COOKIE TABLE
— darth™️ (@darthbluesky.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Joelle controls the wedding planning, of couse… but a late September date means Cole could plan a truly epic, artisanal pickle fountain for his bachelor party…
Pickle fountain is my goal:
www.instagram.com/reel/DFr3KRk…— John P (@drhypercube.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Screengrab to give folks who don't want to click through the gist of it:
— John P (@drhypercube.bsky.social) May 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
SpaceUnit
Don’t knock the french fries on a sandwich until you’ve had one after a night out drinking on the South Side.
Also, every Pittsburgh wedding must offer baked ziti. It’s the law.
Old Dan and Little Ann
My niece got married a year ago in Pittsburgh. The reception was at the Heinz Museum. The cookie table was a huge display of yellow bridges. It was amazing.
KrackenJack
At least you won’t have to worry about the guests cramping up after hours of disco dancing.
geg6
Cookie tables are the most awesome thing about Pittsburgh. Close behind are the French fries on sandwiches and salads. I don’t even eat French fries normally. Just on a good Primanti’s sandwich or a steak salad. In fact, I just ordered a steak salad from a local pub. Can’t wait for it to get here!
Citizen Alan
I nearly screamed out loud at the side of the pickle fountain. Few foods on this planet cause me to recoil in disgust the way pickles do.
Craig
@Citizen Alan: Yes! I completely agree.
Kelly
This week Daisy has graduated to off leash walks in the woods below our house. Previous attempts on off lease have been chaotic. We share the woods with a few neighbors here at the end of our road. This week she keeps me within sight and comes when I whistle. She’ll be a year old in June.
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West of the Rockies
May your nuptials (weird word) be most excellent!
Anyone have any thoughts on Trump naming Pirro US attorney for DC?
NutmegAgain
Wow. Just wow. That pickle fountain is some kind of new frontier. I love the idea of the cookie table. It’s new to me, but looks celebratory, social and delish. Just the right thing. Do guests get cookie (doggy) bags to grab a few? So many choices in this brave new world
eta: Isn’t a sandwich of french fries (chips) on white bread a British tradition?
ronno2018
how do we get a wedding invite? some sort of go fund me winner who donates the most for a good cause??? :)
eclare
@Kelly:
That is one happy dog!
Omnes Omnibus
@West of the Rockies: On paper, she is probably the most qualified appointment of his term.
Tehanu
My daughter-in-law makes a sushi cake every year for both my grandsons’ birthdays, at their request (along with the more usual chocolate cake). Highly recommend it for festive occasions!
comrade scotts agenda of rage
I went up to Boulder today to have lunch with a recently departed commenter here. Turns out it was graduation day.
Then it hit me: 40 years ago today (or within a day or three) I got my MA at CU-Boulder.
But that’s not what made me feel old, learning that Bob Seger just turned 80 made me feel old.
Soprano2
We had Polish martinis at our wedding, courtesy of a couple of friends and help from the catering staff – pickle juice and vodka. I even took a sip for a picture. Not recommended.
sab
OT : Took Echo and Solly in to meet their new vet today. I told him we were up to seven cats. He said at our age we should be downsizing with cats not increasing.
I agreed. I told him I agreed but we had them because they were a bonded pair about to be euthanized because the owner didn’t want to separate them. He was shocked but agreed we had to take them.
He is a nice vet with massive cat charisma but still a vet.
Six hours later both cats have forgiven me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: This, of course, still means that a bag of hair would be better qualified.
Steve in the ATL
A pickle fountain is well worthy of mockery, but still far less tacky than a cash bar or dollar dance.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: a bar lower than the Mariana Trench
Melancholy Jaques
@SpaceUnit:
In Cleveland, it was always kielbasi & sauerkraut
suzanne
i am down with most wedding traditions, including the cookie table. But there is one that I cannot abide.
If the groom shoves his new bride’s face in the cake, and I’m there to see it, I’ll deck him myself.
ETA: And help her file that annulment the next day.
SpaceUnit
@Melancholy Jaques:
They eat tons of kielbasa in Pittsburgh too. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t really dislike it, but I don’t go looking for it.
ETA: I no longer live there, but the school cafeterias served it a couple times a week.
Keith P
I went to one with a grit bar. It was great. Stone ground grits in a big cauldron with a ton of condiments- cheeses, Virginia ham, bacon, green onions, etc
MagdaInBlack
Watching trumps big Oval Office trade deal (ha) press conf. I swear he is snoozin’ at the desk. He def had the snappy head bobs.
JFC.
geg6
@NutmegAgain:
I believe so, but that’s not how it’s done here in Pittsburgh.
Josie
@Keith P:
I’ve eaten a lot of cheese grits, but I’ve never seen a grit bar. It sounds amazing.
MagdaInBlack
@Soprano2: I admit I used to like a dill pickle juice martini. But it didn’t have a name, it was just something we thought might be tasty, and it was.
WaterGirl
@Kelly: Oh my gosh, that’s HUGE!!! Great job.
eclare
Pretty photo today, WaterGirl.
HinTN
I would ALMOST come off the beach vacation for a batchelor party with a fucking pickle fountain. Ball’s in your court, Cole.
HinTN
@eclare: Truth
Steve in the ATL
@suzanne: Absolutely. What a stupid way to start a marriage. Still better than a cash bar, though!
eclare
@Steve in the ATL:
It took a lot of convincing to get my former husband not to have a cash bar. I finally won.
WaterGirl
@eclare: I think so, too! :-)
Steve in the ATL
@eclare: but he still insisted on the dollar dance and that’s why the marriage didn’t last?
eclare
@Steve in the ATL:
I had to Google that, that’s crazy!
MazeDancer
So “DaPope”, as Bears Fans are calling him in Chicago, would not pass the “one droo
“rule.His maternal grandparents were Seventh Ward Creoles in New Orleans. They moved to Chicago when their house was destroyed for a highway.
cain
@SpaceUnit: Interestingly enough when I was in greece all the gyros came with fries inside it. So, in Europe it is a thing.
SpaceUnit
@cain:
That sounds pretty good, actually.
Kelly
@WaterGirl: @eclare:
I have her off leash in the same woods below our home we’ve been walking her on leash. I think the experience really helps. She knows this is our territory. When summer comes and the snow melts in the Cascades we’ll have some great walks in the high country. Looking forward to some beach trips to.
She get several times more exercise off leash.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@MagdaInBlack: If Biden did that a thousand headlines would would be written to find hundreds of slightly different ways to say that maybe he should resign if he can’t stay awake through a meeting. But not one tomorrow will wonder whether maybe Trump is too old.
Despite the fact that, and follow me closely here, Biden governed well, lawfully and competently. Trump has broken the law and fucked up every which way in his few months so far. You’d think the question of who is too old for the job would hang at least a little on the issue of competence vs incompetence but apparently that’s irrelevant.
Eric S.
@Citizen Alan: I agree. Just say “No” to pickles.
MagdaInBlack
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Let’s just face it, nothing matters. Have a dill pickle martini. It’ll help =-)
Spanky
@MazeDancer:
Sounds Clockwork Orange-ish.
zhena gogolia
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: It’s so fucking depressing and infuriating.
Eric S.
@Steve in the ATL: Tackiest thing I ever witnessed at a wedding: auctioning off the brides garter. I was a friend of the bride. Her embarrassment was palpable. Especially when only her FIL and BIL were bidding. My date had the presence of mind to elbow me in the ribs. Another friend and I bid to make sure her new inlaws didn’t end up with her garter. We apologized for participating. She thanked us for doing so.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@MagdaInBlack: I have some vodka on hand, and pickles! Probably a better move that thinking about the mother of all double standards.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Citizen Alan: all pickles?
@Craig: again all pickles? There are butter pickles and sweet pickles and larb-pickles and spicy hot pickles and varieties aplenty of the vinegar-y variety. That is just what I know about pickles. There are likely many pickles of which I know nothing.
I have eaten butter pickles so good they still appear occasionally in dreams.
cain
@West of the Rockies: Hey we got one alcoholic, let’s get another one. Push the accelerator on the crazy train.
cain
@SpaceUnit: I’m not a fan, I feel like it muddles the taste of the meat.
Melancholy Jaques
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:
I understood why the political media did not like that, but I didn’t get why voters hated it so much. Still don’t.
MazeDancer
@Spanky:
Oops. One drop.
As in, the Pope would be Black in certain circles. Local New Orleans and Chicago media is all over it.
Also, a lotta year book photos online.
MagdaInBlack
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: Green olive brine works too.
I have a nice indica here and its helping.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?: competence is apparently boring ? It makes no sense to me.
This president slept through Pope Francis’ funeral. He slept through his felony trial. He sleeps by day so he can post by night.
lowtechcyclist
@Keith P:
Sounds like it has possibilities! And my wife would think she’d died and gone to heaven.
Mai Naem mobile
I had driven several times in a commercial/industrial area where there’s a retail building with a cookie sign. I happened to drive through the area in the evening. Each time the parking lot was packed. I was driving and it was dark so I didn’t really notice much except for the cookie sign and parking lot. I get home and decide to look this place up thinking it must be really good and maybe next time stop by and buy some cookies. Yeah, found out it sells weed cookies. Lol. It’s a couple of miles from the ASU campus so can’t be that far from where Joelle lives but I doubt weed cookies would be welcome at their wedding cookie table.
lowtechcyclist
@Eric S.:
Oh I don’t want a pickle…
Mai Naem mobile
@MagdaInBlack: i am waiting for Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson to do a big story on how tfg’s staff are doing a huge cover up of tfg’s real medical condition and his declining cognitive abilities. I have a feeling I’ll be waiting till tfg is dead.
schrodingers_cat
@Melancholy Jaques: I think Biden would have won if Ds hadn’t lost their nerve. That was a stunning display of political cowardice. Enough voters didn’t want to elevate a black woman of immigrant descent to the presidency.
Steve in the ATL
@lowtechcyclist: what rhymes with “e-bike”? Gotta keep with the times!
MagdaInBlack
@Mai Naem mobile: well, the Adderall kicked in and he’s now quite coherent. It’s all his usual lying with a lot of words that say very little, but he’s alert and yammering away.
( I watch so you don’t have to ;-)
Eta: I think he gets bored and dozes off whenever the topic isn’t him.
lowtechcyclist
@Eric S.:
That’s not just tacky and embarrassing, that’s weird.
Presumably at that point, the groom has already removed the garter from his bride’s thigh, in full view of everyone, right? (Can you say “symbolic deflowering”? I knew you could!) That’s weird enough, tyvm. And I’m glad that most weddings I’ve been at (including my own) skipped that bit.
I’m not sure where the symbolism goes from there with the garter being freakin’ auctioned off, but I really don’t want to even think about it.
Suzanne
@Eric S.: Tackiest thing I ever observed at a wedding was at my oldest cousin’s. My aunt and uncle, the bride’s parents, had divorced about a year before. The wedding was at 10 AM or so, but my uncle’s good pal showed up absolutely shitfaced. My cousin had a friend of hers, who is gay, read a poem at the ceremony. Drunk asshole friend starts raucously chortling during the poem reading.
Later, at the reception, we’re all hanging out, and my uncle and his friend came walking drunkenly over. My mom greeted my uncle, her now-former BIL. Uncle introduces her to his friend and says, in front of the whole family, “This is the sister I shoulda married!”.
Doc H
Holy carp! Does this make me a front-pager??? 😂🤣😂
lowtechcyclist
@Steve in the ATL:
I don’t know what rhymes with it, but it got me to the store and back yesterday and still had almost all of its charge left, so it’s passed the test.
Sister Golden Bear
@West of the Rockies:
The Federalist Society must be busy chugging box wine right now.
Steve in the ATL
@Sister Golden Bear: I suspect that blended Scotch is the Federalist Society version of boxed wine.
As I always like to remind people, the biggest assholes in law school–which is really saying something–were the Federalist Society people.
Sister Golden Bear
@cain: It’s a budget savings move—Bevmo can now send a single fully-loaded semi for their deliveries to both Hesgreth and Pirro.
Eric S.
@Suzanne: if I think back on it I could probably, maybe?, think of something tackier done by a drunk and/or jerk at a wedding. But as a scheduled event? Hard to beat that auction.
Suzanne
@Eric S.: I’ve seen the garter bidding thing. Agree with you: Ubergross.
Spanky
@Steve in the ATL:
“I just wanna ride my ‘lectric sickle”.
NotMax
@Soprano2
What, no slivovits?
;)
Gvg
@Suzanne: I think it’s a really old tradition. I’ve seen several variations of traditions involving garters, and the new husband removing it in front of the crowd. I am pretty sure it’s related to medieval traditions. The ones for noble marriages sometimes called for the bride to undress in front of the crowd of witnesses to make sure she wasn’t hiding any deformities that could prevent bearing a child. That’s horrifying. Nearly everything I have read about marriage traditions before maybe 1960 sounds terrible to me. We still have a ways to go.
Jay
@Gvg:
Our marriage tradition, was a Civil Marriage in the upper meadow, in Carharts, with 2 witnesses, Alton Browned Ribs for 8 guests at the reception with potato salad, Jay Salad and Mexican corn.
Blackberry and apple pie with real vanilla ice cream.
Suzanne
@Gvg: There’s the lovely Italian tradition of hanging out the wedding night sheet the day after, too. Not fucked up at all.
Jay
Had Alton Browned ribs for dinner last night, got dibs on what was left for tonight, picked up 2 more racks, (good prices) so more in process.
Jay
@Suzanne:
No, it’s F’d up. First marriage was Italian. At the time, I asked my Ex what the ketchup packets were for.
Craig
@HopefullyNotcassandra: pickled ginger, I’ll eat that all day.
RevRick
@geg6: When I served a church in Western PA from 75-88, the weddings I performed were mostly of the firehall variety. Which meant that the women’s auxiliary provided a buffet offering a choice between chicken and roast beef or ham, baked ziti, canned green beans, canned carrots and canned corn, plus rolls. The fancier options included a fresh veggie tray. And yes, cookies and a wedding cake.
RevRick
@Steve in the ATL: Nothing out tackies the garter.
ETA: Eric beat me to it, but had another version.
RevRick
@lowtechcyclist: Oh, in the wedding receptions I observed in western PA , first the bride tossed her bouquet, then the groom removed the garter from her thigh, then he tossed the garter, and the guy who caught it then placed it on the leg of the woman who caught the bouquet, often with raucous urging for him to go higher!
It was appalling.
Life among the white working class.
Jackie
@Jay:
Thanks for the genuine beverage spewing laugh! 😂 🤣 😂
Miss Bianca
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
First time I’ve ever heard of a lunchtime seance, but hey, whatever blows your dress up.
linnen
@Mai Naem mobile:
Most likely the juicy stuff is being held over until they have a book deal.