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🗓️ 21 November 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Endless Thread serves up two of Reddit's most absurd food sagas. First course: Chivegate, in which a Redditor vows to chop a cup of chives daily until the kitchen confidential subreddit declares perfection, only to be accused of fraud. Second course: A Reddit user desperately seeking advice on how to quietly move 13 two-thousand-pound pallets of margarine.
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| 0:28.0 | Emery Siebertsin, how are your knife skills? |
| 0:31.7 | Really timid, really quite. |
| 0:34.1 | Timid? |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.8 | Okay. |
| 0:36.2 | That's not the way you want to be around a knife. |
| 0:38.3 | But, you know, even the people on chopped and stuff would slice themselves open. |
| 0:44.8 | So I'm doing fine. |
| 0:47.9 | I have yet to do that, knock on wood. |
| 0:49.9 | Great fear of mine, though. |
| 0:51.1 | How about you? |
| 0:52.0 | I'm a rustic cook, we could say. |
| 0:55.7 | Like, I like things kind of rough around the edges. |
| 0:59.8 | But, you know, we don't work in the food industry, and a lot of people do. |
| 1:04.7 | You by now have heard, surely, of the chive challenge, chive gate, etc., etc., right? |
| 1:13.5 | The chive chopping frenzy that is overtaken the kitchen confidential subreddit. |
| 1:21.1 | I know just a little bit about it. |
| 1:23.9 | I know one chive, chopped chives worth of information. A sprinkle of |
| 1:30.1 | chops chive. Okay. So kitchen confidential is supposed to be for food industry professionals. |
| 1:39.2 | That's what it's supposed to be for. Obviously, it's, you know, it's not, I don't think it's as |
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