S/o things I learned in frum magazines

Mommyg8 ↓

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 6:18 pm

ittsamother wrote:

Lol, I once had a whole long conversation with my husband and brother around the phrase, "his eyes twinkled", where I complained that that's not a thing! Eyes don't twinkle! And their entire rejoinder was "but you get what the author intends!"

You never met my husband. His eyes definitely twinkle.

↑ ittsamother

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 6:22 pm

Mommyg8 wrote:

You never met my husband. His eyes definitely twinkle.

Like a diamond? Like a star? Are they faceted?

↑ GLUE ↓

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 6:35 pm

shachachti wrote:

I didn't open a magazine in years so maybe things changed.

But the recipes.
Everyone has money for every expensive ingredient. It's a given its the norm and I'm simply living under a rock that I don't even know these ingredients exist.

Now the new thing is cooking from cans
Take a can of pumpkin it with some chicken soup mix....

penguin ↓

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 6:36 pm

This must go back at least 30 years (were there frum mags then? Maybe a couple that don't exist anymore...)

My son commented something about the fairy tales where the mother has freshly baked brownies for the kids after school...

And how about those tablescapes folks? Exactly whom are you inviting to that gorgeous table?

I actually found some beautiful (but very fragile) inexpensive stemware, but when the grandkids got insulted that I was only using it for the adults,I put it away. (If it were easy to find more, I might risk it...)

↑ Mommyg8 ↓

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 6:38 pm

ittsamother wrote:

Like a diamond? Like a star? Are they faceted?

Like eyes. They twinkle.

↑ Mommyg8

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 6:40 pm

shachachti wrote:

Yup! I don't even know what some of the ingredients are! I've certainly never bought them.

↑ shachachti

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 6:51 pm

GLUE wrote:

Now the new thing is cooking from cans
Take a can of pumpkin it with some chicken soup mix....

Page 1
Why everyone eats all healthy and vegetarian
Page 2
Deep fry a can of pumpkin with soup mix and heavy cream.

Rolling Eyes

↑ ap

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 6:53 pm

Page 2
Materialism isn't important
We aren't here forever

Page 4
Luxury jewelry you deserve 🙄
Vacation in style

↑ AmedeoAvogadro

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 7:30 pm

If the crisis that is the plot of the serial costs a lot of money (I.e. therapy or lawyers or relocation etc), then the teenager in the family will desperately need new braces.

ra_mom

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 7:44 pm

GLUE wrote:

Now the new thing is cooking from cans
Take a can of pumpkin it with some chicken soup mix....

Can you post an example? I want to see what I'm missing Laugh

tigerwife

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 7:50 pm

B”H every character has a Dumbledore-esque Rav to consult with, but only once their issue has escalated to tsunami proportions.

To be a main character, you must have some strain of basic communication issues.

ectomorph

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 8:15 pm

polka dots wrote:

Woman scrub invisible spots on the counter when they are angry or anxious, until it shines.
Me just takes a huge slice of the closest thing next to me and shove in in my mouth

I laughed out loud. Thanks for this.

BH Yom Yom

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 9:10 pm

In a moment of tension, the female main character must wring her hands, and say “why oh, why _______?”

Mommyflower

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 9:55 pm

Completely secular people being interviewed always have some sort of a pintele yid and they also all inject frum speak in their responses (not that the editor is taking any poetic license...)

Everyone has a really horrible medical condition that keeps getting worse until a miracle doctor discovers the obvious cure (I somehow always ending up crying anyway.)

little neshamala

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 10:19 pm

All of the good, baalei midos husbands are either in kolel presently or learned in kolel.

The Rav of the shul always notices when someobody has a "weight on their shoulders", arranges a talk "by chance", and offers an eitzah that fixes the problem within a week or two.

When interviewing a panel of people about spending for a simchah, the most frugal couple on the panel is still quite spendy, as though to suggest that the bare bare minimum spending in our society is still on that lifestyle.

↑ giftedmom ↓

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 10:29 pm

When you live in a cul de sac or go to the country either you’re super close with everyone or totally ignored

↑ giftedmom ↓

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 10:31 pm

little neshamala wrote:

And conversely all the horrible husbands are money hungry businessmen

↑ giftedmom

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 10:32 pm

All non-Frum people are secretly miserable and envious of the Frum lifestyle

↑ 1346 ↓

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 10:47 pm

Sister/Mother/BFF randomly show up to the house with dinner 'cuz they KNEW something was wrong'

↑ GLUE ↓

Sun, Jul 21 2024, 11:09 pm

ra_mom wrote:

Can you post an example? I want to see what I'm missing Laugh

This week all the magazines I have in my house have normal recipes like
Take chicken cutlets with garlic and soy source

No weird ingredients no can ingredients so I can not show you what I meant.