I adore salmon. Well, fish in general. I was able to buy a huge bag of individually wrapped frozen salmon fillets (like, 40 fillets for $15), and am happily enjoying about one a week.

I’m in northwest IA and I recognize a few things. Namely the monkey bread and those cookies with the chocolate in the center. Maybe not the specific varieties in the book, but very similar takes. Specifics, of course, will vary from person to person. 

As diverse as areas of the Midwest are, there are other regions with larger numbers of specific ethnic groups. There’s a sizeable Mexican community in my Iowan city, but if I want a book on Mexican cuisine, I’m not picking up the “Taste of Iowa” cookbook. Other regions will cover that much, much more adequately.…

I’m thinking of getting this for my mom. Whatever inspires her to make monkeybread again! 

Every single bit of this is dumb. 

Just added the drink to my online menu via their site, selected my store and apparently it isn’t available. So request at your own risk. 

Is this all throughout the Midwest? I’m just wondering if my IA location would have it, or if I’d sound like an idiot trying to order it. I’m normally a Caibou girl, but I enjoy trying new drinks regardless (and sometimes I cheat on Caribou with Scooters or Stone Bru. Don’t judge me). 

God I love Caribou. I’m in Iowa, not MN, but it’s a company that still *feels* local to me. Plus I was born in MN, so there’s that too. 

Yeah, dying is absolutely preferable to paying medical bills. Right on.

This is all true. I only claim to play video games to land me a prime specimen of a gamer man who can buy me everything I want thanks to his lucrative coding job, while I get to look like eye candy and flirt with other men in-between my side-gig, selling bathwater. You caught me!

Almost none of mine do, unless we were initially IRL friends. It’s not that I don’t trust them or it’s some massive secret, but it just doesn’t come up. I can think of all of 2 people who I haven’t met in person who have my current address. Seems a bit odd to share it so readily, but I’m super glad it worked out in…

This is awesome. So nice3 to hear something wholesome :) I hope he’s able to find out why he’s having seizures - I can’t imagine haven’t to constantly worry about suffering one, and you don’t even know why. 

This is how you prank an audience. No one is obnoxious and everyone laughs. I’m not big into speed-running games for anything, but I enjoyed reading about this!

Same here. I generally avoid mom and pop stores, because I like to convenience of getting everything in one place and getting those items a bit cheaper. Like yours, my local Walmarts (there are 3 in my area) still have to compete with Hy-Vee (my current fave) and Fareway, just to name the largest two (with lots of…

Shucks. The closest one is in Des Moines, about 3 hrs away.

Kinda weird that Amy never came across this style, then. I do think it’s more common for thin crust pizzas than ‘normal crust’ ones, so has she just never ordered it thin? Just seems like a weird thing to never have, if you’re THIS passionate about pizza eating styles. 

I take it you typically share individual slices with other people? Seems like a generally bad idea to me. 

Oh no! We’re an affront to Jersey?? Say it ain’t so!!

I’ve been enjoying my first office job since October, and already have a decent snack drawer going! I got pudding cups when they were on sale (88 cents for a pack of 4), cups of flavored applesauce, protein bars, Keurig cups (a pack of 40 with random flavors like ‘chocolate cherry’ and ‘choconut’), tea (not a huge…

It initially really bugged me too, but I got used to it over time.