At my local Popeye’s the employees are great, they have the patience of Job, and the food moves really quickly once you get to the counter to order it. The clientele though...We call it the “There but for the grace of God go I Louisiana Kitchen.”

I don’t think it was harassment but it wasn’t nice. They didn’t reveal personal info about the staff, for example. It was there, I think, that the “Libby Watson, Child Blogger” phenomenon appeared. Lots of stuff about how Splinter is a hive of Bernie Bros. Commentary about how self-indulgent and/or lazy some of the…

I think you mean Tommy and Sully. And they would suffer no repercussions.

They just got ClashTalk shut down. But the trolls apparently shall enjoy eternal life.

A smaller version is served at most tapas restaurants under a different name. Back 10 or 15 years ago when every second restaurant that opened in Manhattan had a tapas menu, and even lots of bars decided tapas was bar food (it essentially is) there was “panzerotti” all over the place. I wish I could remember what…

I would like to meet their stylists, who clearly hate them, especially the ones who cut their hair. I wonder if they have bets with each other.

Why didn’t you make (several loaves of) zucchini bread out of it?

You mean peanut allergies? Probably none, because they were exceptionally rare when the Ground Round was in its heyday, and since the peanut butter sandwich was so ubiquitous a parent might have noticed a reaction and said, “Let’s not go to the Ground Round.”

All that Midori, crème de menthe, and banana liqueur didn’t just drink itself in the 70s and 80s! And the Kahlua, so much Kahlua. Jugs of Carlo Rossi wine. Handles of Four Roses and Old Grandad. By the age of 16 I was probably qualified to be head bartender at a slightly seedy suburban singles bar at the dawn of the…

There’s a lot of kosher food that’s not vegan.

Whenever we stumble on Fox News outside primetime (their local NYC coverage is fine and pretty much apolitical) I’m always shocked about the state of my fellow Americans. Everyone is suffering from mesothelioma and needs to be represented by that criminally crooked law firm former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver…

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I have a friend who has this same issue. Whenever we go to see her and her family we use non-scented soap and shampoo and don’t wear cologne (I normally don’t anyway, but my husband is a fan.)

Eternally gray, and this is pedantic, but his last name is Pépin with an accent over the e, and he’s still alive, at 83.

Is. Pépin (there is an accent over the e, but I will post a separate comment just to bitch about how a food blog should spell the name of a renowned chef who’s been famous for longer than lots of readers have been alive) is himself still alive. He’s 83.

Such horse shit, as a publishing colleague of mine was fond of saying.

I think it’s interesting to know that individual Trump supporters feel that they’ll be harassed if their public info gets out and the disclosure is “shameful.”

Presidents also don’t reign or have a reign, they have “term(s)“ or serve term(s.) Trump really has a very weak understanding of what a president does.

I blame rock ‘n roll music.

There is a Pilates studio down the block from me. They also offer spin classes. I’ll go there now and report back if I see him.