Is there a secret shopper position available where the person pretends to be a restaurant customer. But in reality they are waiting around for anyone who is a total dickhole to the waitstaff so they can go humiliate them with logic and get them to leave? Sort of like a secret bouncer. Maybe a comedian who is really…

This lady is awful, but this stuff is hurtful.

Topical. I like it. You’ve got moxie, kid.

Screaming idiot kidults like the girl in the pizza place or the chips-and-dip girl are the worst. I had the misfortune of going on a couple of dates with one in college, and when she started flipping out at a server in a Chili’s over a minor slight (IIRC, the server corrected her when she ordered a “Bloomin’ Onion” on…

I keep expecting to hear a horror story about my step mom. The fucked up thing is she worked quite a bit in the food service industry and use to bitch about terrible customers. Anyway, last time I visited my dad he informed that she had somehow managed to get banned from nearly every restaurant in the small Ohio town…

Excuse me, but I’m allergic to peanut allergy stories. Please wipe down this kitchenette post and bring me a peanut allergy story with no peanuts in it.

I know it’s getting picky about things, but red banana peppers are real and fairly common.

clean as fuck

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I have two giant fibroids that didn’t interfere with conception (which was immediate) or pregnancy at all, but they plus a really tall baby who was low and in front meant I showed early and a lot. I got So. Much. Trolling. from random strangers that it made me afraid to leave the house. Even from pregnant strangers,…

A close friend of mine is naturally tall and very thin. When she was pregnant an insane number of strangers approached her on the street and lectured her about the fact that she was hurting her baby by “dieting” while pregnant. She did no such thing, and at the same time randos were criticizing her for starving her…

There’s one critical hangup in all of this... for mammalian cell culture, there is an essential component of the growth medium we use: serum, derived from bovine blood (the plasma, basically)*. Most commonly, fetal bovine serum. Serum contains tons of individual growth factors which are very important in stimulating…