The mitigation design creates an energy using "muffler" airflow that reduces the intensity of the shockwave, but uses more fuel per ton-mile than a conventional Concorde design would. 

Plowing along at 0.95+ Mach is a very high drag operation. To reduce energy usage per ton-mile you pass through the transonic (0.9 Mach to 1.1 Mach) region as rapidly as safely possible. It's similar to taking a boat and plowing along at maximum displacement speed. You get on plane as soon as practical in order to…

Supersonic booms are a function of mass and velocity. By gowing slower in a lighter airliner the hope is for the boom to be less intense. IF the energy in the overpressure is low enough then the boom should not be as bothersome to people on the ground as the Concorde's boom was. 

The latest trend where I live is to use thick slices of boneless chicken thighs for boneless wings. The bonelesschicken breast sandwich competition has sent boneless chicken breast prices soaring. 

In Chicago we spiral cut the grilled 1/4 pound hotdogs if we were going to spiral wrap them in bacon. It sort of looked fancy and nice. 

Watch some Bar Rescue episodes and see how inept and unknowledgeable “bartenders” can be. Basically they are shot and beer places before the bartending training takes place, although I believe that the rescuers go for too many shaken cocktails when they might be better off sticking to poured and stirred for cocktails. 

I found an amazing Italian sandwich shop slightly west of the Chicago Loop. No big overwhelming sandwich. Long crusty 12 inch roll about 2.5 inches in diameter. Meats and cheeses, no produce. A little oil mixture on the bread. 

So, our chili sauce, cheese, and coleslaw hotdogs in the Southeast USA might not work for you? 

Yes, the chicken Philly is truly an offensive abomination invented by the same jerks who invented chicken chili. You have to use decently marbled beef in a true Philly. 

Real Texas Bowls of Red do not resemble meat sauce. They have relatively large chunks of beef in them, not ground beef. 

Square cut thin crust round pizzas work well for appetizers. With a stiff cracker like crust you don't get the pizza flop that long angular slices get. 

You have to use an excellently marbled steak to get a well done steak cook to stay moist. 

Ah, the white hot. difficult to find outside its region, but supposedly superior in overall flavor. Will be trying one when I eventually travel there. 

Agree with you about the giant bread sandwiches. It's like the dumb middle bun piece in a Big Mac. 

Since we lost scheduled airline service from MCN to ATL most of our travel to and from ATL is by Groome bus. A small airport type shuttle bus run on I-75. Trips about every hour from Warner Robins GA and Macon GA. to ATL. If you want to board at 4:00AM in Warner Robins you can, getting to ATL about 6:00AM. Less than…

I wonder if it was bone particles that were too large. I had some sausage a month ago that normally gives no problems. That month several of the links had relatively large bone particles in them. Bone particles are supposed to be ground to dust/powder size, not as large as they were.

Sometimes when my digestive system is really messed up I use 3 flushes. I guess that would qualify me to be the Head of Spectre and thus some 00 agent from the UK needs to kill me. ;-)

METRA lines, CTA rapid transit subways, or both? The METRA ELECTRIC lines were so nice when I lived on the Southside. 

Nonsense, almost all commercial trucks are running the same aspect ratio tires they were a dozen years ago and they stop just fine with properly maintained brake systems. The SUVs and light trucks we have now will stop just fine using the same standard commercial duty wheel diameters and tire aspect ratios they have…

A coworker decided to go with larger wheels to get better handling by using lower aspect ratio tires. I, and other people, tried to get him to change to better tires first to see if that would achieve the increased performance he was seeking. He had to do it his way. Years later he admitted he should have tried just…