I love savory sweet potatoes. My holiday recipe is slightly sweet (with 8 pounds of raw sweet potatoes, I added about 1/3 cup orange juice and 1 tbsp honey), but I can’t abide really heavily sweetened sweet potatoes. And except for at the holidays, I don’t bake the sweet potato casserole.

Green bean casserole isn’t *so* bad if you make the mushroom sauce yourself, but it’s still not GOOD. (I like the french fried onions, but you know, I can buy a can of the onions if I want them.)

I live in Illinois. Sandwiches like that are incredibly common here.

I was at Walmart today picking up a prescription and there was a big display of Patti Labelle pies.

In my family, bringing a storebought pie to the holidays is pretty much grounds for being disowned, so I’ve never bought one.

“I’m not gay” is not necessarily saying what you want it to, though. I mean, I could say “I’m not gay” or “I’m not a lesbian” and those things are absolutely true. But that doesn’t mean that I’m straight (I’m not).

I disagree with tipping, too, so I will vote for people who want to require that (a) the tipped minimum wage be abolished and (b) the minimum wage be raised to something people can live on at a standard other than “abject, starving poverty.” And I will push my elected officials to support such ideas, as well.

But…

On the other hand, a LOT of people are not cut out to be health-care professionals, math teachers, or special education teachers. And those jobs, specifically, desperately do NOT need people filling them who are shitty at them, because of the damage they can do.

I’m old, so the prevailing minimum tip has gone from 10% to 15% to 20% in my adult life.

I have not tipped *at least* the prevailing minimum tip at a restaurant that involves tipping (as opposed to McDonald’s, etc.), twice, that I can remember.

Once, when someone at my table told the server, “This isn’t what I…

You do know that we can read your comment history, right? You’re a TERF, and you’re a liar.

He’s Mark Gatiss. He was there. Because we can’t have nice things.

Sean Pertwee has said he doesn’t want to play the Third Doctor, though.

After the point where he says that he kept the game for a week, he goes on to say, “And so the days kept going by.” Which, to me, implies that he kept the game after that week.  

There are a lot of Keurig-compatible cups out there that aren’t manufactured by Keurig.

It’s an excellent point, because I have seen multiple people expressing anger that Rapp’s statement effectively outed Spacey. (It probably goes without saying that they reserved none of their righteous anger for the man who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old. )

Even if you don’t want to spice it up, you should definitely be using Duke’s.

Yep. Taco Bell is my dad’s fast food of choice because there are things he can easily eat on his diet that also are at least somewhat satisfying (unlike getting an iceberg-lettuce side salad or something).

Or we just *do not care* about the settings on our TVs? Because I don’t. Can I see the picture? Then it’s fine.

“Wizard rock” didn’t exactly invent the wheel, as my filk collection (most of which predates Harry Potter’s publication) attests.

Meatloaf. But not just any meatloaf: the specific, very basic, six-ingredient meatloaf recipe handed down from my maternal grandmother. (Which has managed to convince several meatloaf-haters that meatloaf isn’t so bad, so I guess it has something going for it.)