Mid-grade is an excellent choice for many modern turbo engines, if you want them to make the power they’re capable of instead of pulling a lot of ignition timing. It’s what I use in my Ford and Buick turbo fours. I only use premium in my SRT-4 (essentially the same engine as your PT Cruiser), but I’m running a…

Reester Bunnies beat Reese’s eggs for me. The chocolate/peanut butter filling ratio is perfect, and the chocolate is slightly darker (so more bitter) and better quality than what’s used for Reese’s cups, eggs, etc.

I kinda enjoyed seeing him play a version of himself in the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.

That’s what does it for me, the balance. I find a Double Whopper Jr. to have a perfect ratio of ingredients, making it probably my favorite available fast food burger. A Quarter Pounder Deluxe with no cheese is very similar and also quite good. The beef is better, but it just doesn’t hit quite the same way as the…

I’ve been growing my own pineapple plants in the window by my desk for about 15 years. Admittedly you do only get a small new fruit every 2-3 years this way, but with them ripening on the plant, they’re some of the best pineapples you’ve ever tasted. I’ve also got another one blooming in a pot at home right now.…

When I was a kid I remember the old service station across the street having something like this mounted on the wall. It was somehow involved in the installation of those hot patches, although I don’t remember exactly how.

This reminds me of a hacking/puzzle type game I envisioned in the mid-80s, when I was just getting started as a programmer. It would ship on an apparently blank floppy, so your first task would be to undelete the files. Alas, I never got beyond the early planning stages with it.

I know it’s only been a few days since my last QOTD post like this, but again I have answer “mine”: a 2004 Dodge Neon SRT-4 I bought new and am still daily driving at 246K+ miles. I try to take care of it. I was a quite bit older than the average SRT-4 driver when I got it, and I’m getting close to 60 now.

Whoo, that is a bit expensive, isn’t it? Almost 10 times what I’ve paid in the past for HPDEs at a road course. It does sound like a lot of fun, though. I’m beginning to think I may be getting too old for this kind of thing. :( My reflexes aren’t what they once were.

I know nothing.

Just 95-100 degrees? I feel like you could probably have gotten essentially the same result by simply letting it sit on the counter for an hour to come up to room temperature and then searing it. Which is not a bad way to cook a steak, really.

Mine, obviously. :) 2004 Dodge Neon SRT-4. I bought it new in 2003, and I’m still daily driving it 21 years and 246K+ miles later. It was and is a cheap economy car, but with a terrific engine. With a few judicious upgrades, at just 2800lbs mine puts right at 300hp to the ground according to my trap speed. None of the…

Heh. Hardee’s has Red Burrito, and they still do have the Tex-Mex menu items in a lot of the Midwest Hardee’s locations. I don’t remember there ever being a salsa bar, though.

I’m just going to continue to ignore them. They never respond to my texts anyway.

In 2017 US 51 in Southern Illinois was backed up for 50 miles north of Carbondale that morning. This is a road that probably normally has a traffic density of about 2 cars per mile. My daughter and I only needed to travel about 45 miles south of home to get in the path of totality, so we took a small state highway…

If you didn’t see it before, I highly highly highly recommend trying to see the totality. It’s a completely different experience, not comparable to even a 99% partial eclipse. 1% of the sun is still incredibly bright. Seeing the total eclipse in 2017 was so oddly, surprisingly emotional, and almost indescribable in…

Burger Chef! Our Hardee’s and Burger Chef were right next to each other for a couple of years. Somewhere in a box in the attic I’m pretty sure I still have my Burger Chef Star Wars posters from 1977.

It’s a rare show that can pull off this kind of terrific absurd comedy but also have so many great serious and moving scenes. My wife and I are currently rewatching the first two seasons before we start on S3.

Wow, are there really not any Hardee’s in the Chicago area? That seems strange. I worked at Hardee’s in high school, just after they introduced biscuits. Back then there were no Arby’s anywhere in the region, so Hardee’s was the only fast-food place where you could get a roast beef sandwich. Our local one was…

There was a local BBQ place that had a smoked cabbage side dish. It had hints of bacon and cider vinegar, and when it was on point, it was honestly one of the best things I’ve ever tasted. Unfortunately, the building was destroyed in a tornado a couple of years ago, and the owner hasn’t rebuilt or reopened. :(