I haven't! I should, really. (I mostly just do the "slice very thin and fry," because it's the only way I really like Spam; even when I put it in casseroles/quiches/etc., I tend to dice it and fry it crisp first.) Dad's going to visit in a couple of months, and maybe I'll do that when he comes over for dinner (he…

I can throw together a casserole like nobody's business. They're even reasonably healthy the way I usually make the thrown-together ones. It's one of the reasons we eat pretty well despite being kind of broke.

Yeah, MrsPye and I were just saying that the "if he can talk, he's too old," rule would have meant that one of her nieces would have been too old by her first birthday, and that kid's little brother, who is starting school at the end of the month, could STILL breastfeed, because he still doesn't speak coherently.…

It does exist, and I have been there mostly on purpose. (Well, I had to go to Austin anyway, but I made sure we went in time for me to go to the Spam museum. I love weird museums. )

For some reason, whenever my father sends me care packages (usually with mostly stuff I can't get easily here in Canada [whether that's because it's Canada, Quebec, or just due to where I shop], plus random stuff like puzzle books.), and they nearly always have Spam in them.

I love vintage recipes. And while I have cooked for many people who make fun of 1950s Midwestern cooking, they eat stuff out of my 1950s Betty Crocker cookbook and ask for seconds....

I never once saw this all the years I lived in the South. I moved to the Midwest, and it was EVERYWHERE.

Though someone in this thread said it was a slur in Alaska, so maybe the issue is more that the contiguous 48 states don't have a large enough population of people affected by the term for it to really come to the public attention? (I hesitate, based on this thread, to refer to those people as "Inuit," since…

It's a pretty common misconception, unfortunately. Most of the people I know who claim they're into "attachment parenting" mean that they believe their child should be attached to them (and only them—and in the cases of the people I know, usually only MOM), physically, 24/7. I know that is not the point of AP, but…

When my ex's nephews lived with us, the little one got an amazing shiner (the bruising covered half his face, I swear) from swooping in to cuddle the cat... and mostly missing. He bonked his face on the cat's head. We took him to urgent care to get looked at, just to be sure he was OK. He was, indeed, fine, but I was…

I'm not actually saying that you can't get out of the stall, just that I could see the fire marshal frowning on something like that, which puts the restaurant in an awkward position.

Not straight on the floor, no, but as people have suggested all over the comments: layer of paper towels, then your changing pad, then the kid. Kid is not coming in contact with the bathroom floor at all. I've done this (I'm not a mother, but I lived with two small children for a few years and was their primary…

You can tell me that, but I've changed a four-month-old breastfed baby's diaper, and I disagree. It doesn't smell the same way it does once they're on solids, I admit, but there's still a smell. And I said if I noticed, not just smelled it.

As someone else said, then change the diaper in the bathroom. (I have actually DONE the "go out to the car to change a diaper" thing, and I found that if it's before your food comes, you explain it to your server, and especially if you leave some of your stuff behind, they will, in fact, give you the benefit of the…

Obviously, yes, some businesses cram them in where they really don't fit, but I don't actually blame a business in that kind of building for NOT having a changing table, either. (I'm still puzzling over where they'd fit one in the bathroom at the place I have in mind. There's no wall space. There's no floor space.) …

The Canadian border guards can also be angry/scary. (I've never had a problem with the American ones, but I'm a US citizen.) There was the guy who asked me, "So why are you coming to Canada?" I answered that I was getting married in Montreal in a few days' time, and he immediately answered, "Lady, you're not getting…

Then stay at home until your kid is out of diapers. That is utterly nasty.

Many people have pointed out other ways to change a child in a restroom that does not have a changing table. Also, she considered, and decided against, going out to her minivan to change the baby. The restaurant should have had a changing table if at all possible, but that still does not excuse this woman's decision.

I am not childfree (I am childless, but I do NOT consider that the same thing), and yes, if I'd noticed someone changing their kid at the table, I sure as fuck would be complaining.

She had other options. The bathroom floor (she had a changing pad to use, and could have also put down paper towels). HER OWN MINIVAN, which she considered and chose not to use because it was too much hassle. It is never, ever okay to change a diaper in the dining room of a restaurant. EVER.