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    13 days ago

    I was 2 badges away from Eagle and not one of them was this easy… 😩

    The hardest thing was selling our disgusting popcorn while the Girl Scouts were selling their bomb-ass cookies. Like, why? We stood no chance… 😔

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    1013 days ago

    Honestly, the fact that she made an effort to go somewhere she didn’t have to was a win.

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    7013 days ago

    Girl scouts (and girl guides) often have patches to commemorate a fun event. The ones they earn for work go on the front of their vest and have specific criteria for earning them, but are usually more generic in appearance or don’t have details about it on the patch.

    This type of patch is likely for the youngest age group (4-5) and is meant to be more of a fun patch. I would also guess that the troop is in more of an urban area so there’s not much in the way of a very local, small kid friendly hike.

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      1913 days ago

      I just learned this the other day when I was joking with my wife that my daughter and their troop got badges for things like breathing and being near things. She told me the back is for whatever, and that when they become Brownies next year, that comes to an end.

      I support it all though. Gets the girls together, they do occasionally do things that resemble community service, and I eat too many goddamn cookies.

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        313 days ago

        I would imagine it’s a way to familiarize the kids to the incentive structure of the badges when they are still too young to be focused.

  • IninewCrow
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    413 days ago

    Where do you people live that it would be a monumental achievement to reach the nearest chip stand? Are you in a remote village in the Andean mountains?

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      1913 days ago

      My thought was an American city where you need to cross 8 lanes of traffic without a stoplight.

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        1013 days ago

        … and Tomatoes originated from Central America … which means that chips and ketchup wouldn’t be possible without Native American cultures cultivating these fruits and vegetables

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          413 days ago

          Ketchup has kind of an interesting history

          The term ketchup/catsup (or various other spellings) first appeared in about the 1600s, but tomato ketchup didn’t really catch on until about 200-300 years later. Before then it was used to refer to a variety of different sauces/condiments. Mushroom ketchup was a fairly popular one, some were based on fish sauces (you could maybe make an argument that Worcestershire sauce is a type of ketchup) etc.

          The general consensus is that it was sort of the result Europeans attempting to recreate various Asian sauces without really knowing what was in them or having access to the right ingredients (for example trying to make something like soy sauce without soy beans)

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            213 days ago

            My favourite story about all that was the one about Worcestershire Sauce … a bunch of English guys who had never been to India wanted to make their own fish sauce but it didn’t work out, so they stored their barrel of stuff in the basement and forgot about it … they found it a year later, tasted it and noticed that it didn’t kill them or make them sick, so they sold it as Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire_sauce

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          313 days ago

          Fam this would make an awesome kid’s book… once upon a time some native in what is now Colombia is having a family reunion; their cousin from the north brings tomatoes, and their cousin from the south brings potatoes. They catch some fish and eat it with sliced potato, and they debate whether it’s better with tomato paste or without. I bet libraries would stock that book!

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      1313 days ago

      In American, yes, it means promiscuous young woman or prostitute. In Canadian it means irritable or in ice hockey, overly aggressive playing. In British it means fried potato slice selling establishment (stand or shop).

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        1313 days ago

        Not that I’ve traveled all over the US, but I’ve never heard the term “chippy” used that way here. Where is it used?

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        613 days ago

        Where in America? I don’t doubt it, I’m just not familiar with it. Is it possibly something that has fallen out as a slang term or incredibly regional?

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          313 days ago

          It’s a silent generation thing. It’s only used now if you’re being sarcastically old timey.