Hahaha! I keep 2 in the freezer, 1 in the fridge and 1 on my counter - I FEEL YOU.

My favorite drinking “game” in college that some buddies and I invented was called 6-card stud. Each player would buy a six pack of bottled PBR which have playing card values under each bottle cap. Whoever finished the 6 pack with the best 5 card hand won. Bets were placed before starting and after each successive…

“Basically, that there are people in the world who feel like everything revolves around them, and have a hard time seeing things from the other perspective. Is Emily an only child? Just a hunch.”

Shocked at all the food shaming towards Emily.

Her suggestions were downright cruel. I’m really surprised anyone is on board with telling Emily to stay at home. What an awful thing to do!

Also the Salty Waitress advice is so harsh. Leave Emily at home so you can eat “adventurous” food? Ditch your lifelong friend so you don’t have to see her eat a hamburger? WTF. That is some petty bullshit.

When I get together with friends, it’s usually dining out, and it’s never once occurred to me that it was my job to judge what they ate and to ditch them if it wasn’t something I wanted to eat.

Oh, wait - that’s because I’m an adult.

I’ll chime in, in the regard that I have definitely been an Emily. In my case, I fall on autism spectrum, and food has been a very difficult thing for me. It took me a long time to find a vegetable I could eat, and most of the time bland foods were all I could stand. The prospect of eating at an ethnic restaurant…

So because someone doesn’t like the same food as you it makes them childish and immature?

I’m not sure that this post isn’t saying more about the Salty than it is about anyone talked about in the question posed. She’s reading a LOT into this that isn’t even implied. All the question-writer wanted was a list: 1) try rotating who picks, 2) try other activities than just dinner, 3) or try encouraging Emily to…

To be fair to Emily, there’s no indication that she was being rude about what her friends are eating, which is what your friend was doing.

So perhaps I am misunderstanding. For years you have been dragging this woman to every place she is very unlikely to want to go. She has gladly gone and ordered one of the few palatable things for her on the menu just to spend time with your friend group. She asks to go somewhere “normal” once for her and she is…

Are you sure the reason Emily orders an appetizer is that she’s just not an adventurous eater? Could it be her attempt at limiting expenses? Appetizers are generally less expensive than entrees. I don’t know where you’re eating, but in my mind, adventurous eating at trendy places once a week sounds like it isn’t…

Let me see if I understand the scenario correctly. Emily’s a picky eater. So when the friends all suggest a more adventurous place, Emily states her preference, but when she gets outvoted, she goes along and makes the best of it, ordering something she can eat so that she can be with her friends. I am going to assume…

The fairest solution is to rotate restaurant selection among the four of them. While it might seem assholish of Emily to not like the food at the restaurants the group picks, it’s assholish of the group to never pick a place that will make Emily happy.

I’ve twice bought instant espresso for coffee cheesecakes.

Goddamn, I love watching players getting fired up like that. Makes any sport better to watch.

Damn. I don’t watch basketball at all but that no look pass juked me right out of my chair. That was pretty gross.

Louisville is a womens basketball school now and i’m fine with that.

Absolutely. I moved to Germany in my early 20s, and the hardest thing for me to parse was fish on a menu. Every time I would ask what a certain kind of fish was, I’d be told, “It’s a fish.” Yes, I know that much. I’m still unclear what they all translate to.