Great, because I’m Teddy Roosevelting my way up this hill with a bayonet made of stale Red Vines

The open contempt for the player’s time is really something. Why is the scroll speed so slow? Why do we have to look at the Barf Nebula for two full minutes while the word salad moves to the top of the screen? I assure you, Brian, I don’t need that time to recover after your searing truths. 

I would like to spend a minute looking at the class angle on JRPGs. So much English-language localization uses British English accents, and — much more than Irish or American or Aus or NZ or Singaporean or International School! — class is signaled via British English accents. Is it a deliberate choice to only tell…

For now. Sunak and Truss aren’t exactly stoking the fires of unionism in Scotland.

Is there a convenient way to get the cracked ice that comes in Korean mul naengmyeon at home? I’ve tried a rolling pin and a bag full of ice, and chucking the ice in my coffee grinder, to crappy effect. At this point I’m tempted to go through the Sonic drive-thru.

Is there an easy way to peel a kabocha? I’ve never been able to get one peeled without 20 minutes of tears and near-dismemberment with the cleaver. 

Long may you enjoy your perfect bowel motility, I wish you such nonpareil predictability into your ninth decade and beyond. 

Oh, no, it isn’t a pro-Russophone issue (as far as I know) — just that the little-c conservatives are mad about linguistic prescriptivism, and the lefties are annoyed that corporations are trying to sell chicken on the back of a war. Same culture war, different theater(re). 

Here in the UK, one of the major grocery chains (Sainsbury’s) changed their ready-meal dish from chicken kiev to chicken kyiv, to massive derision from the entire domestic political spectrum. The stylebook consensus here is Kyiv for the city and kiev for the dish.

Kind of expected to see “Anything prepared by Brad from Bon Appetit” on here. 

If you like it hot, keep an eye out for Mexico Lindo brand, too! They have an orange and a green habanero that I love on seafood! They’re a bit hot for my taste in a Michelada, but goooooood on a corn tortilla

Amor brand hot sauce is my go-to in a Michelada with any light beer; it’s brighter tasting than Tapatio, almost briny. All the Maggis are tasty, but the one for the Mexican market (sometimes called jugo Maggi) is less garlicky and sour than the ones available in Europe and South Asia. 

It is a Korean superpower to be able to drink that stuff when the kettle’s only been off the boil for 30 seconds. A nation of asbestos tongues.  

Distilled liquor is generally, though not 100%, safe. 

Sounds like you’re in a fulfilling relationship with Second Lunch and don’t need to date. 

My sister works for a tech firm that offers those breakfast and lunch benefits, plus deli fridges perpetually full of fresh food, drinks, and even beer. There are engineers who have worked there for a year plus who have never been to a local grocery store.

When my sister talks about her job, it’s like a talking head…

Listen, nobody should give him money, but I will lay down in the dust and DIE before I quit mocking him on these beautiful tubes.

This is a really small thing that was a huge help for me during quarantine: My local store started posting on their website what times they’re generally quiet, and when the rushes are. It’s great — now I just double check before I leave, and never accidentally show up during the middle school’s lunch hour, or right…

Definitely not interchangably, but when I don’t have fresh cilantro in the house I’d rather use ground coriander than dried cilantro leaves in almost everything. The dried leaves taste like the ashes after a Del Taco arson.

My city has a bar in a former embalming room called the Tough Luck Club. Last call is banged out on a church bell. It rules.