Aw, man, y’all are behind the times. The Republican wing-nuts I argue with constantly have given up on the “world class healthcare” and “wait times” arguments because they finally can’t stare into those lies any longer. No, their latest defense of our broken system is, “Well, ours is so expensive because we subsidize…

I was going to offer as an alternative the Target brand that my local store stocks, but alas it’s labeled as “tenders” and not “nuggets”. Really, they’re neither. The “Market Pantry Honey Battered Chicken Tenders” are actually more of a chicken finger than anything else, with the same consistency as a nugget thanks to…

This is one of the reasons I’ve become reluctant to offer restaurant suggestions when people come and visit my little slice of paradise. Seems like every place I steer people to, we wind up having a less than stellar time.  I mean, it’s happened now four or five times at several different places!  I’m enough of a…

Wow, I had totally forgotten about the Triple Decker Pizza, although I’m sure my arteries haven’t.

“Why the fuck else would you take a picture of your food?”

I’ll combine the cheese hatred with the tomato hatred and say there’s nothing worse than trying to pick a gooey, slimy tomato off a sandwich when it’s thoroughly embedded in a slice of half-melted process cheese product.

I prefer about one inch of frosting atop a layer of cake that’s sliced to the width of one electron.

One of the beach towns just down the road from me is notorious for what appears to be a ratings-fueled war that’s been ongoing for years. Anytime a new place opens in that town, it’s immediately besieged by dozens of both 1- and 5-star reviews from obvious shills.  It renders any ability to get accurate information…

This might be the most British post I’ve ever read.

Turnip greens, squash casserole, and sweet potatoes.

When I eat pizza at a restaurant, I have this habit of cutting the first two or three bites off with a fork and knife and eating it before I pick up the rest of the slide, fold it in half, and eat the rest. It was mostly borne out of pizza right from the oven being too damn hot to hold, and me being too damn impatient…

You must be a hoot at parties.

As someone who was born and lived most all his life in the deepest of the deep south, all I gotta say is the concept of -20°F doesn’t even register in my brain. I literally have no concept of what that kind of cold is like.

There’s an interesting write-up floating around out there on why Saran Wrap brand cling wrap no longer works as well as it used to, like us old-timers remember. In a nutshell, the SC Johnson company removed polyvinylidene chloride from the wrap because it was thought to emit toxic fumes when burned in municipal…

My personal favorite is not one of the spicier ones out there, but I think it adds a lot to gator, fish and lots of other good foods: Crystal hot sauce, from New Orleans.  It’s also just 85¢ at my local Cajun grocery store.

My personal favorite is not one of the spicier ones out there, but I think it adds a lot to gator, fish and lots of…

It’s not just the Xbox and PS4 apps, it’s *all* their apps. They’re just a hot mess of bad UX choices. It’s my second biggest issue with the service. The first being the second-class status they foist on most Android users… SD only on my tablet and two other phones.  Only way to get HD is with my Samsung phone or my…

Has anyone else noticed a bit of, er, “ghosting” with the picture during the 99 broadcast on NBC? It looks like one of those old bad PAL-to-NTSC transfers of British TV from the 80's, except more subtle.

Thank you, everyone, for your feedback. It definitely sounds like I got a bad wheel o’ brie! I doubt there’s a cheesemonger anywhere within several hours’ drive of where I live, so I’m stuck with supermarket cheese, unfortunately.

Stupid question time: What should brie rind (and brie itself) actually taste like? I tried a small wheel of brie once and it was the most awfully bitter, sour thing I’ve ever tasted, and I once accidentally ingested a moldy lima bean. (It involved Cracker Barrel, do I need to say more?)

No, it’s not weird, actually. It’s quite common. People who have lots are often selfish and stingy in general.