The producer is pissed because Rogen said out loud the stuff everybody knows but won’t say - “important people” operate under different rules than the rest of us. During the strictest of the lockdowns, when restaurants were being shut down, movie sets were still operating - with catering and commissaries. There was a…

90s seems way too late for Jolly Ranchers - I remember getting them trick or treating and I stopped trick or treating in 1977. They definitely blew up more in the 80s - it seemed like Jolly Ranchers and Jelly Bellies dominated that decade. By the 90s, they were old hat.

I’ve taken to presmashing the burgers using a tortilla press - I take a 2.5-3oz ball of burger, placing it between two squares of parchment, press the tortilla press closed. Voila - instant smash burger. You can now season the entire surface when you rip off one of the parchment squares and then drop it on your…

I was about to say the same thing. There are a number of good pretzel bun vendors (at least in the Chicago area) that make soft yet sturdy buns that are about perfect for a thick pub style burger. A bad, tough pretzel bun, however, is the worst.

I saw that Munchies video on my feed yesterday and thought “I wonder when Dannis will make this a Takeout article?”

Ooh, yeah - Raisinettes are fine (good even!) but getting a little box of Sun-Maid Raisins pretty much guaranteed you left unhappy.

It was new to me too but there was one house in the town where we raised our own kids that had crates of Shasta ready to hand out.

I recently worked in an office that had a candy bowl and it was stocked with little mini candies. By the end of the day, the bowl only had Almond Joys left - it’s an extremely polarizing candy. You either love it or hate it.

Bit-O-Something-Stuck-In-Your-Teeth would be more accurate.

Circus peanuts are my not so secret guilty pleasure. They are objectively awful, but there is something weirdly satisfying about chomping down on a stale marshmallow-adjacent slab of day-glo orange, “banana” flavored overly sweet candy that works for me.

that one candy that tastes like taffy with bits of nuts in it?

The house that gave out full cans of soda was the second most popular house for my kids (the houses that gave out full size candy bars all tied for first).

Wow - most hated candies is truly personal. The ones listed wouldn’t even make my Top 10 (although wax lips might hit #11).

One problem with Blue Moon is that several different companies make the flavor and they differ. Those differences seem to end up being regional, so East Coast Blue Moon isn’t quite the same as Midwest Blue Moon and is sometimes wildly different (some Blue Moons taste like cotton candy).

Dannis - you could use the canned potatoes and a little cheese to make those Bonci potato and cheese pizzas that are so good. The spuds need to be precooked, so... presto!

You could do the most low-rent version possible and get Aldi (or store) brand Boboli, chop up some spuds, use preshredded mozz, some olive oil and…

Dannis - you missed Worst Cooks in America. You crush this if you start out making Food is Stupid cuisine and finish making pizza.

Emergency cake (aka mayo cake) has been around forever (heck, America’s Test Kitchen had an episode on it). What I was hoping to see was chocolate fudge mayo frosting as that’s what the picture seemed to promise.

You get a star for that, but I’m old enough to be nostalgic for “Citrus Cooler”, the original name. Man, I loved that neon green drink when I was a kid.

Glen and Friends made their own - with a recipe! So if you don’t have access to Van Leeuwen ice cream, you can always roll your own. The irony of Van Leeuwen and Kraft talking up their “limited ingredient” ice cream by claiming “Kraft cheese sauce mix” is a single ingredient (as opposed to the 15 listed ingredients in…

Dannis - Spam can neither “go bad” nor “get good”. It simply is.