I also prefer to make my own normally, but these days I find myself on a lot of Zoom calls with family or friends during the time I would normally make dinner. It’s nice to be able to just throw something already prepped into the oven.

You are absolutely correct, Marnie. Home Run Inn is the king of frozen pizzas. I tried a Vito and Nick’s one last month, but they put their sausage on there uncooked, and in a regular oven it was impossible to fully cook the sausage without burning the bottom thin crust, so I was disappointed. Back to Home Run Inn,…

I think you and I maybe just don’t agree on what constitutes plain and simple “honesty” vs. “radical honesty”. Because the situations you keep describing do not suggest “radical honesty” to me, except perhaps to admit that you abused your spouse. No one is hurt more or less of you admit to being late because you left…

I mostly agree with what you’ve said here. But your original post was about how people who think radical honesty is bullshit are what’s wrong with the world, and I don’t agree. From your own words, I’m not even sure you do.

I don’t know why you keep pretending that one couldn’t say “Yes, you look fat in that dress. If that bothers you, choose another dress.” without screaming it and adding additional insults? “Radical” honesty would not be asking this man to say “YES YOU FAT BITCH I CHEATED ON YOU BECAUSE YOU’RE A DUMB HAG AND I HOPE YOU…

What you’re talking about is radical honesty. Radical honesty is defined as “...the practice of always being completely honest and refraining from telling even white lies.” If someone asks you if they look fat in a dress and they do, then you would tell them they looked fat. You wouldn’t evade and suggest a belt, or…

That is what I’m talking about, yes. Perhaps you use different butter than me (though it happens with both cheap butter and Kerrygold alike), or the air in your kitchen is different or something, but it both stinks and ABSOLUTELY tastes different than the inside...it ruins whatever I put it on/on. I didn’t just look…

Well, I don’t control my heat, but I run warm, so usually windows are open in my apartment even in the dead of winter, so it’s surely not 80 degrees.

“Mayo’s one, seemingly clear advantage is that it’s ready to spread the moment you pull it out of the fridge, but this is only an advantage if you live in a house that refrigerates all of its butter at all times. (Why are you doing this?)“

100% agreed. There’s a theater about 2 miles from me, and I love walking down there, getting a can of wine and a box of candy from the store next door, and going to see a movie by myself. I’m not a huge “movie” person, but the point of it is to get out of the house and watch it on a giant screen. I don’t want a setup…

I am a hopeless baker, not for lack of trying, but I make my aunt’s rhubarb crisp recipe every spring, and it always turns out amazing. It’s not nearly as fancy as this...the topping is like, rolled oats, butter and brown sugar, but it’s fantastic. I just make it and leave it covered on the stove, and then eat on it…

I loved Laszlo’s pronunciation of “Ari-zone-ee-uh”.

The “Devil Went Down to...” joke had me rolling!! And I almost died laughing at the opener, when the mailman fell in the sinkhole and Guillermo wretching. And when Laszlo rammed the truck into the wall trying to drive. This ep was gold.

I started trying to transition to “flexitarian” at the beginning of the year last year, doing 5 meals per week with meat vs. my usual “most of them”. My biggest hurdle has been ideas for healthy vegetarian food. It’s way too easy to fall into potatoes and cheese and bread when your ideas get slim. I love vegetables so…

One of my weekly pleasures is to open a bottle of wine on Friday night after work and spend the evening flipping back and forth between reruns of The Simpsons and reruns/one new ep of Diners, Drive Ins & Dives. I love the genuine interest and respect Fieri shows to each of the owners and chefs/cooks, even when some of…

I signed up for the Mick Klug farm one, which was $120 for four boxes in May. I don’t think they normally offer one, but had an April and May one this year since they can’t sell at farmers’ markets yet. I chose them because I buy from their stall almost every week when the market is open, and because they offered a…

Summer tomatoes are the obvious answer here, but I also super look forward to the few weeks in Chicago where you can get seedless grapes that taste like the best thing you’ve ever had in your life. It’s late in the farmers’ market season too, so it always prolongs the excitement for me.

I will pretend to not understand shade thrown at Liam, my favorite, by those who support The Great Traitor, Zayn of House Malik.

Thank you for biting the bullet here and saying it so I didn’t have to.

“...where the same products (or similar) will be on sale and cheaper.”