I’ve never worked in one myself, but my friends who work in restaurant kitchens always say there’s ton more butter (or lard) and a ton more salt (or soy sauce or fish sauce, depending on the cuisine) than home cooks expect.

I don’t see how conservative voters don’t continually feel insulted by their own party. “Look at these college and university students, they aren’t going to vote for us.” As if their whole base is just a bunch of high school dropouts.

I used to live down the street from Valois in Chicago. Some of my fondest memories from college were staying up until 5 am, getting stoned and playing N64 with my roommates, then walking to Valois, getting a sandwich with fresh-roasted turkey, pounding it down... and then sleeping the whole day.

I wish I could’ve pulled things like this in college. “Dave, I request a blanket pardon. Should allegations arise in the future that I hooked up with your sister, that’s totally unrelated to this request, but you can’t be mad at me.”

He’s been cancelling his own businesses for decades, he’s trying to branch out.

I’m amazed this wasn’t a recipe on Mythical Kitchen.

The Tony Hawk soundtrack honestly forever influenced my taste in music. Also, Tony Hawk seems like a genuinely great person. Also also I used a Blind deck, the Birdhouse ones I always heard were sort of crap.

The original Space Jam will unfortunately forever be tainted for me. I was in college, and we were throwing a party. Our dorms were adjoining rooms. A recent ex showed up, and everyone else cleared out of my room, because they got the idea. A few minutes later, there’s a frantic knocking on the door from one of my…

I think we all know that Ravey already exists. It’s gravy mixed with MDMA.

Back in college, my roommates and I did our senior year spring break at Disney World. Dole Whips were essential, because they made a really good mixer. This was college, so we had actually checked bags to bring enough booze along with us that we could sneak into the parks...

I really really hope that you’re right on this.

1. Jonathan Gold wrote the liner notes for a Germs album?? What a cool fucking guy.

I wish I was as optimistic as you. Best I’m able to hope for is a conviction that ends up getting overturned on some bullshit appeal.

Not sure if it’s legal, but I think one of the (many) big things is that there’s no evidence that Floyd even knew the bill was fake.

I currently live in Minneapolis. I have so little faith in the system, my bet is Chauvin walks and ends up on a force in Bloomington or something within a few years. They just showed body cam footage at the trial and... fucking absolutely disgusting. ACAB.

As a former drummer (it’s hard to be a drummer once you move into apartments), Travis Barker is insanely talented, both as a drummer and a finger-sucker.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with expecting greatness from fast food. McDonald’s and Burger King fries are great. Popeye’s fried chicken and fried fish sandwiches are great. In-N-Out fries are garbage, even Animal-style, they’re basically Wendy’s fries-level bad.

First time I saw True Blood was on syndication in India. It was so heavily edited (you can’t even really show kissing on Indian TV) that I thought each episode was 20 minutes long and had some really sloppy cuts. Then another student (I was on study abroad) had a pirated version, and the first scene that I saw was…

Sort of tangential to the story, but whatever: I’ve only been to two presidential libraries, JFK and LBJ. The difference was kind of striking, LBJ’s was basically just “look at all the shit I got done”, while JFK’s was essentially “look at my handsome family on a yacht in Cape Cod.”

Taste of Southern Cooking is one of the best written cookbooks that I have, on top of being filled with great recipes.