The content remains edible. "Good" is an entirely different matter.

I admired him as a basketball player right up until he was outed as a rapist, and a violent one at that. Once he bought his way out of criminal charges (it’s not a coincidence when a victim drops out of a case and then receives a civil settlement), I resented every positive thing said about him.

Could this be due to Amazon culture? Amazon frequently has notices about how there are only [x] items left, presumably because they try not to get caught with stock that's not going to sell in the short term. In the case of a grocery store, virtually everything is perishable to some degree (even canned goods have…

Part of the problem is that Dew has a pretty unique flavor. I consider attempts to replicate it without sugar/HFCS a pointless exercise; perhaps impossible given how vile Diet Dew is and the fact that they sold it. They’d be better off developing a new Dew flavor that’s sugar-free from the start.

True that. If they made it the bottom 20%, it might even be worth using Yelp again. Fuck any restaurant that can't even crack the top 50% of health code inspections.

You’re absolutely right and Salty is absolutely wrong.

Since they’ve implied (through the Daystrom exposition) that these new artificial lifeforms were created from Data seed, I think it’s more likely that the desire/need to seek out Picard was a function of Data trusting him above any other human.  After all, Picard was the one most responsible for preserving his rights…

There aren’t enough stars. That was the first steak item from Taco Bell that I loved without reservation since their original steak burrito...steak, tater tots, sour cream, pico de gallo, and done. I wish they’d bring that back.

I’m not picky as long as the story is solid. That said, if they don’t bring him back it seems weird that they’d foreshadow that hard.  It would certainly have been one of Bruce Maddox’s primary goals.

At the risk of guess-spoiling.....

If it melts all the cheese, it’s too hot, but I like a little melt right at the surface of the bread...which is why toasting works so well.  You don’t toast it so much that it turns the surface brown, but just enough to give the surface a little crisp and heat before spreading the cream cheese.

What’s important to me is the heat. I like the little bit of melted cream cheese nearest the surface of the bread. Toasting is the best way to achieve this after the bagel has cooled since, done properly, it doesn’t kill the rest of the texture like sticking it in a microwave.

One thing that has nothing to do with pancake mix. You really don't need to move the pan around once your eggs are in the pan unless you've got thin spots, and you should never need to screw around with the edges. Just let the eggs sit there and they'll cook through. Once they're firm on top, add desired filling,…

Every DS revision included in the list was a major step for the biggest handheld gaming company in the world. I liked the PSP and Vita but neither provided the same level of fun as the Nintendo handhelds, and the Sony revisions were never game-changers for anyone who wasn’t already invested.

Agreed. I’m getting pretty tired of people looking at assholes and assuming that they’re assholes because they’re mentally ill. While Kanye may have mental problems causing him to speak his [tiny] mind when he should stay quiet, what he says comes from his stupidity and not mental illness.

Realistically, most crab rangoon you get served will be the cheapest possible preparation which means mostly cream cheese and a bit of [shell]fish. The Chinese-American place I go to pretty regularly serves a couple of them with their lunch specials. They’re tasty enough with a bit of sweet and sour sauce, but if they…

Yeah, most misunderstandings can be solved by knowledge. It’s a tautology that’s not really helpful, especially when addressing the problem that people are letting themselves get irritated by the pettiest of misunderstandings.

Indeed. Their claim to represent the views of left-center to right-center evangelical Christians is just utter crap, even in the US where our “progressive” party is about as left as Nixon was.

There is absolutely no justification for irritation at this. Americans get most of their Italian food from the most inauthentic sources and at least 9 times out of 10 they will serve fettuccine pasta with Alfredo sauce. The 10th time it’ll probably be a garlic butter sauce (pretty much Alfredo with garlic substituted…

Probably not.  Ketchup is just the go-to condiment at which the snooty can sniff derisively.