I’ve seen them at Publix.  They seem to be the most boring looking food product in the entire store.

This seems to be the case in every Mexican restaurant in the deep south, too. I’ve learned to mostly avoid tamales unless I’m in the southwest (Texas, NM, etc.) or in Mississippi for Delta-style tamales which are (IMHO) the superior tamales. Sorry, Mexico!

The real problem with these things is that the cookie dough tastes about as fake as can be. It’s like they developed their flavor profile by whiffing the general concept of cookie dough past a Commodore 64, then recreated what data it spit out.

I’ve found Red Gold occasionally at Walmarts in the deep south, and here and there at smaller supermarkets or regional chains.  It’s out there, but hard to find.  It’s my favorite after Whataburger Spicy, so I try to keep a few bottles on hand.

This is the best food news I’ve heard all month!  Hubig’s pies were sold at a few Alabama grocery stores along the coast and I would go (waaay) out of my way to get them if I had a craving.  Hopefully they find their way back here again in short order because New Orleans is a bit too far to go for a pie.  (Then again,…

They’ve really taken their time expanding into certain markets. I suspect the reason my community didn’t get its first store (and the first one in my giant county) until 2021 is because we already have a ton of other competitive supermarkets. We’ve got Hellmart Stupidcenter, Piggly Wiggly, Winn Dixie, Publix, Rouses…

I swear, there is nothing worse for the consumer than a “corporate buyout”. Whataburger people swore up and down when this news broke that they wouldn’t change anything except their expansion plans, but unsurprisingly, it was a lie.

Several restaurants near me are doing this now, too.  One did it only for a short time but had to discontinue it because people were dining and dashing after saying, “Oh, I paid with my phone.”  Those things give the restaurant zero record unless the transaction goes through!

I’ve yet to encounter a paperless bill at a restaurant, but I’ve seen quite a few QR codes plastered on tables. Of the three I’ve most recently tried, two went to 404-not found errors and one was an outdated menu that wasn’t formatted for phones to begin with. So it must be in other parts of the nation where this is…

Naw, it was the second-most disappointing cancellation after Santa Clarita Diet.  Granted he wasn’t one of the main stars but he was great as the asshole realtor antagonist. 

Honestly it seems like a coin-flip. I looked at their locations and there is no real rhyme or reason to it that I can see. Checkers does seem more prolific of the two names, with 150 in Florida alone. (Rally’s dominates in Ohio.) But in Alabama and Louisiana, both chains co-exist, just not in the same towns. Oddly,…

This is true of Hardee’s as well, sadly. A good Hardee’s is (was) my top fast food burger choice, but they are so hard to find. And since my local stores all went to only being open for breakfast and lunch, I haven’t had a chance to try one in several years.

I’m sure there’s some market research that says that Albuquerque and Huntsville have a certain demographic profile that, when combined, represent a good cross-section of America.

I don’t know why they felt the need to change the name in the first place. Did they really think people in Dubuque or Billings would avoid it because it’s the name of a city in another state?

I like Culver’s a lot, but the things I’m least impressed with are the things everyone crows about: the cheese curds and burgers. I think they’re both mediocre, and not very filling. The fish (and walleye, in season), the pork loin sandwich, and the custard. Those are the real winners.  Oh, and their root beer, which…

Yeah, I was gonna say, they’re still around where I live, too.  And served on plates, with Sysco quality toppings, so nothing like what’s described here.  They are disappointing in every regard; too light to be a meal and not enough to share with a party.

I’ve only seen one advertisement for it outside of NBC broadcast television, and that was a short-lived banner ad for something on my Roku. They’ve put “watch it on Peacock” tags at the end of some shows in the past, and sometimes it pops up on their Nightly News program. So, the only people who probably know about it…

I’m still watching it. It’s a perfectly fine show and honestly got better when Rosanne got the boot. They wrote her out as an opioid death and the show milked that for some drama. It still has that mix of comedy and working class angst that made the original run such a hit.

I honestly had no idea there were so many people who, like me, hate raw tomatoes except in salsa, or in cooked sauces.

This is like telling someone who hates mayonnaise to try Miracle Whip.  You’re going from bad to worse!