You kid, but I just grabbed a jar off the shelf at Whole Foods. I guess it’s popular with the paleo/keto set? 

Full pedant mode engaged, you mean guanciale not pancetta, right? It’s far superior to bacon for carbonara but holy fuck it’s hard to source. Bacon substitution approved! 

Sounds like the plot of a murder mystery. Turns out that it was another actor who was jealous and poisoned him while using the fugu as cover.

Bloomberg was fine to support us outside the presidential election. Period. His presence is fucking the whole race up; he knows that. He’s just so rich he doesn’t care.

The order 66 survivors... clothing collection! One of those worthless ponchos should have read “My teacher got murdered in front of me and all I got was this stupid light saber.”

That quote is important - that says the bug fat tastes lousy if it is not overwhelmed by other tastes.

“Can I ask you, why didn’t Obama stop racism? Couldn’t he have issued some executive order or something?...”

“Let me ask the question this way,” Chuck said, Toddly. “In the second term of the Obama presidency, what do you think they could have done differently that might have prevented the rise of Donald Trump?”

I’m not at war with black men; I love them very much. I’m at war with misogynists. If you think the two are automatically synonymous, that’s on you, but that’s not a belief I hold, nor is it a generalization I’ll accept having projected upon me.

Another issue that Bourdain noted in Kitchen Confidential is that the same friends who say you should open a restaurant are the same ones that keep dropping by and expects a bunch of comps and freebies and never pick up a check.

Honestly, I gotta say, Todd’s exhausted and resigned exhaling of the the ‘F’ bomb; “Fuck, man. It’s you.” from S3 is probably my favorite. It’s not said out of passion or anger or some deep-seeded animosity. Just clear, matter of fact.

Real talk: Gary has an Asian fetish and was trying to figure out how to hit on you, since telling him you are Texan blew up his “Ni Hao Ma” strategy.

Some of the bootleg flavors are good.

New York Super Fudge Drunk

Yeah the floor is higher. And a bagel at a random little deli isn’t even a good bagel. Though really good ones are getting harder to find these days.

Pizza and bagels were both ruined for me once I married a girl from Jersey. I was just tootling along through life here (near DC), in my blissful, mediocre ignorance.

I also thought all bagels were only fine until I moved to NYC, and then I was like ok, I can’t get on board with NYC’s pizza superiority, since I love all kinds of pizza, but they’ve got something with their bagels that no one can beat (sorry, Montreal).

into a thousand years of darkness

All I could think of.