Some good stuff in this article, I mean I can confirm the best General Tso’s I’ve ever had is at a vegan Chinese place in Chinatown.

Just looking at that sauce, I knew these folks were gonna be Greek.

Cincinnati chili doesn’t have brown sugar, at least not the real stuff.

I remember my first experience with saltwater taffy on a family trip.

The Jack Ryan with Krasinski and Pierce? I remember it as turgid and dumb, and kinda jingoistic (which I suppose is a “no shit”, but it also didn’t need to be?). I just watched one season.

To the French, it’s rude to come to their country and force them to speak your language. They prefer it to be their choice.

This is dumb. If you’re worried about how your tourist spending distorts things, don’t go.

Nine year old me would agree with this.

How does it taste?

A roe joke? Too soon.

The difference to me is that Frozen was out there consciously subverting stereotypes, the very specific Disney Princess stereotypes. The “act of true love” switcheroo and all that.

Is the next interview the one where realizes water is wet?

He’s the Piano Man who sits 10 yards from the keyboard

I spent a year in my consulting firm’s Paris office. I definitely scandalized my colleagues with my habit of grabbing a jambon-beurre baguette at the boulangerie downstairs then going back to my desk to eat it. Or — quelle horreur — skipping lunch entirely!

Students go home at lunch. Or at least they did 20 years ago. Presumably teachers have plenty of time.

I suppose technically an interview, but really a podcast discussion with his buddies. One where he revealed how one of those buddies had rescued him from substance abuse by calling him out as an asshole, which was coming from him having zero self-esteem at the time.

You’re gonna break your shoulder stretching to include David Lynch when there are so many better options staring you in the face?

Where, in Akron?

I’m 45 and just broke into a field, starting a new career as a lawyer.

The tunnel is exactly the width of one car. Whenever a stop gets sufficiently popular that the cars loading or unloading there back up into the drive lane, there’s going to be a traffic jam.