....goddammit i laughed at this and i hate you.

dude no joke. i tried cutting out all added sugar for a month and it was in everything. broths, nuts, pasta sauces, meats, you name it. i’m not even much into sweets, if i’m honest, but it was damn hard to cut it anyway because it’s just so pervasive and our bodies are pretty much used to it.

hell, this whole thread reminds me of how much i miss the chinese restaurant i grew up on. when you mentioned how you pick a few dishes as a kid and stick to them for the rest of your life, i was pretty much already there when realizing my favorite chinese will always be what my family ordered from a local restaurant…

i will stand with marnie in her candy rankings for once and stan palmer now and forever. sure, it’s ‘chocolate-flavored’ and sure it’s not the best quality, but i have loved what they make since childhood and now comfortably in my mid-to-late 30's, i still do. pumpkin chocolate cups and crunchy eyeballs at halloween?…

nope, not worth the jaunt from tucson just to try it out. like every substitute teacher facing an unruly class, i’ll wait.

...my gluten-intolerant, risotto-loving, beef-and-cheese annihilating, lasagna-missing partner thanks you for this. i mean he will, once payday hits and i can stock up on good parm and ricotta. this looks tasty!

...can we call it a pultwitzer? no? just me? okay then.

this confuses and terrifies me.

holy hell this makes so much sense. 

...so, so much this. i swear one of the reasons i stopped going to my old therapist was, despite his having an MA and a PhD, he would say things like ‘i don’t want to adult today’ and expressed abject horror at making his own food. he was in his late 30's. i just couldn’t take him seriously as an actual grown-ass…

i love mrs renfro’s! we’ve got it here in AZ, i find it at Sprouts market. i’ve tried several varieties, all of them delicious.

that always bothered me as a kid when that commerical ran. even i, with no real financial knowledge and certainly no business sense, could tell that new york city was not where you would manufacture things on a large scale bc everything there is expensive and factories take up space. i liked pace anyway though, dumb…

i used to work at a specialty pet supply store and when we first got the kangaroo acana on the shelves people lost their collective minds. for some reason nobody had a problem with bison or bull peens, but kangaroo was a hard line. good times.

depends on if they’ve gone for lime or green apple. either way it tastes like neither of those things and is generally gross.

oh my, that platter looks heavenly. i would destroy it by myself with very little shame.

i effing love capers. i will finish a braised dish with them, i put them in sauces, i mix them them into dips, i will eat those bad boys right outta the jar, provided i can get a spoon into the frustratingly skinny things. mmm, salty briny deliciousness.

i mean initially i was thinking cocktail bc that seems the most logical route...but then my lizard brain went to ‘comfort food’ bc today has been a long one and i really want fried ice cream. it’d probably be a bit disgusting but idgaf, i want peach ice cream coated in crushed mint oreos, fried up. give it to me. now.…

damn tj’s why you gotta stalk my kitchen habits, i’ve been mixing everything season into cream cheese, yogurt, sour cream, and cottage cheese for years. tis tasty!

man, my junk food consumption must be in top form lately, considering i was able to chime in on zombie skittles earlier and these reaper ranch chips now bc i just finished my own bag this afternoon; i feel so hip and with it, or whatever it is the youths say. for real though, these chips were the first time i’ve…

snickers, if i’m being honest. i just feel like the peanuts are roasted a bit too long to the point of becoming acrid, so i will take any of those other candies instead.