A good lamburger is a joy like no other. A former co-worker of mine served them at a cookout and they were awesome.

I was at a weekend retreat at a house run by my undergrad school, and the normally very good house cook made a batch of breakfast blueberry muffins that didn’t seem to have any sugar at all in them. They tasted like slightly sour cardboard and flour dust. The scary thing is that most of the people there went ahead and…

Yup. They were advertising “Visine with tetrahydrozoline” back in the 1970s. It’s always been there, and it’s dangerously toxic when swallowed.

If I saw someone change a baby’s dirty diaper on a restaurant table, I think I’d raise a ruckus until either they were kicked out of the restaurant or I was.

Wow, I never noticed that they still made McChickens. The only time we eat at McD’s is when we’re road-tripping, but, coincidentally, we’re road-tripping in a couple of days. Will keep an eye out for them.

I lived in the Boston area for years, and loved Legal Sea Foods, but never actually knew the origin of the name until I looked it up a minute and a half ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Sea…

That’s exactly right. A food-donation law would have to require destruction of expired food, but plenty of stuff that goes into dumpsters is neither spoiled nor expired at the time it’s thrown away.

I love roller coasters, and don’t have a problem with heights as long as I’m buckled in somehow, but the first thing I thought of was, “If I ever get stuck on a roller coaster, I’ll need to have my smartphone with me so that I can web-surf until we’re rescued.”

Unfortunately, even a STEM degree doesn’t guarantee a good job after college; it can take some time for even well-qualified graduates to escape from underemployment. On the other hand, if he’s the kind of person who disables his boss’s car and lies in wait for him with a loaded handgun, he just might have an attitude…

I think that the reason NSAIDs are hard on the stomach is because they block the production of prostaglandins. Prostaglandins signal your uterus to contract while expelling the lining, and if the contraction is strong enough, it cuts off the blood supply to the uterus — it pretty much hurts for the same reason that a…

I used to take Excedrin a lot, and it’s a full dose of aspirin plus a full dose of acetaminophen plus caffeine, so I got into the habit of just taking two aspirin, two Tylenol, and a cup of coffee when I got a headache.

You haven’t read a horrifically depressing Stephen King story until you’ve read “1922”.

Once rubbed my eye after cutting up fresh cayennes. Never again!

Most embarrassing food moment: Squeezed a lemon wedge over a plate of paella in a restaurant. Accidentally launched the remains of said wedge from my lemon-oil-slicked fingers and over my shoulder, where it flew over another table and smacked the sleeve of a guy wearing a nice suit.

There are times when I really think that “Make sure he’s poor for the rest of his life” is the most appropriate sentence possible.

Release the kitties!

I first heard it as Harvard vs. MIT.

Worst: Was attending a week-long research conference in an Australian city. I must have been exposed to a bad respiratory bug on the flight over, because on the second day I came down with one of the worst colds I’ve ever had in my life. Had to give a couple of presentations, and my colds tend to be accompanied by…

How the actual fuck did he “go missing” after being arrested for imprisoning a woman in a box for four months? Was he released on bail? Did he escape from jail?

I wasn’t at this particular wedding, but at a family member’s wedding reception, the bride’s 16-year-old niece caught the bouquet — and said niece’s 14-year-old brother caught the garter. I’m told it was awkward.