I'm much more in to impressionist and later art than I'm in to the old masters. But when I was in the Hermitage and saw dozens upon dozens of boring 17th century paintings and suddenly among them Rembrandt's Sacrifice of Isaac, that is something else. To see the dagger floating in space, the emotion on Abraham's face,…

And I'm afraid the bad guys in America's Next Civil War (sponsored by Mentos, the freshmaker) are the ones with all the guns.

It's good to hear people like your parents at least exist. Just disheartening there apparently are so few of them and most Republicans either blindly vote along party lines, no matter how incompetent or evil, or are happy for the evil.

Listen to mister stamina over here, needing more than one wave.

But it's a lot easier when you can just calculate the capacity of your over-sized canon in milliclown.

So it's basically cheese fondue, but with bad cheese and chiles. Got it.
- A European

I see you had the same talk with your significant other.

We saw a Thor trailer before Wonder Woman. At the scene where Thor is in chains, dangling over some sort of lava pit, my wife yelped out Oh no! uncontrollably. We all had a good laugh about it. Her girlfriends are still joking about it weeks later. Of course we had to have a serious conversation when we got home.

I don't even own a virgin.

Sometimes hilarious, but also deeply disturbing. Stuff like foreign and climate policy also effects us foreign people. Also, I'd like to be able to visit the US every once in a while without it being smoldering ruins after your next civil war.

I guess you missed this part in the sentence you yourself quoted:

Yeah, that's true. I guess one thing about both Spanish and Italian cooking is that the dishes are usually quite pure and simple. Great, but simple. That probably makes it a bit easier to serve half portions for (near) half the price.
But I've had pretty elaborate tapas in Spain, with premium ingredients where I don't…

Gazpacho can have bread in it but doesn't have to. Salmorejo always has bread and more of it than any gazpacho. Basically gazpacho is a pretty broad term while salmorejo is a very specific dish.
Good cured ham is great on all of these. As is or crisped up.

That's similar to my technique for roasted pepper soup. Most recipes have you char the bell peppers over an open flame or in the oven and peel them. I just chop them up coarsely and throw them in an extremely hot, dry soup pan until they are charred enough. Add other ingredients, boil and blend. You have to put it…

I have the most generic grey Samsonite suitcases, so on any flight there are up to ten identical cases. Now I have them decorated with some distinctive stickers. But the first time we used one of them was to the very hectic airport of Dehli. We couldn't find it on the luggage belt, only to find it in the crowd a 100…

Reinheitsgebot or get out!

Wait what? That seems almost criminally unjust. I'm all for people paying there taxes. Even if it means someone is forced to sell their property. That still is a pretty shitty situation that I wouldn't wish on anybody. But they most definitely should get the money, minus what is owed in taxes.
I'm pretty sure that…

Aren't lingonberries a bit like cranberries? I like those with game meat like venison or hare. I don't really see it with fish. But I'm willing to try!

I really liked Trump Jr's defense that he "would have done things differently now, this was before all the media coverage, you know".
Which is a bit like saying that if you had known everybody would make a lot of hubbub about it, you wouldn't have killed those hookers. Or hidden the bodies better.

Also expecting the restaurant to put up a smaller version of a $20 dish for $7, is disregarding the fact that most of the cost of a dish like that usually is labor, not ingredients.
Making the smaller version might even be extra effort because it breaks the routine. Expect to pay $15 and be glad if they accommodate…