What did lampreys do to you?  Properly prepared they are quite good.

Messing with fire doors is a crazy bad idea in any city.

I was thinking skip the tuna....for the green reasons outlined above. Maybe substitute with chopped canned razor clam?

They could make sewer rat taste like pumpkin pie, but I still wouldn’t eat there.

Did you miss the whole art deco era of wine labels? I mean Ramos-Pinto alone....

You are a braver man than I am, and a true American Hero.

Awesome brewery run by great people.

I’m going with Aimee, despite basic ball park nachos being a Rangers innovation. Hotdogs and peanuts. 

Some recipes also die deliberately. After an unwise comment made by her father in law, my grandmother never made another apple pie again, allowed one to be served in her house, burned the recipe card, and her mother and sisters never shared the family recipe “back” into our family line.

Marnie -

I honestly thought it was more than a hint, and the final episode made it clear that Velma and HDW had begun a relationship.

Amen.

As ever, praise Beebo!

I’m not sure about the mushrooms as the meat substitute. Mushrooms in addition to beef, sure.

Achingly beautiful and heart felt.

When you can source them, grilled fresh sardines is one of life’s pleasures.

I think “inevitably” would be better than “accidentally.”

Sorry Allison, I am German Jewish/Irish Catholic and I am with Aimee on this one. My grandfather said that his father once said that the best thing about converting to Catholicism was only having to eat one small piece of matzo once a year on Easter.

We made all of the above in grade school history class forty-ish years ago. Although no snow because Texas.

Thank you. This article succinctly makes a point I argue frequently with people. I’m fifty, I knew all four of my grandparents, and for that matter three of my great grandparents. They all knew Civil War veterans growing up. And the one born and raised in Mississippi knew former slaves.