I feel like all questions of the form “is there anybody who likes x” are either obvious and do not need to be asked (e.g. is there anybody who likes black licorice) or involve finding out things you really don’t want to know.

Honestly the spider one seems fine. Spiders aren’t gross they are friends!

Restaurateurs.

I have absolutely put cinnamon sticks in the cavity of a turkey, so that flavor works with turkey.  Ginger more or less pairs with any meat, it’s a flavor that works well with savory things.  Allspice is paired with savory things in nordic cuisine, caribbean cusine, and a lot of of other ones.  Nutmeg is tricky, but…

I am officially an old person because “small bags of yogurt covered raisins in various flavors” sounds great to me. I mean, it’s not far from Raisinets, which are a perfectly cromulent halloween candy.

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.

One of the nicest things about having already voted is that I have complete license to ignore this sort of thing now.  Like the hot take cannon is going to be fired up on twitter tonight, and I will keep that app closed.

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.

It feels like the real story (in 2020) is that we have set up a system where it is cheaper for every wealthy asshat to hire an army of lawyers to fight the IRS to the point of exhaustion than to actually pay taxes.

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…