The ‘history’ here is that the old Coconut Grove Club fire (and the molasses flood before that) eventually turned the Boston area government into real hard-asses about health & building safety. I know from first-hand experience. The locals joke that if you applied for a liquor and restaurant license with a top-secret…

I’ve never heard of him, is he a real chef or does he just put salt on shit while looking douchy?

A good followup to Rogue Leader is all I’ve wanted out of Star Wars for the past, what, 18? years, so yeah.  Friday can’t come soon enough.

I’ll drink pretty much whatever rotgut is offered to me, but if I’m buying, it’ll be something better than Old Crow

So, Old Crow?

It’s just pretzels. It’s not a national mood. It’s not even headline-worthy, except that some clever person in marketing figured out a way to cash in on the trend of “The [insert product name] is exactly the thing we need right now” headline trend.

Quite possibly my biggest pleasant surprise of 2020 was finding out the Mighty Hot Sauce is exactly what it says on the tin. Other than Chipotle’s sublime tomatillo-red chile salsa, I can think of no other mass-market national brand “hot” sauce that is actually spicy enough to get the attention of anyone other than a…

I managed to contain myself, but I did bring home a whole bunch of the new spicy dipping sauce to put on all sorts of things. I do anticipate having some sort of McNugget-related breakdown sometime this week, though. 

Yes, same price. 20 piece was $5.

One of my first ska shows was seeing Bosstones in they Bay Area...can’t remember the exact year (92?) but they were touring on Devil’s Night Out. Loved it because Dickey stopped the show to break up a fight while the rest of the band played Simmer Down. Dude was super nice and hung around the club after their set to…

Oh man, hadn’t even considered that angle!

The official taste tester for Ben and Jerry’s uses a gold spoon for exactly that reason.

No, it makes it more valuable, like that cat poop coffee. 

I know a guy who makes his own version of this with aluminum foil in his bathtub. Calls it Tinschlager.

It seems like a particularly pointless practice to me, because it’s entirely flavorless. Literally—one of the reasons why gold was/is used as a tooth filling. As a chermical inert stable substance, it neither melts nor combines with water or other fluids, acidic or basic, so it impacts no flavors, changes nothing.

Basically, you eat a minuscule amount of something pretty and expensive, you poop a minuscule amount of something pretty and expensive.

I’d bet that a few of those secret ingredients are baking soda, sugar, actual white soda like Sprite, or quite possibly a lemon lime soda due to chemical reactions, probably zero salt (bit of a trick, chemical reaction reasons), and high gluten flour or gluten additive. Possibly folded with powdered parmesan cheese…

I went to school at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, and my favorite bar (RIP Pour Richards, I’ll never forget you) had beer nuggets. Theirs were served with a cheese dipping sauce, some bizarre orange-ish semi-cheese stuff that was undoubtedly poured out of a giant can that probably didn’t even need to…

I MUST HAVE THEM

If you’re going to fry some dough, I’m pretty sure I’m going to like it. No acquiring taste necessary!