Holy shit, I've never encountered this kind of pizza apostasy before! You're the only person I've ever known who grew up with one style and converted to the other style. It's easier to give up being Amish than that. More people have successfully extricated themselves from the mafia than have done what you have done!

You certainly don't have to worry about issues like over-fishing, do you?

You've described two extreme ends of a spectrum, I think. I like the strange things you encounter with people who are more toward the foodie side of the scale, but who still have some quirky preferences, probably left over from their youth or upbringing. For example, I know a woman who is an exquisite cook and who…

I'm 100% behind your last paragraph. I know exactly what you're talking about. What the fuck is wrong with those people?

My father and some friends were strolling around a Mexican border town back in the 1960s, and they caught a wonderful smell. they followed it, like in cartoons when the smell caresses Bugs Bunny's head like a woman's hands and lures him to something wonderful. Anyway, they turned a corner, and there was the source…

I bought a house recently, and you know what I learned how to do via Youtube? Replace a fucking toilet. And I did it. I took out the old, not-working-properly toilet, and installed a motherfucking new one single-handedly, and it works like a charm. Youtube alone is the greatest thing on the internet for teaching…

Hah! That was funny, but in all fairness, @flagonthemoon:disqus was using the Starbucks thing as an example of how having a "usual" or being a regular somewhere is pleasurable on occasion, but that, for him, it's a "sometimes" experience. His willingness to accept that when it happens and find a unique pleasure in…

The funniest thing along these lines I've seen was the "artisanal lettuce" being sold in a plastic tub at Aldi.

I just got coffee this morning at a shop run by an Irish woman, and she had tins on display of the teas available. There was Irish breakfast, of course, but one I had never seen before was Irish afternoon! I guess it's got less caffeine. Or maybe it has more!

Liking and appreciating more complex, flavorful beer is fine. I've got my favorites along those lines, too. But if I'm at a backyard cook-out, and there's a cooler full of Budweiser, I'm not going to turn my nose up at that. I'll have a fucking Bud, because it's summertime, it's beer,
and that's all I really should…

Plus, summer really is the season for drinking beer like High Life, Old Style, etc. (those are my go-to choices this time of year). You don't want anything heavy, and the watered-down quality of them is actually more appetizing when it's over 80ºF outside.

Anthony Bourdain had a section in Kitchen Confidential wherein he talked about the then-notable phenomenon of Hispanic cooks coming into NYC kitchens in large numbers, and pretty much taking over. Bourdain said that the cooking culture they came from must have been different than American, French, Italian, etc.…

Isn't it?! When they adopted the Euro, I was really disappointed. I mean, sure, they probably realized some macro economic benefits (the sustainability of which remains to be seen), but they had to give up those kick-ass gilders! I guess they could always go back to them, if they ever withdrew from the Euro. …

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt has to be the perfect name for 2014.

That's one hell of a system!

I just found out that Robin Williams won a couple of Emmys and Grammys, to go with his Oscar. He was a Tony shy of an EGOT. Had he lived, surely he could have managed to win one of those, right?

At that point, isn't it just a fighter plane?

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I've got a vacation coming up, but my first day back to work after that will be my first day at a new job. I wonder how that's going to be?

"Friends both sides of the Bay" sounds like it should be slang term for bi-sexuality, especially considering San Francisco's long-standing openness to sexual variety — but I've never heard it. Can we start using it that way?