Have you ever tried real wasabi? The stuff you get in sushi restaurants is actually just horseradish with green food coloring, or (occasionally), like 25% wasabi. In some very nice Japanese restaurants you can buy real wasabi for an upcharge, and it is SOOOOOOOO much better than the boring fake stuff.

In Southeast Asia Haagen-Dazs is an upscale sit-down table service ice cream parlor.

I’m confused by this. You get it’s not a jail or a prison or anything like that, right?

I feel like this is the difference between the “Meat is MURDER!” vegans and the “The meat industry is unsustainably contributing to climate change” vegans. The former group sometimes (SOMETIMES) is guilty of that, but I have known many vegans in the latter group who never bring up their views unless someone else asks.

Granted, Ohio cuisine has many, many problems. In the DC area, however, there is a local chain run by a former chili cookoff national champion called “Hard Times”. Their Cincinnati Chili is some of the best chili I have ever had.

I always love the “what about the children” thing. Young children don’t care. Children aged 8-11 just think kissing is gross generally (no matter the circumstances). I was having a very hetero kiss in a museum once on a date only to be interrupted by a chorus of 8-year-olds yelling “EEEWWWWW KISSING!”

That was one of the weirdest parts of the story to me! I have never met a Scandinavian who didn’t speak flawless (if sometimes accented) English. Why would anyone assume a Dane wouldn’t understand English?

I can see where you are coming from, but you need to head over to anywhere in Baja California Nord (I like Rosarito, but Ensenada works too. Tijuana doesn’t count.) and order a street taco. They will make your soft shell tortilla from scratch in front of you by frying it with lard, and serve it to you fresh wrapped…

The only way you can get a “truffle” flavor into something as cheap as potato chips is to use synthetic truffle oil, which is an abomination good people should not be forced to tolerate. Never, ever use synthetic truffle oil, ever, for any reason.

Serious props for managing to quote Bruchard and Hugo in the same post.

stars for grays!

My lawyer partner tells me that you’re essentially right. If he was ejected already and had been acting violently towards other employees, the use of force to eject a customer is justified. The only question is whether he used too much force, but its probably close enough to the line in this case that no DA would…

SOOOOOOOOOOOO GROSS!!!!! I am literally physically nauseous right now.

That's a really good point — it doesn't matter if something is illegal if there isn't a good mechanism for enforcement. Unless the health inspector is actually there, or unless there is a reliable method for reporting health code violations (one that will be followed up on), there really is no health code whatsoever.

Correct me if I'm wrong, though, that this would violate health & safety laws (exposing food service to vomit) if not labor laws in most jurisdictions, right?

This is kind of disappointing. I was hoping it would be more about men wanting to take on more of the responsibilities. My wife and partner is ambitious, competent, and career driven. I have a career, but I am not nearly as attached to it as she is, and, honestly, I am by far the more motherly of the two of us. If…

I've lived in several different states (Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, California) and have never heard it before in my life. I'll be using it now, though!

I know you don't write the titles, Mark (at least I think you don't), so this is for the Jezebel editors (who are usually pretty great): What makes you think this is a woman? Isn't this playing into that whole "rich women are entitled homemakers, and so its obviously a woman planning Halloween and trying to keep…

Ooh, I have a decent one too, from the Starbucks-in-DC days of my SO. The location in question is in a very affluent neighborhood in DC which saw many celebrities regularly (she once shared a cup of tea with Nancy Pelosi just days after she became the first woman to become Speaker of the House — but that's a…

You are sort of right about the legality, except it is very very difficult to enforce them in court. It is literally impossible to enforce them in California (they are banned by California Civil Code, and you can even sue an employer for making you sign one).