Amway is also still around, they just changed their name for a while.

For Californians who were wondering, the conditional registration thing is new—you haven’t been missing something, this is literally the first general election it’s available for.

Mugicha is another name for it, love that stuff. It’s perfect for a hot day. You can get these big tea bag things to make pitchers with at East Asian groceries.

Don’t you make fun of Magnemite!

…That’s a reference to some old poetry where the premise is just that, except the crime is writing free-verse poetry.

And yes, I totally stole this from a Ben Shapiro article talking about how “shrill” Hillary Clinton is.

He shrieks like a wounded seagull and ought to take his voice down a notch before we all go deaf.

I am imagining you as a cockroach jumping on an old typewriter, unable to manipulate the shift or carriage return, lamenting your reincarnation as a cockroach for the crime of voting for Trump.

They probably mean Los Angeles.

Sushi means it has a specific kind of seasoned rice. Many kinds of sushi do not have raw meat.

The funniest thing about “intermittent fasting” is when you meet someone who says “oh I’m on a 16:8 intermittent fasting schedule,” look it up and realize that it means…they don’t eat breakfast.

Incidentally, if you ever see this one:

It’s a real word, just less common (but not completely unused). I searched my ebooks and it’s in a couple of Stephen King works. Apparently Story magazine was “a lodestar for young writers[.]”

Plus, at least in California, meat’s always cheaper at a carniceria.

Hurrah for onions! I’m a yellow onion person myself, though at some markets they’re called “brown onions,” just to make things confusing. 

Roof rats. So many roof rats in San Diego. Not likely to get in your car, though, so I guess it’s not really relevant to the subject. But they’re in, like, all the palm trees.

Calpico > Yakult!

I wouldn’t be particularly surprised if it turned out that conservative dislike of Costco could be traced back to FedMart. “A store for federal employees? That sounds like Commie stuff to me!”

My grandmother’s ribbon candy used to do that. They eventually figured out that it was melding together because the dog licked it when they weren’t looking.

Some of that district used to be under Duke Cunningham, so this is not a new or unrecognizable feeling for them, lol-but-in-a-sad-way.