After maybe four months of answering repetitive questions about climate change — and reading back some warped versions of her answers in magazines and websites around the world — Tamara Lindeman needed a break.
Released at the start of February, Lindeman’s fifth LP as The Weather Station, the velvet-gloved and glittering Ignorance, was one of 2021’s first consensus favorites. After putting down the acoustic guitar, Lindeman managed to wrap sophisticated pop grandeur fit for Fleetwood Mac around the kind of vulnerable confessions that framed her early works as a half-whispering singer-songwriter. But that deft balance, Lindeman learned with some surprise, was at best a secondary interest for most interviewers. Instead, they wanted to know how she’d written such fetching songs about oil spills, dying birds, and another novel plague of our Anthropocene, climate grief. And by the way, some wondered, could those very songs help solve the problems?
“There is a heaviness in talking about this, because it feels very personal and intimate,” Lindeman said in early December from her home in Toronto. “When ‘famous’ figures start talking about climate change, they make major mistakes. Once people started to ask me about it, it felt like a minefield.”
I first spoke with Lindeman about Ignorance in the early autumnal days of 2019, when it didn’t yet have its name. I was working on a piece for NPR about the groundswell of musical nods to global warming and how I expected them to be a major storyline of 2020. (Wait, something else happened?) I called Lindeman after noticing not only some subtle references to climate change in her earlier works but also after admiring her bravado on social media, where she admonished politicians and encouraged listeners to care about, say, collapsing ice shelves and the policies quickening the pace. She was even hosting public conversations about it.
Lindeman was almost finished with the album, her debut for Fat Possum; months before the pandemic scuttled all schedules, she hoped to release it near the middle of 2020. She talked about those songs with cautious optimism then, an uncharacteristic boom to her soft voice. These tunes would arrive as Trump’s only term started to end, she hoped, so that her southern neighbors could get back to the business of fixing the extinction-level mess we’ve made, a hopeful notion I cautiously indulged. At that point, her biggest question seemed how directly to address climate change, for fear it may be cheesy or offputting. “I go back and forth between telling it like it is and that fear of ‘the protest song,’” she had said. “But that’s dumb, because this is clearly what’s happening.”
Ignorance is not a didactic record out to change your mind about climate science or unveil advice about changing your behavior; it is, instead, a nuanced expression of grief, a lament of loss that centers on love for the beauty around us. It’s possible to hear its songs so much you can sing along to the breezy “Parking Lot” or the peacocking “Atlantic” before you notice their messages — the emotional fatigue of existential despair and the terror of the headlines, respectively. That was, for Lindeman, one point: “I wanted it to be approachable in the way that pop music is sneaky: ‘Wait a minute, what am I singing?’”
But the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic, when Ignorance was finally released, provided a new context. At a moment when so much of the world was chronically grieving but when we somewhat understood that collective actions could help us save ourselves, Lindeman’s considered references to living at a time when life may very well be ending felt felicitous. (The fact that no one was touring during the pandemic allowed her to avoid reductive and useless charges of hypocrisy, too — that is, “How can you care about the climate when you tour?”) Most headlines touted her as some new climate-change singer-savior. Rolling Stone even wondered “Can an indie rocker change the climate conversation?”
Ignorance offers a sophisticated emotional map of the various ways we might feel about the climate. By speaking to our collective failure and extending solidarity as we try to face it together, the songs feel both like a box of tissues and a balm. I spent half of the year walking from Mexico to Canada, trying to stay in front of California wildfires and make it through Oregon before the season’s running water disappeared. In that setting, where the encroachment of climate change provided a steady hum of daily dread, even the most tender moments of Ignorance seemed to me like fight music. Over drums that could feel like fists, Lindeman articulated the confusion of a calamity we somehow continue to abide.
It was nice, Lindeman admitted, to feel like she struck a collective nerve. But when she was being interviewed about Ignorance, journalists often made her feel noble or admirable for writing about climate change, a notion she flatly rejects. “To me, it shouldn’t be unusual or a sign of virtue to want to talk about something that is happening,” she said. Indeed, the bad news is in the very air we breathe and the water we drink — not making it a routine element of art should become the exception. Put another way, the news shouldn’t be that someone has written a song about climate change; the news should be what the song has to say about our varied experiences teetering here at the brink.
This means, I think, that the emotional landscape of music is changing, its breadth stretching to include more songs about our ruptured environment, a loss so vast we cannot actually comprehend it. As listeners and critics, we’re going to have meet these songs where they arrive by learning more about what is at stake as the climate changes. People will experience this sixth extinction in different ways, whether that means their native lands are swallowed by rising tides or that they watch from afar as still-unnamed species continue to collapse, until it eventually reaches their descendants’ doorstep, too.
The assortment of emotions will be complicated — grief, rage, apathy, shock, disgust, and so on. We’ll need to understand the science behind climate change and the inequality it will exacerbate. We’ll need to understand the psychology of loss on this unknown scale and hope that exists beyond reason. Just as every love song is not the same, every song about climate change — and they will soon start to pile up — will not be the same. It will be the critic’s job to integrate them into the larger social conversation about how we save whatever it is we have left; to do that, we must leave behind facile notions of what we think we know.
Lindeman stopped talking about climate change, in part, because she was exhausted by seeing her answers misrepresented by writers who only wanted to skim the surface of this unfathomably deep subject. We’re going to have to do better, because this topic is doomed to be our future, artistically and otherwise. We have to learn the language.
“There will be great protest music made about climate change, but I don’t think we have done that yet because our emotional body around this is still so unresolved and misunderstood,” Lindeman said, sighing. “Maybe Gen Z will be better?”
If we’re aggressive and smart and altruistic and lucky, songs about our climate catastrophe will perhaps someday seem like outdated mementos, reminding us of high anxiety that we endured like some musty “I Survived Y2K” T-shirt. But those odds only get longer. As Lindeman coos during one of Ignorance’s best moments, “At some point, you’d have to live as if the truth was true.”
More than the development or demise of any microgenre or change in distribution models, the way that art reflects and helps shape our conversations about whether or not our species can save itself might be music’s most pressing story in the decades we might be lucky enough to live. That’s a fatalistic premise for the artwork of the future, I suppose, but the songs of Ignorance made a year of devastatingenvironmentalheadlines slightly easier to handle. We’re going to need more albums like it.
During the Houston Rockets Wednesday night game against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Rockets head coach Stephen Silas left the bench to head back to the locker room during a timeout with the Rockets trainer.
The reason wasn’t immediately clear, but it soon was reported that Silas had to leave the game due to dehydration. Per the Houston Chronicle’s Jonathan Feigen, Silas was receiving fluids in the back after not feeling well on the bench.
Silas was replaced for the time being as head coach by assistant and former NBA head coach John Lucas. Lucas, in fact, was once the Cavaliers’ head coach from 2001 until 2003 before being let go by Cleveland before the start of LeBron James’ first year in the league. He has not been a head coach since then and has been working for the Rockets since 2016.
Overall, things weren’t going well for Houston in Cleveland. At halftime, the Cavs lead the Rockets 69-38 with the Rockets shooting 30 percent from the field and 12 percent from three, as one of the NBA’s hottest teams of late cooled off for at least a half of basketball in Cleveland. However, the bigger concern is for Silas, who will hopefully feel back to his usual self after receiving fluids, as the job he’s done in getting Houston turned around has been remarkable over the last two-plus weeks.
The best part about a meal is rarely just the food itself. More often than not, it’s the connections, conversations, and friendships that make the experience special. At-home chefs, restaurant fanatics, and food influencers of all kinds would likely agree that their passion for the culinary world is rooted in the bonds they’ve made surrounding food as much as the actual flavors.
For the chefs among us, mastering a new skill in the kitchen is often more about personal growth than simply dishing up some good pasta. Though, to be fair, dishing up good pasta is a hell of a perk.
That’s why culinary gifts are so popular. They’re both deeply resonant and practical — an ideal gifting combo. For anyone shopping for a gourmand, the team at UPROXX is here to share our own tried and true kitchen and food-focused gifts. Some items will help elevate your giftee’s cooking skills while others will satisfy their strongest cravings.
Get out your passport! With six globally-inspired rubs and blends, this variety pack is the perfect way to experiment with flavor.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
True foodies love a good kick of spice and flavor — especially when it represents the tastes of the best foods around the world. This Spiceology gift set offers a variety of fan-favorite spices that the foodie in your life can use to experiment in the kitchen, themed around popular global cuisines.
This set is sure to take the mid-level chef’s cooking skills up a notch in no time.
Bottom Line:
When it comes down to it, foodies love flavor. This packs a ton of it into one simple gift while also broadening their understanding of different foodways. — Chloe Caldwell
The most versatile manual pasta maker on this market, this Italian steel hand-crank device with a great commercial countertop presence puts out perfect linguine, spaghetti, and lasagna noodles in minutes. Flat rollers create the dough sheet. The double-cutter is removable for easy cleaning. Table clamp and instruction book with recipes included.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
There are few things more satisfying than a big bowl of saucy, warm pasta. With their own pasta maker, the food aficionado can take every pasta recipe into their own hands. Giving them the opportunity to make pasta from scratch is a simple way to make food more fun.
Bottom Line:
Carbs are a food lover’s favorite food group (or is that just me?). This vital tool is a great way to satisfy their starchy cravings. — Chloe Caldwell
Among the world’s oldest culinary tools, volcanic rock mortars and pestles like these have been used by great cooks for thousands of years. Our molcajete (mortar) and tejolete (pestle) are hand-carved from a single piece of basalt rock, so every piece is unique. In addition to being a great prep tool, the molcajete makes an impressive serving dish for guacamole and other party favorites.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
The food lover in your life will love this useful tool for mashing up a variety of salsas and pastes. Whether they’re cooking for one or hosting a party, serving from a molcajete is also a simple way to elevate any meal.
Bottom Line:
Three words: stone ground guacamole. — Chloe Caldwell
This unique collection of 30 spicy hot sauces in mini glass bottles boasts an array of flavors and heat, from mild Garlic Arbol to Extreme Habanero. This fun sampler has 30 vegetarian, vegan sauces that range the Scoville hotness scale with a variety of seasonings including cayenne bacon, garlic herb pineapple habanero. A great gift idea for hot sauce lovers who love sampling a range of spicy flavors.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
Food lovers aren’t afraid of a little extra heat. A good hot sauce can go a long way when it comes to taking a delicious meal to the next level. Therefore, this wide range of 30 different hot sauces is a surefire way to win over any foodie’s heart. They’ll love playing with all the different flavors and trying them with a variety of recipes.
Bottom Line:
Does 30 hot sauce flavors seem a little excessive? Maybe. Is it also totally awesome? Absolutely. — Chloe Caldwell
Nordic Ware is a family-owned company making quality kitchenware products for families everywhere for 75 years and counting. Simple yet effective, this Belgian Waffler comes apart at the hinge for convenient cleaning and its slim profile makes storage easy.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
You know what they say – breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Why not give your giftee something to sweeten their mornings? This Belgian waffle maker is the ultimate slow Sunday morning contraption that your foodie friend will be glad to have after a long night out at their go-to restaurants and bars.
Bottom Line:
Homemade Belgian waffles sound like hangover heaven, right? — Chloe Caldwell
First timer? No need to be scared, let us help you get started. This handy pack includes:
2 dozen extra small oysters
shucking gloves (pick your size)
shucking knife
oyster tasting guide
a bar towel for shucking
a lemon
seasonal mignonette
It’s everything you need to get going on your shucking adventure.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
Shucking oysters is a pain-in-the-ass without the right tools. This gift pack covers everything you’ll need plus plenty of great oysters from Hama Hama to practice those shucking skills at home. There really isn’t a better starter kit for the novice or master out there looking to eat amazing oysters this month.
Bottom Line:
Oysters are the ultimate luxury food this season and it’s never been easier to get them to your door. — Zach Johnston
FREE SHIPPING to the USA & EU (we also ship to most other countries)
6 bottles per shipment (you can increase the quantity at the checkout)
One-time purchase with no contract
Comprehensive tasting notes and videos available free online
Gift subscriptions are also available
Why It’s a Great Gift:
This is a wine club in name only. We’re only talking about one shipment with no contract for great Italian wines. Each bottle is hand-picked by the crew at Roscioli. For those in the dark on that name, Roscioli is the most lauded and beloved (by me) deli in Rome. They have an amazing selection of meats, cheese, salads, bread, oils, beers, and wines amongst every other amazing Roman treat you can imagine. It’s a must-stop when in Rome and getting bottles delivered to your door in the U.S. is a great holiday treat.
What makes this such a great gift for the foodie in your life is that you get amazing tasting and pairing notes (via videos) from real-deal pros in Italy. This gift is as much of an education as it is delicious.
Bottom Line:
Great Italian wine chosen by some serious pros is never a bad idea. The fact that you can actually get this from Italy to your door is the cherry on top. — Zach Johnston
This is a heavy-duty, professional kitchen-grade ricer. It’s durable and can handle a lot of potato ricing when you’re making the whole fam mashed potatoes this holiday season. It also works for mashing any root veg or juicing any citrus fruit you have around.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
This is how you make great mashed potatoes. Whenever you’ve had a mashed potato side that blew your mind, it was 100 percent because they were made with a potato ricer. This all makes this an essential kitchen tool for anyone who wants to cook great mash at home.
Bottom Line:
Having the right tools to make good food is something you really can’t get around. This is a seemingly simple device that will up anyone’s kitchen game. — Zach Johnston
Reinvent campsite cooking with the Adventure Chef 6 Piece Summit Set. Easily prepare fresh food with the tools you carry with you wherever you go. Outfit yourself with full-size kitchen knives that are compact, portable, and most of all, the same Messermeister chef-grade quality used in the kitchen. We’ve selected unique natural and sustainable handle materials that are ergonomic, balanced, and rugged enough to be used outdoors. Our blades are made out of our classic 1.4116 German Steel, which is prized for its toughness and ability to hold a great edge.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
Honestly, of the food-related items I’ve bought this year, this one gets the most comments. As a chef who loves the outdoors and is also slightly disorganized, I’ve got plenty of scars from giant, fixed-blade knives sliding around in my stuff. This solves that problem without giving up any of the vital aspects of a proper chef’s all-rounder — being able to work at scale for speedy slicing, dicing, mincing, and chopping.
If you have $250 to spend, the whole set is incredible. It really allows the would-be chef to go full kitchen gourmet over a campfire. The fact that the scales of the handle are beautiful and the design feels rustic in that very cool, European way is a bonus.
Bottom Line:
If you’re shopping for someone who loves food and the outdoors, there’s a 0.00% chance they won’t flat-out love this. — Steve Bramucci
Bottle of the Flowers Chardonnay from Sonoma Coast
Montaraz Jamon Cebo de Campo
Balsamic Vinegar of Modena
Merula Extra Virgin Olive Oil Tin
Panettoncino Amarena
Giusto Roman Style Artichoke
Artisanal preserve
Lesley Stowe Raincoast Crisps
Divina Roasted Red Tomatoes
Antipasto Spicy Garlic
Fabbri Fragola Strawberries In Syrup Crock
Caffarel Premium Chocolate Bars
Melagro Apple Balsamic
Why It’s a Great Gift:
Food and place are married together. Haute Mess gets that. Everything in their gift basket has a story and a clear sense of identity — often tied to the city where it’s made. And having received a basket as a gift and eaten everything in it, I can tell you: they clearly vet and pick all these items carefully.
Haute Mess has a number of gift baskets, but the Euro-Italian focus of this basket really appealed to me. A gift basket with two types of balsamic and Italian strawberries in syrup? Yeah, I’m in. And the products are all so cool-looking that even when they’re empty the tins and bottles and jars are likely to be saved.
Bottom Line:
Perfect for the food lover who appreciates top-shelf products that are also stylish. Bonus points for you if you buy it for someone hosting a holiday party that you’re also going to. — Steve Bramucci
The Viking Cast Iron pan is matte enamel-coated, helping to resist chips or cracks while keeping the pieces low maintenance. The entire set is attractive enough to go straight from stove to serving table. The piece is safe for use on the stove, the grill, and in the oven.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
You need cast iron. Period. If you cook, you need cast iron. But an unfinished pan is a bear to clean and often falls out of the cooking rotation for those on the move. The enamel here makes this pan waaaaaaaay easier to clean. Like miles. But you still get the benefits of cast iron. It’s durable, holds heat, is chemical-free, doesn’t chip or degrade like Teflon, and looks good enough to hit the table as a serving dish.
I’ve been cooking with this for a year. It’s my literal go-to pan — from eggs to steaks — and it shows no signs of wear
Bottom Line:
Cast iron is a staple for good reason. But this gem takes some of the work out of owning and maintaining one. — Steve Bramucci
A gift box containing 4 kinds of our lovely salt. For almost every use in your kitchen, these four salts are our most popular products. Suits as a perfect gift to bring to dinner parties or to surprise your foodie friends!
Why It’s a Great Gift:
The plain sea salt here is the best I’ve ever tasted. Boom. Enough said. As for the infused options, I normally don’t like infused salts. But these are infusions you couldn’t do at home with the help of a few herbs. You’re not birch-smoking anything or harvesting arctic thyme on the tundras outside your apartment.
The highlight is the lava salt — which is stunning, perfect for tableside preparations, and has a real mineral aspect to it that I love as the finishing touch on chicken and fish dishes.
Bottom Line:
This is a gift you will get “thanks again” texts about until the last jar in the pack runs dry. I promise. — Steve Bramucci
Elijah Craig created a new expression of American whiskey when he first charred oak barrels to make Bourbon. 250 years later, charred barrels are still integral to our Bourbon-making process, and the possibilities are endless. Discover the greatness within our barrels. Every Bourbon is made up of four essential elements: grain, water, fire, and time.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
Elijah Craig’s barrel-aged food line is a joy. I love their barrel-aged maple syrup, but that looks to be sold out right now. This is similarly tasty and fun to cook with. It’s deep, rich, and ever so slightly bourbon-flavored. It’s perfect for the bourbon lover but also definitely not a gimmick for anyone who wants elevated honey with some extra nuance.
Bottom Line:
Barrel-aged honey and hot sauces are all the rage right now. Get these for the food loved who also likes whiskey and you’re sure to get tons of kudos. — Steve Bramucci
Small Axe Peppers spicy hot sauce gift set is made with peppers sourced from community gardens across the US. Your support helps community gardens and their initiatives. Made with Ghost Pepper, Habanero peppers, ginger root, mango, and Chipotle powder, these hot sauces may not be the world’s hottest hot sauce, but we’d say it’s pretty close. Just add to your favorite BBQ sauce or marinade for a kick of heat and flavor.
Why It’s a Great Gift:
This is hot sauce for a good cause. What else is there to say? Okay, I’ll try — these hot sauces that support community gardens are also incredibly tasty. The flavors are bright and clarified, allowing the peppers to shine through. A variety pack is a great way to make sure you nail the preferred flavor profile and heat level of the person you’re shopping for.
Bottom Line:
Very cool and very tasting and it’s a very good idea to support community gardens and help people get reacquainted with the actual ingredients in the foods they eat. — Steve Bramucci
Salt & Straw Pints of the Moment: The Holiday Series
Salt & Straw
Price: $65
Company Line:
Our senses are alight come the holiday season. This wondrous time of year when sweets arrive in droves, cards cram your mailbox, and calendars house hidden chocolates. Smudge a peephole to look inside our kitchen window—made foggy by the chill outside—and you’ll glimpse us harnessing the magic with five festive flavors embracing warmth and spice. Put on your coziest holiday sweater, cue the lights and songs, and indulge in our most satiating display of 2021.
Our Holiday Series Pack Includes:
Gingerbread Cookie Dough
Almond Brittle w/ Salted Ganache
The Great Cookie Swap (v)
Dwanta’s Teremana Spiked Eggnog
Peppermint Cocoa
Why It’s a Great Gift:
Salt & Straw is one of the best ice cream brands on earth. Their flavors are savory and sweet at once and deeply inventive. bThis variety pack is all about the Yuletide cheer. Dwanta’s Teremana Spiked Eggnog is a surprise standout with plenty of nog flavor paired with a light tequila note, Almond Brittle is a stone-cold Salt & Straw classic — salty and sweet in equal measure, Gingerbread will satiate your cookie craving without overly sweet frostings, and peppermint cocoa is a Holiday classic in the making. (Cookie Swap is my personal least favorite of the bunch but it’s a win for those who like desserts to skew sweet — which many people do!)
The texture and mouthfeel on these pints are impeccable. The flavors are more nuanced than (almost!) anything your giftee can find at the grocer.
Bottom Line:
Salt & Straw is iconic because it’s delicious. If you’re shopping for an ice cream lover, this is a huge win. — Steve Bramucci
The collection has been dubbed “Hardened Hearts” and features cases for iPhone and Samsung devices. Launching today, all the cases retail between $45 and $75 and will be available tonight at 7 PM PST / 10 PM EST right here. Here’s a description of the set from the Casetify website: “Featuring Olivia’s iconic aesthetic, this collection serves as a reminder to keep it tough. Just add Do Not Disturb. Check out the range of cases in this collection that are powered by Re/CASETiFY, created using recycled phone cases and bioplastics from plants.”
Some photos on the Casetify website show cases with Olivia’s now signature ransom-letter cut out letters over light purple, and black and white cases. Meanwhile, at least Olivia — and the small amount of fans who can afforded scalped tickets — are excited about her tour.
But that hasn’t stopped Memphis from making sure they honor the legacy of the Paper Route Empire label head and artist. After announcing that a street would be named after Dolph, today the sign went up. Dubbed “Adolpho “Young Dolph” Thornton Jr. Avenue” in his native Castelia Heights neighborhood, the street sign unveiling ceremony precedes a larger “Celebration of Life” that will take place at the FedEx Coliseum in Memphis tomorrow, December 16, from 11 AM to 2 PM.
Memphis’ city council voted unanimously to name a street after the rapper, and Councilman JB Smiley, Jr., who was the sponsor of the honorary street name resolution said the following: “It’s about celebrating our own. Young Dolph was truly one of us.” Check out some photos of the new street name below.
First the Laura Logan mishegoss, now this: As per The Daily Beast, Fox News’ social media accounts deleted a cartoon criticizing George Soros after it was pointed out that it depicted an infamously anti-Semitic trope. The image, drawn by conservative cartoonist A.F. Branco, showed the progressive-leaning billionaire — a long-favorite target of Republican opprobrium — holding the strings of two Democratic donkeys, one holding a sign for “defund police,” other “no bail.” It’s a reference to righwing complaints about progressive criminal justice policies and Soros’ supposed influence upon them.
The caption referred to Soros, who is Jewish, as “the puppet master” — a term that has long been used as an anti-Semitic trope. The image was shared on both its Facebook and Instagram accounts. On the latter, it received 16,000 likes before it was removed.
As we have told @FoxNews numerous times, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish power + contributes to the normalization of antisemitism. This needs to be removed. pic.twitter.com/gyWTrSvNtR
Among the post’s critics was the Anti-Defamation League. “As we have told Fox News numerous times, casting a Jewish individual as a puppet master who manipulates national events for malign purposes conjures up longstanding antisemitic tropes about Jewish power + contributes to the normalization of antisemitism,” the ADL tweeted after the image appeared. “This needs to be removed.”
The network has a history of trading in anti-Semitic tropes. Last March, substitute Ingraham Angle host Raymond Arroy — filling in for the host, currently under fire for recently unearthed frantic texts she sent on Jan. 6 conveying horror at the Capitol riot that she would later downplay — devoted an entire segment to calling Michael Bloomberg, who is also Jewish, a “puppet master.” Only two weeks ago Fox Nation host Lara Logan compared Dr. Fauci to Dr. Josef Mengele, aka the Nazi concentration camp doctor known as the “Angel of Death.”
Do you ever think about how we live in a world that is perfectly capable of producing enough food and basic necessities for every human on the planet, and yet there are still millions upon millions who don’t have enough?
We do. It’s weird and inhumane, but it’s reality. There are multiple, somewhat complex reasons for this, of course, which don’t justify but do explain it. However, the economics and logistics of making sure everyone has what they need don’t need to be understood to recognize extreme, blatant, inexcusable waste.
A TikTok user who goes by @Dumpsterdivingfreegan shares videos of what she finds in the dumpsters of grocery stores, and it’s completely mind-blowing. Even if you already know that stores waste a lot of food, wait until you see what she finds. It’s not just food that’s at or near its expiration date, though there is a lot of that. She finds toiletries and household items—sometime by the case, all brand new—just thrown into the dumpster.
Reply to @celester The same WF that throws out enough each night to feed a community😔. #dumpsterdiving #freegan #usa #dumpsterdiver #AEHolidayForever
Many of us would question pulling perishables from a dumpster, but if it’s cold enough outside and you knew they’d been tossed recently, why not? In a logical world, these foods would only be thrown out because there was something wrong with them, but that does not seem to be the case.
In another video, she said she hasn’t bought groceries in two years because she’s able to get so much from dumpster diving.
Reply to @littlesquish18 yes, and it got SO much worse from there. #dumpsterdiving #freegan #dumpster #capitalism #usa #foodwaste #donatedontdump #fyp
She also says she donates far more than she keeps, and she does leave things behind for other people or homeless people to find. There is always plenty to go around.
She wipes down what she can with disinfectant and hasn’t run into any issues with food being bad or anyone in her household getting sick from eating it.
When you see what and how much stores are tossing—perfectly good food that’s not even at its best by date yet—it’s understandable that she hasn’t had to buy groceries. According to Business Insider, grocery stores are responsible for about 10% of the food waste in the United States.
Reply to @esotericaa the more I do this the more I don’t trust the system. #dumpsterdiving #freegan #MunchiesWithTubi #capitalism #usa #dobetter #fyp
But it’s not just food.
Stores throw away all kinds of merchandise. According to this dumpster diver, many stores have a policy that they throw away cases of product if one item in the case gets broken. She has found cases of wine where just one bottle was broken. And check out this case of perfectly good plants that some people paid good money for:
Reply to @neo.spazzy I have found literally hindreds of plants in local store dumpsters🙃 #dumpsterdiving #planttok #paperwhite #freegan #dumpsterdive
And if perfectly good plants being tossed isn’t enough to move you, how about toilet paper? That’s right. The precious commodity that people were waiting in ridiculous lines for and rationing due to hoarding-induced-scarcity. But not just any toilet paper! The environmentally-friendly bamboo kind that costs far more than toilet paper should, tossed into a dumpster for reasons none of us can guess.
Reply to @jobare007 yes! & I haven’t paid for to since BEFORE the pandemic for this reason🧍♀️#dumpsterdiving #part2 #MakeItCinematic #wholefoods #f
The irony of a store that sells all kinds of eco-friendly items throwing so much into landfills unnecessarily is enough to make your brain explode.
Why don’t they donate this stuff instead of throwing it away? Yes. That is the million-dollar question.
Some stores do donate some or most of their overstocked or close-to-due-date items. But as we see here, the habit is not universal, it might vary from location to location, and some stores actually have policies against it for whatever reason. It seems reasonable in the modern world to expect perfectly good items to not end up in landfills when people are in need of them and when our Earth is already dealing with too much trash. It makes no sense.
You probably have dozens of questions for @dumpsterdivingfreegan and she answers tons of them in her videos and comments. I highly recommend perusing her TikTok channel, where she’s really an open book about money and dumpster diving. While it’s seriously shocking what she finds, it’s equally interesting how she lives her life and organizes her finances.
And it will definitely motivate you to find out if stores in your area throw out merchandise and to encourage them to find a more humane and environmentally conscious way to process excess, because the waste in these videos is simply obscene.
Like a lot of us, Ted Lasso had a pretty all-over-the-place 2021. The Apple TV+ sports comedy-drama dropped its second season. It won a bunch of awards. It became more beloved than it was already. Then there was a backlash. Then there was a backlash to the backlash. There might have been a backlash to the backlash against the backlash. But it’s tricky keeping track of these things. Mitt Romney and a profoundly unpopular Democrat made a Ted Lasso-inspired meme, which it seems even star Jason Sudeikis, who plays the world’s peppiest man onscreen, thought stunk.
But ol’ Ted is looking to end the year on an up note. On Wednesday, a week-and-change before Christmas, the show dropped a surprise holiday gift: an animated short entitled Ted Lasso: The Missing Christmas Mustache. It turns our cast of footballers and coaches and whatnot into Claymation creations (but with the same voices), with everyone trying to figure out a big mystery: What happened to Ted’s beloved facial hair? It’s gone missing, and just in time for a big Zoom call.
Naturally, there’s a heartwarming message at the end of the four-minute short. It is Ted Lasso after all. The third season is still being written, which explains why the cast reunites but only via voice. But don’t worry: Surely they’ll have another chance to throw some wild parties when the program Hoovers up a bunch more awards next year.
You can watch Ted Lasso: The Missing Christmas Mustache in the video above.
There’s something about a dirty gin martini that feels right during the holidays. It’s big, savory, acidic, and very easy to drink. It’s also pretty damn easy to make, assuming you have the right ingredients.
When it comes to any martini, you kind of have to dial in the ratios that fit your vibe. Some folks like a splash of dry vermouth in there. Others will demand that a bottle of vermouth not even cast a shadow over their gin (or vodka) when making their martinis. Neither is wrong and we’re not here to judge your palate.
Dirty martinis are different. In this case, you need the dry vermouth to counter the umami-bomb and light lemon citrus of good olive brine (high-quality olive brine should just be water, salt, and lemon oil/juice). The addition of soft botanicals and the very distant fruit of the dry vermouth adds a balance to the hefty botanicals of the gin and the salt/citrus of the brine.
It’s a little bit of magic in a glass when balanced right — so let’s get into it!
Let’s focus on the olives first. I’m using Iliada green olives from Greece. They’re pitted and pretty big (so you don’t need a lot). Also, the only ingredients in this jar of olives are, well, olives, water, salt, and lemon acids. That’s ideal, as it adds the umami you’re looking for while also giving the martini a touch of acid for balance.
I’m also using Beefeater 24 London Dry Gin and Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth. Each is iconic but subtle. The gin is drawn back from the juniper and leans a little more towards the orris root and wild florals while the Noily brings nice floral support with a touch of citrus and a slightly herbal edge.
Lastly, there are the bitters. I like a dash of Angostura Bitters in my martinis. It’s not traditional but adds that little botanical x-factor that’ll help your martinis pop.
Zach Johnston
What You’ll Need:
Coupe, cocktail glass, Nick and Nora glass, or lowball glass
Cocktail mixing jug
Barspoon
Cocktail strainer
Jigger
Toothpick
Zach Johnston
Method:
Prechill your glass in the freezer.
Add the gin, vermouth, and olive brine to a mixing jug. Dash with bitters and fill with ice 2/3 of the way up.
Stir until the jug is ice-cold to touch, about 15 to 20 seconds.
Strain the cocktail into the prechilled glass.
Garnish with one to three olives on a stick and serve immediately.
Bottom Line:
Zach Johnston
The softness of this cocktail is astounding. The umami and acid from the brine bring this balance that lets the gin calm down while the dry vermouth slowly massages its own botanicals and sweetness towards the front of the sip.
This is savory, acidic, herbal, botanical, and pure silk in every single sip. Every time I make one of these I wonder why I don’t drink them more often. They’re super easy to master, fast to make, and just beautifully delicious — especially if you’re looking to get away from the overly sugary cocktails that tend to dominate a lot of menus these days. There’s a faint sweetness buried in this but it’s really about that balance of umami and acid with the botanicals. It’s just … right.
I’m definitely going to be making these for the rest of the festive season (as soon as the eggnog runs out anyway).
Josh Lambo’s tenure as the kicker for the Jacksonville Jaguars came to an end in October after four years with the organization. Now, Lambo is speaking out about one incident that happened earlier this year while the team was preparing for a preseason tilt with the Dallas Cowboys involving embattled head coach Urban Meyer.
Lambo, while speaking to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times, said that Meyer does not refer to the specialists by their names, instead calling them “sh*tbag, dipsh*t, or whatever the hell it was.” But that apparently didn’t get under Lambo’s skin nearly as much as what Meyer did next.
“I’m in a lunge position. Left leg forward, right leg back,” Lambo told Stroud. “… Urban Meyer, while I’m in that stretch position, comes up to me and says, ‘Hey Dips–t, make your f–king kicks!’ And kicks me in the leg.”
The kick, Lambo claims, was only about a five out of 10 in terms of how hard Meyer kicked, and after telling his then-coach “don’t you ever f*cking kick me again,” Meyer allegedly responded, “I’m the head ball coach, I’ll kick you whenever the f–k I want.” The following day, Lambo says the two had a conversation, in which he said Meyer “seemingly halfway understood” that Lambo had some issues with how he was being coached. In response, Lambo claims Meyer told him that he’s the first player in his career that he’d “ever let speak to me that way,” and that if he did it again, he’d be cut.
“I said, ‘I’m genuinely not trying to be sarcastic here, Urban, but what did I say that offended you?’” Lambo remembered asking Meyer. “He said, ‘When you responded to me out there on the practice field in front of everybody. If you have an issue and don’t like me kicking you, well then you keep that to yourself and you wait until after practice and after meetings and you come find me in the office and tell me privately.’”
In a statement, Meyer denied the incident ever happened, saying, “Josh’s characterization of me and this incident is completely inaccurate, and there are eyewitnesses to refute his account. (General manager) Trent (Baalke) and I met with him on multiple occasions to encourage his performance, and this was never brought up. I was fully supportive of Josh during his time with the team and wish him nothing but the best.”
This is the latest incident in what has been a roller coaster NFL tenure for Meyer. Earlier this year, he came under fire for staying behind after the team played in Cincinnati on Thursday Night Football and traveling to Columbus, where he was caught getting cozy with a woman at a bar who is not his wife. And this week, an explosive report alleged that, among other things, Meyer called his staff “losers.” After a loss to the Tennessee Titans this week, Jacksonville fell to 2-11 on the season.
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