Thank you. My issue with crock pots has always been the enormity of them for vs. the amount of food my wife and I consume. Ordering this immediately.

I thought the same thing when I saw Maldon salt. Oiy. Also "good olive oil" to be honest. It's like "crusty bread" at this point. People can't say/write "olive oil" or "bread" it must be qualified thusly.

I am, happily, at a place in life where I can live by my preferred rule: "If I'm not happy to pay for everyone who is at the table, I'm not going out with them." I can't remember the last time we split a check in any way other than no more than 2 or 3 credit cards hit the table and we ask the server to split the…

Yep. This is precisely what we did with our upright freezer. Made a huge difference and the freezer is much nicer to use now. Great tip.

That's what I always thought was the case....pork and no roux. What Albert noted, though, is a good reason for a bit of flour: keeps the end result from being greasy looking or feeling by hanging onto the fat a bit more. (That said, I don't use a roux when I make chowder.)

Who are all of these people commenting who have a problem with pork products in their soup? Where have y'all been with bacon goddamned everything in the world?

It's not usually big chunks or pieces of anything, but something to render some fat to get the vegetation in the pot working before building the rest of the broth. ETA: should have finished reading the thing before I went and used all the same words Albert used. Ah well.

Salt pork traditionally, bacon works well. But pork as the starting point for a chowder is traditional as all hell.

This is just an amazing cluster fuck. The thing that astonishes me is that after thinking through and talking it over and, I'm sure, trying out a handful of ideas....."oh, she was pretty much having an affair with the guy" was the option they chose as their preferred narrative. And then they tried to thread the…

I quite like the pasteurized in-shell eggs. Safest eggs, they're called. (Or something super similar to that.)

I agree about respecting people's choices about whether to marry (hoping they had the choice to make!) and not dumping them into some other category as it involves their lives.

That's true. That doesn't change my points and it doesn't change her right to make her own decisions about her own body.

Well....no. I almost certainly don't completely disagree with Jane, you ignorant slut. rather, I wrote that she drew an analogy that I asserted, with some hyperbole (but not much), was entirely off the mark because it's so different that it is, in fact, hard to describe the difference. Because the differences are so…

It's really not very tricky an ethical line. She's a person who no one is asserting lacks capacity with a right to determine what happens with her own body and that includes refusing medical treatment and specific medical interventions. They can inform her of all of the risks (and should), but they don't get to tell…

Jennifer Goodall should get hooked up with the folks who keep forcing ICU medical teams to care for dead relatives because they don't believe in brain death. They seem to be able to compel a physician or medical facility just fine. The ways we devalue and diminish women astonishes me to no end.

Define "very risky," please. (Seriously...I'm not an L/D RN....how would you characterize the risk and frequency with which you see those risks play out?)

This is so entirely a different thing. I can't adequately describe how different this is. There are reams and reams of data showing c-sections are overused, are used against the woman's wishes and have more complications than people appreciated for a long time. It's major surgery. As opposed to vaccines on which…

Yeah, at this level....it's marriage sans a few documents. There is, I think, living together that is "decidedly not marriage" but once you've got pets and/or kids and have co-mingled all of your finances....yeah. Decidedly not marriage doesn't have those features.

Is there a stigma to divorce in the US much anymore?

"If I can play devil's advocate" is up there with "Actually." If you begin a sentence that way, stop. Don't write any more. Erase what you've written. Move on.