He had better things to think about in the previous episodes.

Definitely. They’ve missed most of what’s good in the US, not to mention Canada.

I live in ‘the middle part’, and have a gourmet butcher shop, a taqueria where a James Beard Award winner goes on his day off, the best Italian I’ve ever had outside Italy, and a damn good Chipotle knock-off within a radius of less than a mile. If I went a few more miles, depending on direction, I’d find a high-end…

There’s something between the coasts that you people seem to have forgotten about. Namely, the rest of North America. This should have been titled ‘The Best Food Cities On The Coasts (oh, and Montreal, too, because we said ‘North America’ and have never been to anywhere else in Canada)’.

It is probably extinct, but that zoo specimen was almost certainly NOT the last one. There is fairly good evidence (tracks, scat, etc.) of the species at least into the 1950s. When that animal died, they sent people out into the forest to obtain a replacement. They found plenty of evidence of their presence, but were…

The really weird thing about the impact was the precise timing. As it happened, the asteroid hit a shallow sea floored with gypsum (calcium sulfate dihydrate). The gypsum is where all that sulfur came from. A few minutes (yes, MINUTES) earlier or later and it would have landed in open ocean. If it had, that sulfur…

Well, I was a kid, and I feel the same way. Not as much as you, but still.

Agreed. I have a bad back and my brother has a bum knee, but we can go back 18 years via Hulu. One episode, and we’re kids again in front of the TV on a Saturday morning.

They’re not ‘fair penguins’. They’re ‘fairy penguins’.

What bothers me is where these people got the idea that that’s Rod Stewart singing in the intro. He did the original version of that song for ‘Patch Adams’, but he did not perform the ‘Enterprise’ version. That was Russell Watson.

Ham (must be off the bone, none of this lunchmeat shit, must also be cold) and alfalfa sprouts, on Bimbo white bread.

Everywhere is better than Olive Garden.

1) They’re only used as salad toppings. Get the scallop capellini instead.

I’m white, and I had to ‘translate’ a black customer’s accent for the (also white) clerk at a convenience store when said other customer came in looking for these. I swear, she couldn’t understand a word he said. Was she new in town?

My neighborhood Italian place is miles ahead of Olive Garden, AND they have a takeout window (no drive-thru, YET). They’ve also got the best fried onions in town.

This is Madison, summed up in one event. We’re freaks, but we’re AWESOME freaks.

My family went to the Upper Peninsula (of Michigan, of course) on vacation. This was in 2005, and we were driving a ‘Light Blue Metallic’ 1992 Buick Century sedan. My mother had heard of a supposedly excellent beach at the end of a small peninsula. We took note of a sign at the start of the lone gravel road. It…

The ham steak dinner at the truck stop up the highway from my childhood home. A slice of ham the diameter and thickness of the top of one of those little French cafe tables, enough fries to choke a rhino, and a soup-bowl sundae for dessert. I had a very big appetite as a child, despite spending most of it below the…

Always a good idea. The good food is generally found where the locals eat. Except in the US, where they pack into McDonald's like those cardboard 'burgers' are manna. Not that there isn't good food, just that it's phenomenally hard to find. I could recommend a few places.

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