Yep, mustard contains an emulsifier, which helps keep the oil and water-based ingredients better blended.

You can actually make a passable Chex Mix style snack in the microwave. It’s especially good if you only want a small batch for snacking. I know it seems like it would be a soggy mess, but it turns out quite crispy. I use Chex or other crispy cereal I have on hand, pretzels, some kind of snack cracker, any kind of…

A local place serves smoked cabbage as a side, and when it’s perfectly done, it’s honestly one of the best things I’ve ever eaten. It’s that good, and I’m not even a big eater of cabbage normally.

Being a Shelby Dodge guy, I knew about the GLHS overlay. But my ‘87 and ‘89 CSXes have 125mph speedometers, no overlay required. How did they get around this apparent regulation?

I’ll have to try that sometime.

I’m up to 236K on my SRT-4 Neon. But I bought it new, I’m 55 years old now, and I take reasonably good care of it. (While also hooning it a bit; I’m not a heathen!)

Is the hot dog one a sandwich cookie?

Jolly Time Blast-O-Butter is the best microwave popcorn. Although can I kick off microwave week by imploring people to please not cook popcorn in the microwave? I started popping corn in a pan on the stove a couple of years ago, and wow it tastes so much better than microwave popcorn.

Sometimes for lunch at work I make a plate with cold smoked salmon, a microwaved cup of rice/wild rice pilaf, and half an avocado. I drizzle olive oil and squeeze half a lime over it all, then salt and pepper. Really delicious, and I can usually find the ingredients at the store across the street from the office.

1030 calories? Does that make this the highest-calorie chicken sandwich yet?

Yes, except that they are (were) crispier than McDonald’s hash browns typically are. Dang it! Arby’s potato cakes were really tasty, especially dipped in their spicy three-pepper sauce. Our local Arby’s had great panko-breaded onion rings until about a year ago, but now those are gone and no potato cakes either. :(

I think I’ve written about this here before, but for me the worst is probably about 20 years ago when I was first working on my ‘87 Shelby CSX (based on a turbo Dodge Shadow, if you’re not familiar). I was trying to get the wiper motor out so I could clean it up and paint it. After I removed the nuts from both wiper sh…

A mixed malapropism

I think a regular surgical-type mask like in the photo probably wouldn’t help much. It’s pretty good at blocking stuff you’re exhaling, but it doesn’t really work very well at keeping stuff out. In the fall I tried using one when I was sharpening my mower blades with a grinder, because I happened to have one with me…

Only when I was a kid working at Hardees, and we accidentally overcooked some bacon once. It wasn’t *burned* but was too done to use. I love super-crispy bacon, so the manager let me take that big overcooked batch home. Mmmm bacon!

I don’t know if it’s the reason, but there was a lime shortage in 2014 when the weather reduced the size of the crop, and then the drug cartels started extorting lime exporters.

I make something similar in small batches as a snack for myself. You can actually make it in the microwave, believe it or not, with only 3 minutes cook time. I melt about 2T of butter, add some Worcestershire, garlic powder, onion powder, seasoned salt, and a fair amount of regular chili powder. Then drizzle into a…

Hugs to you. I’ve had to make the same decision twice in the past 3 years, and it’s really hard.

Bought it new with 2 miles on it! I was 37 when I bought it, so a little older than most SRT-4 owners. I try to take care of it, although I don’t baby it. It’s seen a half dozen road course days, one autocross, and probably 50 quarter mile passes over the years.

And they’re recognizable. We’re at one of those points where almost every current mid-sized sedan looks like every other. The Challenger and Charger are unique.