They’ve improved over the past few years by listening to customers and cooking them a little longer. Another thing is to not let them steam in the bag and open the top, if you’re doing drive thru. Letting them steam in there makes them soggy. They’re a lot better than they used to be, but some folks have long memories.

Actors have free agency about the work they are willing to take and they wouldn’t have agreed to a nostalgia cruise from the outset.

I liked them too, well enough. Much better than Discovery which has become my hate watch. Brave New Worlds misses the mark sometimes but I think it’s great for a first season.

These chains are surprisingly expensive. Olive Garden is also as much, if not more, than many good local Italian spots. Here in Texas, Pappasitos (16 locations I think) is wildly expensive for a Mexican restaurant. Have to pay for all that marketing somehow.

They’re not really direct competitors and offer significantly different things, despite both being burger places. Price point, style, all quite different.

I remember this; the marinara was kind of weird - overly sweet. Otherwise it was basically a pizza hut pizza cut into large slices.

Same with Thai, Vietnamese and Indian. Ramen too if the noodles are packaged separately from the broth.

It’s all amateurish. “Indie author” just means self-published writer. Common in the romance genre because quality doesn’t count for much among the fans there so it’s easy to get into.

This was an “indie” author - aka, self published hobbyist writer. Their fanbase is relatively small and entirely online. It’s very possible real life persons were not at all connected or aware of this or even her hobby.

I remember this and it was over 20 years ago, incredibly.

The Apollo flights were full of glitches and faults, some quite frightening. They tend to be overshadowed by Apollo 13 and the overall success of the missions but they happened.

The aura for me starts off as a growing blindspot in my central vision. I’ll notice it when words begin to disappear off the screen. The brain tries to fill in the holes with the surrounding background. The holes grow larger and eventually become kind of sparkly that takes over most of the central vision, leaving only…

Thank you for not making this a slideshow. Everyone hates slideshows and those metrics aren’t fooling anyone.

This is very common - the way it works is there is a kitchen where specific trained employee(s) are making the food. A number of convenience store chains have been doing this for a while - buc-ee’s, road ranger, QuikTrip, WaWa all come to mind. And of course, New York bodegas have had delis forever.

I have a CX5 and this happens to me about once a year. Usually in winter when cold temps cause the battery voltage in the fob to drop just enough it stops working. Opening the door with a key feels so quaint!

I snagged a bag of the Old Bay Goldfish crackers a few months back  and they were the best. They should really make those a permanent thing.

The sort of magical thing about British governing (or frightening, depending on perspective) is they can choose to change the rules whenever they want.

With all those ferns around, today it’d be lauded for its “biophilic” design. Maybe Bennigan’s was ahead of its time.

Who doesn’t know that?

Unethical, yes... illegal is a stretch. Bad contracts happen and shenanigans like this were a thing 25+ years ago. Art Buchwald’s case with Paramount about Coming to America exposed it in the early 90s but its possible this agreement was signed before that was well known. A 1995 film could have contracts signed a few…