It’s kind of funny how the vertical space thing cuts both ways. As a taller person, I love being able to put things on top of my upper cabinets. It’s the home of lesser used things that take up a lot of cabinet space like my Instant pot. On the other hand, it makes the lower cabinets a real pain, especially the ones…

Minor quibble--I wouldn’t call WLWT a local station, it’s based out of Cincinnati. Apparently this was covered on the actual local news a week and a half ago, but I never saw it because no one up here paid it much mind.

You are correct, the race is sponsored by Sugardale, the purveyor who supplies all hot dogs throughout the stadium. And even though PETA says they sell veggie dogs at the ballpark, I’ve never seen them, though I admittedly don’t look for them.

It definitely brings to mind the video which purportedly showed that all the drinks at McDonald’s all have the same amount of soda in them, even though you can nest one inside the next with plenty of room to spare. I haven’t seen it, but I’m willing to bet that the medium popcorn in the video already has a decent…

Glad to see some ice cream recipes starting to show up here!

An option for spiralizing, for those who may not trust themselves to not cut all the way through the hot dog: skewer the dog from end to end. Then you can set it down, cut to the skewer, and just roll dog underneath to make the cuts. Bonus, you can pull open your spiralized dog on the skewer and not worry about it…

I think my favorite part about this whole thing was that she poses the question “is it tacky?” then when presented with ~360,000 saying no vs ~10,000 saying yes, instead of saying “okay, I guess I was wrong,” she continues to call people tacky for it.

Which is exactly why I ask them to only fill it halfway so I can add butter in the middle.

When I make some at home, I find that if I put a knob of butter in with the oil before the kernels start to pop, I get a nice flavor infused into the popcorn thanks to the bit of browning you get at the beginning. Way better than melting it and adding after the fact.

Great workaround if you can’t spare that extra time. My theater doesn’t have those--I think all condiments are in individual packets--so I just have to make sure I get there early enough. Not a big deal for me, though, I’m a notoriously early person thanks to my mom insisting we show up everywhere at least 15 minutes…

Not the worst idea. I’d probably use it to re-dress my popcorn as the buttered layer disappears, but that works too!

It was always the standard at the theaters I went to, until they went to self service for butter and drinks. Luckily, on busy nights the AMC I frequent will start filling the large tubs halfway as people walk in so that people can add their butter midway, then they just have to top off. Makes sure you get the butter…

I’m surprised they let you do that. I figured that, much like soft drinks, they managed inventory by counting the containers, since you can’t track popcorn and soft drinks accurately due to spillage.

It gets more even application than putting it just on top or randomly stabbing a straw into it, where it can also not drip down.

Well, yeah, but this is about what to do at a movie theater.

Ask them to fill it up halfway. Butter popcorn. Fill it up the rest of the way. Some places may be too busy and say no, but it’s never been a problem for me.

“You know why? Because people like to say salsa.”

Thanks for the semantics.

Agreed on all counts. A nice fresh tomato on a sandwich is fine... I don’t believe they’re using any vegetables that would be considered nice and/or fresh.

I never saw the story about the conveyor system, but it doesn’t surprise me. Back when every McDonald’s didn’t have a drive thru (or this one was built without for some reason), one of them near me added one, but the windows wouldn’t work in the layout of the kitchen or the location of the building relative to the…