Duranie

Depends on the pizza and how much I love myself at that moment.

Acceptable pizza and I'm not in the mood to care, eat it cold.

Quality pizza and I want to show some respect for the pizza and myself, it's the above or air fryer, or at minimum a few minutes in the toaster oven.

But they heard the word once and it sounds sciency, so they keep repeating it.

I appreciate the wholesomeness of the Narnia reference against your username lol.

I'd love to hear the explanation for this one lol.

The nearest bakery is almost a 30 minute walk. To live closer I'd need to triple my income to afford a home.

Yes, I live far from the office (which is at a hospital) but I'm technically a work from home position because they give me a laptop and phone and I'm only required to come in every couple months. I work with hospice patients in their homes, so I have to drive to their houses with a trunk full of supplies that can't be reasonably packed into a single bag for other types of alternative travel. Plus, living in a Chicago suburb means going to work in sub zero to single digit weather, sometimes severe storms, and life stressing heat. A car and travel is mandatory for my job.

It would be beautiful if I could access a bakery and be out in 5 minutes, but it's not an option. So I live the apparent tragedy of less than ideal sandwiches lol .

So get up early, drive to the store, purchase a days worth of bread, drive home, drop it off, drive 45 minutes to an hour to work, work 8 hours, drive another 45-an hour home, and make sure to poll the family to see who wants bread for the next day because we'll be out again and I don't want to wake them up at 5:30 am to ask.

What a completely rational solution that doesn't waste time or gas at all!!!

OR -hear me out- be ok with less than perfect bread.

Gonna have to think this one over.

I would rather have a sandwich with slightly sub par bread than wasting food and money because I have to keep throwing out 1/2 loaves because they molded before I ate them.

I also did that for years, with 5 people in the house we went through softened butter fast.

Then as kids grew up and moved out, I realized it was taking WAY longer to go through. I gave up and leave it in the fridge now. Then again, going through it much slower means that I'm buying much nicer quality butter 😁.

Good (fresh) bread only lasts a day or two around my house, because it's amazing and delicious and everyone just eats it.

Average commercial everyday bread is going to sit around longer because it's waiting on someone to feel like making a sandwich, or feel like having toast. It's basically a pantry staple hanging out, waiting to get used. The fridge is fine for that.

EDIT I see your edit - I think culture/lifestyle is also playing a fair part here as well. I've spent most of my life living in a rural area where nothing is walkable, so trips to the grocery store were once a week. If I lived in a place I could just walk down the street to a bakery and grab a fresh loaf, that would be different. But just because I don't live in a walkable place doesn't mean I've never had good bread.

Aka abbreviated "charisma."

As a massage therapist, unfortunately not only are there massage therapists who have been poorly educated and taught that this is true, but I've had countless clients repeat it back to me over the years enough times that I feel the need to attempt to reeducate if I think the person will be receptive to the discussion.

From my experience many people "learn" this because someone well meaning wanted to dumb things down a bit too much and the information wasn't conveyed very clearly, or there's practitioners of a variety of flavors that explain how "traumatic experiences are stored in the body's tissues" and that's why they have to (insert their brand of therapy.) Another group is surrounding athletes and trainers, who use the term as blurry language and people take them literally as they are then as experts.

It doesn't sound like that big of a deal until you get a client who thinks that if you hurt them enough with an aggressive massage that it'll "fix" a past trauma. I wish I were joking.

That's the difference between gray matter and white matter. Gray matter readily communicates with it's crowding neighbors and can retain information, while white matter is myelinated so it can send messages over distances. Gray matter extends from our brains down our spinal cords.

Muscles are dumb meat who take their orders from the nervous system. They have no capacity for memory. But training can create reflexes at the spinal cord level which some refer to as "muscle memory," except it's not the muscle that should get the credit here.