Considering how most people pit cherries — in their mouths while they are eating them — I think that I shall decline any offers of cherry-flavored whipped cream for the foreseeable future.

Understandable. Food me once, shame on me; food me twice — won’t get food again.

That was such a nom sequitur.

“I think the last time I enjoyed food this much was probably Christmas Day 2012, which, incidentally, is the same day I ordered a bucket of chicken from Popeyes after taking two hits of acid.”

“For the most part sea otters are littoral”

Thank you, that was my question. Obviously the acceleration is not constant, though due to the lack of a torque curve from the electric motors (and no apparent spinning tires) it would be presumably be as close to constant as is physically possible.

“Nothing happened in this case, no one was injured. Give him a speeding ticket, and have a nice day. It’s a dangerous slope we are on in this society. We are getting too close to being able to prosecute someone just for perceived intent, rather than action. It’s like prosecuting someone for a crime they will commit in…

“Yeah the person was provided all the facts so they bear some responsibility. At the same time we, as a people, should not permit these practices.”

I know that it is a fool’s errand to rank tragedies. After all, losing a child is losing a child, and it is horrible regardless of the circumstances. But, ye gods, to watch your child get hauled off by an alligator, while trying to fight the damned thing. . . I just cannot even fathom the experience.

Years ago, I was biking on a trail by the river in North Minneapolis when a little kid crossed the trail right in front of me. The kid was also on a bike, but even the combination of kid plus bike was shorter than the tall grass on the sides of the trail, so I did not see him until he was right in front of me.

I agree — I do like me some sweets, but even for me, that is a bit much.

Well, I have gone to any restaurant and ordered them that way for many decades (since I was but a wee lad.) It always seemed to me to be one of the “standard” ways of ordering eggs, like sunny side up or any other. It just seems like now it is suddenly being presented as an amazing new way of doing it. Must just be…

He was, but he put it into the wall while understeering.

So are basted eggs a regional thing? I have been ordering them at restaurants all of my life, but I have read multiple articles lately acting like they are some sort of revelation — and they are usually not referred to as “basted.” Is it a Midwestern thing, or am I missing something?

Kenji is only too happy to crow about the success of techniques that he uses and had helped develop, but he is generally quite self-deprecating at the same time. Read The Food Lab and you will find that he makes fun of himself as much as anything else.. When he does make fun of something else, it is usually in a very…

This is one of those things that I was surprised to find out is, in point of fact, a thing.

Welcome to the internet.

Luna, help me push the car.