The American History Museum in DC has a lunchroom where you can buy a fountain drink in a plastic tumbler. Most of these tumblers are chipped at the top or bottom and often the thing leaks your beverage all over the table.

I’m old enough to remember when GC was a sit-down steak restaurant with an eloborate baked potato “toppings” bar. My dad, being ahead of his time, added *everything* to his potato; chili, cheese, mushroom gravy, sour cream, chives, whatever they had. You’d order whatever steak you wanted and then load up your potato…

Conversely, who remembers when Heinz 57 marketed itself as “ketchup with a kick?”  

My takeaway from this article is that 10 to 15% error rates are considered acceptable in the fast food industry.

Is it Twinkies? I bet it’s Twinkies.

Does anybody besides myself remember the glory days of a pizza chain called Pizza Inn?  Back in the 70s thin crust pizza is pretty much all they offered.   You could get it delivered and if you had a coupon (look in the newspaper or the back of the yellow pages) you could get a large pizza and a medium pizza for…

I remember a little while ago he was in negotiations with Food Network for a new contract. FN was not going to meet his price and he was slated to walk away from the network. A week or so later they announced that a compromise had bee struck, and Flay was staying a FN star. I wonder if a cat food deal was the…

Pumpkin spice always tastes like pumpkin spice chemical slurry to me, but maybe the frozen dairy elements will moderate that. I will give it a try next time I am near a Wendys.

Honestly I turn them off when a ten second reveal pads out into a five minute video.

When the store maintains 2 or maybe 3 “manned” checkout stations, the option is often “add 20 minutes wait to your trip” or “use self checkout.”  Gone are the days of full service in grocery stores.

Have you seen the comments section over at cracked . com? This place is almost a palace in comparison.

I mean occasionally I’ll bring my iPad.

Okra should be much, much higher on this list.

No Gorn... That’s where I sit.

Apple’s yearly announcement that “We don’t have enough of these to go around” trying to drive up interest in the new model. We’ve all seen it and miraculously, by November/Black Friday, these supply issues just...go away.

I’d be willing to guess that the Reader’s Digest article they cribbed this from explains it a little better.

In the DC area Halloween candy aisles are already in place.  I know because the Butterfinger skulls are on sale and I love those things.

I remember a similar scam around the regarding Velveeta cheese. Around the holidays a lot of people serve a cheese dip made with Velveeta, and multiple outlets were telling us that Velveeta was going to be out-of-stock. I also remember making a visit to my local Walmart where there was an six foot tall stack of the…

I can see why he’d be against it, considering it might as well be Samuel L Jackson inviting him to be a part of the Avengers Initiative. Or Julia Louis-Dreyfus recruiting for the Evil Avengers or whatever.

No.  And here’s why.  I need to know how often the interior of one of these machines is cleaned.  Unless they are hermetically sealed, which they aren’t, there is the potential for all kinds of critters to get inside there, which you would not be able to see from the outside.