There are different types of pasta. Mac and Cheese with ketchup is perfectly okay. Fettuccine, for example, is not.

“You also apparently like to eat pasta with ketchup, but nobody’s perfect.”

You leave chicken strip cola lady alone. She is a decent person who has an unusual taste. She isn’t actively trying to take away the civil rights of others.

This artcle is way too long. You could have shortened it to:

The quickest way to tell that a recipe writer does not know what they are doing is if they tell you to saute with extra virgin olive oil. Saute, by definition, uses high heat. EVOO has a low smoke point so you can not saute properly with it. Even if you did it would be a waste of money since the high heat will destroy…

“Unfortunately, they kept it realer.”

Excellent choice of cheering up video.

This is America. We have a hard enough time banning guns at restaurants. 

Did some random word generator create this comment?

This hit home for him, as it does for me; the question-asker got to know what it feels like to be Black and always under suspicion (even by people who see you on a regular basis), for a moment anyway.

Right - because clearly this is something they do intentionally on a regular basis.

“Mooom! Dad’s bitching about the pizza-incident again!”

“I was wrongly accused at my town’s best pizzeria.”

Or Tony Chachere’s, the only seasoning to have an 800-number printed on the label at one time so you could call and learn how to say the name. ;)

You’re welcome:

This isn’t really a restaurant issue, this could happen in almost any store: department store, etc. That being said, you deserve more than some mumbled “sorry, dude.” Write your letter, or better yet, as Salty said, go talk to the manager next time. Describe the situation and suggest to them they need to find a better…

Remember when everyone thought the internet was leading us into an information utopia? Boy, were we dumb.

I love the word “carafe.”

Er...I get here at 6:45. Asking me to not have coffee until 9:30 is asking me to commit murder.

Or anything at all, really.  They will shoot first, and ask questions later.