You can avoid that problem by using the Latin name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoria_ternatea

It’s a little strange to have an article about cocktails that doesn’t include, or even link to, recipes. I shouldn’t have to Google a Milano-Turino to find out how to make one. (Answer: Just make an Americano, which is effectively the same thing.)

I make my Torontos with maple syrup, though I use American rye instead of Canadian whiskey. 

It’s not Kosher to mix meat and dairy. As long as it’s vegetarian, it’s Kosher. (Unless Jeff refuses to eat any food that wasn’t made in a Kosher kitchen, in which case it wouldn’t have mattered what you served.)

I always thought that Twitter was an obnoxious waste of time. But now that I know people are using it for important discussions like “How many towels do you own?”, I realize that I’ve been missing out! 

It’s not rot, per se. It’s a disease called moldy core.

It sounds like this really sticks in your craw.

Trick question: Nobody is reading this. Not even me.

A hot toddy will calm your nerves.

They’re more like wedding cookies than pfeffernusse.

When I bought the ginger snowballs, I hoped they were some kind of rebranded pfeffernusse. But they really aren’t similar at all, once you get past the powdered sugar coating. It looks like TJs stopped selling pfeffernusse this year. That’s disappointing, though their tendency to get rock-hard within a few days of…

This is probably why Trader Joe’s stopped selling it. For a couple years they’d have halloumi in the summer. This year I asked an employee, who said there was a supply disruption and it would be in stock “soon”. “Soon” never happened.

I’m a big fan of this trend. I don’t care about calories or carbs, but I do care about alcohol content. I’m a lightweight. I was a big fan of the session beer craze of a few years back, and now that it’s changed into a low-calorie beer trend, I’m still on board. Maybe this will also encourage breweries to sell beer in…

Good point. There’s no way to know which came first, so you could say that hamantaschen have two namesakes, depending which etymology you prefer.

The namesake for hamantaschen is Haman, the character from the Purim story. According to Wikipedia, it literally means “Haman’s pouches”; “poppyseed pouches” would be the similar “Mohntaschen”. 

Wasn’t the mascot “Rutherford B. Crazy”, as a joke on Rutherford B. Hayes? Kids love jokes about obscure 19th-century presidents.

That’s from when the AV Club had a point of view. We used to joke about how much the writers loved Wye Oak, the Mountain Goats, etc. You can’t make equivalent jokes anymore, because the writers no longer have their own distinct voices. The AV Club has the same opinions as every other pop culture site.

Incorrect. Blackened death metal is when you take a death metal album, dip it in melted butter, and coat it in spices. Then you serve it up Cajun-style!

Fried chicken and gravy, fried rice, and peanut butter egg rolls?

a really big, carb-loaded meal: