It’s not as though I enjoy shopping, but I’m kind of uncomfortable with this “someone else does your shopping for you” model. This isn’t really a future I’m totally comfortable living in. After all “going to the grocery store” is a way to be out in public where no one would ever ask you to justify your presence there.

My two go-to methods of preparing beets are sort of polar opposites in terms of accessibility:

There’s basically two ways for a thing to fail to be sharable:

I’m just waiting for when they sell a jar of “stuf” and the unstruffed wafers separately.  The Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers are basically the same thing as the oreo wafers, just wider and thinner (perfect for icebox cakes), but you cannot buy a jar of Stuf.

So toasting is not proper?  I tried to make my go-to bagel order the most heretical thing I could think of (everything bagel, unsliced, nothing on or by it, eat it like a donut).  But I guess I need to come up with a way to toast it to annoy purists.

I really would like avocado countertops in that classic boomerang pattern formica, and have for several decades.  It’s not like “worth spending a ton of extra money on” but if it were an option it’s the one I would choose.

While I don’t have squid ink in the pantry, I do have ikasumi powder which I assume I could substitute.

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’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…

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.