Living the life of a carefree spinster that I do, my food choices have been willy nilly for years. Foods that regularly make it into my breakfast rotation include sushi, hot dogs, baked potatoes, and soup. I feel like I’m forgetting a bunch more. I’m old and crabby and living in a dystopian nightmare while watching…

Several years ago a woman showed up to yoga class in a tennis/running skirt and put her mat directly in front me and I could have sold the images I saw that day on pre-porn ban OnlyFans.

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I am absolutely haunted by the jockstrap scene.

I have a nephew who loves sour candy. A number of years ago—my nephew was about 8 years old at the time—someone showed me a video of a guy who did some kind of challenge to see how many Warheads he could eat, and he tapped out when he tongue started to bleed.

I once (in the Before Times when you would just put food out and everyone would touch it and breathe on it) (!!!!) was poking through the ragged remains of a homemade cookie assortment that was down to a few broken sugar cookies and some misshapen chocolate covered balls everyone else had clearly spurned. I bit into…

Oh I love this, because I have many Culver’s opinions!

Discovering that there is such a thing as Unstuffed Cabbage Roll Soup was a game changer for me, because now I can get my cabbage roll fix in way less time and way more often.

Mexican places where I live serve wet burritos—big slug of a thing filled with refried beans plopped on a plate and ladled with sauce, eaten with a knife and fork. The only way I can get anything even remotely close to my beloved Mission-style burrito—whole beans, wrapped in foil, slowly gnawed through while you hold…

I had paprika chips in Italy and have pined for them since.

I have a friend who moved to Florida who gets four Lou Malnati’s shipped to him every month. Lou Day every week is a big deal in his house.

I go through tons of Greek seasoning on my salads. Olive oil, squeeze of lemon, and some Greek seasoning sprinkled on top is my go-to salad dressing. I like Cavender’s but Penzeys is my true love.

I thought it was universally known that decorations often reflect the flavor of cakes and cupcakes, but I guess not. I learned many lessons that night.

Now I want peppermint brownies, too. That is such a good combo.

I posted a picture of it on Facebook before I left for the party and every year it comes up in my memories and I get irritated all over again.

Oh yeah, they all told me—it was part and parcel of them asking what flavor a cake decorated with candy canes was—because THAT’S a mystery.

I can do spearmint but wintergreen is a no go. As a pukey kid who was given many a dose of Pepto Bismol as a child, the smell and taste of wintergreen are too closely associated with throwing up.

I learned the hard way mint is on par with coconut as a controversial flavor several years ago when I made a gorgeous and delicious chocolate mint cake for a family Christmas Eve get-together (it was a branch of the family I did not normally gather with on Christmas Eve—I was only there because the people I normally…

In my prior place I ate all my meals on the couch, and the kitchen table was a staging area for projects I was working on, and where I kept bowls of fruits and veggies that didn’t need to be refrigerated.

When I was a kid growing up in northern WI this was a common party food, and we would also sometimes have it for dinner on full-size pieces of rye, usually in the summer when my mother didn’t feel like turning the stove on. My grandmother owned the general store in town and would grind hamburger to order at the meat…