This whole article is a super-shitty thing to write, but whoever wrote that headline especially should be fired. Into the sun.

Were you at the old or new location? They moved in... 2016 I think? So it could be that they scaled back their flavor availability in the new place. But also, I was there mid-pandemic (I actually went because I got my vaccines in a nearby town) so that could be the issue.

Who arranged this? A bracket’s not something you just throw together! You gotta seed it so that the big dogs don’t face each other right away or you end up with situations like WAP or Summertime getting knocked out in the first round. 

My one complaint about the SPAM museum is that they don’t have any fucked-up SPAM varieties in the gift store (or at least, didn’t when I went in 2021). If I’m at a brand museum, I want to be able to try their weirdest varieties, like how the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta has Beverly and other non-US soda flavors on tap.

I’m one of those rare Minnesotans, and I honestly couldn’t get past the weird gelatinous texture. I might try the steam bun, though. I’m mostly excited about the various new dumplings, which didn’t make the article because they’re not bonkers.

Ah geez, I’ve been hoping for a Twin Cities-set season for years now, but there’s no way that’s happening any time soon since they decided to visit our inferior neighbor first. I hope someone at least gets eliminated trying to make Wisconsin risotto (https://thetakeout.com/recipe-smoked-cheddar-risotto-with-beer-and-br…

Well duh, you don’t have to source meat OR cheese for a video game!

How do you feel about “sammich?”

Hang on, lemme go to the ATM machine quick so I can get a bao bun and some chai tea

Oh, come on! Everyone knows that landed gentry put thousands of hours a year into making things better for the people who live on their land without receiving anything in return except a functioning community! This is a perfect comparison!!

Sasha saying “it’s not chocolate” is such a reminder of all the non-eliminations of last season that made it feel endless.

I don’t blame Loosey for denying that she wanted the lead role for lead-role reasons, given that Mistress and Luxx were brandishing it as an accusation instead of, as you say, a perfectly normal reason to want the lead role. Like, do I think that factored into her reasoning? Sure. Do I think she was right to say, “No,…

It’s also worth mentioning (as the article did, and linked to a wikipedia page on it) that “it’s okay to be white” is one of those racist dogwhistles chosen by internet shitheads specifically because it sounds innocuous. So racists can use it for covert signaling without tipping off normies, and people who say, “that’s…

I honestly can’t believe tipping wasn’t mentioned. What website are we on??

Do they read the articles before commenting in Italy?

It’s fuckin wimdy in my area, and while I was loading my groceries this morning, an empty cart (one of the little two-basket ones) jetted out of a cart coral on its own and plowed into a parked car. As per the shopping cart theory, I therefore conclude that the wind is a goddamn asshole.

Edward Woodward was a miniature wargame enthusiast too, so this would be a really fun parallel! (I have no idea whether they wrote that into Callan for him or if it’s just a weird coincidence)

If nobody’s body type is described, then yeah, there’s no way to tell. But a lot of the time, fat side characters <i>are</i> described as being fat, whereas thin characters’ body types go unmentioned because thinness is considered the default. Like, if Bob the Comic Relief Orc is called portly, but Alice the Hero’s…

How prominent are the jumping spiders?

Instead of doing tacos for the technical, they should’ve just done tortillas. Give the bakers like 20 minutes. Having to cook steak and make pico de gall-o (as basically everyone pronounced it) was bizarre.