But that’s the whole point. She’s exaggerating a stereotype everyone already accepted as true. Look at the Tiger Mother book. “Things upper class communities do to get into the Ivies” is, like Jzebel said, its own genre at this point. We all knew about private and rich zip code public schools, having lacrosse or…

You’re missing the point. In an attempt to insult the privileged, which is always fun, you’re ignoring how gaming the system to get into an Ivy hurts poor, racialised, people the most. Upper-class, educated, usually white or Asian parents (not the 1%, but the doctors and lawyers) spend their whole lives trying to get…

Thanks! Now I’m wondering why we don’t make acorn or delicata squash pies. Or bread. Just pumpkin. I grew up in an immigrant family so we never made pumpkin pie - I only had it at other people’s Thanksgivings. It’s good. I like how it’s not crazy sweet like every other pie. Firmer and less rich sounds good too. 

Thanks. I know that jack o lantern pumpkins are different from the tiny, wetter cooking pumpkins. And apparently they still need a lot of roasting down. Still think it’s strange that we don’t make pies out of any of the other squashes. You’d think we’d use them interchangeably. Seems funny that of all the squashs,…

Is sweet potato pie different from pumpkin pie? I’ve never had sweet potato, since I’m from Canada by way of New England. Someone once told me that canned pumpkin mix is mostly sweet potato. The main difference I can see is potatoes would be drier? I don’t know .I want someone to tell me.

Yeah, Dustin Diamond being a shitshow is obviously a big part of it. Why no Lark Voorhies though? Or guy who played Belding? Personal issues?

No, Dustin Diamond begged them but they said no. 

I think the Screech character is a super-dated element that you can’t plausibly update at all, not even in a winking irony way. That whole “skinny nerd loser with pocket protector and think glasses who builds robots” just isn’t a cultural thing, any more. Same with the other background nerd characters. And the jock…

That sounds amazing. 

Makes sense. Stuffing/dressing exists becaise in the old days before toasters and fridges, cooks needed to use up stale bread. Some you can breadcrumb or crouton, but some you just chopped up and baked in a liquid. This is also where bread pudding/French toast comes from. Stuffing used to be a regular thing, but now…

I think stuffing is the most regional, since it’s the most adaptable. Cornbread really only existed in the south until foodiness, so it wouldn’t have been a thing in the rest of the country until then. Where I grew up it was challah, or italian or portuguese bread, or plain white wonderbread if you were boring. 

I thought stuffing = in the bird, dressing = not in the bird. Also stuffing = north and dressing = south. Who knows why. Like the pumpkin/sweet potato divide. 

A faildaughter of a famous man got an opportunity to be famous ahead of zillions of struggling comics/memorists. People don’t like that.

Exactly! I think that was one of the things I mentioned.

That’s true. There’s still that element, which is where “awkward first dates” came in. But people are doing it less and less, as the numbers show.  And they’re not buying the food, which is where theatres make most of their $$$. Movie theatres can’t survive unless every patron buys at least 5000 calories per movie,…

Yeah that’s weird. Surely in 2020 studios know that as soon as a movie is released in one place it’s released everywhere. Maybe it’s the other direction - make sure the people in foreign markets see it in person.

Movies have been a failing business model forever, as more and more people realise you can watch literally anything you want, whenever you want, at home in your socks and it doesn’t cost tickets + parking + babysitter + ludicrously expensive snacks. To the extent movies survive, it’s either event theatres, where it’s…

Who thinks we’ll be safe going to movies in the summer? 

Upstate NY isn’t far from Ontario and Quebec so it’s more authentic than you think. Butter tarts (basically handheld pecan pies except the filling doesn’t usually have nuts. If it has anything added to the goo it’s usually raisins, although like with everything people get creative these days) has a goo made from corn…

I can’t even begin to imagine, good lord.