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Being self-centered, arrogant, and irascible enough to throw a three-day tantrum over raisins is plenty enough to qualify him as an asshole, and some people are just like that, no further explanation required. For now, Occam's Razor says that we can assume that Clinton is telling the truth, and that his dad is that sort of asshole. Anything more is pure distilled fanwank.

Jeph could easily write more about him to show him as worse or better than that, but so far, no such writing has been published.

Edited by Spindriver on Jul 11th 2018 at 4:04:27 PM

I might have jumped the fence a bit too early, so I'm sorry if that caused any frustration.

Seriously, Clinton. Just stop talking. It's not that difficult.

Apparently the only good parents are dead parents in this conversation?

Clinton's mom is nice.

Clinton's mum is AMAZING. I get sad some times because I wish she was my mum.

Update. Raisins are best eaten plain or in salad IMO.

I only like them in bran flakes, and then that’s the only time I like bran flakes.

Raisins are a small shot of cheap fruity sweetness. Liking or not liking them feels to me like liking or disliking flour, or oil; they’re more “ingredients” than a foodstuff in themselves.

Actually, while I get the point about poverty, I have trouble imagining anyone never encountering them — not in fruit-and-nut chocolate bars, or cheap fruit cake? Ever?

They are a foodstuff. They have distinct taste and feel, even if it is altered by whatever they're put in, but they aren't a nothing by themselves like flour.

Oh, sure, I exaggerate — I can eat raisins on their own (and quite like them, but they’re a bit meh). But mostly they do go into other stuff.

I mean, even as an ingredient. If you have exact same cookie dough, but put some of them in half of it, it is legitimate that somebody may dislike the end result if they disapprove of raisins.

Raisens are if nature tried to create sweets. They're good.

I love raisins, but ONLY on their own. Put them in something and my interest drastically goes down.

And, at that, raisins are often on the cheap side of food, especially when bought in bulk (where they tend to stick together in globs). As a kid, I like raisins by themselves, but wasn't much of a fan of them in cooking because they kind of "unwrinkled" and taste more like berries.

When I was a kid, I used to eat raisins as a snack almost every day. Nowadays, about the only time I eat them is when I'm in the mood for Raisin Bran.

Oatmeal raisin cookies are the greatest cookies ever.

I guess that someone could hate (or like) “any dish that has raisins in”, but... they’re not all the same. One could more likely love some and hate others.

(Raisin cookies, fruit & nut chocolate bars, fruitcake, classic Christmas pudding, bread and butter pudding, rum and raisin ice cream, those salads, trail mix...)

Not with raisins, but green tea in my case. As much as I enjoy a good cup of green tea, I've never found anything green tea flavored that I liked.

Heh. Offhand, the only green tea flavoured thing I can remember ever trying was an ice cream. And that was Hong Kong.

(Nice, though. Especially with the red bean ice cream that I had in the same double cone.)

"It's got raisins in it. You like raisins."

I like raisins OK, but dried cranberries are even better.

Craisins, they call themm

Yes, but I had to assume some people wouldn't know what I was talking about if I'd used that term.

Old Smokey

Am I the only one getting a polyamory vibe from the three of them?