5/30/25 - Steak Nuggets, Water-Based Cooking, and Bad A.I.

Friday 5/30/25

Celebrate:

My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Day

National Creativity Day

National Heat Awareness Day (yea right..where is it?)

National Mint Julep Day

Water a Flower Day

World MS Day

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There's a new cooking term going viral on TikTok.  It's "water-based cooking," and it's basically just things being boiled, steamed, and cooked as soups and stews.

The idea is that this "gentler" cooking style avoids "unhealthy" techniques using oils and high heat . . . like frying, sautéing, baking, air-frying, and grilling, which is supposedly the worst.

Naturally, cooking with water isn't groundbreaking or even new, But people online are having some fun with this.  Some comments include:

"Gen Z discovers soup."

"TikTok has a 'term' for the most basic things."

"I remember my first soup."

"Oh I love how we're discovering boiling now."

"What were you cooking before?"

"I'm two days in, and I'm already looking younger."

"I do this . . . but with chicken broth.  Does it still count?"

"I can't wait for the next TikTok trend about 'fire-based cooking.'"

"Wait.  Do I put a pan of water on the burner and then turn on the burner?  Or do I turn on the burner and THEN put a pan of water on it?"

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Happy Anniversary to Hefty..you know, the garbage bag people!

They celebrated their 60th Anniversary with a limited-edition birthday cake-scented Ultra Strong trash bags, and they immediately sold out. 

Of course they did as 20 were priced at 60cents. (at that price, not many smells would keep me from buying those!)

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Officials in Kentucky arrested a man last week on public intoxication charges, after they saw him "practicing martial arts in a very slow manner as he walked" They say Graham began hitting and kicking a utility pole, stumbled and laid on the ground.

When police approached Graham, he quickly got up off the ground and told them he was practicing his martial arts skills he read in a book to help fend off dog attacks.

(Wax on/Wax off)

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I keep saying that A.I. isn't quite ready yet, and this probably isn't a good thing:  An A.I. model threatened to blackmail its creators and showed an ability to act deceptively when it believed it was going to be replaced.

Engineers at Anthropic then gave Claude access to a trove of emails, which contained messages revealing it was being replaced by a new AI model — and that the engineer responsible for the change was having an extramarital affair.

When Claude was to be replaced with an AI model of “similar values,” it attempts blackmail 84% of the time — but that rate climbs even higher when it believes it is being replaced by a model of differing or worse values, according to the safety report.

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You think we would be used to virtual work calls now, but a man in the UK was fired for not wearing any pants! In fact not even underwear!

He didn't just "forget" that he wasn't wearing pants or mistakenly think he had his camera off.

He needed to adjust a computer cord, and so he leaned forward and partially folded his laptop to deal with it.  That meant that the camera pointed down revealing his exposed naughty parts and yeah, everyone saw.

Initially, he admitted his mistake, but when he realized how much trouble he was in, he tried to claim he was wearing nude-colored underwear . . . and criticized the call for happening on his day off.

His company didn't buy it, and they dumped him.  He tried to sue them over it, but the case got thrown out.

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I'm a grown adult and still get excited about Chicken Nuggets!!!!

But now Arby's recently started testing "steak nuggets." Unfortunately, they are not breaded, like real chicken nuggets, only with steak in the middle.

They're not, though, they're more like "steak bites" . . . just cubes of meat. You can get them as "nuggets" in a bowl or in a sandwich.  And they're not cheap.  The five-piece is $5, and the nine-piece goes for $9.

Just buy a steak and cut it into pieces yourself!!!!

The TikTok reviews from influencers are . . . mixed . . . with the general consensus being: They're different. They're surprisingly edible with barbecue or some other sauce.  But most people don't need to have them again. (can't you just get a steak and cut it into chunks yourself??)

And the internet doesn't seem to think "steak nuggets" should be a thing.

Commenters are saying: 

"They look like mystery jerky."

"The nuggets are like the worst burnt ends you have ever had in your life . . . I couldn't even get past the smell."

"They need to go back to the drawing board with this one."

"Even outside of fast food, I could not imagine a situation where a dish called 'steak nuggets' would be a good thing."

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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - Astronauts cannot burp in space, because the lack of gravity prevents foods and gases from separating in the stomach as they do on Earth. (so they just explode?)

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