That is a great article! I’ve been suspicious of the claims of beer can chicken for a while; it’s good to see such a thorough investigation.

Some of the sloppy joe snobs around here (who knew there was such a thing?) may scoff, but I like sloppy lentils. They taste pretty good and generally resemble the sloppy joes I remember from my youth.

Exactly. They said “loose meat” all the time on Roseanne. The article even mentioned loose meat sandwiches, but still got this wrong.

I don’t believe that Gene and Alex would invent a game that involves physical activity. Math, maybe, but definitely not jumping.

Gene doesn’t like girls; he likes sexy puppets.

A little consistency would be nice, yes. If you want to have a week of peoples’ family Thanksgiving recipes, then you should commit to that. This recipe isn’t Thanksgiving-specific in any way, and it doesn’t even have the hook of being a family recipe, so you didn’t need to interrupt your theme week to post it now.

It’s strange that The Takeout is simultaneously arguing that we should:

People in the Northeast eat winter squash on Thanksgiving. Pumpkin, butternut, acorn, etc. Crops that are harvested in late fall and keep for a while, so they’re widely available in late November.

Pretty much anything by Frightened Rabbit, since Scott Hutchison’s suicide. Every song is about depression or alcoholism or drowning. Frightened Rabbit are one of my favorite bands, but I couldn’t listen to them for months after his death, and it’s still hard.

It’s Jen Wasner from Wye Oak.

The AV Club has to fill their column space with something. Sometimes it’s news stories that don’t belong here. Sometimes it’s content that duplicates the other Kinja sites, or just a direct link to another Kinja site. Sometimes it’s just pure garbage. But whatever it is, the AV Club will publish it.

Jason Segel has had a long and interesting career: Cult TV shows, long-running TV shows, hit movies, and now books. Instead of asking him about any of that, let’s ask the same inane question we always ask.

The New Yorker had two short stories that were excerpts from Chronic City. One was about an astronaut stranded in space. It was a great story, and I wanted to read more of it. The other was about a weird guy who lived in a hotel for dogs. It was terrible.

I’ve read 3 novels by Jonathan Lethem.

My favorite is Back River Gin, by Sweetgrass Winery. It’s made in a farmhouse distillery in rural Maine. For years, it was only available at the distillery. They gradually started selling it elsewhere, first at a tasting room in Portland and now at some other Maine liquor stores. It was briefly available in…

I used to like Plymouth, but the price jumped suddenly. I think I was buying it for well under $20 a bottle, then the bottle changed and it cost more than $25 at the same store. Didn’t seem worth it for the higher price.

I was just thinking about King of the Hill because of their great Halloween episode, where Hank fought with Christian fundamentalists to celebrate his favorite holiday.

Also, they were never a Pern pastiche. There was one segment of The Color of Magic about a female dragon-rider which may have been a Pern parody, but that’s it.

Technically it began with a series of dick jokes. The poop jokes were Season 2.

It’s an inherently limited premise. The first season was great because it was about high school students investigating a crime at their own school. The second season was less interesting partially because it wasn’t their school. Peter and Sam didn’t have any history with the school or anyone in it. The third season…