Somebody help me... why are all the fancy chopsticks I buy so slippery? The easiest ones to use are the cheap disposable ones you get with Chinese takeout because the wood has grip. The ones with shiny, glossy finishes just fail when I try to pick up slippery food. Do they make ones that have ridges or something? 

If you take some turkey from one of these recipes and put it in a hot dog bun, I call it a cry for help.

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Belly laugh at "artisanal 'mectin."

It's the Imo's pizza with Provel cheese of the sandwich world. Ugh, I hate mozzarella, don't you? There's only one Miracle Whip. I'm gonna have to go with the rest of the world on this one.

Wow, they still make those? My favorite as a kid.

Black licorice? You've got to be kidding. I love it but every kid I know hates it.

Has anyone tried just pouring the batter in a ring along the outside of the pan and forgoing any “tapping” to even it out? I know when I make a burger I always dimple the middle to keep it from doming up.

In my mind, Domino's is most certainly not in the "okay" category. I have a dozen pizza places in the area that are all better than Domino's. It boggles my mind why anyone would order from there. I did try one this year, my first in about 5 years, and it sucked as bad as ever. All pizza chains suck.

That’s a New England style roll but there’s no such hot dog as a “New Englander” except at Super Duper Weenie where they also sell other dogs with (gimmicky) regional names. That’s the standard roll we use in Connecticut. It’s better, IMO, as long as you grill it like you’re supposed to. If you don’t it tastes like…

This is, honestly, the first discussion I've ever read with so many people claiming that lactose intolerance is "normal" in adulthood. I'm 60 and I don't have it. I don't think I know anyone that does. Now if I eat some volcanic wings I'm going to have a problem. 

That was a Bill Belichick move by Allison putting Pu Pu Platter in there but I have to give her credit for getting it past the rules committee. It gives her the win, obviously. I like egg rolls but why would I want just a sorryass egg roll by itself when I can get one that comes along with fried shrimp, chicken…

Hot dogs are hugely regional and people are fiercely loyal to their local dogs. I live in CT, only 100 miles from NYC, but our hot dogs are very different. I don’t like NYC dogs at all. Too salty. Too garlicky. Too beefy. Ours are usually a mix of beef and pork. Think of all the yummy things made from pork and how…

Super interesting. I'll have to try it. I use the paper towel method and about 3 minutes but it's scalding hot when it comes out. Perfect to rub a solid piece of butter over though. I would only be concerned that if you cook it right in the husk it would be too hot to husk for quite some time and I want to get right…

You know how baby geese “imprint” on the first thing they see after they hatch, and if it’s you then you become mom? That’s kind of the way I look at it. I live in Connecticut, but when I was 10 years old the Mets were pretty good and I became a fan. To me, fandom is meaningless unless it’s for life. Just like you may…

Actually one of the first search results that comes up if you search for “best VPN” (yeah, I’m not always that clever with my searches) is thebestvpn.com and their reviews seem pretty thorough and pretty legit. They get a cut from subscriptions linked through their site, but they review and link to all of them and…

Number one can’t miss item at Aldi’s is CHOCOLATE. Lots of choices but my favorite are the big bars of dark chocolate with whole hazelnuts which are probably half the price they would be elsewhere, if you could even find them elsewhere, which you can’t.

Very polarizing question. I don’t get the “all beef” obsession people have, or “beefiness” being one of the qualities they were looking for. Here in Connecticut, where I can buy a lot of those brands and don’t like any of them (too salty, like sucking on a beef bouillon cube), we prefer high quality locally made dogs…

Don’t just spend money on the things you love, spend money on the things you hate. If you hate ironing, you probably cringe at the thought of spending even $25 for an iron or an ironing board. But if you can bring yourself to spend $85 on either or both, you will hate the job less and be thankful for years that you…

If the explanation was UV light, it never made any sense to me that Heineken from a keg tastes just as bad. I can’t believe that the company actually pre-skunks it though. Maybe some people just don’t have the olfactory ability to detect that heinous odor. Corona and Stella are also both redolent of skunk. One thing I…