Actually, Welch’s grape juice was developed for communion purposes originally.  Many of the protestant churches such as the Methodist and Baptists were strongly prohibitionist, so Welch developed a “non-fermented” wine for services.

My sister describes every damn wine that she likes as tasting smooth.  It drives me up a wall every fucking time she says it. 

Artisanal.  Bread and cheese yes, everything else, really?

One of my great joys is when the tomatoes come into the farmers market and I can get a nice ripe heritage tomato and go home and make a tomato sandwich on wheat. It’s like pure summer in a sandwich.

One of my great joys is when the tomatoes come into the farmers market and I can get a nice rice heritage tomato and go home and make a tomato sandwich on wheat.  It’s like pure summer in a sandwich.

One of my great joys is when the tomatoes come into the farmers market and I can get a nice rice heritage tomato and go home and make a tomato sandwich on wheat.  It’s like pure summer in a sandwich.

Two of my friends worked at a Tower records in the mid 80s when Tears for Fears’ Songs from the Big Chair was huge, and seemed to be on heavy rotation at the store. Their way of coping with the repetitiveness was to start writing alternative lyrics and singing them while working.  Thus the 1980s classic “Everybody…

Gwen, thank for my my ear worm of the day, and honestly, there are far worse things than having a Hank Williams’ song stuck in your head.

My son hates mayo, always has, always will.

As well as a rise in Type 2 Diabetes in the US.

Nigella Lawson’s recipe for Puttanesca is a go to in our house when we want something that tastes fancy, but takes a limited amount of effort. 

When we first moved to Santa Cruz, there was an A&W on the main drag with the car stalls for the “car hops” still there. We ate there a few times when neither of us wanted to cook and the burgers were much better than the MickeyD’s down the street. It’s long gone—its now a Togos sandwich shop. 

We use it in everything. Read Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food. It’s a real eye-opener on how HFCS has been marketed in the US in all sorts of food, including low fat foods that were sold as “healthy”.  

If you grew up in the NYC area and could get WLIR in on your radio in the early 80s, there was no way you could avoid that song.  To this day, if it comes up on one of our shuffles in the car, my husband still can “sing” all the lyrics phonetically

To be blunt, what I want for Weezer is to hang it up and retire, forchristsakes. They are on the verge of being twee.

I find songs I love often in ads, a favorite being Joy Zippers “1" which was featured in a very off beat Cigna Go You Commercial:

I’m the vegetarian that has sent things back on a very few occasions because of the “yes a chicken or beef broth makes it not vegetarian”. The only time I had an issue was at a sushi bar with Udon soup and the waitress did hassle me about being “picky”.

Certain white people will ask to touch any persons hair that doesn’t fit into their narrow vision of “normal hair”. I had my hair Annie Lennox short and various colors in the early 1980s, and I cannot count the amount of total strangers who reached out and touched my hair. The same with tattoos. But yeah, now that I…

One of my high school friends mom used to start her “Sunday sauce” on Saturday. We used to sneak in the kitchen with bread and dip into the sauce until she would yell at us.  It was so good we didn’t mind the inevitable scolding to get the hella of her kitchen. 

“You’re clearly drunk. You can’t seem to remember my name. I guess I can’t serve you.”