Virginia Beach is a “year-round” city and not your normal rip-off resort town. Therefore, there is no excuse for restaurants of this ilk to exist. What you encountered is Outer Banks quality, with the exception of Tale of the Whale. (It has been several years since I’ve been there, so I hope they kept their standards.)

One of the things I look forward to on our annual beach trip to the NC Outer Banks is the chance to eat food that isn’t good for me in a restaurant. We cook at home 98% of the time, so the last thing I want to do at the beach is cook dinner (we eat breakfast & lunch in the condo most of the time). That said, the…

So I’m just going to assume that the most evil eggs at my local store are the ones that cost $1.93/dozen and the least evil are those at $7.99/dozen.

After learning about the whole “ice-cream machine broken” is actually due to how difficult it is to clean, I decided McD’s ice-cream just isn’t worth it even if the machine works.

It’s an elote aka Mexican street corn. They’re excellent, but definitely not “new”. And as noted, not featured in the slideshow. 

We cruise quite a bit.  I prefer larger ships due to how bad the smaller ones react in storms.  I’ve been on a 75k ton one versus a 150k one and it’s night and day in a storm.

From a UX standpoint, paper menus are just a more enjoyable experience most of the time, and as the article points out, a more user-friendly “interface” results in larger checks.

I predict they will spend their days driving around drugs and drug money.

Yes. You just described what a news aggregator does. Well done.

How about its reverse order starting positions based on least points to most points in the championship. Let Max fight from the back to get up to Logan who may/may not be a sufficient road block to actually win. Would be more exciting in the years where the title comes down to the last race for points.

When The Takeout was first established in 2016 as a spinoff of The A.V. Club, we had a firm idea of what we didn’t want to be:

The AV Club?

Letting some random stranger just fondle your unprotected banana and you are paying them to do it? Sound like a recipe for disaster if you ask me.

I guess letting people pick the ripeness of their bananas is something, but I still maintain that only a psychopath let’s a complete stranger choose their produce. Hell, I get antsy about letting Mrs Lizardo do it and our 25th anniversary is Wednesday.

Just go to the store, you lazy slobs.

I saw a similar story a while ago and decided to do some actual math on a NY strip steak dinner from our local Texas Roadhouse (not a particularly expensive restaurant) vs cooking at home. The steak and 2 sides at the restaurant, with tax and a 15% tip is $30.75 per person. The same size steak from my local store is $1…

As crazy expensive as grocery shopping has become I never once considered eating out to save money. Would love to see a breakdown of what that actually looked like because frankly I simply don’t believe it makes any sense.

”Dining out five days a week because it was actually cheaper than buying groceries was a fun time”

Dining out five days a week because it was actually cheaper than buying groceries was a fun time

No offense, but that’s probably one of the worst trophies for a national racing series I’ve ever seen.

So, to address your concerns in order:

They had quite a long time between me posting about it on twitter and me publishing this story. It took them more than 12 hours to pull the episode.

Roadkill isn’t a couple of guys with a camera scraping by. The show has (last I heard) somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,000 per…