I was always under the impression that oats+maple syrup were a key component of switchel.

I come back to this again and again but “just sweet” or “just sweet and salty” is not a combination I can really abide.  You need some acid or some heat or something.

I dislike sweet relishes.

You can really keep things cold for several days with like coolers and (dry) ice packs.  My brother signed me up for the “Cheese of the Month” subscription once and now I have no need to buy any ice packs perhaps every again.

Hopefully some of the money is going to a chest freezer since most people are not going to have space for 900 popsicles if they are surprised by 900 popsicles.  Plus, these are like $3 per, so they’re some premium popsicles and you do not want spongebob to end up as undifferentiated beige soup.

This is why I don’t approve of apps- if you’re going to ask a barista to fit five bananas in a cup you should have to look another person in the eye and say “put five bananas in my cup.”

My recommendation would be to make shrubs or drinking vinegars, which are basically just fruit+vinegar+sugar, then strained once the fruit falls apart. Add it to fizzy water and there you are.

“Uh, the medium roast... black.”

Coca-Cola doesn’t ruin meat! If you ever find yourself in possession of a fresh ham (i.e. one that is not already fully cooked) try brining it in 6L of coca-cola, with 1.5c of table salt, 2 heads of garlic crushed, a bunch (~10) of bay leaves, and 1/2 crushed black peppercorns.

I understand if you didn’t sample it, but the “Cotton Candy Cosmo” is genuinely upsetting. I don’t think anything should taste like cotton candy except spun sugar, and the whole premise of a cocktail (alcoholic or not) is the balance of sweet, sour, bitter, etc. If you want just sweet, you can drink sprite.

Really surprised the n-word is a binary instead of a slider given the rest of it, since there’s a real difference between like “track 2 of Enter the Wu-Tang” and the hard-R version. Like it’s got to be comparable to the difference between “I’m not cool with LBGTQ+ hate” and “I’m cool with *some* LGBTQ+ hate.”

I’d prefer to have both honey and mustard than a bottle of honey mustard- I’m not above mixing two things together. The problem with cravy is not the cranberry sauce (which is fine in canned form) but the gravy. I’m just not interested in gravy products that come from a can, jar, bottle, or mix. Gravy’s one of those…

The problem with the peanut butter is not the taste of peanut butter but the texture- unless it’s a very hot day, it’s going to be too viscous to really work for dipping. If I dip a corn dog in a pot of mustard, I’m not going to have to hold onto the mustard to remove the corn dog.

Something like 70-90% of every angle including a non-white character pre-Rock (and like 50% after) is at least based on casual racism. It’s going to be pretty interesting to see where we draw the line. Obviously Vince saying the n-word needs to go, but are we going to excise the entire ouevre of “Cryme Tyme” or every…

My tip from years of making Swedish meatballs, and having all of my non-immediate relatives living in Sweden, is that in order to get the right texture on the meatballs (they should be slightly springy) you want to really pulverize the pork into a paste with the spices and onion, mix in the panade, then gently mix in…

Didn’t we just get Hanch like last week?

Marshmallows don’t really have a flavor other than “sugar” and “vanilla extract” anyway.

I own gravy boats (plural) but a lot of the time for a sauce that’s to be poured at the table I just use a pyrex measuring cup anyway. Perhaps when I emerge from my year long isolation once enough people get vaccinated I will feel the urge to be fancier.

As someone who is allergic to shellfish (a thing that *could* kill me) I think I’ll stick to cereals in clear plastic bags (like the malt-o-meal ones) or just make granola from now on.

Thanks, I now expect to be haunted by the word “Hanch”.