That and chilies from different areas can be vastly different in spice levels and maybe even in taste to a degree. What else is grown in the area can affect these factors, too. It’s like if you grow jalapeños relatively close to habaneros and you can end up with more mellow habaneros and much spicier jalapeños. I’m…

So Sriracha is one of the simplest hot sauces to make at home- it’s just ripe jalapenos, garlic, sugar, and salt that is fermented for about 2 weeks.  The limiting reagent, of course (other than a setup to do fermentation) is “you need a lot of ripe peppers.”  Jalapenos are normally picked when vivid green, so they…

Fractal finger!

It’s deli meat. If it’s ordinary ham/salami/turkey coming from the plant then slicing at the counter does nothing except look good. This is just foolishness on Subway’s part.

No it’s really more like the quality of the meat was fine before, slicing it in the store wasn’t going to magically make it even better.

Totally agree! For me, it is the drive thru. Although some fast casual places have curbside pick up, and that’s just as good.

I’m guessing the drive thru is a huge factor as to why people still do fast food. What I find curious is that for all the news about increases in fast food prices, nobody seems to mention that portions are getting smaller as well, making fast food an even worse value than portrayed. 

If our convenience stores carried the same selection of ready-made foods that they do in Japan, I would never hit a fast-food restaurant again!

Ok, boomer

Hell if we’re coming out of the closet, that deep baritone gives me the vapors. 

Straight married mid-age white guy here - you aren’t wrong!

PETER WELLER’S LIPS ARE A DEFINING AND STAND OUT PART OF ROBOCOP

I contemplated grabbing this last week and I’m glad I did, I’m having an absolute blast! It’s a total power fantasy, Robocop is a tank, and that’s awesome! He doesn’t run, or take cover, or even crouch like some loser, he boldly walks into oncoming fire from no less then a dozen baddies at a time, and doles out…

This game has an achievement for shooting someone in the groin, so it’s immediately a Game of the Year contender for me.

No surprises

Anything in a red sauce at O.G. tastes like Chef Boyardee.

Unfortunately their restaurant design is a slice of hell.

I’m a fan of their soup/salad/breadstick lunch, but any of the real “Italian” food is godawful...tastes like somehing from a frozen TV dinner back in the early 80s.

I’ve always considered a choice for Olive Garden to be a choice against a locally owned Italian restaurant of at least equal (and almost always better) quality. Olive Garden is for if you’re already at the mall or shopping plaza, and don’t have reservations at Pasquale’s, or don’t feel like driving there. That being…

I always checkout with booze at the self checkout line. Why? Because the the only person that can check out booze works at the self checkout.  Every time I go to one of the staffed registers, the person working it is a teenager and can’t check out booze anyway.  So they wind up calling the person that works at self…