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Cake day: January 19th, 2025

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  • Not technically but, like, it’s definitely a lot of cream cheese. Grabbing the first cheesecake recipe that came up when I searched, the non-crust ingredients are listed as:

    32 oz cream cheese², softened to room temperature (910g)
    ▢ 1 cup sugar, (200g)
    ▢ ⅔ cups sour cream, (160g)
    ▢ 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
    ▢ ⅛ teaspoon salt
    ▢ 4 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten
    

    So that’s 60% cream cheese. By contrast, the cream cheese is only 17% of the called-for ingredients of this recipe (seeing as it calls for double of what-the-cream-cheese-amount-is in cottage cheese, I was curious what percentage is both the cottage cheese and cream cheese and that’s still just 51%; so less than the cream cheese of the cheese cake, still. I was curious what percentage we got to if we included the heavy cream to target the largest amounts of dairy it calls for (though somewhat unfair as the 60% in the cheese cake is just the cream cheese and leaves out the sour cream (it jumps to 70%, with the sour cream included, in case you were curious)) and we do get up 68% of the ingredients, with that included. But, you know, that’s cream cheese, cottage cheese, and heavy cream and not just cream cheese).









  • When someone proposes, implements or enforces a clearly sensible rule, and someone else brings weird corner case scenarios up, always ask yourself if there’s a conflict of interests.

    I can’t tell if I started doing this more as disinformation became more prevalent over the recent years or it’s something I’ve always done; I don’t know where I would’ve picked it up from.

    Nevertheless, you’re spot on; it’s an incredibly good rule-of-thumb.

    (I just realized it might’ve been funny if I’d responded to this with a weird, corner-case scenario, instead; but it’s late and I can’t think of a good one for it)








  • (granted, you did mention that you could shoehorn this but) I don’t think a fragment of any sentence needs to have the sentence make sense if you remove the fragment; we jam fragments that are required to understand a sentence into all sorts of locations of sentences, all the time.

    The honest answer is that we don’t really have any hard rules about comma usage (as you point out, the sentence would work just as well without any commas), broadly, so people kind of just go vibes-based, most of the time.

    I feel like “did so with poor grammar” very obviously doesn’t feel like a tack on to a sentence (like, starting with a verb wouldn’t make sense) so I’m inclined to disagree but I’m anal about comma placement so maybe the average person would.