Overweight people are penalized. Airplane seats. Clothes. I know assessing risk is a dirty business, but people do need to take some responsibility for their choices. A person cannot help being short or having a genetic disposition to certain illnesses, but people choose to overeat and not exercise, just like drug…

Fair point! My problem with vice taxes is that the government is addicted to the income just as much as the people are addicted to the vice. When the states settled with big tobacco, they stopped trying to end tobacco use and became complicit in tobacco sales and profits. The states will never end tobacco, rather they…

@DeadElvis this is gonna keep me smiling for hours. Thanks! 

Get a different job? I know it's crazy talk, but I own a home, raised a family, never experienced the poverty you describe, without working in the oil industry. No, I'm not making quite as much as you, but we are comfortable. 

I know all about it. I spent an entire 9 seconds Googling it. (sarcasm) Thanks for clarifying.

...that your 18 month old niece is a brown bear?

Dude, those bones are yummy!

I get a turkey from the bosses every year. I cook it pot roast style. BEST TURKEY EVER! Cut it up like a giant chicken, save the breast meat for other jobs, make soup from the bones, and make pot roast from the wings, legs, thighs, and giblets. Yummy!

We used to get the prime rib with the bones still attached and cook it that way. Then we carved the whole roast off off the bones and sliced to order. Those ribs were delicious!

Those ribs are delicious! (Although they can be stringy.) If the prime rib is cooked slowly, those ribs are reasonably tender and have a wonderful flavor! Also, usually that is where all the seasoning is, because you season the outside, then carve the rib eye roast away from the bones.

"At a steakhouse, where you'd assume the cooks can follow their own doneness guidelines printed in the menu."

Fruit in the chicken salad is something that should be written in the item description. I think it sounds great, but that isn't the kind of surprise most people would appreciate.

I worked in a borscht belt hotel and one of the kitchen picked up a chef knife and tried to kill me screaming like a madman. The rest of the kitchen tackled him and dragged him out. He came back in and picked up a rotisserie spit and came at me again, and again everyone dragged him out. I called the state police and…

I'm picturing Samuel Jackson, "I'm sick of these M***g gangsters in my M***g Restaurant!"

I think it is mostly the tenured old fossils that are like that.

Smart Girl! (It sucks as a career.)

I cannot imagine a Chef, being interviewed as a Chef, for doing Chef stuff, and talking about Chef stuff, having a legitimate reason to go off on a tangent about the 'out of Africa' theory. Pseudo-intellectual much?

"We missed the part of the story where that vet was treated for massive kidney stones."

I love ketchup on my scrambled eggs. It's a comfort food.

When I was in cooking school, they never taught us how to make soup du 'jour. Whenever someone ordered it, I just sent out whatever I had made that day. I can't believe nobody said anything.