Maybe they could stand to improve the fries. But In-n-Out seems to be doing OK. It’s possible that “almost everyone” doesn’t have a problem with the fries, and that it’s just a vocal minority. People who dislike things tend to be more proactively vocal (especially on the internet) than people who do like things.  

Unless it’s your first ever time trying In-n-Out fries, you know what you will get as the default. If you don’t like that, order it different.

I don’t love or hate Tabasco, but it’s never my first choice. I agree, it’s too acidic and not spicy enough. It can be good on overly greasy/fatty things where you need the acidity as a counterbalance though. Louisiana is my first choice.

I mean, maybe. But in pretty much any other restaurant setting, you would be expected to order things the way you want them done, and it would be your fault if you didn’t. If you don’t like pickles on your burger, you can’t complain if you don’t order it without pickles. So just order your fries the way you want them,…

Yeah, there are some people that just don’t get the appeal of fresh cut fries. I guess they like what they like. I do think In-n-Out’s fries are usually under-salted, and they are much better if you get them well done or double-fried or whatever they call it.

I really have to agree with your dad on the grocery bagging thing. For good, competent grocery baggers, it probably doesn’t make a difference. But unless you know the person bagging your groceries is good at it, unload heavy stuff first. I can’t count the number of times I have had crushed bread, broken eggs,…

I mean, that sounds nice, but it’s not really that much more complicated.

Portillo’s chocolate cake shake is an unholy abomination of deliciousness. A large shake literally contains more calories than a normal adult is supposed to consume in a single day. When drinking it, you end up sucking bits of wet chocolate cake through a straw.  It’s also so filling you almost don’t even need a meal.…

Well, not the entire country.  More like half the country.  Guess which half.

You’re right, but I hate Cancel Culture as much now as I did when the religious right was using it. In fact, I think it’s even more annoying now. Religious and moral self-righteousness is somehow easier to deal with than intellectual self-righteousness.

True, but why is it defensible now if it wasn’t defensible then?  Just because the targets are different?

Everyone I know who has gotten COVID has had pretty bad side effects after the vaccine, especially the 2nd shot. I know one guy who had fever, chills, weakness, etc. for 4-5 days after getting the 2nd shot.

“Objectively, here’s my subjective taste assessment.”

That’s possible. I love papaya, but most grocery store papaya just isn’t very good or flavorful. Like a lot of fruit, it seems like it’s bred for size/weight and not flavor. In my experience, if you want good papaya (or mangos for that matter), find an Indian grocery store. They have the good shit.

I never got that from papaya.  Passionfruit, on the other hand, doesn’t even have “hints” of vomit.  It just tastes like straight up vomit.

It doesn’t taste like shit, it just isn’t as good as a lot of chocolate.  It’s still better than not eating chocolate. 

At the Wisconsin State Fair, I tried a deep fried Uncrustable.  It was one of the best things I ate the whole day, which is really saying something, because they have a ton of gloriously delicious unhealthy food at the Wisconsin State Fair.

Wait, I thought the most expensive coffee in the world was that stuff they feed to civets and then collect out of their poop?

I was thinking the same thing. “Recreational meat culture” are three words that I never knew needed to be put together, and now that I’ve heard it, I wonder why it hadn’t always been that way.

How is prune juice (or prunes) not mentioned at all here? 20 million grandmas can’t be wrong!