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There’s always adoption.  Just keep your options open.

My wife loves to tell the story of how when our kids were little she put a lot of effort into dinner one night, and the kids wouldn’t eat it. The next night she made them bologna sandwiches, and one of them said, “Mom, you’re the best cook ever!” 

That's the spirit.

“she never intended to shame any one person in particular and she posted it in a private group.” 
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They'll eat it if they get hungry enough.

My dad hired a cook for his restaurant who introduced us to freshly-made mac and cheese when I was a kid that made that crap in the blue box pale in comparison. It appears opposite of what you gone through with your kids as that introduction was the first time we’ve tasted mac and cheese. I took to the boxed stuff… Read more

Gosh, it was a joke. I feed that crap to my kid, too. Read more

That’s your own fault for letting them eat that boxed shit in the first place. Yeah it’s easy but at what cost?

Ive got a daughter who only eats white cheese, its maddening. 

Give ‘em time.

Aka a fancy ass, open face grilled cheese sandwich. Read more

But they aren’t delivering skeeball to my house. If it was at Chuck e cheese, then sure sell me medicore over priced pizza while my kids are playing silly games.

But can you even put a price on regret?

I just ate some KFC for the first time in like decades over the weekend. It’s not nearly as good as I remember it being when I was a kid and they had one of those bullshit soda machines where a bunch of different sodas come out of the same nozzle so their Mountain Dew tasted bad.

Michelin doesn’t currently publish an Australian dining guide Read more

Kate wins because Cheez-Its, and the only thing on that list I wouldn’t eat a bag of if it was handy is Cheetos. Although Ruffles are my least favorite ruffled chip, so if you swapped in the Kettle chips from the next draft I’d be set.
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He opposes Putin on Venezuela. Read more

If Trump is really a Putin puppet, then he is doing a very poor job of fulfilling his end of the bargain.
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I can actually stomach about one bowl of GrapeNuts a year.  Every once in a while I get a craving and it satisfies that. I don’t know why or if that makes me weird, but I know I’m less weird than anyone who eats it regularly.

Listen. I know that this site hates the Kardashians and I know that there are a lot of legitimate reasons for people to do so. And no, getting a ride to an interview is not the same thing as getting a job. But as someone who has been homeless AND jobless AND without transportation, sometimes the biggest barriers are… Read more