After reading this article.... wow, that was absolutely, positively a fancy French snit of the highest order.

Is it necessary to kill all variants of the chosen candy as well? Because if not, I could let the plain M&Ms go without too much trouble, as long as I get to keep the dozens of filled varieties they have these days in their place. That reminds me, I should get around to trying the new “hazelnut spread” variant...

I will be going to the red carpet premiere as a “distinguished member of the press.”

Oh, c’mon, you can put a *lot* more meats than just those four into the gravy. Maybe not enough different stuff to put together a Takeout Draft, but still. Beef chuck roast? Pork country style ribs? Bone-in chicken thighs? I’ve never done a braciole, though - that seems a little advanced for my scandanavian genes.

Have you ever made stock?  A lot of “food” ends up in the garbage (or compost bin) after you have extracted all of the flavor from it that you can.  I have to assume that you’re getting something similar here.

I love a good screwdriver, but a greyhound is way better. A screwdriver is always nice, but could certainly benefit from an embellishment, while I would never request such for a greyhound.

Yep. Biggest mixing bowl in the house makes for a nice dinner salad for me and my wife. It only gets complicated when her mom is over to visit her grandkids, and we need to portion a bit out into another bowl for gramma, because sharing a huge salad bowl with your mother in law is awkward.

Sadly, Emeril is not present in the two main big places we shop at. The good news is that Barilla was on sale for $2.29 today, so I was able to stock up on that.

G-D it Robicelli, are you really talking me into dropping more than five bucks on a jar of pasta sauce?  You’re clearly saying it tastes far more than twice as good as a jar that would cost half as much, though, so I gotta let the math guide me.

Hot tea? Iced tea? Fresh apple cider? Blackberry Clearly Canadian? (I’m looking at you, Allison)

I recommend buying your tomato paste in a squeezable tube that you can keep in the refrigerator

Based on draft picks and banter, Robicelli is clearly my people. I’ve never had the guava puffs, but will definitely be seeking them out next grocery run.

I’m solidly on team peanut butter cup, but I actually prefer the Trader Joe’s dark chocolate ones to Reese’s. Freezing them gives you some texture to chew on instead of just gumming them and smooshing them with your tongue.

Yep, this is how our household rolls, too.  We do vary the salted variety on the counter occasionally, but the unsalted in the fridge is for cooking, and is whatever is the cheapest when its on sale.

Boil for 10, cut the heat and leave it alone for the balance of an hour?  Um, Instant Pot...

Clearly McD does not do their market research on The Takeout, or every location in the US and Canada would have a Halloumi McMuffin for breakfast and a McPaneer the rest of the day. They really need to learn that we are their audience.

J0hn, you got my vote entirely and solely because:

Will your MSG machinations never end?!?  (I hope not)

I like how you ask David to make Fenske’s math more approachable, and in the first sentence of his reply he’s already launched into trig.

A 1.2M lb trailer full of eel tanks. Hm. I recently watched Engineering Explained’s breakdown of the electric F-150 pulling 1M lb of train cars, and his math said it could have pulled 1.25M. Those numbers are eerily similar. Clearly the next edition needs to be a Tesla pulling the eel tanks on train cars with their neg…