Bonus points for the restomod!

This also presupposes an educational system that can turn out graduates who are prepared to learn at the apprentice level. Our science education is dogshit and getting worse, having been deliberately hamstrung for the past 40+ years. This is most acute in secondary education, which means we have a real dearth of…

Y’all go right ahead and do you -- it’s more caprese and BLT’s for me!

Isn’t the Taco Bell offering basically using their fluffy soft taco shell (Gordita?) as a pizza base?

There’s a big difference between a brightly-lit, cheery, Trader Joe’s-branded wine shop and a dingy side-street bodega liquor store, especially for the rich suburban babies at NYU. The reality is, there were always a lot of college-age people in there buying wine, and NYU is the predominant school in the neighborhood.…

We always just ate it plain on toast. Or off a spoon.

Probably yes, but anywhere you can buy maple sugar is also going to sell maple cream. It’s widely available at farmstands and markets across New England and upstate New York, and plenty of sugar houses have online stores.

Just see your dentist, people! It’s important regardless, and you don’t want to start whitening if you’ve got cavities brewing — not something you want to find out because you’ve got a mouth full of hydrogen peroxide. After you’ve got a clean bill of health, an OTC gel whitening kit is under $50.

I would bet on both the union-busting and the NYU-is-a-crappy-landlord angles. The wine store was basically downstairs from one of their largest dorms, and within blocks of at least four others I can think of offhand, so yeah, I’m sure there were a lot of NYU kids who learned to shop for wine there. (Note that there…

Tomato sauce is surprisingly low in calories, as long as it’s not loaded up with sugar, and they probably don’t actually use that much cheese on these things. What’ll kill you is the sodium, though. I would imagine the meat bowl would have enough sodium to take down a hippo.

Which should also be kept on ice...

I had an Original Chicken Sandwich for lunch over the weekend, because cravings are weird and sometimes you just really want a salt sponge, and I’m honestly not sure how one would tell the difference. It’s not like the original Original is pretending to be a chicken breast.

I love the “salad” they added to make that meal seem like a healthy choice.

I bet there were untold horrors in older-kid school lockers across the country, too. My office had a long taper before we went fully remote, but no one ever mentioned cleaning out fridges or lockers (or dorm rooms — I work for a university) before we shut down — we held out for Spring Break as a “natural” break point,…

At the level of daycare / nursery school, maybe as high as pre-K, yes -- it’s common for teachers to send home daily notes on how the kid’s day went. After that, as long as you’re providing something, no one will say anything.

Saw a Prowler — purple with stripes and a nice, loud exhaust — rolling out of my local Costco on Saturday morning.

That parent who can’t afford or otherwise manage to get breakfast on the table for one kid, is 100% not going to be able to provide a snack for 30 kids. And it sounds like the author here has to provide snacks on Monday that will last the week? That’s so far beyond unreasonable I’d consider pulling my kid from the…

They might have such a fail-safe. The problem is that there’s not generally a lot of open, available “side of the road” in an urban environment, so they wind up double-parking themselves. That’s annoying on a multi-lane street but could cause a full blockage on a side street. The really problematic bit seems to be that…

The fines have never been catastrophic for the company, therefore no spill has ever been catastrophic and they DGAF. Good luck getting that to change in post-regulation America, though.

Not sure if that’s CalDOT’s problem or the National Park Service’s problem, but I doubt they’ll start before autumn. Why do roadwork in 120+F heat when you can wait for merely the low 100s?