I don’t really like french fries, or onion rings. I could probably live without them for the rest of my life, even though there are some that I do enjoy to some degree.

I had no idea that Lee’s still existed. The last one I knew of in Alabama seems like it closed back in the late 80's or early 90's.

What I lamented about this digital revolution was that it proved that the average listener didn’t care about quality audio, as long as it was free. Poor quality rips were rife on these services and the sound quality was terrible even on the cheap earbuds that came with those iPods of yesterday (and the iPhones of…

We do have Zapp’s. They went from being a hard to find specialty chip here to ubiquitous a few years ago. I am not a fan of potato chips in general and never liked the crunch of Zapp’s, so I never tried the Voodoo ones.

I agree, this is completely eggregious behavior.

You would be correct, Ruffles did sell an All Dressed version in Walmart for a short time, complete with a tagline about it being Canada’s favo(u)rite chip. I bought a bag and enjoyed them, but they disappeared after just a few months.

Well, no, they’re not. Tons of information has been discarded to make the file smaller. You may not hear it, but it is most definitely not the same. CD-quality would be an uncompressed WAV or raw file, or a FLAC file encoded from a lossless original.

I bet you’re one of those people who say, “meh, my 128 kbps mp3s from Napster and my iTunes aac files sound just fine.”

I haven’t seen that many F’s since my last report card.

Why not? If I’m eating salad, that’s reason enough to be sad.

Same here. The only one within a ~30 minute drive is just down the road from me and every time I drive by, the drive-thru line is wrapped around the building and spilling out into the adjoining parking lot. It’s been like that, to some degree, since before the pandemic happened, too. Back in those halcyon days of…

It’s given to me on good authority that Duke’s is the secret to great southern style potato salad.

Recycling concerns aside, it’s interesting that Walmart and Target are partnering together on this considering their plastic bags are at polar opposite ends of the quality spectrum. Target’s bags are quality, and infinitely reusable in my experience. They are strong and make great small trash can liners. Walmart’s are…

My idea is to simply have them raise prices by ~50% on the menu, then offer an unspoken 50% line-item discount to anyone wearing a mask. When money is involved, people will put aside their childish petulance real quick.

It does improve noticeably in the second season, to the point that, at least for me, I didn’t notice any issues at all.  

In my TV market, Sinclair owns two stations outright (NBC and ABC affiliates) and operates two more through local marketing agreements that were in place before Sinclair bought the stations, so it’s grandfathered in. Four stations under their control, almost half the channels available off the air. They’re kind of…

I’m happy to hear this, I always thought this was a good show with interesting lore and good storytelling chops.

I must be a Russian bot then because it was the taco flavor (in the same bag from the 80's!) that I was searching for…

Unlike the early part of the pandemic, there’s not set of items that are consistently out anymore. But, at the local Mega Lo Mart, it’s a rotating set of items that seem to disappear. Last trip, it was various cuts of ground beef, ham and pork products. The week before, it was sriracha, frozen fruit, yeast and canned…

It’s not just beer, soda is affected too. My stash of Cherry Dr. Pepper ran out a few weeks ago and I haven’t found it anywhere. I caught the local bottler-stocker-guy and asked him what the deal was, and he said they’d stopped canning certain lower selling flavors because of the shortage.