Your comment got me to Google up this list from 2000: an informal census of all the variations on Roberto’s and Alberto’s in San Diego County: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2000/mar/16/how-many-variations-are-there-fast-food-mexican-re/
This was near the time of peak ‘Bertos and there were about 130 different…

Hey, since the new Ghostbusters takes place in the Midwest, can we have a crossover where the kids come out to Iowa and try to capture Shoeless Joe Jackson?

As a local, I have to defend the burrito culture. San Diego is the birthplace of the California burrito, and you can walk into any of a hundred different taco shops and get 100 different takes on it. How crispy the fries are depends on the shop and the cook and the time of day. I’ll allow that Lolita’s, one of the big…

Your instincts are correct. This wasn’t something you could actually bet on in Las Vegas. The tweet BrianFowler713 posted above lays it out, but here’s a more comprehensive run down on what you can bet on in Vegas and why:

Two items: One disgusting, one not. The good one was the fresh strawberry donuts from Donut Man in Glendora (the LA suburb). When strawberries came back into season, someone would make the hotly anticipated run to Donut Man (still known as far Foster’s to the students) and come back with boxes of fresh strawberry…

Yes. Senior year we had a particularly difficult homework set due on Wednesdays, so we would get together in the house library the night before and send somebody to Del Taco for their Taco Tuesday “3 for $1" deal. Those big bags of tacos would nourish into the wee hours as we worked.

The San Diego Padres’ Petco Park now has a Din Tai Fung concession stand. The dumplings at the ballpark are good, but definitely not freshly made based on how quickly my order came out. They were a little more chewy, as if they had been sitting around as opposed to fresh from the steaming basket.

We’ve got Disney’s Jungle Cruise and Universal’s The Mummy ride. When are we going to get a Romancing the Stone ride? You’ve got the mud slide, the car going into the river, and then you cap it with an escape in the little mule. It would be perfect!

They played “Tush” as one of the between-innings songs at the Padres afternoon game today. It being a summer weekday, there were a lot of kids day-camp groups there for the game, and it was amusing to see them all out of their seats in the downtown stadium dancing to “Lord take me downtown; I’m just looking for some…

My main reference point for The African Queen, way before I saw the film, was the dorky-sweet character of Vera in the sitcom Alice. She was always going to the revival house to see the movie and pining for the Bogart-Hepburn type of old-fashioned romance.

As people have said below, it was supposed to be the Ulanga River, and to be fair I wouldn’t have known that without looking it up. If this was trivia night, I would have guessed the Congo River. But you are correct that it was partially filmed on the upper reaches of the White Nile, around Lake Albert and Murchison…

Bogart was trying to take Hepburn down the Nile River? He really was a terrible boat captain!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane back to the Farm! We spent many high school nights in the mid-late 80s drinking Strawberry Hill and the apple variety, which was at the time called Country Kwencher (you can’t spell ‘classy’ without a ‘k’!).

There was an episode of CSI: Las Vegas where Marg Helgenberger’s character revealed that she couldn’t deal with saliva. I can’t remember the plot, maybe there was a boxer with a spit bucket. But for all the blood and brain matter and other fluids she dealt with, the thought of a bucket of spit made her ill.

Which is to…

No beer, no baby, no stadium food, but this is one of the best catches I’ve seen in a while: a one-handed, over-the-railing catch of a rocket home run ball:

Hooray!  I already have my tickets!

Yeah, I remember seeing it in theaters on Valentine’s Day with someone else who wasn’t dating anyone at the time, so we went and chose what looked like a fun non-romantic movie as counter-programming and had a surprisingly good time. But that was the 8th week of release, so the marketing didn’t do anything to get me,…

A new study published by Aiden and Luna from Mrs. Kendall’s class indicates that spreading your vegetables around your plate makes it appear as if you have consumed 68% more than if you just leave them in a pile.

“And the answer in none - none more American.” Check out this Google map! The Las Vegas Strip Taco Bell Cantina is next to a McDonald’s, directly underneath a Twin Peaks (America’s 3rd favorite breastaurant), which is next to a Rainforest Cafe, which is itself next to a Bubba Gump Shrimp Co! You’ve got a B-Dubs next…

I think durian is one of those foods where different people perceive the smell differently. Maybe not as strong a case as cilantro where one gene can change the taste from good to foul, but something similar. This article makes the case that the rotting flesh is an association only made by some people. https://www.heif…