It feels like there is a difference between “a character the audience and the other characters are aware of just gets lost in the shuffle until they’re gonna do a bad thing” and “of the billions and billions of people who we have never met in the other Star Wars films some are actually important.”

It is absolutely imperative that your banana pudding contains no herbs whatsoever.  Spices are okay but no herbs.

“Divide into n equal pieces” where n≠ 2^m for m∈ is the bane of my existence.  I know I’m going to be reaching for the gram scale here. This is a me problem FWIW, I made some pork and cabbage dumplings and the recipe called to divide the dough into 40 equal pieces so I scaled everything up to be making 64 equal…

Give me Elote/Esquites flavored Nacho Fries, please.

The weirdest thing about the “beans on toast” is not the beans, since beans are delicious, healthful, can be prepared in a whole lot of different ways, and “beans, peas, and legumes” are the unifying strain among some of the world’s most celebrated culinary cultures.

Indeed, the almond milk is vastly more harmful to bees than “local beekeepers who maintain hives.”

I prefer the square cut and there are essentially two reasons.
- It makes “piece of pizza” more granular so instead of “1/8 of a pie” you have better control over how much you are eating. Smaller pieces are also less likely to be floppy and can be held in one hand.
- It suggests an order in which to eat the pizza. At…

I’m still not convinced honey shouldn’t be vegan. It’s not produced by the animal like eggs or milk, it’s flower nectar that the bees harvest and process. Sure, it’s got a little bit of bee spit in it, but if I knead bread there’s a good chance that some of my dead skin cells are going to end up in there too.

I’m always conflicted when it comes to Girl Scout cookie season.  Absolutely 100% I want to support the Girl Scouts, but I make better cookies than they do and “baking” is my happy place.  I just don’t know how to say no to Samosas in a way that indicates “I’ve got a florentine lace recipe I’ve been wanting to make,…

I fall on the other side of the great Trek/Wars divide, but I think Star Trek is a good model for how to handle this situation. There is SO MUCH Star Trek out there, and a lot of it isn’t very good, but some of it is very, very good. The problem Star Wars has is that there’s just these 9 movies that we put on a…

I’ve always wondered why game developers don’t just give an answer like “Making a game is always a matter of giving up on a lot of things your wishlist for features in order to actually get the thing out the door. The good thing is that we’re always looking to expand and improve, so if this is a thing you want to see…

But this is a thing you want. Slightly diluted spirits taste better (and more like themselves) than undiluted spirits. The science, I believe, is that the amphipathic compounds responsible for flavor in spirits are driven to the surface, so you smell them and taste them right away.

Flavored ghee is just a weird idea.  Are we just skipping the step where we toast the spices for like 30 seconds in the hot ghee so someone can do that in a factory somewhere?  It’s like 30 seconds and it makes your kitchen smell nice.

I mean, “Off Brand Indiana Jones” is something I would be happy to go to the theater and watch. But probably tying it to any existing property, instead of just making up a new story about new characters, just overly complicates things. Like the Tomb Raider movies would probably have been better if they didn’t feel…

While Secret of Mana and its sequel were very good games, I owe the depth of my affection for the franchise to Legend of Mana. I’m not sure if they made another game just like this if it would work, but its particular alchemy of being relentlessly cute, maudlin, deep, and surprising really worked for me.

One of these decades I’m going to finish the last PS1 game (Rhapsody: a Musical Adventure) in my backlog. Then I can move on to finishing out generation 6.

I’ve found the only real downside of the salmiak licorice is that after you eat enough of them, they start to taste like cat pee smells.  I guess that’s a built-in moderation effect.

I do not know Mr. Ashbach, but I can be confident in the knowledge that he is an assweasel.  “I didn’t read the fine print, so now I’m suing you” isn’t a good look in any context, but when the fine print concerns “benefits for restaurant employees” it’s an especially bad one.

Missed an important one, I assume because of the spoilers:

TLJ is the only Star Wars movie I actually really genuinely liked to the point of “wanting to watch it more than once” so I’m with you here.