And they call the act ... The Aristocrats!

Chili’s did this a few years ago, and were very public about it: https://www.nrn.com/operations/chili-s-reduce-menu-items-speed-service

I can’t believe that you mentioned the Polly Platt episode of “You Must Remember This” without mentioning TCM’s recently concluded podcast season, “The Plot Thickens: I’m Still Peter Bogdanovich,” which obviously covered some of the same territory. https://theplotthickens.tcm.com/

It was before they ripped it out of Zack Snyder’s hands.

Even the thin ones separate sometimes. Have you tried xanthan gum? I get a lot of tips from the Fermented Hot Sauce Society group on Facebook -- great source of information.

By strange coincidence, I saw this video today:

I know some hot sauce makers who — if they strain the solids out of their hot sauce to make a smoother product — will spread out the pulp on parchment or fruit roll-up sheets and dry it in their dehydrator. Then you pulverize it in your blender or food processor and you have a dry pepper seasoning. (Let the dust…

That’s an ideal situation. If you like it, you can always spring for a newer model (or for extra trays, if it’s the kind with stackable trays). 

I have even dehydrated canned tomatoes just because I like snacking on “sun-dried” tomatoes.

Let me stress the comment that was made in the story about adjustable temperatures. Around the holidays, you will see a lot of super-cheap dehydrators on the market for gifts, without adjustable temps. If there is no temperature adjustment, the dehydrator is going to be set hot — for beef jerky. And that’s too hot for…

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I also recommend RiffTrax’s presentation of “This Is Hormel,” an antiquated promotional film in which two boys and their father take a tour of the plant: https://www.rifftrax.com/this-is-hormel

I’ve got a great name for them: “Lady A’s Kitchen.”

They should have claimed that they came up with the old name at a quarter after one, when they were a little drunk.

“Dead Again” was also pretty good, and I never hear anyone mention it. It was a sort of supernatural reincarnation noir, with Branagh and his then-wife Emma Thompson as a detective and his amnesiac client who may or may not be the reincarnation of a doomed couple involved in a 1940's murder case (also played, in…

“Arby’s, a chain known for its mile-high meat tower sandwiches doused in cheese and paired with perhaps the densest fries in the fast food kingdom” 

I had a great time a few years ago playing screenwriter Ben Hecht in a community theatre production of “Moonlight and Magnolias.” This play is a comic exaggeration of a real event, when David O. Selznick shut down production on GWTW and cloistered himself, Hecht, and replacement director Victor Fleming for five days…

Here in Tennessee, we’re at a stage where movie theaters are allowed to reopen under strict social-distancing and sanitation guidelines. Of course, the big chains haven’t done so, but the little independent theater in my small, rural town is back open and running old movies — right now it’s “Minions” and “The…

I’ve been on multiple mission trips to Kenya, and the churches there in the former British colony would tend to observe tea time. We’d be given the option of very sweet hot tea with milk, or hot Milo. As the article points out, the brand name is used with different formulations around the world; a teammate of mine…

Generally, they will repeat each season of “The Essentials” right after it runs — it’s the only time TCM reruns host intros — so you still have a chance to catch the ones you missed.