Superbowl LVI Commercials

[YankeeTripper]

I was not expecting a Turkish Airlines commercial

[knoath]

Didn’t Morgan Freeman play a Turkish guy in Robin Hood?

[Vorian_Atreides]

I believe it was technically a Moor.

[1695814]

Not a Moop, Bubble Boy?

[1695814]

@1695814

Funny thing…just last night there was a headline of all avocados from Mexico are banned.

I guess we can get our guac on…

The U.S. is lifting a ban on inspections of Mexican avocados, freeing the way for exports to resume.

[dr_t_non-fan]

Just want you to know: your Star Tribune is not worth the subscription, so I didn’t read.

U.S. lifts ban on avocados from Mexico after a week

[1695814]

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Happy Papi?

[Actuary321]

Can someone explain this quote from numbers “Outline” article?

“It’s requiring Americans to really ask themselves, do they want to pay more to have a quality product or do they want to kind of look the other way and be able to slice their toast accordingly?”

[1695814]

I’ve never heard that phrase before…does it have something to do with avocado toast?

[Vorian_Atreides]

@Actuary321

Can someone explain this quote from numbers “Outline” article?

“It’s requiring Americans to really ask themselves, do they want to pay more to have a quality product or do they want to kind of look the other way and be able to slice their toast accordingly?”

It’s made in the context of the previous three paragraphs (emphasis added):

The Mexican harvest is January through March, while U.S production runs from April to September.

While there is concern about the deforestation and violence that have resulted from the avocado boom in Michoacan, it is unclear whether Americans would be willing to pay more for avocados produced by growers who do not pay protection money demanded by drug cartels in Michoacan.

The connection to U.S. consumers is hardly theoretical: That protection money goes to the same cartels flooding the United States with deadly fentanyl pills counterfeited to look like Xanax, Adderall or Oxycodone. Synthetic opioid overdoses killed about 60,000 Americans last year.

If your question is about slicing toast . . . Yuppie Millennials have some weird vocabularies.

[Actuary321]

Yes, my question was about “and be able to slice their toast accordingly.”

I understood the rest in context, the “slice their toast” just didn’t make sense. Maybe had he said, “spread their toast” or “cover their toast”, I might have understood better.

[dr_t_non-fan]

“To Slice toast” means “to add a slice of something to one’s toast”?

Idiots. Yes, every single one of them using this phrase in this manner.

[Actuary321]

Must be a west coast thing. Cause you don’t fall into most of the other categories I would think to put this in.

[dr_t_non-fan]

I have never heard that phrase before. Might be a West L.A. thing or South O.C. thing. Or an “industry” thing.

Nothing on Google, so maybe my first thought is wrong.
Only a “how to slice a sandwich/toast – horizontally, vertically or diagonally, for presentation before eating it.”
And that,… depends on what I’m eating. PB (no J, as J sucks – messy, mainly), I’m just folding over. A Sourdough Melt (thin pear slices, prosciutto, and grated sharp cheddar): I cut slightly slanted, about 30 degrees off vertical, as the sourdough is wide. Most other sandwiches I’m not cutting at all. One more thing to do before I eat? Stop wasting my time!!

But, it seems more to mean, “Take what you get, and live with it.” (Whatever “it” is.)