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[Ksyrup]

Maybe it's like the pop thing - they've made a decision to put their efforts into dog food because they know dogs are more popular than cats!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Maybe it's like the pop thing - they've made a decision to put their efforts into dog food because they know dogs are more popular than cats!

You wanna start trouble? Cause that's how you start trouble.

And from this, Fido shouldn't get too comfy either
Pet food shortages leave owners on the hunt for kibble and cat treats | Reuters

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

You wanna start trouble? Cause that's how you start trouble.

And from this, Fido shouldn't get too comfy either
Pet food shortages leave owners on the hunt for kibble and cat treats | Reuters

I was going to say, we had some canned dog food shortages earlier this year.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Edward64

I've been looking for the new cans at my local Kroger and haven't seen them. Looking forward to tasting it. I hope its not as bad as you say it is, I don't see myself drinking Diet Coke regularly (or Tab)!

FWIW, I did not mind New Coke. Didn't see what the complaining was all about.

The new cans are in the exact same box as the old ones. Very likely your Kroger already has the new cans in the 12 packs (like mine) but the boxes look the same. I had no idea we had the new stuff till we opened the box.

[Ksyrup]

Really? The boxes I have seen are mostly red. Not regular Coke red, but a mix of red and black similar to what the cans look like.

[bob]

You know how actors and athletes have agents that help them pick their next roles and manage other parts of their career. Yeah, I could use someone like that right now.

[SirFozzie]

File under "Stupid Business Moves"

OnlyFans is banning most adult content.

Because they looked at Yahoo buying Tumblr for 1.1 Billion, banning adult content, and losing 99% of its value before selling it, and saying "I WANT ME SOME OF THAT!"

Our country's reaction to consensual sexual contact is so schizophrenic.

[sterlingice]

Wait? OnlyFans has non-adult content? I just assumed it was all adult content, considering the context I've seen the site referenced on Reddit

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[SirFozzie]

From a Bloomberg aticle on the changes:

This is just the most recent step in OnlyFans' long road away from nudity and toward something more SFW. While the platform is famous for lewd content, there are also fitness instructors, dancers, and artists who use the platform to post content, connect with fans, and get paid. The platform has been working to attract investors and make more money in the SFW scene, creating a kind of YouTube-Cameo hybrid, a place for celebrities and athletes to connect with fans, according to Bloomberg.


My interpretation In other words "We want to throw away the best part of $400 million a year (their 20% cut of the folks on OF earn yearly) in our cut because venture capital can't or won't give us massive stock bonuses by investing if we are seen as a hub for porn.

[bhlloy]

First new app in the market is going to pick up a huge user base. A ton of startups working in a garage somewhere just got an interesting new pivot to work on.

[NobodyHere]

The Little Ceasars stuffed crust pizza is the most microwavable pizza ever.

[cuervo72]

Yeah, I've been critical of LC before, but that stuffed pretzel crust, yes please.

[cuervo72]

Seems like the news is putting another human interest story into its rotation (along with surprise military parent comes home, autistic child reveres UPS driver, old person makes friends with young child): preschooler gets MENSA card.

AMAZING! THERE ARE YOUNG KIDS WITH HIGH IQs! Well no shit. Whaddya think, people are assigned IQs at 21?

[sterlingice]

My wife hates Little Caesars but I've always been a sucker for a $5 pizza. I should try these.

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[Ksyrup]

Does Farmers Only dot com still exist, or did they just run out of money for TV ads? Or do they now target audiences on channels I don't watch?

[korme]

Originally Posted by bhlloy

First new app in the market is going to pick up a huge user base. A ton of startups working in a garage somewhere just got an interesting new pivot to work on.

My first thought as well. Should just be a minor hiccup for all the content creators.

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

My interpretation In other words "We want to throw away the best part of $400 million a year (their 20% cut of the folks on OF earn yearly) in our cut because venture capital can't or won't give us massive stock bonuses by investing if we are seen as a hub for porn.

I am sure they don't want to throw it away. They are more likely following a mandate (wording intentional given our current political environment)

OnlyFans said the ban, which will come into effect in October, followed pressure from banks and payment processors who raised concerns about the material it hosts. Rather than lose its ability to take payments, which would effectively kill the business altogether, OnlyFans has instead chosen to ban the adult material that made its name.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

My wife hates Little Caesars but I've always been a sucker for a $5 pizza. I should try these.

SI

We live in Jersey, the best pizza in the world ( fight me), but when we have lived in other places we have had to settle for the Dominoes of the world. My wife would under no circumstances ever do LC pizza.

When I was much younger and lived in Texas I literally lived off $5 hot and ready, so I loved it.

Prior to moving when she would travel for work I would take my kids to get it and we would call it "the forbiden pizza" because we only got it when mom was away.

[molson]

OnlyFans said the ban, which will come into effect in October,

So I still have time. Better setup the basement studio.

I'll give FOFCers a discount.

Use promo code "Trout". New content every Tuesday and Thursday

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Really? The boxes I have seen are mostly red. Not regular Coke red, but a mix of red and black similar to what the cans look like.

Sorry, didn't see this because I can't open this thread on my phone for some stupid reason. They may be moving to a new box, but the box we got was the old black one with no indicators on it. We were surprised the new formula version was in there.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by bhlloy

First new app in the market is going to pick up a huge user base. A ton of startups working in a garage somewhere just got an interesting new pivot to work on.

There are already several apps out there. Onlyfans is just by far the biggest and gets the most traffic.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Lathum

We live in Jersey, the best pizza in the world ( fight me), but when we have lived in other places we have had to settle for the Dominoes of the world. My wife would under no circumstances ever do LC pizza.

When I was much younger and lived in Texas I literally lived off $5 hot and ready, so I loved it.

Prior to moving when she would travel for work I would take my kids to get it and we would call it "the forbiden pizza" because we only got it when mom was away.

I have a lot of good memories of being a starving college student, picking up a Hot and Ready, and programming all night for some project I had put off until the very last minute.

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[Ksyrup]

Hungry Howie's was the go-to in college in Florida for me. And they gave out $3.99 coupons like candy back then, even for delivery, so we'd have about as cheap a meal as possible between 4-6 of us. I haven't seen a Hungry Howie's in forever.

[sterlingice]

I had never heard of Hungry Howie's until now but they have 3 in the Houston area

Find Our Nearest Pizza Locations - Pizza Delivery Near You | Hungry Howies

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[albionmoonlight]

In college one year, me and my roommates bought a pack of Papa John's coupons from some fundraiser.

And the coupons had actual value. They were discounts beyond the normal promotional levels.

It really paid off, though, because we went the entire year without them ever collecting the coupons. We'd call and say we had the coupon and what it was for. They'd then deliver the pizza at that price. And they never took the coupons.

[cuervo72]

Our Papa John's -- they seemed new back then -- had a deal of four one-topping pizzas for $20. For a group of four people (how most housing setups were), this was a fantastic deal.

Now I never much look at Papa John's, the prices just seem out of whack. I'll go for the 5.99 2-topping mediums at Dominos, thanks.

[JonInMiddleGA]

This just caused me to have a disturbing thought.

Domino's is no lower than the third-worst pizza around me. And there's a fair chance they aren't in the bottom three.

Considering how bad I think they are, that's really kind of alarming.

[Coffee Warlord]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

This just caused me to have a disturbing thought.

Domino's is no lower than the third-worst pizza around me. And there's a fair chance they aren't in the bottom three.

Considering how bad I think they are, that's really kind of alarming.

I'm in the EXACT same boat.

Pizza in the Springs is ass.

[thesloppy]

Dominos is bad (why has everything been dusted in cornmeal?) but Papa John's is offensive. Why is the sauce AND the crust so sweet? How much of this pizza is corn syrup?

[NobodyHere]

Apparently value pizza deserves its own thread.

[RainMaker]

We have an abundance of good pizza here so Dominos is never really an option. But I can tolerate their thin crust if I dump a bunch of red pepper on it. Their buffalo chicken sandwich is not half bad either (we don't have a lot of good options for that stuff here).

Their standard pizza feels like someone dumped a bottle of garlic salt on it.

[RainMaker]

I will also stan Little Caesars $5 pizza all day. Yes it's not great, but it's an amazing value at $5.

[thesloppy]

I'm just going to leave this here

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

[cuervo72]

When was the last time everybody had Dominos? I used to hold the same opinion of them, but in the last couple years we've gotten them a lot and I've quite enjoyed them. Medium with garlic parm sauce, shredded provolone (topping in addition to the moz), and roasted red peppers? That's damn good, yo.

I agree that their sandwiches and chicken are still basically crap. But their pizza is a lot better. I'd take it over Hut these days except for Stuffed Crust.

[Ksyrup]

Dominos is now my favorite of the chain pizzas. I'm in the same boat as Cuervo - we never used to even consider ordering it, it had been YEARS since I had Dominos. But then they actually did the "OH NO THEY DIN'T" thing that they plastered ads on TV with, and it was true.

And it's probably an un-PC thing to say, but Papa Johns has gone downhill since they drove Papa John out and brought in Shaq. It's inedible now. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but it was passable a couple of years ago and we don't order it anymore. Last time we did, it's because I had a free pizza and wanted to use up the points.

We have 2 great local places we will get pizza from, but Dominos is next and then LC every now and then when it's on the way and we're in a hurry.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

I'm just going to leave this here

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

yeah. Saw that a while back.

Everyone involved is stupid. I am as qualified to judge as there has even been.

[Ksyrup]

I guess I left out the Hut, but our local franchise closed down 2 years ago and the closest is 15 miles away, so we've never tried delivery pizza from the next county over. So it's like the Hut doesn't exist anymore.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Dominos is now my favorite of the chain pizzas. I'm in the same boat as Cuervo - we never used to even consider ordering it, it had been YEARS since I had Dominos. But then they actually did the "OH NO THEY DIN'T" thing that they plastered ads on TV with, and it was true.

And it's probably an un-PC thing to say, but Papa Johns has gone downhill since they drove Papa John out and brought in Shaq. It's inedible now. I don't know if it's a coincidence, but it was passable a couple of years ago and we don't order it anymore. Last time we did, it's because I had a free pizza and wanted to use up the points.

We have 2 great local places we will get pizza from, but Dominos is next and then LC every now and then when it's on the way and we're in a hurry.

Do they have Deweys by you or do they not make it that far south?

[Ksyrup]

No, I haven't heard of that one. We just got LaRosa's from Cincy in Lexington but I haven't tried it yet.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

I'm just going to leave this here

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

I will fight the person who wrote this.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

No, I haven't heard of that one. We just got LaRosa's from Cincy in Lexington but I haven't tried it yet.

LaRosas is pretty good, much better than LC, etc...but Deweys, also from Cinci, is way better.

[Critch]

I quite like Mod Pizza. I've checked their website and they're fairly nationwide so I guess I'm not being overly parochial. They have a jalapeno and spicy chicken option that stings both on the way in and the way out.

Other than that Papa Johns is, and always has been, crap.

[Ksyrup]

I've seen Blaze and Mod all over the place and never had an interest to try either of them. I don't know why.

[RainMaker]

Same. There is a Mod down the street. I'm actually thinking I'll try it right now.

[Critch]

They seem to have gone from being nowhere to popping up everywhere. Like a modern day Quiznos.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

I'm just going to leave this here

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

Idiotic click bait. It's like writing an article that says the best BBQ in the country is in Syracuse, NY. Look, I get there are some differences of opinion when it comes to pizza or BBQ or whatever. But you have to pick one of the good cities and defend your choice, not dart throw a hipster choice.

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[AlexB]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

I'm just going to leave this here

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

At least that is best pizza in America. Any discussion that involves best pizza in the world, if the answer isn’t somewhere in Italy, it deserves ridicule and scorn

[thesloppy]

I live a couple miles from every place listed in that article (and a block away from one of them) and I will say that Portland's pizza game has exploded in the past 5-10 years, along with the rest of its food culture. There's a half dozen places in my orbit that make really good Detroit-style pizza. I can get 'traditional' grandma pies, Sicilian anchovie & breadcrumb, white pies all over the city. You can't throw a rock without hitting artisanal, coal/wood-fired, apizza whatever (my least favorite style).

10 years ago it was literally all that weird super thick/puffy/gummy crust that NW folks would happily label 'New York Style'. Ignoring the whole idea of ranking the city at other cities expense, I am just happy to have much better pizza much more available to me personally.

[PilotMan]

Originally Posted by SirFozzie

File under "Stupid Business Moves"

OnlyFans is banning most adult content.

Because they looked at Yahoo buying Tumblr for 1.1 Billion, banning adult content, and losing 99% of its value before selling it, and saying "I WANT ME SOME OF THAT!"

Our country's reaction to consensual sexual contact is so schizophrenic.

I really hope that all the subs pull out right now. It's really too bad, because they had a good thing going there, but there will be another that rises if they are simply patient enough.

[GrantDawg]

We have really been getting into Mellow Mushroom recently. A place opened on the corner that is supposed to be "authentic New York style pizza". If that is what New York pizza taste like, they can keep it. I have a feeling that it is not "authentic" though.