I wonder what percentage of people disdaining anchovies on pizza have ever had anchovies on pizza, or whether they just have the association “anchovies = gross pizza topping” in their head from media/popular culture.

There are times when being allergic to shellfish sucks (like when you go into anaphylaxis at a wedding reception because the crabcakes weren’t labeled, or when the air in the restaurant is suffused with fried shrimp allergens).  But I’m going to chock up “never going to need to pay a bunch of money for a giant sea bug…

So as I understand it, as a cultural outsider there’s never a problem with making an “this recipe was inspired by another culture’s food”.  The problem lies in claiming “this is the good version” or “this is the improved version” as that’s patronizing and implies people who have made this dish for a while didn’t have…

Does the fat content of the milk matter at all?  I’m not sure I want to buy whole milk just for this.

Considering that Lahmajun predates things like Pizza al Taglio (which predates other Italians styles) leaving it off while not leaving off things like the aforementioned Pizza al Taglio, Neopolitan Pizza, Sicilian Pizza, etc. seems weird. Like there are more Armenian Americans than Sicilian Americans by a longshot.

Lahmajun doesn’t make the cut?

Between TUFF ENUF last month and Doomsday Warrior this month we’re really exploring the “let’s cash in on Street Fighter II” era before the SNES actually got Street Fighter 2.

My mom accidentally used the dog shampoo once, announced how much she liked it, and used it again even though I told her it was dog shampoo (this was Tropiclean, I think). I then separated it from the other shampoos.

Was Anthem really a thing anybody wanted?  Like I’ve been a fan of Bioware forever, and I’ve liked virtually all of their games prior to Anthem (didn’t much care for MDK2 and the Sonic RPG is what it is), but I legitimately never saw the appeal in this one.

Weird thing about the impossible whopper is that despite the considerable sodium content in the formula for the patty, it still tastes underseasoned.  Whereas it really doesn’t take much salt (like 1/2 tsp for 4) to properly season a hamburger.

Curly Top, the Dairy Queen mascot with the inflatable costume would be deeply satisfying to kick really hard.

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”.