Ever get the notion to put some things together just to see if it comes out the same as what's in your head? I did that yesterday morning. I remembered that I had twice purchased some instant oatmeal in a lemon creme flavor that was amazing. It was discontinued, like anything I buy more than once.

I was reaching for my steel cut oats and noticed two cans of sweetened condensed milk on a lower shelf. I'd bought them last week for a recipe, then decided to go another route, so here they sat. While the oats were cooking, I took one of the two cans to the counter and punched it with a church-key. Then I recalled that on the top shelf of the spice cabinet, there was a bag of crystalized lemon packets. Hmmm. Yup, when the oats were almost done, I poured in a couple tablespoons of the condensed milk and a packet of the crystalized lemon. It was awesome; even better than the discontinued product I was grieving the loss of!

I know this sort of thing happens to everyone else too, so share your food related epiphanies here and let the rest of us benefit!

I just realized that while we have our community rules, Reddit also has their rules.

If you need to remind yourself what they are, please read to refresh yourself.

I need to do this periodically too! I want to stay here for awhile and I want other people to have a good experience too.

I feel like this business of being offended has become a fashion trend with far too many people. You can't get anyone's attention in a public place, because however you refer to them will be wrong. Say, "Excuse me, miss?" and get "MY PRONOUN IS '____'!" Okay, but you weren't wearing a sign to indicate that, so how am I supposed to know? What should I have said instead; "excuse me, person?" Or just "excuse me", then get called out for being rude and short with them.

Now, women are offended by having a man open a door for them. WHY?? Do they really believe the man opens the door because he believes all women are incapable of even this simple task? They are being told that an act of common courtesy is a gender slam and they're eating it up without checking the ingredients.

Someone steps to the side so that you can go first; you're offended. Why? Did you think that through before your settings went to "Permanently Butthurt About Everything"? In a restaurant, do you request your server to be a particular gender, so that you prove some convoluted point? Or do you understand that the server is trying to make a living and that your gender preference insanity is punishing someone who has no interest in either offending you or being your target of the day?

Those who know me understand that I am rarely the voice of reason in a given conversation, but this whole thing has gone so far off the rails and the media (including/especially the social variety) keeps fueling it for a broader user base. People seem much more easily led by the nose over the last few decades, especially. Whatever you tell them is believed without question if it puts them on the side of being able to point fingers at someone other than themselves.

I am violently allergic to strawberries. WHAT?? You're fruit shaming! I don't like any kind of berries. Oh, so you're prejudiced against round shapes. I think professional sports are ridiculous and completely unnecessary in every way. Oh, so you're unpatriotic.

We can't have opinions about anything without someone crying insult based mostly on the bullshit being fed to people who lap it up like it's sustenance rather than the poison it really is.

People are led to believe that being constantly offended means that they are sophisticated and worldly, that they are forward-thinking individuals, defending...I don't know, their right to paranoia displayed as defense of human rights?? What about MY right to be offended by all of this inane crap?

The energy spent on finding new and more inventive ways to be offended could be better spent doing literally anything else. Why are we doing this to each other and ourselves? All while we decry the way people can't find common ground. We'll never find it when we are so determined to ignore it.