I've eaten a lot of squash (& pumpkin) pie, but my favorite for baking pies is butternut. Good flavour, and great texture. Best for steaming is kabocha.

Actually, there are still a few places (like Japan), where price is set by quality, not quantity. The Japanese even make fun of foreigners (there is a really good comic strip about 'my husband the foreigner') who want to buy cheaper things in bulk, because they know that it will not be as good as the expensive thing.…

The last city to have a working sewer system. The good ole days, eh? My town's infrastructure could certainly do with some improvements, but I thought...

That's the beauty of a sponge! Alcohol/vinegar is antiseptic (emphasis on -septic), and sponges can be rung out. ...You're one of the folks that think bars of soap can get "dirty," aren't you? (Admittedly, areas with too much calcium in the water can have dirty bars of soap, because the soap doesn't work...)

Woo! GIS! GIS!

You said it, eejm! Unfortunately for the horses, that was just something that happened in Britain at the time, and in fact still happens in the rest of Europe today. (...Iceland, a popular British supermarket chain, recently had a ‘horse meat scandal’ concerning their discount frozen beef items...)

Oh, thank goodness. I was really confused there for a while! I saw the Victorians in a while new light! It was one of those weird party-lights with the circles of different colours, that makes illuminated people look like they’ve got jaundice AND gangrene.

And to that woman I say,"Pog mo t***n."