While it’s less likely “you just have it around” than tomato paste (it doesn’t keep particularly well outside of the freezer), biber salçası is an excellent substitute for tomato paste. I keep it around (in little jelly jars in the freezer) for lahmajun and have substituted it for tomato paste on more than one…

Well it can’t be *anything* that’s not tuna. I know it’s not escolar because it hasn’t given me keriorrhea, I know it’s not amatoxin because I’ve survived eating it, I know it’s not antimatter since I have yet to see a Subway explode in a matter-antimatter annihilation reaction, etc.

The thing I’ve learned in our plague year is that the best frozen pizza comes from “local pizza restaurants who have expanded into the frozen sphere in order to keep the lights on during the pandemic.”  Like I think the best frozen pizza I’ve had this year was Mucci’s meatball pizza.

I live in fear of someone proposing to me over a meal of perhaps my favorite thing to eat- tacos.

Turns out you can add xanthan gum to anything.

It really feels like putting anything other than water (or a weak acid for descaling) in your coffeemaker is something you want to do if you hate your coffeemaker and want to have to get a new one.

I’m allergic to shellfish, so I can’t even go in a Red Lobster (when you fry the shrimp, you aerosolize the allergens). So when people say like “Red Lobster is the best place on earth” it’s a little saddening. I count the advertising slogan “There’s nothing better than Lobsterfest at Red Lobster” to be among the most…

The apparent assumption that Taco Bell sells 1 burrito per hour is some serious bad faith innumeracy.

I think it’s hilarious that they set the button inside a classy wood box that has the presidential seal on it, for what is essentially “a wireless doorbell”.

The correct answer is generally “Tacos”.

The “he prefers a well-done steak” doesn’t really compare to all the other terrible things the man has done, but it just sticks in my craw every time I am reminded of it.

I had two criteria Disney needed to fulfill before I would sign up for Disney+:

It’s still bizarre that EA paid all that money for the Star Wars license and did so little with it.  I guess it’s worth less now than it used to be, but still.

Is there any indication that Rowling’s bigotry hasn’t gotten even more intense with time?  Like by 2022 I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s advocating for reeducation camps for non-gender conforming individuals.  If the trajectory of the BBC is any indication, that might be a mainstream view on that isolated island in a…

I mean, Brexit was idiotic but are you telling me that he didn’t even try to just house the sandwich before they took it away from him? It’s not the best way to enjoy a sandwich, but it’s better than having it confiscated.

At least if you have decided to grow eggplant you probably have some insight into how to use them (or if a friend is offloading their eggplants onto you, you can ask them).  The people who really get it bad are the people who sign up for CSAs and get huge amount of eggplant, which is not the easiest vegetable to use.

I dunno, serving an eggplant based salad inside of an eggplant you carved to look like shoes is kind of clever.  As anyone who has ever grown eggplant, or known anybody who is growing eggplant “too much eggplant” is a real problem!

They do it to “get a longer warranty on their pots” as though the big aluminum vessels they use to *boil water* are big ticket items.

Corporate leadership at Olive Garden decreed that they stop salting the pasta water in order to cut costs. If that’s not an indictment of capitalism, I don’t know what is.

I drink a frankly reckless amount of water, and have never had a UTI (these things might be related, I dunno) but I do love the flavor of cranberry.