Clearly they were gouging 30 years ago.  The CPI has just caught up.

Laparoscopic surgery is not "gut slicing." Laparoscopic surgery is what you do to avoid slicing the gut open.

I think i might try this with the stalks cut in 1 inch pieces because i like bigger pieces of asparagus. Maybe cook them 30 or 60 seconds longer.. I don’t see how that will be bad.

People are dumb, so I believe it, but when I look at a restaurant menu I assume a $20 item costs at least $25 after tax and tip and I don't see how people can't figure that out. Aren't they more upset when the total is a quarter or a third higher than what they were expecting? Do they just tip zero?

That doesn’t make me feel better. TIL I’ve been saying it wrong. I always said Straak-ee-ah-tell-a.

Stracciatella is too many things that are very different. In addition to being the inside of burrata, it is also an egg drop soup and chocolate chip gelato. I demand that the Italians change the name of two of these foods.

“Service fees” are becoming ubiquitous. I don’t know if I am supposed to count those towards tip or not. I suspect not, but it is never clear and since different places use them for different things, I find it hard to know.

I think there may be a Krispy Kreme closer to you than you think.

No need for trial and error. Coffee is basically water. Everybody knows you can make simple syrup, which is a 1:1 solution of water and sugar. That’s already much sweeter than anybody wants anyway so you can quit there if you want to. Or you can take out your old Merck Manual* which will tell you that the solubility…

I complain about the standard Barsanti snark a lot, but it is totally appropriate here.

There are so many beers and wines that it is impossible to know them all. Picking off of label/price/style is far from the worst way to go.

I’m going to assume the dog in the pic got an egg because you are not a monster.

We just called that gravy bread when I was growing up.

We did the same. Got it just because a free year came with my wife’s new iPad, then kept it because they have been putting on some really good shows.

A lot of the finale just felt very perfunctory.

It is already a better South East Asian Mother/daughter story than Turning Red and I suspect it is going to be a better multiverse story than Doctor Strange.  Although there is nothing wrong with having multiple good movies in any sub-type.

It means that commenting on the contents of the post is pointless so all that is left is to complain about that choice.

How do the delivery people feel about it? I used to tip in cash and I bet they prefer that because the boss can’t take a share and there is no record to report to taxing authorities.

Yesterday I had a sandwich of fried eggs, sausage, bacon, ham, and cheddar served on French toast.