Further proof that I can learn something new every day!
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Anyone using a computer, can you check out typing alt+256 several times? Press Alt key and 256, release, and repeat. I think it should work.
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You’re thinking of alt255, which inserts an empty character. But here, it was treated the same as a space. I inserted 5 of them and tried to post it but it gave me the “post can’t be empty” flag.
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My bad yes alt255. I used it long ago when I was programming in Turbo Pascal. ASCII code blank 
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Another grump about Amazon in general. I’ve seen now 25+ fat separators that are identical except for the name brand printed on the product along the top of the cup[1]. If they bother to have the maker actually print a name on it - fewer than half do. (Edit - note I recognize the Sponsored products show up multiple times per page and at the top of each page - I’m not recounting those.)
And except for the price, which ranges from $13-$33, with no rationale.
I wish there were some way on Amazon to collapse identical product offerings together. But I guess that would defeat the intent of those sellers who hope you see their item and buy it before you see the same thing from another seller at half the price.
[1] A few of the product listings also include a “bonus” veggie peeler, “bonus spoon”, or “bonus” turkey baster, but these listings are some of the cheaper ones.
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If it helps, I have the Oxo 4 cup one and I like it. It cleans pretty easily and the wide top makes it easy to get liquids in with less mess. A narrow bottle brush helps with the spout.
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Kinda looks like he did that with a shotgun.
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Thanks. We did end up ordering that one for her. I’ve had what looks like Oxo’s older 4-cup version for 20+ years (old version had open handle with black rubber cover, new version has closed handle, connected top/bottom) and it works fine. I say “looks like” because don’t remember if it’s actually an Oxo (some other brands have replicas) because all the markings were washed off in the first year. But I don’t mind given I don’t really use it for measurements.
I thought pretty hard about the bottom-dispense types because they look like you could get down to the last little bit of aqueous liquid, but even though there were not a large percentage of 1-2 star reviews, nearly every one was a complaint about the plug failing to seal after a few uses.
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I have a glass one with a spout coming off the bottom, and it has not presented any issues. I do, sadly, note that as roasts get more and more lean, it is less and less needed.
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Do you remember the brand? I’m now thinking I’d like a new one, too, and in glass instead of plastic. I figure 20 years is a pretty good run on my old one, and I’ve always found it takes 2-3 scrubs with a lot of Dawn to get all the oil off the plastic. None of the glass ones I’ve found so far have that bottom-dispense feature.
Regarding roasts - yeah, seems I’m doing a lot more eye of round (barely anything comes off) and a lot fewer rib roasts.
Edit - rereading your and my respective comments, I may not have been clear what I meant by bottom-dispense. It’s one like this with a plugged hole in the bottom of the container, and a trigger on the handle to lift the plug out of the hole.
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Catamount Glass. There are a few on eBay. It is borosilicate.
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The end is in sight.
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The Atlanticemphasized text** just arrived in my mailbox. The cover features a burn line, and one side is scrawled “Notes from the apocalypse.” The articles have titles conveying a sense of the dystopian. I usually flip randomly from article to article, but these, so far, are sufficiently gripping that I am reading straight through. “The Prophecy of The Waste Land” ought to be cheering.
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When we were kids, our state history class in grade school taught us this would last for a thousand years.
No match for center pivot irrigation growing corn clear to the Rockies.
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I put my favorite dog down today. (Used a veterinarian home service to do so.)
He had a snout-related cancer. He had responded well to the first admin of triamcinolone, gaining all of his lost weight (almost 25%) back over the last 3 weeks.
But that was the first 3 weeks. We tried another shot of triamcinolone last Friday but it didn’t help. Then yesterday I noticed that the tumors were infiltrating his right eye. So we had him put down today.
He Was A Very Good Boy.
RIP.
Now we’ll have to deal with his brother not having him here. The vet tells me that such memories fade in 2-3 weeks. We’ll see.
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I’m so sorry. That’s just the worst.
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So sorry to hear of that, but you did a good thing. Our last dog had thyroid cancer, and the treatment was something we decided we would never subject our dog to. Fortunately, at 11+ he is still doing well. All the best to you and your other dog getting through this.
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So sorry for you, your family and his bro. 
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Bummer. Always sad when 4-footed family members pass on.
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