The initial “j” is pronounced “y”, not “h”. This is Finnish, not Spanish.

I don’t get how this is an “acquired taste” list entry. I bought a kringle once at Trader Joe’s. They’re the size of a medium pizza. I ate the whole thing by myself in a day. I can never buy another one because they’re so addictively good, and not in any kind of unconventional way!

Message to McDaniel: You don’t get to talk about people begging for scraps at the same time that you’re refusing them a place at the table.

Does the rule say that women can’t wear sleeveless tops and open-toed shoes or that people can’t? I can’t figure out whether the complaint is that women are being treated differently from men or the same as men. I ask this as a person who condemns restrictions on clothing, hair style, etc., for the purpose of…

Unsanitary butchers have people who know them. Knowing the butcher doesn’t make the goods he sells safe.

The truth is, I’d rather spend five bucks on a paintbrush comb than use something I eat with for this. And the comb has the advantage of narrower tines and many more of them, so that it takes less time and work to clean the brush.

I’m injecting myself into the conversation. “How much business do you think I’ve lost because of your negative review?” “You mean, how much business do I think you’ve lost because you did bad work? Because you should take for granted that doing bad work is, these days, something that people will find out about. So,…

? 102,500 is a round number, unless you mark the zeroes with overbars to indicate that they are significant figures. Also, imagine interviewing a candidate who requests $102,576. Come on, you know this would bewilder you. A number so specific—did he pull it out of thin air? You wouldn’t take it seriously. Well,…

If you’re trying to split a board in half, you need two points so you can draw a line between them. In your example, you would want to repeat the exercise for 42 inches or 44 inches or, if the board it that wide, 60 inches, so that you wind up with two points spaced reasonably far apart to enable you to draw a…

Only if the board is a parallelogram.

This is the basic math for determining how much batter you need to make your pancakes, so that you don’t run out of batter or have any left over. It has no relation to the “perfection” of your pancakes. And it’s flawed even in its intent for several reasons.

I’m having trouble believing even the sleaziest dealer would pull a stunt like this because he should realize that the jig would be up and charges would be filed the first time the car goes in for maintenance by someone who isn’t in on the stunt.

Are you sure that any of the people with these badges are doing it to impress? When a person puts an “Ex in trunk” sticker on his car, does he do it to mislead people into thinking his ex is in the trunk, or is he doing it to be funny?

Ha, I just received one of the fake IRS calls a half hour ago. If nothing else, a sure sign of a phony communication is the declaration that it is your final warning—when you have never received a warning before.

Also, Jerusalem artichokes aren’t artichokes. Or from Jerusalem. :-)

That sous-vide recipe is overkill! Not that you shouldn’t use the equipment if you have it, but two hours in a bath of barely simmering water is enough to turn the contents of a sealed can of sweetened, condensed milk (why in the world would you need to remove it from the can and put it in a Mason jar?) into…

He’s talking about the missing “a” in “carmelize” (as opposed to “caramelize”, the word whose definition you shared with us).

Makes sense. It’s pretty the same contents as found in sweetened condensed milk, with the addition of cocoa butter. (As for the coconut oil—does it really need more fat?) So I imagine a nice, creamy dulce de leche comes out of it. I’ll have to give it a try.

Then where would I put my magazines?