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…

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.

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

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.

This is like using scissors on food. Probably smart but also probably looks too alien for me to adopt it.

My righty friends tend to mix it up between making fun of her by calling her dumb in some way and by getting serious about the dangers of Socialism. None of them have made fun of her on a racial/ethnic level though (thankfully). All this is mostly Facebook-based communication, so it’s naturally predisposed to…

I work for a company that manages skilled nursing facilities and I deal with work injuries. Sometimes an employee will have a needle stick. Sometimes these drugs are prescribed (most often out of an abundance of caution, thankfully). I can verify that the cost for these drugs (paid by the employer or workers’ comp insu…

That jump was Parkour-like. Parquestrienne?

Every once in a while, an article pops up in one of my feeds about how not all calories are equal. Is there any consensus about what that means and its validity?