I have both Mrs B’s Book and Eliza Acton’s which yeah Mrs B pretty much copy pasted entire sections of wholesale in a hilariously shameless way.

This. I’ve got a collection of magazines aimed at teenage and young woman running from the 1880s to 1910s, and the fashion and health articles specifically warn against tight lacing. Like how I expect teen magazines today warn against tanning booths and wearing shoes that are too tight with heels that are too high. 

Here in Australia Pizza Hut had an all you can eat buffet with pizza, pasta, salad and the dessert bar. From what I remember it was a pretty good value way for ravenous teenagers to stuff themselves and we enjoyed getting artistic with the soft serve swirl machine and all the sprinkles and sauces.

My day job is as a transcriptionist. Listening to this is giving me hives. 

I’m morbidly curious what his body language will be like as much as anything else. Will he stalk Biden around the stage and hover behind him like he did Clinton?

I know he’s been accusing his enemies of things he himself is actually guilty of due to whatever personality or cognitive disorder he has for years now, but this is surely the most egregious example yet?

Also Ruth Reichl’s “Swiss Pumpkin” circa the 70s. :) 

My “favourite” thing about when Joss Whedon plaintively wrote about how helpless he was suddenly surrounded by the temptation of all these “needy, aggressive young women” was how it’s not like the sudden throng of young actresses came out of nowhere, HE was the one who started a show that just so happened to be filled…

Does anyone else remember British crime novel writer Val McDetmid’s “Tony Hill and Carol Jordan” series which kind of used the “ASD adjunct male psychological profiler and smart tough female detective have sexual tension and solve incredibly gross murders together” dynamic before it became so much of a big cliche?

Another tip for any kind of sugar work - when you’re done, scour the stove top and counter with hot water and soap. Because as sure as you are that no droplets of hot sugar escaped the pot or dropped to settle thither and yon around the kitchen.... they probably did. And you’d rather deal with that now rather than…

Hang on, so are what’s sold on menus as boneless chicken wings literally chicken wings that have been boned out before being cooked (like the delicious stuffed wings you can get at some Thai and Vietnamese restaurants), or are they just bits of chicken like nuggets or tenders? Is this an American thing? I don’t think…

I loooooove eggplant EXCEPT for when it’s combined in any way with tomato and/or cheese.

I noticed it looks like they based Mel’s appearance on her in The Last of Us 2, which stood out to me as they didn’t do that for many of the voice actors. 

But I thought they cared about babies and mommies! /s

Australian here - I tried a bite of a PB&J once but the mouth feel and how soft and claggy everything was, was just too offputting. I totally get why it’s a thing (cheapness, salty and sweet, fat and sugar and carbs) but yeah, I agree this one might not be appetising if it wasn’t a cultural touchstone and part of your…

This, the tradition started when wedding cakes were mostly old school fruitcakes. Plus fondant (aka the devil’s paste) is one heck of a sealant and therefore preservative.

I wasn’t for ages because as bad and bizarre things were enough of you still had enough stability and baseline comfort that it wasn’t remotely likely, but now I’m starting to get a bit worried that you guys might end up having another civil war, or something close to it. 

Crowe broke bad playing a skinhead in a movie called “Romper Stomper” that was a critical and cult hit here in Australia, before he made it in the USA. The film is known for its grittiness, violence and a sex scene that looked so, well, real, that people were asking if the actors did it for real, LOL. 

I knew it was a Turn of the Screw adaptation and therefore knew the plot going in, but “The Innocents” is the only “old” black and white horror movie that absolutely scared me the first time I saw it, and that I still find incredibly eerie and atmospheric and chilling on every rewatch.

We did the snack suppers too, although we called them “scratch teas”. My mum would also stretch a spaghetti dinner over 2 nights by serving the leftovers in sandwich form the next night.