#NeedThat

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

he’s clearly visiting one of America’s most beautiful and prestigious Medieval castles: the Cheesecake Factory

[Dan @dannah__montana]

any patriotism you see from me the next few weeks is strictly for sports and geography, NOT the government!!!!

[𝗠𝗼𝗮𝘆 🇵🇹 @MyGoat7]

One last mission

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

[Matt @MattP_3]

Me signing the NDA

[osama @0ba0sama]

thinking abt how im part of the 4% of the population that saw the bathtub scene before they removed it

[BⱯDBOYROY @Roco__23]

It’s Ratatouille but instead of rats cooking in Paris it’s black cats making music in Venice. And I’ve NEVER been more sat

[MattBeGreat @mattbegreatyt]

2 years ago Mike Brown got fired for calling out De’Aaron Fox for being an Idiot. Now Mike Brown is going to win a Championship because De’Aaron Fox is an Idiot. Full circle moment

[#NeedThat @skcar_]

Commercials mid game during the World Cup is GROSS

[Rajjath @Rajjath24]

turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.

[「アレックス・カニンガム」 @jourdal]

The power of video games

[#NeedThat @skcar_]

@Tovonxo We are so back!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for ‘THE LEGEND OF ZELDA OCARINA OF TIME’ remake.

Releasing later this year.

[Ash @AshStash__]

this week has been awesome, can you imagine how fun it'd be if all of these were bundled together in some sort of electronic entertainment expo lol thatd be cute i think

[YBGChris🔺 @YBGChriss]

A Bosnian nigga here for the world cup jus asked me where the bets local eats was i sent da nigga 2 da hood #goodlucknigga

[Bilal 🎀⛷️ @weirdngkid]

slut shaming? no I’m a slut encourager. take those titties out for me bae

[fresh @fauxfresh]

couldn’t tell you nothing about this show other than i loved it

[Sesame Chiccen 🔜Dreamcon @Loccdawggg]

Nah I kinda care how my people get pussy lol ethical hoops only. No reach in fouls if you get what I’m saying