Look, what the kitchen needs to know is: do you need them to take special measures to reduce the odds of cross contamination and/or to ensure you don’t get food that you might not realize contains whatever ingredient?

Don’t claim your preferences are allergies. The kitchen is perfectly willing to accommodate both, but allergies are a lot more trouble, and asking the kitchen to go to that trouble for no actual reason is a jerk move. Special shout-out to the customer whose egg allergy disappeared when the contents of caesar dressing…

Ok, you’ve made your case for sweet potato over pumpkin, but how does it compare to carrot pie?

Vegetable and dressing salads aren’t necessarily sad. Some of them are very tasty! But they aren’t meals, they’re side dishes. Or the lighter course of a multi-course meal, if you’re feeling fancy. People having them as meals is sad.

Maybe they could move the pre-movie ads and previews to the intermission? It’d fix Fin Fang Flareon’s complaint about movies actually starting twenty minutes late, and it would prevent the intermission from reducing the number of screenings they can hold.

Because the human mind is amazing in bizarre ways, placebos can actually cause side effects, presumably through the same mechanisms by which they have helpful effects. So I’m doubtful that homeopathic remedies are actually free of side effects. I mean, obviously the plain water itself isn’t going to cause you harm,…

From the article: “Ivanka Trump and Kushner, who married in 2009, share a family domain, according to Politico.” 

Sure, but maybe start with this recipe instead: http://www.justhungry.com/handbook/cooking-courses/japanese-cooking-101-lesson-2-bonus-sushi-rice-chirashizushi

Plus it only stocks, like, two packages of toilet paper, so the odds of toilet paper being completely out of stock are way higher for one of these than for a convenience store.

Many brands of margarine have dairy ingredients. Vegan margarine doesn’t. Vegan butter is a rebranding of vegan margarine, I guess.

Anything that’s always on is a constant battery drain, but not necessarily a big one.

Doesn’t the good twin often thwart the evil twin? I’d think being thwarted would be something to worry about.

I dunno, I think the $13 Ikea sharpener is worth the higher price: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50289169/

Ok, but why is the left handwashing basin at shoulder height? That seems inconvenient. And the right one’s only at a better height if the figure stands on the toilet platform while washing its hands.

Computer Programmers: Start worrying (48%) 

Making gravy without lumps without a roux is really easy, though. You just have to put the flour and some water in a plastic container with a good lid & shake it well, then add the flour-water to the drippings/juices/stock instead of adding the flour directly.

I mean, the roux probably has other advantages like taste…

I think there’s two reasons why Sea Scorch is not so bad: there are lots of ways for Runners to defend against it now, and there are also lots of other ways for Corps to murder them.

One advantage Netrunner has over other heavy games is that there are casual play groups that meet up once a week in many cities, so if you ever find yourself looking for something heavier that you can easily find other opponents for, you might want to consider it.

With each unveiled set, players shuffle new, tournament-legal cards into their decks.

It’s a reboot! It’s now one of Fantasy Flight Games’ “living card games,” which means that all the cards are sold in fixed sets, rather than random boosters. If you want a card, you just buy the set it’s in, and you get a full playset of that card and every other card in the set. (Unless it’s the core set, which…