As someone who owned a bakery for ten years: it won’t. You’ll eventually begin to hate it. I honestly don’t remember the last time I baked “for fun.” It’s a shame, too, because I am really good at it. 

I’m not a fan of candy corn, but enjoyed it as a kid. I don’t eat much candy at all, actually, and it’s been years since I’ve had any candy corn. I simply avoid it.

Start small. Bake a cake for that co-worker. Check out pricing from a local bakery and beat it by 10%. Don’t worry about fancy decorating, just make it attractively presentable, and as long as the taste is there no one will object. If the first cake is good for you and the co-worker, do another. Chances are good that…

Yeah I am high risk COVID wise as well. So basically I hide in the basement and eat nuts and berries. 

I am high risk so I cant take a chance to be buying from unregulated sources. A few dozen people around where I live got varying levels of food poisoning from some home kitchen made tamales. I know this can happen from any restaurant but they are regularly inspected and have insurance if there is an issue. 

A good friend told me that certain career areas, such as childcare, teaching, cooking, theater and non-profit have to couple up with people who have “sold out to the man” in order to have something more than dryer lint for dinner.

If someone wants enjoy potatoes for their potato-ey flavor, there are millions of ways to prepare them - but in this context (I think) when the actual point of said spuds is ‘vehicle to convey gravy to ones mouth because sitting at the table and drinking straight from the gravyboat might be viewed as unacceptable by…

Whatever method or style you go with, just be sure to make LOTS of them. Leftover mashed potatoes fried up in patties are fantastic (but not at all like a mashed potato latke, mentioned briefly in Aimee’s recent piece on latkes).

This is what American takes on foreign food look like to people from those countries, isn’t it? Like, someone at McDonalds China was all “oreos and spam, those are both american, super american spam and oreo sammich, job’s done.” It’s just like when you go to a chinese takeout place in the US and everyone there is…

I can image pairing spam with like a maple flavor, or maybe even a buttery sugar cinnamon thing, maybe? But ugh crisp chocolate cookie bits, those tastes and textures just don’t seem to pair well.

You can’t fool me. That’s a quesadilla. I don’t care what the menu says

It’s a quesadilla at that point

Dude, take a walk. It’s a friggin mustache. My nana never got so bent out of shape over hers. 

That’s a lot of feelings for a few greasy strands of hair. you sure you’re alright?

The best way to fight hunger in those days was to take a big bite of the onion tied to your belt, which was the style at the time.

Burgers are too big these days! Back in my day, a five year old could fit an entire hamburger bun in the palm of his hand. Cooks shaped hamburger patties with a teaspoon and put your condiments on with an eyedropper. Everyone was ravenously hungry all the time but we never showed it, we just tightened our belts and sai…

I'm from Western PA man I've seen a lot of stuff I can't unsee

I am one of those people where when I order food, I order exactly what I budgeted my calories for. DON’T FUCKING TOUCH MY FOOD. I am like one of those dogs you have to train because otherwise whenever you go near their food bowl, they bite the shit out of you. When I was a kid, my dad would always take a bite of my…

Nah, I think your situation is different. Sharing food, to me (and, it seems, to Danny) means that both people are actively eating it. If you’re finishing off someone’s unwanted food, only one person is chowing down at a time. That’s much less weird.

The clam chowder bit made me laugh out loud, thank you..