Grinding peanuts and putting hydrogenated oil in them to make the paste more spreadable is uniquely American. There are significant portions of Africa for example where ground peanut paste in food is common, they’re just not using Skippy.

 I am now picturing a kaiju version of Mr Peanut, top hat and monocle and all.

How utterly desperate/starving would one have to be before trying a wing at 7-11?

So...why is ‘the rest of the world’ just Europe? North Africa and much of SE Asia uses peanuts and peanut butter quite a bit too...

I’d try them but ATL is a desert of 7/11

Pretty soon the streamers will be issuing box set DVDs of their one-season wonders.

Of course not. It’s a calzone.

Those critters = free extra toppings, whether you want them or not 

I had to give up pizza for health reasons recently and if that albino floppy cave pizza is the future of it, good.

Wow. Any opportunity to inject more sugar into the American diet, eh?

Had Korean corn dogs for the first time a few weeks ago from a food truck dedicated to them - pretty good, but I wish the hot dog/cheese combo one wasn’t literally a hot dog on one side and cheese on the other. Having the hot dog run the full length but be surrounded by cheese would have been a lot better IMO.

On the gripping hand, the aphorism that pizza is like sex and it is good even when it is bad is bullshit. There is a lot of gummy, burnt, undercooked, poorly made pizza with really cheap ingredients that really sucks and should make people regret spending money on it.

Quality does not matter.  People have proven time and again that if food is some combination of cheap, fast, fatty, and salty, they will eat it by the truckload no matter how it tastes.

No.  And here’s why.  I need to know how often the interior of one of these machines is cleaned.  Unless they are hermetically sealed, which they aren’t, there is the potential for all kinds of critters to get inside there, which you would not be able to see from the outside.

Except it isn’t.

See also: shitty books hitting the best seller lists because publishers/agencies buy them by the boxload.

Boppenheimer: the little known jazz sub-genre

Must be nice to have options. Here we have to choose between the theater with uncomfortable seats and the theater that hasn’t improved their sound system since the Clinton administration.

It’s too much to Handel! Bach in the day, things weren’t so Savage.

I’m looking forward to the further cast additions of Madeline Kahn as the wacky Number One, Dom DeLuise as the donut-crazed captain, Tim Conway as the befuddled science officer and Don Knotts as the bumbling security chief.