I’m guessing this a fair bit sweeter/more dilute that Bragg’s flavored vinegars you wrote about recently?

I can’t speak to your office specifically, but in many cases the work from home productivity is going to be short-lived.

You were raised on a sketch comedy show that regularly lampoons celebrities?

I’m really confused by you speaking parenthetically, and I can’t get past it.

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I’m talking more “can the chef come up with something vegetarian?”, and they have, say, something where they use mushroom as the protein, or construct an array of sides in a way that feels like an actual main.

There’s off menu and there’s off menu.

Yeah, my wife got into a Bragg’s kick a few years ago, and it was a bit much for me straight. But it’s GREAT with fizzy water.

Never heard of them before, but these look exactly like my kind of thing.

Huh, so should I see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs? In my 30's and childless when it came out, it seemed pitched very much not at me.

The Japanese fruit thing is about novelty and just the expense itself. The crazy high end stuff is meant almost exclusively as gifts, as fancy gifting is an important thing culturally.

EMP was the last super high-end place I thought was worth it.

Yeah, that was off. It existed back then, but I think it was firmly and almost exclusively in African American vernacular. Of course, we don’t know anything about Miguel’s background (right?) so who knows, but it definitely felt like he was talking about something sourced from Etsy rather than something legit from the…

This one was just too sad for me. Felt so bad for the guy, I couldn’t laugh at him.

“I will get the Covid vaccine as soon as they let me.”

Yeah, no, this isn’t really a thing. In most workplaces, no one “hides” their children. I’ve been to endless baby showers, contributed to countless baby gifts, and have untold gigabytes of newborn pics from my 20 years in consulting.

I had a fried chicken sandwich at a local place the other day that was either extremely dry dark meat, or turkey. I took the “try not to think about it” approach too.

I’m always up for Japanese convenience store eats.

That’s right, I totally forgot Shake Shack made it to Texas. And not that recently, either. My issue was that back then I had it confused with Steak n Shake, and was wondering what people were excited about.

Guilty as charged. I’ve had cheese curds from Wisconsin bring me cheese curds, I’ve had poutine around Quebec, and have been nothing but underwhelmed.