The important component is booze. Aged eggnogs start with raw eggs and gradually sterilize them over time by keeping them in an environment that is sufficiently alcoholic that it eventually becomes entirely sterile.

Costume Quest really is delightful.  I play it every year on Halloween to try to recapture the feeling of a kid at Halloween.

I’m a nog conoisseur, I make several variants of it every year (the aged variety is my gold standard). One year my eldest brother had heard of the fireball+nog thing and brought a bottle and a carton to the holiday festivities and proceeded to serve a truly awful pink concoction. One hopes this is better.

People need to stop going to places.

I voted a week ago and stopped to get some McNuggets on the way home.

Edible Gold: a clear sign that wherever you are eating, you should go somewhere else and not come back here.

“Food that’s good for you is pretty expensive” and “food that’s cheap and easy to prepare is generally pretty bad for you” doesn’t seem like a hard thing to understand.

I once got Bon Appetit for a year for free from my garbage company for some reason, and I couldn’t abide by the fact that it was >50% ads (I guess that’s why it was free). Is the Food Network magazine similarly encumbered with advertising? I’m a long time Cooks Illustrated subscriber, so maybe my tolerance for…

As a lover of black licorice (particularly the salted nordic varieties) I’m going to start marketing a mix of black licorice and banana chips.

As a love of all things pumpkin, this would disappoint me if I was aware of an Einstein Bros. bagels location near me.  Since I prefer to eat my bagels dry and untoasted, the pumpkin butter thing won’t work for me.

If I’m actually wandering the grocery store looking for something to throw at oppressors, it’s unlikely that “soup” or”tuna” is going to be my first pick. Because those cans are easier to grip and more deniable than a brick, a can of beans is going to be a lot cheaper than a can of tuna. Now I’m going to look to try…

I feel like the biggest issue is that there are a lot of chores that need doing, but aren’t exactly things that need doing now- for example vacuuming. When it’s one person living alone it’s “I’m going to vacuum when I have the time and determine that the need for vacuuming is sufficiently high”, so it’s largely a test…

I feel like the failure of Quibi was entirely predictable.  Yes, people perhaps want to watch something when they do not have 30-60 minutes free.  But books are an old form of media, and while some have short chapters, some have long chapters, and some have no chapters all people have figured out how to use bookmarks…

I will miss Sizzler primarily in its role as an improv prompt.

Considering no one really goes to weddings *for the food*, I’m allergic to shellfish,and I can poach my own salmon and slice my own steak I’m just going to have the chicken. It’s hard to truly mess up chicken.

This is reminiscent of Chicken scarpariello, with all the cherry peppers and the acidity in the sauce.  I wonder if it has a common ancestor.

Popcorn has been my main “eat your feelings” quarantine snack. So I’m doing my part!

This is a roundabout way to get Obsidian to make another Fallout game, right?

So there’s absolutely no chance I buy the game (because the hard working, presumably decent people in the studio do not stand to benefit financially from my purpose, but *she* does).  But my heart goes out to all the people at the studio who, when they started, were excited to work on a beloved pop culture property…

I have long had two complaints about CFA (in no particular order):