Some of us have always known naked mole rats were awesome.

I’m guessing it’s a Garlic Zoom, though. Lots of people love them. My sister has one, and I teased her a lot when I first learned, but it actually works pretty well. 

Oh man, I was hoping someone else loved Epoisses! I introduced my aunt (a fellow stinky-cheese lover) to it a few years ago, and now I bring some whenever we go there for Thanksgiving. 

This

My sister sent me this picture from the article this morning, and if I have to live with its existence, so do you.

This morning my sister sent me this photo from the article, and if I have to live with its existence, so do the rest of you. (warning, the second slide is a video of the process)

It’s not even that he looks too old – they’ve done something to his face that makes him look like he’s had horrible plastic surgery. That header image barely looks like him.

I have so many questions about this production.

Allison, maybe you can answer a slightly off-topic question for me.

Oh oh – I made koshari once, in the early internet days. I loved it, my family loved it, it was a big hit, which means naturally I immediately lost the recipe. Do you have one that you make or like, or that you can recommend? I’ve googled it, but it seems like there are thousands of small variations.

Yup, your understanding is correct. I’m not sure of the exact material, but it is older metal, not PVC. They got all sorts of dire warnings from a plumber a couple of years ago when they had a bad fruit fly infestation and were pouring all kinds of remedies down the drains to get them to go away. (ETA this makes me…

They can actually really fuck up your pipes if you use them too often. My parents’ house is old as hell, and after 30+ years of three daughters washing long hair, clogged is just kind of their natural state of being. Too much drain cleaner will eat away at the pipes and cause a leak or other plumbing problem long…

oh no that sounds AWFUL 😬

Ugh, that name sounds familiar, but I don’t remember the account. There’s another European account smarming around TTO that he hooks up with once in a while so they can be superior together, but I haven’t seen it in a week or so.

Seriously, what the hell is his problem? He’s turning me off the Takeout entirely, which is a huge bummer. 

I forgot to ask, what’s the texture of the bacon when the chicken is done? 

Huh, that’s funny. The way I learned was almost risotto-like – cook the spaghetti halfway or so, like above, but then add it to a pan with just butter or oil and add the wine in turns around the pan, waiting to add more until each pour is absorbed by the pasta. The dish is done when the spaghetti is cooked (or is as…

🤯 🤯 🤯

I got my second Pfizer dose last week and had nothing but a terribly sore arm for a couple of days. My coworkers got a mix of the two, but almost all of them had terrible fatigue and other side effects from the second dose; I joked with them (over Zoom) that I wanted a refund on the vaccine because I didn’t get a day…

I *do* have a cable subscription and I still couldn’t stream it. I was busy in a different room from the tv and tried to set up my laptop to stream it, and it paused and buffered and was a solid three minutes behind the broadcast. Eventually I gave up.