At first I hated the idea, but then it grew on me. Co-stan-za!

To understand recursion, you must first understand recursio.

But it’s exactly the same joke!

Goat milk contains slightly less lactose than cow’s milk, but still a significant amount. If you’re more than slightly lactose intolerant I’d expect goat ice cream would still be a problem.

Truly a meal fit for an Iron Cook, or possibly a Zinc Saucier.

If you scroll past the headline quickly on the main page, it looks like “What should I consider before pooping in a restaurant?” That would be a much more entertaining advice column.

This reminds me of when I went to a friend’s house for dinner and the food just wasn’t no good. The macaroni was soggy, the peas were mush, and the chicken tasted like wood!

The short commercial break is great for my (Verizon) DVR. I have a 30-second skip button, so when they announce a 1-minute break I just hit it twice. Normal commercial breaks are harder to skip, since I might have to rewind at the end if I went too far.

It’s not that simple. It’s complicated. So complicated that Marie Kondo had to write a book about it. And you’d better not throw out that book!

Season 1 was great. Season 2 didn’t exactly repeat jokes from Season 1, but it piled on more of the same: More crazy East Peck traditions, more wacky townsfolk, more weird neurological maladies. I still liked it, but there was definitely a case of diminishing returns. I’d rather the show end than run those jokes into…

In the Princess Di vigil scene, there was a woman who looked like a young, blonde Gretchen. I expected that to be the key to the episode, like Gretchen made up the whole story based on people she saw briefly in 1997.

I don’t know what pourover coffee is.

Looks like Dunder Mifflin might not be such a fun place to work after all.

There’s one in Somerville and one in Brighton.

Orange World And Other Stories by Karen Russell (May 14, Knopf)

The cups and crayons are provided by your restaurant to attract families. If you don’t want to serve tables with kids, work somewhere that doesn’t welcome them.

Yeah, The Takeout likes to rile them up. Every time a restaurant anywhere in the world bans children, or there’s a news story even vaguely related to children causing trouble in restaurants, The Takeout reports on it. Then they get the sweet outrage clicks as people flock to the comment section to whine about how…

Don’t forget the tweet! No article is complete without one or more tweets. I look forward to the day when articles are entirely tweets!

That “apple brandy” appears to be E&J Apple, which is cheap brandy with apple-flavored liqueur added. (Apple-flavored means it tastes like green Jolly Ranchers.) I’ve never had it, and I’ve never heard of it before today, but I’m confident in saying that it’s terrible.

On the comedy-drama spectrum, Glow and Lodge 49 aren’t that far apart. It’s weird to call one a comedy and the other a drama; they’re each like a 60-40 mix.