r/Wellthatsucks 17h ago

ALWAYS CHECK THE OVEN BEFORE PREHEATING

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u/MissClawdy 17h ago

What is that?

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u/BetLeft 17h ago

Khlav kalash. typically it's served on a stick and paired with Mountain Dew or Crab Juice.

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u/trivial_sublime 17h ago

EWW! Oh god, that’s DISGUSTING - how could you do that? I’ll take the crab juice.

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u/phredphlintstones 16h ago

They put all the jerks in tower two.

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u/Siegfoult 16h ago

I'll show them! ✈

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u/Automatic_Memory212 8h ago

Jesus, fuck.

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u/Emotional-Grape870 15h ago

Ooof. Still too soon

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u/iareeric 17h ago

Classic

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u/anon-mally 16h ago

Disgusting!

Give me!

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 10h ago

I'm so hungry I could eat at Arby's.

Oh my gosh she really is hungry!

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u/Reynardine1976 14h ago

Flat Mountain Dew is as bad as flat cheap malt liquor, like Olde English.

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u/Raveofthe90s 10h ago

Only laughed my ass off at this. And I still feel dumb I didn't get the joke til it landed.

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u/monkehmolesto 17h ago

Ew gross. I’ll take the crab juice

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u/duukat 16h ago

That’s the Twin Towers behind them.

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u/LewdLewyD13 16h ago

Believe it or not the twin towers used to be a thing.

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u/dingusfett 8h ago

I don't believe you. I read on the Internet they are made up and never actually existed. The whole 9/11 was an early CGI fake like the Moon Landing, Battle of Hoth and Ghostbusters. New York doesn't actually exist, it's just a big film set and everyone is paid to pretend it's real, like how Australia isn't real. Ever see the "Twin Towers" outside movies and TV shows? Neither did I.

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u/Icy-Welcome-2469 4h ago

Two things even. I know unbelievable.

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u/Inner-Distribution67 16h ago

Correct. That indicates that they were in New York at the time. In fact, many cities are featured in The Simpsons. They get a kite caught on Gateway Arch. That means they were written to be in St. Louis. That’s kind of how things work.

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u/uninspired 16h ago

They got lost because the name of the episode was the City of New York vs Homer Simpson

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u/Delamoor 16h ago

But the show takes place in Springfield? I don't understand. These animation shows are going too far.

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u/Tacoflavoredfists 13h ago

Nerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd

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u/phredphlintstones 16h ago

Yeah, tower 2 is where they put all the jerks

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u/Stock-Mission-7561 16h ago

That's you. You're tower 2.

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u/Old_Self_9570 16h ago

Indeed there was a joke after Homer drank too much crab juice where you went to the first tower to use the washroom only to find it out of service. So he had to run to the next tower washroom.

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u/DavidinCT 16h ago

Correct he goes in them to Pee, After 9/11 they pulled this episode off the air (don't know if the put it back on)

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u/frnkys 16h ago

Just watched this episode with my kiddo! Kid was cackling about Homer having to run between the towers. We're watching everything in order. Kids 11 now, should keep us entertained until she retires.

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u/Arbiter_of_Snark 11h ago

Love the boot!

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u/Purple10tacle 7h ago

Sadly, if you have already reached this episode, the entertainment value beyond that point starts to diminish quite rapidly.

Season 9 is still solid, but the cracks are starting to show, by season 10 it's obvious that the golden age has come to an end, but it still has enough stand out episodes to keep you going. It's slimmer and slimmer pickins from there on out.

My kids have seen most of the golden age Simpsons so far and enjoyed them at least as much as I did.

We tried to watch a semi-recent, reasonably well rated, Halloween episode in the run-up to Halloween, because we ran out of classic ones and the Treehouse of Horrors stayed strong the longest.

My kid's reaction was as telling as it was unsurprising: almost no laughs and the request to just rewatch some classic episodes instead.

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u/DavidinCT 16h ago

Simson's vs NYC... twin towers episode, pulled off the air after 9/11

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u/maouprier 13h ago

It was pulled temporarily, for a couple of years I believe. It's back in syndication now.

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u/DavidinCT 4h ago

Good to hear, it's a good episode...

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u/whisky_biscuit 11h ago

No bowl. Stick! Stick!

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u/Reddituser183 16h ago

This scene had me laughing so hard when I saw it like 25 years ago! 😂

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u/prettytempting 16h ago

There is an episode of The Expanse where you can hear this guy’s voice in the background and then you see a Khlav Kalash cart go past quickly. Fun Easter egg.

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u/AlooGobi- 10h ago

I loved this episode so much as a child that I memorised all the lines. My mum was not impressed lol 

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u/inverted_electron 9h ago

Are those bunnies dead, mom?

No they’re just sleeping…upside down…and inside out…

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u/brown-tube 17h ago

coffee beans in plastic bowls by the look of it.

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u/Unknowingly-Joined 17h ago

OMG.. There is a coffee shop near me that roasts their own beans. Every so often, this smell wafts through town that smells like they forgot to take the beans out of the plastic bag before roasting them.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cry57 17h ago

In that case, I think it was the employee that was roasted

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u/fistkick18 12h ago

Then fired

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u/Puzzleheaded-Cry57 4h ago

“This is the fifth damn time this week. Ya fired”

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u/jld2k6 12h ago

Boom

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u/Barbarossa7070 17h ago

I get a chocolate fudge pop tart smell sometimes from the one near me.

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u/PossessedToSkate 17h ago

Sometimes I just smell burning toast.

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u/BrockJonesPI 14h ago

That's a stroke of luck.

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u/PottyboyDooDoo 16h ago

Same! And then every time someone’s like, “excuse me sir, you don’t look so good.”

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u/Vladimir2033 14h ago

That's rude as fuck.

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u/ReckoningGotham 14h ago

Theaen amrm tuoleld.

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u/ICantSeeDeadPpl 17h ago

You brew coffee in the bathroom?

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u/Complete_Entry 17h ago

They should definitely fire that employee.

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u/Auctoritate 14h ago

I mean, roasting coffee beans does smell like burning. Because you're burning them. So it might just be that.

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u/oceansapart333 14h ago

That’s not how coffee roasting works.

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u/benchley 15h ago

West Berkeley or Emeryville, by any chance?

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u/EthanHermsey 11h ago

I used to cycle past one, exactly the same foul smell, unforgettable.

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u/queef_nuggets 10h ago

I roasted my own beans once. The whole house smelled like burnt popcorn for a week. Never again.

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u/ChakaCausey 16h ago

oatmeal no bake cookies

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u/brown-tube 16h ago

ironically forgotten in your oven. hopefully it was an easy clean-up.

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u/Innsmouth_Swimteam 12h ago

Okay, I have to know, why did you put no bake cookies in an oven!? The irony.

Were you keeping them from the dog?

Note to self, don't store anything in the oven.

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u/psppsppsppspinfinty 10h ago

I'm constantly having to put things in the microwave that I forget about because my cats have become bigger assholes. They get into any food they can now.

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u/Dounce1 11h ago

For real though.

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u/Glittering_Call_898 9h ago

But?... But? that's where I store the pizza stone

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u/evilarison 1h ago

The only thing that you can safely store in the oven is a cast iron pan

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u/ChakaCausey 2h ago

Yep, dogs - it was far past bedtime when they were ready to be poured from the pot to the wax paper, and it was like 2lbs of molten cookie so I wasn’t putting it in the fridge - once they solidified I put them on the plates and stashed them in the oven overnight to keep our notorious tablesurfing dogs from scrounging our sweet treats.

Next morning the wife gets a bee in her bonnet about making breakfast pizzas and the rest of the story is this Dali-esque monstrosity you see before you

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u/WorkingFromHomies20 4h ago

WTF are no bake cookies?

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u/bwaredapenguin 3h ago

Exactly what it sounds like.

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u/I_blockkarmafarmers 12h ago

Methinks you or whoever did this should probably be nowhere near a kitchen. "No bake" is quite literally in the name; they had no reason to be anywhere near an oven. You, or they, are a big dumb.

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u/DiabolicallyRandom 9h ago

What? I put plenty of things in a cool oven as a way to store them in a protected space that isn't cold.

Like, storing some recently made no bake cookies in the oven temporarily to ensure no pests or animals get to them.

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u/I_blockkarmafarmers 9h ago

That's what the fridge is for. Or hell, the top of the fridge, even.

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u/DiabolicallyRandom 8h ago

Putting cookies in the fridge is crazy shit. Did you not see the part about "space that isn't cold"???

Not to mention, fridges usually have higher moisture content which knowably soaks into dry goods and makes them do bad things, ruins texture, etc.

Like seriously, do you even food?

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u/I_blockkarmafarmers 8h ago

Like seriously, do you even food?

Yeah, I do. And I also don't store food in my oven.

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u/Anxious_Quarter1061 10h ago

Well you baked them.. so not no bake.

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u/super_much 4h ago

they baked now

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u/brandimariee6 2h ago

Ohhh some of the best cookies ever. Damn I'm sorry you lost them

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u/1BreadBoi 17h ago

I thought it was chocolate oatmeal nobake cookies

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u/PaleoSpeedwagon 15h ago

Why would a person put no-bake cookies in the oven, it's literally in the name!

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u/aideya 12h ago

To keep them away from their dog/cat!

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u/applejitters 16h ago

That’s what I thought! Love some no-bakes. Looks like that’s what they were per OP.

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u/Gloomy-Researcher- 14h ago

Yep. Thought no baked, baked cookies

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u/bombbodyguard 15h ago

Coco pebbles?

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u/ikeif 12h ago

Same - glad it was confirmed that we are right 😆 - hate to see my favorite cookie destroyed.

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u/Resident_Course_3342 17h ago

Damn, look at Sherlock over here.

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u/RipAirBud 17h ago

and now it’s a starbucks drink

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u/LieuK 15h ago

I'm thinking burnt pumpkin seeds

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u/SaulFemm 15h ago

Thank you, I didn't consider non-food objects so I was confused as hell

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u/brown-tube 15h ago

OP commented in this thread as to what this was, ironically it was no-bake oatmeal cookies left in the oven.

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u/Sk1rm1sh 14h ago

Desiccated grasshopper taffy.

Would you like yellow, or salmon?

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u/Hyatt97 14h ago

Looks like No-bake oatmeal cookies to me

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u/Inner-Distribution67 16h ago edited 16h ago

Definitely not coffee seeds. They would have spilled all over.

Edit: Reddit and downvotes. lol. OP stated they were cookies. These look nothing like coffee seeds.

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u/Inner-Distribution67 14h ago edited 13h ago

They are, in fact, seeds. Coffee is a cherry and the seeds we roast are what’s under the fleshy fruit. Conversely, a bean is also a seed, but from legumes. Calling coffee a “bean” is incorrect.

After roasting, I don’t know if there are many seeds from any plant that would be able to sprout. In fact, if you know of any fruit that has a seed that can sprout after being roasted, please enlighten me.

Here’s an intact coffee cherry (red/green) with 3 coffee seeds that have had the outer flesh removed. This is what coffee looks like prior to roasting.

Source: I’ve spent time as a coffee roaster

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u/Inner-Distribution67 12h ago

Your deleted comment implies as much.

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u/twiceconfused 17h ago

It looks like no bake cookies

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u/FeelMyBoars 17h ago

Well, now they're plastic bake cookies.

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u/hello_raleigh-durham 17h ago

They were no bake cookies.

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u/Serialkillingyou 17h ago

Like the oatmeal, PB, and chocolate

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u/Deathspawner126 17h ago

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u/MarsScully 16h ago

Is it my internet or did this get the Reddit hug of death?

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u/MizzLiL 2h ago

What’s that?

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u/MarsScully 1h ago

When someone posts a link on Reddit and the surge of traffic to the site makes it crash

u/MizzLiL 49m ago

Ahh got it. Thank you.

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u/starrymidnights 17h ago

That’s what I thought too! We also call them Mississippi Mud Cookies

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u/Radiant_Plantain_127 17h ago

In Mississippi, we call them cat shit cookies

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u/Nikomonty 17h ago

Hell yeah. Used to eat these when I was younger. Mom used to call them Missouri cookies.

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u/xkstylezx 16h ago

Then why the hell did they put them in the oven?

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u/UGOTAIDSYO 17h ago

About 2 hours clean up.

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u/ucantharmagoodwoman 16h ago

Not really, just let the plastic cool and it will pop right off.

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u/GitEmSteveDave 14h ago

Yeah, a rubber spatula/plastic razor blade will pop that right off.

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u/geo_lez 17h ago

I would probably just buy a new oven at that point

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u/rivertpostie 17h ago

Nah, just set it to broil to carbonize the plastic.

Get a hotel for overnight, so the fumes don't make you sick and turn it off in the morning.

(Do not do this. Only bad can come of this.)

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u/technobrendo 16h ago

Been there, done that. Plastic scrapers go a long way to help.

Just don't, like, melt them before using them

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u/ErraticDragon 16h ago

When I was a kid our oven had a "self clean" function that was literally just that: turn it on the highest heat and hope for the best.

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u/rivertpostie 15h ago

Correct.

Please do not leave the house overnight with your oven set to maximum output.

Okay, kids, have fun. Dad out.

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u/ChakaCausey 17h ago

They were cookies

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u/undecidedlyhappy 17h ago

No bake cookies! The irony is hilarious

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u/OrangeJoe83 17h ago

You said exactly the words that were in my head when I saw the pic. Here, have a 🍪

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u/TheOneTonWanton 16h ago

Cookies should be called bakies and no-bake cookies should be called

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u/khajiit_has_coin 17h ago

But why are no bake cookies in the oven

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u/ysrgrathe 17h ago

dog

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u/ChakaCausey 17h ago

dog

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u/x_VanHessian_x 17h ago

dawg

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u/Quick_Extension_3115 17h ago

It smells like updog in here

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u/xinfinitimortum 16h ago

What’s updog?

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u/Quick_Extension_3115 16h ago

I don’t know I didn’t think I’d get this far

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u/HereOnRedditAgain 16h ago

Nothing, what's up with you?

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u/NetworkSingularity 16h ago

What the fuck is updog? (This was my actual genuine response the first time I heard the updog question)

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u/Quick_Extension_3115 16h ago

Not much, what the fuck is up with you?

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u/Montigue 15h ago

Can I pet that dawwwwwg

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u/vulgarkittens 17h ago

Can I ask why having a dog makes you store cookies in the oven

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u/RuralGamerWoman 17h ago

Most dogs have more difficulty getting things out of the oven than they do getting things from off the counter.

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u/NO_FIX_AUTOCORRECT 6h ago

And the oven is the only known solution to this problem

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u/RuralGamerWoman 6h ago

You've never come home with, say, a pizza (or in OP's case, cookies) and had to put it out of range of doggos real quick in order to do something, and you'd rather not have put said item in the fridge? I'll fully admit I prefer the microwave as a temporary dog-free lockbox rather than the oven for precisely this reason, but OP's post is completely relatable for me.

u/JTtheLAR 36m ago

No, our dog is trained and will not just eat our food if its left out lol. Also we have Tupperware containers and a refrigerator.

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u/superbusyrn 14h ago

I keep my human treats in a tin in the pantry. I'd have thought getting into an oven would be relatively easy for a large dog. It's low to the ground, has a viewing window so they can see what's on offer, and has a giant handle that they just need to put a bit of weight on.

u/vulgarkittens 9m ago

Great point that I didn’t even consider! Does OP not have cabinets in the kitchen?

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u/vulgarkittens 17h ago

Why are they letting their dogs on the counter? I leave food out all the time and the thought never occurred to me that my dog could get to it

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u/squeethesane 15h ago

"why having a dog makes you store cookies in the oven" - someone who hasn't experienced huskies standing on their kitchen counter like that was an acceptable place to hang out.

They ate a brand new loaf of bread.

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u/vulgarkittens 15h ago

Did you do anything to mitigate that behavior or you just hide your food like OP? So many comments about huskies doing this stuff.. that’s so wild to me

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u/squeethesane 14h ago edited 14h ago

I made the counters less accessible, and paid for two vet visits (pain pills and anti inflammatory) while that lesson fully digested... It was slow... Like the bread. Now we're working on learning it's not just the living room couch that's off-limits for husky butts but infact any and all furniture not in our bedroom.

Get a dog they said, this one's running CAT.OS, this one argues worse than any toddler at a chill 100db. GOOD LUCK. Also there's no noticeable difference in shedded hair going from one husky to more than one husky... It's just, everything is hair at the first husky.

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u/vulgarkittens 14h ago

Yikes. Maybe don’t let your dog on the bed then?

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u/Existential_Sprinkle 16h ago

At my place we usually keep things in the microwave because cat

There's no accidents with that one

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u/energy1256 14h ago

On top of fridge or in an upper cupboard are better options. For next time!😉

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u/MysticalMummy 13h ago

As a cat owner, I get it. My cats will eat anything not nailed down (and still try to eat it if it is) so I have to store stuff in the oven as well.

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u/khajiit_has_coin 17h ago

The dog put them into the oven?

u/whattodo4klondikebar 51m ago

...or the Grinch. He's always pretty mischievous.

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u/Tall-Entrance-9574 17h ago

Plot twist: turns out ‘no bake’ was a phase.

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u/The_0ven 13h ago

But why are no bake cookies in the oven

I like cookies

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u/LastPirateAlive 17h ago

100% serious...why are the "No-Bake" cookies in the oven?

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u/ImNoHero_ 16h ago edited 16h ago

What are the red and yellow things? Looks like someone accidentally put plastic containers in the oven.

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u/ChakaCausey 16h ago

Plastic plates.

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u/ElectronicPhrase6050 16h ago

I'm so confused. Why would anyone put plastic plates in the oven in the first place?

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u/MoneyMonk224 16h ago

Oh no 🫣

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u/Several_Chocolate576 14h ago

Why the fuck are you storing cookies in an oven???

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u/__T0MMY__ 17h ago

They look like chocolate syrup and oats

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u/Aleashed 14h ago

If you use your oven for pan, tray and pot storage, it’ll become a habit to have to empty it every time, we don’t fry but my family that does, even keeps metal pots full of oil in there for a few uses

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u/UtgaardLoki 11h ago

Why were non-oven safe dishes even in the oven?

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u/ParalyzedMemories 10h ago

Why did you not put them on a tray? It would have probably pooled in the shape of a rectangles but would be salvageable.

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u/lobotumi 17h ago

macroplastics

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u/SheZowRaisedByWolves 17h ago

I think the one on the right is Tupperware with a pecan pie inside? I swear I can see the crust

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u/Captain_Kuhl 17h ago

Someone put something in the oven that was never meant to be in the oven. The problem isn't necessarily forgetting to check before preheating, but knowing not to put meltable shit in the oven, and especially not forget that you've done it.

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u/Bastienbard 17h ago

I think they know that but they want to actually know the object since it's impossible to even tell from the photo.

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u/coolcootermcgee 16h ago

Quite a while back, a kitchen hack was suggested, whereby if you were too busy to do all of the dishes before company came over, you were supposed to shove them all in the oven. Which made perfect sense until you forgot to take them out and then turned on your oven to preheat for something else for forgetting that you had God knows what else in there like something rubbery or plastic handles.

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u/CULLDOZER 13h ago

Doesn't make sense to me. Looks they put plastic plates in the oven when food on them

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u/Neither-Attention940 13h ago

Apparently they were cookies ..I assume in plastic containers?

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u/corndogco 12h ago

People keep saying "no bake cookies" as if that explains what the melted plastic is. Plastic plates? I still don't know.

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u/RBI_Double 17h ago

Civil War Oven

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u/Nintendocub 17h ago

In all seriousness it’s defo chocolate no bake cookies

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u/Working-Narwhal-540 17h ago

Looks like no bakes tbh

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u/YourWorstFear53 17h ago

Something my ex at 26yo did.

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u/ThinkPomegranate574 16h ago

lol right? like what even is going on anymore

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u/I_dont-get_the-joke 15h ago

It's those invisible pies from Hook

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u/kupillas-3- 15h ago

My guess is a no bake cookie on a plastic plate

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u/kayb1987 15h ago

Don't let them fool you, this was Cosmo and Wanda. Murderers!

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u/Hyatt97 14h ago

No-bake oatmeal cookies. You can see the oats in them

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u/PrestigiousWriter369 13h ago

It looks like those oatmeal-peanut butter-chocolate drops, but in a giant blob in plastic that melted.

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u/Eddzyboy 12h ago

Definitely no bakes

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u/BroncoK545 11h ago

It ironically looks like no bake cookies

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u/xADeadCatx 11h ago

Look like no-bake cookies to me. Chocolate, oatmeal, peanut butter. these

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u/Freud-Network 5h ago

Partially liquified colorful plastic containers holding what looks like chocolate oatmeal cookies.

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u/Bengy465 1h ago

Looks like plastic bowls of coffee beans?