No, no cilantro - that’s “spicy” according to some bland-palated friends of mine. (Really.)

But there are big differences between Irish whiskys and rye whiskeys as well, so as far as I can tell, if you ask for “whiskey” and no clarification, you pretty much mean “Jack Daniels” or 3 other lesser-known brands of Tennessee whiskeys.

Isn’t Tennessee whiskey just charcoal-filtered bourbon? (*ducks the bottles thrown by bourbon/whiskey fans*) Hey, I’m a beer geek, I can tell you different styles of that, but try to explain the intricacies of various distilled alcohols and I’m shrugging.

But what’s a “(no modifier) whisky/-ey” then? I admit it’s not my strong suit, but I do know bourbon, Scotch, etc. to some degree due to friends who are fans of those styles.

Oh, absolutely - the first place I had Ethiopian food was in Minneapolis. But yeah, the stereotypical white Minnesotan food is considered to be bland.

Oh god, I only saw the splash page and already I love it - in a car-wreck kind of fashion.

Same with Old Fashioneds as well - brandy, not whiskey. There is a supper-club-saluting bar/restaurant on the Capitol Square in Madison called the Old Fashioned. (And when I was a kid, my mom’s go-to drink was a Brandy Old Fashioned Sweet, made with 7-up instead of sour mix.) I’ve also read that Wisconsin drinks more…

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…