My dad runs his Merc 240D on biodiesel but as much as he wanted to convert it to pure, the mods required never quite materialized because it was easier for him to buy it from a local place that mixes it with enough regular diesel to keep it flowing smoothly. Driving behind him smells like a fast food joint whenever we…

Americans have largely grown to sweeter and fattier tastes, I suspect.

I’m with you on the name obviously.

Most people when they talk about the Whopper seem to assume it should have cheese on it by default, whether or not it was said, so I wanted to clarify. And a lot of people omit mayo on burgers, normally I do as well, so I figured may as well lock it all down since some folks talk about this burger like it’s of vegan…

Panic reaction while driving often involves pushing one’s legs as hard as possible towards the firewall to brace one’s self, it’s just human nature even if it’s totally unsafe, passengers do it just as much as drivers even when they’ve never driven a car. 

Interesting that this was all about protecting a copyright.

I can’t get past how stupid that McPlant name is. You aren’t trying to open this product to a new market, you’re trying to supplant (no pun intended) your existing product to your existing market with one that’s modestly healthier and notably better environmentally. You already suck at beef, you turn pure ground beef…

Last year I did an extensive test on this. I like the Impossible Whopper, so when they were offering the Impossible and the beef versions at the same $2 price on Wednesdays, I went back and forth once a week for a month to compare, every time getting the same version without cheese but with mayo to improve the low-fat…

That well-worn Haynes manual tells you everything you need to know:

Her alopecia is a strip 5 inches by maybe half an inch at the top of her head, she shaved the rest of her head to better see it, she’s not a chemo patient or in any way significantly impacted. It is a tiny patch and in no way affecting the quality of her life or even her career, actors wear wigs all the time so it…

Jack in the Box’s food poisoning issue was thirty years ago. I don’t say this to diminish but to realize how damn old I am, because they offered “the big deal” to get customers back by having a burger, fries and a taco for one dollar, and it got my teenage body fed.

Electrification isn’t remotely there yet and we’re actively destroying the planet with these cars both in the filthy battery tech and the fossil fuels used to generate energy for them, hoping the capitalistic system of artificially increasing demand to push the technology to cleaner, more efficient realms. The raw…

My aunt was a left-foot braker, it worked terrible all of the time but especially when she tried to panic-stop and instead mashed both pedals. She smacked into a wall of traffic on the 405, then claimed someone must have rear-ended her into them despite no rear end damage on the car she had borrowed from my mom.

Now what if I told you that the fight broke out because one of the fighters escalated tensions, then himself instigated the fight, convinced two of his bosses with him to the fight, and walked away winning the fight with one less boss to worry about? See, hypotheticals can be anything if you want them to be, that’s…

Look, I love Tron, and I love Star Wars, but Steven Lisberger and Gary Kurtz couldn’t make this film work at all. Great cast, great production team, awful movie. 

California refines way too much gasoline for stations to be buying it from another country.

Jack in the Box, albeit another semi-national chain, invented the modern drive-thru premise with their concept using the intercom, it has American burgers and fries, shakes, unusual desserts, plus Mexican-ish food, Asian-ish food, and breakfast all day. It is very American, it is a melting pot of ideas, and some of…

This ain’t Canada. Unlike our friends to the north, A&W ain’t much of a thing here in the states and the few that survived are pretty terrible. I am told the Canuck versions are significantly better, and I tend to believe that as the A&Ws of my youth in the ‘80s were really good.

While I won’t say that White Castle sliders are no better than their frozen supermarket counterparts, I will say the frozen variety you can buy at any megamart is good enough to get the idea across.

The original premise and title of the film was “Smokey is the Bandit - Part 3":