This combines three of my favourite things on this earth: Final Fantasy, kombini and chicken karaage.  Thank you for letting me know of its existence.

PS that chocolate cherry cookie recipe you provided me eons ago?  Still a hit.

IIRC this is the same nail place that did the nails with the live ants trapped inside, the human hair nails and the teeth nails. Russia is weird.

I have a legendary Black Russian cake - the secret is liquor, chocolate cake mix and a box of pudding mix. And dribbling more liquor on the cake just as it comes out of the oven.

I rarely get to LA but will keep an eye out for them.  Thanks!

Or you learn mad stacking skills...

Paul Rudd has Mariah beat because he probably does it on 1/100000 of her “maintenance” budget: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jamiejones/definitive-proof-that-paul-rudd-is-a-time-lord

In Alberta we call it “get up and walk it off, you big sissy”.

I really want it to be Metal Goose Solid.  It will forever be Metal Goose Solid in my heart.

I’ve been irrationally excited for now-has-a-title goose game for so long, I don’t know any other way to be.  

The handle broke while it was in the locked position. Depending on the door style, there might not have been a way to retract the locking bolt, or the locking bolt might have gotten jammed. I’ve actually been in this position before - the bolt got completely jammed somehow, there was no way to get sufficient leverage…

So much as thinking about deep frying sets off the smoke detector in my apartment, so I don’t do it much (if at all), but if you’re going down the BATTER EVERYTHING IN SIGHT road, I suggest getting some tempura flour (tempura-ko), or at least subbing some cornstarch and/or rice flour for some of the AP flour (lots of…

Also handy for bribing young Japanese children with - my mom would get us safely away from frying tempura by feeding us the crunchy debris.  

Koshihikari or go home.

Yeah, there was a scandal a few years ago about pet foods out of China that were “laced” (the reports I saw had levels more in line with “crammed to the gills”) with melamine - IIRC melamine gave the impression of higher protein content during testing. A lot of pets in the US died from kidney failure. The FDA says acid…

*Okerlund
(I just learned myself that it was not, in fact, Okerland)

In its original run, it was on CTV - I honestly didn’t get back then that Dad got something else entirely out of watching Bizarre.

FUJI NOOOOOOOOO

Going down a Bob Einstein/John Byner rabbit hole now...

My family watched “Bizarre” religiously back in the day and Super Dave was always a highlight - to this day we yell “FUJI! NO!” at each other. I still remember my world being rocked a few years ago when I found out he and Albert Brooks were brothers.