Truth. Red Baron is the number one frozen pizza in our house. My kid ranks it number 3 of all pizzas we get (the other two are $25 dollar pizzas at speciality restaurants.) 

I live in a smallish city, and, yeah, that is what chicken breasts are going for right now. 

I was at an all-day robotics tournament for kids 5th-8th grade hosted at a college stadium. Concessions only took debit or credit. There are a billion kids running around in packs, none of whom, obviously, have debit cards. So every time a kid wanted a snack, a parent had to march up the stadium steps and buy it.

Yes! The tofu episode last season almost made me weep it was so great.

Grillo’s are great, but the best pickes, imho, are Bubbie’s. I would pay serious money if they made a pickle potato chip.

Wait, what? That lady sounds horrible, but you are not exactly showing yourself in your best light here either.

I LOVE my Cuisinart Sandwich Grill so much! I thought I was the last person in the world who owned one. My kid used it this morning to make herself a ham and cheese sandwich on the way to school.

For potlucks I always bring Ottolenghi's rice salad with nuts and sour cherries. It holds up well if stuff needs to sit out for a while, and it is a substantial dish for the vegans.

How did you do this whole recap without mentioning those cookies that looked creepily like the faces of blow-up dolls?

I’m impressed. I also heard the Oreo cookie story with you on NPR this morning. Way to attract audiences across the aisles 😄

Recently our school district announced that, due to pandemic shortages, they would no longer be able to serve the Crispito (basically a giant taquito served with nacho cheese), which is the hands down favorite of every kid in the district. It was such a big deal that it made all the nightly news outlets. 

It might just be that variations on chicken noodle are common throughout the world so people select that first because it is familiar? Side note, I really like those Rao’s jarred soups, but they are $$$, so I can only buy them for the pantry charity when they are on sale.

I buy a lot of canned soup because I belong to an organization that helps recent immigrants stock their pantries and soup is in high demand. The number one favorite is Progresso Chicken Noodle; it’s not even close. Distant second, Italian Wedding.

When my kid was little, I would often take her with me after daycare pickup for a meal, and we’d share a plate. I always tipped as if we were ordering two adult size plates of food/drinks because we were still using up two seats in the restaurant and the waiter had to take care of two customers. I think the same goes…

GS cookie sales open up at different times depending on your location. My area started selling on January 4th.

I love on the Gulf in Alabama, and the first thing everybody gets for storm prep is Conecuh sausage, which is a smoked hickory sausage from Conecuh county. I’ve never see it anywhere outside of Alabama, but people put it on everything here.

My kid loves the Universal Yums subscription that a lovely relative gets her every year. I’m pretty sure every item is some sort of cheapo overstock from convenience stores in, say, Sweden, but it is the highlight of her month. In pre-Covid times she would take the box to school and her lunch table would fill out the…

Yes. My default chicken stock is the Michael Ruhlman one which is: 1) put chicken carcass, aromatics, and water in a pot 2) put the pot in a low oven overnight 3) when you wake up, take the pot out of the oven.

I always save the little organ meat pack for myself from a roasting chicken. Last week I managed to snag a chicken at the store and . . . There was no organ meat pack in it! I was seriously upset.

Agreed, I live in Mobile, and it’s much tinier than New Orleans, but great in a lot of the same ways. For my kid’s seventh birthday party I took her friends on a gator boat tour. Later that evening my husband and I went to the downtown bars and ate our weight in the free crawfish they often handout as bar snacks.