I too made a lot of shitty decisions as a 19 year-old.

My experience with texted reservations confirmations is that they are usually phrased in such a way where if you don’t confirm, you will lose your table. That’s pretty cut and dry.

But if the restaurant sends you a text day-of, just confirm once. We could all use a bit more reciprocity in the world. But after that…

“The larger issue between the U.S. and China has absolutely nothing to do with the NBA.”

I see we don’t see this issue the same way and won’t agree. I’ll just leave you with this:

Hey GWP, I see you. Been kinda busy pounding the keyboard on other things, but I saw you comment from yesterday that made the same point.

I disagree with you; Team Banana Boat was selfish. Here’s why.

Agreed with you wholeheartedly that Vardon shouldn’t been the one to write the explainer on the Rockets-HK-China thing. The issue itself isn’t rocket science—someone who spent a few hours on background reading would have gotten a decent grasp of the history and issues at stake—but nothing Vardon has written in the…

New restaurant in my small (20,000 people) hometown, making real bbq, which no one else is doing, and doing it well.

The surest sign that China is overtaking the United States as a superpower is how even quicker they are to act like aggrieved, authoritarian-supporting snowflakes.

So here’s a alternative approach: rather than trying to appease Beijing and its army of online commentators (the 50 Cent Party) for fear of losing the Chinese market...perhaps the NBA should challenge them to find an equally compelling product?

I have no doubt that their RMB and eyeballs will go to other things, like…

Sort of sympathetic but going to disagree with Chang here: does he suggest a viable alternative? Seeing “ethnic” in the aisle marker is annoying and exclusionary, but most supermarkets don’t carry enough Asian/Latin/Middle Eastern/etc.-centric ingredients to fill up a whole aisle. Unless consumers demand middlebrow…

I’m...not terribly impressed? It’s obviously a marketing rather than an ethical-environmental ploy, and October 1 just conveniently happened to be on a Tuesday (rather than a Monday).

More importantly, I’m not impressed by the vegetarian options at Chipotle, especially when compared to other fast-casual places. Such…

Yeah, this issue came up on the Salty Waitress column over on the Takeout a couple weeks ago.

Speaking as pro-employee, restaurants should integrate the costs of employee health insurance into their pricing. Restaurants who insist on this surcharge are, as you say, just passive-aggressively complaining about…

After that press conference, DeTrumpeau acknowledged there was a corruption problem in Washington, but, of course, not one that involved him in any way. “A lot of it’s the Deep State bureaucrats. A lot of it’s the Democrats,” he said. 

Did not know about the test-marketing in Canada angle; I always read that fast food chains like testing in Columbus, Ohio because its socio-economic-racial demographics as well as its spread-out, strip-mall-y layout made it a close microcosm for the US as a whole.

My friends from Ohio always brag about how they get the…

“Authenticity” is problematic because it assumes that a particular dish can somehow be preserved at some specific point in time, free from technological or social changes that impact ingredient choices or methods of preparation. Can we imagine Italian cuisine without tomatoes from the New World? Bahn mis without…

Had this sentiment towards Dunlap been expressed as a Dead Letter instead of a tweet, the très haute-tech (Cajun patois) forensics would’ve found the culprit via the signature of the one station idiot who uses a T-Mobile 4G LTE Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.

Donald Trump is a pathological liar.

He’s active on the court, but from the very little footage of actual shooting they showed, his jumper still looks like a weird push/set shot that he starts at chest-high.  He’s pushing with his wrist rather than snapping it.

That’s...not fixing anything.

I hear their Mexican sister club goes by the name, “Multi-Level Monuments” (MLMs)

Hey letter writer, you’re really missing out. As an Amurican, I like to think of my interactions with my server as a chance to indulge in pointless sloganeering, performative chumminess, and casual (but definitely hypothetical) gun violence.