I feel like Dragon Age 2 is a classic example of “people are bad at explaining why they like or dislike something.” The complaint you heard from everyone was “recycled assets” (which TBH made a lot of sense since you hung around in a lot of the same places even if it was a bit overdone), but ultimately the reason I…

I just can’t see a breakfast pile with a base layer of pancakes being all that appealing or fun to eat. Now if we’re talking potatoes, we’re going somewhere. Maybe Waffle House should open a fast casual alternative.

I mean, I just like saying something without actually having to say anything.  I’d rather just sneak it in (which is difficult!) and have people wonder “who on earth brought *that*?”

It blow my mind that in 2019 there are still people who think MSG is bad, instead of thinking it is delicious. I mean, it’s not something you want to eat a bowl of, but the same can be said of salt or sugar.

When in doubt, a croquembouche because I like to bake and I like to show off quietly.   But if there’s a specific hole in the menu, I’ll fill it with the most elaborate thing available.  I’ll honestly enjoy my time at home deboning the turkey, rubbing the meat with an herb paste and forming it into two cylinders of…

Should we also do away with the soy sauce packets you get with Chinese takeout?  Or the salsa packets at Taco Bell?  It seems like these are all the same question.

Feels like “if you have people who are different from you around, they will notice things that you don’t” is the sort of useful advice that can be had for free.

If it comes down to “who lies constantly and readily as part of their job” I’m enormously more likely to trust a Barista than a Cop.

I’m pretty sure it’s mostly “it’s sufficiently heavy that you feel gross if you drink it any time other than the coldest part of the year.”  So it’s appropriate for all of your winter holidays.

I mean, I’m trying on twitter but teens frighten me.

How is it that even though you’ve now got 12 different bowl options with a variety of floral patterns, they still don’t have a nice dark green color option?

I was planning on making prime rib for Xmas, so I had better plan ahead.

Could we do a pop-tart with a “hot mustard” or “beer cheese” core? I’d be more interested in a purely savory pretzel pop-tart.

I like cranberry sauce, and I make a good one but am regularly bullied by my family to provide the canned kind.   Which I guess, it’s less work.  My personal least favorite Thanksgiving staple is those sweet potatoes with the brown sugar, maple syrup, and marshmallows.  Sweet potatoes are already plenty sweet, that…

I’m more bemused by this turkey and stuffing pizza with cranberry sauce and gravy.  Is the traditional Christmas meal in Canada just Thanksgiving?

This is also a thing I learned in that anthropology class- those acorn grubs are pretty tasty of you toss them on a flat rock that’s been heated in the fire. They taste kind of like bacon.

A groundhog once chewed through the coaxial cable in the ground, but I still like that movie with Bill Murray.

In college one time I took a “North American Prehistory” class and one of the assignments involved gathering acorns, processing them without modern tools, and trying to make something tasty from it.  More than a few people got mad at me because I was “stealing from the squirrels”.  Perhaps they were right, but since…

I’m not so sure about this. The saving grace of original Tabasco is that it’s a pretty clean-tasting sauce- it’s effectively spicy vinegar. When you start trying to establish a “flavor profile” other than “this one uses a different pepper” for your mass produced hot sauce, you can probably do better than Tabasco (I’m…

I mean, I’m not going to *start* going to CFA because I’ve been there before and I think their food is bland.  But I’m also skeptical about this; didn’t they say “we’re going to stop giving money to the charities people are mad about” before receive all the praise and the business, and then just start up again while…