That's because, as I said in another comment, Canadian restaurants don't tend to make their own iced tea in-house.

Lots of people in the states do like unsweetened tea. Even in the South, home of super-sweet tea (aka "sweet tea"), restaurants generally have unsweetened available, though you have to ask for it. Also, most of the iced tea I can get in restaurants in Canada (at least in Montreal where I live) is bottled or in the…

I grew up in middle Georgia in the 70s/80s, and a lot of people made sun tea. Either they left it unsweetened or artificially sweetened (for those people who couldn't or didn't want to drink sweet tea), or stirred in simple syrup. My mom's reasoning was that she could boil up a lot of simple syrup and store it, then …

It's a popular way to make iced tea in the summer, at least in North America. I wouldn't do it with English Breakfast, but that's at least partly because I wouldn't make iced tea with English Breakfast tea anyway. (The other part is that I prefer to make my no-effort iced tea in the refrigerator, rather than in the…

It's a short story by Ray Bradbury called "All Summer in a Day." You can read it here, if you want to revisit it.

Someone at least used to have "loaded baked potato" chips—cheese, sour cream, and bacon (maybe chives, I don't remember). I'm a dedicated BBQ chip (or plain) woman, so I don't know if they were any good.

It is true. Before I moved, I occasionally saw ketchup chips in the store, but only in the last couple of years (say, 2010-2012), and all dressed chips are not a thing. "All dressed," as a phrase, is not really a thing, either. (So while I get "all dressed" pizza and "all dressed" hot dogs here—and while neither of…

No, the Stanford-Binet is just an intelligence (IQ) test. Taking a test like that would generally be part of the diagnostic process for dyscalculia/dyslexia/any other learning disorder, but that's because part of the point of those disorders is that your performance in a particular area is far below what would be…

"Texting at the table: Meh, get new friends if all your friends do this."

Yeah. OK, MrsPye and I tend to not go to movies when they're crowded (we tend to go on Tuesday afternoons when they're extra-cheap at our local theater), but still, when we go, she goes to get the popcorn, I get our seats. And yes, I put my bag on the seat next to me to save it for her. She's actually in the cinema…

These days, a place does not have to be hip and popular for people to instagram the food. When I took MrsPye to work today (she works at a popular Canadian coffee/donut chain) I watched someone Instagram their iced cappuccino. MrsPye saw that and immediately asked if there was something wrong with it—like, are you…

Yeah. Unless they've changed the design so drastically that I'm not going to be able to recognize it, I don't care. It's an egg carton.

Yes, they do need to, but until that happens, saying "Spending $50 on a meal does not mean you then have the cash to pay a high tip," as you did, makes it sound as though if you went out to eat in a U.S. restaurant (I know you don't live in the US, but if you were traveling, for example), you wouldn't feel compelled…

That's true, and there is NO EXCUSE for the way the cafeteria worker behaved in your situation.

Yeah. 25 years ago, I waited tables in Georgia for $2.13/hour + tips. Minimum wage was $3.35. The minimum wage, according to Dr. Google, is now $7.25 in Georgia; "tipped employee" minimum wage is STILL $2.13/hour. So from around 65% of minimum wage to under 30%. Yes, the price of food has gone up AND the "standard"…

If you're going out to eat in the US, it should. If you can't tip 15%-20% (depending on a lot of things; 15% was pretty standard in the small rural town I lived in most recently, but I wouldn't tip less than 20% in a city for average service) then you can't actually afford to go out to eat.

Do you first say something to the server? Or ask to see the MOD? You know—things that could actually FIX THE PROBLEM before you leave? Or do you just fill out a comment card for corporate?

When I first got FB I friended back everyone. Then I realized that was crazy. With former classmates, I asked myself this question: "In the 20 years since graduation, have I ever, even once, wondered how this person was doing?" If yes, I kept them. If no, unfriended. Got rid of about 9/10 of my former classmates.

I worked somewhere like that when I was 18. (The next summer, when I went back, the management had changed and it was shitty. But that first year, our manager would literally come out and tell people never to set foot in his restaurant again. He was one of the good guys. )

I had some, where "spare" gold meant "the notwedding [it wasn't legal in that time/place] ring given to me by my ex." You'd better believe I sold that fucker. After checking with the jeweler I sold it to, who confirmed that he was just going to melt it down so he was cool with it having been run over by a truck a few…