Absolutely! I’m convinced you can put good balsamic on anything, and it will be delicious. I’ve had it on fruits, veggies, meat, ice cream. I drizzle it with olive oil on raw veggies and on blueberries and raspberries at lunch all the time. Like you said, it has to be the good stuff, thick aged balsamic, not the…

I really like the cluster and general interior of our 2016 Ford Fusion. I feel like the design language is consistently carried throughout it, and the controls are well laid out. The left and right sides of the cluster are configurable, and controlled with the directional pad buttons on the wheel. I usually keep the…

I agree. One of these said, “Take care of them and they will last,” and that’s the most important part. I bought my 2004 Neon SRT-4 new, and I have just over 245K miles on it now!

Instead of this post, the one above it about a horror movie accidentally got “for some damn reason” in its headline, for some damn reason.

That was pretty standard for almost all cars until sometime in the 80's. I know my first couple of cars were like that.

They still do. I’m driving my father-in-law’s 2014 Buick today, and it has a switchblade-type key. As does my own 2016 Ford Fusion.

Yes, the style goes back to the 1930's at least. I’d argue that Steak ‘n’ Shake, which started in Normal, IL, had one of the first widely available versions in their Steakburger. When I was in high school in the early 80's, there was a tiny little diner down the street in our Southern IL town that had great smash…

They were great dipped in Arby’s Three Pepper sauce. One of the best fast-food sauces, IMO, spicy but not too spicy, and really nice pepper flavor. The crinkle fries are good dipped in it, too, but they’re no substitute for the potato cakes.

I agree, the three pepper sauce is great. As you said, it’s not super-spicy and has a really nice flavor. My favorite side used to be the potato cakes with three pepper sauce. I actually like the crinkle fries. As long as they’re fresh, they have nice potato flavor, a soft creamy inside, and a crisp exterior.

Brings back memories of my worse cancelation experience. In the early ‘90s my mother called one morning to say my grandmother had died. I booked a flight on TWA from Dallas to St. Louis through Oklahoma City for me, my wife, and our baby daughter. When we got to OKC, the departing gate listed on the ticket was…

Oh, yeah! I remember the spider egg thing, now that you mention it. Kids!

On the topic of chewing gum, for some reason when I was around 10 years old, a whole slew of new gums came out. I remember Freshen Up, Bubble Yum, and Bubblicious all being new at about that time. A piece of one of those was like some kind of prison barter token to schoolkids at recess. Once in about 7th grade one of…

Yeah, the extra keypresses and confusion if you don’t follow all the steps are what ruin the grocery chain’s system. I normally use my phone with a home screen shortcut straight to Walmart Pay, so the receipt shows up immediately in the app. Luckily my local store doesn’t check receipts currently, but it’s there in…

I agree, Walmart’s are by far the best. I very rarely have any kind of problem there. Even checking out produce is normally not an issue. The only times I’ve had something go wrong at a Walmart checkout in the past couple of years, it’s been a barcode that isn’t in the system for some reason. Now, the self checkouts…

I rarely honk at other drivers, and then only when I need to get their attention. I pretty often honk at deer. I want them to be extremely afraid of cars, and to pass it on genetically to their offspring until they evolve into fearful burrowing creatures who never appear above ground, instead of standing in the middle…

My local Applebee’s seems to have pretty bad food. I went there for the first time in a while last week with my father-in-law. That’s where he wanted to go. I had the Bourbon Street Chicken, and that piece of grilled chicken was somehow...crunchy?...on the inside. It seemed fully cooked, but it had a really unpleasant…

Burger King does the same thing. It’s annoying.

Living in the Midwest for more than 2/3 of my life, I think every large potluck I’ve ever been to has had Watergate salad!

Krunchers are the superior kettle-type chip on that list. And I am unanimous in that. They’re getting harder to find around here lately. :(