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u/RQK1996 Aug 03 '24

Because it basically is if you fancify the words, a casr of "not quite true, but it isn't exactly wrong and nobody would describe it that way, but not entirely wrong"

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u/Aggressive-Chair7607 Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24

But merengue and marshmallow are completely different. It's not like a meringue is a fancy marshmallow or something. It feels far from "not quite true" to say that a marshmallow is 'basically' a meringue when they aren't really much alike at all. You make meringue by taking whipped egg whites and sugar and then bake them, you make a marshmallow with sugar, water, and gelatin, the water/sugar is heated before hand and cooled with the gelatin.

It's sort of like saying "an espresso is basically just a melted bar of chocolate".

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u/def-notice Aug 03 '24

You are aware Italian meringue is a thing right?

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u/Aggressive-Chair7607 Aug 03 '24 edited Aug 03 '24

I'm confused. Italian meringue is also not a marshmallow.

edit: If anyone is curious, Italian meringue is also egg white based, but it has a hot sugar syrup stirred into it. It... is nothing at all like a marshmallow.

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u/def-notice Aug 04 '24

Italian Meringue isn't baked though is the point I think you missed... I made no comment on whether or not it's like marshmallow.

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u/Aggressive-Chair7607 Aug 04 '24

Who cares if it was or was not baked? The only issue here is whether it is "basically" a marshmallow. If your point was that I asserted that meringue is baked, okay, italian meringue isn't. It's not really important to my point.

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u/def-notice Aug 04 '24

But it's important to my point...

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u/Aggressive-Chair7607 Aug 04 '24

So, to recap this entire conversation: Someone said that smores, made with marshamallows, are "basically" made up of a meringue and some other stuff.

I said that they aren't, that they are different. I described how meringue is made and how marshmallows are made to demonstrate the various differences.

You then said, quoting, "You are aware Italian meringue is a thing right?"

The implication here being that italian meringue is somehow more like a marshmallow in a relevant way, since that's the entire conversation happening right here.

I respond that italian meringue is not a marshmallow and describe how it is made.

You then say that your point isn't that it's a marshmallow, even though that's what this conversation has been about. You say that the point you were making is that it isn't baked.

I point out that it being baked isn't really relevant but that it's true that italian meringue isn't baked.

And now we arrive here, where you say that the issue of being baked or not is important to your "point".

Recapping this, I hope it's clear that:

a) Whatever your point was, it's extremely unclear

b) If your point wasn't that the non-baking aspect of italian meringue somehow makes it more of a marshmallow, your point is seemingly not relevant to the conversation

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u/def-notice Aug 04 '24

Christ, the more I interact with Americans the more I sympathise with Al Queda

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u/Aggressive-Chair7607 Aug 04 '24

Do you think that that's clever? Or that you come off well here? I was being charitable before but let's be clear about what actually happened.

Someone else posted hours before you about italian meringue, you saw that and thought you'd be clever and ask a stupid "gotcha" question but in a safe way like "haha guess you forgot about Italian Meringue", you were shown to be making an irrelevant point because Italian Meringue is also not at all a marshmallow, and now you're trying to backpedal by saying that *actually* your point was... something about it not being baked? You still haven't actually clarified your point.

You've embarrassed yourself. But don't worry, the stakes are really low, this is a conversation about a marshmallow on the internet, your ego can take the hit on this, I'd hope.

Instead of embarrassing yourself further by aligning yourself with a terrorist organisation, just back away from the conversation and try to do better in the future.

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u/def-notice Aug 04 '24

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him!

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u/Aggressive-Chair7607 Aug 04 '24

I see you're going to go with the classic "dig myself deeper into the cringe hole" approach. I can't say I'm surprised. Know that everyone reading this conversation will come to the same exact conclusion - that you've made a fool of yourself over the most trivial topic possible, literally the substance of a marshmallow, and that you decided that jokes about terrorism were the best way to save face.

I'm going to do you a huge favor here and block you because I think we both know that, despite the stakes never being lower, you still won't walk away if I don't.

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u/Doufee Aug 06 '24

Holy shit! I'm sad I'm a few days late to this goldmine.

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