The reality is a little more complicated than that. Using “averages” obscures interesting pieces of data.

Starbucks has had refillable cups for years - a buddy of mine had one back in 2004.

Not likely to be the half you think. Trump’s core constituency were non-college educated whites (and to a smaller extent Hispanics). They are far more likely to work in service industry jobs than your average white Democrat.

Yeah, aside from Busy Phillips, my reaction was

I’m not sure it meant well - historians who were involved weren’t kind to the end product. It’s also been stealth edited multiple times and Nikole Hannah-Jones has walked back (and then walked forward, and then walked back - I don’t know where she stands now) the central conceit of 1619 being the “true founding of…

While mafaldine (a longer version of mezze reginette) was a named inspiration for cascatelli, what Dan originally wanted to make was a tube with frilly edges, which he was told was impossible, so he ended up with cascatelli.

I’m sorry - I’ve had In-N-Out a bunch of times and they really aren’t all that. The fries suck and you’ve got to do special order (like Animal Style) to get the burgers to be OK.

If the shrimp tails went in hot or damp, the excess sugar in the box may simply have melted onto them.

Um... eating weird things is kind of your style of click-bait, Dannis.

The fact that minimum wages and prices are higher in high cost cities are interrelated. You’ve essentially seen the inflationary pressure at work locally - wages go higher because costs are higher and vice versa. Eventually you hit a new equilibrium at a higher level - but everyone on the bottom of the wage ladder is…

Dannis - You do have extra foaming soap dispensers sitting around your house, you know...

Release the Robicelli Cut (the Cheese)!

I’ve yet to get to In-On-Thai even though every single one of my food friends raves about it.

While you’re down there, pick up a bottle of Blenheim Ginger Ale (produced in South Carolina, but available in the North as well). Excellent stuff - they have different spice levels so you can get just the right level of ginger zing.

Diet Cheerwine has always used sucralose. This is just a branding change.

Cheerwine is a delight, although Diet Cheerwine (now called Cheerwine Zero) was only meh.

I’ve got so much schmaltz these days as I make homemade chicken stock (backs and necks, parsnips, carrots, onions and celery, black pepper, coriander and bay leaf) pretty much weekly.

You know that I think Heinz Chili Sauce should be the blend instead of ketchup. Tarili Sauce would be much better than Tarchup.

Mootzarell is how it was pronounced in Sicilian when people immigrated to the US. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (which had Naples as its capital) did not adopt Tuscan (the basis of modern Italian) until after it merged with the modern Italian state in the 1860s.

A lot of the emigration to the US came from people who…

Elliot also got divorced during the coming out process, so it wasn’t 100% terrific for him.