Yep, chocolate oranges with high quality dark chocolate are excellent! Milk chocolate oranges suck, though, even the ones with good milk chocolate. Same with cherry cordials.

Actually, Ina Pinkney doesn’t know her coffee. So much is wrong here. That “espresso” is much more than you get in a shop or restaurant that makes espresso, unless they don’t know what they’re doing. She’s using this foamer thing rather than properly steamed milk. The foam doesn’t look the same as in a coffee shop…

“The samples were actually free; you only had to pay $3.95 for shipping.”

Can we stop with the “free” when you have to pay for shipping and/or handling? If you have to pay *anything*, it’s not free in spite of marketing-speak ignoring that fact.

In Italy, still means non-carbonated and not directly from the tap. It is usually a branded bottled non-carbonated water. In recent trips, I’ve noticed that many restaurants are now serving clear glass carafes of still or sparkling water big enough for a few people. The carafes almost always have a brand name…

Trader Joe’s sells a Tim Tam equivalent: their Aussie-Style Chocolate Creme Sandwich Cookies Coated in Chocolate

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I went to a Chick-Fil-A two days ago. Second time in my life. Totally unimpressed both times. Yeah, the chicken sandwich was pretty good, but not great. The waffle fries could have been A+ if they had some crunch instead of being limp. Don’t need to throw any more money at the bigot owner ever again.

And those pompous ass food critics that wouldn’t know how to boil water, yet have somehow become famous and sought out as judges on cooking shows. I say send them to their own Hell: having to review Red Robin, Denny’s, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, etc. for eternity!

Do like the Italians: espresso corretto, i.e., espresso “corrected” with grappa. Molto buono!

Remind me what ass tastes like. I haven’t been to an Olive Garden for a long time.

Doug, please don’t give chefs any ideas. The recipe for this ought to have been put in a box weighted with a couple of bricks and thrown overboard into the Marianas Trench never to be seen by humankind for all of eternity.

As a Rhode Islander, the “Wake Up Rhode Island” sketch misses the mark for one reason: there’s not even one reporter with an Italian surname. Ma dai! It’s like no one from SNL has ever been to RI!

I’m surprised that the single biggest abomination to ever waste space on a crowded Thanksgiving table wasn’t mentioned. I speak of green bean casserole, of course. This dish, with no culinary value whatsoever now, and no culinary value whatsoever when it was created, was intended simply to sell Campbell’s canned food…

Form bacon into a cup (you can use an upside-down muffin pan), bake until cooked, fill with scrambled eggs, cheese, and bacon

Bacon wrapped in bacon on a bed of bacon

Vanilla ice cream, crumbled bacon, maple syrup, fresh whipped cream

A plane full of frat boys. Beer. Close quarters. Pandemic. What could go wrong?

Ciao Allison! What’s the best kind of rice to use in this dish? I keep carnaroli, arborio, jasmine, and basmati in my pantry, but not plain old American white rice. Would any of those work?

I was just reading that Spam is so popular in these pandemic times that the first batch that Hormel made in 1937 is about to run out. They started on a second batch a couple of weeks ago.

Oops, I just saw this message. Somehow it ended up in my Potted Meat folder instead of my inbox.