I don’t know. I honestly had no idea that they would even let you order it on the side at Starbucks because I don’t go there. Maybe when she ordered it she asked for a lot or one of her coworkers hooked her up. Maybe she did save it up for a couple of weeks. Maybe she talked to a manager and they let her buy the…

In the linked article she says that she requested the syrups on the side as part of the free drink she gets as a perk of the job. I think it’s unfair to say that she says she admitted to stealing it when she says it wasn’t stolen.

Funny you should bring up Coca Cola. I saw something this week on reddit about how they have shown the formula to exactly one person outside of the company. It was a rabbi, in order to certify it kosher. Assuming the lore is true, that made him one of three people to know the formula at any given time before his…

No reason and nothing to gain as of now, but if the negative attention really starts to pick up, there’s a good chance they say something to try and stop it.

In the linked Buzzfeed article she goes on to say the only reason she has to believe they think she stole something is that in another video she uses a syrup only available at Starbucks and says she got it from work “but don’t tell anyone” with an implied wink and a nudge. She says she was joking in the video and got…

I think right to work laws are abhorrent, and tremendously anti-union/worker, but you can still unionize in right to work states. This same thing could have happened in any other state even the ones that don’t have RTW laws.

I haven’t been to Starbucks in years either, but mostly because I was never much of a coffee drinker. I actually don’t think I’ve ever had their coffee. Now it’s simply more convenient to go anywhere else than there.

Which is why I used the quotation marks around proprietary.

I’d bet dollars to donuts that Starbucks comes around and says that it was theft of intellectual property, because she showed how to make their “proprietary” recipes.

I would guess the scattering of the sand would be to show him how wide the bridge was while walking, rather than to prove it was there (he did it after taking the first step and discovering the bridge). Trying to lean over and judge that while walking seems unnecessarily dangerous. Also, it might have been in case one…

Shhh, you’re not supposed to notice that, even though it’s a very important piece of the puzzle!

“The letter J wasn’t invented until 1630"

A few years back, around my birthday, my dear friend Nicole said she would make a special dinner for me for my birthday and asked what my favorite meal and dessert was. I responded with Shepherd’s Pie (I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but I do love it and hadn’t had it in ages) and Tiramisu (definitely my favorite).…

It all depends on if there’s any sort of theme to the party, of course. If there is, I’ll always try something that fits the theme because I like cooking new dishes (why a “signature dish” is never really an option for me). Otherwise, a bottle of homemade limoncello usually works, especially since I can make it sous…

The first thing I remember watching on there was the handcrafted episode about pasta. Enjoyed that and decided to dig in and ended up staying dug in.

There is a great article from a couple of months ago that starts as a profile on Claire, but also pulls back the curtain a little bit to show how they found their way with the youtube channel. It started a bit dry, like you said, but one day they had someone follow and good old Vinny realized that letting him be…

If you’re interested in more Sohla content, there is a large amount of it over at Serious Eats where she worked before BA. I’m not entirely clear on why she left SE (hopefully she just felt BA was a better opportunity, but online speculation seems to be that it was due to toxicity from Serious Eats readers), but I’m…

You can wash and reuse these.

I started making ice cream this summer, and as I obviously had no choice but to make more than any human should eat, I was giving away a lot. I quickly realized that I needed to do better than my regular tupperware, and these were the answer. I originally got a sleeve of the qt size, since that’s the max capacity of…

Yup. Anything that makes it clear that there is no interest in participating. Making more excuses just makes them think that you want to go, but this “thing” is preventing you, which means more invites.