Yes, super-saturated is key, otherwise a recipe would just call for stirring in granulated or confectioner’s sugar. You also have to store this sugar water in the fridge, and should use it soon, because it’ll start growing bacteria pretty quickly. A properly made simple syrup, otoh, is shelf-stable.

We don’t need “complete data” on police shootings from 30 or 40 years ago to know police shootings are up (though it would be nice to have). Part of this problem is the switch to military style weapons, which hit most police forces at some point in the late 1980s to mid 1990s. Your average cop used to carry a Smith &…

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Wasn’t there also a very recent TikTok trend of very complicated expensive drink customizations? Like the $20 drink with a CVS-length receipt attached?

Plus SBUX has a pretty generous frequent flyer program.

Hey Dawn, maybe check out Fruitful Yield or Woodman’s - they’ve always been helpful tracking down specialty items, specific sizes/varieties/flavors.  Co-op and independent grocers usually have much smaller order minimums from their suppliers.

It sounds woo-woo, but this is absolutely real. The requirements of organic certification mean that the certified oats cannot be harvested, processed, stored, transported in such a way that they can become cross-contaminated with other grains, and they’re audited and batch tested to confirm this...organic and gluten…

One good thing about Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market is that many special diet items are available on Amazon Fresh, either as the original brand, or as the WFM 365 house brand now, and the footprint is basically Amazon’s delivery range as opposed to having a Whole Foods nearby. The other place I’d recommend…

I’m a Chicagoan, my grandfather was a milkman and I’ve worked on many dairy clients’ campaigns over the years - here in the midwest especially, dairy is in everything and it’s big business. It makes sense too, because we’re mammals, healthy infants drink mother’s milk, there are substances in dairy we’re hardwired to…

Disney will pursue a settlement, even if the legal team thinks they’ve got a fair chance in court. They stand to lose alot by disclosing specifics of the streaming model in court filings. If you thought regular movie studio budgets were accounting gymnastics and sorcery before streaming, the streaming side laid bare…

Yeah, sure, subpoena him, and make sure to have some questions and cross exam ready to go, so he doesn’t get to ramble and grandstand. But MEANWHILE, that little admission should be more than enough probable cause for the FBI to do a deep dive into his email, social media, and phone records from that week, and find…

I don’t think it’s that they were lightly armed at all. Once Capitol Police and DC Metro had more officers in place, their first priority was to clear the building enough to get the sheltered-in-place Members of Congress to safety, then start clearing the grounds. If they had corralled or “kettled” the rioters (like…

My beef with diner coffee is, once I get the color just right with cream, I only get a couple sips before SHE swoops by and tops me off.  At least IHOP plops a carafe down at your table and you get to dose yourself.

Sex talk aside, screw Pepsi or Toyota and the other corporate sponsors wholly unrelated product plugs, why hasn’t some mattress company stepped up for some product placements by now? They could auction off the used ones for charity, donate them to shelters or disaster relief, or showoff how recyclable the materials…

I think that’s the issue. If you’re in Tucker’s loafers, and look at the rest of America, it all seems pretty far to the left, because he has zero perspective on how far right-of-center his statements are.  Almost like the higher profile the person, the more insulated their echo chamber is.

I’ll differ from you - I think the closet makes this kind of thing easier. I think the criminalization of sex work or the marginalization/exoticization of black men within gay communities (or the compartmentalization) enables crimes like this. I also think the lack of real training or understanding of the police is a…

Is it weird that despite Cannick covering this guy for 4 years, I had to go to Wikipedia to figure out what Buck’s occupation was? Her use of the appellation “democratic donor” appears to be some sort of political statement, though it seems like he was pretty heavily invested in republican causes and campaigns until…

The good folks at Twin Engine Coffee Co. have been marketing cascara as Caturra Tea for a few years now. Tasty stuff, in gorgeous packaging, from a really lovely growing community....it’s organic too, for those who care about that sorta thing, and they have some very nice coffees too, fwiw.

It’s pretty light, on the border of fruity-herbaceous, but not too astringent. You may want to sweeten it up (sugar, honey, a hit of fruit juice?) and while milk isn’t necessarily a no-no, you may want to experiment a bit to get the right texture.

TSA has been adding, subtracting, and reinstating items on this list on a pretty fluid basis basically since TSA was created. There were points where the rules changed so fast and often that things you could carry on at the beginning of your trip were no longer allowed by your return...not to mention any of these…