I grew up in the mid-Atlantic (and only distantly Irish) and my mom’s side of the family always had this at holiday meals. We called it Watergate salad and I have no idea why. I also remember crushed walnuts being in some variants of it (I guess for texture?). I used to love this stuff and remember asking my mom to…

They just sit out in the elements, slowly turning brown and absorbing norovirus.

Who hurt you?

Friendo, they have room service for this very reason. If you can’t play by the rules you don’t get a free continental breakfast.

Exactly. If you can reasonably carry and eat/drink something on the way out the door, it’s not stealing. A muffin and an OJ? Sure. Two banana halves (unless you’re at one of those 3-star hotels where they trust you with a full banana)? Go for it. A camelback full of applejuice and a gallon-sized ziplock bag of sausage…

For people west of the Appalachians- you can get pork roll sandwiches at Jersey Mike’s. I have no idea how good they are because I can’t eat meat any longer for health reasons definitely not related to eating a lot of pork roll and scrapple for 30 years.

This is correct.

I love goddamn dirty Wildwood and all the sweaty, pushy Philly people that go there to buy novelty t-shirts. It should be ranked lower.

San Diego is a double-edged sword: you get high-quality craft beers brewed right there which brings the average up with limited releases and growler shares, but there’s also the fact that EVERY GODDAMN BAR charges those same prices for macro-brews. Modern Times Blackhouse- $8 (bar), $11 (4-pack), Ballast Point…

Fantastic. I once interviewed Duff Goldman and he told me a story of his early catering days: A group of DC rich assholes(tm) went all out for some shindig and left behind a completely unopened tin of caviar (most likely the illegal stuff, most definitely not the kind you can get from Costco). Since they paid for…

Back when I was a fat kid I would get a double cheeseburger and a chicken sandwich from the value menu and put the chicken patty between the beef patties. I also used to roll mozzarella sticks in a slice of pizza.

Nosferatu the Vampyre by Herzog was a better adaptation, in my opinion. Kinski as Dracula was better than Oldman and the Renfields in both are in a dead heat.

Not a spoiler but they didn’t cut this exact conversation in the movie.

I gotta disagree. I thought this was way better than a C rating. It doesn’t do anything really new the franchise, but it doesn’t need to. Saying it’s a “cover” and “we’ve been down that darkened suburban street before” shows, to me, that the reviewer doesn’t want a a new Halloween movie. That’s fine and good and the…

Isn’t it “Toffee Coffee Bar Crunch”? It’s not made with Heath bars specifically so maybe their partnership... went cold.

Sure, but Neil Diamond is a national goddamn treasure.

When I saw the title of this article claiming the movie was “the year’s most disturbing movie” I scoffed to myself and thought, surely, it couldn’t be more disturbing than Hereditary. Then I read the article and my palms started to sweat and I had to switch to a different tab for a minute. So you might be on to…

I dunno, it was really weird looking around the Staples Center last year (my first visit) and seeing NBA, WNBA, and NHL banners teeming with history and then... “Taylor Swift - Most Sold Out Performances”. It had its own color scheme and everything.

I have exploding head syndrome so every now and then I wake up to: the phone ringing (except it’s not my ringtone and there is no call) or someone calling out my name (except that person isn’t in the house).

This happens when your brain goes from one level of sleep to another but something interrupts the process. So you get this “falling” feeling and your body thinks it’s actually falling and your muscles spasm.