People DO romanticise other eras of the past. Great Gatsby parties/speakeasies. 50s diners. Mad Men era. Hippies. It’s mostly about the aesthetics. Aaron Sorkin goes on and on about how great the 40s were and how he tries to recreate that vibe in his shows, AND HE’S JEWISH. 

It’s just an excuse to wear the outfits and have the food and stuff. 10 years ago when people had Mad Men parties, it wasn’t about nostalgia for the 1960s and their sexism. It was an excuse to do the clothes and hairstyles and have a theme.

Him picking her gives the show way, way, more attention than the usual nonentity who gets dumped in a month.

Exactly. It wasn’t Paula Deen. But some things are so tainted you can’t use their aesthetic without context. It’s like putting a swastika design on a shirt because you think the image is pretty. 

The former, I think. It wasn’t a Paula Deen thing, where she pretty openly romanticised slavery.

Bagels are like donuts. They’re amazing if they’re really fresh, but wait a few hours or so and even the best ones are kind of bad.

I love dry cereal, to the extent I don’t trust myself to keep it in the house. The best ones are the classics. Cornflakes, normal Cheerios, corn bran, crispix, shredded wheat. They’re savoury milk and cookies. Also good crushed and used as breading. 

But isn’t cereal a popular breakfast choice BECAUSE it’s fast? Without a commute, people have the time to actually cook a real breakfast.

Whenever people talk about tv characters with too nice a lifestyle given what they earn, I think the most unrealistic part is TV is this magical world where people have neighbours of wildly different incomes/classes.

I watched the episode last night, randomly. Homer was a teenager in the 90s. They didn’t even bother with the continuity metagag this time. 

The place that hires nuclear technicians with only a high school degree (and later he does some college but never beyond undergrad). The place with hiring policies like that probably pays well below industry average. 

Even if that’s true, that covers tuition, not living expenses. And what about Maggie? Neither an underachiever like Bart or a genius like Lisa. 

It’s Hollywood. She aged out of sexy, so all that’s left is moms. Or playing the boss to some doctors/lawyers/cops on TV. 

It ended like 10 years ago. I’d be genuinely shocked if it were even a zombie strip somewhere. 

Cereal marshmallows are the biggest disappointment as a child. I remember my mom buying a box of marshmallow cereal as a treat on summer vacation, having a bowl, and being disappointed, because these hard crunchy things aren’t marshmallows.

The only good cereals are the plain ones. Cornflakes. Corn bran. Bran flakes. Shredded wheat. Weetabix. Regular Cheerios. None of them work when mixed with any other cereal.

There was a cereal, (Canadian?) called Crispix that was a big chex piece, corn on one side rice on the other. 

Don’t Frosted and Corn flakes cost the same? I haven’t bought cereal in forever, but those are both available generic, name brand, and fancy organic nature bullshit. 

The flavour from the hummus comes from the tahini. There’s a restaurant that replaces the chickpeas in hummus with roasted celeriac, and there’s not a huge difference in taste.

Chipotle: Salad, no dressing, fajita vegetables, black beans, mild salsa, half guac, chicken.