Amazing how we all make excuses for still doing what we want. A friend posted on FB about buying GS cookies (she was dieting but gave in). Then to my surprise, one of our 40 Days leaders commented that she
freezes hers. I then, of course, had to comment that I stopped supporting them due the documented ties to PP, even tho their website denies it. This "leader" replied that she was unaware BUT... and then went
If you can get your hands on mint Chocolate chips, you can make the girl scout thin mints really easily. You melt the chips in a double boiler or microwave, see directions for safe melting, then dip plain
frival: Perhaps, but Apple is a big gorilla in the same sex "marriage" push, and I could make do with generic HW running a much less odious Linux distro. Phones are a tougher problem.
mikel1: True, but so is Intel, albeit more quietly than Apple. If you looked I'd bet AMD is as well, and that leaves you with no realistic x86 chips to power the system.
mikel1: just don't look at Oracle's info... You'd think a company with such a hard-nosed capitalist reputation wouldn't succumb so easily, but they get 100% ratings from HRC every year...
mikel1: No probs. It is good info and makes a good point. Some times you have no choice and/or the alternative would be too costly in one way or the other. I was thinking more along the lines of GS cookies
sueh: yes, there are, and many of them are cheaper and/or better quality alternatives too. I boycotted Home Depot for years - they finally softened their position, but I'm still wary.
Dollar General sells GS cookies (but they're NOT branded as GS.) Someone, perhaps in sueh 's thread, or coincidentally elsewhere, said that Aldi's sells tasty knock-offs of GS cookies.
mikel1: Mike, FYI I worked for Home Depot back in the early 2000s and I know that they were bullied into the SS benifit thing. There was a period there where someone was going after them, as a white guy club
Makemeaspark: They were also holding children's seminars at "pride" parades, and sponsoring and marching in same. They forbid employees to wear crosses, but allowed rainbow flags. It wasn't the benefits...
mikel1: ewwww, that sure is different from when I worked there. My manager told me that she would put sunday morning radio mass on the pa if I was singing (this was in the late ninties-early 2000's)