Generic US chocolate *does* have a weird soft texture, but we do have some really good stuff here, like Lake Champlain’s Five Star Bars. They’re $4 for these tiny little bricks but they’re SO good, and I say that after having had a lot of good European chocolate.

I am totally going to give this a try, hopefully before I move in two weeks.

Oh I’m sure that has a lot to do with it. I had an Australian friend visit me for a week and on day two she was yelling at me WHY DOES YOUR BREAD HAVE SUGAR IN IT?!

My first trip to Germany, I had a slice of cherry pie, and it had a *fraction* of the sugar I was used to. I was confused for a couple of bites, then…

I eat savory crepes, which are not exactly pies but the same principle - commonly sweet, but the French place down the road from me (that’s run by actual French people, not Inspired Americans) does some amazing savory crepes.

....I REALLY want pumpkin pie with gingersnap crust now and I can’t bake to save my life. 

Delta bravo: the excellent successor to whiskey tango foxtrot.

Western NY native, been down south for something like 25 years. They just opened a Wegmans in Raleigh a month ago (with two more slated in the next couple years) and even a week later it was still elbow to elbow with snowbirds looking for white hots, black and whites, Beak & Skiff 1911, and Chiavetta’s. I’m just…

I like Rogue, but I’ve been waiting/hoping for a few years now for Jasper Hill to increase their production of Winnimere, which is a winter milk soft cheese. They never make enough and my local Whole Foods never gets it anymore (or on the rare occasion they do, it sells out long before I get there). It’s like wine -…

I’m a little picky about my bleus, but Rogue always hits the mark.

I keep a photocopy of my passport inside the lining of my suitcase and the real passport either on me while traveling or in my carryon bag in my room. I used to keep a copy on my Google Drive as well (as that was something I could access on my phone if for whatever reason I was missing both), and decided to take that…

I got my baseline at ~35. *sigh*. About time for a new one, come to think of it. *more sigh*

I did the ice cream scooping thing in college: full of Annoyed Parents With Rampaging Children. Luckily, I was the oldest of the crew at ~19 and was entrusted with running the store alone on the day shift and spent a lot of time reading after opening tasks were done, in between customers.

I’ve lost my glasses on top of my head many times, but last week I managed to lose them while they were still on my face! oh boy. haha.

Go in the back way at Pere Lachaise in Paris. (seriously. thank you, random person on the internet.)

I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that I cannot recall any specific advice distilled into something that’s easy to recap. I was left to figure out a lot of shit on my own growing up.

I like this pretty well - and yeah, even at medium it’s a bit on the spicy side for wypipo palates.

It’s a *lengthy* tale covering 10+ years of extremely toxic friendship, but the point at which I decided I was DONE was when she banged a mutual friend’s boyfriend, was somehow astonished that I was not cool with her actions, and was even more astonished when someone asked me a couple years later if she had done that…

I walked from F to A. It’s only about ~30 minutes by foot if you’re not in a hurry, and it’s not like I had anything else to do!

I just spent 9.5 hours in PHL last week after an international flight due to an American Airlines system clusterfuck that primarily affected tiny regional flights (like the one to my home city). In all honesty, not a a bad place to get stuck. Not the most exciting airport, but it has shops to browse, plenty of…

I’m merely hearing *impaired* and people frequently treat me like I’m stupid if they need to repeat themselves more than twice.

I’ve been on two juries. Both experiences convinced me never to do anything that would put me at the mercy of the judgment of my peers, because the shit people SAY back there...