Yeah, I was really hoping that the video featured a cross-section.  Hopefully some enterprising food journalist will get one and record it for posterity.

It feels to me that if you’re a food magazine with a test kitchen, a good argument for dropping beef is “the ways to make beef taste good are well documented and generally uncomplicated”. So trying to come up with new ideas here is a waste of time.

Unfortunately I can only eat about half of a triple double crunchwrap and I never knew how many that was.

The best thing at the Fair, most likely, remains these french fries:

Low key funniest part of WAP is Meg starting a verse with “Your honor, I’m a freak bitch...”

It’s unfortunate that the venn diagram of people who don’t understand “Putting ‘Slave’ in the name of a toy will probably drive a lot of people not to buy whatever it is” and “People who own ‘Slave Leia’ merchandise” is nigh on circular.

The ironic thing I’ve found is that those game fans who are the most vociferously suspicious of print journalists being paid by games publishers to bias coverage, is that these people take most of their cues from gaming youtubers who literally are paid by games publishers to bias coverage.

Nonetheless the BMIS scale is more scientific than the BMI scale.

Chicken parts ranked: Thighs> Breasts> Drumsticks > Wings.

Still my personal favorite:

It’s not really a mystery how the stuffed marshmallows are made. Marshmallows are basically gelatin+sugar syrup, so they need time to set.  During that time it’s possible to like “stick a lump of chocolate in there”.

No Dex-Starr?  He is technically Atrocitus’s cat, even though he’s a full member of the Red Lantern Corps.

I’ve never seen them powdered, I usually just toast them with other spices then grind them all together.

Does “annatto” refer to something other than achiote seeds?  I’m only familiar with the seeds, which you probably wouldn’t want to put in the breading.

If my air fryer only goes up to 400, am I better off baking?

Why *pink* lemonade though?

There is good barbecue in Minnesota, but I’m not aware of any outside the cities (Jordan is a city of 6000 people, most places with 6000 people don’t have great dining). Big Daddy’s in St. Paul closed during the pandemic, but are looking for a new location and Black Market by the High Bridge are both legit.

While the number of Home Depots I’ve been to is limited (I tend not to frequent hardware stores in places I don’t live), I don’t think I’ve been to any that had a hot dog vendor in house.

I’ve always kind of enjoyed wandering the grocery store and covid complicated that mightily.  What I struggle with now is how much to defer to the instacart or w/e people who are there doing their jobs, when I’m just trying to pick out beets or whatever.  It’s a weird dynamic to have people at work rubbing shoulders…

People who are shorter than I am, and people who are taller than I am, are weird. Why can’t they just be the right height?