I haven't eaten BK since I was a kid, but I remember BK having "french toast sticks" that were utter manna; they were my single favorite thing on any fast food menu until the invention of the McGriddle. I also remember their fries being utter shite, but I do recall their reformulating them with much fanfare ten years…

What an all-around shitshow travesty. I was under the impression London had really upped their food game over the past few decades (apart from the aforementioned pizza).

I had Five Guys a couple times; it was decent but a little too well done. I don't think I've had a single burger from a burger place (Manhattan diners are just uniformly awful) in NYC that wasn't better or at worst a bit worse than Five Guys. And they have awful fries and no (or no notable) shakes if I remember.

I always thought the purpose of chain restaurants, especially fast food ones (I think McDonald's was in fact the explicit pioneer of this business philosophy), was to make the prep process "rigid" enough that this sort of factor was eliminated as much as possible. So you won't get the very finest potential fries,…

I do that, then salt them myself, just to get the piping hot fresh fries! Never worked fast food, but the menial, low-physical-exertion jobs I've held were never made more unpleasant by a bit more activity—to the contrary, they were made a bit better; it's the time, and thus the boredom, that gets you. So I never felt…

Funner fact: A young George W. Bush would pull that same trick to get free cocaine.

I, too, wish Adam Sandler would start making good, unpretentious movies again. Those cinematic references in the now-famous soliloquy of the final coffeeshop scene of Jack and Jill—its affected wink to au fait cinephiles delivered during a haunting and surreal danse moderne, no less—were laying it on a bit thick for…

Sound advice indeed when it comes to Elmo. At least pre-2013.

Mr. Rabin is most certainly making a bit of a joke here. But you do see this kind of thing quite frequently, for some reason I've never quite been able to guess, on that most fascinating of literary forms, the video sleeve blurb. One particularly memorable bit of one was "…where he meets a man (John Goodman, Speed…

Meaningless? Argumentative? Far worse than that? Perhaps. Nor am I discussing here the merits of Ms. Streep's speech or whether Ms. McCain's criticism, such that they are, have merit.

Indeed they were; I remember writing them. I will try to hazard a guess as to what your point may be, but forgive me if I guess wrong; this was a bit cryptic.

Like, whooping and firing their pistols in the air mad?

Ah, I am glad you pointed that out. It really had seemed to me like you were just pithily declaring the Kenny Rogers song to be enjoyable.

It's a shame Roddy Piper's Canadian and dead.

We are certainly on the exact same page. I was not really addressing what you said to the other commenter, but rather what appeared to be a claim of yours that "Irish" are British. Ireland is indeed one of the "British Isles" (as with so many archipelagos, only one is "Great"), so I thought you were going on that…

You must have seen something I did not. I did not see a single thing she did to defend Mr. Trump. What I saw was her go on a rant against a general manner of anti-Trump criticism that she felt was inartful and counterproductive, and which she blamed for Trump's victory. Her assessment may well be wrong, even "idiotic"…

She does not, but neither is she trusted on an emotional level like Oprah (what Oprah has done to earn this is beyond me, but there it is) is. She is neutral. Most people just knew her for how awesome she is; they probably knew or guessed she was vaguely Hollywood-standard-center-left in her politics.

That is technically, i.e. topographically, true, but (perhaps somewhat understandably, given the fact that a "British" political identity was indeed something that was successfully imposed), it has become a rather politically loaded label, pretty universally rejected by anti-Unionists of all stripes. (Kind of like how…

Made me smile too! Your family does indeed sound awesome. I want to touch their monkey.

Eh, I don't think A-ha is really this administration's style anyway. I do hear that Bannon is a big Ace of Base fan, though. Early Ace of Base, mostly. Like, really early.