All I have to see is about eight people and I’m outta there. TJ’s just isn’t one of those, “I’ll just run in for a couple of things” kind of places. :)

Aimee, thank you for choosing the photo of the TJ’s in Brookline. That one was my last hope in the area for one that didn’t have long lines. That hope is now dashed and I will have to suffer for the second time in almost ten years with not having Tea Tree Tingle shower gel. (The first time was during a blizzard.) Oh…

Yeah, but WHAT ABOUT PASQUALLY???? Here’s the loyal guy slaving in front of the aconveyor-belted pizza oven, keeping not just CEC alive, but contributing to GrubHub’s bottom line and what does get? A few thousand lira an hour and that’s it? And throughout it all he’s proudly raising that traditional Italian pizzaiolo…

LG, formerly Lucky GoldStar, now Lucky Geezer. Life’s Good--I mean, Life’s Gross.

For those of you in the northeastern US, my guess is that you could find pizza cereal, ready to have milk added, at any Ocean State Job Lot, along with Jalapeno Raspberry* Pringles, Harissa Peanut Butter* Popcorn Bites, rectangular-shaped potato-chip-like wafers made in Latvia**, and all the other products that got…

(Phony) capitalism at its finest: sign a waiver to try to get out of taking risk while rolling in the profits. What’s next. asking the *government* to indemnify them against COVID-19-related legal exposure in return for reopening and “putting people back to work”? Oh wait...

Maybe restaurant owners might be thinking that if people can’t get their food now via takeout, those people will forget about them when dine-in eating starts up again, and patronize other restaurants that have been providing their takeout meals during the pandemic. Could it be a case of taking a hit now to not have to…

Maxwell House? I thought we were talking about someone who drinks coffee?

And therein lies the problem: “extra bad instant coffee” or any instant coffee for that matter. The only way anything with instant coffee can advance beyond meh is to notably bad, unless you’re using instant espresso powder in baking to enhance chocolate flavor.

I just don’t understand why he has to be such an arrogant asshole. Yeah, I get the reality show playing for a TV audience, but damn, he does it so much that it’s incomprehensible to me how he can apparently turn it on and turn it off so easily. It’s almost like we’re seeing a bearded Spock version of Gordon Ramsay…

I read that Hanes and Fruit of the Loom are going to repackage some of their products as nut bags and push to sell them in the almond milk aisle.

Typical reply from someone who either can’t be bothered to write English that’s even close to correct or just doesn’t know correct English grammar. Blame the one pointing it out and slam that person as a “grammar nazi” instead of taking responsibility for your own mistakes. Exactly what horseshit are the “grammar…

FYI, Penzey’s Chesapeake Bay Seafood Seasoning consists of salt, paprika, mustard, ancho, celery seed, black pepper, cayenne pepper, dill seed, dill weed, caraway, allspice, ginger, cardamom, thyme, bay leaves, mace, cinnamon, savory, and cloves.

Old Bay is not all that. Penzey’s Chesapeake Bay Seafood Seasoning is better. I can’t remember exactly the difference since I haven’t had Old Bay in my kitchen in at least ten years.

I have fond memories of the king of buffets: the Nordic Lodge, down a dirt road in the woods in southern Rhode Island. I think the buffet restaurant was just a part of this Scandinavian rustic lakeside camp. It cost something like $45 in the 70s which was outrageous of course, but worth it. The lobsters and…

Any episode of any Star Trek series is better than any Star Wars movie.

I agree, oddseth. The biggest problem seems to be that too many shops make their espressos too large, i.e., enough coffee for a single shot made as a double shot, and a double shot is almost the size of a small cup of brewed coffee. The only thing I can figure is that most baristas think a customer will complain if…

Pickles are not like a bad thing, they are a bad thing. I’ve never understood the overwhelming appeal, reinforced by the recent repost of Kevin Pang’s article about making a pickle sandwich. Just to really get the crowd here wound up, mayo is the worst condiment ever created in the history of mankind. :)

Not only is Smashburger promoting their chicken sandwich, but by choosing a Sunday for the promotion, reminding us that unlike a certain competitor they’re open on Sundays. Brilliant!

I’m with you on the no pickles. Being American means two things are certain: pickles on every sandwich or at least on every sandwich plate, and music in every store.