The last thing DeSantis wants to do is go after the other *checks notes* holy shit 1800+ special districts in Floriduh, because some of them benefit his people, like the GOP nesting grounds known as The Villages.

It’s the exact opposite where I live — the majority of places that sell sushi are either Chinese restaurants/buffets or touristy fried seafood restaurants doing sushi as a side option. And with little exception, the sushi is terrible.

An ALDI opened in my town last year but I haven’t had the opportunity to check it out yet. My previous experience with some of their store brand good was very negative — watery mustard and ketchup are seared into my mind. I’d be willing to try that chicken and see how it compares to Target’s Good and Gather store…

It really never dawned on me that these places were mall-only.  There’s a standalone Auntie Anne’s/Cinnabon in our local theme park’s shopping district, so I thought it was a tried and true concept already.

The big issue I have with Big Lots is that because it’s all stuff that didn’t sell at other stores, you can’t really get hooked on any one product because eventually it’ll disappear, never to return to their shelves. Years ago I’d come across some really decent tonkatsu ramen for dirt cheap, but only found it two or…

If Titanic is available, someone needs to tell Amazon because the only thing that comes up in a search are bottom shelf documentaries and some older films with that word in the title.

That wrap looks about like the food my family ordered on a visit to our local Wendy’s a few days ago. Everything — even the fries! — just had this air of sadness about it, and tasted pretty awful. Definitely not the Wendy’s I remember from my youth. It didn’t help that we dined in and suffered through a pervasive rank…

I’m not sure I like the idea of these guys owning a record pressing plant when they have some of the worst-mastered albums out there.  They along with RHCP were some of the worst for brickwalling the audio into a distorted mess because “it sounds good loud as possible”.  You simply can’t do that on a record and expect…

I’ve been watching it off and on for years, moreso lately simply because they’re showing things I don’t have on DVD or VHS, like some of the Netflix era shows and now this re-re-revival. Was kind of surprised to hear the new Crow and Servo voices and then hearing Joel again, too.

Anyone who’s been burned by cheap-as-chips off brand manufactured foodstuffs like this knows to avoid certain countries’ products because they are bottom dollar crud. China tops the list, along with Peru, India, Poland and Turkey. Go to a dollar store and damn near half the foods that aren’t popular name brands are…

Paramount 2: Electric Bugaloo

This explains why my local Culver’s has been advertising “WE SERVE COCA-COLA” in big block letters on their electronic sign lately. It totally flew over my head that they had Pepsi previously because all I ever got was the sweet tea or the diabetes in a cup that is their root beer.

I’ve lived most of my life in the deep south and unsweet tea is available literally everywhere except one barbecue restaurant in Memphis where the options are sweet and REALLY sweet. I honestly didn’t think there was a single part of the US that didn’t have unsweet tea.

Heck, this kept me from eating at the Weinerschnitzel I saw in Texas back in December.  I was in someone else’s new car and they were not about to let me scarf down messy hotdogs in there.  Considering it was blustery and 40° outside, I had to pick somewhere else.  Talk about disappointing!

The one in Baldwin County is in the ass end of nowhere, away from the main touristy exit to the beaches, but my god does it stay packed. I visited it at 2 am a few months after it opened thinking no one in their right mind would be there after midnight — nope, total fucking zoo. It’s calmed down a little now but it’s…

On the other hand, they will become the next status symbol for anti-woke red staters, where bans would never fly in a million years. So I think the market is safe, it will just be fragmented.

Dang. I almost ate at that bb.q chicken place in Austin when I saw it.  I didn’t know it was a chain.  I wound up going into the nearby H Mart at eating spicy Korean pork at a food stall in the store.  It was so good that despite me getting violently ill from it, I’d honestly go back and do it again.

Oh, this is good to know! There’s a big Speedway near the interstate, about a 20 minute drive from me. I should check it out to see if 7-11 stuff has shown up there yet.

I’m close enough to NO that I could drive in early one morning and pick up a cake but I hate having to schedule and show up at a certain time due to my responsibilities at home. So instead I just make do with Rouses, which are just fine. Not great, but fine.

Of course Arizona is cheap — there is no shortage of horse piss in this country, so why not bottle it and sell it for cheap?  It’s about as close to real tea as I am to being a real Nigerian prince.