Put that together with the Rockets’ Tillman-era hesitation to pay the luxury tax, and you’ve got a picture of an owner who is determined to maintain his own wealth, and is relying on Daryl Morey’s creativity to do what is done by other, better owners with cash.

To conduct this taste test, I enlisted the help of my friends Lisa and Marcus—I needed to use their microwave.

Cops like donuts and coffee, right?  King should’ve spent 15 minutes giving pudding-edged takes on coffee and flying commercial.

Yeah, the owner should have responsiblity for that spill, especially since as chef he’s in charge of back-of house. Plus, these things happen in busy kitchens during prime, expensive wine-serving hours. and should just be written off as a business cost.

Even if he meant it as a joke, the chef/owner’s being a jerk and…

Yeah, that’s the hope anyway.  We’ll see how long it take for us to get to the point where Impossible and beef are roughly the same pice.  Until then, I might have to keep paying $4 premiums for Impossible and get it far less often than I’d like as the world keeps filling up with cow burps and farts.

Send him there on an ice floe.  Bonus of seeing how warm this Artic heat wave really is.

Right...but we wouldn’t know that unless Kevin also mentioned what the meat Whopper’s price was, which he didn’t until in the comments.

Sure, I know that prices may vary depending on location/deals. What I was interested was the price premium of the Impossible Whopper, which will have a huge impact on people’s willingness to choose it on a regular basis and have spillover ecological benefits.

It’s great that your location prices the Impossible and…

The Sandlot.

Ah, missed that.  But a price comparison with the regular whopper would be useful.

Seriously. Plus USA Basketball is trying to build up momentum among young stars for the Olympics next year and maybe the cycle after that. It shouldn’t be trying to be an MLS for delusional assholes.

Yeah, based on my experience with Impossible Burgers, I thought the Whopper matchup would work really well. The Whopper is cooked medium-well/well (similar to the requirements for Impossible), doesn’t have a pronounced flavor profile, and has a similar texture to Impossible. Should be a good fit.

Kevin, what was the…

I think Equinox codes urban/hip for people who have very corporate jobs in urban areas. Eventually though, they’ll make middle management and move out to the suburbs and voting moderate Republican or beyond.

Yeah, same here. I grew up listening to Yankees games with Sterling and Kay on the radio—because my parents didn’t think watching Yankees games 3 hours a night was a good idea—and I’ve just gotten used to him. He’s goofy and his home run calls can be tiring, but other than some standard-issue light homerism, I’ve…

They’re not cheap, but they’re generous with their portions and even a quarter portion of of a full-length sandwich is enough for lunch the next day.

Their Asian bar is dangerous: if I’m not careful, sometimes I find myself loading up a large takeout box of fried rice, orange chicken, green beans, dumplings, spring rolls, and two kinds of Indian curry.

I’ve cracked $20 on the Asian bar more times than I care to count.

It’s a whole portabella mushroom cap, breaded, and fried. It’s delicious.

Is a Slim Jim a sandwich?

Yeah, Amick is pretty good.  I think it depends on how the coverage is for your local teams.  The lcoal guys I read are pretty good and I’ll remain a subscriber for now, but every few days I’ll read a terrible league piece that makes me roll my eyes extremely hard.