But is her middle name is Artisanal ???

I'd be sympathetic if she had pointed at another patron's table and asked for bread rolls. The woman in this story claimed she'd eaten them before, though, and her friends said the only reason they'd come was for the "free bread." Since they got a comped appetizer that time around too, I'm actually inclined to…

Is the ranch dressing served in a monogrammed coffee thermos by an aggressive Italian waiter who wants to eat all your bread unless the Russian patriarch can save it first?

I used to work at an "Italian" restaurant which I won't name—rhymes with "Shmolive Garden"

I have been refreshing Kitchenette for the past 30 minutes waiting for the BCO post.

No no sweetie truffle oil is shit you have to try something with real truffles in it. A couple of years ago I went to this music fest in Chicago called Lollapalooza and one of the food vendors was serving ham cheese and truffle sandwiches...it is legit still one of the best sandwiches I have ever had...so good

Hilarious! The "cool" pope still thinks of women as brood mares.

Pfffffft. Let's not hold our breaths. So-Called-Cool-Pope is all like, "yeah, sure, dogs go to heaven, maybe gay people are human, I'm progressive yo" and then when it comes to abortion or women's issues it's all "Ooh hey, look over there, a puppy!"

I think you might be asking for a little bit too much here. Yes, he's been very nice to homosexuals and poor people, but he's not going to turn catholic dogma on it's head.

If it IS, surrogacy and in vitro should be sacramental.

If the church is against invitro - or surrogacy, how can they be FOR this? Same diff - woman as incubator.

Fortunately, the rest of my in-laws are pretty cool. The grandparents are super Catholic, but are just passive aggressive about it, which I'm great at deflecting. My SIL has chilled a bit too fortunately.

If you have the opportunity to try real truffles in a dish at some point, please don't let your experience with truffle oil dissuade you. Truffle oil is pretty much crap: http://blogs.houstonpress.com/eating/2012/09…

Yeah, my SIL fell in with a bad crowd in college (and by that I mean Focus Missionaries). Apparently everything is too liberal when you're trying to convince American college students that they should be Catholic. I made my SIL almost cry when I told her that under no uncertain terms was I converting to Catholicism…

Probably why they didn't charge her for it. Some poor employee's head will fall, no doubt.

Yes! They were. I was laughing and rolling my eyes, because these are super-Catholics, aren't they supposed to be totally onboard the idea of papal infallibility?

Yeah I think Frank will keep conveniently silent on this, but it just doesn't make much sense to me. Like, if only god can make life/death decisions, then surely he's already made his decision by killing the mom, no? Eh, religious logic, has never been my strong suit.

Yeah, the Irish [former] Catholic in me would really love to see him step in here.

I'm calling highly unlikely, given that I've heard extreme Catholics say that you're still alive until you're not, so being brain dead doesn't count as dead. Like, I once had a woman go on a rant about how if you put that you are an organ donor on your drivers license, the doctors will kill you to get them by taking…

What would the Catholic logic be on this? Obviously, they're against abortion regardless of circumstance (the case of that 10 year old Brazilian girl who's whole family and doctors were excommunicated after she got an abortion due to rape by her stepfather, still brings my blood to boil), but this isn't an abortion as…