I know that Cantina - did Dannis make you go to the one across from his old job?

You’d think that maybe the Mississippi Sport Pepper was another thing that was brought to Chicago by the Great Migration along with delta tamales.

My tools were pretty basic: a , an , and a and to work the magic.

I don’t think there was any religious law requirement (pretty sure that’s unconstitutional) but it was pretty explicitly a Catholic community built around a new Catholic University (also called Ave Maria).

Oddly enough, “old world pepperoni” (which is oxymoronic, as pepperoni is an Italian-American invention) is a term of art in the pepperoni business.

John Schnatter isn’t the only pizza chain mogul who’s really big into Jesus. Tom Monaghan (founder of Domino’s) is a very devout Catholic who supported the church in a lot of ways and is big in the pro-life/anti-abortion movement.

The Discovery/Warner merger makes no sense from the Discovery side if they didn’t want a big foothold in scripted content. They basically already own the “reality” side of things - CNN and HBO bring very little to the table on that side.

Sumo is the marketing name for a kind of Japanese mandarin hybrid called a Dekopon.

It’s a cross between a Kiyomi (itself a cross between a tangor, satsuma, and Trovita (type of navel) orange) and a Ponkan (a mandarin and a pomelo). If an orange is halfway between a mandarin and a pomelo, a Sumo is halfway between a…

It’s a combination of taste preferences and the vagaries of Texas Grapefruit rules and regulations.

No - it’s milder in almost all senses. Pomelo tastes like grapefruit but with no bitterness and slightly less sour.

If you have to sprinkle sugar on grapefruit because they are otherwise too intense, try a pomelo.

One word of warning - pomelo have immensely thick rinds, so the actual amount of fruit inside can be…

Australian citrus are their own thing (finger limes are citrus australasica). Most of the native Australian citrus code as “lime” in a culinary sense.

I watch a lot of “Weird Fruit Explorer” on YouTube, plus I spent a lot of time in Florida as a kid, so citrus were always kinda fascinating to me.

Mandarins are not a type of tangerine.

Mostly the latter. The first episodes really try to set the table for why that kind of toxicity destroys people (Joel McHale is great in a cameo) and then Episode 7 comes along and hits you right in the eyes as to how that sort of thing gets perpetuated even by the people it hurts the most.

I want you to go to Derrick’s with your Tub O’ Garlic Sauce and just eat crusts all night.

It’s one of two styles that you’ll find in Chicago.

The original “depression dog” style was the norm - mustard, onion, relish, sport pepper. It’s still the favorite of the die hards and old-school stands.

If only...

I haven’t had Papa John’s in years, so it could have dropped in quality, but it was miles better than Little Caesar’s back in the day. Little Caesar’s was the same crap quality when I had it last year as I remembered from back then, so it would require a big drop in Papa John’s quality. Plus I always liked the hot…

I’ll agree to disagree - Little Caesar’s has always been bottom of the barrel pizza (ok, ok - maybe Cicis is worse).

What is your opinion on giant calzones that have garlic knots as the border? Careful...