What's neat is that the tin is made to look like the animated version in the movie (albeit with a picture of Setsuko). But yeah, it is a very...odd choice for a product tie-in, considering.

No pumpkin-and-herring pot pie?

The only problem I have with the Arkansas kid in the Toronto Blue Jays hat is that he's not also wearing a Hornets jersey. Otherwise we'd truly be at peak early '90s sports-bandwagoning.

Holy shit, that article was one of the most Western North Carolina things ever. One side of my family is from an area about 20 miles or so down the road from the Bumgarnerverse, and it's still pretty damn great/surreal to me to see someone from there with this much notoriety. Daddy Bumgarner is awesome. As I'm reading…

They carry Justin's at Starbucks now. SELLOUTS.

Charleston Chews can currently be found in Candy Hell between the wax bottles and the Sixlets.

4. Starlight mints (marginally edible but a terrible Halloween candy that only cheap-asses get)

Necco wafers are made in New England, packaged in rolls, and are essentially disc-shaped versions of the stuff that Valentine's candy hearts are made from. Ergo, they are vile, chalky, near-flavorless things that taste perpetually stale.

This is marvelous.

Better haul in the jib before it gets covered with shit.

I'm down in 'Merica but discovered Trailer Park Boys through Netflix. I had one of those reverse-recognition moments this past summer when I went to see the new X-Men movie, and when Kitty Pryde appeared for the first time I was all, "HOLY CRAP, THAT'S TRINA!"

Specific disabilities aside, Lilo and Stitch is a great movie because Disney actually showed some orphans who clearly have issues that stem from the fact that they were orphaned.

I remember reading an off-the-cut review of Mulan that pointed out how she has by far the highest body count of any Disney hero(ine).

Heh, my sister mixes coconut water with pineappple juice sometimes, and more than anything it just tastes disappointing. Like, you'd REALLY rather be drinking a Painkiller but you ran out of rum.

I don't get the outright hatred of tomatoes; if anything, they seem to be getting LESS ubiquitous in (American) cooking than they once were, for example red sauce is no longer quite the overwhelmingly prevalent topping for foods like pizza and pasta. But definitely there are people who don't like them (my dad is one).…

I don't know if I've ever had matzo ball soup that didn't at least have a chicken broth base, it's just that some (better) varieties have actual chunks of chicken meat. If you make the Manischewitz boxed variety, it's just gonna be broth.

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This being a young-ish guy, the thought did cross my mind that he might have grown up in a household that only ate Egg Beaters, or another of those low-cholesterol egg substitutes. Those can really only be cooked one way.

Well congrats, you Rebel scum.

According to Phil Plait (the "Bad Astronomer"), there's at least one prominent moon landing truther who has claimed that the Apollo 1 fire was orchestrated by NASA because Gus Grissom was ready to blow the whistle on the hoax. I mean, just...UGH. Fuck that guy.