I also use pre-cut parchment rounds designed for air fryers. They have holes in them to allow for some air circulation. I use them when I’m doing something like toasted garbanzo beans which might have a tendency to fall through the grate into the bottom of the drawer. Do NOT put them in during pre-heat; if there’s…

I had a high school teacher -- the young, “cool” English and drama teacher -- who would allow us to chew gum in her class, with one firm exception -- Grape Bubble Yum, because she could smell it.

My understanding is that onion, garlic and alcohol breath are not helped as much by brushing or flossing because they actually come from blood vessels in the lungs. A minty toothpaste, gum, mint or mouthwash might help cover them up somewhat, but they’re still going to be there. https://www.healthline.com/health/get-ri…

Dinty Moore stew is a featured player in this little gem, from the former Mystery Science Theater 3000 hosts who now operate as RiffTrax:

It’s also a small, strangely-shaped county, so the residents have easy access to either Shelbyville (my town) or Tullahoma, either of which has liquor stores and bars.

It is still technically a dry county, with no liquor stores or liquor-serving restaurants, although there have been a few little exceptions put in by the state legislature along the way. The distillery can now offer “tasting tours” where you get to taste 1/3 ounce each (1 ounce total) of three different products (say,…

See my reply earlier. This is a specific lawsuit against Lincoln County (a neighboring county to where the distillery is actually located) over whether or not Lincoln County followed the proper procedures in permitting some new rickhouses to be built. So a loss in the lawsuit might not require any changes to the Moore…

The distillery is located in Moore County, about 20 minutes away from me. (I sometimes drive down to a market there just to buy its pimento cheese!) Moore County is quite small, and the rickhouses are spread out over a large area. The lawsuit is against Lincoln County, a neighbor to Moore County, and (as I understand…

And “The Lavender Hill Mob”!

I don’t hate the Coen “Ladykillers” as much as some people, but I agree it’s a disappointment -- and it certainly pales in comparison to the wonderful, wonderful Ealing Studios original, with Alec Guinness. If you only think of Guinness as Obi-wan, you have to see “The Ladykillers.”

I just recently tried it for the first time -- I think it may have been in response to The Takeout’s ranking -- and love it. I am sorry to hear this.

Since 7-Eleven purchased Speedway a year and a half ago, even though Speedway is keeping its brand identity (for now, at least), they phased out Speedway’s house brands and now sell the 7Select chips and other snacks.

Subway actually announced, within the past few weeks, that they’re going to begin cutting their own meat in-store.

I love “Metropolis”; it’s my favorite silent film. Kind of a sad story in the wake of its production, of course; it was directed by Fritz Lang based on a story by his wife Thea von Harbou. Goebbels liked the film (at least, in the edited-down version which represented it for many years) and tried a few years later to…

Even though the sequel is not football-centric, the listing for “The Freshman” should have at least mentioned “The Sin of Harold Diddlebock.” Legendary comedy director Preston Sturges gave “The Freshman” a talkie sequel 22 years later, opening it with footage from the original movie. It’s not considered one of…

I got a “Somebody That I Used To Know” notification for this?

No one was licking cheese off his fingers, nor did anyone supplant him as America’s foremost art teacher.

I ordered a canister after reading this and it arrived today. I was trying to think of something I could do to play around with it, and I thought about the half a tub of sour cream in the fridge. Sure enough, the Vegeta makes a great dip!

I usually grow 7-Pot Lava Yellow peppers in planters on the front porch of my apartment. I wasn’t able to do that this year because I had planned a two-week trip to Uganda in the middle of the summer. So I had to rely on a variety of mix-and-match peppers given to me by others, and a few habaneros I bought at the…

Great story, but I have one small quibble — I make my own fermented hot sauce every year, and xanthan gum, event though it sounds suspicious, is actually a useful ingredient, helpful for adding body to a hot sauce and preventing separation. It’s pretty common even among hobby hot sauce makers. (I understand it’s also…