Yucca plants here in the Midwest. They fulfill the qualifications of being both invasive and spiky. My mom planted three many years ago, and they’ve spread to take up a huge area of the yard. The taproots go down five feet, and if you leave one square centimeter, they’ll come right back. If you decide to try to get…

Outdoor all the time for me. I’ve only eaten indoors a handful of times in the last year, and the anxiety just isn’t worth it. Here in the Midwest (a few hours south of you!), it can be hot and sweaty sometimes, but we have a few well-designed beer gardens/outdoor areas that are shaded and sheltered, so you don’t have…

Thank you for this look into your home cuisine! It reminds me of recipes here in the midwest. Mom’s is always the best!

I’ve been told that it’s weird that I salt and pepper my cottage cheese. I’ve also been told (back in the before times) that it’s weird to use salad bar cottage cheese as dressing for my greens. I put it all in the same container, and it got mixed up on the way home one time, and I found that it was so good!

Seconded. We go through pasta sauce faster than vegetable oil, so we just use the jar for discarding fats.

Meijer isn’t my preferred place to shop for groceries, but it’s perfectly good. Their produce is pretty darn good, and I can always swing through and get some non-grocery stuff as well. It’s my preferred big box store for practicality, for sure. For just groceries, I will likely not go to Walmart. It’s fine, I just…

The summer between high school and college, I was kicking around the hometown for the summer, and several of my friends were home as well. My best friend invited me over to hang out at another guy’s house, who, in my mind, was at least six levels cooler than I could ever be. I drove my $500 1984 Cavalier (This was…

It’s STOCK. JUST CALL IT STOCK. Hard agree!

My shorthand is a dollar per item minimum. If the beverage is pricey or hard to make, I do more, of course, but my tastes are usually pretty simple.

When I’m alone, and I’ve finished something like a sundae or a container of dip, I sometimes just sweep my finger through the remnants and lick my finger clean. Or just lick the container...

Don’t let the mustard lobby make you feel bad! Ketchup belongs on hot dogs!

Pizza Hut Meat Lover’s Pizza. Ugh.

Rhys Nicholson’s special on Netflix is also excellent.

You won’t catch me eating IN a restaurant for a couple of years yet, even though I am vaccinated, but for my birthday, my roommate and I went out to the patio of one of our favorite local brewpubs and ordered way too much food, dessert, and beer, and it was Amazing.

In Denver, we had stopped into Union Station and tried some artisanal ice cream, a blackberry-vanilla base with brownie chunks and a marshmallow swirl. We had just eaten, so I got a small cone. I thought about that ice cream for three days, so when we found ourselves back in that area on the last day of our trip, I…

THANK YOU! I cannot eat green apple flavored things thanks to a rookie college student drinking mistake. (Everyone’s been there, I’m sure) And the green apple doesn’t go well with the other flavors anyway. I’m going to stockpile these, mix them up with the other flavors, sans green apple, and live my best life.

No cops at Pride! All Pride celebrations should follow suit. (Also, removing them by a block doesn’t make me feel great. People still have to move through that perimeter)

Like everything I watch on YouTube is food related. Haha.

Efficient and effective city planning and investing in mass transit infrastructure for every metro, city, town, and village would lessen national vehicle emissions far more than simply investing in EVs.

It seems silly now, but my 2002 Taurus had puddle lights on the bottom of the mirrors. I can’t tell you how many times I appreciated their utility, especially since my 2008 Honda Fit does not have them. Puddle lights for all!