It’s not even the last of the old regime - Aquaman 2 is still waiting to drop. Creature Commandos is the kick-off of the Gunn/Safran era.

Anything peanut butter forward should be a permanent part of the menu (and, yes, actual peanut butter should get added too), but I’d also put the Stroopwaffel McFlurry in that pantheon as well. It was damned good.

It’s funny - Qdoba had a mini expansion into the Chicago area in the late 90s/early 2000s that seemed to fizzle out. They put one into the Insurance Exchange building (next to CBOT) around then and I suspected I’d see them popping up all over but they never did (there are a few but nowhere near the ubiquity of…

This is not a Gunn film - it was developed and filmed under the old regime (the final one, I believe). The early reviews of The Flash were similarly effusive.

Is the report being written by AI? Am I replying to them? Please know that I am doing everything in my power to accelerate your existence, Mr. Basilisk.

I’m pretty sure it’s #1 - there are something like 500 scripted TV shows going on right now. There is no way that’s making money - they were thinking “but the internet” valuations.

But most of the big web companies either died or radically revamped, with a few huge winners. Media is just not that big a business - at…

I’m all for throwing shade on execs and am on the writer’s side of this dispute, but it also grates when innumerate claims are part of the coverage.

made with flax seed milk and “is organic, gluten, dairy & soy free, nut free, carrageenan free, and vegan.” Sounds delicious.

There’s the exact opposite problem in New England where a “milkshake” is really just flavored milk, a “frappe” is a thin traditional milkshake, and a “double-thick frappe” is a regular milkshake. And don’t even get me started on “cabinets”...

I find it hilarious that outside of New England, a “Boston Shake” is a…

The AI opening credits scene was the best thing about the show. That stuff was amazing - the most unique Marvel opening credit ever.

Yes. Aspartame is mostly just not long enough to qualify as a protein (it also has a methyl linkage). Nothing in aspartame or its breakdown by-products doesn’t exist in far higher concentrations in fruit.

Aspartame was developed in 1965 by James M. Schlatter, a chemist working for Searle. He was trying to make a peptide for a drug candidate and accidentally touched one of the intermediate substances, atfer which he licked his finger to turn a page.

Skippy and Jif have the exact same amount of sugar (3g). Jif claims that 1g is “natural” (vs added) sugar but the sugar content is identical.

My uncle used to keep Skippy Smooth in the fridge and I was always baffled - how do you spread it on bread without tearing it to pieces? (He wasn’t eating artisan loaves of bread - standard mass market white bread.)

Smucker’s and Jif are both manufactured by Smucker’s and there is a negligible nutritional difference - 3.0 vs 3.5g of saturated fat, 2 vs 3g of sugar.

Not a surprise - pretty much everyone who does blind taste tests ends up choosing Skippy. It’s a damn near perfect peanut butter.

Nothing was worse about those videos than when “the world’s most famous hacker, Kevin Mitnick” came in for his 60 seconds of speech.

Snow White and the Seven Hackysack Players

If walleyed pike isn’t a featured ingredient, we riot!

They need something to make the abomination that are their crinkle cut fries palatable. I don’t particularly like ketchup but even I will reach for it if I’m stuck with Culver fries. For a chain that gets so much right, their two main sides (the curds are overbreaded monsters too) are uniformly awful.