Both can be found in Texas, but you have to search.

A mix of mustard & mayonnaise is standard fare for both corn dogs and pigs-in-a-blanket.  Why not hot dogs?

At the Dallas Auto show, I got to watch my 6'6" nephew squeeze himself into a Mini, just because he thought it would be fun. It took him longer to get out. All the people working the booth came over to take pictures.

I had a friend who went into that film completely blind. At the appropriate moment, she stood up and cheered.

You should have gone to Cadillac Ranch https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2220 , where he could have spray painted on the cars. I bet he would have enjoyed that.

Learn how to camp. State park admissions range from modest to free. Hiking is so much more than “exercise”. There are programs in Texas campgrounds that actually provide your camping gear AND a Ranger to personally teach you the basics. If you want to step it up a bit, many states have pretty good systems of rentable…

Several of my favorite chicken recipes use peanut butter, so I could dig this. Just don’t use enough to make it sloppy. I’m just not sure how the taste would mix with cheese. But definitely add a fried egg!

Location Services are required to calculate an estimated arrival time, but very few places use it to actually track you to their location or get notifications when you park: App ordering just gives them a way to avoid the time lost collecting your order verbally while you are waiting. Too many people order but don’t…

Taco Bell: Good App, but not always accurate about which shops serve breakfast. Have placed breakfast orders for shops that were actually closed. I think this is because they can’t always get breakfast staffing. Best Feature: When you don’t use the app to order, you can get a receipt and use the app to add the order…

In my youth (back in the 70's), the tradition was to leave the tooth in a small glass of water by the bedside, so that the tooth could be easily swapped for a silver dollar.

Like a lot of Zemeckis work, the special effects are in-your-face and imperfect, but they are most often the groundbreaking first attempts at techniques which are now polished, seamless and commonplace - even on television. In this Hitchcock homage, they work. If you care about technical direction and effects, this is…

My brother had five kids and always struggled to provide for them when they were young, so fast food was off-limits just because of the expense - except for when they got to visit Granny and Grandpa. Going to the McDonalds, playing in the playground, playing and eating with their grandparents: These were occasional…

It employed hundreds of people, none of whom apparently thought to check the boat plans before they built it, to see if it would actually be able to reach the ocean. It reminds me of Lake Wobegon’s Sons of Knute Lodge, who built eight foot tall duck decoys in the church basement (ducks fly so high, they obviously…

In the Bugatti video, the guy spends almost half the time straddling two lanes. Understandable, but not exactly a demonstration of being “under control”.

I saw Hamlet in one of Dallas’s better arthouse theaters, arriving early to find a delightfully diverse crowd - high school students on assignment, college students (like me), and Shakespeare devotees, many of whom were long retired. All of whom were happily chatting with the rows of people around them, people they…

Branagh’s Hamlet is one of only two modern films I’ve seen that actually filmed an intermission for the theater-goers, which works beautifully in the viewing experience — even if you didn’t need to run to the bathroom 2 1/2 hours into the 4 hour film.

It doesn’t have to be beautiful and shiny, but I’d rather not have to cook with a tray that looks like it’s been broiling on a backyard grill for three years. An overnight soak with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide and fifteen minutes of elbow grease can make the worst of them into something you’re not afraid of.

Not quite yet, but soon it’ll be tomato seedlings under a grow light.

I used to drive across Arkansas once a year on a very regular schedule. The public radio (not National Public Radio) station out of Little Rock ran a progression of hour long shows as I was usually driving: An hour of Reggae, a Bluegrass/Gospel hour, and an hour of Delta Blues. The Reggae guys would play twenty…

Well over half of these films have been on regular TV in the past week. They’re not forgotten, they’re just not talked about, a couple of them for very specific reasons.