Sorry, the terminology you used lead me to believe you weren’t familiar with lending. I was in retail banking for nearly a decade and helped a number of clients apply for loans under the EIDL and PPP back in the spring. It seemed like you didn’t understand why he would need the other guy to sign off on it. I apologize…

Its not a program, it's a loan. And in order to qualify for it, all parties have to sign the loan documents. So this is actually a big deal if the one guy signed a loan for the other guy.

I have a number of friends who spend the month of December making thousands of cookies and brag about it on social media. The truth of the matter is that cookies aren’t meant to last long, they get stale really quickly unless frozen and then freezer burn really quickly too. By the time anyone making 5000 cookies gets…

Safety purposes. One of my closest friends just had to deal with this. A parent mailed homemade cookies to all of her kid’s teachers despite the school’s policy against it. Even when we’re not in a pandemic, we don’t have any idea how people keep their kitchens.

Racist white people won’t buy goods that become popular with non white people in the same way that wealthy people won't buy goods that new money/middle class people gain access to. That's where diffusion lines came from. 

So, it’s interesting that you say this bc it’s true. I do some buying for my clients and I’ve had to change orders at fashion houses when any celebrity wears something I’ve selected for them. The minute the Kardashians started buying Birkins, none of my clients, mostly old money Chinese or White women would be caught…

Fucking thank you. 

They’re really a new money thing these days. You wouldn’t catch most of the high fashion crowd wearing them because they’re declasse now that reality stars are wearing them. 

Saratoga County is a hillbilly republican stronghold and Harvey’s has to compete with a ton of far better bars in a really small space so this douchiness is unsurprising. Upstate isn’t really taking this seriously and the activists here seem to think that now is a good time for public protests instead of helping…

Hear! Hear! 

Then what is the metric friend? Bc I live upstate, and travel throughout the rest of the state for work frequently. I can count 4 places in a 2 mile radius of my current country position that have city-style slices. And I’ve never had difficulty finding NY style pizza wherever I've traveled here.

This is also how I feel about hot dogs, Jenny.

You can get a decent foldable slice in almost every town in NY, owing, likely, to the state's large Italian American heritage. Syracuse, Rochester, Utica, Albany, Troy, Saratoga, hell there's even delicious pizza in the country.

As a former banker and lawyer with family practice experience, this rationale always brings me up short. I could put my house on the market today and thanks to some combined factors, it would sell in less than a week for far more than I bought it. With a closing, I could be out from under in 6 weeks. I’ve never seen a…

The only thing more annoying than those stories are the folks who write them who are upset that no one wants to read their thinly-veiled sales pitches. Yes, McKinleigh, we’re aware that you would tottttttaaalllllly use land o’lakes butter in everything you cook even if the folks weren’t paying you to put it in the…

Damn right it is. Or maybe peanutbutter pandemonium. 

I’m just going to sit over here with my Stewart’s ice cream that doesn’t get stale 5 minutes after production and watch the fight.

I know I’ve made this comment about 1000 times on the brownie articles on this blog but it definitely bears repeating: put mayo in your boxed brownies. Especially the Ghirardelli.

I love Chrissy Teigen. I do. Her cookbooks are great. But girl, shut the fuck up and buy the damn cookies that support one of the only and the most effective national organizations that help girls from all backgrounds learn important life skills INCLUDING body positivity, self confidence, teamwork, and inclusion. No…

Ina makes a cherry clafoutis and it's one of her only recipes I don't care for. It's really like a pancake with fruit in it. The flavor is lackluster and it's kind of gummy around the fruit.