Cost is definitely a factor, as is mouth-feel and flavor. I don’t even care that much if something isn’t an exact replica of a beloved meat, it just has to taste good in its own way.

I’ll have to keep than in mind about the Panasonic models being the only major brand to lower power properly. I had one when I was younger and it worked great! I thought they all did that but the GE and now Samsung models I’ve tried just power cycle.

Only five in your county? It must be a very small county! There are three just in my town of 20,000. One is in a hospital, though.

How quickly does the ink in the fountain pens dry? I’m a lefty and smearing ink has been a lifelong problem.

How quickly does the ink in the fountain pens dry? I’m a lefty and smearing ink has been a lifelong problem.

“I loved that waiter…”

There are some patents involving machinery to stuff said pizza crusts, but I can’t find anything on the actual concept of cheese inside a pizza crust. Trying to find an answer to this is maddening, especially with the eighteen gazillion articles on the “only the crust” promotion making the rounds.

No doubt that tens of people will have their weekends ruined by this news.

But, the thing is, someone did try it and it failed almost as hard as Quibi did. Verizon launched “go90" in 2015, complete with the “short form content targeting millennials” concept.  Hell, the Wikipedia article reads like they’re talking about Quibi, it’s so simiar:

Nothing on using Coca-Cola or Dr. Pepper to glaze a ham? Maybe that’s just a southern thing.

To me, the potato is just a delivery device for butter and salt.  Otherwise it’s a packing peanut, imparting no real flavor of its own, just taking up space on the dinner plate.

I bought the maple creme ones twice.  Once last year, once this year.  This year I barely made it through a sleeve before deciding to chunk them and question my past taste in sugary sweet foods.  They were just awful.

Unpopular take alert: These people are getting what they deserve for hoarding horrible sauces. They are all excessively artificial even by fast food dipping sauce standards.

Weird. I’ve been to the store more times than should be necessary this COVID-infested month and yet the Pepperidge Farm cookies are always well stocked, regardless of whether it’s Publix or Target or whoever.

Works fine in Vivaldi’s mobile browser, as long as the ad blocker is turned on. I figure if they want my eyeballs they can fix their shit, then I’ll turn it back off.

I haven’t been to a theater in so long (a re-release of Pan’s Labyrinth at the Tivoli in St. Louis, so probably 2007 or 2008?) that the very concepts of reserved seating and online ticket purchasing are completely foreign to me, but a welcome thing to learn.

Crap, I forgot my favorite one, from Squirm on MST3k: Mass-ASS-chew-sets.  Servo said it after the worm guy said “maybe you need to go back to NEW York.” 

Lord, I have a ton of these… champagne is sham-PAG-nee, mausoleum is mah-ZO-lee-um, hors d’oeuvres is “horse d’ovaries”, etc. 

It was probably a cost thing. The studio was probably ready to go at a moment’s notice, but the cameras required a warm up period and calibration because they still used tubes back then. Tubes, unlike transistors, have a finite lifespan so keeping them warm all the time would have likely been quite expensive. 

So, I use the terms “poor” and “shady” and you assume minorities? That’s nice.

This doesn’t seem different from Netflix’s “Night On Earth”, narrated by the equally poor narrator choice of Samira Wiley.