I was watching something and the ad came on for the KFC $5 Famous bowl. I don’t like chicken, so I was barely paying attention, but this line came up on the closed captioning:

Almonds are bitter raw or roasted. It’s the main taste of them, and the main reason I dislike them so much. I can’t stand coffee either, and I only drank for the buzz, it all tastes terrible. 

I started buying unsalted peanuts in the shell a while back, just to counterbalance some of the salt I was getting from soy sauce and some other sources I started eating more often, and after about the first bag of them, I realized I liked them better than the salted ones, which usually have too much salt on them, at…

I was kind of surprised the first time I saw a milk bag. A friend’s son brought one home with him from school. I’m 66 and stopped drinking milk when I was about 8. I just refused to drink it anymore, and mom finally gave up. My only dairy is some butter and the milk that’s in some other food I eat, and maybe ice cream…

That comment really made me wonder what was going on. I can’t even conceive of eating “meat” and thinking it tastes like Tuna, which is one of the few types of fish I want no part of. Cat food is all it’s good for, IMHO.

Over the last 40 years, I’ve driven through Chicago many times. It’s easily my #1 worst place to drive in, even worse than NYC, something I didn’t think was possible. About 1988 my mother and I were heading to Pierre, SD to visit relatives. We decided to eat at some place we had heard about, and that was a huge…

Just put about a couple of dozen different sounds in it, with a pitch slider to make the tone bassier or more high pitched. The Jetson’s flying car sound, Star Trek TOS’s Enterprise warp drive, a turbine engine, even a steam or diesel locomotive. It would be a lot of fun to play with.

Oh hell no! The boss, a tiny little man who played at being tough, would just about stroke out if we didn’t fix the damn cars that flunked, at least the domestic ones. It made no sense, we never made the money doing vacuum hoses, a tune up, whatever, we made doing smog tests. If one or more of us, there were usually…

I think the Iron Duke is the winner, at least in stock factory exhaust form. Any of the Ecoboost engines sound pretty bad. The most obnoxious local car I hear on a regular basis is a seriously messed with newer Mustang GT with a big cam in it and an amazingly loud exhaust. I don’t mind the snaps and pops it makes, but…

I did smog inspections in the late ‘70's and we got accused of “Just saying stuff is bad to make some extra money!”, constantly. I made $3.50 for every one I did, and working on a car for an hour was not making me shit compared to the 7-8 inspections I could do in an hour. I was grossing $1000 a week a lot of the…

I have made Nathan’s fries many times and they never, ever looked like that. I really liked them, and of course, they are not available anymore. 

I like those too. Another “best” list I read recently had the Lamb Weston Super Crispy fries as #1. I had to laugh, I had tossed part of a bag of them hours before I read the list. They were among the worst frozen fries I’ve ever had.

The only thing I really bought a lot of when Covid hit was toilet paper and paper towels. I still have a bunch of both, so I don’t need to worry about those. I buy a fair amont of rice, and the bag I bought was just used up in late May, so I went and bought another bag, just in time to have to lose a bunch of weight…

There are two Wendy’s nearby my place and they are like almost polar opposites. They are both on the same road, about 2 miles apart. The West one is pretty good, my main complaint is they seem to run out of chocolate Frosty’s almost every single night. The burgers seem decent (I don’t buy anything else there, so I…

I don’t think that’s it. I’ve had several varieties of bananas over my lifetime and they all tasted...like bananas. Different, yet similar. Kind of like a lot of different apples taste different, but you know without a doubt, it’s an apple. Same with oranges. Sometimes I get some that have an almost floral scent to…

I don’t care about any of these, except for “The day the clown cried”. I nearly got into an actual fight with Jerry Lewis in 1978, and since then, he’s kind of fascinated me. I wonder how many other people can say that Jerry’s spittle hit them in the face? By far, the most colossal celebrity ahole I ever met. 

I went and bought a bag of them just to see if somehow I “missed” the banana flavor. Nope, no banana there at all, as far as I can tell. My one dog liked them and watching him chew one up was pretty entertaining. When he got old, one of his favorite things were those (IMHO) awful banana chips. He would just about kill…

I got Circus Peanuts year after year, a whole bag of them, at one house on the route we did for Trick or Treating. That bag, along with a bunch of other head shakingly bad candies (like Bit O’ Honey and Good and Plenty and more), were seperated as soon as I got home for trade at school the next day it was in session.…

Some people go to amazing lengths to just get off work.

I have a Challenger Scat Pack, and my credit score is about 835 as of last week. It’s 4 years old and has had zero issues. My old 2010 Challenger had a couple of minor issues, but nothing like friend’s “higher end” cars have had.