I swear I saw (many years ago) a Minnesota-made salsa that was basically just tomatoes and onions.

Got it. Green tomatoes, sub tomatillos.

I still have my iPad 2, and will upgrade at some point I suspect, but similarly, it does the jobs that I want it to do and I don’t feel a pressing need to trade up. I haven’t updated the OS since 7.something, though, as I’d read the iOS 8 update made the 2 slow down a lot. Have you noticed any problems, or has Apple…

Not so quickly for tablets, though, so that data for the iPad devices is very useful. And families often do hand-me-downs of smartphones from parents to kids as the parents upgrade.

Yeah, pizza for me is a one-serving-size dish. Although I’ve started skipping the crusts as an attempt to... ok, it’s so I can eat more toppings faster, I admit it - but maybe I could use those as croutons.

Tell me you did a victory lap around that place later on.

I grabbed a white, nice, not-wedding dress off-the-rack at Jessica McClintock. Ended up spending $175, which is about what my mother had spent on her actual-wedding dress about 30 years prior.

No, I should have phrased it better. And I agree, because the thought is automatically that rosé tastes like Kool-Aid. :(

Not to mention that almonds were only very recently (like 3000-2000 BC) domesticated, because it took a lot of unpleasant effort to find the not-poisonous ones and grow them specifically. So even vaguely trying to claim them as “paleo” is pretty laughable.

Plus most game they eat (if they do) is from game farms. And most wild game is fucking smart and fattens itself on crops, if they are herbivores and have access to that. I know deer hunters who complain if they get a “swamp buck” that ate wild foliage, versus deer that fattened themselves on the local corn fields or…

That’s actually from a clip of him counting using different fingers, IIRC.

Yeah, I meant, I think that’s when the popularity exploded. IIRC, Sutter Home was the winery that promoted the fuck out of it as a girly/summer wine.

Exactly. I don’t walk into the kitchen of the restaurant my friends own. I know they have relatives and friends who will saunter in there, but I ask someone else to get whoever I wanted to talk with when they’re not busy, and stand outside like a kid waiting outside the principal’s office, because hell no. I worked in…

I damned near laughed my head off at an inlaw who tried that at a restaurant; it was called, let’s say, “Bob’s Restaurant.” Said inlaw was talking about Bob to the manager, obviously trying to look important, who came back with how Bob hadn’t owned the place for several years. Nice.

In case anyone is confused: Zinfandel is red, but there’s “white Zinfandel” which is a rosé version. (People are making “white Merlot” and other rosé variations these days too.) It got crazy-popular maybe 20+ years ago, and lots of newbie wine drinkers don’t understand that there’s a big difference when you slap…

Oh god, that was me too. I had no idea he was trying for “mocha” and was assuming it was some butchering of “matcha.” /facepalm

Well, the really crappy version was the TV release (the bastardized “Love Conquers All” edit); the initial theater/video release was at least supervised by Gilliam. But yes, his recut final version is superior.

Well, in that the manager of said gastropub was being pervy towards women, chased off all their female customers, then was naked on a desk in hopes of attracting a stripper. So really, the strip club was the tangentially-involved part, and the gastropub was front-and-center.

Ugh, did we go to the same high school? Our advanced bio teacher would constantly, obviously try to look down the shirts of girls with any kind of endowment. One day he got visibly pissed when one cheerleader (wearing her required V-neck cheer uniform top for an assembly that day) firmly and deliberately held her…

In her mind, it sure as hell didn’t!