Plus, I own the expensive side of the board; your Monopoly-broke ass can’t even succeed on a board game.

Agreed - but I kind of just associate that as a hallmark of the pseudo-ask-annie / motherly waitress style that the feature has going. Like they’re adopting an over the top waitress stereotype in order to dress up the piece and keep a certain tone to it. I wouldn’t like it if a waiter or waitress talked to me like…

Of course the servers have influence. (You’ve obviously never been a server)

Are there really people who eat the soup, turkey, and pie at the same time?

I’ve found that the trick to getting this is to look at the menu in advance online be ready to order an appetizer right when you sit down and ask if they could put that in while “we have a few more minutes to look over the entrees” (of course, if you’re like me at all, you already picked out your entree - or at least…

It also crowds the table, at a time when tables are getting smaller so that restaurants can cram more in. I have had an entree hit the floor as I was trying to juggle a rearrangement of an appetizer platter and a salad and a drink. It’s not the diner’s problem to solve, it is the restaurant’s. And it could be most…

I don’t get why Salty is shading on the letter writer here. Timing how you put orders into the kitchen and bringing out the different courses of the meal at the right times is kind of the main thing that servers need to do well in order to earn their tip. That’s the job. I agree with the LW’s frustration, especially…

Agreed. My main argument about Cheese Board Photography is that 90% of them are unusable for anything but an Instagram photo. How in the hell am I supposed to get to the Brie in that picture?

The pumpkin is dumb, and that’s an impractical way to cut a pomegranate for eating, but how could you miss that they decided to toss in a few gummi bears, and gummi pumpkins? Cheese and gummi together at last!

It’s not a cheese board if there isn’t room to actually cut and serve yourself cheese from it, or if cheese is not the main ingredient. 

Oh I thought is was because my mom boiled Brussels sprouts in milk for like and hour.

It could be what someone else mentioned: homogenization.  Way more prevalent in the USA than elsewhere. 

More and more people are having food allergies as well.

Homogenization makes a huge difference. Nearly all American milk is homogenized, which causes it to lose much of its creamy texture and some of its good taste as well. It’s not easy to find non-homogenized milk in the U.S..

Non-homogenized milk is the bomb in terms of texture and taste. Have you ever had that? It’s not easy to find.

Though it’s unclear whether or not dairy is actually bad for you

I’ll have my daily glasses of milk, thank you. But then I’m Dutch and it is probably a cultural thing.

I grew up drinking a ton of milk. My mother made me homemade vanilla shakes with a raw egg in them.
48 and never broke a bone. ALSO I was athletic and a professional dancer. So at some point I probably should have broken something. So... milk. Yeah, good stuff.

Duck you with the down with milk. There are people who actually don’t want to drink fake nut juice and can’t have soy. The taste of strained coconut shavings is also disgusting.

This is a cultural thing that white parents don’t seem to teach their kids - we see it all the time on tv. You wipe your feet, demonstrably, when entering someone’s home. You stand in the entryway until the hosts lead you to which room they want you to use. You don’t sit on the arm of the furniture and, white women,…