I used to have a coworker from St. Louis who would rave about Imo’s pizza, and so one time, while driving from Kansas back to Ohio for Christmas I stopped and tried it. It was, frankly, one of the most disappointing pizza experiences of my life. I’m usually of the “don’t knock it til you try it” opinion on food, but…

I’d only ever found large containers of MSG until last night. I found a small, salt shaker size of Accent at Menard’s of all places. Weirdly, their ad was the one that played before this video. 

I went looking for a recipe for cheesy potatoes during the holidays and, like this one, every single one had cream of chicken soup. The only one that had an alternative still used a roux and chicken broth.

Are we just going to gloss over the revelation that Olive Garden doesn’t salt their pasta water!?

If you have a Costco gift card, you can shop there without a membership. You just need someone who does have a membership to pick one up for you.

Heinz is from Pittsburgh and has their name on the Steelers’ stadium. There’s no way they’d have a Chief’s player endorse their product.

Presumably it’s being introduced in an outdoor game because the conditions can’t be regulated like they are indoors, and so it’s harder to know when the pucks get warm.

If only the kids had a day off from school when you could eat lunch with them. Let’s go nuts, make it TWO day, and we could even make them consecutive.

Regarding oil: you shouldn’t fry with extra virgin olive oil, as it has a smoke point well under proper frying temperatures, but non-virgin olive oil is great for frying as it doesn’t smoke until about 450F, higher than canola which only makes it to about 400F.

Just heard the same deal this morning from Meijer, but either the ads are behind their stock, or it’s in-store only. But, if you live near a Meijer and want to pick one up, it might be worth your time to stop in.

Just heard the same deal this morning from Meijer, but either the ads are behind their stock, or it’s in-store only.…

Macaroni and cheese is perfectly acceptable to eat with a spoon, especially at home, and it’s practically mandatory if it’s the kind in the blue box (don’t judge me).

Thanksgiving for us is all turkey, all the time, but Christmas is both a turkey and a ham.

No, mashed potatoes? Seriously? Making potatoes taste like other potatoes seems like the easiest thing to do.

Grey Goose got it’s “top shelf” reputation, because they made their bottle too damn tall to fit on a lower shelf. It’s really an only slightly above average vodka at a well above average price.

McDonald’s: We’re taking cheeseburgers, but not hamburgers, out of Happy Meals, because apparently one slice of cheese is too many extra calories.

I, too, wanted to be cynical when I started reading this, but the fact that it adds it directly to the bowl brought me back. Then I saw the price, so cynicism it is.

I did basically this last Christmas with the turkey except I spatchcocked it and put it on a cooling rack so I could lift that out of the oven instead of trying to lift a dripping bird or the entire oven rack (all steps courtesy of Alton Brown).

That applies to preshredded cheese. I don’t think I’m going to find bags of preshredded Gruyere to put in my grilled cheese.

The initial campaign is already full

With regards to the cheese not melting fast enough: I was having problems getting both sides of the sandwich the same golden brown, but the second side kept turning out a bit... blotchy. This was exacerbated when using shredded cheese and/or thicker slices of (homemade) bread, because it takes even longer to melt the…