KFC is where the Japanese celebrate Christmas.

Well, he's from Buffalo.

Did you see that Hooter's is now open in Thailand? They were recruiting/opening soon advertisements at the Phuket and Bangkok airports when I went through last summer.

Are those the guys down in Mexico on Spring Break chanting "Build the Wall?"

What do you have against corn and fake crab sticks on pizza?!

Don't worry - I'm from LA, and grew up eating Mexican at places where Spanish was the main language on the menu and then English was printed below in smaller typeface. I also grew up eating wet burritos.

There's a great IHOP that's been re-purposed into one of Roy Choi's (Kogi Truck fame) brick and mortar restaurants - A-Frame in LA.

Don't say you're easy on me . .. you're about as easy as a nuclear war!

We had an In-N-Out burger 300 yards from our Senior Parking Lot in High School. Every Friday, post-football game, everyone went to hang out in the parking lot. I am so glad I played high school sports otherwise I would've been over two bills easily with the proximity of In-N-Out and the 7-11 Big Gulps I drank daily.

This makes sense to me. I've eaten at some of the most expensive and high falutin' restaurants in the world - and I have enjoyed those meals. But I also love kicking back with a SPAM burger, Nissan Ramen, and Kraft Mac & Cheese. My pizza tastes are old school Domino's delivery and Warehouse Pizza (La Verne, CA!)

OH BABY YOU YOU GOT WHAT I NEED

A friend of mine very recently acquired the most minor of minor bits of fame with a tweet that poked fun at Kyrie Irving and his flat earth theory - and it got picked up by a couple of very small ESPN shows (SportsNation) and it got re-tweeted by a couple of very low level known people (Shea Serrano).

The marketing wasn't wrong.

It's so weird to be a townie for other people. Right before move-in day, all the Claremont College freshmen completely took over my local Target.

Prior to the molestation accusations, I acquired the love of cooking from the Frugal Gourmet. I don't actually remember cooking anything he demonstrated (or even from one of the 3 cookbooks of his I own), but just getting home from school and watching him prepare food for 30 minutes while I did my homework gave me the…

An all syrup squishy!?

I'm fine with MSG in food (seeing as how I live in Asia, I really ought to be) - but I know a lot of the higher end Chinese chefs view MSG as a cheat - to meld flavors for a lazier or less talented chefs.

It didn't really turn amazing until the writers realized that Bart was a terrible star.

A black-eyed, beat-up suburban dad in handcuffs would be a better choice for President right now.

Coffee shop is shorthand for "half Afghanistani/half regular diner Walter's in downtown Claremont. I also haunted Wolfe's Market and the record shop that Ben Harper's mom owns"