Particularly the case with standard, workingman’s pot of drip coffee, which seems to be the main subject of this article, but there are coffees that shouldn’t be messed with: an Yrgichiffe does not improve with milk or cream, for example, but that’s a rather particular flavor

This calls to mind a comment I saw on this very site not too long ago, where someone said that if you don’t take your coffee black, you just don’t like coffee. Like the dogma the author describes here, that comment strikes me as incredibly inane, akin to saying “if you don’t eat whole cloves of garlic, you don’t like…

they already have a perfectly good moat. 

Good to see Spanish fascists are just as bad at geography as American fascists.

Is it displayed prominently on every page? I’m not sure I found the right place, but a pic of the menu on Yelp didn’t show the surcharge.

Yeah. Just increase the percentage of bugs allowed in other food for starters.

This kind of story pops up every five years or so. Bugs have not gotten any more or less edible since the 1850s - but the meat lobby hasn’t gotten any weaker either.

Just as an FYI that most people won’t care about: crickets, locusts, and grasshoppers are kosher. Having said that, whenever I suggest eating crickets, the response I get is ... um... what’s a metaphor for when you get a silent reaction from people?

I honestly thought the end of humanity would have gotten here earlier. Bugs are one of the more appetizing things on the dystopian menu.

This. I get it. Insects are plentiful and a good source of protein or whatever. Plenty of cultures eat bugs. However, I personally cannot stand the very concept of letting most bugs get near me, let alone into my body in any capacity. Yes, shrimp look kinda like bugs. Whatever. They’re not bugs. It’s different.

I get all of the rational reasons behind this movement, and I support it in theory. I also know that “crustaceans are very much like the arachnids of the sea” or will listen to any other perfectly correct and well-intentioned comment you can throw my way. But I cannot imagine eating bugs as anything other than a dare.

It’s almost like there are places in the world that don’t have lots of vegan restaurants, or vegans have friends who aren’t vegan . . .
Places that don’t serve that much seafood are pretty easy to find.  Places that don’t serve that much meat or dairy, less so.

Nope. Not a vegan. But thanks for playing.

Heinemann’s ’s Restaurants in Milwaukee blaming their closing on mandatory sick leave laws scene.

Yes, and I also think people get tired of things. I saw a terrific local restaurant go out of business after 20 years. It was partly the economy, but all my friends said they were tired of the menu. Which did change, but not that much.

Wishing financial ruin and unemployment upon a whole bunch of people for the holiday season because you didn’t like an extremely mild joke seems like a pretty mean-spirited thing to put out into the world, Penguin.

I don’t understand why a vegan would go to a non vegan restaurant and expect them to whip up vegan cake.

A: the person in question thought it was hilarious

Yeah, I’d find this hilarious if this happened to me. Birthday girl was fine with it.

I applaud this kitchen. If you have dietary restrictions and a place doesn’t normally have an option for those restrictions, don’t expect them to come up with something on the fly. Seems like this was a pretty well received joke!