Just remember a few good Juvenal quotations and the word irrumator, all you need to fake proficiency in dirty Latin.

... Now you’ve got the phrase “meat curtains” stuck in my head and its squicking me out... Why'd you have to do this?

This made me want to go out and get a hot dog or two, but I am also generally not opposed to tubular meat products full of jizz.

The African Orphans effect? Empathy for those in clearly different circumstances is easy, sympathy for people who made different choices is hard.

Let’s look at what the Emperor had:

The closest real world equivalent for the Emperor, though, would be someone whose efficiency and ruthlessness was able to hold together a collection of many very different people who more than likely hated each other’s gut, and whose military power was sufficient to create the stability necessary for economic growth.…

Chicken stock is everything good in this world, no exaggeration.

Woo Tikka Masala! Made it last weekend for the first time in months, and the first time ever without a grill. Actually worked alright.

Re: convenience store food: I've been to a couple places out in the boonies that sold fried okra and potato logs, and I always get cravings for their food randomly. Delicious.

I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this qualifies as shade.

Hot take: Drake is fine, I guess.

Can there be a joint Deadspin/Kitchenette terrifying foods potluck? Yall can bring desert, Will Gordon (?) can bring the latest KFC abomination and some Malort.

This. I don't understand how people have strong opinions about Swedish Fish, unless it's a texture thing. They're just... ehh?

Liking fall has always been a thing, it’s just that thing-disdainers haven’t taken notice of it till now.

I like how the pro-salty licorice thread is right next to the pro-pumpkin spice thread, so it should be easier to quarantine the area and isolate the infection, hopefully sparing the rest of us from annihilation.

Ffficorice: fucking foul fish licorice

I’m... a bit skeptical I guess. It sounds like he’s increasing prices because he is required by law to pay his kitchen staff more, but eliminating tips to make the prices more palatable to his customer base.

I think that to consider yourself a runner, you need to be able to answer three questions: what’s your PR, when did you set it, and when do you plan to break it. Your PR doesn’t even have to be a time. “I jogged two blocks last week and plan to jog three on Saturday?” Sure. “Joe from HR beat me, I want to beat him?”…

Crotchety, but I see the point? There's running the sport, and then there's running the activity. Running the sport requires a push for improvement, whether to beat someone else, your own PR, whatever, and a willingness to overcome a certain amount of discomfort to accomplish this goal. Running the activity requires…

The logical conclusion form the hypothesis would be that some of the places most inhabited by sociopaths would be hierarchal corporations, politics, and any religious group that focused on faith over deeds.