What are "corporate meatballs"?
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This is covered extensively in another comment on this post.
It would cost you nothing to include a link to said comment
Corporate is trying to cut costs, and unnecessary links add to expenses
There aren't 500 comments to scroll through. I cooked the food, I had the conversation, it was covered in depth right here in this post. I am under no obligation by any stretch of netiquette to link to a thread within the same post. This isn't the days of Usenet where post IDs were handy because a post might not propagate to all the servers. You have all the context you need to find the replies without me going through the even minimal labor of finding the link and handing it to you. Let's not encourage entitlement behavior here.
You could have easily just omitted the word corporate from your post
Or replaced it with "store-bought" or "pre-made" or "basic" or whatever
But you chose to include a deliberately obscure term and then wait until the comments to define it?
The simplest explanation is you are hunting for downvotes because you get satisfaction from annoying people
I cook the food I get to decide how to describe it.
Hunting downvotes? I post here nearly every day. I'm literally a moderator here. Your idea doesn't even pass the sniff test.
Ok. Bye. Downvoted.
Corporate meatballs? 🙃
I don't really think we have time for Starbucks right now, Joe.
I like money
Brought to you by Carl's Jr.
Fuck you, I'm eating
I did not know when I chose that phrasing that it was an established norm. But at least it shows that it was understandable term.
Google's AI will often pretend to have heard of a phrase even if it hasn't. Usually it can infer pretty well but sometimes it will just be flat out wrong. In this case it nailed it.
As far as I know Gemini's knowledge base for each response is the first few responses, so that is its entire worldview aha. A few separate mentions of the term could amount to 'common usage' for the AI, plus the bias that of course, as I searched for it and the results are sorted based on relevance and SEO factors, the AI's sources are heavily biased toward it's existence, leading to a misrepresentation of commonality.
Or when you hear people saying ai hallucinates, this is what they are talking about...
All its doing is trying to come up with the best answer it can... corporate meatballs isn't a thing... it's just what they called meatballs they got in a store instead of buying meat and making them
Except I use the term and meant exactly what it said. So it is a thing?
Other than the ai thing I didn't really see anything about other people using it... its clearly understandable though. It's just most people would probably say processed or precooked...
I don't know if anyone else is actually using it. It might be a full-on hallucination. But when? I chose those words the summary the AI gave is completely accurate to what I meant. This might be a case of right for the wrong reason.
Oh, like commodity pizza
LLC Linguine
HR wants to discuss why it's not cool to call management "Corporate Meatballs."
Put it in my file next to "so you're just a bureaucrat."
Ground beef is too expensive to even think about making meatballs.
Italian sausage costs half of what ground beef does here. And it makes some bangin' meatballs.
True but it's not beef. Wife demands beef. So much so that we talked about getting some breeding muscovies today because their meat is very close to beef.
Got any recommendations for pork meatball recipes? I have a grinder that I've been itching to bust out over winter.
i mean you can just make normal meatballs, the meat barely matters and i'm pretty sure it'll even work fine with soy mince.
For a specific recipe i know works, here's bog standard swedish meatballs, you probably want to make a half size batch:
- 1kg ground meat
- 3dl milk
- 150ml breadcrumbs
- 1 onion, grated or finely diced
- 2 eggs
- 10ml salt
- 2ml black pepper
- 5ml sugar
mix together the milk and breadcrumbs in a big bowl and let it sit for 10 minutes, then add the rest and mix it all together really well. Then form into balls and fry, or if you want to be fancy you can form the balls, boil them, THEN fry. That shit is poppin.
What is this corporate that replaces beef?
Freezer section meatballs like the kind that end up in crockpots at potlucks. 49% not meat.
Cellulose.
Ground beef is too expensive
I hear you, it hurts to double the cost of buying groceries with fresh meat
God damn it. Can I place an order for delivery?
Sorry, kitchen is closed. I made some sourdough herb cookies I'm thinking about eating with smoked mozzarella if you want to come over later.
Rigatoni? Huh, ours are usually in sales, or each others wives.
Holy cheese veins Batman
I smoked a lot of cheese last winter and I'm trying to eat up some of my stock so I can free up room to smoke more this winter.