Funny how his character tried to blow up Silicon Valley in that one 007 movie. On the other hand, didn’t he date Grace Jones in that movie? (In case you’re wondering I’m not terribly invested in late-stage Roger Moore Bond)

I’m enjoying Five hundred *and fifty* thousand dollars.  It’s like he ran the costs and decided it wouldn’t sell at an even six hundred.

If someone ever offers you a bag of shell-on Brazil nuts, think twice. They are literally a tough nut to crack. Especially since they’re really not that tasty either.

I went from the post about Bojack right to this one.

It’s an older meme, but it checks out.

I admit that my Japanese vocabulary is limited to what I learned from anime and restaurants, but I always enjoy saying ‘iceoo-cooreemu’ when I can, which is what I’ve been told is how to say ice cream in Japan.

I bought his guidebook for a trip to Croatia, and it also had a solid chapter exploring the terrible Balkan wars of the 1990s.  Most of the other guides I read basically just swept past the recent history.

The article mentions that the island is a point of surveillance.  I’m of the mind that Julia Child, and in turn TV cooking in general had a hand in popularizing the island. My local PBS shows her early series on occasion, and my kitchen is strikingly similar to the layout you see in the 1963 The French Chef set.

Antifa originated in Europe, where a lot of the languages pronounce the ‘i’ as ‘ee’. That also explains why it’s ‘fah’ at the end, since I know I don’t say, Fah-shist.

I feel like it’s a brand of Midwestern humor that isn’t seen as much these days. Oddly well-read but childish at the same time.

Ahh good ol’ Ejaculate and Evacuate. I grew up with one across the street from my house. We would rent Nintendo games and steal pornos, buy fun-sized Runts for 5 cents, get the refund for massive bags of pop cans, and generally annoy the person behind the counter. Sadly, traffic through town got diverted to the new…

I want to find the person who proposed Bertie Botts as a good idea IRL, then throw rotten fruit at them.

I was in this little town in Alsace, and apparently it had gotten too small to have a baker. There was a bread vending machine at a crossroads and that bread was better than 90% of what I’ve had in all my life.

El Caminero, Mexico City. We stumbled around the corner from El Angel de Independencia, still dragging our bags and exhausted from a delayed flight. It’s just a taqueria; a normal place you could get a fast lunch or dinner, but it was some of the best food I’ve ever had at that moment. They do this thing with chorizo…

Nothing says White Flight like a housing development with canals.

I just got a new food processor and being a nerd I read the whole manual. No, you actually use the cutting blade for pie crust. The plastic blade is apparently for gluten development; this of course means I will probably never use the plastic blade because I already have a dough hook for my kitchenaid.

I have never made a decision on this issue. PEA-can pie, puh-CAHN candy.  I have the same issue with cement.

While I enjoyed the wallpaper in this show, it was pretty weird when the characters walked into a room with the exact same wallpaper as my bedroom. In a good way - a cool green and silver diamond pattern that you can see in the Vegas hotel rooms. It kind of dragged me out of the show for a second and made me think…

It’s for the aesthetic, isn’t it? A home baker wouldn’t have a blast chiller so no such amenity here.  Leave off that the home baker might have second thoughts about baking during mid-summer without air conditioning, but still.

“Number 8 - Cutting cherry tomatoes between two lids doesn’t work.” I did exactly this probably a dozen times this summer and it worked great every time. I don’t know if I can trust the rest of the list now!