Counter counter point: declawing does more than take away their defense system. Claws are an integral part of the cat’s foot and removing them is the same as taking the last joint off your fingers. Trimming an indoor cat’s claws is far healthier for them and has the same effect.

Since I’m bored I’ll take this time to rant a bit.

Jersey Mike’s is great, but is in no way the most underrated. That would be El Pollo Loco.

Every place I’ve been that offered it melted it on top of the pie. Never seen it as a side.

Add Rainbow Six and Serious Sam to that list and you have my college years. I almost never played those games alone, but cram a dozen people into a single house and I would play for days. It also helped that I didn’t have to buy the games I was only playing at LAN parties, since copy protection was weak or…

The Lord of the Rings was written because people wrote Tolkien and said, “more hobbits please.” I agree that this a superb way to tie hobbits into an older story, and is essentially what Tolkien did in tying The Hobbit into his burgeoning mythology.

Mexican food: We have 50 variations of the same basic ingredients and they all get unique names.

A better question is: what’s the difference between aioli and toum?

Personally I prefer Ken’s Extra Heavy, also available on Amazon. If you don’t use much mayo, Kewpie is almost the same as extra heavy and comes in small bottles.

Alcohol, for one, is toxic to your body. But as the article mentioned you have organs that deal with it. Heavy metals (such as mercury) are harder to filter out and even when they are filtered out of the blood stream they tend to build up in the organs doing the filtering. But there’s no proof that any of these…

As a native New Englander I have to point out that Cape Cod beat them to it. Of course my point is moot since now both companies are owned by Snyder-Lance, one of the many subsidiaries of the behemoth that is AB-InBev.

Those same people don’t seem to have any problem with tomatoes or cheese, both high sources of MSG.

The next time you go to grab that bottle of sriracha, consider the often overlooked Huy Fong chili garlic sauce sitting right next to it.

Because the internet is for arguing, not for agreeing, unless you’re agreeing to help an argument.

Come to California and you can pay that extra dollar.

First off, the Wirecutter article you cited states that excessive dishwasher detergent can etch glassware. Detergent is much harsher than dish soap and can easily be over-used.

Any native Vermonter will tell you the seasons include Mud Season and Tourist Season.

My favorite cookbook is Alton Brown’s “I’m Just Here For The Food.” It’s not just a list of recipes, but an actual book on how to cook. It has clearly defined sections on different cooking methods describing how and why they work. Each section ends with several examples of that type of cooking with well laid out…

In theory Russia is a democracy and therefore the voters are responsible for the actions of their government. Put enough pressure on the people and they will put new leaders in place. In practice Putin has shown that he is less subject to the whims of democracy than his opposition would like.

This might not have been very comprehensive, but it did motivate me to do some of my own research and now I’ve spent the last half hour reading about oak tannin and Maillard reactions during barrel toasting.