I thought of this, too! But I only know of it because it was a challenge one season on GBBO.

I love this and I love your appreciation for Dinty Moore Beef Stew. My mom made a meat pie using this as the filling some nights for an easy dinner, so it holds a soft spot in my heart. (Oddly, she makes the pie crust from scratch, but she grew up in the 40's and 50's in a household that always had pie for dessert,…

#BINGATE! It’s still the most scandalous thing to happen on the GBBO, in my opinion. There was one other instance, I think?, in a different series, of a similar ambiguous sabotage/mix-up, but #Bingate taught contestants to never throw your final bake away because the judges will still taste it and you might be saved.

Box wine is great for this, and if you’re a single like me, Celestial Seasonings Bengal Spice makes it very easy to do a lazy-mulled-one-for-one. Throw a slice of citrus in a mug with the wine and a tea bag, and nuke at 30 sec. intervals (or whatever makes sense for your microwave). You want to warm up the wine and…

I think the schools have names as well as numbers. At the least the high schools do. I get hanging out on the stoop (not everyone’s as anti-social as I am), but what *I* don’t get is there are places that have hyphenated addresses (like 11-42 Whatever Street, with the next building being 11-44 Whatever St, etc.)—I saw…

Ha, there was a fake bodega thread as well that was way more amusing. (Although again, this is a phenomenon that exists outside of NYC as well.)

Ugh, the conversational H-bomb is what I’ve heard that called.

It’s Twitter, so of course there was a huge nonsense kerfuffle about it all, but I read the question as more of a regional linguistic one than a “only in NYC” type thing, sorta like the pop/soda/coke thing.

It’s well known that the rich in SF will throw tons of cash at pets, but couldn’t give a shit about their fellow humans.

Can confirm; a good friend of mine worked for a major city branch for nearly 10 years. It was a shitshow organizationally speaking with the usual non-profit shenanigans (unlivable wages for everyone except the C-suite or fundraising, guilting employees into working unpaid overtime or volunteering off-hours, shitty…

People give Laura guff for her messy bakes, but at least they (nearly) always tasted good. I felt like Dave also lucked out a ton throughout the series, but based on his presentation rather than flavor. (I also shook my head at their praise for his dumb sunset jelly cake. Really?! Hermine’s poppy and Laura’s koi pond…

1) Mary (and Mel and Sue) left when the BBC sold the show to a commercial production house.

The contestants had the option of having their kids in the Bake-Off bubble with them, and I think Marc and Hermine were the only ones who did so.

Trent Reznor does good soundtrack work, but it feels like a missed opportunity to not get a jazz composer. Or maybe I just really want to see some top-shelf animation combined with some great bebop. It worked for that one anime.

I mean, it sounds like they weren’t ever sexually compatible seeing as OP really likes anal and his BF doesn’t, so that’s another easier/possibly less hurtful response to “why”?

All I know is I felt embarrassed for everyone involved in this production after watching the trailer.

I tried The Big Flower Fight but found it pretty mean spirited. It was like mean girls trying to replicate the magic of the BBC GBBO, capturing the shallow bits (whimsical strings for incidental music, garden setting) and missing the heart entirely (catty AF competitors).

I can’t see the recipe because I block a ton of stuff, but traditional fruit cake recipes have the dried fruit mixture steeping in (increasing) booze for months in some case. Traditional old school egg nogs can take even longer!

But like, Nabokov’s contempt for Humbert is infused throughout the entire novel, so I think the sympathetic interpretations of his character really do say a lot about the production team.

And while it’s been a while since I last read it, isn’t he a bit too old for The Kid anyhow?