I didn’t get the impression that we were supposed to think this guy was noble. I honestly think we’re supposed to think that he’s a nutcase who is letting his so-called honor or principles lead him unnecessarily, and stupidly, to disaster.

I was too busy worrying that the woman had taken the baby with her into the fire to be sad. 

The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, due to finding my older brother’s copy of Bored of the Rings. 

I make really fantastic real mac & cheese but it does take more effort. Besides, Kraft M&C is really its own thing.  I don’t eat it because I’m craving mac & cheese. I’m eating it because I’m either craving it or because it’s there in the cabinet and I don’t want to take longer than 10 minutes to make dinner. 

I have hundreds of books that I’ve lugged thousands of miles over multiple moves but then I bought a house with limited shelf space. It’s enough for the books I have but not enough to allow me to keep aquiring them at my previous pace.

I don’t make a lot of milk-containing recipes but I guess if I planned ahead....

Honest to god, there was no judgement there. If anything, I was pointing out my own lack of classiness. I’m sorry that my meaning wasn’t clear.

Or, if you don’t care about being classy, you can use one of those tiny crock pots.

Good Eat’s Reloaded is a show that kind of revises old, pre-existing episodes of Good Eat’s.  But there is also a new Good Eats show in the works - he posted about working on scripts for it the other day. I can’t for life of me remember what it’s called, though. 

You know, I didn’t start eating it until my 20's (my mom would have died before she’d have served us something like that, which is weird because we ate a lot Spam, but anyway) so maybe I came to it after it changed over.

Besides adding some real cheese and assorted flavorings, one of my tricks for successful Kraft mac & cheese is to not cook the noodles as long as they say to. They should be a hair underdone. Not crunch and you really shouldn’t see any white if you cut one in half, but not all the way to soft, either.

I’m probably older than both of you and I’m fairly confident that has never been the case for basic Kraft mac and cheese, unless it was something they did for a very short time while I was doing Adkins or something.

Then what do you do with the rest of the can?  

If you mixed some real grated cheese and some Tony Chachere’s in there you would find it markedly improved.

*sniff*sniff*

I mean that BookBrianna is definitely unlikable, not that she’s supposed to be.  We’re supposed to love her and Roger the way we love Jamie and Claire but it doesn’t work in either version.

Brianna is not supposed to be unlikable but BookBrianna definitely is. I like the show’s version better, but still she’s a brat.

The bit with Brianna drawing Phaedre and being surprised by the negative reaction this elicited was, I believe, the show’s attempt to do what you’re asking for.  But they could certainly do more. In the books we were inside her brain and it was clear that she was super uncomfortable with slaves waiting on her.  The…

I was educated in the 70's in the south and we were taught that slavery was horrific and wrong. Full stop. I was an adult before I heard the term “the war of northern agression.” We have Nixon’s southern strategy of mobilizing (and normalizing) white racism to thank for where we are right now.

They don’t know about the American stones and there isn’t necessarily time to get her across the ocean to Scotland before she gives birth. Not to mention how hard it would be to be very pregnant on an 18th century ocean voyage.