There was a lot of me-learning-things in that post. Good footnotes.

Icemakers! Been there.

So there are lots of brands of refrigerator/freezers, but it turns out they almost all use some variation of the same basic ice-making unit. Replacements on eBay are about fifty bucks and it will take you less than 20 minutes to swap the new one in.

Heinz Hot Ketchup.

No, not the “hot & spicy” stuff where they just mixed Tabasco sauce into it. Before that.

There’s been one in Glendale within walking distance of our house for a couple years now. For a while they were running a $5 combo lunch deal on Thursdays, and we went for that on a semi-regular basis. It always felt, though, like that was some kind of loss leader for them and at some point last year they ditched it. T…

This was apparently the way Americans did it in the ’50s before (I would guess) Juila Child came along.

I was watching a black-and-white TV sitcom from the era, and at one point one of the characters asks another if they have the ingredients for a cheese omelet in the pantry. Yes, he replies, we have eggs, cheese,…

Well, this club is formed. Spread the word on menus nationwide.

I’m for em!

How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?

It is so good.

How about some love for the fine-ass threads on Cleavon Little ?

.... versus “assumes you live near a restaurant supply house that is open to the public.” Many aren’t.

RestaurantDepot/Jetro, for instance, is “exclusively open to operators of the food businesses and nonprofit organizations” and their signage promises restaurateurs “You won’t see your customers shopping here!”…

If she said that shit around me, by the time I got through with her her name’d be “Rn Grly.”

Sour cherries — the kind meant for pies and not frequently encountered in American supermarkets — do in fact taste a lot more like the “wild cherry” flavor one encounters in Life Savers and the like. My source: having one of those trees with five or six different cultivars grafted to a single trunk. I picked one and…

I haven’t tried them, but based on y’all’s descriptions I’m gonna go with “tonka bean,” which is obscure enough (in this country) to be a good candidate for pretty much any guess-the-flavor contest.

Yeah, Ramazzotti or GTFO.

30 - 50.

don’t toss them! Ziploc says they can be recycled at any facility that accepts plastic shopping bags.

To piss off people who don’t understand the idea of “visual metaphor.”

Slightly off topic -- I recently got AT.LONG.LAST.A$AP (impetus: getting everything produced by DangerMouse) and I’m digging it. Where should I go next with Rocky? Is this his best one? Open to suggestions. Thank you.

Here’s the text of the bill. Despite what the article headlines say, the actual legislation is not restricted to food you ate some of and could box at your table yourself. It (much more significantly) applies to freshly-prepared food boxed in the kitchen directly into your own reusable containers.

https://leginfo.legisl…