I guess that also explains why all the “Asian Noodles and Sauces” are in the same section too- the shelves are stocked by the 3rd party the store buys them from.

The one that always gets me is how the grocery store has “canned beans” in two different parts of the store- once in the latin section where you get Goya and La Preferida and a few others, and once in the “canned vegetables” section where you get Bush’s and the store brand and a few others.

So that averages out to 1 ice cream cone, per person per day, which seems reasonable.  But then it also averages to 10 meals per person per day which is amazing.

I mean, in Chipotle’s culinary milieu the obvious plant-based protein to put in your burrito or bowl is *legumes*.  I would say beans, but lentils are also potentially appropriate.

So wax fruit is clearly inauthentic.
DOP San Marzano tomatoes are more authentic than “San Marzano” tomatoes from the U.S.
Tilapia passed off as sea bass is not authentic.

I have a weird-hangup where I hate to order anything that anybody else is ordering (even if we’re not going to share). So I usually study the menu closely beforehand to settle on n+1 things I would order if I’m planning on dining with n people, so I can just order last and get the thing no one else wanted.

It’s gotta be the Milky, which is inferior to a Snickers in every way. Sure, maybe you hate peanuts but it’s not like the Milky Way isn’t packaged in a facility that handles tree nuts. Plus it’s vastly inferior to the “Milky Way Dark” version.

I mean, when you think of it there’s no reason this would be gross.  Pumpkin spice is just cinnamon + clove + ginger + nutmeg, which are fine spices with ham.  I would probably tune down the cinnamon for this purpose, which is usually the one that’s most emphasized in “weird pumpkin spice things.”

I still can’t get over the Zimmern quote about “saving the Midwest from bad Chinese Food”. Since if the residents of St. Louis Park wanted good SE Asian fare, all they need to do is get out of the suburbs and visit University Avenue.

I guess the problem in BL2 was more with The Bee than with Conference Call...

It’s a shame that they didn’t see fit to carry on the quality of characterization and storytelling from “Tales from the Borderlands”.  Like I know they are fundamentally different kinds of games, but “Tales” is the only reason I actually care about the world of Borderlands and there’s no reason you couldn’t do a loot…

It’s strange to think that these words/phases which are already well-established within the appropriate linguistic subcommunity somehow gain “legitimacy” by getting in the dictionary.

It definitely feels like any time you are ruling out *specific* things, it’s going to reflect poorly on you. If you want to have people dress nicely at your restaurant, the less you say to nail that down, the better.

What on earth is “stuffed spaghetti”? Is the spaghetti stuffed into something (like a meatball, or a squash, or whatever) or is something stuffed into the spaghetti?

I mean, if you’re only going to eat one thing at least Brassica oleracea buys you some variety- you can have cabbage (many kinds), broccoli, cauliflower, kale, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, collards, broccolini, kai lan, romanesco broccolli, broccoflower, and savoy.  So not only are you going to get taste and texture…

It’s a similar concept to chicken and waffles- pair the salty greasy thing with the sweet thing. But KFC’s not going to start producing waffles, so we get doughnuts. The ideal ratio of chicken to waffle is something like “one chicken part (drumstick, breast, or good sized wing) to one mini-waffle” (this helps plating…

Definitely. Forged in Fire is similarly positive, supportive, non-toxic, whatever for a competition show (even if Doug Marcaida’s “It will kill” is a little creepy.)

I mean, so the problem of here is that a doughnut has a lot of air in it and doesn’t have the same gluten structure as like a bagel.  So the solution here is to freeze the donuts at the factory, cut them (with an electric knife, say) then ship them bisected to the stores.

Is the whole idea “it is less shameful to spread cream cheese on something, if that thing is a bagel” since otherwise I don’t really get it.  I mean, “cheese on bread” is a thing that is generally acceptable, isn’t it?

Why is it always UK based people who have extremely particular diets that are almost certainly a bad idea. I’m lead to recall the case of Stacey Irvine, who for 24 years ate nothing but chicken nuggets. Do we just hear about the British people who are like this because of their tabloid/busybody culture? Like is there…