When I was a kid, one time for Halloween I found a tube of something in my trick or treat bag. It didn’t have a wrapper, but the texture was reminiscent of those wax soda bottle things, so I assumed it was that. It didn’t open easily, and the liquid inside was really bitter. It wasn’t until the part I had spit out on…

I miss Purplesaurus Rex- the only kool-aid I have ever genuinely enjoyed. I know it’s just grape lemonade, but it’s not a “one package of each” kind of thing.

My pet peeve is corn syrup, which is a thing I will bake with (it’s in ganache, among other things) but wouldn’t dream of “putting on waffles”, but nonetheless it’s with the maple syrup and other corn syrups that pretend to be maple syrup.

In contexts where I can make an order without a human being looking at and judging me, normally my sandwich order would include raw onions, sautéed/caramelized onions, crispy onions, and pickled onions (if available.)

I always try to sneak it in when no one is looking at me lest I be judged to be miserly for not tipping more.

As someone with shellfish allergies, it’s always a nice surprise when the best version of some recipe I would never in a million years expect to have crab in it just randomly has crab. Like this is a manageable allergy because people tend not to put crab in things on a lark.

I mean, fundamentally “corn syrup” is just wet mashed corn turned into a liquid via enzymatic action. Some brewers will just add the wet mashed corn to the brewing vats and have the yeasts provide the necessary enzymes (this is what Budweiser is doing with their rice), but when you’re working on the scale of these…

Are we sure that they aren’t going for “the Good Place” tie in and becoming the Interdimensional Hole of Pancakes? From the show, I am pretty sure I do not want to go there (I do not wish to see the time-knife), but I don’t really want to go to IHOP either.

I have no dog in the fight between giant macrobreweries, but I don’t really approve of the demonization of corn. Particularly when all it’s doing there is “feeding the yeasts.”

I still need to get my hands on the box for an Xbox One X, so I can display it as an objet d’art as “One Xbox One X Box”.

I mean when I order Huevos Rancheros at the nearby breakfast place owned by a Mexican-American couple, I get rice and frijoles with my eggs. It’s not that weird.

It seems like “impossible sausage” might be the thing you’d start with since the raison d’être for sausage is “we can use all these spices to cover up any “odd” flavors from using less desirable cuts of meat. Which is a paradigm that extends naturally to “using non-meats.” Like the Italian Sausage on most pizzas does…

I’m reminded of an 8AM Philosophy of Language seminar I took once. It was about a 50/50 gender split, but most of the women in the class dressed like they were attending a job interview and drank coffee out of sleek and modern insulated tumblers, whereas a significant number of the dudes looked (and smelled) like they…

Personally, nothing takes me *out* of a game faster than realizing that the numbers are obviously inflated to scratch the “big numbers are more exciting” itch. Like if you can divide all the numbers by 1000 and end up with integers, then they shouldn’t be so big. What kept me playing in Borderlands was “I want to get…

So there are times when I feel like the whole Brigade de Cuisine system is absurd, but there are also times when I am cooking for a family get together (this is all of the family get togethers) and I wish to be left alone in the kitchen in order to do my best work to the point where I will give my one brother the job…

While my maggot infested raisin experience was mildly traumatic, I have (intentionally) eaten acorn grubs as part of an anthropology project- they are pretty tasty if you throw them on a hot rock so they sizzle, not entirely unlike bacon. So I’m sure the hurdle for “maggot protein” (couldn’t we just go with “grub…

While the Joule is slightly more accurate and heats water faster, I genuinely appreciate that the Anova has an interface which does not require an app.

While the Joule is slightly more accurate and heats water faster, I genuinely appreciate that the Anova has an…

I really wish we lived in a world in which people who are famous for being good at an unrelated job nonetheless face meaningful repercussions for their opinions which are wrong, ill-considered, or dangerous.

I am allergic to shrimp, crab, lobster, etc. I do not know if this means I am also allergic to clams, scallops, oysters etc. but I’m not going to pay money, or chance it, to find out.

I mean, I am ride or die on grid cut pizza, I just object to calling Missouri “the Midwest”.