I love mayo. I love it on burgers, and on subs, and in all kinds of salads and slaws, and on Belgian frites, and I even tried a hot dog once with mayo on it, and it wasn’t too bad. But mayo isn’t really a critical ingredient in almost anything. Maybe chicken salad or tuna salad or potato salad, etc., but that’s about…

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There are good Scotch eggs and bad Scotch eggs. The ones I’ve had that fall into the “gas station burrito” category are usually cooked hard on the inside, with poor quality sausage. The good ones are soft and a little runny in the middle, with a nice, spicy sausage coating.

I have always wondered what people are looking at when they tell me Kyrie Irving is a superstar. There isn’t a single thing about him that says “superstar.” He puts up good statistics, but when his teams are winning, it rarely seems like it’s because of him.  I just don’t get it.  Never have. 

Yes, this! Charred hot dogs are not “overdone meat.” If you cook them right, they are charred on the outside and still juicy on the inside. The charring isn’t about overcooking them, it’s about carmelization, the same reason some burger places smash their burgers on the griddles. A properly charred hot dog has a…

Splinter Bloggers: It’s absolutely criminal that some people earn so much more money simply because they have talents that are useful in a more economically valuable field, while people who are equally talented in another field have to scrape to get by.

I don’t get what the case is about either, I guess. Libel/defamation cases generally require the publishing of some demonstrably false factual statement about the subject. I admit that I haven’t followed this that closely, but what factual statement did the Post publish that was demonstrably false?

Seriously, lock this fucker up for as long as the law permits if he’s lying. For the next decade, the MAGA crowd is going to question every single hate crime and point to this as “proof” that hate crimes are made up. He’s a member of TWO groups who are common targets of hate crimes, and he betrayed both of them for…

This is a correct take.  I would eat prunes all day long except for, you know.....

Brussels sprouts was what I was going to post too, for that exact same reason. My Brussels sprout experience growing up was the one day every 2-3 years that my grandmother decided to make Brussels sprouts, which she prepared by boiling and possibly salting.... and that’s it. Yeah, they stunk up the whole house for…

Also, it appears that if you kill a white walker, you kill all the zombies that white walker made, so it’s possible that if they target the white walkers, they can kill a lot of zombies really quickly.

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I don’t have an instant pot.  I’d like one, but my wife is afraid of them, and the fact that my brother’s exploded all over his kitchen didn’t help the persuasiveness of my arguments.

Permanent Funeral is kind of a “style-bridging” IPA. It’s got the huge malt body of 3 Floyds’ old school 100 IBU double IPAs, with the fruity hop aroma of modern IPAs.  Given the way beer is trending though, I’m surprised you find it that sweet.  With all the hazy and milkshake style IPAs out there nowadays, it…

If cable TV journalism and politics were separate things nowadays, I might find her lack of journalism experience to be a problem.

Most band collabs I have tried have been decent but not great. The only great one I have tried is Permanent Funeral, a massive double IPA brewed by 3 Floyds in collaboration with Pig Destroyer. Can’t say I’ve ever gotten into Pig Destroyer’s music, but this beer is awesome. In fact, I think it’s actually the best IPA…

I hear you, and it sounds great, but I don’t think I can bring myself to boil a sealed steel can until we get the blast shield installed in our kitchen.

Yeah, this kind of nails it. Rick Steves shows you practical travel, and Bourdain basically showed you travel porn.

No, downstate actually, but I lived in the far south Loop / Chinatown / Bronzeville area for a while.

On the contrary, Stephen Miller is the perfect point man for this.  The problem isn’t the selection of the point person, the problem is the plan itself.  At least Miller strongly believes in the plan.  Who is going to be able to argue for it better and stronger than he will?  Is anyone going to be able to answer…