I am going to have to ask my wife how to say that in Mandarin. Just because I think it might sound even less no-nonsense

I will read and remember your advice!

Thank you!

Damn right she was an ass! And I think you and I would have been friends. I used to drive my parents nuts by asking for the weirdest thing on the menu no matter the price (they often redirected me). For two whole years, I asked to eat the cow tongue I saw in the supermarket, to my mother’s disgust. When she finally…

When I moved to Cincinnati, I had all these friends with area connections kindly help me settle and they all told me that I MUST try the chili. I am now really afraid of letting slip how crappy I think it is lest I come across as a ungrateful haughty jerk spitting on their city (your beer is awesome Cincinnati!…

I have tried Skyline and I have tried Gold Star out of curiosity. In general, I have found that both are just bland in a way that chili should not be, except for the aftertaste. I expect the chili aftertaste to linger with certain meaty or spice note but with those two I get this sweetness combined with the tiniest…

Yeah I am ready to eat humble pie. I am just hoping that I get lucky and trying to nudge things a certain way.

Holy crap that birthday sounds more awesome to me than it probably should.

I will remember this. Thank you!

My wife and her family are Chinese, so I am quite familiar with the fish head (which I find pretty good actually). Your post gives me strength.

Teach me your ways.

See, this is why I believe in mandatory-minimum sentences for pushers. First offense, minimum five years where your choices are real chili or starvation. Second offense, we make you into a chili because there’s no hope for you anyway. I am confident that this dish would taste better than the enema leftovers served at…

I figure it will be a crying struggle and as long as green things remain part of his diet, I will consider it a victory. I’m hoping that since the entire collected family enjoys cooking that we have a chance, or at least infrequent fast food stops. As I reside in Cincinnati for the next few years, my biggest fear…

As the proud owner of a new baby, I swear to you that not only will I never do that, but that I will make fun of any future parent friends of mine who do. I need to pledge this now, so I can remember it when my future-toddler is screaming for whatever goddamn fast food thing he just saw or ate last.

Yeah, to me dip is cream-based and the chips I typically serve with cream sauces are potato chips. However, “chips and dip” is far too ambiguous to me for it ever to just be one thing. Asking for “chips and dip” without specifying is like asking for eggs and being shocked it comes in more than one way. I read this…

Great to hear you had a good prognosis and hope everything goes great! Man, I know it seems counter to the point of the article, but that does seem like a second or third date reveal. At least if the point is to snuggle, instead of looking for an instant beau. I know I’d like to get know a person and have the initial…

Went to a Spanish restaurant once that served Sangria Cava. It was glorious.

The entire state is perpetually drunk and full of guns. Doesn't surprise me.

+1 set of soiled underoos

When I was 10 I was even more arachnophobic than I am now (I tear sheets of beds if I see a spider in the bedroom then wake up hours later panicked and slapping myself), so this following incident did not help :