

[GowerND11]

I'm intrigued by that Portugese hot sauce.

 

[connor_in]

This Leftist Sent The Single Stupidest Tweet In Human History About 'Black Panther.' It's Incredible.-ben-shapiro

This article revolves around the following tweets:

 

[NorthDakota]

This Leftist Sent The Single Stupidest Tweet In Human History About 'Black Panther.' It's Incredible.-ben-shapiro

This article revolves around the following tweets:

I cant wait to ridicule black folks for being at showings of movies with white main characters.

 

[ACamp1900]

LOL... I can see it now, national movment to 'let PoCs have 'their moment alone'" results in most white people not going to see Black Panther. The movie doesn't do well at the box office and these same people come back with, "fuckin white people just can't support ANYTHING from PoC can they!? Evil racists!"

 

[connor_in]

Personally, like every other movie I go see, I don't care who is in the theater with me (race, color, creed, gender, age, ability, social stature, etc) as long as they are quiet at all the right parts and we can enjoy the movie together.

 

[wizards8507]

The second guy is a parody account. Do better, Shapiro.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I will not be watching the Winter Olympics as it is inherently racist due to the fact that ice rinks are designed to melt in hot countries. This means countries like Africa will never be able to host therefore I'm calling for a boycott.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BoyCottWinterOlympics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BoyCottWinterOlympics</a></p>— Tyler Baines-Cadbury (@TyBainesCadbury) <a href="https://twitter.com/TyBainesCadbury/status/963410360299606017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 13, 2018</a></blockquote>
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