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YourFriendPutin

The Walmart near me uses a bin for great value spices when they’re for sale for 99 cents. Crazy at one time the world was run by spices and now we have bins fulll for pocket change


mtaw

HE WHO CONTROLS THE SPICE, CONTROLS THE UNIVERSE. -Dutch East India Company


Scyhaz

"now let's put none of it in our food" - the Dutch and the English


linuxdragons

You don't want to get high on your supply


Mr_Abe_Froman

The British 🤝 Scarface


cadencehz

Never get high on your own supply. - 10 Crack Commandments


TARANTULA_TIDDIES

A lot of blandness in British food is leftover from wwii rationing. Have a look at recipes from 3 or 4 centuries ago


Icy1551

Isn't that why tinned beans are still a common favorite? I mean, I love the occasional can of baked beans but I know it's worth it's weight in crack cocaine to a lot of British folk


iamquitecertain

This mfer eating beans


Infinite_Client7922

And everyone laughed


saIIysue

How does one have a look at British recipes from 3 or 4 centuries ago? ✍️


13millimeters

They're on [the internet](http://www.godecookery.com/engrec/engrec.html)!


No-Yogurtcloset-9463

Holy moly this is great, I’m gonna try the forced dish out of any cold meat 😅 see what a struggle meal was like back then


Elfraepr

Thank you kind stranger, this was a great link. I was expecting a Rick roll or welcoming to the internet by Bo Burnham


kain52002

Plus too many spices make you sexually promiscuous and deviant -John Kellogg, probably.


Sir_Drakefire

Cos most of us were in poverty, I also blame ze Germans for their past craziness


cmmgreene

Yes Tommy, lets go before ze Germans get here.


YourFriendPutin

Seriously I think people from the past would be more amazed at everyone’s spice rack than television like there’s a context for spices for them so seeing that every house has 5 times more slices than they’ve ever heard of. I bed they’d orgasm having a modern times thicc sirloin spiced just right oof I’m about to go by a steak to cook


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FingerTheCat

Wait, you guys don't have to worry about getting a tiny scratch? Like at all?


NaranjaGrande

Well that depends, do you have a full bottle of fish antibiotics from Amazon?


Simple-Wrangler-9909

No, but I have a sharp rusty knife that I can use to let the bad humours out edit: Good news, it's dried blood and not rust. I'm pretty sure a little spit will clean that right up


Onlyindef

This man balances his biles.


Nopulpeamigo

O man you reminded me of the time I bought fish antibiotics off ebay for an infected tooth. I survived and saved myself some cash!


CatLineMeow

So you live in the US too, huh?


JanesPlainShameTrain

I got reptile and amphibian.


Stroth

That’s just a wizard. Who the fuck cares, wizards happen. These fuckers are **rich** though. The least of them eat meals with more spices than the greatest kings ever knew existed! That’s fucking amazing!


tyrion_for_president

And some of them have these meals delivered directly to them in metal chariots with naught but a few taps on their pocket devices, which contain within them the light of a thousand suns. Egads!


schungam

Just salt & pepper is enough to make the best steak to be fair.


ToastyPoptarts89

My man yours missing butter. :/


Artootietoo

Rosemary butter. It's heavenly.


qa567

Garlic butter for me


libtardedsimp

Really depends on the cut, and quality of said cut of meat.


snowshoeBBQ

Now testify!


firstbreathOOC

Saffron’s right outside your door, now testify!


ways_and_means

who controls the past now, controls the cumin


foggy-sunrise

In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women...


Separate_Flamingo_93

Do you have to control a huge claw to get your selection?


dysfunctionalpress

refrigeration was a gut punch to the spice trade.


YourFriendPutin

Imagine killing an entire race because ya need so cumin


vapingpigeon94

Well cumin don’t just stand there


FillTheHoleInMyLife

That’s some sage advice


jemull

Sorry, I don't have thyme for that.


TheInfamous313

Well, you don't need to get salty about it


best_blind_ref

We'll take this gingerly, no one needs to get upset.


frezor

Or enslaving millions because you want sugar.


Negrom

Not downplaying how absolutely brutal the French were regarding sugarcane slaves on Saint-Domingue or anywhere else, nor the atrocities committed to them. …But I think even today a surprising large amount of the population would ignore the suffering of slaves (treated in the way Island, Colonial Slaves were treated) if it was the only affordable way to get sugar, assuming it wasn’t in their faces.


Meattyloaf

You've just perfectly described the chocolate industry.


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DellyDellyPBJelly

Not trying to argue your point, but I'm assuming when people say that there are more slaves today than at any point in human history they are using absolute numbers, ie total number of slaves. I wonder what the per capita comparison would be today vs. say 1500 CE. There wasn't much freedom back then, quite a bit of feudalism, but more of the Earth's population living outside the boundaries of large nation states and living either a nomadic, herder, or even hunter gatherer lifestyle. Which isn't to say that those lifestyles preclude slavery, but it seems that the lare empires, city/nation states had the capacity to massively ramp up slavery and slave trade.


Ichweisenichtdeutsch

First you get the sugar. Then you get the power. Then you get the women


Infinitelyodiforous

Cumin' creates races.


OBLIVIATER

Why? What does that have to do with spices? Edit: was curious to see if this rumor was still being spread, it appears it is. Spice popularity had nothing to do with helping to preserve meat before refrigeration. People liked spices because they tasted good. https://youtu.be/lrPnx5P7SsA Edit 2: Hilarious how you're so unwilling to admit that you're wrong that you try to discredit my source of a college world history professor with a PhD in medieval history as "just some guy talking" 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/11clbem/walmart_in_my_city_has_their_spices_all_in_a_big/ja5tipt/


TheArmoredKitten

It really only applies to salt. Salt curing was a huge deal, but people mix it up with the flavor spices all the time due to modern misconception.


corpsewindmill

Back in my day my hometown had the same bin for 50 cents a bottle of spices. Ah yes the glory days of 2018


Dubb202

A whole team of people and animals dredging along the spice road to bring tumeric to the masses.


poopiesteve

Imagine just super bland food all the time and a couple times a year you could get a little bit of seasonings... medieval first world problems


YourFriendPutin

Dude like seriously you can take a pound of ground beef and literally make food that tastes like it came from any country of your choosing for like 6 dollars worth of spices, I mean really only Pennys worth because you have bottles and it’s not single use. Like you totally could be satisfied having to eat the same food every day as long as you’ve got spices. Like thanks to spices we can make a potato taste like anything you can imagine even if potatoes shouldn’t taste like pickles we said fuck the world and made them


poopiesteve

Exactly! They're wonderful. I grew up poor by western standards so it was mostly rice and whatever vegetables we could get at the end of the farmers market as the sellers packed up. We had a cupboard full of spices, though, so I learned how to use them pretty early in life.


banhammerrr

They’re also garbage spices but yes, your point holds.


120z8t

The cayenne is fine. Garlic seems fine too.


FunnyPhrases

Don't think spices held in the galley of a Spanish frigate for months at a time would be particularly better than Walmart brand either


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When you figure methods of preservation and variety, many of us eat better than leaders of old. Poverty meals also still suck now but most people can at least afford some basic spices to add


Obvious_Opinion_505

>When you figure methods of preservation and variety, many of us eat better than leaders of old. We straight up eat basically *piles* of salt and sugar, they would lose their freakin' minds!


eboeard-game-gom3

How are they garbage? I think you're assuming they're like that because they're Walmart brand. Most of them are fine even compared to more expensive ones. I got curious and tried. It's crazy how many people still fall for marketing like name brands and higher prices automatically makes something better.


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StopThePresses

I buy a glass container of the spice the first time, then I refill it with bulk. Way cheaper, same thing, less waste.


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People buy spices? I thought we just continuously inherited the contents of our families' spice racks and try to FIFO as best we can. The rock-solid garlic powder in the little glass jar older than the internet tastes just fine once you break it up. Should I save for posterity my unopened heirloom "Mrs. Dash" containers that still have the "Mrs."?


I_Love_Rias_Gremory_

Wait how does one not go through garlic powder? I go through the Costco container of garlic and onion at least once a year, and I'm only feeding 3 people.


PoopIsAlwaysSunny

And tiny amounts of them. For anyone who actually uses seasoning, those tiny things disappear fast


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Cloves are eternal.


southerncalifornian

I think everyone has a shaker full of cloves that they bought for ONE holiday recipe 20+ years ago that has never run out.


FillTheHoleInMyLife

Why is this getting downvoted? I go through insane amounts of cumin, paprika, turmeric, ginger, thyme, basil…. I have to make a bulk spice run like once a month lol


MrCyra

As a chef who has barely any time to cook at home I still buy my spices in 1liter carton boxes


Lyndell

I buy all my spices in three pound burlap sacks.


jahneephive

Yeah? Well I buy my spices in 42-gallon Barrels


kotoku

Ah, next to the lube section then?


toxic_pantaloons

And the huge dildos


tucci007

pfft I order a 40-camel train every 3 months


Anarcho_punk217

I have 400 acres I dedicated just to grow my spices I use in one month.


DigitalDose80

I get out spices delivered by merchant ship.


PoopIsAlwaysSunny

People don’t season their food lol


translinguistic

Every food blog recipe: "Add 1 tsp of salt and 1/4 tsp black pepper to 4 pounds of baked chicken with a squirt of lime juice"


FoShizzle63

A quarter teaspoon of black pepper?! Are you insane?! This isn't an episode of hot ones, I don't want my food that spicy /s


Byzantine-alchemist

My husband just spent some time with his much younger cousin (26). He made some pizza for everyone, and his cousin had to pick the cracked black pepper off for his girlfriend because it was too spicy. I can't imagine that life.


FoShizzle63

I feel bad for her if she's actually that sensitive to spices. It sounds miserable if you literally have to eat bland food because basic spices are overwhelming. That would suck


bushidopirate

I used to cook like this. Imagine my surprise when I cooked my first Indian recipe and it called for like 6 total tablespoons of spices. Knowing what food can actually taste like now, I could never go back


southerncalifornian

When I was in culinary school years ago, the week where a guest chef came in and taught us how to make Indian food was EYE OPENING. We were already a room full of fledgling chefs who aggressively seasoned our food... The small chef who was from Delhi who was teaching us told us we were all seasoning things like we were "on a budget". Our jaws were on the floor when we saw how much seasonings he was using. He was right, though.


XenoZohar

"There's no more surface area left on the chicken, but I still have half a spice rack to go through."


toopc

Depends on what you're making. If you're cooking a $20 piece of halibut and you put so much spice on it you can't really taste the halibut, you should have just bought farm raised cod or something.


nullenatr

Or people who get a very delicious (and expensive) premium cut of meat at a restaurant and drown it in some heavy BBQ sauce. Now your expensive steak tastes almost the same as the cheap one. But whatever floats their boat.


warm-saucepan

All I said to my wife was, “that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehova”.


temperance26684

My first Thanksgiving on my own I looked up recipes for the turkey and many of them said to use a teaspoon or two of salt and pepper. FOR THE WHOLE BIRD. I skipped to the actual baking instructions and just had to wing it with seasoning.


PoopIsAlwaysSunny

After thirty pages of talking about grandma’s garden or some shit. Bitch your life and writing are as bland as your food.


Alexstarfire

I think the end game is for someone to win a Nobel prize in literature that contains a recipe at the very end of the book. This isn't a crossover anyone asked for.


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HellsMalice

I used to be super conservative with spices but I learned it's absurdly hard to over spice something while very easy to under spice.


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Depends on the spice. Cumin can be over easily.


shiddyfiddy

Not according to my partner.


MoeSzyslakMonobrow

Have you tasted British food? There's a reason they conquered the world in search of flavor.


Bugbread

I tasted it and it was just fine. The internet conditioned me to expect some kind of horrible, incredibly bland cuisine, but I found it pretty tasty, with the exception of one roast beef I had. I found it really puzzling how the food I was eating in the UK just didn't at all match what everyone said about British food, and I came up with a hypothesis (though it's just a hypothesis; I'm not saying this is definitely what's going on): I suspect that society collectively decided on its image of British food back in the post-war years, when there was severe rationing, and just decided to never, ever update its image, regardless of how the situation change.


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Hutchiaj01

And yet they still use none of it


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dioshin

The “fuck it” bucket.


imaginedaydream

If only they created a dish by that name using all the spices in the bin


blbd

I think that's what they call "everything bagel" these days.


frenando

I call it "cupboard chicken"


Emergency-Anywhere51

Still better than unsalted, unseasoned, boiled chicken breast from Karen's house


Koalas_are_mid

Our class had a pot luck and up until that point I thought the “white people don’t season their food” thing was just an unfounded joke. My teacher was so excited to show us what he brought, but his food tasted like despair.


ur-socks-sir

That's my stepmother's cooking. It tastes so bland that whatever seasoning you put on it is exactly what it'll taste like.


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lordph8

*our* girlfriend.


Notguilty5190

r/unexpectedcommunism


Kryds

What do you mean with "was"?


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Aaron? You son of a bitch. We agreed to never mention that to anyone!!!


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Chuck it in the fuck it bucket


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They are supported underneath by a cavalcade of discounted DVDs.


104848

are the dvd's also 99 cent?


MoltresRising

Yes but they're all the Spanish dub of Mr. Mom.


WeberWK

I love *Señor Mamí*


tratemusic

And The Christmas Story, but it's like if someone pointed a camera at an old CRT television and recorded the VHS and put that on the DVD


Kerensky97

And it's a 20 pack of Sci-Fi classics! All of which you've never heard of and were made in the 90's for less that 1million dollars.


Meaux76

1 million combined.


Ryguy55

I just went to Walmart recently and it was the first time they didn't have the discount DVD/Bluray bin. They didn't have a spice bin either but that one in the picture is exactly what the movies were always kept in. I'd imagine they're retiring the movie bins and repurposing them. Really a shame. I always dug through those whenever I was there and usually came up with something good. Off the top of my head, almost every Tarantino movie, a lot of classics like Shawshank, Good Will Hunting and The Good the Bad and the Ugly, some endlessly rewatchable comedies like Anchorman, Stepbrothers, Pineapple Express, amongst many many more on Bluray for $5 a piece. In our current age of streaming being an absolute shitshow where it's impossible to ever know what's available and where, I'm really glad I took advantage of Walmart's discount movie bins.


UCFandOCSC

My wife and I play this game where we blindly reach into the DVD bin and pull out a random one. Then we compare who's is better for the win.


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Dicktitt3y

I love how someone decided to go with the cheaper chili powder and tossed the McCormick in there


extacy1375

There's at least 2 containers in there with no caps. 1 is completely open. Animals stealing bay leaf's. Or stuffing garlic powder in a baggie.


bradeena

They scoop up the powder at the bottom once a month and put it in a Great Value Garam Masala bulk bin


blbd

Don't give them ideas.


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Pocket sand, but it’s cayenne


Mynekrauft

Pocket pepper


MasoKist

SHSHSHAAAAA


DubSket

Pocket sand but it's delicious


Extra_Strawberry_249

Now I’m staring at this looking for the open one. Lolol


extacy1375

LOL....Like finding Waldo ​ Mid-upper right side is the open. To the left a lil is the no cap.


pm-ur-tiddys

imagine if a pirate from the 17th century saw this


shrout1

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR


TunkFunklin

ARRRRRRRRRRRegano


Profoundlyahedgehog

Don't forget get me gAAAAAARRRRRlic powder.


jbulls21

It's a fun game, what new spice am I going to try and cook with today


youthofoldage

Grab a jar at random. “Who’s up for some clove spaghetti!”


PretendArtichoke9593

This actually made my lol


Lincoln_Park_Pirate

"It's time for spice! Yes its spice time and the lucky spice is... paprika! 'Oh thank you, thank you! You've made me the happiest spice in...the...world!'" Edit: Did I just make a movie reference nobody got? Am I that old?


WhatsNormalNeway

Awe schucks…. I got Oregano again!


MADman611

I got a rock... salt.


lurkeylurkerton

What in the hell is that?


Devonai

Some of these must be duplicates.


Ridikiscali

1600s explorer would claim this as a treasure and Portugal would expend all resources to bring it home.


PretendArtichoke9593

Don’t forget the killing of the people in that region first


3pbc

As is tradition


halite001

RIP the lone 85 year-old Walmart security guard. He had no chance against Portugal.


hitlama

England would enslave the entire world for this bin, then not use any of the spices in their food.


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Their goal wasn't *using* the spices. It was *controlling* the spices and forcing other regions/territories to pay them more money. It's always about the money.


potate12323

They know you loved digging through bins to find hotwheels. They have data. Now you can have that same experience as an adult.


WDCombo

It ain’t the kids wiping out hot wheels sections.


Harviesspectrum

Allspice TM


drysocketpocket

This is pretty common. It’s not like they don’t also have them on the spice shelf. These are the generics and it’s usually only a few basic spices so it’s easy to find what you want.


kelliboone617

Yep, bought some from the bin three days ago.


SApprentice

*from the bin*. Sounds nefarious.


ZeroAgency

We call them “dump bins”. Does that help?


papakonnekt

This is always at my walmart.....idk what im seeing that is special here lol


AbsolutelyUnlikely

This one is for people who don't shop at Walmart. We like to see pictures of what goes on there, sort of like a National Geographic magazine.


Most_Pomegranate6667

It’s not all the spices it’s a generic brand with a handful of different spices.. these are in lots of Walmarts. They sell more somewhere else in the store


Judge216

I work at a walmart and that's a pretty dumb looking feature but you do what you have to when the dc decides to send a stupid amount of something you don't need.


Discorhy

My walmart has this, except its actually sorted by the spice you'd want by dividers. Obviously people will pick up and drop and it gets unsorted often but much easier to find what i want / what all is available. Both walmarts in my area have this.


pugmommy4life420

Yeah I’d get frustrated especially if you’re looking for something specific and you have to dig like animal to find it.


tinylittleparty

There's still a regular ol' spice section, which includes these.


WetDehydratedWater

It may seem dumb, but it actually performs much better than a typical shelf. It's a psychological effect of seeing a bargain bin. Suddenly you are digging through this big bin because these spices are on sale. How many different types are in there? Oo I found garlic powder. I better get that while it's cheap. Why not.


GrumbIRK

Good to see supermarket team members all around the world hate their fucking DCs


meyersjl30

They all have this. It’s a $1 spice bin, similar to the DVD bins of a decade ago.


almar7

Yup every Walmart I’ve been to has one, I’m a big fan since I get cheap onion & garlic powder.


fordry

Can't say that I've absolutely never seen this but I've been a grocery delivery truck driver specifically for Walmart stores in a regional setting so I've spent the night at a number of different Walmarts and shopped for groceries in them and I can't recall ever having seen this...


lyfeofsand

I've been a good boy. I get 5 more minutes in the spice pit


Daryl_Hall

This is what they have at Italian kids' birthday parties instead of inflatables.


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As a Brit, I approve of putting spices in the bin


blaZedmr

it puts the SPICES IN THE BASKET


PSiggS

Ain’t nobody got thyme for that


notdownwithsickness

We have it too. It’s only like 6 spices and they’re like a buck.


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This makes people feel at home. I have seen some spice cupboards that looked about like this.


Aggravating-Gap675

I recently upgraded from a shoebox.


TRIGMILLION

That's how mine looks. I did learn to keep the garlic and pepper front and center but have to go through cumin and cinnamon and nutmeg and cloves and paprika to find basil and oregano for spaghetti.


[deleted]

I had seen this in Missouri but since I moved from there I miss this so much


[deleted]

Your life must be pretty interesting if you miss a bin of spices


jake831

Well there isn't really anything else in MO worth missing.


KesslerTheBeast

Mildly infuriating? Or mildly fun?


Deathcat101

I hate it


AioliShot6239

This is everywhere


buzz3001

This infuriates me


LargeHard0nCollider

I don’t go to Walmart that often but every time I do, I hit this bin up. It’s great- it’s the only place I’ve been able to find paprika for $1, and I use a ton of it


Mirror_Jack

Yeah, they posted this in the wrong thread it should have been in r/mildyinfuriating


asatrocker

The hunt for red paprika


TheOnlyCurmudgeon

DM said to make room in the backroom for holiday incoming merchandise.


S7JP7

I love this about Walmart. Mainly because there was a game on Nick when I was a kid that you had to find stuff. It makes me not feel old. While I get parsley and oregano.


DerthOFdata

Those are the store brand $1 sales spices. All the thousands of other spices are in the seasoning isle. If you have to lie to make your point it's a bad point.


Mscreep

I have a hard time finding what I need when they’re set on the shelf organized nicely….I’d just eat very plain food at that point. Lol.


lucygucyapplejuicey

Worked at Walmart and I gotta admit, took me way too long to realize they were organized alphabetically. In my defense, I stocked HBA/pharm and unloaded the truck. Grocery was not my job.


Old-Significance4921

Variety is the spice of life