Yes on the meatloaf! And let’s not forget the simple joy of cold, cubed, leftover grilled steak!

I guess jerky and sausage sticks and the like would need their own category? I’m also looking forward to a potential carbonated beverages draft. This is a great column so please don’t stop any time soon!

I consistently feel like one of the issues in American society is that we have lost the common bond of agreeing on what is sacred. A lot of that is because of broken trust in our institutions, there’s not shying away from that. But this seems like something we can all agree on. This is not something that should be…

I don’t really remember the burger from Sonic. I’m all about those corn dogs and tater tots if I’m getting food there. Limeades are welcome when summer hits like it’s starting to.

I moved to TX from CA about 10 years ago. The burgers are total gut bombs; I’m not a fan myself. The Whatachicken Sandwich is really good; maybe the best non-Chick-Fil-A fast food chicken sandwich I’ve had. The shakes are really good (especially the root beer float shake, when it’s available). Their taquitos are great…

So did this guy enter his “not guilty” plea so he can use the court system to publish his views even more widely and keep them in public view longer? It’s not hard to suspect this might be a ploy to get more people talking about what he believes so they end up convincing themselves to join his way of thinking, making…

Just one perspective on this portion of the article:

Thanks for letting us behind the curtain for this! I was thinking about the local vs. big chain issue the other day so the timing is serendipitous.

I know she’s taking shots at him, but this section seems kind of insightful and maybe even shows a bit of empathy when I read it:

All-time best cereal didn’t last long on the market. It was called “Sunrise.” It was “healthy” but sweet. I am hungry for it right now, and my nostalgic taste buds are unrelenting.

A few thoughts in defense of the knockout highlight:

“proprietary buns”

Ranch dressing is liquid trash. It is the distilled, partially-digested runoff from rotting food at the dump. Its ingredients are all good, but its gestalt is something horrible, like a lot of “supergroup” bands. I would say “a pox on Ranch dressing,” but it is already a pox on humanity. Ranch dressing is the food…

He’s not just rapping; he’s listing his portfolio.

I was going to joke about seizing and destroying their equipment in spectacular fashion, but that got me thinking:

You think they’d substitute a regular taco or is this just a Doritos branding thing?

It seems like the US is least likely to adopt convenience tech like debit/credit card tap-to-pay and facial recognition stuff. Do you find that’s true or am I off base here?

First of all, I’m sorry. It’s really hard to balance the needs of an older family member with their personal agency.

On the healthy food side, I’d be really interested to see a televised cooking contest where the start of the show is a financial expert taking the average lower-middle class income for a given city, budgeting it out for the usual expenses, and handing whatever is budgeted for 2 weeks’ worth of food to a few…

When you grow up on the Central Coast of California, your childhood culinary memory is basically a few moments of swap-meet churros between weekends of tri-tip, ranch-style beans, and grilled garlic bread. Any way you form it, Santa-Maria Style Barbecue is the quintessential backyard mealtime for me.