My Jewish self and my whole family say something awful close to lot-key.

Isn’t this John Doe? Not only in its basic premise but as a reminder not to get attached to shows like this that get cancelled long before you have any clue what is going on.

Soft-shell corn tortillas (also known as tortillas) are kind of like biscuits that way. If you have ever had fresh-made biscuits you’d never want any other kind but fresh-made. If you have ever made biscuits from scratch, you know how unbelievably easy it is to do better than any mix or frozen or canned version and…

Not necessarily Southern.
I once attended the funeral for the mother of a coworker in a very Yankee state, Catholic church. My coworker was uncontrollably loudly blubbering through the whole service, understandably, her long-time girlfriend doing her best to comfort her, and the priest having to practically shout over…

The plastic hood, boots, overdress, train all say to me, “got married on Maid of the Mist.”

Isn’t that Russian dressing? Cocktail sauce has horseradish.

Ugh, Silver Diner. The menu is so strange, interesting, but strange. Last time I went was for breakfast. Before taking our order I overheard the server tell another table they had maple syrup. When she came around to us I asked if they really had real maple syrup (it isn’t exactly in a region where you would expect to…

I am not a vegetarian, but have been known to eat cocktail sauce with saltines. Or bread. Or as a baked potato topping. Cocktail sauce is good.

Pretty dresses and tiaras, but really love the whiskers. When will that make it to this hemisphere?

It seems like a big-sister thing to do to purposely have her wedding small and low-key so as not to steal the pageantry from little-sister’s long-planned wedding.

It might not be that section that is most relevant. Her son may be “actual or perceived” special-needs in some way, hinted at by her letter trying to get out of bringing him to the interview describing “life circumstances.”

Tylenol? Never, anymore. There has not been any time I have ever taken tylenol where it had any benefit, no noticeable worsening either, but when I read that liver thing, ... Why take something anyway that doesn’t seem to work at all. Ibuprofen works. It doesn’t work for everything or every time, but it is the only…

And just because it is curly, doesn’t mean it is curly everywhere the same. I almost always have to re-trim after any haircut. The worst was when I got home, took a shower to get rid of all those bits and crumbs of trim that was left behind, and found one side 3” shorter than the other when wet. After a while the math…

It is a common term, not just Midwestern. http://wescreamcustard.com/blog/?p=29

Thank you. I had never been to Steak ‘n’ Shake until I was over 30. But hand dipped shake? I probably would have given that same answer to anyone decades before setting foot in one. Sort of the same as the answer I’d give someone who asked, “what is a chocolate cake?” Um, a chocolate cake.

After two weeks of terrible customer stories, turnabout is fair play...

Odd. I never noticed Subway being skimpy with vegetables, but instead automatically putting three times the condiments I want even when I say "a little" or "not too much" or say "enough" while watching globs pile on the sandwich. Yes I want mustard but not so much it drips everywhere. Gross.

It is a shame there isn't a third option. I look worse than people say AND I look better than people think. This would be the option for the times when we are full-on paranoid that we look so bad no one can bring themselves to tell the truth but at the same time are sure somehow they think we look worse than we know…

Almost as bad ... the menu advertises plain cheesecake, but the plate it comes on is drizzled with unavoidable fruit goo.

My thought exactly. With some optimism I clicked on the first few links in the article. Same old same old. I admit I'm picky, but it seems like 90% of what is available for sale, is low cut, shiny, sparkly, and/or short or no sleeved. Whether or not it fits is a different story.