Glad you made it Drew. You don’t know me from Adam, but I still feel like you’re a friend that I laugh, argue, and commiserate with.  Good luck with the rest of the recovery, sincerely; I’ll be looking forward to you telling me why my football team sucks this fall.

“Everything that should be paperless isn’t and everything that shouldn’t be paperless now is.”

This one had me for a second, but if you explicitly put the times sign in there the order of operations is obvious:

Hate to vote for Kevin :P but he nailed it with his first two picks. Sausage + mushroom is our second go to, after pepperoni + banana peppers (which sadly didn’t get a mention).

I don’t know if this qualifies as a condiment, but it’s close: step up to the fancy Irish butter. Kerrygold only costs like an extra buck, and puts store brand to absolute shame.

I’d say local is about 6 hours max driving time. This would ignore arbitrary political borders (I live near Pittsburgh, but am much closer to Ohio and W.Va than I am to Philadelphia), ensures you’re getting the freshest food, and probably supporting whatever is considered “local” economy in your neck of the woods. …

I loved DS9, and thought Voyager was kinda stupid.  Maybe I was just ahead of the curve, but the best parts of Trek are when they tell the longer stories. 

I’d call this the “Wendy’s Chili” model.  (Or is that an urban legend, that Wendy’s Chili is made from yesterday’s unused hamburgers?  I’m going to continue to believe that’s true)

Thank you for this article, I hate the snobby parachute writer style whether it’s food, politics, culture, whatever.

Don’t wash it, but do pat it dry with paper towels. Especially if you’re frying/searing/grilling it.

There really are a lot of good sandwiches. A few non-mentioned runner-ups that are favorites of mine:

Am I the only one that was disappointed that this “war” only lasted an episode, and wasn’t the endgame? I have to sit through a rerun of the battle of King’s Landing for the rest of the season; no existential threat to life, no ice zombies, no immortal evil, just regular dudes stabbing each other like it’s Braveheart…

I had a carny barker call me “Weird Beard” once.  I barely have a beard.  I still nailed him into the dunk tank though.

A friend of ours tuned in to his first ever episode of GoT for the talky one two weeks ago, and was just like “What is this bullshit?”.  If you have no history with those characters, that episode would make no sense whatsoever and be boring af.  

The gulf between how much I want to see this vs. Detective Pikachu (two 90's-era franchises that I’m not particularly invested in, both getting the live action treatment) is amazing. That stupid Pokemon movie looks like a solid B, this looks like a loose BM.

A friend of mine claims to have once snuck in a large pizza, without messing up the cheese (kept it horizontal).  I’m not sure how he did it, but I always found that impressive.

The old joke: “How do you know if someone is a vegan? Don’t worry, they’ll tell you.”

Things I’ll never be able to do again, learned the hard way: competitive martial arts. I’m 37 and signed my kid up for Tae Kwon Do lessons, and they have a deal where the parents can participate for like $20 a month. I practiced my entire life up until 25, so I joined up. Then I repeatedly got my ass beat by 16 year…

Ughhh why are they making me wait?  I want one of these today!  

My dad had my brother and I almost every weekend from when I was 6 thru getting my license. He rarely went out on those weekends, so not much of a social life for my old man. But when I was about ten, he actually got a date and took it. Got my cousin to watch the kids for the evening, and fed us dinner before he left.