Yeah, I kind of figured, but I felt the need to stand up for those who the servers might think are making it up, since they're not allergic to any milk product but cheese. My boyfriend gets asked if it's okay that something has milk in it all the time, which is actually just smart thinking on the part of the server,…

To be fair, my boyfriend, his mother, and his sister all have what's essentially a cheese allergy: anything with a particular chemical in it gives them killer migraines (this includes not just cheese but most nuts and all chocolate). They are not, however, lactose-intolerant. It's just cheese. Except american cheese,…

While it terrifies me to hear that Capri Suns get mold in them, I have a really good use for them! You buy the 100% juice ones (because they're less disgusting and taste marginally of juice), put the whole box in the freezer, and then, when you're going on a trip, you pull those out and use them as ice packs. They…

Maybe they're trying to pretend it's like White King? I really don't know.

My dad has a vacuum-packer is all I know. He just runs the fish through, labels it, and tosses it in the freezer. It's almost (and just barely almost, at that) as good as fresh when it's thawed.

Oh, I forgot about the apple snobbery! (I'm currently living in Iowa for school. I kind of gave up on apples here. Although we do sometimes get the best Washington apples, we never get as many types as I'm used to.)

I will find my way to the Northeast one day. I'm likely to end up in Virginia at some point, my boy's grandparents live outside DC. I promise to try your seafood. If science says it's good, obviously it's true. Because SCIENCE!

But we have Dungeness crabs that are the size of your head! And when they're fresh you don't even need butter, they're so sweet. (I have never had blue crab, and so cannot attest to whether or not Dungies are better. I just felt like showing off my seafood knowledge)

Okay, honestly, that I can see. But I don't get it in restaurants, I get it from my dad, who got it from the ocean. I cling to my fish-snobbery! (But I don't wave it around in restaurants. That's just a matter of politeness)

I learned something today! I might still keep my snobbery, though, because I'm under the (possibly mistaken) impression that the Atlantic is marginally warmer than the Northern Pacific, and so fish from the Atlantic is automatically not as good as Alaskan. I am the most spoiled salmon snob in the Pacific Northwest.

I'm gonna continue pretending Atlantic salmon doesn't exist, because I am a spoiled child. My dad goes Canadian/Alaskan salmon fishing every summer, and we get to eat fresh or vacuum-packed-while-fresh-and-so-basically-still-fresh salmon all year long.

My gyno told me to take 600 mg ibuprofen every 6 hours (religiously! wake up at 5:30 am religiously!) for the duration of my period to reduce the blood flow, and it WORKS! I just got a paragard IUD, and have never had monster periods before, but did once I got the IUD. While it doesn't make the blood stop entirely by…

i have only had raw oysters once, and that was in france, but oysters cooked on the grill in their shells are heaven. that is all.

My parents took newborn-me to the ER because one of my eyes was swollen. The nurse took one look at me, turned around, and wrote FTP on the board. First Time Parents. They needed to give me benadryl. For a mosquito bite. (I have weirdly strong reactions to mosquito bites, to be fair.

When I was 18 (three years ago), I mistakenly added all my aunts and uncles on Facebook. They were boring and clogging up my newsfeed, so come Christmastime, I told them I would be unfriending everyone over the age of 25 and that they could get their life updates on me from my mother, who I talk to every Sunday. (We…

My parents divorced when I was 7, and when I was 10 or 11, I wanted a Polly Pocket house so bad that I asked both of them for it, knowing by then that if I didn't get it from one, I would get it from the other. Little did I know, they both knew I really really wanted it and would've both gotten it, except my 10 year…

I do? I have a Kindle Fire and a Kindle. They serve different purposes, (e-reader for outside vs tablet/occasional e-reader inside) and the Fire was the cheapest, most consistently reviewed tablet in my price range. Also, Amazon's customer service is just short of amazing, which swayed me as well.

Honestly? Every Catholic married-woman I've ever met will freely admit to birth control. I think with the more conservative, they didn't go on the pill until they were done having kids, with others, they went on the pill to plan for the kids. But the majority of Catholic married-people consider the sacrament of sex…

As a practicing Catholic, my stance on pre-marital sex (which I'm having) and the Church's teaching is that the teachings are less rules and more guidelines. Like, they're trying to make you think about "Oh, maybe I should think about how this sex will affect me emotionally and physically before I do it." I personally…

As a non-lapsed Catholic, that's exactly what I always say. Hell, the Church doesn't have to marry me, and I go to mass (most) weekends. I do think they need to get out of my government, though. For that matter, we could do like France does, and differentiate entirely between a religious ceremony and a government…