Ode to Joy is sometimes used as a soundtrack to scary things, maybe you happened to glimpse something on TV?

Did she also give you a copy of Struwwelpeter? That is one screwed up children’s book. Or have you ever read any of Grimm’s Fairy Tales in the original? Much, much darker and more haunting than the English/American translations.

I completely missed your linked article when it was first published! I too grew up in a liverwurst family. You would have loved my mother. She used to buy it unsliced and hack off hunks of it and snack on it unadorned, no bread, no mustard, just the liverwurst. She was hardcore.

You can get very close to foie gras with high-end liverwurst or chicken livers. Maybe not if you served it the way it’s shown in the photo, but to spread it on a cracker or some toasted baguette I bet most people wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

There is a Greek diner in my old neighborhood that I haunt like a swallow returning to Capistrano. Haven’t lived in that neighborhood for about a dozen years. It has a menu that goes on for pages and they seemingly can make anything. Seemingly.

My husband is a huge fan of Denny’s. When my mother was alive and we owned a vacation apartment in Miami Beach I begged her to come join us down there. “Ma, there’s a Denny’s that we go to. I think you’d like it. You’d be the youngest person in there!” “Oh? And where will you and [my husband] be?”

I have mentioned this before here at The Takeout.

So you’re saying that “lets you to eat well” is correct and “lets you eat well” is not. I hope you’re not a teacher.

There are tours through the West Village that take you to sites like these: stuff associated with Friends, Sex and the City, maybe Law & Order, I can’t remember the others.

Was it Easter? Maybe the Easter bunny is now being disruptive and has partnered in a new and exciting way with Uber Eats and McDonald’s to completely reimagine...I give up.

They are staples at those little standalone newsstands you find on NYC sidewalks and in the subway stations. I wonder if they’re become somewhat regional? We may not have In n Out but we have enough Tic Tacs to last us into the 22nd century.

That’s perfect. I once stumbled upon a recipe for cooking with camembert and came across something like:

I wish I could give you more stars for usage of the adjective benighted.

Like Brett Kavanaugh, I’ve always liked beer, I still like beer.

Related to NYC’s Wegmans drought, I wonder why this was filed in the Southern District of New York. The SDNY is huge and made up of 6 or 7 downstate counties and there are, at present, not a single Wegmans. Even the soon-to-come Brooklyn one will be in the Eastern District (that’s huge, and is everything on Long…

Have you ever read Mike Davis’s City of Quartz? I’m not sure it’s still in print.

I am still mourning the loss of the Times Square Howard Johnson’s. It had one of the best bars in the area, cheap-ish drinks and a clientele that could have been cast for a John Waters movie if he ever set one in New York.

I moved into an office once and its previous occupant had filled a drawer with condiments, napkins, plastic utensils, all from the takeout she used to order in daily. Not just any file drawer, one big enough to store legal-size file folders.

Have you ever had pizza in northern Europe? Somewhere, I guarantee you, there is a place that will make one with cucumber, cabbage, and cauliflower toppings.

You’re British, aren’t you? Have you ever seen “Posh Nosh”? Very short-lived series, I don’t know why. My favorite is the paella (“pie-ella”) episode.